physicalecon

Motels are not a habitation of last resort by any means. They’re a convenient place to stay while traveling.

I expect the vast majority of motel patrons are additionally paying a rent/mortgage for their main habitation.

The author does all sorts of odd-looking optimizations in order to make the web page run on a single host of cheap battery/solar powered compute.

It does seem a bit extreme, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating: this website has been featured on the HN front page many times and I’ve not seen it ever falter. The same cannot be said for the many run of the mill “infinite scalability” cloud based SPA’s that make the front page – even those maintained by sizable organizations with hefty cloud budgets.

iPhone Air is roughly 90KH/s. I bet it’s a matter of the site not being “trusted” and the JIT being disabled.

Law was not in effect yet, and now it’s repealed. Cest la vie.

If you take something like the “draw a bike” test, I have to wonder if the “normal” folks have any visual memory.

It’s always been curious to me that there’s this idea that people can “see” anything they wish, but then do not know what common objects look like. Whereas I’d wager any aphantastic would nail that particular test.