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> The total energy usage shouldn't be much of an issue as we'll move electricity use from refineries to charging batteries

So you'll have to build and bring online a whole new set of power plants in place of all those refineries then.

I think this is definitely a very large issue and no trivial undertaking.
gawd I hope so! Otherwise there are going to be a lot stranded Norwegians come next winter.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/05/business/norway-electric-...
Might you have heard of the US? Salt Lake, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, DC...
So much for the old saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket". What could go wrong?
Everyone's so excited by Perseverance, you'd almost forget we've been getting a constant stream of pictures of Mars from rovers for the past 20 years. Curiosity is still driving around and sending back similar beautiful pictures every day. Here's a color panorama from May

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25865/curiositys-360-degree-...
Given the time it takes to build a nuclear reactor, this is a path we should have started 15 years ago.
it doesn't matter how terrible our side thinks it would be if the other side has decided it is going to happen.
Some great images there. Maybe someday we'll get to take our own photos on Mars. I'd enjoy that.
For me has always been the admin part. I don’t care particularly about the job and culture. I’m actually excited to try something new.
It’s just a lot of documents to move and I’m bad at using paper. :D
Or we don't change all thermal cars with electric cars. It's time we realize that moving a 1+ ton vehicle for 80kg of people on average is a folly. We need alternative ways of transportation, more efficient, less polluting
Increase road tax on currently subsidised cars and invest in public transport infra?
There are several channels and several ways to collect leads including emails, social media, blogs, and even ads and retargeting. The key point is to find where your customer locates and select the platform to get these leads. You don’t have to spend all your pennies on all possible channels.
> Unlike a petrol or diesel car, you won't be risking poisoning yourself while you sleep either.

Unless you’re doing this in your garage, that’s not a risk
Another data point:

I'm some kind of introvert, if i hang out with people, my social "battery" drains and i get tired. I smoke because it gives me much more time before my social "battery" is empty. I don't smoke otherwise.

Right now i'm at two packs a year.
They could start actually taxing companies.

In the Netherlands, extra taxes (on top of VAT) levied on fuel and vices like tobacco and alcohol put about 11 billion euros a year into the state coffers. Meanwhile, big tech companies funnel money through the country to tax havens. Uber had 50 shell companies in the Netherlands to dodge taxes on 6 billion in revenue (https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-...).
The grid is sized to handle peak loads in the early evening. Electric cars tend to be driven during peak hours and charge at night so while total energy used (kWh) will go up substantially, the grid itself does not need to handle substantially more power (kW) than it currently does.
As I understand it, the UK's original street lighting served the dual purpose of absorbing the night-time production of coal power plants, which are hard to throttle. Now that we barely use coal, and instead regularly throttle our gas plants, there isn't the "leftover" current that you think.
Having a few solid, long-term friendships where you trust each other over decades is something important for many. Maybe not for you. It has nothing to do with a pedestal.
As I imagine it, I immediately wonder how to cool it.
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>Being a good engineer means knowing best practices. Being a senior engineer means knowing when to break best practices.

True. You do not know how it is true!
I don’t think there are any sub £30k Audis that do sub 6s to 60. Base S3 is £38k
How do I change the baud rate on this thing? Without recompiling and flashing the firmware?
Oh, I was thinking you wanted to contact cicada 3301 somehow. Sorry, I don't speak to locusts.
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diesel subs are quieter than nuclear subs and can often hide in an audio blind spot behind boats. "Blind Man's Bluff" is a great read on submarine warfare after World War 2 and a lot of the things that go with it. Ship stalking is a some what regular thing by all sides.
It seems comp.lang.python and comp.lang.c are banned also, very probably for the same reason.
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The framework and broad specification came from the EU through their EU Green Pass project so we have at least reduced fuck-up risk ;)

I was sceptical if they manage to actually deliver as fast as they promised especially as the EU guidelines and specs were were general/rough just a month ago.
Unlike mouthguards for bruxism, those for apnea are designed to hold one's jaw in a particular position.
This is an opinion I am slowly arriving at - EVs are a very expensive way to force a change in how far people expect to be able to travel.
it really does not matter that much, because having this flavor or that flavor of cars solves nothing. the real solution is to innovate public, shared and yet-unfolded transport.

if all cars in a city were public shared pool cars used by optimal number of people (not 1 person per car), then perhaps we would've seen much lower traffic levels.

pollution from car production and exhaust is a very long story to even touch it.
It’s not the median, it’s the 90th percentile of car miles. And people do have alternatives for longer trips - either using charging stations, renting a different vehicle with better range characteristics, or mode switching to another form of transport, like a train.

