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Thermoelectric, not piezoelectric ^_^

WRT Stirling generators, there is already work ongoing for arrangement ssuitable to space applications, through new research on nuclear power sources (stirling radioisotope generators, and the Kilopower nuclear reactor). Generally the solution is to mount several Stirling generators such that their torques cancel each other out. Search for "managing the stroke of the pistons" at https://beyondnerva.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/krusty-first-of...
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I have gone back several times and seen different people and they shared the same observations about my gait and recommended the same kind of shoes, and what they told me seemed to be corroborated by things I read (though I would not have known what to look for before). More than one person told me that they noticed wearing the sneakers corrected my gait. Also my knees really hurt (as Abe Kobo writes in the Ark Sakura, the knees are the bane of all fat people) and now they rarely do. It is not a double-blind experiment but I am pretty convinced that they know what they are talking about and that it's not just a parlor trick.

Now that I know what I'm looking for, I could go on Amazon and find the exact same shoes for way less, but I consider their expertise a service I'm willing to pay for despite higher prices and smaller selection.
From your link it says,"Though Walmart remains king of sales with $495.8 billion in annual revenue and U.S. sales of $318.5 billion (a 3.5 percent increase year over year) for the fiscal year ended in January, Amazon is growing at a faster pace in the United States."

You are claiming that Walmart's revenue is Amazon's. You misquoted.
Yeah, it just doesn't work. Then you argue about whether you called somebody an asshole, and you're on the defensive (even though the other person was a jerk).

I think what _may_ work is "don't be a jerk" or "stop being a jerk".
Please, people don’t buy apple stuff because apple cares for privacy. People buy apple because its products are top notch quality wise.
Neither of these quotes, nor anything in the article, claims that productivity levels were equal to what they were with a 5 day week, let alone increased.

How you derived that tl;dr is beyond me, you can't just draw your own conclusions and call it a summary.
Many people can imagine 0.04 AU and 0.21 AU just fine.

One's 1/5 the distance from the Earth to the Sun, the other is 1/5 that distance.

The distance ladder is a good way to think about it.
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This seems misspoken. Python hasn't necessarily brought computer programming to a new audience. A new audience is being brought to computer programming. They just happen to be given python as their first steps.

There is nothing intrinsic to python that is helping these use cases. Some people like it. Some people don't. I have not seen studies showing any real advantage or disadvantage to it. Do those exist, and I've just missed them?
Or at least work from home that day.
Perhaps religion plays a role too. I mean, our brains evolved to be religious, and now we're basically shutting that part off, without asking if that's a good idea from a neurological/psychological (scientific) viewpoint.
Apple's web mapping free tier is huge:

Apple
250K map views / *day*

Mapbox
50K map views / month

Google ($200 credit buys you)
28k dynamic map views / month

Once it comes out of beta, I'm guessing their pricing will be pretty aggressive too.
450 hours is less than a month, so that sla is actually worse than the one the above poster described, at least if you're down for less than a day.
If it's such a problem then where are the incidents? This is much ado about (almost) nothing.
https://www.tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/your-workplace/employm...
My favorite is VahChef: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_R8qIXaTKpkAJuuiZhHTmA

Sanjeev Kapoor has been a famous Indian celebrity chef for a long time: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmoX4QULJ9MB00xW4coMiOw

And then there are several village-style cooking channels that are just fun to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1of9ELYwB623fWaAMRDVFA

https://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyIndianFood
Consider, for a moment, how much value a company like Uber gets from the Google Maps API.
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Which is exactly why it must be codified into law (versus “This can also be achieved without political action.”).
Wonder if a company like Garmin will be jumping into the market given Google's behavior.
It sure is the preferred way in Brum it seems. Though now I mainly cook my chicken/fish/beef by flash broiling and removing from the heat at the point when the meat is just cooked through. Super juicy, and quick because the sauce/onions can be simmered to golden brown in less than ten minutes, simultaneously.
I'm just finishing spinning up OpenStreetMap servers in EC2 as one of the last stages of our testing, and they look great. We almost went with Mapbox, which is probably a pretty good alternative. But as part of that move I decided to try OSM tiles and I had them up and running in an afternoon via a docker image, created an Ansible role for deploying virtual machines that evening, and had tiles for our region built the next night after tuning some CartoCSS for our needs.

We already have our own aerial tiles, built off the free NAIP imagery, and I just went through rebuilding the 2017 NAIP tiles last week to make them higher quality and fix some seam issues.

This combination is pretty good and lets us take control of our map tile destiny.

