The California state budget for 2026-27 is at $248 billions. Life is good for the state politicians.

Facial and gait recognition tech make the pedestrian vs car point moot.

Sure, but being identified is only part of the issue. It’s also about the quantity of rights you have in a vehicle versus outside of one.

>It’s also about the quantity of rights you have in a vehicle versus outside of one.

And who's fault is that?

The government could decide tomorrow that driving confers implied consent for them to quarter soldiers in your home and a huge chunk of people would defend it because those people just don't like cars and want to see the users screwed at every turn in order to make other things comparatively less worse. Of course they won't tell you that because they know they're in the wrong so they'll use the pretext that driving is a privilege not a right, public safety etc. etc.

Look at the discussion about ebikes. At first iw as all "look how cool and great and free of downsides these are". Now the discussion is all "those darned kids and poors are dangerous" and "nobody needs to go more than 20mph". Give it 10yr and you'll be forced to by insurance for them too.

Vehicles are regulated how they are and you have less rights to the extent you do specifically because people 50-70yr ago wrung their hands about them until laws were passed, just like we're doing to ebikes now.

VAT is a regressive tax. It hits everyone along the way, rich or poor. It hits the poor especially hard proportionally.

VAT is a progressive tax.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/value-added-tax-vat-progressi...

LoRa is for long range lower power communication. It can achieve a range of approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in practical conditions and up to 330 kilometers (210 miles) in perfect conditions. There are plenty of applications for it.

This is great. Other things needed for a great C development environment are a standardized build process plus build tools and a standardized packaging system.

I think most people who are into c that I’ve met quite like header only libraries. Copy paste as a package manager does have its benefits.

I mostly just install a -dev package on Linux and I am done.

Not even that; OpenBSD and Hyperbola GNU don't split packages between headers and binaries. Install a package, you get both.

That's a great approach but your examples sound like: the 4–4–2 soccer formation —known for its use by Paris Saint–Germain and Clube de Remo.

The Elf interface is a standardised packaging system.

I do NOT want a package manager in my c code. I'm perfectly content with cloning a git repo from my cmake script.

And there is plenty to choose from if you don't like one or another build system.

Thanks! I agree, a better build story for C projects is desperately needed.

What most people forget is that software is meant to be used as part of the system. The rush to adopt packaging tools like npm and cargo prevent standardization of system tools. On debian, installing tools should be as simple as ‘apt install’, but now you have to check what toolchain version you install then download GB of stuff from the internet. And that for each software. Easy deps donwload for devs means maintenance nightmare for admins and users.

I actually find music with lyrics helps me concentrate, as long as it’s an old song that I’m familiar. New songs are distracting as I would wander off trying to understand what’s being sung. Old songs have no such problem and they just become familiar background patterns.

Same here. Emacs has been the stable editor for all kinds of language changes, tool changes, and IDE changes. Emacs is great with LLM, as LLM is mostly text related and Emacs is great in capturing and dealing with text.

Base point is like the minimum payout. All players agree upon a minimum payout (base point) ahead of time. E.g. $10 as the minimum for the first fan. A fan literally means doubling. A 4 fan win means the payout is $10x2x2x2=$80 from each losing party. It can go up very quickly.

We play with a base point being a dime or a quarter. Note also that the function from fan to points is subject to house rules, it's not always p(f) = 2^f (I've seen rules for example that start to "level off" the payout at higher fan values).

I'd add the note that the whole strategy of mahjong really only gets interesting when you play repeated hands (a full game has at least 16 hands, with each player acting as the dealer once per prevailing wind) and when you're gambling (or otherwise tracking points). Most house rules also enforce a minimum fan value for a winning hand, banning the "chicken hand" which wins but scores no points. We play with a 2 fan minimum. If you just play for mahjong (i.e. a a hand that "wins" the round regardless of score), the game is a pretty uninteresting game of luck, and you're not incentivized to gun for the higher scoring hands.

Yes. Many people set a limit on the maximum payout as doubling goes up very fast. A 8-fan win is $1280 payout, from each player. People usually limit the max to be 9 fan.

Looking from Earth at the stars closer to the center of a galaxy, they are found to be older. Looking from Earth at the stars closer to the edge of a galaxy, they are found to be younger.

I feel there should be a PowerToy applet to turn Segment Heap on or off.

This is a great idea, honestly. PowerToys is open source. There's a decent change that they would be open to such a contribution.

It is a crime that segment heap is over a decade old and still so underutilized. Gamers in particular go to such great lengths to tweak and optimize their windows machines for perf, but I still haven't seen that crowd discussing segment heap anywhere. It's more important than ever with the recent explosion in RAM cost.