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New comment by dalyons in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

dalyons — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:22:50 +0000

You know the answer to this. It’s only going to be anti immigrant dog whistles

New comment by dalyons in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

dalyons — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:46 +0000

Yeah it’s usually just 3-6ft on the edges of the roof. But this whole roof is tiny. Covering a 12x12 roof would be much less than one edge run on a big house . Also they only turn on when there’s actual snow falling so doesn’t use as much power as you might think

New comment by dalyons in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

dalyons — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:25 +0000

also idk, tons of people up here have regular sheds for various purposes and they seem to survive just fine

New comment by dalyons in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

dalyons — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:25:21 +0000

well it just has to stop significant buildup over multiple days right? IDK, seems pretty effective here in tahoe where ive seen it applied on parts of peoples houses

New comment by dalyons in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

dalyons — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:03:46 +0000

What if you just put heat tape on the roof? These sheds have small roofs, shouldn’t be prohibitive

New comment by dalyons in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

dalyons — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:21:01 +0000

But what’s “within reason”? Right now I have an unlimited list of ambitions of things to do with my kids. Traveling, sports, skiing, mountain biking, surfing, camping, building, electronics, etc etc… there are not enough hours in a year to do just those with zero paid work. Is that ridiculous, assuming I can afford to do so?

New comment by dalyons in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

dalyons — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:05:13 +0000

> how many have a spouse working a demanding full time job as well? I realized for me it was zero.

Zero for me too, but boy are people quiet about it. Almost taboo to let on that that is the arrangement

New comment by dalyons in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

dalyons — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:19:35 +0000

As a father of nine you have to acknowledge your perspective is an extreme outlier. Not criticizing, just, not a generalizable take.

New comment by dalyons in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

dalyons — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:38:39 +0000

i agree. But i read the blog post as the author trying to escape having to compromise. Which, as we seemingly both think, is not possible.

New comment by dalyons in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

dalyons — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:05:04 +0000

thank you for this, very well written, and rings true.

I will say for me this is the root contradiction:

> I do not believe the quality time theory. I firmly believe in maximizing the quantity of time spent with them; there are no diminishing returns for them on that front.

If you believe that to be the most true statement, then it leads to the conclusion that you should work as little as possible to spend as most time with them, up to and including not working at all. The ambition to be kidmaxxing, if you will. This is incompatible with career ambition obviously.

I guess i'm just sharing the same frustration but with a stronger conclusion - it seems fundamentally contradictory to be ambitious in both, at least at young ages. Seems like we're fooling ourselves if we think you can, we're compromising on one aspect at least.

New comment by dalyons in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

dalyons — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:03:06 +0000

Pretty much every house in Victoria had gas, and gas furnaces, winter is cold enough

New comment by dalyons in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

dalyons — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:09:40 +0000

Ok so this isn’t really a serious conversation?

New comment by dalyons in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

dalyons — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:02:12 +0000

i dont really understand, if you hate working from home now (and it sounds like you have for a long time) why dont you switch to an in person role? there are certainly plenty of those.

New comment by dalyons in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

dalyons — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:58:14 +0000

certainly not true in this case. The constant protests and clashes and deaths caused a significant national backlash, to the point that operations were dialed way down and even the field chief was replaced. Without the actions of protestors in minnesota we would likely still be seeing similar militant takeovers of cities around the country - it actually did change a lot. (in my opinion of course, alternative histories cant be proven)

New comment by dalyons in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

dalyons — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:44:04 +0000

Why not? It all comes frozen anyway. Not particularly different from any other food

New comment by dalyons in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

dalyons — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:10:34 +0000

and how did that work out? the site is dead now because of it

New comment by dalyons in "Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)"

dalyons — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:42:24 +0000

personally i think we should just stop selling the leaded version, tomorrow. alternatives exist, update your planes or dont fly, but no more leaded fuel.

New comment by dalyons in "CarPlay Is Additive"

dalyons — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:37:25 +0000

Subscription money of $10 mo minus the cost of the cellular data connection and data, which is probably ~$8mo. So, a whopping profit of $24 a year?

I hear this theory a lot but it doesn’t actually make sense given the numbers

New comment by dalyons in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

dalyons — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:29:43 +0000

Having grown up in Australia I agree with everything you say. The percentage of property parasites as a % of the working population is staggering.

Agree with all except maybe this:

> It's a deliberately created problem by tying the money supply to housing as an effort to decrease the population.

I don’t think there’s a grand evil plan. it’s just people acting selfishly, on selfish incentives. It looks similar around the world because property rights and local planning controls look similar around the world, a huge number of such systems derived from common old Europe roots

New comment by dalyons in "Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley"

dalyons — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:47:12 +0000

If this is your situation consider asking for an ISO to NSO conversion. Many companies these days will allow you to do this, as they’ve realized it’s in their best interest to not retain checked out employees