MustardTiger

Please be more patient :) Replying to posts you didn't read will not help us, definitely.

Just because some people have a different opinion than you, doesn't mean it is due to fallacious reasoning. Ultimately, it seems to come down to rust haters who have a sunken cost fallacy - I spent years writing bad code in bad lanaguages, so I don't want to give that up to do things better.

>We're exactly talking about fire codes.

No we're not. That poster pointed out how fire codes helped, but that most codes do not. We're talking about building codes.

>But fair, let's talk about lumber stamps. How much weight can a random hunk of wood support? Under what conditions? Do you know?

None of those things have anything at all to do with stamps. That's the point. If the code specified lumber by strength it would be fine. But it specifies lumber by "you have to buy it from an approved member of the lumber cartel" and makes absolutely no mention of strength.

>Probably not, different ways wood can be treated

Building lumber is not treated. If you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, why throw out random nonsense?

> But it's quite the reach to go from there to "Nah, let's get rid of them, they're in our way! Common sense will do just fine!"

Nobody suggested that. Responding to silly strawman arguments is not constructive.

No, they were done because of lobbying from the lumber industry. If you have any evidence that stamped lumber is superior in any way I would love to see it. Because if you've ever built a house, you'd know you have to throw away about 10% of stamped lumber because it is trash.

Acceptable as a source of lumber to build a house. You know, like the article we're discussing?

It really makes no sense. Quinoa has no upsides here, it is just fashionable with a small number of faux health nuts.

But we're not talking about fire codes, we're talking about building codes. The stamp on lumber does not make it less flammable.

>This isn't about building codes. It's about stickers and permits

That is the building code. It is all about stickers and stamps. Why is a tree that grew on my land that I cut myself not acceptable? It has nothing to do with the wood obviously, it has to do with creating make work jobs for bureaucrats to "inspect" and stamp lumber.

This is a huge problem. Javascript has become a blight on the web, and browsers really need to make it easier to manage stopping scripts on background tabs and such.

You have a magic firefox then. I try to use it that way too, but its sitting at 1.8GB of RAM and 25-30% CPU usage with 103 tabs and it routinely bombs on me after a week or two when it gets up to 2.5GB or so.

>It's less confusing when you focus on the 'freedom of the users'.

No it isn't. The entire purpose of the GPL is to restrict the freedom of the users. Public domain gives freedom to the users. Everything else adds restrictions. And it is all a big argument about which restrictions are "good" in the eyes of the people arguing.

So who are you using then? I don't see anyone that has a cap. Everyone charges you if you go over your allotted bandwidth.

It depends on the item. China is known for low quality goods because companies outsource to China to save money. They are telling the companies in China to make cheap crap. The manufacturers are perfectly capable and more than happy to make high quality items, it just isn't requested of them very often. It is always "use the thinnest possible" not "make it twice as thick as it really needs to be".

>They're commercially available

At absurd prices though. It isn't just the shipping, small scale farm/market garden stuff is priced ridiculously high.