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3 acres, I'm assuming, is the issue. That's not really that big. It's actually really quite small.

The only open pit mine I'm familiar with is measured in the literal thousands of acres. Hell, the local gravel pit that supplies the VERY rural area I live in is over 70 acres.
(M)y SO is a female QA engineer. I dont know why but there is a lot of girl there. On the SWE side we really need to alter the industry to improve diversity.
Over my long film watching life I've learned that there can actually be a lot of value in watching very well made movies in genre's I don't like. I learn more about cinema, the different ways it's made and what works and what doesn't. It's the same with music, very well made and especially innovative music in any genre can be interesting to listen to. In fact sometimes the fact the genre doesn't appeal to me I think allows that to fall away, to an extent, so I can see the practice of the craft more clearly.

This might be true of books too, but the time investment in reading books in genres that don't appeal to me is too much.

My wife didn't like the Dune movie, but my teenage daughters loved it. None of them have read the book, or had any explanation of it before walking into the theatre. Honestly I think it's just that people have different tastes. Any change to make the film more digestible to people likely to bounce off it would also probably weaken it for those predisposed to enjoy it.

Dune is an exceptionally skilled and personal implementation of very particular creative vision. That is true of both the book and this film. The result is not for everyone for sure, not all art is, but the film and the book are both incredible works of art.
This is some quality conspiracy stuff. TIL that genetic manipulation using terahertz range EM waves is not only possible at long range and through solid objects (unlike anything normal physics would predict), but it is so commonplace that literally everyone in the world is already affected by it.
My experience in Italy is evenly split between these two cases:

1. Scan the code with the app every time.

2. Ask if I have the pass, maybe look at it once, hopefully remember me the next times.

There is also a small percentage of cases of no questions asked, ever.

By the way, I'm using a printed copy of the pass. It never runs out of battery, I don't mind if it falls on the floor when I'm using it, it works even if I'm using the phone for something else. Cons: it needs to be replaced if its key gets revoked.
Can't find it now, but you are probably right for newer and well maintained ICE engines. I'm guessing that the 1.5X-3X range I saw includes old and badly maintained engines. They could also have been measuring overall fuel to wheel efficiency and including a ~15% loss in the transmission and drive train and maybe also including average time spent idling (which doesn't apply to EVs).

Keep in mind that there are a lot of shitty cars on the road. A power plant's engine is going to usually be well tuned and maintained because small increases in efficiency can be worth a ton of money when you are generating tens of gigawatt hours per day of power. How often does a typical driver of a middle-aged car take it in to be tuned with the objective of maximizing energy efficiency?

I bet the average gap across all cars on the road and including transmission loss is at least 2X.

Also it's tough to argue against the second point. Look into how much power is used in the oil to gasoline supply chain, especially if the oil is coming from heavy oil that requires an additional cracking ("upgrading") step or fracked wells that require a lot of energy to drill and hydraulically fracture. I recall reading an analysis years ago arguing that the Canadian tar sands are almost an indirect natural gas to oil conversion operation rather than a net producer of energy. A huge amount of gas is burned to get that stuff out of the ground and into a form that refineries can handle. You could instead just burn that gas in a combined cycle power plant and run EVs with it and emit a lot less carbon.

Thing is when you are buying any oil product you are really not buying energy. It's ridiculously expensive compared to energy from any other source. You are buying conveniently stored energy and paying a huge markup for it.
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Rome might join the list, but it's too early to tell
If I'm feeling really silly

That not silly-- Many forms of Federal compliance reporting guidelines require collection of the data to allow multiple selections so a person can say "both" (or more). Black & White are legitimate combinations that I see often. Though depending on how far back you go, this methodology wasn't always the case. And if it isn't for federal purposes, it doesn't apply, though many organizations may still use the federal format.
Current Indian resident here. This is the NDA government’s default response to any and all questioning - that the questioner is out to malign india.

The ploy is obvious and transparent but seems to be working. I just wish we had a viable opposition party/alliance whom we could send to office.
Just my own taste, but after Sicario and Blade Runner, Villeneuve has become one of my favorite directors. I'm looking forward to Dune.
Why is everyone so keen on lithium when, to me, it's almost a footnote in battery components by weight? Cobalt and nickel are the heaviest. Cobalt is the priciest constituent...
Grumpy is unmaintained.There is similar work (py2many) that transpiles python3 to 8 different languages.

The approach focuses on functional programming, does away with extensions completely.

