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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • I agree that buying your first home takes some sacrifices. But the sacrifices even 20 years ago were significantly less than they are now, let alone 40 or more years ago. I would hope that someone in her position would understand that it’s not about saving $5 or $10 a day on Starbucks, or even buying a cheaper phone. The disparity between income and home price is just completely different.

    Median household income in the US in 1980: $21000
    Median home price: $47000 (2x)
    Edit: $62000 (3x) is probably more accurate.

    Median household income in the US in 2000: $42000
    Median home price: $163000 (4x)

    Median household income in the US in 2020: $67000
    Median home price: $327000 (5x)

    It doesn’t take a genius to see the discrepancy here. That’s a lot of fucking Starbucks coffees to not buy to make up the difference.

    Note: I’m using US numbers because of the context.


  • Yeah, this one gets me too, occasionally. Maybe a resume button would be simple (if the state still exists) and work well without being too obtrusive.

    Normally I’m browsing from Home, hit Back accidentally, and then try hitting Home again but that forces a refresh of Home (sometimes? Always? Can’t remember).


  • I get what you’re saying (and saw your other comment) but I didn’t come away from OP’s write up thinking DHH was only a casual racist. So if they were attempting to defend DHH’s racism they did piss poor job. The language used was soft, but the quotes speak for themselves.

    I was actually confused for a minute by your big comment, because I couldn’t figure out who you were saying was defending racists.

    The article definitely glossed over the racism though. That might be why OP’s language was soft. They were responding to the article’s accusations - which were almost in passing - and in that context the language kind of matches. By pulling that out of the article and making it prominent in their write up, i think OP made it much more clear and couldn’t possibly be doing it to defend DHH.


  • I said i compress with AES-256

    To avoid confusion you could say, “along with”, or fully say, “I encrypt with AES-256 as I compress, in one step”.

    It’s not necessarily about what you know, but about what readers will understand. (For example, someone who doesn’t know better might read what you wrote and think there is some way to compress using AES-256 and go down a rabbit hole.)