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> This is true of even very recently completed buildings in well-off areas of relatively wealthy western countries

In the UK planning guidelines say that charging stations have to be provided, have done for a while

110. Within this context, applications for development should:
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(e) be designed to enable charging of plug-in and other ultra-low emission vehicles in safe, accessible and convenient locations.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-planning-policy-framewo...

Locally planning permissions in my area (I'm a local councillor and have to view them all) for new houses have come with power for some years

The larger problem we'll see as we move away from petrol based cars is people in old terraces that park on narrow streets. The options are

1) Remove parking space to put in chargers
2) Remove footpath to put in chargers (won't pass muster in my council area at the moment, fortunatly)
3) Not do anything until after new petrol cars are banned and hope that something magically comes along
You'll lose money unless you get a cheap source of excess power like hydropower in western China. Mine with a fossil fuel that can be exported to any high demand region and you'll not be competitive
If we are to look at that kind of metrics, meat is definitely not the way to go..
Nah. More like killing the operations guys.

If the developers can do everything the operations guys can, but the ops guys can’t do everything the devs can, then businesses will throw out all the ops guys and replace them with devs that can do everything. And have to do everything.

Ops guys are a cost center. Devs are a profit center. All business exists for the sole purpose of eliminating all costs and maximizing all profits.

You should be able to figure out from there where the devs versus ops question goes.
This will require that the electricity grid generates an extra 1.21 gigawatts, though.
Clippy.js: Add MS Clippy or his friends to any website
"Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two."
One surprisingly underutilised technique is the specification-driven API design and development. You start with the API spec -- using e.g. OpenAPI, or basically any other specification standard -- and have all implementations, both server and client side, built based on that.
Norway is one of the world's most prosperous countries, and oil and gas production account for 20 percent of its economy. Other important sectors include hydropower, fish, forests, and minerals. State revenues from petroleum are deposited in the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
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I shudder to think what the inside of those space suits must smell like...
To be fair to the dealer, it might still make sense for him to sell you the warranty even if they would be likely to lose money on average. For starters the salesman himself gets commission on selling the warranty, but he might not get anything on service and repair. Also warranties are cash in hand that you can amortise over the warranty period, so it's effectively a steady revenue stream rather than bursty fits and starts. That enables more efficient financial planning.
Raising the block size is complete nonsense. It will simply kill of nodes and at best create increased transactions per block proportional to the block size increase. A very poor trade-off.
Books aren't rapidly replacing something similar that can be used to produce, though.
Is this somehow concatenated together in a build process, or is it actually written and maintained like that?
The container was adopted very fast and very thoroughly throughout worldwide supply chains because it was many, many orders of magnitude better - and allowed a massive reduction in staff.

No proposal for better IT integration in freight comes even close to that level of saving, mostly because the existing chaos is "good enough" and the executives are very, very old and very conservative compared to "digital natives".
You dont need the visitors to know how to do it, only newspapers’ devs or any kind of tech. Someone must be responsible for maintaining their websites, and robots.txt is as simple as can be, even has plugins for cms and such.

Websites can opt out but most of those make their money by driving traffic off of search engines and social media and selling ads themselves.

Only the best of the best media sites would even make it online without traffic from aggregators and social media (i have been involved in local media so yes, that is from experience).

However, either case, media sites lose more than Google or fb gains if they delist, gands down.
Yeah, these casuals think they're building a computer when they're really just sticking ICs together. If I was building my own computer, I'd do a real DIY build and start by creating the universe.
So paper money has zero value? Golds value does not equal is industrial use value. It has additional value as it has the properties that make it useful money. Same as USD paper and Bitcoin have value as money
Do you mean glib? It is in every server and desktop Linux distro, including those with commercial support from RedHat, Canonical and SUSE. For embedded Linux devices glib is included in Ubuntu Core from Canonical, as well as Wind River Linux from Intel.
The GStreamer SDK includes glib and is supported by Fluendo and Collabora on Android, Windows and Mac.
> From the angle that bitcoin is useless, it's easy to dismiss it as waste.

The debate is not about useless/useful, it is about : can we solve the same needs with a lot less spend energy?

> Use resources the way you wish and so will others. Free markets will decide where scarce resources work best.

That way of thinking leads us to the carbon catastrophe the entire world is trying to reverse right now.
I would not call Gandi high integrity folks after having seen that story of them losing customers' paid emails and telling them to restore from their own backups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822
> For 22kW "slow" chargers this is a bit simpler as the actual charger is a lot less complex, it doesn't need to negotiate, it just needs to switch one relay.

