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>These small solar arrays are connected to the grid and can't work without it.

Huh? Everything is connected to the grid, whether it's producing or consuming electricity. What kind of argument is this?

>Furthermore, they actually tend to add too much load to the grid because it's not built to manage numerous random power sources dispatched across the network.

Apparently, it works just fine in Germany.

>They're between pretty inefficient and very inefficient (depending upon roof angle and orientation), heavily subsidized and in a period of dwindling resource availability, a piss-poor allocation of money compared to unsexy things such as proper building insulation and heat pumps everywhere.

Insulation and heat pumps don't generate electricity. Germany generates a huge portion of its total electricity with renewables, including solar, which is pretty remarkable considering it has a high latitude.

>Anyone spending some time on analysing the numbers would be baffled by how poor the ROI is on renewable overall. They really can't stand on their own much.

Do you work for the oil industry? Considering that Germany is one of the leading economies of the whole world, and especially the EU, and that they're quite successful with renewables, your statement sounds ridiculous.
I'm sure there is, if you consider all the climate politics ramping up. Politicians, officials, other virtue signallers will prefer to be seen in EV soon.
There was a very noticeable influx of homeless people in Denver immediately following marijuana legalization (or at least homeless-looking people hanging out on the street).

I use the term "undesirable" somewhat ironically, because I also don't think arresting people who have nowhere else to sleep makes any sense, but it's the only remotely understandable problem I've heard complained about from people who were against legalization.
>access to the global network, intelligent and resourceful people located virtually anywhere can operate on substantially similar footing to anyone else

Great article, but this part is just false.

Africa is blanketed with internet access already - often way ahead of 1st world (I recall reading an article about Seattle getting LTE-A and thinking...wait...got that a year ago). It doesn't quite create the magic the author implies. A bit like writing code doesn't mean you can create the next big app. A lot of ingredients go into it
How to create a custom landing page with no code.
Apologies if I've missed it, but which kernel version will be first to ship with Wireguard? Looks like 5.5-rc7 is already out, so will Wireguard be included in 5.6?
My father lives in Mallorca and he has fiber with 400Mbps I believe.
Color-changing ‘smart bandages’ sense and treat bacterial infections
Consider these two simplified TCL derivatives:

TH1 https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/th1.md

Picol http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/picol.html
Which is all fine and good but my options are pay 2+% more for everything and get nothing or pay 2+% more and get something.

Like there’s no point to trying to punch a river as a lowly software dev completely unrelated to finance and politics.
It was just a standard one but the deep cycle ones are super expensive and it doesn't seem worth it for a rpi that costs about $1 a year to run.
interesting, so interest rates go down and prices go up then?
Right. Without factoring in interest rates, this doesn’t really tell us much about how affordability has changed.
I don't think that the parent comment is arguing that what he did was justified back then, but now it isn't. They explicitly state that it was definitely a violation of rules even back then.

The parent comment was just trying to make a suggestion, that if that scientist had stopped before the tide has turned against China in the past few years, then he probably would've gotten away with it. He did the calculations right for his chances of not being caught being pretty good back in 2012, he just simply didn't adjust them as the time passed and the situations changed. Or maybe he did the adjustment, but a lot of people tend lose their minds and get too greedy to stop before it is too late when it comes to big money.
Maybe you could roam on another LEO provider. There are over a dozen companies from a number of countries planning their own Starlinks.

Half a million satellites ought to be enough for anybody.
It could be argued that DIY and pressure vessels don't work well together :-)
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> That means the latency from transport is on the order of half a millisecond. If you’re feeling latency, it’s in the gear, not the protocol.

As long as you don't transmit anything else. When you have 16 channels with many note and controller messages, latency and asynchronicity between channels can become noticeable.
This is false. https://qz.com/1734436/tesla-turns-a-profit/
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If you want to have open borders then there’s really nothing standing in the way of implementing it. Except that you would need to abolish all government welfare. Otherwise you would have every person in the world who’s quality of life is worse than the quality of life afforded a US welfare recipient (which is billions of people) moving to the US. Which would naturally destroy the country.

Modern USA was created by migrants. But when the country was being settled, those migrants were faced with having to either provide for themselves, or die. The US has also seen a lot of growth from continuing to import immigrants. But those immigrants were all selected based upon a relatively strict criteria to evaluate whether they would be providing value to the country.
what SpaceX has to do with Tesla's financial results?
anything useful on bitcoin cash is easily ported to bitcoin, vice versa.

with cashfusion not even the server owners know which transactions belong to who, which isnt the case with normal mixers[1].