For that approach to be successful, a pure python implementation of stdlib in the transpileable subset of python 3 would be super helpful.
I'm also confused by "larger area less capacitance" statement. Can someone please elaborate on this ? Why larger area around the gate is needed and how it lowers the parasitic capacitance which is main obstacle on the way to higher frequencies ? This looks counterintuitive.
So many of the designs are timeless classics, but the older pictures make them look dated. It's the look-and-feel of the room, decor, colour balance, lightning, picture quality that make the pieces in the pictures look dated, as if they "belong in the past".

If you place these exact pieces in an otherwise modernly decorated room (colour balance of walls/ceilings/lightning), and photograph with modern style - they instead look classy and timeless.

It's rare that people can isolate which sensory impressions make them react in a certain way emotionally. Here it's clearly not the designs, but the styling/lightning/photos.
> something women and LGTB+ collectives more or less managed

Those are often surprisingly white from my experience, but not relevant as someone Russia is culturally pretty different from someone from Portugal. Not by skin color though.

Europe does employ positive discrimination but I don't think it is in any way constructive.
each mastodon instance has different moderation policies. you can setup you own instance and experiment.

you are free not change your mind about social media but please stop throwing around inaccuracies
> An essential fact of the Dune universe — but one that goes unmentioned in the movie — is that there are no computers. Around 10,000 years before the events of Dune, a mass galactic revolt — the Butlerian Jihad — against “thinking machines” ended in a new commandment, adopted by the universe’s many religious sects: “Man may not be replaced.”

That part is very interesting, I wonder why it wasn't ever mentioned. It explains SO MANY things.
Thanks for that summary; I didn't know there was a Foundation TV show, and at the moment I don't care either.

It reminds me of an attempt to make a Brave New World TV show, which based on the trailer has... little to do with the original book. The book itself wasn't even a good book in terms of storytelling IMO, it was more about worldbuilding and a bleak look at a "utopian" future.
If everyone had locked down hard in those fateful months of last year, like China did, we wouldn't be here. But we didn't, and so we are here.
I'd add that when you're in your 30s or 40s, you're simply too late. The good men are already taken.

There may still be plenty of men in the same age group, single and good earners, but almost by definition they won't meet the highest of standards. Because if they did, they wouldn't be single.
I agree. It does the same with for instance "ballsy", which it defines as "stunning and stylish", as in "the ballsy pink dress".
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It seems you believe the Facebook spin. Congratulations! You're on of two people believing anything Clegg has said in the last decade or so, and the other one is Zuckerberg.

FWIW, the problem with this idea, except from being an ad hominem of sorts in that it attacks the message via the messenger, is that the individual journalist doesn't actually hold the opinions that we ascribe to "the media".

Some young writer at the New York Times isn't upset because Facebook robbed them of the position of power they once had and cut their income by 70% because they never had that power. And since they are the Times, they aren't exactly unhappy with their career, either.

Every time there is an article about the privacy implications of ad tracking, something things it's a great indictment to point out how many trackers the article page loads. Yet that only proofs how independent journalists are. In that industry, getting some ad customer to boycott your publisher is almost as good as a Pulitzer, and if it means nobody gets a raise... well, at least you got the story.
My understanding (based on second-hand knowledge) is that employees have two "choices" available to them:

* Have a "fairly flexible arrangement" to work on side projects when they want & potentially using Google hardware on work time but in exchange Google holds the copyright & it has to be published under the Google repo with the quoted disclaimer.

* Deal with a bunch more paperwork on per-project basis.

If people don't have a particularly strong attachment to their side-projects the first option is the "low hassle" option for flexibility to do side projects at work.

I would agree it is unfortunate developers don't push back harder against such a wanton "IP" grab by their employer--but hey, I guess that's what we get without collective representation or respecting our own value as developers.
Are you referring to those electric skateboards with handlebars or something more like a Vespa?
The New Yorker has amazing writing. My wife subscribed to the physical magazine and it is so good.

I find I can't read it on the web properly though: my brain will be in scan mode and want to skip ahead and get to the point.

But where I sit with a coffee and the magazine it's a whole different experience. Non-fiction works that aren't stretched out to fill a whole book, but instead 10-20 k words.

They are the novellas of non-fiction publishing.
That definition doesn't even make sense.
Sometimes missionaries (among others) when they go abroad give their locally born kids local names, sometimes they take on local surnames (if the move is permanent) though that’s much less common. Of course there can be marriages too that can mix things up too.
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I am using Brave browser, but typically for all chromium-based browser it appears that there is no option to disable meta refresh tags.

