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Bigger and heavier takes more energy. That's straight out physics.

Both of the cars mentioned are big and heavy and non-aerodynamic. (I'd even call the RX300 'boxy'.) If you want something with efficient MPG, you want something small, light and aerodynamic. You don't mention the transmission, so I assume they're both automatics. If you want good MPG you throw away the automatic and use a manual.

As regards the RX300 being not so great, it's old, you've worn down the engine and transmission and wheel-bearings, and the electronics are not as advanced as today's. I'm too lazy to look, but what are the figures for fuel-octane rating and compression-ratios? Would those also have a bearing on the question?
FL also has no lockdowns
Yep. “Envy” is wanting what they have, “jealousy” is being afraid they take what you have.

You are envious when they get a shiny car, and jealous when they flirt with your partner.
> No. When someone relates their negative experience with an OS you happen to use, that is not a personal attack

What personal attacks are these? All I’ve seen thus far are adults having a mature conversation.

> or invitation to expound upon your own contradictory experience

That’s literally the point of social platforms. You cannot post an opinion on a public forum and then declare that other people are forbidden to rely. If that’s your bag then you’re better off writing your thoughts and then popping them in a glass bottle and casting that out to sea :P

> Can you honestly say the same happens with anywhere near the same frequency when discussing Windows or MacOS problems?

Yes. Happens all the time and on any topic. This is a message board, opinions will differ and people will want to discuss them. I don’t see what the issue is there (as long as it’s civil).

Eg this started out a positive thread talking about Linux composing managers and there wasn’t any need for anyone to start arguing about how much better Windows was but that happened. And I’m fine with that. Weird you should think I’m not allowed to reply when that does happen though.

Anyway, this has gotten meta and in my experience that’s usually the point when the quality of conversations deteriorate so I’ll duck out of the chat now :)
It always surprises that left-leaning politicians and media were the most fervent advocates of school closures, because it has disproportionately affected kids from the poorest backgrounds. What I see around me is that educated couples invested the time to make up for the lack of school education (and were typically home working themselves), so those kids will probably do OK, other kids were left on their own all day.

I think it is more of a relative problem than an absolute problem.
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I think COVID is the inflection point that puts the U.S. behind compared to other countries who have a more collective culture and less extremism in politics.

I have seen nearly every aspect of life in the U.S. take a major hit. Nearly no one cares about anything, and the attitude of taking care of me myself and I seems rampant.

I have been worried about children since day one, from social disorders to education. We have several generations that basically missed out on two years of schooling from pre-school through university levels. That can't be good in one to three decades time, even if we i prove the issues tomorrow.
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Having moved from a complete rathole apartment to a rental house recently I've come to realize, dammit this is wayyy more work to maintain and clean! This freaking sucks!! I want to go back to a tiny apartment where I didn't have to spend Saturdays cleaning the windows. :P
So personal anecdote our two year old is behind on speech, we had someone come in to evaluate him and he mentioned that he has been seeing it a lot, citing that because so many people are wearing masks, and the kids weren't spending more time around other people it had created a trend he had noticed.
> Are you saying you wish you got in less trouble at Apple and the code reviewers should have gotten in more trouble for missing YOUR bug?

If “my” bug was a result of sloppy code, my PR should have been rejected.

I don’t really think anyone should get in trouble for a code bug (at least in a majority of cases), but yes, if this bug was obvious enough for me to be in trouble for not catching it, then the people approving the PR should share responsibility for it.
I really, really hope that GETTR doesn't turn out to be another Parler. I want a social media platform that everybody feels comfortable using, and that nobody's banned from.
Love it!

If I could 'buy'(how ironic lol) your experience noted here I would, it seems like hard-engrained 'learned' knowledge that is hard to get through just reading.
The inside-out loops of List look utterly mainstream in a world where

from(177).to(448).do(i -> { ... })

is easy to implement in Java.
The reason they were repairable and maintainable was because they shit products and were nightmarishly unreliable. One could not simply own a car and drive it, you had to be an amateur mechanic to be able to drive one. And let's not forget that they were also very very expensive and few could afford.
I don’t think six figure debt is normal. It also depends on where the debt is from. Is it something they had to do (borrow money for food and rent) or elected to do (borrow money for low income degree)?
Yep, between that and twitter "citations" which make me want to scream. I don't care what NateDog2244 said on twitter, that could be the "reporter" for all I know. You can find someone defending/attacking ANY position online so you can cherry-pick like crazy.

I'll admit I'm much less likely to follow links when my confirmation bias is kicking up into high gear but I've been trying to force myself to do it more after I received an article from a parent that I knew was full of BS and after following the links (the ones that weren't dead) I found the studies linked actually refuted the position the original article took. For way too much of my life I took "Blue text with underline" (or whatever color the style it to) meant "fact"/"cited"/"backed up", that couldn't be further from the truth.

I encourage everyone to follow links even if you are "sure" the article is 100% true, it can be very eye opening. At the very least you will get a better understanding.
A sleeping bag that is stored compressed loses it's insulation properties: https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-store-a-sleep...

