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It's true it was the standard on early Japanese electric stuff (the Leaf mainly), but it's a bit of an exaggeration to say Chademo was some kind of industry standard 10 years ago. Chademo itself is a creation of Japanese auto-makers plus Panasonic/TEPCO. The J1772 as well as of course Tesla's connector have been far, far more common sights in North America over the last 10 years. Western auto-makers have almost completely ignored Chademo altogether.

CCS is a bit larger a connector but not meaningfully so and is just as capable as the Tesla connector feature wise really - can support 350kw DC fast charging and automated payments etc. I'd be pretty happy if Tesla switched the cars over to a standard design like they've done on the Euro cars, assuming reasonable adapters were offered to existing owners.
USCCB = "US Conference of Catholic Bishops", which is why being on Grindr is a problem.
If the range of the car is 500km, in Europe most people would probably charge once or twice a week.

But I agree, we need chargers in buildings parking garage to make this work.
It means you didn't take enough of a vacation :D
There's some similar work that frames some of this around cognitive artifacts. There are processes people perform that create an artifact in their mind they can use for other purposes of problem solving.

The model leaves a sort of precense on their consciousness, an artifact,, and allows them to reason in ways aided by those artifacts. When you stop creating and using those artifacts and depend on technology to act in place of them, you lose some creative aspects you would normally be able to connect or utilize in other mental models.

For some things I think it's good for technology to act as black boxes we don't have to understand, just know that we can understand it if we need to. Other things are good to understand even if you can automate it. How you choose and differentiate which of those is an incredible challenge in my mind. What do I commit to memory and integrate into my mental model of the world and what do I just reference and use when I need it.
A couple good newsletters are Python Weekly and PyCoder's Weekly. They each put out a mix of news, articles/tutorials, and interesting projects.

https://www.pythonweekly.com/
https://pycoders.com/
Per EV manufactured, sure.
Then why hasn't he done so earlier?
There's no mention of reporting any repos to the government. Only starting legal proceedings to stop their undeniably illegal activity, and that those proceedings might result in their deportation, and that for this person deportation is very dangerous because of the political climate in their home country.

Its not a threat, it's a warning about the danger of the person's position, and hopefully an incentive to stop their illegal and possibly criminal activity before legal proceedings start.
One aspect of this that I haven't seen addressed yet, is the role the 911 dispatchers play. I'm not sure what (if any) training they receive today specific to detecting SWAT'ing instances, but it seems likely that there are steps dispatchers could take to try and help separate pranks from real incidents, and - in turn - relay that to the responding officers who can mediate their response based on that.

Disclaimer: I am a former 911 dispatcher myself, but I've been away from that world for 25 years or so, so my knowledge of training standards, procedures, technology, etc. used in a modern 911 center is pretty thin.

That said... there should be some red flags to a dispatcher that call might be of questionable veracity. One would, to my mind, simply be if the call is received from a much different geographic region than where the incident is reported as happening. For direct calls to 911 the callers location is generally shown, although not with super high precision in the case of cell-phones. If somebody wants to call a 911 center that isn't "their" PSAP, they can call the 10 digit number for the center (if they know it. I guess these can probably be found online). I think you will also get location information on the admin line, but don't quote me on that. Additionally, the dispatcher can tell if you called 911 or "the admin line" - and a member of the public calling in on the admin line should probably raise a least a hint of suspicion.

A call being relayed / bounced to your center through multiple other agencies is also something that might indicate that the caller is not physically present and may not have the full picture.

There are probing questions that could be used to help validate the call. "Did you hear/see these events yourself?" "Where were you when you say/hear them?" "How old are you?" "What's your name?" Some of these are, in fact, questions a 911 dispatcher would ask anyway, not specific to SWAT'ing. What I'd be curious to know, is are there more specific ways to probe to detect a likely SWAT'ing event.

If there is a report of gunfire or something, a dispatcher would also typically notice if they only get one call, and no additional confirming calls. While it is possible, especially in a rural area, to only get one call on something like that, reports of gunshots would often-times come from multiple sources. So if the incident is reported as being in a busy/urban area, but there is only one call, that could be an indicator that things aren't kosher.

Anyway... just some stream of consciousness stuff here that occurred to me. Not sure if anybody has looked deeply into this aspect yet, or is working on it. If not, maybe somebody should be.

Edit: looks like this has gotten at least some attention within the public safety communications world:

https://www.ems1.com/tactical-ems/articles/swatting-guidance...

https://www.911.gov/pdf/National_911_Program_State_of_911_We...
That's awesome and I was not previously aware of it. Literally a decade ago I was asking on SO about exactly this kind of use-case [1] and at the time the answers were pretty unsatisfying; it's great to hear that the story is better now.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4071765/in-python-how-do...
> Pedaling warms the user, making electric heating in winter unnecessary.