Are there any workarounds?
"From the outside (Europe) you have to ask yourself why the US even recognizes such a thing as race."

From the inside, too. But even our Supreme Court refused to do the right and Constitutional thing when it came to race admissions criteria, the cowards.
There is no pretty way to fix that, anything signed by a revoked key automatically becomes invalid.
I just finish looking into their projects. They are very promising. I don't why they don't try to engage with OOS community. They can get their models used in a manner that can help many people and will open many ways to use their work.
If computations are not instantaneous then how else would it work? I thought his thesis was rather the same as this blog post- that programs should be composable mathematical expressions rather than bit-twiddling word-shoveling statements- but it's been forever since I read that and I probably didn't appreciate it at the time.
> I can see the frustration coming from Lisp, but it's just business as usual in compiled, strongly typed system languages.

Not really. SML and OCaml let you evaluate selected code snippets in REPL just fine, and their compilation is fast. I'm not sure about Haskell, but I'd guess it's similar with ghci.

"Strongly-typed" is in the eye of the beholder, but the phrase "compiled, strongly-typed programming languages" generally doesn't bring to my mind C++ and Java of which this statement would be more accurate.
As I said in my other reply, I think the difference is really ERoEI. And that's very likely an important difference. Because you wouldn't get an economical system if you're not able to get a competitive ERoEI from the whole system (including storage). I suspect to take oil's status you'd therefore have to have something that allows you to also cheaply get the energy, not only store it.

Lithium as an input to storage is really just a small part of the whole picture. Like a barrel is for oil.
I'm not even convinced that there will be a "marginal increase in mining required for battery production," nor that there will be an associated increase in localized environmental damage.

Lithium mines produce localized environmental damage, _but so does fossil fuel extraction_. Think about environmental damage from mountaintop removal coal mining, fracking, offshore oil spills, etc.

With fossil fuels, you get localized environmental damage, _plus_ climate change.

With lithium, you get localized environmental damage, but you hopefully support a transition to renewables.
They started doing that some five years ago, because of tourism pressure, when Porto started getting more visitors and Lello got listed as an attraction.

Otherwise they would be mobbed by people just wanting to take a picture, and could not run a business. Not that bookstores aren't an endangered species in general ...
I love these medieval analogies. They really put things in perspective, morally. Just in the opposite of the way they are intended.
Arrival hooked me on as well
Can you elaborate on how mobile and cloud destroyed your family and friends?
I never see Mozilla's Kinto mentioned.
Indeed, IKEA stuff is really well built, solid, and lasts for years. I’ve had so many bad pieces of furniture from other manufacturers, IKEA just lasts, year after year, move after move

The “IKEA is crap” thing seems to be an American trope.
It’s not protective circuitry, the current limit just comes from the fact that you don't have an infinitely large output MOSFET driving the IO. Usually the driving capability will be spec'd as minimum Iol @ a given Vol, and minimum Ioh at a given Voh (output low current, output low voltage, etc). Typically Iol/Ioh will be in the 1 mA to 5 mA range, sometimes selectable with different drive strengths.

Some things to watch out for:

Typically the spec'd Vol/Voh would be pretty close to VSS/VDD, for example 0.3 V above/below. If you were really driving the LED hard, you could get a lot more current if you drive the IO harder than that, though the increase isn't linear and eventually you will put the IO MOSFET into saturation, and the current will top out.

Also, most specs I've dealt with have just a minimum drive current, so you don't know what the upper end of that could be. Rough rule of thumb: if the minimum is X, the typical might be 2x, and the max might be 4x. This is probably the biggest drawback of this idea, since there is such a huge range to what you'll get. (And note that this affects you even if you DO use an external current limiting resistor. To overcome this you need to actually regulate the current flowing through the LED via a feedback loop.)

Also, there may be a total current limit for the micro that is less than the sum of the individual IO drive capabilities, since the micro can only dissipate so much heat internally, or the power rails can only handle so much combined DC current. So you might only be able to drive 10% of the micro's GPIO pins at maximum current.

These are all things to watch out for. For a robust/production design, you should probably use another solution, but for tinkering it will probably be fine.
> niche brands are not a thing of this century alone

Sure, but targeting ads enabled a massive increase in volume of niche brands.

In particular, brands whose target customer is fairly specific (so totally untargeted ads, like TV commercials, magazine ads, etc, wouldn't have positive ROI) and whose product isn't already known to the customer (if it were known, then content marketing/SEO could work).