[1]https://medium.com/@james.waugh28/is-cashfusion-really-anony...
I have a mid 2012, I upgraded the ram to 10GB 4 years ago and replaced both the hdd and the cd reader by 2 ssd.

This things flies for most tasks, I only see it slow down when I try compiling Android apps.
These first satellites don't have the free-space lasers I modelled in that paper, but my simulations show they can still beat fibre on many paths without inter-satellite links, by relaying via groundstations:

https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY

Later satellites will have inter-satellite links, but probably not till near the end of this year, and most of the first phase will already be deployed by then.
That is correct, as someone looking for a remote job opportunity, 95+% of the "remote" job posts are still restringed to residents of specific countries/zones. Having good connectivity or being in the same time-zone matter very little.
yeah it would be cool to explore some different domains with ml, outside the usual logic/fp thing
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Lowering interest rates makes borrowing cheaper, and it has the effect of putting more money to work faster. It’s one of the basic tools of economic policymakers.
Yes but we also artificially make it worse with the way we build and sell housing.
12 second search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWok7813jZU

Splitting hairs over whether or not it's in a casino isn't really a requirement to being gambling, which is kind of the point.
It's not coded in C#, it's written in C++.

Release notes for a new version are not the place to list all the features of the engine. You can literally click on the home page and see "Object-oriented API with language options such as GDScript, C#, C++ and visual scripting.".

If people give up "in disgust" because they can't find what language the engine uses for scripting immediately in the first sentence of a release announcement then they're probably not cut out for making any kind of software which requires digging through documentation.
I wonder if they will charge less for bandwidth over minimally inhabited regions?
So far, it seems that Teslas are so great that they sell themselves. The more Teslas on the road, the more demand gets created for Teslas as more and more people are exposed to them.
Language server support is in Godot 3.2, there are extensions for VSCode[0] and Atom[1] currently.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=geequlim...

[1] https://atom.io/packages/lang-gdscript
Yes! I'm halfway through and have been stunned at some of the less-known research he cites and some of the popular research he debunks (specifically, the study behind the "10,000 rule").

It's also somewhat of a relief to read.

I think intuitively many people feel that range matters, but fear that we'll sound like we lack a "speciality" or even "hard skills" if we proclaim ourselves generalists or broadly curious.
>What are you tracking, how is it used, and how can I be confident it won't be abused?

Because of the nature of computer security, you cannot be certain that any data that you give to a 3rd party will be secure. Once it leaves your machine, it's out of your control, forever. Maybe an initially privacy friendly policy vanishes once the company is bought out, or a data breach occurs and the data is suddenly indefinitely in the public domain.

This doesn't just apply to Facebook, it applies to every single company storing data. The only way to prevent is to have a data retention policy and invest heavily in security, which pretty much nobody does except for the really big players.
> Apple gear is no longer as comparatively expensive as it used to be

It still is if one can't afford it. Apple could provide macOS and iOS VirtualBox images for developers to build and test their apps.

> why complicate their business model to give themselves more work for less money.

Because that's the right thing to do when you shut out indie developers using expensive equipment and annual developer fees.

Developers who aren't affluent or don't get into app development solely for profit may stay away from the Apple ecosystem, and that's a loss for everyone.

Apple is now also selling access to their user base on macOS. Apps distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized to run on macOS, which requires a developer account ($99/yr). Yes, workarounds do exist for now, but all of them are inconvenient enough that they seriously hurt the distribution of open source apps, unless maintainers pay up.
Dependcies are also for multiple stages, e.g.:

So `COPY --from=<some stage>` and `FROM <other stage>`

Also, a Dockerfile is just a frontend for buildkit. The heart of buildkit is "LLB" (sort of like LLVM IR in usage) which is what the Dockerfile compiles into. Buildkit just executes LLB, doesn't have to be from a Dockerfile.

For that matter you can have a "Dockerfile" (in name only) that is not even really dockerfile since the format lets you specify frontend to use (which would be a container image reference) to process it.

There's even a buildkit frontend to build buildpacks: https://github.com/tonistiigi/buildkit-pack
Works with any buildkit enabled builder, even `docker build`.
They're comparing the median price houses sold for with the overall median income for the area. It may be the case, in some areas, that people below the median income are renting rather than buying, or staying in already-purchased houses as the real estate market heats up.

Seeing the ratio of median house price to median home buyer's income would be interesting.
A built-in jobs system is definitely one of the things I missed in Postgres, coming from MS SQL Server.
Pew did a comprehensive study of urban, suburban, and rural communities (link below). Their empirically-backed findings are pretty divergent from these common stereotypes.