This is where someone always chimes in with ‘but what about people who live in rural Idaho and need to drive eighteen hours to a hospital once a quarter and they need to tow their boat when they do it’

There are outliers who have specialist niche needs. But the vast majority of trips taken by the vast majority of drivers are short range and start/terminate at home.

Most electric car owners don’t rely on public charging infrastructure at all.
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I didn't know about this and was sceptical but it appears to be right and the CDC[1] mentions it, along with lead-210 being a source of radioactive accumulation in the lungs.

Apparently an information that cigarette manufacturers tried pretty hard to hide[2]...

[1]:https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/smoking.htm
[2]:https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2008/08/29/radioactive-pol...
> The strict rules are ones we all agree to by joining.

Did you manage to create an FB account that isn't bound by the Community Standards (https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/)?
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One of my favorite atomic tourism sites is near charm files rush (Red Gate Woods, outside Chicago, home to the remains of Chicago Piles 2 and 3), or is it charm file rush (Which is in Brazil), or is it charms file rush, on the border between New Hampshire and Maine?

Not a good system.
It exists in Germany and it drives electricity price to the top. Current price for private households is around 0.4 Euro per kilowatt hour (0.5 US Dollars). Large part of it are taxes.

Household electricity prices in 2020: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...
I made a little script to download a random new Perseverance picture each day and set it as my desktop background.

NASA has an API that returns a JSON list of the day's photos with URLs and other data:

https://api.nasa.gov/mars-photos/api/v1/rovers/perseverance/...

I choose only NAVCAM_LEFT and NAVCAM_RIGHT photos since they're usually the prettiest, colored, and good resolution.
If I remember correctly they hit record in Norway because of dotations / taxes
EU internally will use the so-called covid green pass however being vaccinated will not be a condition for travelling:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...

I think the same logic will apply for visits from rest of the world.
Or it could because there is increased awareness of the originally racist and authoritarian motives for modern drug laws? I'm not of the mind that weed cannot and does not frequently become a bad habit but weed abuse is far less problematic than alcohol abuse yet the former is treated as a criminal affair.

Black people are the most consistently anti-police demographic so I don't know where you're getting the idea that it's "young western kids" that are propagating the anti-police rhetoric.
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Regarding tax revenue. In many states in the U.S. they “simply” nail you on your yearly registration fee. It’s an awful system as it’s punitive at the moment. I now pay over $200 a year on that fee due to it being an electric vehicle. My car is 2 years old with < 12k miles on it. I pay way more in taxes than I would with a petroleum fueled car.
I think that’s common elsewhere as well. A construction loan in the US will work the same way and have a draw schedule that must be followed.
Just looking at some of the images, does anyone know what creates these ripples? Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought those ripples are created by wind (or water) on Earth, so am I right in thinking there is a little wind on Mars?

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/so...
Can you show us how does it look like? Is it similar to the ones for fighting bruxism?
NNTP. NTP is for synchronizing clocks.
How does a short lifetime of the certs help with 3rd parties building these databases you mention?
I agree. There is a great old talk from Rory Sutherland called “Life Lessons from an Ad Man” [0] which is worth a watch in regards to our perception of value. Especially relevant is the anecdote about improving the train journey between Brussels and London, which is toward the start of the video.

Edit: I guess my unstated point is that we should be looking to improve the user journey, not necessarily match the existing technology. For example, I take public transport because I can read or even sleep, and not because it’s faster or cheaper than taking my own car.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_...
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I made this guide on how to implement quaternions yourself and use them to rotate objects in a 3D engine. The implementation is probably not the most efficient, but I tried to make it simple enough to understand how quaternions work.
such as? it has step-through debugging, automatic code building + running, source control integration. What else?
what i also tried to say, but maybe could not do so well... is that opensource is not about being open to people or acting democratic. surely there are many nice ppl behind opensource projects, but that does not make these projects inclusive.

also there is great number of great people that are very great at coding and not so great at communicating with other people.

so what is emphasized here in my comment is that the kind of opensource project that is inclusive and led by s.o. who knows how to express empathy and has time to also be involved with other people is more valuable as a community effort.

not going into discussion whether openssl is better of with one single dev or not, whether sqlite3 is more important than a serenityos etc.
That is my usage pattern yes but then I’m used to having one car satisfy both the use cases. In many developed countries one could rent a car for road trips, but not in India unfortunately. There are some rental companies but it’s mostly a hit and miss and when it misses the experience is a shitshow.

While I can afford to buy two cars it’s a big capital expenditure that’s extremely under utilized.