I don't know who edited this in the wiki, but this type of talking down to people is probably one of the top reasons the culture of biking in the US even in places like San Francisco never resonated with people. There are just too many condescending bike enthusiasts who think biking is the next best thing invented after sliced bread and everyone else is an idiot for not seeing the light.
We’ve had journalists claim that all journalism is (should be) activism --that in itself is an oxymoron. but that's "journalism" in the States, today.

So we have journalists who see it in their purview to frame things to fit their objectives as they envision them.

We also had someone at the NYT who said what is in this age called hate speech against a majority “color” but wasn’t fired for those comments. So it’s indeed one sided.
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Have you ever been to a DMV in the USA and see how dysfunction it is?

So many reasons why I don't support this. Ease of filing is one of the aspects, rather small for me.

1) USA's government is far more incompetent than Dutch

2) If US IRS sends me a prefilled tax form with erroneous income, say off by 10%, sure I can correct it and file it but now the onus of proof is on the citizen to disprove the error. You might say 'Ok, it is just prefiling it, you can always correct it' - future laws will ask for proof.

3) For a small and nimble country like Netherlands it works very well. Voicing concerns in Netherlands is direct and easy. Not here, USA would mess this up big time.

4) Ideologically, I have issues. It would be extremely orweillian and big-brotherish to get a tax bill from the government - yes I know its just 'pre-filling the boxes' but it will creep up from there.

5) I hate paying for Turbo Tax but there is no denying - it works extremely well. USA's federal system with 100% gaurantee would not be as good. We need to go open source, not put more power in the hands of the massively incompetent IRS and more generally Federal Government.

6) Local and State taxes - this would mean absolutely a patch work of systems that are supplied by shitty software companies to local and state governments. Hard pass.

7) Laws would creep up and change to not just say pre-fill the tax forms but would require massive effort from the citizen to disprove the government. If the filing process initiates from the citizen, the government has to go out on a limb to prove that it's incorrect which is how it should be.

8) I would support ease of filing taxes. But hey! We have that. It is called 1040EZ which takes no more than 10 mins for simple taxes. No software required.

9) I prefer totally offline tax filing. I use Turbo Tax but always print out the tax forms. You might think this is old fashioned but I like doing things old fashioned way. I don't want to digitize anything especially when it comes to automated shitty SaaS hired by the government, I have zero confidence.

10) Even without OSS, I just think that $79 + $____ owed taxes is the marginal rate. $79 -> goes to private industry (Turbo Tax, which does a great job) and $_____ owed to the government. I don't want tax payer money to fund a massive national 'prefiling' tax program. I would support getting rid of $79 effective flat tax that only goes to Turbo Tax.

If the only advantage is the 'pre-filling' part, then I much prefer assembling the data (W2, 1099s, etc) myself and file taxes. Period.
They exist, but they’re technically ToS violations, and mentioning that you use one in large public servers is taboo. Doesn’t stop people from using them, as discord has been lenient so far, but you’ll have only yourself to blame if discord does ban you.
I'm in a train station in Berlin right now and every billboard is Apple.
I haven't used lisp a ton, so I might be missing something here, but as I understand it, multiple dispatch in lisp is opt in. The downside of this is that since it has a performance penalty, people didn't use multimethids for core functions like +, so you lose the benefits multiple dispatch offers.
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How does this relate to KIM (Kommunikation in der Medizin) a kind of secure e-mail as far as i understand, wich is sold to us now as the future standard of communication in healthcare?
It's worse than that. Because of that incident with his module, he was shifted in the astronaut rotation. If I understand that history properly, without the roster change, he would not have been on the Apollo 1 test crew at all, bolts or no bolts.

Poor guy could not catch a break from NASA.

(Also Fred Ward has not gotten anywhere near enough screen time)
I'm sure for young men growing up in certain neighborhoods, opting out of gang membership is less straight forward than you make it sound.
The Italians in your office would have wanted espresso!

That's actually an interesting point, we're generally talking about coffee as if it's all the same, but I see people here talking about instant grounds, drip coffee and then there is espresso, I'm sure they all work out quite different. If you're used to grinding your own beans you'll know different beans have different caffeine amounts, and different extraction methods all have different yields.

Where I am it's all espresso, thanks to Italian immigrants bringing over stovetop espresso kettles in the 40s and jumpstarting our now incumbent coffee culture. I've never even seen a drip coffee machine, it's espresso machines in petrol stations, offices, cafes, restaurants, people's homes.

