Nope. There really isn't much reason to. The winters are mild, and Arizona is far enough south that there's still a good amount of daylight in the afternoons, at least compared to the northern parts of the US.
I suspect that at least some of disconnect over DST is between people living at 40-50 degrees latitude who have short winter days and those living further south.
I never expected that the chapters about giant, intelligent spiders to be the parts that kept me hooked. I'm not sure I could have cared less about what happened to the humans.
That book also has another bit in there with the programmer archeologist - digging through centuries of technical debt to find ways to make ancient code work in different ways.
My favorite passage in the book:
> There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it — the horror of it, Sura said — was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex — and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely… the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.
> Personally, I feel the solution to insufficient teacher time is to use peer grading much more, and spot checks. Get kids to read and revise each other's works frequently, and teachers should aim to grade at least N papers per student where N is much less than the number of papers a student writes.
That's how it's done in creative writing courses. I've always found it infinitely more helpful than only having feedback from the instructor, even if the instructor's feedback was generally more helpful/useful than peer feedback.
Things like this story, Word's auto-grader, and Grammerly's style preferences are all surreal to me. We are asking a computer to validate prose meant for human consumption.
Not a reflection of physical reality like sensor data or even accounting information, but the method of communication explicitly invented for production and consumption by humans.
Of course feedback from humans is more valuable than feedback computers, it would be irrational/miraculous if anything was better at giving feedback than a human.
It is a shame it isn't self evident to instructors how poor of a solution this is, and how much better the results are when using critique by peers and instructors -- the classic way of doing things.
The problem is all of the concrete. Get outside the heat dome and it cools considerably. You just have to rethink the building pattern. (White roofs with water collection would be a good start.)
Agreed. I lived in the southeast valley for 16 years. At the start of it, we were fairly near the edge of the sprawl, and now you have to drive another 20+ miles to get out of suburbia. It's definitely had an effect on temperature, particularly overnight.
That study [0] had so many flaws it's not even funny.
1. It only had 12 participants
2. One of those participants was excluded from the final results
3. They didn't test the participants' (or a separate group's) driving ability while under the influence of alcohol (they used a simulator, so it would have been fine), and so you really can't use the results to make any comparisons between dehydration and alcohol use
4. The study was funded by the European Hydration Institute
Oh trust me, "Big Water" is very much a thing. I've met a guy who runs a coke bottling plant; he could hardly believe his luck. They literally just run the existing stuff dry, and it's got massive margins.
Which foreach are you talking about? Array.prototype.forEach, for...in loops, for...of loops?
The first only works with arrays and array-like objects.
The second works on objects and arrays, but it iterates over all enumerable properties, so you don't want really want to use it for arrays. It's also made a lot less useful because it only iterates over properties, not keys.
The third finally provides some sanity, but it's only been around since ES6. Before that, lodash's each method was the most reliable way to iterate over a collection, be it an object or an array.
Just because you don't know the reason for something doesn't mean there isn't one.
`for ... of` only iterate over objects that implement `Symbol.iterator`. Native objects don’t do that by default, so `_.forEach` is more useful the `for ... of` even if you are only targeting modern browsers and not compiling the code down to an earlier version of the spec.
That said, you can use `Object.keys`, `Object.values`, or `Object.entries` if you want to iterate over objects that don’t implement `Symbol.iterator`, so if you only need `_.forEach` there is no reason to pull in any libraries.
Yes, this one. If the object is an Array. According to whatever test they are using for that.
Lodash includes a reimplementation of Array.prototype.forEach because mistakes were made. It also works on other objects because other mistakes were made.
We all make mistakes. But just because there is a reason for something does not mean there is a good reason.
I agree that the marginal cost of providing those services to rural homes is higher than urban/suburban homes. However, I think you're vastly overestimating the actual costs incurred, as many (maybe most) people who live in rural areas don't have most of those things.
I live in a mostly rural county in north-central Colorado. The county maintains ~250 miles of roads of which only 39 miles are paved (the rest of the roads in the county are state and federal highways).
Outside the few small towns in the county, there's no sewer or municipal water. Everyone has a septic tank and a well on their property that they're responsible for maintaining.
Same with cable/fiber. Unless you live in a town, your options are ~1.5Mbps DSL or ~5Mbps fixed wireless (if you have good line of sight to a base station). Neither the county nor any of the ISPs in the area have any plans to significantly improve services, so I'm really hoping that SpaceX gets Starlink up and running sooner rather than later.
Considering all that, I don't think that your calculated premium of $400,000 per rural home actually applies in most situations.
Right, and I absolutely agree with that. When I bought my house, I had no expectation that utility services would be the same. While my neighbors and I have some complaints about the quality of our internet service, we're looking for 15-25Mbps, not 100Mbps, and certainly not 1Gbps.
But GP's first sentence was mainly what I was trying to address:
> I am all for utility companies cutting service to rural areas, for cost savings or otherwise.
If my electric and gas providers suddenly decided that I was too expensive to serve and cut me off, I'd be out in the range of $20-30k to install batteries, a generator (since solar might not be adequate in the middle of winter), and to convert my heating from natural gas to propane.
Thanks for the link! I've looked briefly at LTE internet service but hadn't seriously considered it because I'm just on the edge of decent cell service. While my phone usually displays 1-2 bars, it's not even enough to make voice calls. I think due to the topography in the area, my phone can receive signal from the tower but isn't powerful enough to transmit back. It looks like UbiFi also sells 4G signal boosters and external antennas, and that might just do the trick.
I picked up a signal booster, but ended up not needing it- I typically get 2-3 bars, but found a spot in the house where I get 4, and that's good enough for decent speeds that I never got around to setting it up.
Keep in mind that the signal booster isn't magic- it's just a relay with a bigger antenna than what your cell phone has. If you're brave enough, pop up onto your roof with your cell phone- if you get at least three bars up there, I'm guessing that the signal booster could do the trick.
I wish that AT&T or Verizon would offer these unlimited style data plans directly. It seems strange to me that something like UbiFi can contract out off of AT&T's network and offer a flat rate plan, but somehow, phone tethering and data-only devices like verizon's jetpack are always limited to 20gb and slow speeds.
If you really want to make it work you can get a router with an external antenna connector and mount a yagi and point it towards the tower. Might take some trial and error but this is definitely a solvable problem w/ LTE
Asking about marital status or number of kids isn't just a red flag. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission often views it as evidence of illegal hiring discrimination.
If they're asking questions like that, what they're really asking is how available you are to work tons of extra hours, nights, and weekends.
> That's an entitlement problem not an affordability problem. People feel entitled to live in certain locations.
I would like to live in/near the city where I was born, lived a good chunk of my life, and where most of my family lives, but the cost of housing in Denver has risen almost 500% since I was born.
Do tell, does that make me entitled? Because I feel pretty goddamn entitled.
Would you be ok living in an apartment (condo)? If so, you are not entitled, and your desires are very reasonable.
But if you feel like you should be able to afford a detached single-family house in your city, you are not only entitled, your desires are impossible to fulfill - there's just not enough land for everyone who feels entitled to a single-family home to have one.
