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Diamond’s are fine unless you need an airplane equivalent to a Cessna T206 or a 421. Diamonds, are really competing with Cirrus or the Cessna 172.

As someone flying a 310 horsepower turbocharged 206, using an unleaded AvGas is a scary proposition. The only way to operate these turbo engines on current unleaded technology fuels would be to significantly reduce the boost pressure of the turbo and massively de-rate the engines. Flying heavy or out of hot or high airports would be significantly more dangerous. On normally aspirated 172s with a 160 or 180 horsepower engine, it would be less of a big deal. On a turbo-high performance engine, getting the performance out of the fuel is something not likely (hence the STC only for 172 lycomings.) Detonation would be the main risk or you’d have to use significantly less power which defeats the purpose. There are already mogas STCs. Until those fuels work in high performance engines, this isn’t really a groundbreaking thing.

And just a point of fact, just because lead is “scary,” the actual environmental impact of leaded AvGas is trivial — despite the flawed “studies” put forth by the anti-airport lobby. If we want to improve the environment, I am all for it, but targeting AvGas is like trying to swat a fly circling a dead elephant. One Chinese factory spits out enough toxins in a day than the entire AvGas fleet does in a year. That’s not to say we shouldn’t work for better and cleaner airplane fuels, but in terms of environmental impact, this isn’t doing much. Resources would probably be better spent on lead and asbestos remediation in old, low income housing — or in the water supply. Kids aren’t getting sick from AvGas exhaust.
Nope, but do avoid eating any British people over the age of 20.
When I leased my 2020 Bolt, I could have walked out the door with it on a 24K loan instead. Given that GM chose to stick with the same basic drivetrain on the latest update, I don't expect that to change for the next few years. Excepting the current weird car market that has been momentarily turned upside down by the pandemic-related supply problems.
Perhaps there should be two different things to vote on: One for "agree/disagree with points made" and one for "constructive contribution to the discussion".
"Avoid jumping off cliffs" does not mean that occasionally it's ok to jump off cliffs.

Is the surgeon general's advice "Pregnant women should avoid alcohol" unclear?
I can see how this could be a risk if it were an assumption they make, but my guess is all PDs would consider human reports far more reliable than ShotSpotter alerts. I'm sure in all or almost all areas, a 911 report of a gunshot is much more likely to be a true positive compared to any automated alert. A lack of a report doesn't imply a lack of an incident, but the presence of a report implies a high likelihood that there is an incident.

A system could be considered generally "sensitive" in some way (e.g. seemingly firing in response to any loud noise) while actually performing poorly in terms of statistical sensitivity (the percentage of actual gunshots that the system detects and alerts on with high confidence).
The last time I took CPR certification the instructor said it shouldn't be taught anymore because it is essentially useless in day-to-day life. The speed at which the brain dies without immediate hospital attention is just too rapid for CPR to be effective outside of a hospital.

EDIT: I'm not lying, I was literally told this by the person performing the certifications. She said only 1 in 20 people survive without severe brain damage. Which is better than death to some people I guess.
> Can't tell who runs the web server on the other end of this, so it may well be self-hosted.

That looks like it's Plausible's "they host it" system.
It’s because discovering something completely new and unheard of that isn’t even hinted at hy any existing theory is extremely rare. Most people with such claims turn out to be wrong, doing bad experiments, fudging data, or worse.

The scientific community is resistent to such things because 90% of the time they are right to be resistant, the hypothesis is conclusively disproven, and we never hear about it again.

Sometimes, rarely, the claim comes through, survives the scrutiny, and scientists quickly change their minds based on new established fact.

Imagine if someone came out with “I have found a way to run 50 compute cycles per CPU instruction!!”. We would justifiably ridicule that person’s idea as implausible or impossible. It would take a lot of evidence to change the whole computer industry’s opinion on what’s possible.
Is there a https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk for numbers of leaded petrol cars still on the road?
that would suggest your app isn't listening on the v6 address

so you are already testing it :)
I suspect the original author would agree with your assessment on effects, but doesn't see either cultural echo chambers or social cooling as de-facto negatives. Lacking a downvote signal (i.e. a "most people who saw this disagreed" signal), a shared echo chamber is replaced with multiple echo chambers of equal apparent strength or value, increasingly divided by who upvotes what with no downvote counter-signal to breed some kind of consensus.