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/what-unites-and-d...

There's even an entire portion of the report that basically boils down to "everyone thinks others do not understand their community's problems but is pretty confident they understand other community's problems".

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/how-people-in-urb...
Removing features, moving them into micro services, and sometimes writing a class or two yourself.
A bit of both, and also a sprinkle of the interest rates going from almost 20% at points in the 80s, to essentially 0% today, meaning people can afford to borrow a lot more at once, and home sellers profiteering off this.
>There is a reason that the nationally-famous burgers at Au Cheval in Chicago, Hog & Hominy in Memphis, Holeman & Fitch in Atlanta, Shake Shack in NYC, Husk in Charleston, and probably a bunch of other destination burgers all use American, despite many of these places being sit-down establishments.

And what is that reason? We have Shake Shack here in DC, and the reason there is pretty obvious: Shake Shack is fast food. It's a tier higher than Five Guys, and two or three tiers higher than McDonald's, but it's still fast-food, and their burgers do not cost $12-15 like in nice restaurants, so of course they're going to use cheap cheese. As for those other places, I've never heard of them.

Maybe I'm just weird, because I generally consider fast food to be inedible, so I really don't pay much attention to chains like that. Shake Shack is probably the cheapest type of restaurant I would ever eat at, and that's pretty rare. I make enough money to eat good food.
Quote: "The solar powered website bucks against these trends. To drop energy use far below that of the average website, we opted for a back-to-basics web design, using a static website instead of a database driven content management system. "

For a website that proud itself on being against trends, I would had more appreciation if they went against the trend to use 3rd party sites and be totally on their own. My NoScript reports for them these as 3rd party scripts: google-analytics.com, google.com, googlesyndication.com, gstatic.com, jquery.com, s3.amazonaws.com, statcounter.com, typepad.com

This reminds me of that joke with electric cars that recharge their battery using a diesel generator.
> more than anything, it is the lack of an efficient "Add to Home Screen" flow, that has doomed mobile websites...and it's intentional

It’s literally a default option on the safari “share” button: “Add to Home Screen”. I’m not sure how Apple could have made it easier.
I am in the process of building out a boxtruck with solar panels and a big batter and I am eagerly waiting for starlink to roll out public Access so I can get an antenna and park my new home office in very rural areas and work comfortablely.
Correct (as far as I know), but:

A) Changing a Dockerfile is rare
B) Typically the lines that change (adding your code) are near the end of the Dockerfile, and the long part with installing libraries is at the beginning
I feel like this is the only sane way to go about things. I really don't understand people using notebooks to actually develop code and train ML/deeplearning models. A real IDE like Pycharm is so much more powerful at debugging, refactoring and in-general, writing good code, structuring it, and not to mention, being able to version control it in a sane manner.
This analogy makes no sense and is fundamentally antithetical to what a blockchain is.

Bitcoin literally has chain of hashes that mark a chain of custody and provably verifies transfers between addresses. Just because actors along the route are mixing it into a big wallet and distributing it out only means they are facilitating money laundering and could be easily be proven to have done so, and every transaction that touches that transaction is complicit.
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theta will crush em
Bullshit. If you don't have ALG/fix-ups for FTP, IPSec, etc your device sucks.
FB down 7% after-markets, while beating estimates

TSLA up 12% after-markets, with not so perfect numbers

I'm puzzled. Short-Squeeze? Rockstar- vs. Voldemort-CEO? Or did some options-"whale" just sneezed during order execution?
Yahoo Security Breach Proposed Settlement
My thought is we could use combined cycle nature gas power plants to back stop renewable's. So lack of storage isn't the show stopper people seem to think it is.
> What's the point of anonymity when trading

You don't have a right to trade anonymously; sorry, but that's called money laundering.
We should also carefully distinguish:

* Bitcoin proponents desire that bitcoin work like the earlier currency example, where an innocent actor who receives stolen currency at part of some transaction for a good or service is protected from having to return those bitcoin.

* Whether an innocent actor in that position is in fact liable or protected in that scenario is fundamentally up to the state(s) involved and their legislative choices.

This (as with the centralization of mining, and exchange prominence) seems to be another example where Bitcoin is -in practice- far more subject to the powers of states than its proponents respresent.

