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I had no idea panix was still around, wow. I had a shell account there in 94. Loved their service and PPP access!

(edited: I fused my panix and my nynet past experiences. Deleted that part.)

Thanks for pointing this out! The attention to exploration is why I enjoy using Observable so I am glad that this will be paired with the framework features to get us Notebooks 2.0

I really like using Observable. Coming from years of d3 and not having a lot of R or Python to do, Observable feels great and things look beautiful. Lots of examples and it is great to see what others are making. Also love that I can use SQL on data in the notebook. The Plot functions can make quick work of various charts. I am looking forward to the static output future, and to see what they mean by more vanilla js in the app.

Not saying it is better or worse than Jupyter etc. Just that it has been exciting to think I can make viz that would not look out of place in major pubs, etc.

I can see portions of a few walls that are out in spots that used to have a road over 100 years ago but now are reclaimed by the forest. Some of areas are densely overgrown now. Nice work.

I have come across the full dog poop bag phenomenon a lot lately on trails and sidewalks. A small group forms, as if there was a memo that someone else wants them or would be picking them up. It is baffling. I would guess that these are people who were not bagging their poop and were chided for that. And then these people took the command too literally, bagging but not carrying away.

I met Heifermann once during a project and I thought he was a grounded person. I remember one thing he did was paying not for ad slots, but to change your background to a dalmation spotted print for a promotion, with a link. This was long before CSS, etc.

He made his money just when the idea of value being divorced from real product to virtual metrics, “chasing eyeballs,” etc. was getting hot. The days when you sold a huge contract by showing a CD ROM of the website you were never going to achieve, to a client who had no idea what they were buying.

This guy was much more honest than the norm. The McD and meetup stuff reflects the fact that he kept people in the equation.

observablehq.com has built in support for duckdb, and I have found it to be very easy to use. Getting windowing and cte and derived columns is great and being able to just refer to sql query cells as an array of rows makes things much easier for me than breaking out into js right away.

Someone wrote an export function, so I can make a select into a table and grab that as csv to use elsewhere.

I wish for Simon Willison to adopt duckdb as he has with sqlite to see what he would create!

How are you relating this to the thread? Maybe you mean it takes time for capital to lower everyone’s income when market competition increases, the actual details of the excess humans matter less and less each year.

Artificial protection and gatekeeping by ordinance are there to protect those who got there first. Then we can blame others: women or immigrants etc, for wage depression. Unions do this less but still favor those who organized first.

If capital gets to hire for less, say that. Maybe the opportunity was an increase in certain pop segments, but they dont make wages go down. The people who pay wages do.

I want to find the equivalent of HN for healthcare, where I think you’d find a ton of women MDs and highly specialized nurses who are women expressing frustration with their adjunct or artist men. This community is not the whole story.

Wow this tuned into a different narrative quickly. The above comment did not blame women for men’s plight but did not compare apples to apples. Gender pay gaps usually involve different wages for same work, not downgrades that all genders do.

The “great” thing about cutthroat paring down by groups like private capital in management is all genders get downgraded at the same rate. So equity will even out in the race to the bottom, and we can enjoy more balanced stories of men contributing less to the household income.

I had a monthly or quarterly migraine for years before getting some wisdom teeth pulled. Now it is almost never.

Perfect summary, well done.

I just want to comment that the image of the Santa Ana property looks a lot like the main character’s apt in the movie Momento, adding some umami to the whole vibe.

You might have hit on a big factor, dealerships don’t want something that doesn’t need oil changes and needs fewer brake pads.

Feels like Detroit was happy to sell a few EVs for carbon credits or to soak up the tax incentives and not a unit more. They are well positioned to shoot for the ‘second car’ market. They didn’t have to go big, or work on trucks that can’t tow.

For example the Bolt is solid and GM should have done everything in their power to put one in every EV buyer’s driveway.

The bolt could have had a cabriolet version, a little higher range version, offroad, cut the price harder, etc. It is a shame to lose those years of market building. Imagine throwing that away while Toyota was gifting you that time.

The Mach-E was a decent placement, and you’d think the Cadillac could have taken a lot of Y sales away.

Rivian was smart to go toward the R3.