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If something is patented it means you have to disclose how to do it.

I dont see why you couldn't patent a fusion reactor. You can patent the underlying science, but the physical realization is patentable. If you manage to pull it off, you are probably super rich. However the risk of failing is much higher, and the time horizons are much longer than a silicon valley startup.
The app is a very big deal. That never existed before. Real convenience for the shop keeper. At my corner Kirana (easily serving 500+ ppl), there is a non stop stream of sales guys and delivery vans and the shop keeper has two guys full time just to deal with it. They run around with reams of paper the whole day. Now it's all in the app which is a good thing. Buying stuff from 20 different distributors is just asking to be optimized.

I am sure the data they are collecting is also going to produce lot of value.
Tyres for any vehicle are usually rated for speed. There are probably many more informed people here, but I assume the material and the patterns are designed on a scale according to assumed speed.
What about all the physics and engineering knowledge that required empirical and practical experiments to test hypothesis? The technology itself might not be from ITER but the development of the knowledge for it will definitely have been impacted by ITER.

Don't really understand your point.
True. But if you could get 90% of non-work stuff a cycle ride away (groceries, childcare, post office etc) that’s already a big one.

London, another massive sprawl, opened what’s called “cycling superhighways”. These are on disused railway tracks, covered with high quality tarmac. Wide, straight, lit, off-road, bike-only trails taking you around the city (into the centre in particular).

I wouldn’t call London cycle-friendly but these really make long commutes feasible. A friend of mine, no exercise freak, happily cycles 40 mins each way on one of those.
I had been wondering why/how so many startups had suddenly "figured out" the transcript-first editing interface, and it seems that Gentle was the answer.

Such a transformational piece of invention that has enabled a whole wave of powerful and valuable products (e.g., descript.com for video/audio editing, buildbetter.app and grain.co for custdev/PM interviews, callin.com for podcasts, etc.).

Amazing and impactful work here, and it's striking how non-commercially the creator approached it all. Thanks for sharing.
Recently, they reprogrammed every Kindle Paperwhite so the UI is almost completely different. Ever since I first saw one in a shop, Kindle Paperwhites have always looked and functioned a certain way… and now it's different. Instead of the “book” that I have muscle memory for, it's now interacting with a computer interface again. If I wanted that, I'd read on my laptop.

Looking “clunky” and “old”, more like a dictionary-bookmark than an iPhone, was a feature, to me. It doesn't need to be slick and rounded with a main menu. You certainly don't have to move everything around so that there's a × button in the top-right corner of things that aren't modal popups; that just breaks the pre-existing “top-left corner to go back” idiom (which still exists for the “library” and reader mode).

And whose idea was it to make it so the “change brightness” menu also drew a cross-hatched pattern over your actual book? That makes it so you have to repeatedly enter and exit that menu (which now takes up nearly half the screen, for smaller buttons than before), unless you've memorised the brightness level numbers. You also can't judge at a glance where to touch for the correct brightness level if you do know it, because they replaced the custom 15-little-boxes interface with a generic slider widget that only uses the middle of the range – making it behave differently to every other identical-in-appearance slider in the OS. So what's the point of making it look the same?

The one improvement is that they removed a banner ad (presumably because they wanted the space for extra UI padding). I don't think that's worth it – but I have no choice, because I don't control my own device.

(They also removed the “experimental” from the “experimental web browser”, which might be an improvement, even though it seems the same; there's less UI space thanks to the pad-pocalypse, and it still can't do Cloudflare DDOS-walls properly. Not that I blame Amazon for the latter problem; my browser can't, either.)
Fusion energy is a very high risk and very long term investment. Meanwhile plenty of billions are being spent by governments and academic institutions (ok, arguably the same thing) around the world on fusion research.

In almost every thread here on fusion someone eventually says something along the lines of "what we need for fusion is a Manhattan project", but ITER by itself is costing more than that in inflation adjusted terms. Fusion has soaked up massive investment and continues to do so.
SME = subject matter expert?

Please spell out your abbreviations for those of us who are not familiar :)
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I am also surprised, it is true that I live in a city very conducive to motorcycles for the climate (Barcelona) but here it is practically impossible to see electric city bikes (electric MTB for enduro or all mountain enthusiasts there are many) because basically you can have a 125/150cc korean or japanese scooter for almost half the price. It has all the advantages and more than a ebike and practically none of the disadvantages.
Advice? I have an unusually fulfilling jigsaw life developing.

1. I am remodeling a huge home for community events and music education, mansion style (not an actual mansion, but that kind of fun feel).

