Aaron Parecki

my parents bought their house in 1976 for $58,000. in 2022 dollars, that would be $279,160.

their 2022 assessment valued the house at $2.09 million.

i don't think getting married at 34 instead of 24 is the reason my generation can't buy homes. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

That actually go against your community guidelines.

This isn't the first time this has happened but tbh, this is what drives people away from using YouTube to build their businesses and makes us turn to building our own email lists and promote Patreon over YouTube memberships.

Urgent reminder: the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. Fixating on short term growth while the parent company teeters on the brink of collapse is a myopic as it is negligent.

holy shit. how is netflix able to stream such detailed film grain on highly compressed video? bc it's made dynamically client-side.

they interpret the film grain characteristics from the source video before compression, then rebuild it on decode

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Welcome back! You haven't checked in to George Bush Intercontinental Airport since March '20.

Need some inspo for a small YouTube office. Who has some cool setups? Share some images in the thread!

me: when I was your age a paperclip named Clippy would help me write letters to my friends

kid: sure grandpa let’s get u to bed

So I think it’s a decent question to ask whether settling Mars really reduces existential risk or not. More on that below. But 1st I gotta ask whether Mars-skeptics have actually run economics models on it or not. I have, and AFAICT it will not be that hard to settle Mars. 🧵 1/n

We're riffing on that "they're an x" meme at work and it is very funny that my "they're a 2.7 but they're python" joke is performing better than "they're an 11 but there's an off by one error" joke.

looks like discord is testing a per-server subscription thing, as in, the subscription fee goes to the server owner

discord access is a hugely popular (but clunky) patreon reward so this is kind of a genius move??
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415163187607-Premium-Memberships-for-Servers

I seriously do not understand the pearl clutching going on about this story. Oh no! The youngs don’t use Google! Some other corporate algorithm might sway them!

Get a grip, people.

Many people look to case numbers to form opinions on risk, but wastewater can actually provide a better reflection of the COVID-19 cases than PCR testing data. This is one example from San Francisco, but we're seeing the same thing across the country. Stay safe out there! (4/4)

I like reviews where information is presented like I'm a human, not like a robot processing spreadsheets 😅

It's more fun that way 🥳

Do people (Americans) realize the next generation of high-speed rail coming to market could whisk you from the center of Chicago to the center of NYC in 2.5 hours with no airport hassle and we are literally buying highway expansions instead of this?
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/china-maglev-bullet-train-worlds-fastest-373-mph-1234626070/

Eaton (disclaimer: my employer) has smart circuit breakers that you can install on a standard BR panel. Advanced metering and remote operation support. No display though, everything is accessible through an app. https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/catalog/electrical-circuit-protection/energy-management-circuit-breaker.html

i became somewhat less invigorated by sentiments like "don't say 'idiot', look where it comes from" once i found out that the word "bad" basically traces back to a slur for trans women

My toxic trait is putting QR codes on random restaurant tables so people think it’s to order, but it’s actually to my portfolio

let’s name it:

that thing where the skeleton screen renders and the loading animation runs and runs and runs (indefinitely) because a JavaScript error halted the fetched data from being rendered correctly

the hardest part of software engineering is finding someone who
1. knows why we did that
2. still works at the company
3. is not on PTO / sabbatical