We have something similar with tariffs. We pass them through to the client, and they show up as revenue and expenses like this Autodesk example.. But, we immediately deduct the tariff expense from the tariff revenue above the gross revenue line, so Gross Revenue is not affected.
Yes, it takes me 60 minutes to go 45 miles when I cross the extremes of the city. Oh noes! How far does the red line go in Boston and how long does that take?
I think the better question is general walkability.
The extremes is a pretty weird trip to do comparisons of since most people go from the outskirts into the centers to work and play and then go back to the outskirts.
The question becomes... once you get to your destination, can you get anywhere else without having to hop back into the car?
In cities like NY or Boston you can ride into town, hit a restaurant, go to the show, grab a few drinks then hit the clubs all without getting back into your car or just by taking short stints on readily available public transportation or taxis.
Can you have that same experience in Houston? I don't really know. Maybe. Where I'm from it's not concentrated like that so you go to your friends house... then you get in a car and go down to the bars... then you get in the car again to go to the arena for the show.
Everything's very dispersed. I personally like that much less.
It’s not quite true that we have no codes, but you wouldn’t come here and find some hell hole of mixed industrial and residential. Land prices really do dictate use.
Maybe inside the loop, but go to Channelview or Deer Park or Baytown or La Porte or League City or even Webster.
Go take a look around the Nasa Bypass and Gulf Freeway. You've got apartments, a Great Wolf Lodge, an oil pipeline holding station, and single family homes all right next to each other all right on top of the creek.
The parks I used to play at had active oil and gas wells right next to them. My neighborhood growing up had a big, straight greenbelt that bisected the neighborhood due to the abundance of buried gas lines in between.
You mean like the million dollar McMansions on the same block as a gas station, across the street from an office high rise? I think you’re over-estimating the effect of land prices.
What's the problem with gas station (provided it keeps mandatory distance from the buildings) or the office building near the residential ones? In fact, close offices are often cited as a pros for certain locations, people are even trying to rent as close as they can in some cities.
PS: I've lived the whole last year approximately 100m away from both gas station and large office complex. Neither bothered me at all, and it was a first floor.
Texas also has a business wealth tax, known as business personal property tax. All assets that a business owns are subject to the tax (with exemptions for farmers and ranchers...). This means that high capital factories on small plots of land also pay tax on their capital.
I've come to realize that asking an LLM to do something that a purpose-built software program can already do is a mistake. Instead, the LLM must be an agent for that computer program.
Therefore, the correct prompt is "write a python program to count the number of letters in a word, and then use it to count the number of Rs in strawberry".
Remember those interview questions: "how many golf balls fit in a 747?" Turns out they are actually a good way to see if the candidate is a LLM-style imitator or is a someone who knows how to switch to a formal constraints-based thinking, come up with that "python program" to count golf balls and execute it step-by-step.
On a recent Odd Lots episode, they interviewed a Canadian lentil farmer. His claim was that a family of 3 (Father, Mother, Daughter) could farm 1200 acres of lentils with time left over due to modern automation.
So I guess it would depend on the automation level of the kind of crops you’re planting.
I’ve tried to switch to Linux and Mac several times over the past 30 years. And once I get it in front of me, I’m struck with a feeling of “now what?”. All that effort and no upside.
Aye, I must have tried it ten, fifteen times over the years before it stuck.
All I'd say is it's pretty easy and more or less "just works" these days. I remember fighting over basic stuff like second monitors, but for the most part, all the issues relating to Linux itself are solved. A DE like Gnome is simple, clean and easy to use. Gaming totally works thanks to Steam.
The only hurdle is if you absolutely need a full Office or Adobe install. For most of us, that comes with our work machines. For me, Linux is perfect for my personal rig.
Obviously your experience is your experience, but I just cannot understand this. Been using Linux comfortably for 5 years now. The only time I touch Windows for personal use anymore is inside a GPU-passthrough VM for gaming, though lately I've been considering switching to playing the games through Linux because it's gotten so good recently. Actually, many titles get better performance in Linux than Windows now, ironically.
I think the fact that you are able to even setup a VM with GPU-passthrough probably means your knowledge of using Linux is far greater than most coming from Windows and Mac. I'm someone that uses Visual Studio for work often, but the fact that you can do GPU-passthrough gives me some hope that I could switch to Linux full-time, and make it work. Even though your comment was about games, I appreciate that you posted and gave me some hope. Most of the software I write now in .NET is able to run on Linux, but the specific CMS I use is still tied to MS SQL Server for production. I can use SQLite for development, but moving from SQLite to MS SQL Server is quite a big extra step. If I can use Visual Studio and MS SQL Server (Express) in a VM, I can do most of my daily tasks directly in Linux.
If you don't plan to do anything graphically-intensive, you don't even need to pass a GPU through. But GPU passthrough is the smoothest experience by far. The downside is that you have to switch display inputs back and forth between passed-through GPU's output, and host output, if you're using the same monitor. And then the easiest way to share a keyboard and mouse between the two is a cheap KVM.
The biggest things are that you probably want a newer kernel, and your motherboard needs proper IOMMU layout to isolate the GPU. This is "the" tutorial if you're interested:
I grew up in a world where there was broken glass bottles everywhere - in parking lots, in playgrounds, on the street. I've never seen that externality of broken glass calculated.
Man, this is so much better than many Bollywood movies that are re-dubbed. When the actors go back to the sound studio to re-record their lines, they don't match up with their lips exactly, and it can be off-putting.
