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New comment by cmcconomy in "Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners"

cmcconomy — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:47:17 +0000

in fact, I did not edit the original contents of my first message at all, out of respect for the reader. The edit merely acknowledged your point.

New comment by cmcconomy in "Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners"

cmcconomy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:45:31 +0000

thanks - I was wrong about the plan being new.

However as of this year it's got ~$600B of exposure and $400MM in funds. at 3MM/residence that's 133 homes before they're bust, right?

see:

https://ains.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2025-05/assembly-f...

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/02/homeowners-insurance-...

New comment by cmcconomy in "Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag"

cmcconomy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:37:22 +0000

strange, Teams is not on my list. Maybe you are not using "(new) teams (for business and school) v2 (new)"

New comment by cmcconomy in "Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners"

cmcconomy — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:57:53 +0000

reminds me of the recently enacted FAIR plan in California for last-resort wildfire insurance. It got state dispensation to carry otherwise-disallowed, lopsided balance sheets to cover more people -- but if a small fraction of those people do experience wildfire it'll go bust!

edit: see below, I was wrong about FAIR being newly enacted

New comment by cmcconomy in "Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal"

cmcconomy — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:57:23 +0000

i had a nuc with an eGPU, connected via a simple usb/thunderbolt connection, and I recall it was a nightmare to setup

New comment by cmcconomy in "Jqp: TUI Playground to Experiment with Jq"

cmcconomy — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:18:59 +0000

more general purpose is to use https://github.com/akavel/up

eg.

cat ./file.txt | up

and inside up, jq away!

New comment by cmcconomy in "Using Emacs Org-Mode With Databases: A getting-started guide"

cmcconomy — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:34:30 +0000

if you want to fall back to a less hardcore intro try spacemacs or doom emacs, very vim friendly

New comment by cmcconomy in "What Is Blueskyism?"

cmcconomy — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:52:45 +0000

this guy is like matt drudge, he caught lightning in a bottle and is holding tight onto that moment of relevance

New comment by cmcconomy in "Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website"

cmcconomy — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:17:49 +0000

remarkable

New comment by cmcconomy in "Everything I know about good API design"

cmcconomy — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:53:46 +0000

grep for /* and omit /v2 ?

New comment by cmcconomy in "Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor"

cmcconomy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:54:35 +0000

crazy if true

New comment by cmcconomy in "Modernish – A library for writing programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities"

cmcconomy — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:48:38 +0000

I greatly appreciate these kinds of tools but I always err on the side of what's installed by default wherever possible so I can work across hosts as soon as i land

New comment by cmcconomy in "Dépanneurs"

cmcconomy — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:40:18 +0000

this goes years back, but in the early 2000s I visited Paris and was a bit scandalized to hear the colloquial name for corner store was "l'Arabe" (!)

New comment by cmcconomy in "Million Times Million"

cmcconomy — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:10:03 +0000

Thanks!

This is the key piece of information for making sense of it. Ultimately the OP's insight is that the number-naming system used in the west is thousands based instead of millions based, but came to that by observing the number-naming outcomes instead of the source notation that led to it.

New comment by cmcconomy in "The Two Towers MUD"

cmcconomy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 05:26:50 +0000

https://www.bat.org

New comment by cmcconomy in "Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M"

cmcconomy — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:54:54 +0000

I had them mixed up with Citus and was confused since I thought they already belonged to MS!

New comment by cmcconomy in "Long live American Science and Surplus"

cmcconomy — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:22:42 +0000

There used to be a place much like this in Toronto called Active Surplus. Sadly got kicked out as rents rose on Queen Street.

RIP https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6495767,-79.3925583,3a,77.4y...

New comment by cmcconomy in "Free-Threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker"

cmcconomy — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:46:36 +0000

please add geopandas to the list :)

New comment by cmcconomy in "AI's energy footprint"

cmcconomy — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:13:50 +0000

we should shut off clean water and shunt the energy toward more text generation

New comment by cmcconomy in "Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI"

cmcconomy — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:32:39 +0000

I'd love to see this deployable to edge that have a Google Coral TPU