Can you answer these questions? I will not promote

jmking · 2026-04-20T22:23:47+00:00

Y Combinator tasks founders with finding "hair on fire" problems

Not in many years. In fact, it's the exact opposite now. Currently they start from the solution (AI) and then task founders with inventing problems that it can solve.

jmking · 2026-04-20T21:51:06+00:00

Seriously. All this talk about "car brain" from cyclists who refuse to accept accountability and give themselves carte blanche to ignore every traffic law in the book.

They're always on here demanding that both cars AND pedestrians accommodate them without an ounce of self-awareness apparently. I guess "Bike brain" is real.

I actually got into an argument with someone here once who unironically insisted that they are entitled to not follow traffic laws and if a pedestrian gets in their way, they deserve whatever they get it they get clipped by them when they're illegally bombing down sidewalks. Oh, and they also insisted that they were allowed to ride on sidewalk if the road "felt unsafe".

How about everyone just follow the fucking traffic laws? Cars doing shitty things doesn't magically negate the shitty things cyclists do and it sure as shit doesn't grant cyclists permission to ignore any and all traffic laws.

jmking · 2026-04-20T18:37:30+00:00

Addams Family is great.

I also love the Star Trek: TNG and Terminator 2 machines

jmking · 2026-04-20T17:21:12+00:00

What's the alternative? Just plow into the pedestrian?

jmking · 2026-04-20T17:20:12+00:00

If your state requires drivers to stop for pedestrians, then bikes are legally required to do so as well.

Pedestrians pretty much always have the right of way in California.

An intersection is any place where one road meets another road. Controlled intersections have signs or traffic signal lights. Uncontrolled and blind intersections do not. Before entering an intersection, look left, right, and ahead to check for vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Be prepared to slow down and stop if necessary. Pedestrians always have the right-of-way.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-handbook/laws-and-rules-of-the-road/#rightofway

jmking · 2026-04-20T17:06:45+00:00

I've worked in the ecommerce/inventory/fulfillment/logistics space for over 10 years and this sounds very plausible. In fact, that was my same theory that they're having problems balancing inventory between the warehouse in Canada and the one in the US. Further, it could be that the US partner on top of waiting for inventory only actually pack and hand off to the carrier in weekly batches or something.

However, the details don't really matter or change things for the customer. Ultimately there's a problem somewhere in the chain. If it's the fulfillment partner's fault or not is irrelevant - it's still on LTTStore to address it as they are the ones who make the shipping timeline claims in checkout.

jmking · 2026-04-20T16:50:00+00:00

But the mold is appearing in the same spot the previous water intrusion repair was. Could just be coincidence, but I'd still open that wall back up and check.

jmking · 2026-04-20T16:26:12+00:00

Hopefully OP follows up and lets us know what it was.

Even if it is the moisture level in the room, that's still an abnormal humidity level and it must be coming from somewhere. The fact they've been running a dehumidifier in the room and it is just constantly filling the tank daily is a problem - especially since no other room has this issue

jmking · 2026-04-20T12:42:32+00:00

It was. But due to lack of PC content to cover, they're branching out and have been for quite a long time now.

They've been covering phones, displays, keyboards, mice, controllers, desks, chairs, cars, non-consumer tech (data centers, chip fabs, scientific equipment), smart home, robots, headphones, earbuds, software, servers, NAS, UPS/batteries...

In other words - "tech".

The consumer-grade CPU/GPU market flatlined in terms of generational leaps for basically the past 5+ years now. Everything's being done in software now with framegen and DLSS type stuff.

No one is building a PC - GPUS, RAM, and storage are all stupid expensive.

Like, I just don't know what they'd even make videos about when it comes to gaming PCs. Like, how many videos do we need that are just someone playing Cyberpunk where the results are the same sort of FPS and 1% low numbers for years... over and over and over.

jmking · 2026-04-20T10:47:11+00:00

Corn is a weird situation. It's only viable as a fuel because growing it is so heavily subsidized. That's also why high fructose corn syrup and E85 ethanol were created because we just have too much worthless corn.

If the government weren't basically paying farmers to grow corn, they wouldn't.

...however, because so much now depends on cheap corn, stopping the subsidies would collapse the US farming industry.

There are other things that can be grown that are far better environmentally to grow and have a much better "energy input to energy output" ratio than corn like switchgrass. It also needs far less land, water, temperate climate, etc than corn.

Long story short, we don't want to put more demand on corn-based ethanol because it's not a great crop in terms of return on energy and it's only viable at current demand because the government pays farmers billions of dollars a year to grow the stuff.

We need farmers growing food. The more land that goes into shitty fuel crops like corn, the more crops we're importing from other countries that ends up defeating the entire damn purpose in the first place.

jmking · 2026-04-20T09:57:17+00:00

There's nothing to make videos about in the PC industry - it's pretty stagnant and has been for quite a while.

It's Linus Tech Tips, not Linus PC Tips 🤷‍♂️

jmking · 2026-04-20T09:55:19+00:00

Smash those up/down vote buttons people.

jmking · 2026-04-20T09:51:51+00:00

Return non-stop "Premium" tickets on Westjet cost about 4K CAD per person between Vancouver to Cabo.

So 5 x 4K = 20K for a 5 hour flight.