2. Upstairs I have a study and library for my startup where I am CEO and am working with two collegues and local educators.

3. My girlfriend and I realized it made no sense to live in a separate home when there was room for us upstairs too.

So community center, startup and home all coming together in a beautiful building and surrounding gardens, with aesthetic and structural boundaries making divisions between these shared and separate spaces practical.

Assistance I have:

I have a fantastic community/event manager in place.

I have a fantastic contractor who repurposes, upgrades, and expands rooms for better uses or greater adaptability as multi-use spaces.

But I don't have (and have never had) a home assistant or an executive assistant and definitely need both ASAP.

Any advice? Get two people to keep the personal and business separate? Or one person who's work is organized around whatever I need?

Whoever it is, whether one or two people, they are going to be constantly crossing boundaries of community, home and business since they all physically, socially and temporally connected.

If any thoughts strike anyone, now would be a good time for me to be considering them!
I think that the main problem with this logic is that Bittorrent is a tech designed to illegally distribute a consumer good, ie a movie. Once the movie has made it's final stop, your eyeballs, that's it. It's been consumed.

Cryptocurrency only has value if you can sell it on to someone else, and it's value is entirely dependent on what value you think you will be able to sell it for.

Once the number starts to go down as fiat on/off ramps start to get squeezed, it will be come much much less attractive to everyone, including, and maybe especially, to criminals. It only have value to them currently because they can store value in it and exchange it for fiat with non-criminals. If it becomes criminalized everywhere, and their only option is exchanging it with other criminals......well. It's not the same as Bittorrent is it?
> If you want to 'protect' FOSS projects you care about, take some time to find out what help is useful to the maintainers and contribute towards items that make sense to you. Joining OSI won't help those struggling projects you gain from using.

Indeed, it is an incredibly rewarding experience. Take one thing you use and like, go to it's issue backlog and start fixing/improving things - if there is nothing take the next thing, there are likely 10s of thins you rely on every day that need contributors and contributions. The first issue will be hard, the next one easier, you will be a happier person for doing it, you will make a bigger impact than starting another project you won't finish and that nobody will use, and you will become a better engineer.

Another option is to fund actual open source projects, like go sponsor python: https://github.com/sponsors/python
Talking in general, It's just that people value walkability and just a couple of loss leaders in a distant supermarket may not be sufficient incentive to get there by larger vehicles. Two-wheelers don't make sense here. You really need to weigh up the travel and opportinuty costs.

Super markets might work in dense urbanized areas, but not everywhere. Certainly not when you consider the cost in absolute terms against the income levels.

Maybe you'd call it a debt-trap or even stockholm syndrome but these folks will sell to you on credit and even deliver to you. This is the hub-and-spoke that actually works.

These are not your faceless cashiers pointing you at a shelf. The logistics is also a real value-add and people actually take this into account, it is not something they do out of ignorance.
Laptop availability was uneven for large parts of the world at different times last year. Many schools who never had Chromebooks, iPads, or laptops were suddenly issuing one per student. Lots of companies needed equipment for workers who may have previously had only desktops or who shared stations. Other people were buying additional equipment for home as well, in part because we’d be spending more time there.
You're the second person I've heard say this lately. To me, using Calendly feels like demurring to the reality that you have times that work for you, these are the times that work for me, my respect for you is so strong: pick any one of them, and I'll be there. If anything, the posturing seems submissive.
I'm overall very happy with my ePowerFun ePF-1. Though it's pretty specific to Germany. It has the significant advantage of being foldable, so I can take it on the train. On the other hand, battery could be better. (I missed the release of the Pro by a few months...)

Note that with any eScooter, the range will collapse in winter. It's barely below 0 here and range is about halved from summer.
The logic of externalities can be used to justify taxes (and subsidies), but not bans or mandates.
I think that the main problem with this logic is that Bittorrent is a tech designed to illegally distribute a consumer good, ie a movie. Once the movie has made it's final stop, your eyeballs, that's it. It's been consumed.
Cryptocurrency only has value if you can sell it on to someone else, and it's value is entirely dependent on what value you think you will be able to sell it for.

Once the number starts to go down as fiat on/off ramps start to get squeezed, it will be come much much less attractive to everyone, including, and maybe especially, to criminals. It only have value to them currently because they can store value in it and exchange it for fiat with non-criminals. If it becomes criminalized everywhere, and their only option is exchanging it with other criminals......well. It's not the same as Bittorrent is it?
It's fascinating to hear your experience. Could you point in the direction ofmore info about unschooling? Is it related to Ivan Illich's deschooling theory? A Steiner system?
I merely bring attention back to the real issue: surveillance. Some times you need to deliver the truth to the 'boiling frog'. I would not call it rudeness though especially in comparison to what 'boiling frog' does to photographers.

