I have a 266k mile 04 4Runner, a 250k mile 04 F250, and a 188k mile 13 Chevy Volt.
'Forever' is starting to be 350k miles in crowds that don't buy new vehicles.
100,000 miles is essentially the bare minimum I'd expect from a car. I enjoy spirited driving as well (rumbly subie owner) and I'm over 100,000 miles and only had to replace wear items.
Is the author's implication that the developer took the project in a different direction because of the war? I don't understand what the connection is between "major geopolitical events" and the library. It's just a graph that shows that a year after the war started, the developer removed a feature the author liked.
It's more than just this - I wouldn't write a "conspiratorial article" out of nothing, but alas I can not provide depth without risking identification of the people involved and painting a target on my back.
I am watching the advisories for the dependencies closely. Please check my other comment as well.
Given that this is the internet and I don't know you, how can I distinguish a sane person making well founded claims backed by hidden evidence they won't share with me, and a crazy person just being paranoid and seeing conspiracy where there is none?
Usually the evidence is what makes the difference, but if you can't/won't share the evidence then what good are the accusations?
That's fair, shall I put the names in the article and a link to the repository? Really, it's a war. Do you think I will risk my own wellbeing just to have clout for a few days?
Not to mention opening myself up for the possibility of being sued by one or more contributors for "slander". I chose this approach and won't budge on that - it's not a fairy tale that people are dying and everything is affected by it, the list of embargos is considerable.
Consider that you are connected to the world - including Russia. Would you trust your Russian neighbour if he pivoted his development style, opinions, pace, characteristics? No.
We're not asking you to expose yourself or anyone else to any danger.
But you must realize that without going into more detail, we honestly have no idea what you're trying to communicate.
I read your post, and I still don't understand what the war, and embargoes on Russia, have to do with an open source project changing how they do things. From reading other comments here, other people are also confused.
Considering you have Mantine forked on your linked GitHub, you aren't going to great lengths to hide who you are directing this at, so to me it appears like slander.
> Just because someone prefers it over being homeless or commuting 90 minutes each way doesn't mean they like it
Doesn't "like" have to be assessed in comparison to the available alternatives? I mean, I don't like having to cook (minimally), empty the dishwasher, and other daily household chores, but I prefer those things to store-bought meals, eating on paper plates with plastic utensils, and/or hiring a daily housekeeper.
The article states that 50% of hay grown in Southern California is exported to China, and another 10% is exported to Saudi Arabia. If American meat consumption decreases, the portion of hay that gets exported will likely just increase. I think water intensity should be taken into account when determining export policies. Every time I read an article about water usage in an industry, the biggest or one of the biggest users ends up being the export market. We're shipping one of our most precious resources away.
Just one of the twenty families using more water than the entirety of Southern Nevada, including Las Vegas, to grow mainly hay is absurd. At some point the fact that the irrigation district has one of the oldest water contracts has to come to terms with the fact that the desert isn't the best place to farm. People in America should have priority over exporting hay to other countries.
> People in America should have priority over exporting hay to other countries.
major callout right here. i don't mind farmers using as much water as needed, but if i need to turn my pool water off so they can grow soybeans to ship to china, then thats a problem.
Your comment made me nostalgic so I went to John Siracusa's last macOS review from 2014 (10.10 Yosemite)[1]. Copied and pasted into Microsoft Word, it is 84 pages long, almost 27,000 words, and averages about one image per page. Quality and length are obviously not the same thing, but I can't imagine any online news outlet publishing something like that now.
Im pretty sure Siracusa’s review was not standard fare for Ars or really any publication whether formal or not.
His reviews were an exception and the fact that they don’t host his reviews anymore doesn’t say anything about how Ars has changed (especially because Siracusa himself doesn’t do the reviews probably because the new OS’s aren’t interesting enough).
But those reviews were awesome. Since I never upgraded my OSX until x.1 at least but usually only after x.2, the real reason I enjoyed OSX release day was because it meant a great evening spent reading John’s review.
Such quality work takes time and effort. Ultimately I think Siracusa gave up just because how much time it was taking away from other work. And Ars articles remain free to read.
Spending habits are mitigated by inflation though. For example, I buy significantly less beef than I did five years ago because it is now too expensive. Putting less weight on beef prices because of the reduction in consumption would indicate that inflation is less than it actually is.
> For example, I buy significantly less beef than I did five years ago because it is now too expensive. Putting less weight on beef prices because of the reduction in consumption would indicate that inflation is less than it actually is.
If people spend on item X less or no more, why would it be included in the index at the old weight? For any given period of time being measured, the basket of goods and their weights should reflect what people are actually doing. Why would you run a model that samples the wrong things?
This is one reason why (e.g.) StatCan went from updating their basket every 2-3 years, to annually in the last little while: spending habits shifted drastically in over the course of the pandemic.
Substitution is a known source of (possible) error and there are attempts to take it into account:
> 9.22 The other potential source of error with respect to the basket weights is referred to as upper-level substitution bias. This bias arises because of the use of the Lowe formula, which is an asymmetrically weighted fixed-basket price index. Because the weights are obtained from a year that precedes the price reference period, the expenditures are not likely to be fully representative of consumer spending patterns in the price observation periods. This is because consumers tend to adjust their spending habits in response to changes in relative prices, buying more of the products whose prices have fallen or risen less rapidly, while reducing their purchases of products whose prices have increased the most. In other words, they substitute towards relatively cheaper products from relatively more expensive ones. The asymmetrically weighted fixed-basket formula of the CPI does not account for these types of changes in consumer spending until a basket update is performed.
> 9.23 Unlike the Lowe formula, there are five known symmetrically weighted price index formulaeNote which are theoretically free from upper level substitution bias. These index formulae use expenditures from both the price reference period 0 and the price observation period t and therefore account for product substitutions that consumers may make. In this regard they are representative of consumer spending for the periods in which price change is being calculated.
> If people spend on item X less or no more, why would it be included in the index at the old weight?
Say ten years ago, hypothetically, everyone ate steak and wine every day for $100/week and today everyone can only afford to survive on ramen and tap water and it costs $100/week.
If you change the basket to say people today only want ramen, you will conclude that there has been 0% inflation in a decade. Everyone still spends $100/week on food, no change at all!
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