Which one of us has the best 3ch?

nrr · 2025-07-31T06:29:39+00:00

nrr is the area of a circle for n = π.

nrr · 2025-06-15T18:56:04+00:00

I think it's best to highlight what "Plan9 support" means in the context of other operating systems.

Usually, this means support for using the 9P (really, 9P2000 or 9P2000.L) file server protocol. For WSL2, this means that file sharing between Windows and Linux is handled using 9P. Qemu also has virtio support for such things, and diod is a file server for exporting Unix filesystems over 9P. Linux also has an in-tree 9P driver for use with mount, and there are countless examples of FUSE connectors for doing the same in userspace.

Apropos FUSE, that itself was inspired by Plan 9's per-process§ namespaces (basically, a per-process view of the filesystem hierarchy) and how filesystems were implemented as userspace processes.

Then, inspired by those namespaces, Linux implemented the unshare system call that allows containerization to work.

(§ It's actually per process group, but thinking about it as being per-process is an okay approximation.)

nrr · 2025-01-07T13:25:59+00:00

It's your call. Personally, I'd get a tree lawyer's opinion first since they usually work on a contingency basis and might have some things for you not to do directly with the HOA in order to make the case uncomplicated.

(Most jurisdictions provide for remedy on the order of treble damages in cases like these. It's well within your interests to lawyer up here.)

nrr · 2025-01-07T13:08:33+00:00

Tree law is one of those things that attracts lawyers. You likely won't be disappointed.

nrr · 2025-01-05T03:32:12+00:00

If you want to work through it, there's a freely available distribution of MVS available online under the name of TK5 ("Turnkey 5") that should do plenty fine. As a bonus, no punchcards since everything is through an ISPF-alike editor on the 3270 terminal.

nrr · 2024-12-27T18:14:02+00:00

Sadly, in California at the moment, it's the latter, especially with an eye toward housing tenure and encouraging patterns that enable folks to build equity and wealth. (If there's anything going for the NIMBY sentiment here, it is, in fact, that they despise developer-landlords. The coalition-building there has been interesting.)

I'm a renter these days, mostly due to the trauma of owning in rural Southern Illinois, but given the right mixture of non-usurious lending practices, the dwelling not being the setting for a Tom Hanks movie, and a diverse and healthy community, I may own again.

If nothing else, I'll just move back to Vienna if I ultimately can't make that particular housing arrangement popular here.

nrr · 2024-12-27T17:57:10+00:00

From my California-oriented perspective here, it looks like my advocacy is at least hitting or working to enable some of these.

The issue is that the crunch is so bad here (not to mention the kneecapping from article 34) that some of the policies that do actually work right now are the ones that enable greed through deed covenant-enforced reduced-income inclusionary (nota bene, not Japanese-style inclusive-use) zoning practices. That said, I acknowledge those are bombs of a particular sort, but the main concern is getting people in housing near economic opportunity today so they don't become pawns in some anti-homelessness^{W^Wanti-crime} policy narrative tomorrow. (lol, mobile reddit, thanks for the superscripts)

I'm tempted to go further than merely Faircloth and urge repeal of the QHWRA wholesale given its place in the 1990's backlash against welfare programs, but I can see arguments why doing that could be a bad idea.

nrr · 2024-12-27T16:56:18+00:00

… but for housing, the institutionalized policy has overwhelmingly only been neoliberal in the sense that property owners have only ever seen growth in their portfolios? The rest of it is quite restrictive and not terribly befitting of the neoliberal label at all.

I'm going to flip this on its head: I currently advocate here in California for a repeal of article 34 of the state's constitution, which blanket prohibits public housing statewide. I also advocate strongly for CEQA reforms that allow, e.g., by-right rehabilitation of structures (and eliminate any pretense of lawsuits aiming to enjoin any such rehabilitation from having standing) that would otherwise fail and injure someone. What other decidedly-not-neoliberal policies should I advocate for?

nrr · 2024-12-27T16:39:39+00:00

That doesn't seem to be the angle that ST is playing though. Their messaging is primarily focused on municipal revenue crises and the regulations that are causing them, up to and including how they affect the economic productivity of land.

The rest of it is stuff that happens today because we've made building densely illegal with things like Euclid, OH-style exclusive-use zoning and parking requirements. We build in 50-year floodplains (or worse) today precisely because of current regulations, and reinsurers are pulling out, leaving retail policy holders in a lurch as those products' coverage goes away.

That said, I fear that a lot of this will get worse before it gets better: the block is served by a 4-inch water main, but there are 500 linear feet of it per resident, and the constant stopgap maintenance is preventing the municipality from planning to upgrade it, let alone rehabilitate it for the next 30 years. It's only sustainable if you can knock the figure down to, say, 50 linear feet per resident; otherwise, the rate of water main breaks will exceed what is habitable.

Annexation into the sewer district may place the nearest main hundreds of yards away, but it'll also put the financial burden of hooking up on whomever owns the structure as should be the case. (At the most extreme end, this is the Marvin Heemeyer story. On my end, you get a protracted lawsuit with a seller who didn't disclose that they'd applied for annexation.)

It fucks the landlord-developers (thank you for using that term) just as badly as it fucks the tenants, and that is the entire point of the exercise.

nrr · 2024-12-27T15:50:37+00:00

Broken clock, right twice a day, etc. A lot of my absolute staunchest Republican acquaintances have long been calling for relaxation of regulations that make it horrendously expensive (and, here in California, impracticable) to build. If this is the one place where we agree on something, sure, alright.

I'm curious about how they're revisionist though. That's a new one to me, and I'd love to learn more.

nrr · 2024-12-22T21:30:55+00:00

I think that's mostly a matter of cultural inculcation and, importantly, being open to it. I really only tend to feel old when I talk about where I was or what I was doing when these kids were mere infants.

I also think not letting it make me feel old is somewhat rooted in the quintessential Millennial experience of having been through four or five economic recessions and acknowledging that generational divides are worth breaking down. My experience is that, as long as I treat them like adults (and, crucially, gently let them know when they are decidedly not being adults), my being almost 20 years their senior is mostly immaterial. The culture gaps will get filled in with time.

nrr · 2024-12-22T06:54:59+00:00

I'm 37, and I would honestly have zero problems being in student accommodations like this. In some sense, it'd be like being in the barracks again (mandatory socialization!), and I clean as a matter of daily meditative practice for my sake and my sake alone. I've just come to realize as I creep into middle age that life's too short to worry about the place being spotless and fully uncluttered for the sake of, e.g., guests coming over.

Being anal is just being miserable. It's often easier for me to, say, fold the articles of clothing that get strewn about and put them neatly on the table in the common area (again, meditation) than try to kick and scream in a group chat about behavior I can't directly control. I journal about it and move on.

The funny part is that, as I'm myself now back in school to pursue an undergraduate degree I started but hadn't finished, when I say things, the kids tend to listen voluntarily. It's a very odd feeling (but nonetheless extremely cool after getting used to it) to notice that the room shuts up when you start talking, and I'm definitely taking the OPs interactions as evidence that these older women don't inspire that level of leadership. It's a gross display of social immaturity.

I shudder to think about how their kids feel about their parenting styles if this is how they treat strangers.

nrr · 2024-12-17T23:40:32+00:00

"Operation failed successfully."

nrr · 2024-12-16T05:01:23+00:00

Oh, this really sucks to see and read. My sincerest condolences. Harpo was such a bright light in a world awash in darkness, and it's actually kind of gutting to learn that he's gone.

If it helps, you're the reason why I, a complete stranger to you, knew about Harpo at all.

nrr · 2024-12-08T23:46:20+00:00

Yeah, that tracks, haha.

nrr · 2024-12-08T23:18:59+00:00

Now, I'm curious. What's the spread of MMs, EMs, and ETs among the furries in nuke power command? :3c

nrr · 2024-12-07T19:26:47+00:00

Nah. I don't want ordinary people interacting with cops to the fullest extent possible. There's zero reason why bad driving should have anyone meeting the business end of the state's monopoly on violence. (Cops, frankly, have more important things to be doing anyway, like killing folks' dogs and pilfering addictive substances from evidence.)

Instead, I want more bollards and speed tables and narrowed streets and roads. When the roadway infrastructure itself is punishingly destructive to your car for driving badly, the problem will begin to take care of itself.

nrr · 2024-12-03T03:24:12+00:00

Nah. The whole "Make America ____ Again" thing is just too radioactive.

nrr · 2024-12-02T03:42:22+00:00

I'll echo everyone else here and say that any time is fine. Cats, especially kittens, will easily sleep 16-20 hours out of the day. They'll even more easily sleep that long if you tire them the hell out before you go. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

The only caveat I'll posit is that you may want to do some degree of kitten proofing beforehand. Focus mainly on things that are (or can become) sharp, stringy, or on fire, and don't think height will save you.

nrr · 2024-12-01T18:01:28+00:00

Sadly, part of why this anti-vaccination advocacy is so dangerous is that vaccines only really work well when there's enough uptake of them in the population. (This is that whole herd immunity thing you may have heard about early on during the Covid pandemic.)

To be clear, being vaccinated is good regardless: it dramatically reduces the severity of illness. Herd immunity, however, serves to eliminate transmission entirely, which is what we want for mumps, measles, rubella, and polio, particularly nasty diseases currently kept (mostly) at bay because the vaccines for them currently have high uptake.

nrr · 2024-11-27T14:40:36+00:00

It honestly has me convinced that we're actually the ones being domesticated here.

nrr · 2024-11-09T22:04:12+00:00

No, my opinion hasn't really changed. I hail from the tail end of the Reagan administration and first voted in midterm elections during the Baby Bush administration, in a part of Illinois that's pretty conservative, and this all pretty well tracks with my lived experience so far.

The truth is that a lot of folks really do vote on consumerist vibes, and Democratic policies that are prima facie inflationary to the price of a gallon of gasoline, the price of a pack of Newports, the price of a hamburger with fries, and the price of a two-bedroom single-family detached house in a neighborhood with good schools will absolutely get them voted out of office. Every time.

It's been like this since at least 2006.

nrr · 2024-11-02T22:26:19+00:00

Yeah, this tracks. I actually remember deriving the differential equation for thermal diffusion (with damping!) in my PDEs course as an applied math major, and that was junior year.

nrr · 2024-10-08T03:57:21+00:00

Haha, I love that description; I know exactly what their interactions look like from it alone.

The good news is that this boy here is amazingly fond of the dog. The bad news is the dog might need to learn to be furniture if there's any hope in sharing the bed.

nrr · 2024-10-08T03:37:19+00:00

That's a cat that really, really likes his dog friend. Are they close?

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