Interesting. I think I’d heard that before but not consciously remembered it. They still seem less likely to fail compared to a cooler with a flexible hose, though I know those failures are rare.

Yeah. I guess I'd find it more understandable if it was an especially rare or valuable book (I just looked and there's a used copy for sale for $18). There's plenty of books like that which you can go freely browse in a bookstore, and I don't think libraries need to be that much less accessible.

In some ways they aren’t accessible enough. I was looking for a slightly obscure architecture book, and to access the NYPL reading room where it’s available you have to register in advance and state what books you want to read in advance. I decided to just try harder to find my own misplaced copy.

On an abstract level that may not have immediate relevance, it’s gross how this interaction contradicts the idea we’ve established in other ways that awareness of the US government is one attribute associated with being a citizen. Awareness is supposed to be a beneficial thing.

As someone who built a computer ~1yr ago and still instinctively distrusts water cooling, air cooling hasn’t significantly changed. There’s some cheap high-performing non-stock heat sinks available, and I got one. Some current cases look like they might not have ideal airflow, but I’m not 100% sure.

How much of the failure was due to the hype being inorganic? With current AI hype there’s some users of AI programs who are enthusiastic about it, but I feel like at least the late stage of the metaverse hype was being pushed in a lopsided way by corporations without proven real-world use cases.

That definitely looks familiar! I feel like I also saw one where the route was kind of a rounded squarish shape, but I may be misremembering.

I think that’s south Williamsburg which hasn’t changed politically. The northern hipster part is blue as expected. The way the map is labeled isn’t telling the whole story.

There's also this blog post, but it's older and written as a personal narrative. I'm guessing it doesn't contain the image I remember.
cityforward.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/w...

I found this image, but I thought I remembered seeing another one that involved a more curvilinear street map. Unless I'm misremembering...

Design is the most important part of any project and the thing we breeze past immediately. It is also the step that AI is really bad at doing.