I was literally threatened by a man with the dog ready to attack for making test video shots of different color modes in the center of the city in the public space. I was directing my camera to the ... well to the bush. Intentionally away from the people walking on the paved road. Intentionally not directing my camera to any property. Just a public bush growing in the public bush. Did it help? No! There was literally no one alive in the shots except that very bush itself.
No people around by the way. Just this one 'normal' man coming from behind or in your terminology 'boiled frog' that was ready to question me in the middle of the public street and was threatening me with his dog if I do not comply with his requests. So talk to me about rudeness.

You may think it is one rare example? It is not. If you do street photography for some time you'll see many 'interesting' aggressive things directed toward you even by people who you intentionally avoided to put into the frame. At this stage if you prefer to name my small 'call for sanity' a rudeness I could not accept it, sorry.

>You're acting like it's insane that the boiled frog is complaining about the water temperature.

It is insane if 'boiled frog' is complaining about photography which has nothing to do with the real issue while 'boiled frog' should really complain about 'the water temperature' and many other things.

>Meanwhile facebook just released sunglasses that can surreptitiously record everyone everywhere.

Exactly my point. Direct complains where they belong and leave photographers alone. Let them do their hard job and keep society respectful toward freedom of artists. Without it society doomed to failure.
It sounds like a bike is not for you, but for those who use a bike, they do have solutions to your problems:

Weather: Cold is easy enough, unless there's deep snow. You buy warm clothing and take it on before riding and off afterwards. Those clothes are also perfect for taking the kids for a walk, hitting up playgrounds/forests. Rain can sometimes be fixed by being a bit flexible with when you set off, else waterproof clothing. Hot weather is probably harder, although you do get some air cooling once you're on the bike.

Shopping: Actually, with a child seat, you can fit a relatively large bag of groceries, enough for a couple of days.

Family: You outfit your partner with a bike too, and the oldest kids. The small ones (say, under 5 years) you put in child seats on the back of the bike or in a trailer. Range is of course limited, you can't go somewhere far away.

If you think all of this sounds uncomfortable, one really important upside is that riding a bike most days makes you more active and arguably tougher, both of which are important traits with modern sedentary life styles.
So I flagged for editorialised title. Sigh.
https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-...

Here's a better example. I think youre delusional if you think this isnt real
Interesting.

The bit I found most terrifying on a motorbike is seeing a car pull up to a stop , about to turn onto the road I’m on (with priority) and wondering if he’ll stop.

On a push bike, I’m doing maybe 30-35 kph in a city, and can stop very quickly. Splatting into the side of a car at this speed (less some braking) is serious but unlikely to be very dangerous.

On a motorbike, suddenly I have 200kg gyrating under my pelvis about to crash, and bounce into the traffic. Just feels terrifying.

And crucially, this situation (not the crash but the scenario) happens all the time.
I wonder if in a decade or so, large tech companies will unseat Disney, Warner Brothers etc as creators of animation movies.

While the results on Nvidia's website aren't too impressive, if you look at the history of animated movies [1], one can see how trivial and simplistic the art and animation was.

Having had some experience doing some research on GANs at university, I know them to be very powerful. What's very important to note is that the images generated my the model are truly "novel" i.e. completely fictitious. The images generated may be biased to some of the training data such as color and texture of the water and rocks for example, but every image is a fantasy of the model. The only way the model can generate such realistic images is because it has a very good abstract internal representation of what oceans, waves, rocks are.

Back at university, I pitched the idea to my professor of using GANs for generating "novel" images in real time while parents would read bed time stories to children. I didn't get very far. Glad to see some real progress in that direction.

[1] https://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html
> bump up our immunity so that we stay safe from serious illness long term

Two things (as laymen) could be noted: that rumour about vaccines immunizing from sars-cov-2 being on the way, and that this "historic episode" has boosted the research on coronaviruses themselves (which are normally something "undefeated").
Anecdata: I've been riding a VanMoof ES2 around London for 2 years with no issues at all
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A different announcement, linked to from php.net homepage:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundati...
While Thanksgiving is indeed partially a celebration of the yearly harvest, to say "Thanksgiving is just about giving thanks" really misses the point of what people are rightly complaining about - which is that much of the folklore relating to the holiday amounts to a celebration of collective denial around the historically dismal and dishonorable ways English settlers behaved towards the natives. And the controversy about Thanksgiving is not even new: Mark Twain acknowledged it as early as the 1920s! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)#C...
I have to say I like the CEE 7/5 exposed ground, it's admittedly a niche use, but it's easy to touch and/or clip onto.
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"For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."