I don't think it's assumable that either the inability to converge in a shared space or the alternative to social cooling (shout louder to be bigger, because there's no way to signal the other ideas should be smaller) are a net positive for the global online community (the latter, of course, does drive those engagement numbers up though...).
There are many older airplanes that were designed for much lower-lead fuel than is available now. 100LL ("Low Lead") still has several TIMES more lead than the 80 octane that would have been optimal in the older low-compression engines in use for many decades.
There have been STCs (Supplemental Type Certificates) to make it legal to run unleaded auto gas in those engines; the problem with them currently is that they require gasoline without any ethanol, which is difficult to find in many places.
Your phone does not support USB 3.0 then (common with e.g. Xiaomi - these ports are USB-C but USB 2.0). The USB-C on my Samsung can do everything the USB-C on my PC does, including a 4K screen in dual display mode.
They used a nebulizer to spray infected brain matter into the air. There was no aerosolized mouse to mouse transfer.
I think they mean American Indians aka native Americans.
Prions aren't airborne. vCJD and mad cow spread by a feedback loop involving slaughtered infected animal brains being fed to the same animal stock. This case was a technician who stabbed herself with a tool heavily coated in brain matter from infected animals. It's not like a virus where just a few particles is enough to bootstrap an infection. At least, it's never been seen.
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Can't get much clearer than text that says "Disconnecting nearby wi-fi networks until tomorrow."
I hope we can get it, or even 94UL (which is 100LL minus the lead) at airports soon. Many of us can run 94UL just fine, but there's nowhere it's available.
I happen to know somebody who was involved in the investigation of highly professional heist. The bank wanted to keep it quiet, and I can't find much other than this one article about the incident. I was gonna call it movie-worthy, but it's not, because there were no salacious details, no close calls, just in&out and no funny business.

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980804&slug...
Fewer people participating is the goal.
At face value:

There won't be increased consumption at 7 AM and at 5 PM on a weekday if less people commute. I just don't see it happening. Additionally the tech industry isn't exactly a groundswell of people either -- if all tech workers stop commuting, that isn't going to have enough of an impact to change traffic conditions except literally in silicon valley. There just aren't that many workers in tech.

But let's examine the flipside... The average commute distance in the U.S. is 16 miles. The average tech company is located in a densely populated metropolitan area, and the average passenger vehicle in the U.S. emits 411 grams of CO2 per mile. Commuting two ways that's 32 miles * 411g = 13.152 kg (~29 lbs) of carbon emissions for your daily commute. The average American household in total has around 39.8 kg/day (~88 lbs) of C02 emissions. Reducing that by 29 on weekdays is a 1/3 reduction in emissions. That's huge. Also consider that the average person in the U.S. drives 36.9 miles per day. For working people cutting this by 32 miles on weekdays is an enormous change.

Consumption isn't going to increase proportionally because everyone is still going to be too busy working. The people who were already "consuming" during the day are going to continue to do so, but that population isn't going to increase. It's fixed. Maybe some will drive more, but it's not going to have the same effect that the people no longer driving 32 miles / weekday no longer having to do so will have.

I'm also ignoring the significant environmental and monetary costs of keeping an office running, and the increased work that needs to be done because of the (being charitable) at least 15% production drain of working in an office.

No one (save school trips) wants to pack into the bronx zoo at 8 AM on a tuesday. At best this would have diminishing returns -- the benefit of the roads being less crowded vanishes once the same number of people start driving for consumption reasons. There's no way it would exceed the original footprint of people commuting, because the motivation wouldn't exist once you approach commute levels of congestion. And this is ignoring the fact that there is an essentially fixed population of people who are able to consume during the workday.
My laymen understanding is that all EV batteries are composed of lots of smaller cells. So a larger Tesla battery is simply more cells, not larger ones. That would put EV's and hybrids on the same level.
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It's incredible how much text there's about it and zarroh video material. So difficult to hire an actor and show us dummies how drowning does look like? There's enough CPR videos, thanks a lot for them, yet about drowning just blah and confusing animations. </angryrant>
There's a couple of other points of note:

- Usage auditing for and reporting for Post-Open software is required alongside the payment. This is a huge reversal. Not having to do onerous license compliance monitoring was a big selling point touted by FOSS advocates for the past two decades, pointing to horror stories about audits demanded by the Business Software Alliance and huge payments for license violations.

- It's called the "Post-Open" license for a reason: Bruce says FOSS has been defeated. He points out that corporations have both found ways to make money off of FOSS without contributing much and even hijacked the governance of FOSS for their own benefit. This is extremely startling to hear from someone so well known in open source.
Those inflatable tubes can't help a lifeguard's view of the pool.
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Apart from the fact that all car makers had drive assist systems for years and this is by no means a Tesla invention, if safety measures really are the main factor for people to choosing a car, we should be seeing Volvos almost exclusively.

