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- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 2 days ago:
The main reason houses are bigger today: they’re more profitable. Building bigger houses on smaller land nets developers a big profit.
McMansions is what they’re affectionately known as in the architecture world. They’re not proper mansions (enormous 20 bedroom country estates), but hardly any of those exist anywhere.
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 days ago:
A 1950 single family house was 1000 square foot AND it had 3 or more bedrooms (I’ve seen up to 5). A 1000 square foot condo built today is 1 bedroom, not at all built for a family.
The difference? Basements don’t count toward square footage.
As for cost on existing old homes, they’re expensive today because there are so few of them and they’re in demand. That proves my point.
US population in 1950 was 151 million. Today it’s 342 million. Yet if you look at the data, housing construction has been flat since 1968.
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 days ago:
One thing I haven’t seen anyone talk about in this discussion is the size difference in houses that are being built today vs 1950.
Typical homes being built in the 1950s were around a thousand square feet. Today they’re over two thousand square feet. The kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Corporate culture. Microsoft may be one company to us outsiders, but internally they are a ton of different divisions divided into teams. All those teams have their own agendas, priorities, and competing visions.
If you just look at the Windows kernel project, it’s really good.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Ahhh, but that’s a lesson on writing clearly, not a cooking lesson!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If your goal is to lower a population over time, neuter and release can be very effective. Neutered males will still try to mate but they will not succeed. The females they try to mate with might not mate with another male, so they miss the chance to create a new generation.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
The line is drawn by the community themselves. They decide what the rules for the category are.
This is how all speedrunning communities work. They make rules for each category. Mods aren’t the only thing that can skip large chunks of a game. Major glitches are as well. Many, many speedrun categories prohibit major glitches that skip large sections of the game.
- Comment on I don't allow crime in my neighborhood 😡😡😡 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It doubles as a spicy bayonet!
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 weeks ago:
For large group behaviour you’re better off looking at cooperative game theory which is a branch of game theory that deals with games of more than 2 players and the formation of cooperating groups known as coalitions.
It’s a much more complex topic than basic 2 player strategic game theory, so I don’t see it discussed nearly as much outside of subject matter experts.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 weeks ago:
I guess I should explain a bit more then.
The term “player” in game theory doesn’t mean a person, it means a collection of rows or columns in a payoff matrix. Basically just a table of numbers. One player is all the rows, one player is all the columns.
A strategy can be either a pure strategy (select one row or one column of the table) or a mixed strategy (assign percentages to every row or every column of the table, so that all percentages are non-negative and the total equals 100%).
In a 2x2 payoff matrix, each player has 2 possible pure strategies (pick column A or column B, row 1 or row 2) but infinite possible mixed strategies (e.g 33.186794% column A and 66.813206% column B) since an infinite number of pairs of percentages can add up to 100%.
Mixed strategies can be thought of as introducing probability into the situation. If you choose a mixed strategy of 50% column A and 50% column B you could think of it as using a coin toss to make the decision. But game theory itself doesn’t do the coin tossing, it just assumes the expected values of the percentage times the payoffs in those entries of the payoff matrix.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 weeks ago:
Any mathematical textbook will do it. Try Springer.
It’s quite simple really. Games in game theory are represented with a payoff matrix which shows the utility for each player. Pure strategies are defined as rows or columns in the payoff matrix. The math of game theory doesn’t care about why a player chooses a particular strategy, only its payoff.
I would define a purely rational player at minimum as one chooses a dominant strategy, when one is available. You’re free to expand that to mixed strategies and games where (strong or weakly) dominant strategies do not exist. Irrational players would be anyone who is otherwise not a rational player.
This isn’t very interesting in basic game theory. It becomes a lot more relevant in cooperative game theory, which can have more than 2 players and players forming coalitions.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 weeks ago:
You clearly have not studied game theory, as you are talking out of your ass. Go pick up a textbook and learn something.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 weeks ago:
On the contrary, game theory doesn’t assume rationality or irrationality whatsoever. Game theory looks at all possible outcomes and investigates different strategies that lead to those outcomes.
