My first rescue hound was a Plott Hound. She had been pretty badly broken because of previous owners not treating her right. The only reason we knew her history is that she would frequently run away and was known to most of the dog officers within a 10-mile radius of her places of living.
We knew that Coonhounds had to be introduced to cats in a very carefully because they frequently confuse them for prey, and we succeeded. She integrated nicely into a household with five cats.
It's been decades since she's passed and I still miss her very much. I grew up with Black and Tan Coonhounds and had blues and Black and Tans as an adult. I miss them all.
We just kinda gave up after he burst out of the door one morning and caught a bird before it could lift off and then went full slavering rage mode when he saw another dog. We could have possibly introduced him to other animals but felt like it would stress him out, add danger to the other animals, and we had the space to let him be a dog without it becoming an issue.
Most of his interactions with other animals was the local coyote pack coming to see if he was easy pickings yet. The last 2-3 years of his life I would follow him on his nighttime bathroom breaks with a bat ready to help my old man in his last battle. Luckily it never came to that and he died peacefully in his sleep on my lap.
There have been some hit pieces on Retatrutide that claim it blunts emotions, period. It was characterized as, "falling out of love with someone." Have you noticed anything like that?
From working with hashcash and anti-spam, using a proof of work puzzle as a rate modulator is far more effective if you extended the application protocol to include that hashcash token.
Using a Hashcash token to HTTP would have multiple wins:
- Puts the load on the sender, i.e. server hands off the token request and then drops the connection, leaving it free to serve somebody else.
- Token size is dynamic.
- rate limiting a client
- hug of death resistance
- token inflation resistance
- CURL and Wget or any other programmatic HTTP request can be made to work with the addition of a Hashcash token.
At a crayon sketch level, the protocol works something like this:
HTTP request WITH header stamp: available.
Server returns a 3xx <stamp size required>
Next request Stamp: <stamp matching required stamp size> header
HTTP request then completes.
Put this protocol into Firefox/Chromium, and the usefulness of this protocol would increase as people upgrade their browsers.
If we do not get a `Stamp-Available` header, then the system will revert to the Anubis mechanism. One advantage of the Anubis interrupting is that can be used to advertise the presence and value of upgrading to an Anubis++ browser. I.e. You don't get the interrupting web page telling you all about Anubis and Anubis++, and you join the resistance pushing back against AI scrapers.
I suspect that book was written with an extremely optimistic view of urban spaces. My experience in urban spaces has been depressing, isolating, cement, and asphalt. You can't do anything without somebody sticking their hand out asking for money.
I'm glad I'm living on my 10,000 ft² lot with multiple fruit trees, multiple vegetable gardens, berry gardens, bird-friendly bushes, and neighbors who are a good distance away from me. The only thing I would change is to reduce the light pollution so you can see six-magnitude stars from the backyard.
Now, if somebody wants to buy the property and convert it to a dense housing space, after I'm dead, great, I won't be in a position to care. But right now, I very much care about getting rid of lawns, building bird-friendly habitats, and growing plants you can eat.
Los Angeles, whose population is only 50% higher than Houston, has 25x as many people who are homeless (75k vs 3k).
If people couldn't afford food because there wasn't enough food grown, no one would think handing out food stamps would work. It's silly to think that doesn't work for housing.
These may be accurate and real, but I also wonder if this might partially be because Houston sucks in terms of lived experience for the homeless so they tend to end up elsewhere?
Texas has a recent and storied history of just busing people out of state or into other cities for people it deems are problematic or they don't want to deal with. So it would not surprise me if some of the stats are cooked or they've partially swept the problem under the rug.
I gave actual stats. They also match my impressions driving around both cities. If you have stats about the scale of busing people out of state please do share.
What you've suggested may account for some of the difference. But "Houston has liberal zoning and builds more houses" is a far simpler explanation for the staggering 25x difference in homeless population between the cities.
Well, I've witnessed this on dozens of houses in the town where my ex-wife grew up. The local river was slow-moving in a shallow river valley. Every spring, it would flood, and houses built within a half-mile of the main river would flood up to the second floor.
Would the environmental assessment help? I'd like to think so, but when I almost bought in the area, I discovered that the floodplain maps were "optimistic."
That's not what an environmental impact assessment is. Environmental impact assessments look at potential harms to the environment, not the property. It would look at if building a house would impact the wildlife, and sometimes other related phenomenon
Ah yes, another "If I Were King" blog post. For an example of how it will turn out, look at how many JavaScript frameworks have been built to replace an overly complicated, unwieldy previous one.
Boston had a similar problem. I remember more than once coming over Belmont Hill on Route 2 and seeing this gray-brown cloud sitting over the city with the Prudential Building sticking up out of it.
The problem with Chinese imports and the American auto industry gives me serious flashbacks to the 1970s, when cheap Japanese compacts came in and took business away from American automakers.
Seems to me the American auto industry can't learn to adapt until some foreign competitor comes in and repeatedly kicks them in the nuts.
Is Grammarly considered AI or not? I use Grammarly heavily because I use speech recognition in a stream of consciousness mode. It catches misrecognitions and language where I thought the right word but said a different one.
The below is the above once through Grammarly and a couple of written-by-me substitutions.
Is Grammarly considered AI or not? I use Grammarly heavily because I use Aqua speech recognition in a stream-of-consciousness mode. It catches misrecognitions and language where I thought the right word but said the wrong one.
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We knew that Coonhounds had to be introduced to cats in a very carefully because they frequently confuse them for prey, and we succeeded. She integrated nicely into a household with five cats.
It's been decades since she's passed and I still miss her very much. I grew up with Black and Tan Coonhounds and had blues and Black and Tans as an adult. I miss them all.
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