Readit Newsvondur commented on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower
If you’re talking Mac, why on earth would you install Adobe Reader? I’m sure there’s a different set of 5% functionality for power users, but Preview does everything I need (including things like signature annotation, real redaction, joining multiple PDFs together) and it does it quickly and with everything enabled for free.
I've seen that many forms just don't work properly in Preview. I'm not sure if it's due to custom stuff that only Acrobat does or just features that Apple doesn't want to include in preview. But I can always tell with some forms that they've been filled out in Preview on Mac due to how they mangle it.
This is a silly take. As soon as an authoritarian government takes power they just strip away the protections put in place to prevent abuse. The answer to preventing the "wrong" government from taking power is to have a strong "right" government.
i.e, as long as the people in charge are the people I like, its fine!
Here in Germany, we estimate sewer infrastructure to last anywhere from 50-100 years, and water mains around 50-ish years. After that, it needs replacement or, that's the modern thing but it's a one-trick pony, re-lining.
The prudent thing would be to set aside and invest a tiny bit of money every year to fund a replacement, but unfortunately modern economic theory ("run lean") and manufactured income crises (aka, politicians going for lower taxes and utility rates) have led to a lot of infrastructure being utterly dilapidated and no savings left, and now we need to invest untold billions of euros raised from debt to keep it running.
Unfortunately, a lot of the deciders are already dead, and for those that still live, it's fallen out of favor to hold them accountable.
In Los Angeles, they have basically given up on doing any preventive maintenance of the water/sewer lines. They just wait for something to break and replace it. We have areas with pipes over a 100 years old. Too expensive to dig up huge areas of the city to replace the lines all at once. This may also have something to do with the notoriously corrupt LA Dept. Of Water and power too. Other cities in LA County do periodically replace the lines, but it's still tremendously expensive.
vondur commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve
I suppose it depends on the programming tasks you do. If you are working on stuff like recompiling large codebases all day- then yes, a fast CPU and and lots of RAM will really help. If you are working more on scripting stuff, then maybe the fastest CPU isn't really needed, rather more RAM. I just bought myself a Ryzen 9950x deal from a local Microcenter. I will run handbrake on ripped files which this CPU is really good at.
That's the downside of depending on regressive income taxes instead of taxing assets, capital gains, dividends, etc sufficiently.
I think California had the highest capital gains tax in the US.
California’s economy feels like it’s running on tech companies at this point. Any downturn in their hiring has really big effects on the California state budget.
vondur commented on Comparing baseball greats across eras, who comes out on top? phys.org/news/2025-07-bas... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
vondur commented on All-In on Omarchy at 37signals world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-... · Posted by u/dotcoma
Previously:
> March 7, 2024: Committing to Windows
https://world.hey.com/dhh/committing-to-windows-2d6388fd
> June 6, 2024: Introducing Omakub (based on Ubuntu)
https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-omakub-354db366
Place your bets on what is next: nixOS? Haiku? OpenBSD?
I haven't seen his earlier post about Windows. Kinda funny. He's put quite a lot of effort into Omarchy now though.
Source: Had a friend in college that interned for a group of attorneys in Western, CO whose entire practice was around water access rights.
She explained to me some of the ridiculous things that neighbors requiring common water access could do to each other - based purely on who was using the water first.