To be more explicit, the actual AC "slow" charger is built into the car, so it's guaranteed to work (and indeed, it just needs to signal a contactor to close the circuit).
He's very well known in the community. If one has been in any talks regarding .net gc, chances are they meet him there.
Oh yeah he is also the author of an entire book about .net gc Pro .NET Memory Management. So I trust he knows what's he doing.
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Connecting microservices – different types of communication
I vouched for this, because labeling the Podesta emails as 'literally nothing incriminating' may be literally true, it is obviously an attempt at whitewashing the damning information that was revealed, the Sanders debacle but one of many. [0]

So the gist of the parent comment, and implicit criticism that the article is a one-sided DNC piece, is relevant IMO.

Which detracts some but not completely from the fact that the article paints a coherent and highly relevant picture of the lengths that Trump-supporters (domestic and foreign alike) were willing to go at the expense of vulnerable people in order to secure power for Trump.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37639370
Bow hunting is illegal in the UK. Permitted firearms and ammunition are also regulated on animal cruelty grounds.
http://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/uploads/guides/90.pdf
I thought the cars did that for you by detecting emissions tests and switching to 'emissions mode' just for the test?
At least start to advocate forking it off to something less environmentally destructive.
Some of his Eastern Bloc stuff in Hypernormalization echoes to this day. It's fair to say he orchestrates feelings, it's semi-fair to object that he's not outlining a detailed plan for how to fix and run everything (to which I would reply that's not his job), but I don't like seeing his work written off as meaningless. It seems to be to be journalism of a very high level, in that he outlines things clearly and understandably that are newsworthy and that matter.

I guess the take-away there is that news is not enough. You can document the human condition all you like, and then if we do nothing to evolve it away from its darkest aspects it's just depressing. Knowing that I still like that he's doing that reporting, the way he's doing it. He's making abstractions concrete for people.
A Tesla gets about 3 miles from 1kWh. Average car in the UK does 140 miles a week, or 50kWh, or about 1kW of constant draw for 8 hours a night, or 4 amps. That's not an excessive amount compared with peak morning usage when everyones showers and dishwashers are starting.
I can relate to that kind of frustration but at the end of the day nobody plans ahead further. For various reasons, to be fair not even EV consumers and producers look much further speaking of ecological risks from the supply chain. It's a gamble anyway, hoping that EVs will not only look great on the surface. But that depends also on scientific progress, production and engineering capabilities.

On the other hand if EVs gets serious mass adoption outside of Scandinavia, I bet upgradeability of building infrastructure will become a topic and companies will make money by selling some sort of upgrade solution for properties.
Raspberry Pi 400 running Swift microservices
Bitcoin has the energy consumption of small nations. Banking is one of the many things that can be self contained in the energy budget of a small nation. On the other hand, bitcoin's transaction throughput would constrain my neighborhood's commerce at lunch. That is to say, traditional banks are doing a whole lot more to facilitate actual commerce.

It would seem to me that the efficiency gap is insurmountably large.
If they were banned for something they said, it was most likely because it breached FBs terms of service.
I don't think many people believe (even crypto advocates) that a large number of transactions are going to happen directly on the blockchain. There seem to be two possible futures for Bitcoin: Either most people will transact their BTC on an energy efficient network separate from the blockchain (like the Lightning network) or they will use BTC as a long-term store of value like gold*, and not use it to buy everyday things like coffee.

* Of course, at the moment it's not a very good store of value because of the price volatility. But advocates argue that these are just growing pains.
> but then replaces them with just another construct

I don’t see this as a problem. I think his work would be far more cumbersome if he exhaustively detailed all the different possibilities ...

I like the idea of constructing a powerful alternative narrative that I can compare and contrast with the conventional one.

I think for me at least the “danger” of Adam Curtis is somewhat mitigated because I know how to take it. I always presumed most other people that enjoy Curtis think similarly but I guess that could be a dangerous assumption...
Thats just lame and missing the entire point of bitcoin lol.

I dont even know where to start, the fact that you're really criticizing bitcoin when you got factories cars and plastics around you, or the fact that the energy isnt wasted but spent to secure and preserve its speculated market value.

Sure, we could just use fiat (paper money), it's eco-friendly, right? But good luck in dealing with inflation lol.

Simple math for all: your 1 USD today is 0.99x tomorrow, while 1 BTC will always = 1 BTC.
Seems like a lot of people say they want to pay per article but in reality don’t.

There was such a service in The Netherlands but they pivoted to a subscription model (still p*ssed about it)

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/micropayments-for-news-pio...
Riposte: An anonymous messaging system (2020) [pdf]
Emacs has been life changing for me in this regard. It's ugly and brutalist and weird - but also beautiful! Everything I do (Email, slack, GTD, project planning, time keeping, note taking, typing this comment) is done in one program. I've cancelled so many subscriptions over the last few years as I consolidated everything - I realized most startups could be implemented as an emacs minor mode!
> > The OS should define a stable format for the OS to install, update and uninstall these files

> Like .deb and .rpm?