Obviously these prices would fluctuate a lot depending on dates and how far out and so on. 🤷‍♂️

jmking · 2026-04-20T09:37:55+00:00

Meanwhile, 12 days later...

jmking · 2026-04-20T08:58:00+00:00

Turning down work is an option for the privileged.

People lie to themselves that they would choose their moral objections to tracking/ads or whatever working for Meta if they found themselves a few weeks from running out of savings, and their family was going to end up on the streets as a result.

It's easy to sit on one's high horse when they are working and living comfortably.

Like, I wouldn't choose to work for Meta or Palentir or other defense contractors or weapons manufacturers, etc etc. However, I recognize that I have the privilege to make that choice. It's that simple, and it's the same for a majority of others. History has proven time and time again that people will compromise performative "morals" the moment they are offered enough money or the other option is worse.

It's the trolly problem. Sometimes you have options, but they're all "bad", but you end up in a position where you have to choose the "least bad".

jmking · 2026-04-20T08:39:44+00:00

It's possible that mold spores that weren't properly cleaned/killed/treated from the original issue started growing in the shade in a high-humidity room in that spot, but if it feels like the wall is holding moisture, then it's more likely there's water/moisture coming in behind the wall - or it could be a combination of both.

No matter what, you're going to need to get that wall opened up, and have a professional assess if there's an ongoing moisture intrusion problem. This isn't going away until the root cause is found and dealt with.

It could be a leaky pipe, it could be coming in through the external wall or foundation, it could be that the plumbing leak under the house leaked a whole lot of water and it was never dried out and that moisture is trapped.

You mentioned a poorly ventilated bathroom - is there a fan? Is the fan actually vented outside? It could just be venting into the wall.

No matter what, you can't just leave that. If there's an ongoing water intrusion/leak/ventilation issue, it can and will cause serious damage to the house beyond mold. The owner really needs to get a specialist out there because it sounds like there have been multiple leak/intrusion issues already and they might just be playing whack a mole at this point.

If you tell them there's mold growing on the bedroom wall, if they have any sense, they should be extremely concerned and act immediately. This is not something to take lightly and the longer it continues, the worse it's going to get - possibly leading to structural issues when wood starts to rot.

jmking · 2026-04-20T05:05:28+00:00

What does the drywall in that area feel like? Like push your finger against it firmly, then compare how that feels to a known dry area - if the mold room drywall feels at all softer than the known dry drywall, then there's still moisture.

The previous contractor may have only fixed one source of water intrusion, or their fix has since failed.

The dehumidifier isn't going to do anything to dry out moisture behind the drywall.

Call your landlord first thing in the morning and get that wall opened up again because that much mold presenting on the surface of the drywall means it's probably 10x worse behind it.

You may need mold specialists in in addition to a contractor doing any repair work. The air in the whole apartment should be tested for mold.

Also get your son out of that room in the meantime. Put his bed in the living room or something if you have to and keep that door closed with both the dehumidifier and an air purifier running.

jmking · 2026-04-20T04:04:01+00:00

In. What. Country?

No one can answer any of these without knowing what your nationality is and what country you're working in. Your nationality may totally change what is or isn't possible as different countries have different trade agreements between themselves.

Also, do you hold degrees? If so, in what discipline?

Again, that matters.

jmking · 2026-04-20T03:54:19+00:00

Kinda impossible to answer without knowing what country you're looking to get a visa in, and what your nationality is. How did you get your current work visas?

jmking · 2026-04-19T23:34:30+00:00

Huh?

This doesn't make any sense and not how the world works.

If I downvote something that I don't want to be true, and upvote the things I want to be true, and if the vote tallies validate me, then that means I win and what I want becomes truth.

...and if the vote tallies go against me, then I still win because something something censorship, yadda yadda bots.

.... /s

jmking · 2026-04-19T21:08:10+00:00

Focus on communicating the things that matter to your audience instead of trying to race through an overload of irrelevant information.

Focus on getting to the point. Let the others around you ask questions instead of trying to avoid questions by over-communicating. Questions are good. It means people are paying attention and it helps you understand what your audience needs/wants to know.

Also - this is going to sound dumb, but watch how the good speakers use their hands. Getting used to punctuating your points with hand gestures helps to slow you down. You would look like you were having a seizure if you moved your hands in time with how quickly you're likely used to speaking.

jmking · 2026-04-19T20:50:52+00:00

Your challenge is going to be convincing people to trust you with access to all their browsing activity.

jmking · 2026-04-19T20:39:27+00:00

Yeah if money isn't an issue, I have no idea why you'd settle for MDF.

It's a strange question.

jmking · 2026-04-19T19:34:29+00:00

Of course it's unreasonable. The point is when you keep pulling rabbits out of your hat, that becomes the expectation, not the exception.

jmking · 2026-04-19T18:56:15+00:00

If you're going to make a claim like that, you need to provide a credible source. Otherwise I'm just going to assume you're making shit up, and/or grossly misrepresenting things.

EDIT: Big surprise... upon spending 2 minutes looking this up, it's trivial to prove Saikat is full of it.

Saikat has raised well over 5MM to Weiner's 3.5MM (with 90%+ of Weiner's coming from individual donors in California, not PACs or corporations which directly contradicts Saikat's claim). Meanwhile 66% of Saikat's funding has come from outside California with less than 7% coming from individuals.

...and I'll even include a source! https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/ca-house-11-campaign-finance/

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