> Couldn't you advertise or sponsor user groups, forums, clubs, etc

Yes, just like before. However targeting ads dramatically expanded the audience and effectiveness of marketing spend. Finding the right clubs/groups and figuring out how to advertise to what are probably unique groups is hard. Flipping a switch on a FB campaign is easy. And not everyone is in a club, but just about everyone has a FB account.

> Also don't forget..

I'm not saying anything about who is leading or whether it is good or bad, just that the iOS14 change was like taking a sledgehammer to many businesses like mine.

Prior to the change we had tried a handful of sales channels and only found positive ROI in FB ads. And those FB ads experienced a step change w/ the iOS14 release. Judging from the D2C/PPC communities I'm a part of, my experience was not unique.

Like it or not, FB targeting enabled a certain category of businesses to exist, and now that category is reduced. As I said in another comment, this isn't a judgement about whether we as a society are better or worse off, just that this is the cost of that decision.
I dont think so. the vast majority of people in my country and most european countries use facebook etc in their local language with their local friends. It's no different really with windows: They are also everywhere but russia doesnt have its own competitor.
A Tall Tail (2012)
Loved this line: "Being a Bene Gesserit is like being what people on Instagram who tell you to drink your own urine think they are."
Stripe is also working on crypto, with no mention of disallowing proof of work types
Australia did just that... and then someone caughed across the border, and they did it again.. and again.. and again. And australia is an island, compared to europe, where people literally live, work and shop in different countries.
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There's also Apache Flink.
most FB users really don't care

Most FB users don't matter.

The people who do matter are the advertisers, and by most accounts a lot of them are very unhappy (for a range of reasons, and mostly not about whatever the latest "PR crisis" is.)
Okay but have you wondered about what will happen if Blackrock buys more Bitcoin than you do?
This is probably because of the benefits of collaborative writing.

No procrastination possible when you have that level of engagement.

GRRM is alone and bored.
A single DIMM? What is a module in this context? A channel bank of DIMM's?
> How do people develop in Rust? I'm trying to learn it, but it's hard to jump into code-bases and understand the code as I cannot run snippets.

I might be able to help answer this! I've spent over 10 years of my career writing production code in Lisp or Scheme, and about 5 years now writing occasional production code in Rust. So maybe I can explain how the two workflows differ.

In Lisp, it's super-easy to redefine a function or test some code. You can constantly test small things as you work. And you can easily open a listener on errors and inspect the current state. It's genuinely great.

In Rust, you rely much more heavily on types and tests. You begin by nailing down a nice, clean set of data structures that represent your problem. This often involves heavy use of "enum" to represent various possible cases.

Once you know what your data structures look like, you start writing code. If you're using "rust-analyzer", you'll see errors marked as you type (and things will autocomplete). If you want to verify that something works, you create a function marked "#[test]", and fill it with exactly the same code you'd type into a listener. Maybe you run "cargo watch -x test" in the background to re-run unit tests on save.

Then, maybe 2 hours later, you'll actually run your program. Between rust-analyzer and the unit tests, everything will probably work on the first or second try. If not, you write more "#[test]" functions to narrow down the problem. If that still fails, you can start throwing in "trace!", or fire up a C debugger.

This workflow is really common in functional languages. GHC Haskell has a lovely listener, for example, but I rarely use it to actually run code. Mostly I use it to look up types. The difference is that in strongly-typed languages, especially functional ones, types get you very close to finished code. And some unit tests or QuickCheck declarations take you almost the rest of the way. You don't need to run much code, because the default assumption is that once code compiles, it generally works. And tests are basically just a written record of what you'd type in a listener.

For understanding code, the trick is to look at the data structures and the type signatures on the functions. That will tell you most of what you want to know in Rust, and even more in Haskell.

So that's why I don't particularly miss a listener when working in Rust. Does this answer your question?
Not OP but he’s correct if talking about how much energy actually moves the car —- IC engines are indeed ~40% efficient but if you’re measuring the energy that actually moves the car it’s more like 23%-25% due to all the parasitic and drivetrain losses. So it’s completely plausible for a power plant to be 3x that.

Of course some of those losses would also apply to EVs but still, “wasting” 3/4 the energy of a highly refined, carbon intensive product is a pretty low bar.

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The soundtrack isn't all orchestral - there's a good amount of diversity in its instruments that are used to serve the story well. I really enjoyed it, apart from the standard-issue Zimmer BWAH accompanying every story beat.