Well, if you buy N of these global forever stamps, the cost will just get cheaper over time (inflation).

Since the non-postcrossing Global Forevers are circular and a bit annoying, I use 2 Forever stamps plus a 20¢ stamp (6¢ wasted - i suppose i could switch to 15¢ stamps...).

> if you buy N of these global forever stamps, the cost will just get cheaper over time (inflation).

Not if you buy them today to use later I would think. Since you gave up the $$$ today, it won’t do anything for you anymore even if you don’t buy another stamp again I’d think. Compared to buying a stamp whenever you need one in the future but not tying your cash up until that moment.

Really depends if you would be otherwise investing that money in a way that beats stamp prices. Stamp prices very consistently outpace inflation.

Over the past 5 years, they've beaten:

* VT stock (total world index fund)

* US I-Bonds (inflation-indexed bonds)

* Fed rate for T-Bills / any HYSA

* Any other bonds

The cost varies a lot by country, yeah. It can be more expensive like the UK or cheaper like in Japan ($0.65).

That's correct, yep: https://www.stampsforever.com/resources/why-is-forever-cross...

absolute beasts of engines for sure

fresh spring grass erupting fast

the distant engine purr comes

ouch goes the lawnmower

Beautiful. How did you come up with that? It's strangely captivating.

Just a normal haiku pattern and waiting for tests to finish, 5-7-5.

Could be 'wrong' since erupting is "technically" 3 syllables - but I think it sounds better said fast. Becomes a 7-7-5 that way. Same issue with 'lawnmower.'

At least with npm, you can have a .npmrc per-repo

I think this is useful in answering the grandparent comment's question:

stars : uniq(k)

1 : 14946505

10 : 1196622

100 : 213026

1000 : 28944

10000 : 1847

100000 : 20

each line (mostly) being equal length provides me an odd comfort

power law distribution ~1/x I think

Zipf's law?

only 80 more repos need 100000 stars and all lines would be equal! e.g.

1 : 14946505

10 : 1196622

100 : 213026

1000 : 28944

10000 : 1847

100000 : 100

you would lose 80 repos from "10000 : 1847" also in that case.

interesting that you only need ~150 stars on a project for it to be in the top 1%

Let's establish a roving band of ~150 GitHub users that go around 1% things.

Just finished it, 8/8. I mostly approached it by winging it and shuffling things around that looked good and like it was approaching the goal, since there's plenty of time to finish.

I still don't quite understand the exact mirroring rules at play.

You control the mirroring by moving the axis, they're what reflects your shapes. So my first move was always to identify the symmetries in the target shape, and position the axis accordingly.

This is the correct strategy for this particular game (center the mirrors between the yellow squares, move the black squares). I didn't realize it until about round 6 or 7.

I got stuck on 7/8 for a good while because I learned the rules wrong. I thought every bracket square needed to be lit.

A lot of that was due to LGA, yes. However, that doesn't stop those airports from being affected. Getting tons of traffic rerouted is inevitably going to cause delays across the whole airspace. Very useful to know.