I postulate that few if any states will see any advantage in granting that kind of protection to bitcoin transactions, as states have incentives to ensure their own currencies can be transacted without rigorous detective work, and do not have these same incentives with bitcoin.
> I'd be interested to know if anyone else had gone down this path?

this is at least one use case for 'docker-machine'
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> Tesla solar panel

It's actually Panasonic solar panel + SolarEdge inverter, that Tesla puts their sticker on. Tesla is just an installer of third party products, like majority of all other solar companies. That can possibly change with solar roof, but it's very early stage.
The worst feature about spotify is searching for a song to play, and then getting only songs with similar names until you do something else.
Perhaps not the answer you are looking for, but if you can bridge XMPP groups to IRC (for example with Biboumi) then The Lounge (thelounge.chat) is a great Slack-like IRC client.
I wonder if we might see a resurgence of these plotters ala 3d printers.

A tronxy x1 is $85 right now for a full small form factor 3d printer.
This map looks more like the result of a highschool project, not Harvard published data. I wish they would have linked the specific sources and labeled more on the map.
I really like my iPad but I find it sometimes maddening that the closest I can get to using it for software development is with a character terminal, yet it's actually faster than my MacBook.

I have found it really great for one type of serious work: writing. (With an external keyboard of course, which I think is fair.).

And I think there are some places where it really ought to be the better tool for professionals:

* Editing photos (pretty good already but not pro-level)

* Audio workflows (can't judge but seems good?)

* Video workflows (maddeningly weak at this point)

* Storyboarding (again can't judge)

I get that Apple doesn't consider this a tool for making software, and I sort of wish I could get by with just writing and editing the occasional photo, and I realize that I could of course write whatever I want in Xcode if I had time.

But as a UNIX guy, having returned to the Apple ecosystem after it became a UNIX ecosystem, the inaccessibility of the UNIX sitting under iPadOS still rubs me the wrong way.
"autism" here is just a ploy the defense is trying to weasel out of punishment, a soft phony "insanity" defense.
Say what you will about Texas government, but they know how to stay out of people's way and let housing supply keep up with demand efficiently.

California on the other hand, is absolutely pathetic when it comes to this. So absurd watching a state whose booming economy is funneling most of that money to property owners pockets. A huge and abject failure that will be in future economics textbooks as the example of how giving local government too much power creates huge bottlenecks.

Not to be overdramatic, but NIMBYism and overly restrictive zoning is California's equivalent to a tumor. Unchecked growth (of housing prices) that sucks all the resources out of the host (renters and people looking to buy a first home).
> US and EU industry are among the cleanest in the world and asking the working class in these places to make more sacrifices is a slap in the face which has been going on for years

US is 16.1 metric tons per capita in 2018. The only countries or territories higher than the US are Kazakhstan (16.8), Australia (16.8), Luxembourg (16.9), Oman (17.6), Saudi Arabia (18.6), Estonia (18.6), Gibraltar (21.8), Bahrain (21.8), United Arab Emirates (22.4), Kuwait (23.9), Trinidad and Tobago (26.2), New Caledonia (26.2), Qatar (38.2), Curaçao (52.1), and Palau (58.0).

The EU average is 8.6. China is 8.0. India is 1.9.

I don't see how the US qualifies as among the cleanest.
How do you start the radio? If you start it from a song of the genre you want to listen to now, or a playlist containing mostly that genre, it won't mix in random stuff you've liked before. I get very nice mood/genre radios just by starting them from some song I liked currently.
The funding is already being proposed in the same House Committee with the "Securing American Leadership in Science and Technology Act" -- which proposes doubling basic research funding over the next decade at the Energy Department, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Science and Technology, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Perhaps if Schmidt's last point about building public confidence is successful, maybe public opinion would be in favor of it.

At the same time, the irony isn't lost on me that the former CEO of Google is warning about authoritarian tech.
This is also interesting though, isn't it?

If more and more below-median-income people are renting because they can't afford to buy, that's definitely important and interesting.
They ditched it because of inbound spam and because almost no one used it.
We rewrote our entire mobile app in flutter (previously native android and iOS) for cronometer. It’s been a mostly great experience, and the worst issues have been worked out as the platform is rapidly maturing.
Over 8x seems to be a CA thing mostly (one tile in Oregon bordering CA).

Wonder if we can thank prop 13 for that? (Frozen property tax that constrains supply and encourages ani-development stance by removing the tax consequences of appreciating property)
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Well, short interest in Tesla has decreased significantly over the past six months, from over 40% of the float in June 2019, to under 20% in December 2019. As more and more short sellers choose (or are forced) to close their positions, they drive the value of the stock higher and make it harder for other shorts to maintain their positions. With 20% of the float still sold short, I personally don’t think $TSLA has hit its peak yet, although the stock price will probably recede as short interest approaches normal levels (1-2% of the float)