But your comment which asserts that only Tesla does proper drive assist says everything. Somehow Tesla managed to convince everyone that they are the only innovators and everyone else is just old. While I appreciate Teslas contribution of pushing EVs to the mainstream, I do not believe that they are the most technologically advanced of the car manufacturers.
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I would like to see justified downvoting implemented instead. For example users should be able to counter-argument (as in a different reply mode) a post/comment, in that case If the counter-argument gets more upvotes than the parent post/comment then the parent comment should start greying out like it does here. Of course this doesn't even try to fix sybil attacks but I still would prefer it.
I think any license that requires a percentage of revenue is DOA.

First because involving all the chicanery of accounting to figure out my fee is asking for lots of resources just to calculate and audit fees.

Second, unpredictable costs are bad. If my company’s revenue doubles in a year, that doesn’t mean that my department’s budget doubles. Or that I even have enough earnings to cover licenses.

Finally, this is hard enough with a single product. My org uses thousands of products. If they all charge 1%, where does that leave me.

PS- morally this just seems dumb. If my grocery store charged me more or less depending on my income or the value I derive from a tomato, I won’t shop there. Just publish a price and let people decide to buy or not.
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I'm not sure I share your enthusiasm for LC/NC as being the wave of the future. That being said, I have only spent a few afternoons with any of them.

I do agree 100% with your assessment that is incredibly painful to migrate your systems from one of these onto a mature, open-source web development ecosystem. I've witnessed the tail end of one of these Herculean efforts and it wasn't pretty.

The existing LC/NC platforms claim that their sweet spot is prototyping or MVP-style products. Even if one shaves a few months of development time off with this (and even that is not clearly the case), the extra work of building the new system, migrating all the data, hosting, etc, doesn't pass the smell test for me.

Open source web dev has gotten infinitely better for basic CRUD style apps. Hire a few devs with a couple years of experience, maybe even a few out of college, with one experienced engineering manager, and I can guarantee you will get a better proof of concept with React/Node, or any of the other widely adopted open source web dev platforms currently on offer.
Yeah people go based on their guts drawing conclusions with this stuff, but the Volt has a 1.5L engine.

Imagine a 2L coke bottle. It's contents would overflow if you could pour it into the engine.

The Voltec system wasn't anywhere near larger than an equivalently practical BEV drivetrain.

Just like BEVs are coming out without frunks, the Volt simply didn't prioritize interior space at the time.

It was still a plenty practical vehicle, and if it had sold well it was going to get the CUV treatment
How do I build a calculator in Wordpress or Wix?

You're conflating website builders with web app builders.
Oh I was following https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35904387?pli=1 for many years and I guess I unsubscribed or something because my last memory was that they were not doing it and now GA!!! yay
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Here’s the McKinsey report that this article is about: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...
The only services I've seen competitors provide via LLU are ADSL, back when ADSL was still a viable competitor to cable.

But I've never seen any competitors offer service over a cable, VDSL, or other fiber network, and those are the only kinds of wired Internet service that are really viable anymore.
That small forum feel was what I appreciated. I thought they all disappeared by now, so it surprised me that the this post was added recently.
Toyota, Hyundai and Honda have all bet on H2. That's just as green, and electric as a Tesla.

The tech works, refuels 10x faster than any battery based car, but so far no adoption outside of europe and asian countries.

That's a phenomenal achievement. They chose wrong maybe, but they chose, and chose a path they though most viable.

To claim they aren't in the game is beyond unfair.
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The Enterprise is also put through hell when the developers care more about cool technology than building good tools that empowers the company itself to succeed.

I see it all the time devs off-roading a relatively simple project to try out the latest tech. It always ends up taking much longer and leaves behind a mountain of technical debt.

That's ok though they'll leave in 6 months to go wreck havoc on another company's code base.
Microservices have some organizational advantages that libraries don't: they are much harder to hack around the boundaries of, forcing a better adherence to the agreed architecture.

Also, microservices are much better at isolating faults than any traditional langauge is, even for pretty systemic faults such as memory leaks - if each service is running in some container, storing most state in a DB instead of memory, users may not even notice when it crashes with an OOM, something no runtime I know could realistically handle (unless you do gargantuan work to manage memory explicitly for this goal).

> It’s probably something pushed by cloud providers to increase lock in and use more resources, since adding self hosting capability to a microservice based system that is dependent on Kubernetes is going to be that much harder.

The whole point of Kubernetes is the ease of switching between clouds or cloud and self hosting. As long as your application only depends on Kubernetes abstractions, the cost of moving from EKS to AKS or to Kubernetes on bare metal is going to be relatively small - probably smaller than most deployment options that can handle a similar scale and reliability.
There are still huge numbers of car owners who do not have off-site parking to charge EVs. Unless EV public charging is able to 'refuel' completely in a couple of minutes, going 100% electric is just not feasible.

There is no way most governments will be able to provide suitable infrastructure in the near future.
This is somewhat pessimistic..