If I pull an espresso shot for too long it's going to have more caffeine in it than had it pulled really quickly, even though it's the same amount of coffee/water solution in the cup. So one person's four cups a day is rarely going to match another persons four cups a day. I'm sure it's the same for instant coffee brands or grinds too, when you take it all into consideration it's going to be hard to know what caffeine intake anyone has.
Americans (and citizens of other countries) need a society where they don't have to spend any time worrying about how to navigate the byzantine maze of tax deductibles and special cases. The income tax code should be "pay x% of your annual income". Just one line is enough. All else is just introducing inefficiency and creates loopholes.
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Compulsory military service actually has not been abandoned in Germany, it’s still written down in the constitution.

It’s just put out of order for an indefinite amount of time.
I'm old enough to remember most of the early space program. Our small TV gave us a window to the world colored in black and white with shades of grey.

It was so exciting as a kid to watch these rocket launches, ocean recoveries, and television updates that used crude models of the activities to give viewers an idea of how things were supposed to be working.

I remember when Apollo 1 burned up and have never forgotten Grissom, Chaffee, and White. When Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon I was glued to the TV.

Space is hard though to a casual observer it may look easy. Success does that to your perception.

Thanks for this article as I didn't know some of the details behind Grissom's contributions to our efforts.
An inability to evaluate sources seems like an issue for someone teaching, at least in part, how to do that.
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Popularize and celebrate simple/loving lifestyles.

I believe this is doable and will have high ROI.
Ermetic: Nearly 100% of Companies Suffered a Cloud Data Breach in Past 18 Months
My story is rather dated and admittedly only one data point, but when I was in my early teens (early 2000s), WYSIWYG editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver were the tools I used to self-learn the basics of web dev. The issue though was that those editors were rather bloated and ran very poorly on the machine my mother had bought me, so it became increasingly favourable to seek something lighter weight and non-WYSIWYG as I learnt more about the languages of the web and grew more competent. stumbled upon BBEdit and used it to a) grow my knowledge of the languages and; b) be able to build things in a more productive manner without the computer grinding to a halt. I think perhaps learning to code through WYSIWYG and then migrating to text editors is a common pathway?
I don't know about Vim, but Emacs will do this easily with `persp-mode`. To skip a bit of customization work, get doom-emacs and enable the `workspaces` module, which will save sessions for you by default.
Already duplicated in my reply to icegreentea2 below, but release notes for projects you use are a great place to get updates.

For Python specifically, PEPs are very helpful too: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/
No? I guess I'm not sure what you're looking at, it's all explicitly called out. First column is level 2 locations, second column is level 2 connections (aka: charging bays). Column 3 is DC locations, column 4 is DC connections per location. Column 5 they conveniently do the math of average connections per location.
At the Bay Area farmers' market I go to, no one has used pennies for at least a decade, and most vendors have stopped dealing with anything smaller than a quarter. Granted, these are Bay Area prices, so it might not quite work in other places.

That made me realize something. El Salvador uses the US dollar, but has a minimum wage of $1.50. There are other countries in this situation, too. It might make sense for the US to stop using the penny, but it's still somewhat important in other countries.
It's "not a threat" in the same way that a mechanic telling you "you could get a $1000 fine the cops notice your tinted windows" isn't.
And if I market a laser cutter, and you decide to use it to cut your steak at dinner, am I to blame if you find it too complicated to operate?
In cases where you don't care about immutability, I'd think of it as a better version of TypedDict (though TypedDict still has its place). It makes my IDE more helpful, makes my code more self-documenting, and allows mypy to tell me when I'm being dumb.
From the server's perspective, the graph of conversation history from group A and group B merge. From the client's perspective... depends on the client I think, but most seem to display the messages from the other side of the split all at once when they're first received.

Clients don't currently make it clear when messages came from the other side of a long netsplit, but the data is there on the server so in principle they could. I think the client API might need some changes before that'd be possible though.
L-Theanine is somewhat sweet and... chalky, perhaps. It's a little savory/funky too. Not altogether an unpleasant flavour. I occasionally take a teaspoon of unpacked L-Theanine powder and stir it into a glass of water. It doesn't mix very readily, but once it does, it's barely noticeable (at least to my palate). I don't notice it when I repeat this process with green or black tea, so I would be surprised if anyone could detect it in coffee.
Yeah I don't think anyone has a solution as to what to do with online publications. It's a rock and a hard place situation. Users don't want to pay/be tracked and want quality content, and publishers either track the fuck out of users, or regretfully paywall stuff and lose a massive chunk of eyeballs. Brave at least is trying with their BAT stuff, but I don't think it's their main focus anymore, especially as they're releasing new products all the time now.
Another reason to temporarily suspend cynicism is that this is a very interesting method of philanthropy. Allowing the recipients to chose their own destinations for the money could lead to a more diverse and disruptive set of expenditures. I am interested to see this award program's effects in 10-20 years.

