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New comment by lasthemy in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

lasthemy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:44:02 +0000

I would have framed it as "buyer who can get the most leverage from it", which equates to being able to spend more. It's an economic argument, not a values argument.

New comment by lasthemy in "A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode"

lasthemy — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 19:31:53 +0000

In 2003, RFC 3629 removed all 5 and 6 byte encodings, effectively limiting it to 4-bytes. Of course it could be expanded at any time, but that would be a significant change to established practice, and directly contradict the rationale in RFC 3629 (that because most people use 4 bytes in practice, allowing 5 and 6 constituted a security flaw).

Source: the same Wikipedia article you linked.

New comment by lasthemy in "Software Development Is Bad For Your Health"

lasthemy — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:56:21 +0000

You really want to measure life expectancy for people entering working age to avoid measuring infant mortality. Those numbers sound like they don't take that into account.

New comment by lasthemy in "I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech"

lasthemy — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:21:38 +0000

The point of his blog is to demonstrate how to make the realm of FU money easier to achieve. His major claim is that, since he owns his house and has chosen a relatively low-cost region to live in, his yearly expenses for his entire family are around $27,000. So agreed, for him $4k/month of free money would definitely qualify.

New comment by lasthemy in "Beware of Freeconomics"

lasthemy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:31:26 +0000

Because there are so many companies willing to provide comparable service that supply is nearly infinite. That offsets any feeling of what it's actually worth in productivity.