References I used in setting things up:

https://github.com/zavpyj/osm-tiles-docker
https://switch2osm.org/
https://ircama.github.io/osm-carto-tutorials/tile-server-ubu...
Your two observations are connected. They do it because they are paid by the software maker, allowing them to sell the product for less.
Don't Uber and Amazon do that already?
You're right about the Street View feature that is currently a true key diferenciator that has not a lot of competition in terms of availability and coverage.

Though, Mapillary is quite interesting but their pricing model is not really comparable to Google's one: https://www.mapillary.com/pricing
YMMV, where I grew up it was very flat and almost completely corn fields.
> Imagine a world in which a software developer was held personally liable for any work they did.

We already live in this world, it’s just that most software had zero impact on the wellbeing of individuals and/or its mostly licensed as-is.

Software with actual guarantees behind it tends to be very expensive. Their users have tort recourse.

Also major software companies get sued and settle on a fairy regular basis.
To me Paul Graham is completely unique. He is really a master of words, and at times also a beautiful writer.
Wave and Hello.com each had over 50 engineers, and Andy Rubin spent several hundred million (perhaps billions) on robotics acquisitions, all for projects that ended up getting canceled.

At some point the difference between "engineer retention project" and "risky venture that probably won't pan out but could win big" ceases to matter. Larry Page is exceptionally good at "Heads I win, tails I win even more" gambits - historically, these included Google Toolbar (initially conceived as a defensive play against Microsoft, but ended up getting Google Search in front of hundreds of millions of new users - this, BTW, was Sundar Pichai's first big win on the way to CEO); Google Chrome (ditto, with the side effect of becoming the dominant browser); GMail (initially an internal tool to improve productivity, then became a major consumer product); and Google Fiber (worst case, force Internet speeds up through competition, best case, new ISP). It's likely that Sundar & Larry's thinking of Fuchsia is that worst-case, it keeps 100 talented engineers at the company, and best-case, it's a dominant new OS that drives computing forwards. Either one is worth the $50M or so, so they do it.
The name is probably the most boring criticism of DDG that anybody can come up with.

And anyway, it's also irrelevant here. The question was over whether Google is using their position to deliberately redirect users to their own search engine. I don't know if they are or not, I was just correcting the timeline that some people were getting wrong and adding background info.
There are plenty of reasons to believe that drugs are actually making it worse. Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic was the first to make this point. Burden of mental illness has doubled while the antidepressant treatment has been made common place.

We have no long term studies showing SSRIs help in the long term. None. (My brother even wrote a review paper on long term studies of mental health treatments). And we all know people that have troubled with SSRI withdrawal symptoms, had to switch drugs, change doses, add a mood stabilizer to continually manage what in the beginning was a mild depression due to loved one's death or some other temporary condition.
I'm surprised. I went to Lowe's, finally decided on a new dish washer and they got it down so I could stick it in my car. Perhaps refridgerators are a little different though since they don't fit in cars quite as nicely...
I feel like this is something that is often ignored when these discussions arise. We tend to heap blame on some failure of willpower or chemical imbalance within a given individual. Though there are a number of individuals with such a chemical imbalance, how often do we sit down and consider that maybe, just maybe, our society and way of living is fucked up and that is what’s driving so many people to breakdowns and suicide?
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I wasn't talking about the common cold.

If you have kids in school, you're going to get the flu every year or two.
I imagine they get it from some Amazon API, however I don't have the specifics.

Take a look at the information it displays:
https://i.imgur.com/ZbgfSlo.png

Ignore the price bit, it normally shows the price right but there must be a minor transient issue right now.

But as you can see, Amazon claims the product is sold by Sony. However most of the sellers are not Sony.

As you said, having a customer-oriented variant of this functionality would be an amazing feature for a browser extension.
Totally agree. I got shit from folks in a different thread when I said I would be wary of hiring people with a lot of "job hopping" on their resume, but this guy totally doesn't look like he fits the bill for that:

1. 2 solid years at Tesla

2. Then moved to Cruise (very easy to understand why someone would want that) but was acquired only 7 mo later. Not hard to understand why he wouldn't want to work at GM, not what he signed up for.

3. Then moved to Otto/Uber where he was for 4 years until now.
IANAL either, but yeah, the practice you're describing, using revenues from other parts of a business to subsidize the areas it wants to compete hard in until the competitors are dead, is typically known as "predatory pricing", which is illegal. IIRC, Standard Oil was a big user of that playbook.

I don't know if this qualifies, and I don't know how much appetite there is for prosecuting Google for offering useful things for free. I don't think they've had much of a history of jacking up prices after killing off a market, until relatively recently. Interesting question, though.
And WalMart.
Introduce yourself.

Way too many times I’m sitting in the audience, the person at the front is exchanging smiles with the programme committee who all know each other, but I have no idea who they are and what drives their viewpoint.
the simplified language of this story and the schoolyard grudges that informed this decision make me feel like i am living in a world of children.
You make a very strong statement regarding a data point of one, that is to say yourself.

