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If it's anything like my municipality, all that stuff is balanced in the budget by issuing bonds. My accounting knowledge is weak, but as I understand it, even though a city's credit rating and the prospective interest on its bonds are a feedback mechanism to help moderate the spending, it's still tempting for a city to overbuild without a plan to fund the bonds plus the incurred cost ongoing maintenance without ending up with too much debt.

Can you explain how environmental regulations induce that housing style? I struggle to see the connection

The exact same comment could be made of Atlanta's roads.

How did we get here from the post about uv?

Vitis AI is just riddled with bugs and undocumented incompatibilities. I also failed to get it to work for anything beyond the demo models.

Not a talk show, but the pilot season of Mythbusters tackled this. They registered some false positives and the test manufacturer refused to admit it was possible.

I'd agree that the second book has the highest cringe per page. The Luo Ji character was laughably bad.

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"

The author's experience aligns with my own, both at university and working with government-funded scientific and engineering organizations. I suspect that many well-intentioned cybersecurity, outsourcing, and streamlining measures have, on the whole, significantly harmed the ability of these organizations to fulfill their missions.

I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap:

An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).

Something I've learned recently is that the convention of when to use angle brackets and when to use quotes is not prescribed by the standard but instead is implementation-defined.