It's ironic that the common complaint about these two formats (especially .deb [0]!) is that they are too stable and rigid...

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/789449/
You are right about Earth rotating. I spaced out on that one.

About the ecliptic, I was trying to say that any observatory on the moon would have issues observing polar regions because the Earth surface in polar regions would be at a low angle. I know some spy sats "look ahead" to get better detail resolution but they have ability to look from different angles as well. Moon would be a bad spot for that.

Rest of it I mostly agree. One thing up to debate is whether an outpost on the moon would be useful. If you can manufacture fuel on the Moon, it would be very useful. Another aspect is human health in zero G. Moon with low gravity may be enough to help with long term human stay.
4. Excellent documentation which will only likely get better. SDK in C/C++, and MicroPython. You can even learn concepts like PIO and DMA in MicroPython. Adafruit expressed confidence in their MicroPython libraries working out of the box, too.

The form-factor on the Pico is also a little nicer than and ESP32.

Pin duplicators are also available. This idea has a lot of potential, as it allows one to break out modules. It's much better than the Arduino shield for two reasons: 1. shields have quirky pin alignments, making it hard to create your own boards. 2. shields stack on top of the other, obscuring the layer below.

The Pico will be another stellar success from the Pi Foundation. I have no doubt.
That's a very narrow minded approach :-)

People don't carry around 35kg of groceries each time they go to the local supermarket. They buy a tiny bit of what they need each day, walking back from home/school, since it takes so little time and often it's on the way, anyway.

Carrying 2-5-6-7-8-10kg is quite easy.
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Simply look at prices and rewards. You literally can't have any profit without using waste electricity. The price of ordinary industrial electricity anywhere in the world is at least double of what you can mine with the latest Bitcoin mining hardware (which is expensive to begin with).

BTW, what if the demand for Bitcoin mining hardware accelerated our technological or economical development of semiconductors? I think that's good, and the electricity is small price for that.
I'm not a fan of OSS development as it's unfair to creators (which are rarely remunerated for their time, minus a few exceptional individuals who can survive of donations) but I really appreciate the idea behind it: this is providing a way for a developer to earn money without subscribing to the usual employee bullcrap dance or the usual contractor sales bullcrap.
The closest thing I can think of are security bug bounty but companies are not really reliable with the way they reward issues, not to mention getting closed as duplicate or just waiting forever because they have half engineer dealing with security.

That said, I think we need a mechanism to assign an issue to a developer on rysolv, so that if someone outside of the maintainers fixes the issue in a way that is considered acceptable by the provider of funds, it can be closed and the developer rewarded.

I have had PRs open on OSS projects for 5 years, just one merge away from delivering value, just because tons of OSS projects are not maintained.
Other times maintainers are just not willing to share responsibility with others (and I doubt it will be much better with money), forcing you to fork their project or wait forever.

This would also solve the issue of waiting forever for a fix without being able to unpledge the money: there's someone assigned to the issue you can ping about status or terminate.

Best of luck
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Writing Your First Python Code
"Amazon wants to use you to get more prime subscribers"

Doesn't seem shitty to me.
Not doing an SPA unless it is the last resort. Building google maps or an offline first app.
was the inventor of USB a serial killer? ;-)
For those looking to make Rpi into RDP clients, there is TLXOS-RPi[1].

The license is cheap and it works in multi-monitor mode as well[2].

[1]:https://tls.thinlinx.com/store/index.php/thinclient/tlxos-rp...
[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsob_pQXnCM
At this state its not really intended for micro txs. Its large txs and the energy spent (yes, spent, not wasted) on the math is what secures it.

Your keys, your bitcoin.

1 USD = 0.99 USD tomorrow.

1 BTC will always be 1 BTC.
Address lookups, weather lookup, company lookup, telephone lookup, autocomplete lookups, ...

Why wouldn't there be a stateless API?
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Using Nextcloud myself, that would be a good point to migrate. Nextcloud is not bad but sometimes i think the releases are not tested enough, with every release there is a problem, often not big ones but it's a bit to hmmm needy?

And there is also Seafile which is often forgotten:

https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
Unsurprisingly. There is still more CO2 being emitted than removed.
It's a really worrying trend that these dangerous challenges gain so much popularity on social media.
I wonder what's in the center of this trend. Are we somehow getting dumber as a species or are some other factors at play.
As a Brit it seems a standard and odd thing that American businesses don't seem able to say "merry xmas" and have to make it happy holidays. I don't fully get why mentioning christmas is discriminatory when mentioning hanukkah or eid or Chinese new year isn't?
Author here. This is such a great discussion! I might have been unclear with what I consider what. In my categorization, shirts are button down shirts. https://hoverfalt.github.io/shirts.html They are part of my "uniform" if you like as a consultant. They tend to last 38-43 times. Then they start looking a little too worn for work.