And so my wait continues, looks like I’ll be stuck with ICEs for at least a half a decade.
If I could (hypothetically) buy an electric car that’s affordable, cheaper to run, more reliable than an internal combustion car, less environmentally damaging, and covers most of my normal usage, I’d be on it like a shot, even if it means I have to figure out another solution for occasional stuff like house moves and driving holidays, and I think a lot of other people would too.

I think the biggest blocker right now is just price. It seems like electric cars are either very expensive or not very good.

Charging networks are definitely an important part of the overall solution but I don’t think they’re the whole story. I think if enough people have EVs, charging networks will inevitably follow, rather than the reverse.

Edit to add: I’m assuming I can charge at home in this scenario, which I realise may not be easy for many people (eg in apartment blocks). I would have thought that’s a somewhat different problem from charging networks, though.
Wasn't referring to you specifically, but the idea of progress as a constant change made by the child generation which your comment alluded to.
Honestly curious what part (not regional) of Germany should have directly benefitted in your opinion. I was too young at the time (just finishing school) but in the span of 1-2 years it seemed that all prices were adjusted back to the old value, but we had traded in our money at 2:1. The beers I bought in a pub were 4-5 DM and not soon after it was 3 EUR, that's definitely not due to inflation. The difference was basically so shockingly large that I actively wondered how this would work out in the next years.

You mentioned exports, so maybe "the economy as a whole" or everyone already having their company running. Also I've seen housing prices go sideways in the 00s, but not sure if that's completely unrelated.
> It seems to me you might have a hard time adding 12 NVMe drives to a single CPU then?

Attachment is a solved issue as all you do is buy a PCIe switch and hang more nvme off your cpu. The issue I see is no clear standard for nvme form factors or connectors.

m.2 is a consumer standard that is more mobile friendly than desktop or server yet it appears to be the more common standard in all three. U.2 nvme in the classic 2.5" spinning rust form factor but I don't see them used in desktops. Then there are numerous "ruler" form factors designed to plug into 1U servers.

Connectors are also a mixed bag with m.2, U.2, a 36pin quad channel sff motherboard connector, sata express connector, and OCulink.

And further this whole article is more old-is-new again blogspam as all it talks about yet another SAN technology.
But it's big in Japan
Google doesn't seem to be willing to invest in trying to understand context with their moderation algorithms.
BTC (actually Ethereum) are incredibly handy when doing international transactions. That these things are effectively global also makes them very useful, because of bank fees and the difficulty.

At one point I actually sat down with a bank consultant to "design" a way to move money between (sets of) bank accounts in 2 countries just so we can do business. Still takes 4+ days (non-bank holidays) to actually happen. Ethereum can certainly match that and with much less costs.
In NL, they are hard at work upgrading the energy network everywhere; newly built neighbourhoods already have 4x the electricity capacity they would previously have. This is in part down to the shift to electric vehicles, in part due to the reduction or removal of dependency on natural gas (for both climate and political reasons, we get ours from Russia), and in part due to people generating their own power via solar panels. A report is at [1], tl;dr they need and probably will invest billions in the power grid to be nationally carbon neutral by 2050.

I mean the nihilist in me says it'll be far too late by then and we'll be well into a cataclysmic chain reaction and consequent extreme climate shift, but hey.

https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/_upload/Files/Samenvatting...
I interpreted it as having the infrastructure to deliver ~7kW to the kerb, which is a hangover from the previous lighting systems.
Maybe more like a fish lock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(water_navigation)

No jumping required
The reason she is paid is because she is one of the best in the world at doing one specific thing. That’s what people enjoy watching her do.

The promotion of her as an athlete could focus on videos, photos and live spectatorship of the thing she actually does well. She can remain super famous in the context of her sport and people can otherwise leave her alone. Taking a sponsorship should not mean allowing someone control over your life outside of work.

The blind acceptance of the idea of “this is the way this industry has always been run, you better accept it or get out of the way” is how people like Weinstein ever had any power. Good on her to stand up for her well-being and point out the obvious flaws and exploitation in these systems that no one wants to address. That’s how change happens.
Try MIT.

In the UK Imperial is probably the closest to what you are looking for I guess.
Which strongly suggests that the real problem is ideological polemics, which makes sense when you think about it.

The USA didn't stick to ideological capitalism, and implemented many "socialist" policies: welfare systems, public works projects, labour protections, public infrastructure, etc. etc.

The USSR did stick to ideological communism as they defined it. Markets weren't utilized at all. Freedom of thought was suppressed. Political purges were executed.

In the USA, something similar was tried with the "red scare", but thankfully plurality won out, and some of those "abhorrent" socialist policies became mainstays in "great capitalist America" as part of the New Deal, which is what saved the USA from its domestic communist movement.