Is this an annual event? I never saw a definitive answer on that.
yep, but like i said the the UX failure in meet is not technical but literally changing the product name. Who knows. Will it get replaced by duo in 1.5 y?
She was wronged and harmed by his actions. This should prove to be an interesting case.
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Personally, I'm too confused to be even cynical about it. I don't know anything about Van Jones other than what I see on TV, but that by itself cannot explain why Bezos felt he deserved the "award".
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Temple’s own student news site backed Viola’s right to say what she thought: “We don’t believe she should be removed for her alleged comments, although we condemn them.”

And Benton’s actions seemed at odds with Disqus’s own policies, which state that “user information is for moderation purposes only” and adds that “distribution of personal identifiable information is prohibited.”
No, you have to prove that it was stated with intent of spreading false information about the person who was wronged. A reporter who genuinely believed that Viola made those statements can't be judged as committing defamation.
They absolutely have the legal grounds: the CFAA. Unauthorized use of a computer system is a crime.
I've been following tesla for years. There are people complaining of their cable getting stuck on the regular on reddit and other forums, so yes 'frequently'.

I just did a google search, I have yet to find an i3 or etron that was stuck at a charging station overnight and required a tech to get it unlocked, but maybe I'm using the wrong term. Feel free to link to the stories?

Everything I've seen using CCS, "stuck" is because someone forgot to push the trigger twice to unlock both the car and charger side.
FWIW, it hardly matters, as the antecedent--the existence of a competent computer scientist--is unlikely at best.
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That's just half a year of full time use in a standard day job. An editor could additionally be used outside of work for taking notes or working on side projects.

I've probably used VS Code over 5000 hours in my life. (Halfway to becoming an expert!)
I'd argue that someone who talks like that needs to be fired from their position. She was a professor at a State owned college, there are certainly muslim students, professors and staff there. What kind of horrible hostile work environment would you be engendering if you let someone like that stay on staff?
People just like complaining
My mechanic told me that if I kept my windows tinted a cop might notice and I would get a big fine. Does that make my mechanic a mafioso?
Thank you!! Perhaps what we mean by "implementation" is different here. We should probably make it more explicit in the docs.

What I mean by "interface" is "My stack needs infrastructure for 3 containers and 2 webapps and container A needs a Postgres DB and container B needs a queue"

In today's IaC, including Pulumi, you actually need to specify _which particular_ way of running containers, with all the configuration details. Same for database. That's implementation. Swtching languages doesn't make it any simpler.

Practical example:

The exact same stack can be run on one EC2 box via docker-compose, and on a Kubernetes cluster with managed databases. Same interface, different implementations. What Digger accomplishes is allowing to swap implementations at any time as long as the interface stays the same.
I think the idea is a good one. It's too hard to set up simple solutions in AWS and abstracting that away is valuable. But you need the freedom to dive into the details sometimes, so being Terraform based is smart.

But the onboarding flow is brutal IMO. The splash page doesn't help me understand when I should reach for Digger - as a customer with an AWS account, I've obviously had to learn enough to be functional in AWS. I would like it if you described a common use case to help me understand when I should be considering Digger.

Once I actually try it out, it's very sterile and I feel lost in Apps and Environments and the UI is mentioning commits for some reason. The docs focus a lot on what Digger is, but I'm really missing an onboarding guide that orients me with a step-by-step guide of how to set up my first environment.
Yes, a university has good reason to believe their journalism instructor who believes obvious lies from known liars is bad at their job
As a journalism professor, you could argue that she has to be able to identify high and low quality journalism to be effective at her job.

If she thinks that Fox News adequately researched the Seth Rich story and accurately determined that he was murdered by agents of Hilary Clinton, she probably does not know what quality journalism is, and is therefore unable to perform her duties as a journalism instructor.
How can you expect muslims to accept her as their professor when she called them scum and said to deport them? She is no longer an effective educator as all her grades for muslim students would be suspect. I draw the line at able to effectively perform job duties.
But he used his administrative privileges on Disqus to discover her identity. If you criticized Sundar Pichai from an anonymous Gmail account should it be OK for him to look up your IP logs and dox you? I’d hope not.
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I used to run an XMPP server (Prosody). I now run a Matrix server (Synapse - the one everyone uses).

Synapse feels like a bloated monster that I'm afraid to touch in case it goes bang and I can't recover.

Prosody felt like a simple light weight service that I could easily recover no matter how much I broke it.