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The psychology behind prices surrounding cars is outright evil. You don't even notice how much you spend on them because everything is auto-deducted from your accounts (insurance, registration, etc.), gas is death by a thousand cuts, and repairs are seen as a necessity because it's your transportation.

I'm well aware I'm saving money by not having a car. However, spending $40 on bike maintenance every few months feels so much more expensive than $400 on a car, even though the bike is my transportation.

I never said that, but okay.

My point is we have no excuse for not at least connecting our major metros together by transit, and having good transit within them. I grew up in the country, I lived 6 miles from the nearest town. I'm well aware it doesn't work everywhere, but the majority of people, in fact, DO live in cities, and yet we still insist on cars being the main mode of transportation for almost every single metro except like 3 of them. It's terribly inefficient and horrible for the environment.

On top of what others have said keep in mind shorting isn't just you saying the stock will go down, it's you saying the stock will go down more than others think it will. Tbh I wouldn't even touch anything to do with shorting or options if I were you. It's incredibly risky and should only be done by people with more experience than you and I.

China has done it pretty well, and there's no reason we can't too. It's just our car and oil lobbies would rather people spend stupid amounts of money on driving everywhere than literally any other form of transit.

I live in SF and bus/train everywhere and it's fantastic. Never have to look for parking, I get natural exercise in my daily routine through walking, and I'll spend at absolute max $1100 a year for unlimited transit rides which might cover the insurance cost on an okay car. There's no excuse for the shitty transit system we have in the US.

I'd say it's more convenience than elitism.

I'm in BTN and it's the only indexer I use for my Sonarr instance because it has absolutely everything. I've never not been able to find something and almost everything I download will saturate my 1.2 Gbps connection.

For Radarr I don't have any private trackers and it takes 35 public trackers to get coverage that is almost as good. The options I'm given are way less organized and download speeds are a gamble. It's not really an issue because I rarely watch movies, but I definitely understand why private trackers are so sought after. I'll eventually try to get into some smaller ones which tend to be pretty easy to do.

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The reason it works is because telecom providers use DNS-based throttling instead of deep packet inspection to selectively limit bandwidth to video sites. They have a massive list of all the popular streaming sites (YouTube, AppleTV, Netflix, etc.) and then throttle the sites in the list. When providers say "unlimited 480p video streaming" they actually have no clue what video quality you are watching. They just pick a bandwidth limitation that would only allow 480p video to play without buffering.

They could in theory use network traffic analysis to identify video websites which have bursty bandwidth patterns (due to the nature of video buffers), but this would be more difficult, more expensive, and extremely prone to false positives.

I've been using Google's Gemini and it's pretty good at interpreting fucked up or imperfect smart commands. For example we have some lights named "Chrimas Lights" and it will turn those on and off by referring to them as Christmas lights. It can also do multiple commands in a row without being overly explicit. So you can say "set lights to x%, make them yellow, and turn them off in an hour and set my TV to volume x" and it'll do it no problem. The old assistant could not do anything even close to this.

It's also much faster and processes words as fast if not faster than a human can. From finishing a command to the command being executed seems to be about 1/10th of a second which makes me wonder if it's doing any sort of inferencing on the back end. It's one of the best LLM integrations I've seen so far.

I've had ProtonVPN for 3 years now and I have 0 complaints.

It's the only VPN I've ever used that doesn't have less bandwidth on VPN than off. I regularly saturate my gigabit connection for hours at a time with 0 issues or throttling, and tunnel my torrent client's traffic through it 24/7. It also allows me to watch 4k content on mobile data without throttling and circumvent my phone provider's restrictions on hotspot/tethering that they want me to pay $30/month to remove.

Best $5/month I've ever spent.

I've noticed it's less common in the city and more common in rural areas. I live in SF and people here don't call them gas stations unless they have gas, but in the Central Valley this is extremely common.

I grew up there and I always forget how much more "proper" I speak at home vs where I grew up. My partner sometimes struggles to understand what I'm trying to say a lot of the time when I slip back into it when speaking with my family. Gas station is just one of the many overly generic terms. Another one is "Vallarta" which doesn't necessarily mean the chain grocery store Vallarta, but a Mexican grocery store usually selling produce and with a meat counter.

Gas station is a somewhat colloquial form of bodega/corner store in the US. Often corner stores without gas stations will still be referred to as gas stations. Sometimes they're also called convenience stores.

Auto save with Google Docs style snapshots has so little overhead I'd hardly consider it a trade-off. We have insane amounts of disk storage and extremely reliable non-volatile memory. The only reason against it that I can conceive of is confidential data you don't ever want to exist outside of volatile memory.

All modern word processors use auto save and it kinda blows my mind libre does not do this.

This is part of why getting credit cards early (if you're capable of being responsible with them) is so important. All my oldest credit lines are credit cards (I have 4 of them), so any future loans will be taking my average credit line down instead of up. As a result I'll always have those old credit lines and my score will only go up when I pay things off completely.