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New comment by aclatuts in "WSL Manager"

aclatuts — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:11:21 +0000

Most of the JS bloat comes from really aggressive analytics, error tracking, and a/b testing. Not many developers are willing or given approval to remove these features up for smaller bundle sizes.

New comment by aclatuts in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

aclatuts — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:25:21 +0000

Anything under $2.25/watt would put it within under a 4 year payback period, Alberta has good rates for solar. Rooftop solar doesn't have operating costs that I can think of unless you want to clean them and clear snow which is optional. And inverters usually have a 20-25 year warranty.

New comment by aclatuts in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

aclatuts — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:11:42 +0000

My sister plans to just buy the self driving subscription for the month they go on road trips and thats it. Far better than buying it up front.

New comment by aclatuts in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

aclatuts — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:46:08 +0000

I still really like the Arc browser. Other browsers are still missing some of the small UI/UX things Arc has.

New comment by aclatuts in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

aclatuts — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:28:07 +0000

The real world isn't A/B tests. No government is going to spend millions on equipment and infrastructure on a congestion zone because some engineers are like "Let's just test this out. I have done zero research on what could possibly happen, but it would be fun to see what the results are."

New comment by aclatuts in "Static as a Server"

aclatuts — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:37:13 +0000

This makes perfect sense for a headless CMS. An editor might upload changes or a new article a few times per day/week into a database through a headless CMS. A webserver could make a request to the headless CMS/database for every web page load, but if the content doesn't change then the webpage can be computed and served statically. The web server can compute just the changes per page or regenerate the whole site on any change on the backend.

New comment by aclatuts in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

aclatuts — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:36:09 +0000

And living near a highway is linked to health issues like cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS. More cars and road is not more healthy.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3907023/ https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/living-near-major-roads-linked-t...

New comment by aclatuts in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

aclatuts — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:22:50 +0000

Free streets are a handout to suburbanites that drive in and don't have to deal with constant congestion, pollution, noise, and collisions that people living in the congestion zone have to deal with.

New comment by aclatuts in "Swc4j: SWC for Java"

aclatuts — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 04:09:41 +0000

Just curious as to why you would want that?

New comment by aclatuts in "Parking reform legalized most of the new homes in Buffalo and Seattle (2023)"

aclatuts — Wed, 15 May 2024 08:33:56 +0000

I doubt you were old enough to be around and voting for councillors pushing for parking minimums back in the 1950s. You were born into a lot of rules you never chose or voted for. But you happen to like these parking rules.

New comment by aclatuts in "Saving cloud costs by writing our own database"

aclatuts — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:57:04 +0000

Receive a license fee from someone else for using your software!

New comment by aclatuts in "Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and Indigenous"

aclatuts — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:13:13 +0000

This is like the tech bro version of: private investors buying properties is inflating property prices.

The problem is blue collar people, which is a new one to me.

New comment by aclatuts in "Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage"

aclatuts — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:21:02 +0000

The NIMBYs don't only block new residents moving in. They also block existing residents from building new housing that reflects changing tastes and trends.

New comment by aclatuts in "Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage"

aclatuts — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:13:24 +0000

The tried and true asbestos insulation

New comment by aclatuts in "Researchers have identified the enzyme that gives urine its yellow hue"

aclatuts — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:01:26 +0000

Beet juice plus antacid is a solid way to urinate red for me.

New comment by aclatuts in "A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA"

aclatuts — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:17:38 +0000

Assassins Creed is becoming reality soon.

New comment by aclatuts in "Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes"

aclatuts — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:48:45 +0000

I feel like the oil industry has astroturfed nuclear energy, and NIMBYs love it because they know there can not be any significant nuclear capacity that will come online until 2030 at the earliest. Which is my biggest problem with pro nuclear arguments.

New comment by aclatuts in "Levels of banned CFCs rising"

aclatuts — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:18:10 +0000

Maybe a lot of old equipment that used CFCs are now collectively leaking at the same time?

New comment by aclatuts in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

aclatuts — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:17:09 +0000

Disconnecting from the grid is overly romanticized. What you get from paying the utilities is a team of people who will fix equipment issues due to failure or the environment. If your home battery system has issues, scheduling someone could take a day or more. Off grid electrical services isn't popular enough to be on call 24/7. And getting parts may get take even more time. Equipment failure could take your electricity out for days or weeks. Being fully off grind means over provisioning your electrical storage and production, adding to costs. You also would not be able to sell your excess electricity. Also, in terms of house value, I imagine more people value the peace of mind of a connected electrical grid over saving the small fixed monthly connection fee.

New comment by aclatuts in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

aclatuts — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:08:57 +0000

People go broke if their utilities go up $100 a month. It's better if houses were built to not depend on volatile energy prices. Net zero homes basically move the monthly utility cost from an ongoing variable bill and basically prepays it into the mortgage which would have more predicable pricing. All that extra cost should also stay as value to the house.