If the case is high profile enough, they will _always_ find someone to find guilty.
This is true in theory, but in practice I think hybrids are the worst of both worlds. I've had two Toyota Priuses and a Honda Civic Hybrid all of which we drove to around 150,000 miles each. One of our Priuses and the Civic Hybrid needed their hybrid batteries replaced during their lifetime. Not only was this a significant cost but I've got to believe that it negates a lot of the environmental benefits of the vehicle. It's not an uncommon problem either, there are plenty of 3rd parties selling refurbished hybrid battery packs, it's a common enough problem that a whole industry has built up around it. In addition both of our Priuses started burning oil at some point over 100,000 miles. This is a notorious problem with the Prius and there are lots of discussions about the problem in online forums. It certainly ruins any illusion I had about clean emissions from the cars over the course of it's life. I never fail to notice the little puff of grey smoke when behind Priuses at stop lights when the engine starts up again, so much for being the clean air poster child.

We have a Tesla Model 3 now with about 50,000 miles on it, we've only seen about a 2-3% decrease in range so far, if even that. The only maintenance so far has been refilling the washer fluid and we've replaced the tires once. I see no reason why it won't easily go to 150,000+ miles. The difference with the hybrids we have had is night and day, it's not even close. Toyota does not have a winning hand to play here and they know it. They bet on the wrong tech and they are tied down by a dealer network that is dependent on maintenance costs to support them.
A criminal spectacle, that’s the difference. Odd that betting was allowed on the outcome of a crime.
Agreed! I love bash and use it all the time, but if some solution gets to the point of needing actual data structures, that's when you know it's time to move to a real programming language.
>> Even if the house disappeared he would still own the land.

Not always. So-called Ground Leases are common in many parts. The tenant owns the house but the landlord owns the land and collects rent from the building owner. I'm not clear of exactly what type of ownership rights this person had over the house let alone the underlying property.
> If societies answer to climate change is "Don't punish/impact poor people who negatively effect the environment" Then we might as well just pack our bags for Mars now.

Dealing with climate change will include costs and sacrifices that affect individuals and societies. Politicians unwilling to deal with these costs, for ideological and / or electability reasons, will not in my opinion be likely to advocate for the measures necessary to address climate change.

(Also, I'm assuming that when the billionaires go to Mars they won't make the mistake that is common in Stephen Baxter's Scifi novels, where the colonisers always seem to include a subpopulation of disaffected criminals / lowlifes / etc who inevitably mutiny.)
Just for clarity - my last line there was me being facetious!

I was under the impression that even boiling or bleaching did little to kill prions? I seem to recall that even autoclaving surgey equipment did nothing to them, so they had to be thrown?

Otherwise, yes - there're lands of opportunity in the science of protein un/folding.. but as much, there's scope for naughtiness too.

Seems to me like this level of tech - or, at least - that which may be available in this domain over the next 50 years, could be one of those existential Great Selector/Filter events that biological civilisations might face over their evolution.
Now if only my ISP would support IPv6 properly and hand me a block of static addresses I could use ... until then I guess I'm using IPv4.
The Nissan e-power series is better - the gas engine only powers the electric motor which gives you a full-EV experience when driving.

Hybrids need to start distancing themselves from the Prius and promote the insane 0-60 times that EVs are capable of now.
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I'm a very amateur swimmer and I try to understand why people drown from cramp in one leg? Because me being a novice, I learned how to swim without using the legs too much (mainly because it takes skill to coordinate everything well) and one of the very first things was me floating by turning my head hard backwards while standing vertically in the water and sinking in water up to the nose, basically sticking as little of my face above water as possible and IIRC I was floating fine with very little help from hands and no use of the feet at all. That seemed easy, especially in dense cold water..
Man I remember this project. I was super interested in it but the maintainers are really full of themselves and incredibly rude - some of the more unusual and unpleasant interactions I've had on GitHub in ~10 years.
It's extremely practical, they just need a refueling network.
> it scares me that such malicious and petty people might have power

How do we get from "I am being downvoted" to "malicious and petty people"? That looks like an issue. You said you have no problem being wrong, twice, but immediately assume anyone who downvotes your comment is malicious, when it could be a signal that your comment is just not hitting the right notes.
What's unclear is how is the revenue percentage split across all of the various contributors of a particular "post open" package. Suppose there are 10 "Post Open" packages; do all of the packages deserve to get an equal share of the 1% rev share? Maybe some "post open" packages are more technically complex than others? Maybe some "post open" packages are more key to the value-add than others.

Even if there is only a single "post open" package which gets the full 1% of the rev share, what about one developer which contributes a whitespace or spelling fix, versus another developer which contributes a key part of the package? What if one developer contributes a huge number of lines of code, but it's for a feature which isn't actually used at all by a particular billion dollar use case of said "post open" package?

The devil is really in the details.....