Immediately thereafter you list a way you can get flagged through no fault of your own because a friend who was flagged shipped things your your address as a gift.

I don't want to have to establish a strong background of years of membership in order not to get treated like trash. I'm not interviewing for a job or a date I just want to give you my money for goods that aren't counterfeit.

When you have a large minority of fakes and problem shipments you are going to have outliers. People whom you shipped 5 fakes/broken stuff in a row.

Banning these people means that not only can I not trust you to sell me a legit good I can't trust you not to turn your back on me afterwards.
Good point, thank you for the clarification! Somehow I have always thought about showing the intent of keeping the data structure immutable when using const. I have changed it in the article. One more learning for me today :)
They’re producing the most expensive (read: profitable) versions first. I don’t understand why so many people are upset about this. As production increases and they fulfill reservations from people who want to spend more, cheaper versions will become available.
> whereas a more idiomatic approach is imho a better way to go.

I don't know what you mean by "idiomatic approach". That phrase, I thought, refers to languages that are highly opinionated about using a specific style -- this philosophy is encoded in Python's philosophy:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

> Pretty much every popular OOP language does it either by naming a constructor the same name as the class name or through some form of a `construct` notation

Seems kind of arbitrary to complain about the constructor keyword `__init__` when the constructor word for pre-ES6 JS, C, Perl, Ruby varies between prototype, constructor, __construct(), and new. Not sure how you say Python's use of `__init__` is somehow worse. As for why `self`, no idea, but seems to be a pretty easy convention to figure out.

As for the complaint about the `if __name__ == '__main__':`, to which language are you referring to that has a more self-evident way of encapsulating that functionality?
I found Aaron Swartz's weblog fantastic; at times exceeding Gram by more than a bit.
I really wish everyone would just move to GRPC and be done with it.

GraphQL just feels too tied to the datastore on the back end to be generally useful. REST/Swagger is hugely overcomplicated for the basic REST premise of moving objects back and forth.

GRPC is what REST should have been. Ship objects back and forth between multiple languages with minimum fuss.
Currently evaluating using GraphQL. I have used it for a smaller endpoint [0]. I like the server side as I feel it lets me express the purpose of the API really well.

I have been using straight HTTP requests to query the GraphQL endpoint. Now, wanting to do something more complex, I am disappointed in the state of GraphQL clients. Everyone says use Apollo but it has some serious issues (e.g. caching [1]). Relay seems over-kill/restrictive and none of the other alternatives seem complete. I feel like maybe my life will be a bit easier if I just stick with REST especially since I am proxying an exiting API.

[0]: https://github.com/monostable/kitspace-partinfo

[1]: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/3452
> I think it was revolutionary in its own terms.

I think this is precisely what I said. If you discount any other competitor and what they did, Python was revolutionary within itself. Which is not all bad, it means the language has had progress. But it's a very narrow metric.
We can't do anything of the sort. Nobody really has control of society. We're a bunch of bumblebees trapped in a beach ball. Sometimes it goes in the direction we want it to go, other times not.
My own beliefs about religion are that it came to be partly as a way of 'binning' 'unsolvable' problems out of the way and also as a way of helping people be less bad to each other.

The trouble starts when you mix different (or groups without) religions; the defect in the meme shows ugly results such as the crusades, etc.
And the squeeze to shore up revenue continues. It does really hurt to have your business tied to someone else's api. This will continue to damage startups as the big companies deal with eroding search revenue
If you get into trouble with your unit economics given such a raise, then you really need to think about your business model. How much value is your business really creating ON TOP of the maps?

I don't want to be snarky, but I think many businesses don't think enough about this issue of value creation.
It might be a good car, but not at that price tag.

If I had to spend 50+k$ for a car, I would definitely not go for a Tesla Model 3. I would go with a reliable BMW/Mercedes/Audi that is way more luxurious and offer more functionalities for the same price.

So far, the Tesla Model 3 is still for people that want to make a statement that they are part of the "green revolution" or for Elon Musk fans.

Even at 35k$ (before taxes), it is still pretty expensive for a car that will be very very basic. Look what you can get for that price tag with other car manufacturers.
It depends on the country. Some places you have to pay per SMS, some places it's free. SMS cannot be sent across borders, a big problem when traveling or living abroad.

WhatsApp is free SMS, from and to anywhere. It's an attractive offer for most of the world.
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I've been arguing for years that cooking should be taught as science courses in school.It's far and away the most practical application of STEM. And even the most scientifically disinclined could still take something away from the class.
Thought the same, there are not many use cases which will be still profitable after this price increase.
"Dangerous Ideas"? These are pedestrian essays on barely-concealed white nationalism. These guys are concerned about "Western Culture" and seemingly obsessed with IQ. In fact the two essays (other than the about page) I read both mentioned IQ in the first paragraph. The first referring to a jewish man with an IQ of 115, and the second referring to a black congresswoman having a "low IQ".

