solrize @ solrize @lemmy.ml

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Cudahy, California appears to be a town in Los Angeles County, if anyone cares.

I see. Question then is whether the store operator gets to set the prices. Donald Trump of course lives in government housing right now, so that's ok too.

IDK what thee current wisdom is about masks as source control. They do stop droplets from spewing when the person coughs, but the idea is to filter airborne virus. Anyway, maybe 10% of people around here wear masks.

He's a Democrat, not 3rd party.

Ok fine. His platform is interesting and I wish him luck delivering on it.

Shitty policies are usually successful in the sense that they achieve or at least advance their (shitty) goals, fwiw. Are Mamdani's proposals serious (e.g. does he have financial projections for them), or are they like platitudes like wishing for world peace? Tbh I don't think the mayor has the authority to do any of that stuff.

We'll see how it goes.

Quite a lot of red states have state owned liquor stores,[0] so city owned grocery stores doesn't sound that radical. Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1] I hadn't heard of this idea before, but web search shows it is a thing. I'd consider it socialism if he also wants to close down the privately run grocery stores. He doesn't seem to be doing that

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state

[1] https://thefern.org/2025/03/are-government-owned-grocery-stores-the-answer-to-americas-food-desert-problem/

If Cuomo runs 3rd party and the Dem establishment supports him, I'm going to fling that back at anyone who tells me to not vote 3rd party in a presidential election, lol.

Look for a high SEER, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio

Window AC can be much cheaper to operate than central even if the window unit is less efficient, since it's cooling just one room instead of the whole house.

Where I am, we've had some quite hot days (100 degrees but not much above that so far) and I haven't had to use the AC yet, because it's still pretty cool out at night and the house stays cool enough during the day. That might change if it starts getting hot at night.

You can write Python in an OOP style if you want to, and you sort of have to in the case of using certain libraries, but it's mostly optional and imho rather ugly.

Yes, very much so.

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Wear an n95 whenever you are indoors in public places.

You dream every night, everyone does. You just don't remember the dreams on waking.

IDK about windows to the subconscious but if I have an interesting or recurring dream, sometimes I try to interpret it, and have gotten some things out of doing that.

Maybe there is some gadget that can detect when you are dreaming. You wouldn't want to have it wake you automatically on a regular basis (disrupting sleep isn't always avoidable, but it isn't good). But you could try it once or twice and see if you remember the dream then.

Dreaming is also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, because people's eyeballs jerk around during that sleep phase. Usually the jerking is pretty random. Once during a sleep study, a guy's REM suddenly changed to very rhythmic, repeated side to side movements. That was weird enough that the researcher woke him and asked him what he had been dreaming about. The answer: playing ping pong. The eye movements had tracked the ball going back and forth.

Thanks, interesting, but I wish him luck delivering on any of that.

I think of cloud storage as meaning automatic synchronization to a phone app and crap like that. If you just want plain storage, I'm happy with Hetzner Storage Box. The one I have is in EU so that adds some network latency. I don't think they have it in the US yet.

You could also go on lowenspirit.com and look at storage offers. servarica.ca has some nice ones that are supposed to be good, but I haven't tried them myself. They are in the Montreal area.

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No idea about Mamdani but does the election not mostly show that people hate Andrew Cuomo? He seemed awful.

Phone or small tablet with a wireless keyboard.

My machines are old enough to not have that, so no. But, there are a lot of tpm implementations and I don't think they are backdoored in general. I know of some industry projects to use them in data centers. Otoh they often have vulnerabilities.

If I wanted a hardware token I'd use a dedicated one but that's just me.

No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

No idea who Mamdani is but they are sure to blame ranked-choice voting and keep trying to get it banned.

That sounds doomed unless they get rid of the war powers act. Presidents have been doing this stuff since the VN era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution