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I continue to be entertained and impressed by the Happy Metal guys. This Cannibal Corpse cover is maybe their most transformative, and dressing like Ace Ventura was a nice touch.Comments
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D:Comments
Intel built two versions of the 386: the 386-SX and the 386-DX. They were identical processors yet the DX version was almost twice as powerful as the SX (on the chart the 386 Sx 33Mhz and the 386 DX 33Mhz are respectively at 5.1 and 8 MIPS). This is due to a data
This is exactly how my family ended up with a 386-SX. I recall Amin later explaining to me why this was bad.
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Had a really good time deleting email threads related to moving in various ways. Ahh. (They're backed up on another server.)Comments
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On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature products: software that uses a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants.Comments
“Never before have we seen these numbers,” said Jay Parsons, a vice president of RealPage, as conventiongoers wandered by. Apartment rents had recently shot up by as much as 14.5%, he said in a video touting the company’s services. Turning to his colleague, Parsons asked: What role had the software played?
I think I have seen this software in use! A couple of the “luxury” apartments that we had to look at this summer showed a calendar of prices on a web page. If you moved in to unit n on day m, you got price p. And it changed daily. It being from a service the “landlord didn’t control” gave it authority.
“I think it’s driving it, quite honestly,” answered Andrew Bowen, another RealPage executive. “As a property manager, very few of us would be willing to actually raise rents double digits within a single month by doing it manually.”Such agents sometimes hesitated to push rents higher. Roper said they were often peers of the people they were renting to. “We said there’s way too much empathy going on here,” he said. “This is one of the reasons we wanted to get pricing off-site.”
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This real estate agent, John Donnelly, is also a Nazi cop. The only one of those combinations that confuses me is real estate agent and cop. Hopefully, he slacked on police duties to sell houses, where I’m sure he made it hard for people of color and LGBT people to get homes. The lesser of two evils, sadly.Comments
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- Job. Lack of sleep made this a little rough today.
- Correspondence with teacher.
- Scheduled D&D. Unsure why I always deprioritize this, given how much easier it is than recap/XP.
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Well, it turns out that what happened to the guy was observed by a teacher and it is likely to be an accident; a three-kid collision. That's a relief, both that it was an accident and that there isn't time where an adult isn't there.Comments
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This Designer Notes episode with Justin Ma (one of the designers of FTL) revealed a lot of things I didn’t know. For one, that his dad worked for Activision and Acclaim. And he started playing video games a lot because he moved from San Francisco to Long Island as kid and didn’t click with Long Island culture. That feels too real.Comments
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45-minute run, 15 pull-ups. I tried to find the pond in the graveyard, but it’s hard to tell what anything is in the dark.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up.Comments
- Job.
- Looked into banks within walking distance.
- Sent nephew a present that I know for sure he doesn't have.
- Replied to the principle.
- Stood a plant that was blown over back up.
- Emailed a friend.
Some kid slapped the guy in the hallway at school today. We're looking into it. Hopefully, this is a freak incident and can't normally happen.
I'm sure this sounds very "blue state special snowflake" to some, but this not being taken seriously is just not going to be accepted. I guess it was good to warm up with that stupid UPS thing. Having gone to schools at which this kind of minor violence and sometimes major violence was a regular "that's just the way it is" part of the environment, I can say that it isn't good for anyone, and it's not going to "toughen you up" in a way that's actually helpful. -
14 pull-ups. OK, I gotta make sure I work out earlier in the day, which you’d think I’d have learned by now.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up.Comments
- Job.
- Emailed some friends back.
- Emailed the teacher.
- Helped Katt plant more snakeroot.
- Made dinner.
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Bonus Cat’s special food for his urinary condition (he once developed a blocked urethra) used to cost $2 for a small can, which is expensive. It now costs $3 a can.Comments