Rational strategies can lead to defection in games like the non-iterated prisoner’s dilemma, and this is a Nash equilibrium. However, the infinite iterated prisoner’s dilemma allows cooperation to emerge even with rational strategies.
The superrational strategy leads to cooperation even in a one-shot gang of prisoner’s dilemma
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
I already have more games than I could ever finish in a lifetime — in 10 lifetimes — and they’re all digital, in big folders full of files. If I had those thousands of games in physical form I’d need a library in my house full of shelves to store them all, yet digitally I can carry them all around in my pocket!
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 4 weeks ago:
I think you misunderstood me. I’m not saying that gatekeeping doesn’t exist in Linux communities. It absolutely does, and I wouldn’t quibble if you said Linux was rife with gatekeeping.
What I’m saying is that gatekeeping isn’t unique to Linux in any way. Gatekeeping is everywhere, and I argue that it’s a default social behaviour that arises in communities above a certain size, unless specifically guarded against through community norms.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 4 weeks ago:
I see that as essentially having a community norm against gatekeeping. It’s not a feature of every community and it needs to be intentionally maintained. Gatekeeping in that light is a kind of Hobbesian state of nature behaviour that is being deliberately policed.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
My oven goes to 500F/260C. The previous one I had went to 550F/288C, but it didn’t have convection (unlike my current one).
I actually use 500/260 on my oven quite frequently, using the “convection roast” feature. It’s excellent for roasting veggies and reheating pizza!
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Never cook frozen French fries or fish sticks or chicken fingers in your oven? They pretty much always recommend 450F/232C
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a Linux thing at all. I have a lot of different hobby interests and I find gatekeeping everywhere. I don’t even think it’s limited to hobbies. Gatekeeping seems to be a natural human social behaviour.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
What’s the reason? Doesn’t sound like a good one.
Some of the best chefs around don’t use recipes at all.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Nutritional calories are kilocalories, so you’ll need to multiply by 1000.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
At the cost of having a machine that applies stickers to every box, as well as keeping inventory of stickers for C and F.
I don’t think that would save money vs a properly designed supply chain and manufacturing process.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing you only spent 50 euros on your pyrolysis oven. I used to use that feature on my old oven until it was destroyed by it.
I believe the excessive heat from the cleaning cycle rapidly accelerates the ageing of the electronic components on the oven’s main circuit host. Electrolytic capacitors in particular are susceptible to failure from heat exposure.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
What oven only goes to 200C? I live in Canada (where we use C for everything except cooking, which we use F for) and pretty much everything I cook in the oven is at 218C or above. 200C isn’t even hot enough to bake frozen French fries properly without drying them out.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Jeff Varasano explains how you can defeat the lock on your self clean oven and gain the ability to use that high temperature for baking pizza. He got so good at baking pizza this way that he opened his own pizza restaurant! He also wrote a book on speedcubing. Interesting guy!
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 4 weeks ago:
Works great with a thin crust pizza. Not so great for a thick one, especially with lots of toppings.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
Selling it to who though? And who gets the money from the sale? Taxes? But rich people already control the government…
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean by forced divestments?
Oh and are you going to hard code these numbers into the law? Because rich people would respond by deflating the currency to the point where the average person makes 10 cents a day and a millionaire is inflation-equivalent to a billionaire today.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 5 weeks ago:
Well they’re doing it wrong then. Most TNG episodes were written by freelance writers, not by the show’s main writing staff. The freelance writers sold scripts to the show and the main writing staff would polish them up for production.
A freelance writer could spend years playing around with ideas before finishing a script to send in. The show didn’t care, they had plenty of other spec scripts to choose from.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 5 weeks ago:
Not that notable. He got therapy for recurring nightmares and PTSD after his assimilation by the Borg. Dealing with his trauma was the central theme of s4e2 Family. It was some of Patrick Stewart’s best acting in the whole series, right up there with s5e25 The Inner Light.
What the show didn’t do was make his trauma and recovery an ongoing part of the series. That’s not because they wanted him to get over it, it’s because of the episodic nature of the show. For syndication to work, they needed most episodes to be self contained. This dramatically enhanced the show’s rewatchability, as should be the case for all great syndicated shows.