Shirts with print, for me, would fall under T-shirts and tanks. The few ones I have, definitely wear faster.

My underwear shirts are the ones that tend to last 20-25 times. After that, they are no longer fresh. And I don't mean fresh as new, but rather unfresh to the extent of not being ok through a long day at work.

Some, I continue using as sportswear also :)
This is great. Other comments here are underestimating the power of a group. An average bounty on an issue might just be between $10-$100 but there can easily be 50 people putting up a bounty for a popular issue (have you seen issues with hundreads of upvotes and are still open for years). If we start seeing (collective) bounty on an issue in the range of a few thousand $$ then it's decent money for maintainers or anyone else who's motivated enough.

My guess is this is eventually going to be built into GitHub (via acquisition or otherwise).
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What 2021 will mean for tech in the Middle East (ZDNet)
The program might not have borne all the speculative fruits, but the one very major thing that has come out of it is the learning about the effects of living in micro-gravity on the human body. If ever we want to get humans out into the rest of the solar system, this knowledge is priceless. Oh, I know that NASA has this constant pressure to justify that learning in terms of stuff like "medical benefits" (and there surely are a bunch of those!) but really it's the foundational pure science that's critical here. I don't think there's any monetary value can be put on that.
Since nobody has made any better citation, here's one article giving a bit more depth to the issue: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/

Seems at least half of Bitcoin is currently mined directly using coal.
We had Sun rays at uni. I kinda liked them.
No, 1 USD = 1 USD tomorrow

The actual value of 1 USD may change. But so does the value of 1 BTC
What a legacy. Objective-C feels like a fun toy you can play with, it really does make cool things quite easy that are really hard in most other languages, like the iOS animation system.
The fact that you can swizzle methods also says a lot about its power and flexibility. When Steve Jobs was at NeXT, he was quoted numerous times bashing C++ as having 'dead objects' while pointing out that ObjC objects were 'alive'. One seldom needs to make use of swizzling, but when you do need it, it's an awesome capability.

As prabhatjha pointed out in another comment in this thread, swizzling was used to automatically capture networking calls just by adding our framework to your app and initializing it. You could then log into our app's web-based dashboard and see stats about networking calls (counts, latency, errors, etc.). This simple and elegant solution would not have been possible with C++. We also supported Android at the time (Java), and the developer was required to change his code to call our networking wrapper calls to get the same tracking for their Android apps.
Reposting the 300 IQ comment i replied to someone else on this thread:

Thats just lame and missing the entire point of bitcoin lol.

I dont even know where to start, the fact that you're really criticizing bitcoin when you got factories cars and plastics around you, or the fact that the energy isnt wasted but spent to secure and preserve its speculated market value.

Sure, we could just use fiat (paper money), it's eco-friendly, right? But good luck in dealing with inflation lol.

Simple math for all: your 1 USD today is 0.99x tomorrow, while 1 BTC will always = 1 BTC.
I don't know much about the subject, and I'm one of those that misses the entire point of bitcoin itself and other mined cryptos... but if 1 BTC = 1 BTC, why is it being always indexed to USD?

I doesn't seem to make sense to say 1BTC = 1BTC, when people reference it's value to regular currency.
could be, or maybe their bosses are prioritizing cramming in different ad/tracking libraries in there that all start at once, instead of bugs
Yea, as far as the battery is concerned, there is no "AC" charging. It's always DC.

The current is either provided by the built-in charger (AC-DC) or a HVDC charging point.
That's probably the best quality-feature one can give to source-code.
Are group chats implemented yet?
You said so much without actually saying anything at all.
Miners can't change Bitcoin without the consent of full nodes, who run the core client. That's why SegWit2x didn't happen three years ago. All the miners supported it, because bigger blocks means bigger transaction fees. Full nodes and core devs didn't support it, because big blocks means you won't be able to run Bitcoin on PCs much longer and therefore centralized online service providers will control it.
Even the cost of conversion kits goes down, you are ignoring the most expensive part and that's labor. You can't install these things easily. You have to take the engine out with all is associated parts and then put all the EV parts with all the wiring associated. Someone had to do this. If you want conversations for everyone and I doubt that it's going to be either cheap or scalable.
I wish there were certifications that parents could enforce kids to get concerning topics like drugs, sex, social media, sexual harassment, etc. the world has many dangers for developing children. Having a talk about them and then having refreshers yearly is a good thing. Adults do this for topics like CPR etc. why not these. Especially since now a days it isn’t a few dangers but many in places even parents are ill equipped to understand themselves.