These aren't dangerous ideas. These are tired, lazy rantings by insecure white men. These "ideas" have been around for generations. There isn't anything new or dangerous about them. The danger, however, does lie in their ability to radicalize weak-willed people (young men) into becoming terrorists.
The problem is the marketing department. Most of the big diseases (cancer, depression, heart disease, dementia, etc) have complex and diverse causes and so only a subset of patients will respond to any one drug. At Phase 2 the trial co-ordinators have relatively strict inclusion criteria targeting the likely responders (i.e. the subset that have the version of the disease the drug will work on).

When it gets to Phase 3 marketing gets involved in the inclusion criteria and they want the criteria to be as broad as possible so they can market to the widest number of patients. The aim is to have a criteria that is as broad as possible where the Phase 3 trial just scrapes across the line. This is a difficult thing to get right and sometime they include too many non-responders and the trial falls over.

The only real solution is to get the cost of developing a drug down so that there is not the need to go so broad. Of course this will require taking more risks (the level of pre-clinical and clinical testing needs to be reduced) so I am not sure this is viable.
Haha, pressure cookers aren't really a secret. They are found in most households in India. In the U.S., for years there was an irrational fear of pressure cookers exploding so they never really caught on until the Instapot came along (which some people don't realize is a pressure cooker). The fact is, pressure cooker tech is very old and remarkably safe. It's been "beta-tested" by millions of people in India.

The science is simple: water vaporizes at 212F/100C at atmospheric pressure. But if you increase the pressure, the boiling point increases [1]. This means instead of cooking temperatures maxing out at 212F, the cooker lets one achieve higher temperatures. This is why pressure cookers are able to cook faster -- the temperatures are simply higher.

Meats cooked with pressure cookers tend to come out more tender (if you don't let them dry out) in a shorter amount of time.

[1] Water phase diagram. Notice that on the vaporization-condensation part of the curve, when P increases, the T crossover point also increases https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-chem-atoms-first/chap...
Compression artifact maybe?

Doesn't seem likely they'd risk their reputation by faking correspondence with Google and publishing it in the open.
We switched from Google Maps to OpenMapTiles for the same reason. Running OpenMapTiles via Docker was pretty easy. We bought a license for the Tiles (Europe) and it was a one time fee only.
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Another validation. I literally thought of the same thing 20 mins ago. Always a pain to open the URL from an email hyperlink.
Same here. I remember that one of my first attempts at trying out Python, coming from Ruby, seeing that indentation compilation error made me immediately give up. Hard to give up the freewheeling nature of Ruby but I am very glad that I did. "Use whatever style makes you happy" has extremely diminishing returns the more you code in a language.
> Google Maps is objectively the best product on its market, in many regards positioned light years ahead of its competitors.

No. Google maps is an absolute, washed out turd style wise. We have much better local competitor.

Compare this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.081478,14.4272906,13z
https://mapy.cz/zakladni?x=14.4068130&y=50.0892746&z=13

You can try various zoom levels, and mapy.cz is always better. Much more detail. Much more contrast. Much more visual information. Tourist version of the maps.

I hated using Google maps when traveling in Spain. Sadly they are the recommended way to get public transport info. But I avoid them at all costs. I sometimes print maps when travelling and I can imagine google maps style would be more than useless when printed B/W on a shitty printer, while I could still use mapy.cz maps while low on ink.
You just shouldn't buy drm encumbered things nor trust anyone who might ban you for no reason with no recourse.
> Why do you think Python, or any programming language, has to be "revolutionary" -- or engage in cultmindthink -- for it to become popular?

I don't think it has to, and I didn't say you HAVE to. I'm saying that you can accomplish the goal with a community that prides itself on ignoring things. Python's community is even more insular and ensconced in their opinion than editor proponents. Most Vi proponents can tell you about how they know Emacs and hate it (and vice versa). In the Python world, not knowing these things is in fact often a purity test, with GVR doing some kind of classic, "I'm just a hyperchicken lawyer" gag reel in public while in private engaging in complex debates about the very concepts he claims are inherently not understandable.
Seems like there is a good chance that all of the Google Maps competitors will raise their prices now too (although probably not as substantially), so it doesn't seem like a fair price comparison until all of the dust settles there. They all probably set their price ranges to be inline with Google Maps since that is the most popular product and there are very few reasons why a potential customer would go with a non-Google Maps product if it was more expensive than Google Maps.