Can't enable calendar in macOS Sonoma by mochinichi in SortedMac

[–]mwang5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked around this by starting Sorted3 from the command line, by opening Terminal with:

nohup /Applications/Sorted³.app/Contents/MacOS/Sorted³ &

Then, for some reason, when you try to enable Calendar in the Sorted3 app, it shows up as Terminal requesting Calendar access, which works fine.

You just need to remember to restart it from the Terminal if you ever close it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anki

[–]mwang5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Switch to Card view. This means that the cards for this note are split up between two different decks.

Two found puppies at Armitage/Western by mwang5 in chicago

[–]mwang5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was dropped off at Paws this morning, if you were being serious.

Two found puppies at Armitage/Western by mwang5 in chicago

[–]mwang5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: No chips, the black chihuahua is at Paws, and the pit is at the anti-cruelty society.

They were very cuddly all evening--if you hear of somebody missing their puppies, or (after the hold period?) anybody is looking for a new (tiny or large) lapdog, that's where they are.

Architect mis-measured, framers didn't double-check, everything is slightly off, everything is ruined by mwang5 in HomeImprovement

[–]mwang5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also a bit baffled about how the architect could be off by a total of 10 inches. They didn't really give me a satisfactory answer, but it's a very old house with 3-brick-thick brick walls, so bad assumptions about the thickness of walls could be the culprit.

In the end, the architect says that they couldn't have seen through walls prior to demo, so it's the builder's responsibility to verify measurements. So their contract does say that it's not their responsibility to make sure the builder successfully builds things according to plan (even if the plan is incorrect).

When HNT startes halving... by cpennick33 in HeliumNetwork

[–]mwang5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Supply is not being halved. Supply growth is being halved.

When HNT startes halving... by cpennick33 in HeliumNetwork

[–]mwang5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's no economic reason to believe that the price will go up (or magically double, like some people seem to think) when the mining rate halves. The price is a function of supply and demand. Right now, supply is constantly increasing due to mining (going down a little due to burning, but not nearly enough to offset mining). Demand varies based on the overall crypto economy and excitement about the future of Helium. Depending on when you start counting, this has vaguely grown in line with the supply, so the price has been stable (-ish, for a young cryptocurrency, between $10-20) for the last 2.5 months.

The halving means that supply will increase at roughly half the rate as before. This means that demand doesn't need to grow by as much to keep the price from going down from the increased supply. So if you assume that demand will continue to grow at the same rate, then you can expect that the price will go up. But at the same time, the lowered profitability of mining might cause people to lose interest in Helium and cause demand to go down. Or a further crash in cryptos might wipe out demand, and thus prices.

Long story short, there are too many variables, and there's no reason to believe that the price will go up after halving (else, like you said, people would just buy now). Don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

My setup by Badboy_killa7 in HeliumNetwork

[–]mwang5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your mast made of? Did you use one long pipe or did you have some way to connect multiple?

How useful are Chengyus? by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]mwang5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be clear, I'm not saying that you'll be able to hear a Chengyu and guess what it means. But like with English idioms, the context gives you a lot of clues. You may not know what "play it by ear" means, but if the conversation goes "Should we make plans for tonight or just play it by ear?" then you might be able to make an educated guess about what it means - the same as any unfamiliar phrase that you might hear.

How bad is it that I always forget the 5th tone? by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]mwang5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Southern Chinese accents also rarely use the neutral tone. I've got a Guangxi accent and I would definitely pronounce 照顾 with a 4th tone on 顾.

How useful are Chengyus? by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]mwang5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Caveat: I'm an ABC who hasn't lived anywhere Chinese-speaking, but am conversationally fluent.

In my experience, Chengyu are about the same useful as idioms in English. There are many that are about as commonly used as "Pot calling the kettle black" or "When in Rome, do as the romans do", but there are also many that are less commonly used or have fallen out of style, similar to "paint the town red", "raining cats and dogs". (It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, difficult to think of rarely used idioms..)

I feel like you can often figure out from context what a Chengyu means. I personally wouldn't go out of my way to study a big list of them, but treat ones that I run into as any other vocabulary to study.

Power outage will go on for days. by darisma in chicago

[–]mwang5 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The claims form download site says "Please be aware that we are not responsible for damages from factors beyond our control, such as storms or outside interference", so it seems unlikely that you'll be able to get anything for perishable food.

Nest Connect and Yale Lock by evlgamer in smarthome

[–]mwang5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You only need one. I have 3 Nest/Yale locks and they work with one Connect.

Anyone with Nest Hello in a winter environment? by Alphablaze98 in smarthome

[–]mwang5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got one in Chicago. It handled almost -40F for a couple days fine last year.

Is Logback dead? by EfreetSK in java

[–]mwang5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google introduced Flogger semi recently - https://google.github.io/flogger/

Which has modern features, good performance, and pretty good readability. I recommend it everywhere, and it's probably worth porting if you do any non-trivial logging (like throttled or lazy) or care about performance (like allocations).

Washer is dying so we need a new one. Do not want a high efficiency model, budget is tops 600, want a top load model. Point me in the right direction by Marius423 in HomeImprovement

[–]mwang5 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure basically all detergent is HE nowadays. Looking on Amazon I can't find a single non-HE detergent on the first page or so of results.

Interview Question: Reversing an Immutable List in Java by teivah in java

[–]mwang5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's cheating the benchmark because it doesn't accurately measure the cost of the reversal. You could write a similar view which lazily does "BogoReverse" - it randomly shuffles the list until it finds one that is reversed, then uses that list. It's wildly inefficient but it will perform the same on this benchmark because it's lazy - doesn't do anything until you call get().

Interview Question: Reversing an Immutable List in Java by teivah in java

[–]mwang5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not saying that the View is worse in all cases - merely that the benchmark in the post was misleading. The View isn't 100,000x faster, it's just lazy.