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> Ah, memories of Uni, back when storage was fairly expensive, where we had both hard and soft quotas.

Don't worry, disk got expensive again. Disks are usually at least 2X more expensive than a year ago currently. Sometimes 3X more.


8TB M.2 SSDs are literally worth their weight in gold (excluding heat sink)

HDD prices are a bit more reasonable. Mostly because they are so heavy. Still insane to where prices were just 12 months ago


Not nearly as expensive as it was back then, at least not yet, even accounting for inflation.

Yes, let's hope it doesn't get even more expensive. Around here we are purposely not upgrading hardware unless we have to, hoping to ride through the price increases. I'm sure lots of people are doing the same thing, which probably won't help much once prices start to come back down... assuming they do.

Looks like the address is 2918 mission, still no apartment complex there according to web maps, though the laundromat building is demolished it seems. So perhaps by 2034, a good 20 years since the start of the project.

You can put in an awning or covered walkway between the buildings. You can even do a fully enclosed, fully climate controlled hallway with lots of windows and doors out to the yard, etc. Just depends on how much you want to pay and your imagination.

I've seen some properties where they build ponds underneath the indoor hallway with glass flooring to see the fish and stuff in the pond. Obviously wild things like that cost a bit more then a simple awning or covered walkway.


>You can even do a fully enclosed,

And then lose all the regulatory benefit of whatever shed exemption you're trying to use, get absolutely screwed on regulatory compliance and code whatnot that you're leveraging by having it be a detached outbuilding. And then get sneered at by HN when you say the rules as they apply to your situation are stupid.


you might get screwed on regulatory compliance, it just depends on your local govt and how much they want to screw you.

It's got to suck to do the inspectors job. Having to keep up with whatever the code creators come up with, while also getting abused by every home owner and contractor in the area because they hate X,Y or Z. While trying to dodge political leverage from elected officials trying to get whatever pet mess they want done.

It's not a job I'd want, and I bet they get paid trash to boot.

Code compliance and inspections exist for a reason, and if you are lucky, the current inspector/code compliance dept in your local govt realizes it's to ensure the building doesn't fall down around your ankles when you least expect it and not to screw you over.


> It's got to suck to do the inspectors job. Having to keep up with whatever the code creators come up with, while also getting abused by every home owner and contractor in the area because they hate X,Y or Z.

Permit inspectors are basically unaccountable. There's no requirement that what you sign off meets code or that you'll sign off if it meets code.

As a builder, best thing is if you can fix whatever needs fixing while the inspector is there. If not, there's a non-zero chance you get a different inspector for the reinspection who likes it the way the first inspector said you couldn't do it.


Sounds like the sign of a badly run department. If they can't have some continuity/consistency, people will build less because it's a hassle and their community will eventually suffer.


This is is exactly what I meant by the last sentence.


Not Montana apparently. They don't even have an HVAC contractor license anymore that I can find.


Exception rather than the rule


100%.


Calibre does this for you and has for a long time. Docs: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html

I used to read lwn.net from my e-reader, worked great.


Or maybe Oracle.


Or X?


I don't think so? I mean they certainly lack ethics, but I think it's a point of pride thing, and not a we should at least pretend sort of thing.

Oracle at least pretends to care about ethics, and already has the position.


Palantir? So many choices right now.


Or the US government



Ehh, I don't think Elon is a big fan of ethics. Especially in AI -- https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/ -- which in retrospect, portended whatever's been happening with Grok.


It will be interesting to see how this works out in practice. Personally I don't see much use from it, but I'll give it a try after it ships and see how it works in practice.


Seems like we are trying to solve 2 problems at the same time with SCROLL:

* Database sync of log events. * "Real" time updates.

Webhooks can already mostly handle the "real-time" event portion. Of course there are problems. as the article expounds on, but a lot of those won't magically get solved with other solutions either. Distributed real-time communication is hard. Webhooks are good enough for this purpose.

For the database of log events, personally I'd rather just have a SQLite DB I can yank whenever. Don't give me CSV or JSON or whatever I have to parse and manage, just give me a SQLite DB ready to go. I'd love you for it. I'll just take a whole fresh copy with everything thanks. Maybe you limit it to to the last X events, say 90 days or 365 days or whatever, depending on sizing of events, but just send it all every time I fetch and I'm happy enough. If I need to generate a delta to keep some other DB in sync, well that's my problem. Just give every row a stable identifier.


Depends on the VC. Some VC's are happy to own great businesses, even long term. Most are definitely vultures after a quick turn around. Mostly it has to do with where the VC gets their funding. Most VC's get their funding from offering a fund with a 2-5 year time-frame. Some are 10 yr funds, and some are long-term funds or are funded by a family office or two, which can be happy with great businesses long term.


> The important distinction is that self-contained doesn’t mean one binary that runs everywhere...does it?

That's what Cosmopolitan/APE does though, and they deliver a python:

* Source: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/

* Python Binary: https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/python which is ~ 40MB.


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