Over the last few decades though, the USA seems to have forgotten this. Forgotten that what saved the USA was not rigid adherence to some pre-existing quasi-religious ideological/spiritual polemic (which both capitalism and communism are), but the willingness to implement and incorporate a wide basket of ideas as they were appropriate.
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On the parking lot, obviously. It isn't technically hard to put a slow charger for every parking place.
True but you should elaborate on what that thing is.
China is not supplying capital for the suburbs of Kinshasa to upgrade their electrical grid the same way as a Tesla-loving white suburb from the Valley can get easy money by just issuing some muni bonds. I’m not insinuating, I’m telling it as is easy, this is a regressive policy that hurts the poor more and helps those that already have (money and political influence). It so happens that the latter cohort is mostly white while the first isn’t.
>Curiosity is still driving around

wow, I thought he's "lost"
from wikipedia

> Nicotine can form carcinogenic Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) through a nitrosation reaction. ... However, nicotine in the mouth and stomach can react to form N-Nitrosonornicotine,[104] a known type 1 carcinogen,[105] suggesting that consumption of non-tobacco forms of nicotine may still play a role in carcinogenesis.
It's not US culture that's the issue - ever heard about the utterly ridiculous regulations Germany has on pornography (tl;dr: a simple "are you 18" prompt isn't sufficient, you need a certified online identity provider verifying your age against a government issued ID)?

Reddit, in contrast to Instagram, hosts porn of all varieties - from softcore nude art to hardcore fetish stuff.

The issue with the US is "family friendly" brand/advertising culture - no big brand advertisers want their ads to go next to a blowjob - and credit card regulations.
Unwarranted snark.

Unless there's any good reason to suspect otherwise, why not go with the "this is an italian poster, which is why they are writing in italian", as opposed to a multi-ligual person using a non-native language in a false flag operation.

Especially since genuine loonies posting such BS is quite common in forums, comment sections, and newsgroups and we all have seen examples.

Ever heard of Occam's razor?
I'm sorry, this shit cracks me up so much. I'm glad that everyone got so much out of the title!
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rDNA is repeated many many times and is located at several places in the genome. Presumably we need so many ribosomes that we need to have many copies of it or else transcribing it into rRNA would be the bottle neck in translating all mRNA. Can't have any proteins without rRNA!
I looked into the topic in some detail year ago, because I copied Wikipedia's approach for an in-house CMS editor. I looked through the code, did loads of performance experiments, read through related forums posts, etc...

The wiki staff themselves admitted that the current parser is inefficient, partly because of PHP, partly because the underlying grammar was not designed to be efficient, and partly because the parser itself was built up over time and wasn't easy to optimise.

My approach was to write the parser and a matching "markdown inspired" format at the same time, optimised for speed. Just a handful of small tweaks to the syntax were all that was required to largely eliminate backtracking and achieve a nearly linear parsing time in most cases. If I remember correctly, I had it down to about 1-5ms for a typical 64 KB page, and then HTML generation was another 5-10ms depending on various factors.

What a lot of people are missing here is that Wikis are not at all like typical "ERP" applications. The latter sometimes requires dozens of API calls and thousands of database queries to generate just one kilobyte of output HTML. Wiki is very linear, with a single 1-100KB blob of text as input, a matching 1-100KB blob of HTML as output. It all boils down to the parsing and HTML generation efficiency, nothing else matters!
In many countries they don't accept kids to nursery without up to date vacinnation card.
Have been charging cars outside in New England for several years now, right through the winters. Biggest issue has been that sometimes the charge port cover can be hard to open or close when iced, but cars charge just fine under a dump of snow.
Honest question, 3.0 liters from a with a premium badge go for 30k£ in UK?
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To be fair, the issue is not that people did not set the time, everyone with a brand new VCR took the normally needed one-two-three hours time to read the (bulky) instructions and learn about tens of functions they would never use at first installation, and did set the time.

Only, next time there was a blackout (or even in some cases a low or high spike in voltage) of the mains (or you needed to switch it off to do some electrical repairs) the time would reset to 12:00 and usually there was no way to re-set it without the instruction manual and it was way too work to find the instructions.

For the nostalgics, a nice .gif:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1200am_blink.gif
This mission statement is just an example of what it actually does, which is advertising.
>It is certainly what the world's big car makers think.

That is what they hope. Unfortunately for them there is something else going on right now. The cities have started giving up on the "everyone will drive everywhere" approach to transportation planning. That is caused by the realization that cars cause most of the problems cities face. Current internal combustion cars are already fairly clean in terms of emissions so an electric cars are just more of the same problem to be fought.
Blame the title limit. Thanks!