- Marx, Theses on Fauerbach
> The fuse is only necessary due to shoddy British wiring standards

In other words, they're solving a very real problem here. And so is the rest of the plug as well.

It seems that most of the continental Europeans that have moved to the UK (myself included) are positively amazed by the details of the UK plug design.
English isn't my mother tongue, I thought the expression was appropriate but reading your comments I realised maybe not. Update the title accordingly.
With the farm laws repeal, it has essentially been proven that you can now stifle the population and infrastructure and get your way. So I won't be surprised if this ends up working, unless the government grows a spine.
Well, already the fact that you drove a bike in London for 2 years and survived is outstanding :D

But maybe the frequency of use is also important for the context, like here you use the bike 2-3 hours a day, every day, weekend included, want to commute? Bike. want to go to the gym? Bike. want to go out with friends? Bike. want to go to visit Utrecht? Bike. When I lived in London (for few years) bike was not used with this frequency and the infrastructure (up to 2018) didn't seem to allow for that kind of use, so maybe if you take your bike once a week, it can survive that long without issues, is that your case? Or your use is compatible with the one in Ams?
And also consider that most of SpaceX funding comes from contracts from NASA, rather then investors or profits.
> There are no good high-end “dumb” tv options.

Loewe[0] make really nice, simple, high-end TVs with great picture and sound, which really don't have intrusive 'smart' features. I use mine purely as a 'monitor' for AppleTV (and Nintendo Switch).

The problem is distribution: they're difficult to source even within Europe.

[0]https://www.loewe.tv/int
Half of these rules are just opinions, and made me go looking for the affiliate links to figure out what they were trying to monetize. The rest of the article completely skipped any legal concerns other than saying they hope to ask a lawyer someday. But the line between an e-bike and a motorcycle is not fuzzy, it is clearly defined in your local regulations. It impacts where you can ride it, what license is required, and other such things.

Not that the article is all wrong - nearly half of it is good info, and probably will help people just getting into this arena.
Yes; the only thing that makes my ebike a "Moped Class II" instead of an ebike is its throttle. I am able to legally use bike lanes, but also need to have traffic insurance to use it. It's been a life saver during the pandemic to avoid public transport, but it isn't my normal "daily rider" since it's just less convenient to lug out of storage on a regular basis than my Brompton.
> By what ruling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24356741

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362047
Note that it uses ax (16 bits) instead of rax (64 bits). I'd assume it has opcode 0x66 0x90, a 2 byte nop.

Now if the author can provide some more details, we'll see if the call is aligned on some interesting boundary.

I always wonder how much aligning code helps in real code. They seem waste a lot of bytes in the code segment. Aligning data, yes, that changes a lot, but the return position of a call in code?
My issue is a lack of secure bike parking.

Bike parking on streets is open season and “secured” parking is also frequently prowled. And that’s assuming there is even a rack to chain to; chaining to random street furniture is awkward at best and ends up blocking sidewalks at worst.
Yeah, somehow the author/site still thinks it's a good idea to use Facebook's integration (there are FB comments under the article).

But on desktop, the Developer Tools helps, just open it, find the cookie overlay (div with class "__fb-light-mode"), and delete it. I didn't need to consent to whatever Zuck wanted...
In some ways it is less risky, as you describe. In others, owning is more risky.

If you take a variable interest rate mortgage, as many people do, there is a risk of increased interest payments.

If you buy to live, and something changes in your life that requires you to move, you may be forced to sell in unfavorable market conditions. This is another risk of ownership.

The situation is quite involved.
I mean, it's a one time investment that's may be good for a decade or so, depending on the setup and workloads.

But yes, forking over a 2 to 4k for a new LTO-7+ changer isn't a small investment for private use, for a company it's IMO a no-brainer though.

FWIW: You can get them often cheaper, e.g., at ebay or whatever your local online reseller space is. For example, one can get LTO-5 ones here for 300 - 400 bucks and LTO-6 for 600 to 800. While LTO-6 only has 2.5 TB of space you can also create tape-sets (e.g., spanning multiple tapes) and for the more important data it may even be enough.
Fellow Brit, strongly disagree. The Europlug feels to me barely less flimsy than the US type. Ours and the Schuko are about the only ones I feel fully safe using.