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Fixed now

looks like people somehow deleted everything, reset it to starting position

oh it's gone through a lot of iterations - I have seen Among Us characters, people clearing out the canvas down to 8 rectangles, entire thing going one color, had to delete a few obscenities, etc

yeah - merging has been tricky to nail down, definitely the thing that's gone through the most iterations so far

I would love to know more about it! you should make a blog post

it's been a learning experience for sure, but my blog is really not a good place for a technical story like this. i'll think about where i might be able to post it

people wrote scripts to color everything one color, had to implement some limits, but I think should be good now

Sadly that is unequivocally a very fun thing to do, and honestly I was considering trying it before I came and checked the HN thread haha

Maybe Anubis-style proof of work?

oooh good idea thanks

implemented, thanks for the idea, love it

sorry about that and the merges! I'm stopping now :)

that was a fun way to spend the past hours


Was it you that was trying to get the German flag on there? If so, wow great job! Got a few screenshots!

https://f.toi.sh/21juin-mmondrian.png


yes hahah did it twice, I think OP nuked it once

it was a simple rule, if y < 1/3, black, if y < 2/3, ...


I went on there with my young child, and there was a german flag on there, just not the 2000s german flag, more like 1940s german flag.

Really we need some common sense censorship on that site someone made for fun.


> Really we need some common sense censorship on that site someone made for fun.

neural_thing was really good about resetting if anything went awry. It's just 1 person's toy project they wanted to share. Set your expectations of investment at that level. Detecting swasticas + every other symbol that might taint the mind of your young child is a rather hard task, and yet you expect it to be done for free for you.

I can give them a break for missing one case, and point the blame for that solely at the internet in general for trying to ruin a purely fun thing with hate.


This is not just an issue of my child, for example, if a German user were to open that site in public, they would be found guilty of hate speech, amongst dozens of localities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols. Also in California, where speech is free but is not free of consequences.

I don't make the rules here, I just don't want this guy to go to jail for his fun project.


No worries lol. Learning experience for me :)

I have a script that generates images every hour, will adapt it to let people save states!

I think I'm having stability issues with lots of users, will try to figure it out, sorry

OMG I thought I was fighting with someone really fast.

I thought so too! Maybe it was true

It looks like you need to batch your updates and not tie them directly to UI actions, imo!

Cool project!


No need to apologize, just wanted to let you know there is an issue.

Pun

It's because the California government doesn't believe in markets, prices as incentives or anything like that. California govt believes in state mandates


California famously deregulated its electricity market at the end of the 20th century, becoming the first state to do so. https://paylesspower.com/blog/deregulated-energy-states/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932001_California_e...


You understand there are multiple types of regulation, right? The deregulation you're referring to was with respect to generators being able to sell into the grid.

The relevant regulation here is the state-backed guarantees on returns for pge under authority of CPUC. CPUC approves basically any rate increases pge approves. It doesn't need to do this. It could hold pge accountable based on what they determine qualifies as operating expenses vs. infrastructure improvements. PGE wants everything to count as infrastructure improvement because they're guaranteed a rate of return on infrastructure projects.

Obviously it's difficult to determine what "infrastructure improvements" were actually due to poor management and maintenance vs. what infrastructure improvements are required purely to meet demand (for example) or from "normal wear and tear".

It's hard to reconcile 1) the fact that there's pretty broad consensus that PGE fucked up and didn't fulfill its obligations, especially maintenance and 2) reporting record profits. Clearly there's something wrong with the system, particularly the CPUC-utility relationship. AKA, regulation.


I understand that. I'm simply stating that GGP's assertion that California "doesn't believe in markets" is at odds with the reality that Pete Wilson signed a law that made California the very first state with an electricity market.


I see, apologies if I was too aggressive in my reply.


Wow no regulations in California. First I’m hearing of this


Can we get an updated opinion in light of the facts being the exact reverse opposite of the initial hypothesis?


on the Internet? never!


Wow no regulations in California. First I’m hearing of this


Not believing in "free" markets but in state mandates would lead to stable prices.


And there’s no richer state in the union.


According to this, there is only one new car model of any kind selling for under $20K in the US these days

https://www.carfax.com/rankings/cheapest-cars


One would be wiser to based on annual depreciation in real $ plus time value of purchase price. I suspect out of new trucks a tacoma would be the cheapest since the depreciation is low to negative (IIRC recently a Tacoma was worth more 1 year old than new).


All new car brands/models will not have comps for several years. Even folks buying Rivians, etc have no idea how the resale value will play out so you’re always going to have to take a gamble


This article is missing at least the Mitsubishi Mirage - the 2024 model year still seems to be available for 17k in the base trim?


Isn't that the hydrogen fuel one? If so, that's the reason why it's only 17k..


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