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It's interesting that people will label someone as "well off" pejoratively even after the article in question described how it started and how it was financed.

You need to have a price that is actually a barrier to consider. Low monthly fees attract terrible members that will cost you money and time and stress to deal with.

So many problems at my local makerspace went away when they bumped up the prices.


Pretty sure its a populism/slopulism thing. I doubt anyone in govt ACTUALLY cares outside backlash thats prevalent in the media/socials so its easy to capitalize on the "we are doing something for the voters".

I don't think you quite understand how expensive lighting was until the last 60 years.

You mean a completely normal thing that 99% of the world does?

I took care of my sister when I was 7 and she was 3 because both parents worked all day.


Isn't there a Terminal that renders everything with React?

Super slow, but I guess thats what web devs want.


There are terminal libraries that do this:

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

Which is what Claude Code CLI uses (or was using?) and it caused many issues such as flickering, thrashing, and latency.


Do you one better.

Rendered as instanced quads in 3d space. Tens of millions at >60fps, and an entire class of "grid based text rendering" evaporates.

https://github.com/tikimcfee/glyph3d-js


The almost insane genius Brunel and the insane Thames Tunnel Project which was deep enough that workers suffered the bends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel

If you can't do synthesis problems on a exam, you are not prepared for it.

I quite fondly remember a situation with a two question three hour open everything exam where I stared at the 1st problem and relevant equation for 20 minutes because I had no idea what I was looking at and was wondering if I should just leave and drop out.

Then I realized that a bunch of terms could cancel out and the problem became 3 lines trivial. The professor later admitted he wanted to give a "easy" question that you couldn't just copy out of your notes and had to think and to spend the rest of the exam on the actually difficult one.


This seems like you proved my point by staring at it for 20 minutes before starting. I don't think it's fair to grade with extreme time pressure and also expect deep thought.

Being able to do deep thought quickly isn't a valuable skill, and you don't pick it up on the way ti mastery with lots of practice like you do the speed for rote problems


No the literal oppposite. The exam was "no deep thought required. Need to know the subject and its trivial"


https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

I can't tell if this is trying to seem fake.


Seriously. This reads like self-promotion of a bad YouTube channel or something. It's amateurish, full of self-aggrandizement and opinions. This has no place coming from our gov't.


> An official website of the U.S. Gov

Looks as legit as the email I got from the official office of The Prince of Nigeria.


What seems fake about it?

Compare this site to the base domain.

https://www.irs.gov/

Do you think it looks official? Or does it look like someone spent $10 on a 3rd world rando to make a site on Wordpress and a spoofed URL and didn't even bother to make it part of the official site.


> Do you think it looks official?

I check the address bar for that.


You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"?

The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds?

Or things that even Google has issues with subdomains?

https://hoxhunt.com/blog/advanced-phishing-attack-using-goog...

The IRS site does use lots of subdomains like https://sa.www4.irs.gov, but even it looks like its using the same design language as the normal site.


> You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"? The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds?

Yes, that’s the one.

If I’m really paranoid, I’ll:

1.) avoid providing data to that page

2.) cross-reference host IP

3.) find the page on the original URL via search index


So you dont just read the address bar as claimed

I do - unless I’m really paranoid, as claimed!

Much like I often manually type, or OCR, URLs from untrusted sources.


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