I keep a Harbor Freight moving blanket in my trunk. It's thick for insulation, and also cheap in case you need to protect your seats after a muddy activity. I also wouldn't feel torn up about laying it down on ice if I need some traction.
Do you mean to say that most developers work alone, so don’t have anybody to review their code? That’s probably true for hobby projects and the like, but companies rarely have teams of one working on anything.
This is probably the first blockchain use case that I've found compelling, outside of using its obvious use as a speculative asset of course. I hope the author elaborates more on this in the next part because there are still lingering questions - like how much would CRUD operations on your digital identity cost? After all, most blockchain technologies have associated "gas" or other transaction fees.
I'm not sure deciding that "the world is on my side" is objectively false for some people is a superficial belief.
"So, is Covid the shock that leads to the education system being reinvented for the better"

I don't really see how this would happen, or even how they connect. Covid is keeping our schools from even being schools. It's displaying the flaws in our larger system, but it doesn't really speak at all to what's good or bad in the classroom itself. EXCEPT that we've had a natural experiment where kids are removed from the classroom, and it turns out classrooms are pretty good educational environments compared to remote school or ad hoc home school! If anything this indicates we don't need to reinvent our schools, we just need to reinvent our school HVAC.

(We also aren't reinventing school HVAC, which is disappointing because of all the options in front of us that's about the easiest.)
The workers have spread out because they prefer spread-out housing. They prefer larger homes on larger lots. Roads allow people to live where they wish in the housing they want. People are willing to accept longer commutes so they have the housing they want. This is a success.
This sort of weather pattern is not unusual at all. This is how winter is for the most part in places that have winter. I'd go out to clear snow off my car and find that my car would regularly be coated in an inch thick layer of ice from rain-turned-ice before the storm progressed to snow like a dozen times a month in the winter when I lived in the east.

VDOT could just close the freeway section in advance of the storm if they knew they didn't have the capacity to keep up with the snowfall and have the road be drive able, like other state DOTs do for their freeways when bad weather is coming. I feel like this must have been a textbook whiff in transit department circles.
"Children are our future and you should be prepared to accept arbitrary Covid consequences for them" might be a compelling argument on an orange web site, but it is not going to be one when you present it to over-worked, under-appreciated teachers who have families of their own and their futures to worry about.

Bringing back pensions and providing free post-retirement healthcare for teachers and their families will back up grandiose statements like yours with actions. With the current right-wing thinking in vogue in the US, I suspect there is vanishingly little chance of that happening.
I’m pretty sure every single step of CDC’s public policy has been causing confusion and doubt, and that’s with the backing of Big Tech and Mainstream Media.
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Wavian is the way to go for a metal can. Scepter is good but was banned and parts are expensive (In the US, Canadians have the freedom to buy from Canadian Tire). VP racing jugs are fantastic for plastic. You can get them much cheaper at tractor supply as they are sold for farm liquids, not for fuel, but they are exactly the same thing as the VP racing jugs. I used wavian for diesel, VP racing for gas or E85 when racing. Now they're all gas for my generator.
A clogged toilet isn't flowing. More like dumping a 5-gal bucket into a sink . The drain is running at full capacity but any one drop may take a long time to actually clear the sink. The 5-gal bucket is peak demand. Total time to sink clear is how long rush "hour" lasts.

Fluid analogies are crappy because fluids flow more when you add pressure and traffic doesn't.
And also the abnormally high ratio of people who die within 1 year of catching Covid from other reasons: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-survivors...

233% increase in chance of death for people less than 65...

183% increase for people 65+: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.77843...
Coronavirus is one of the main viruses which cause the common cold, Covid is a coronavirus, Covid has been decreasing in severity with each new major variety.

Let's not assume that the Covid will not follow the normal evolutionary trajectory of viruses, ie stop the fear porn and labelling things memes to justify dismissal of valid possibilities
> I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune

Just like you don't have to live up to an economic ideal, nor do you have to live up to a rational/moral ideal. Maybe just fully have the emotions you're having rather than 'trying' not to because logic or politeness or whatever.

I'm sorry. Those are difficult feelings to sit with. You really do love your friends.

Context: someone with money and lots of loved ones with far less, a couple with significantly more. I am angry that my friend has a $2M home and two Teslas in the driveway for being at the right place/right time. But it's my own desire for more that feeds this envy. I almost never go see this friend and all his new gadgets, instead would rather pickup burgers and sit on the bed of my much closer friend's studio apartment and talk about things one can't purchase.
I recommend you check out the ASML / Brion campus in Silicon Valley.
Indeed, I'm very happy with kagi so far
If you write like you code, that will work well for technical specifications where you want to give each requirement exactly in one place, to keep the page count down.

Those documents are a pain for most people to read, though.

People need some redundancy and repetition. When they have some question, they want to find the answer in in one place, not piece it together by deduction from three distant sentences.

Also, write what? You wouldn't write a novel necessarily like documentation. In your novel's plot, if a character dies, you don't have to repeat that fact three times. Novels aren't intended to work that way. If they did, there would be an Index at the back, where you look for "death" under "d", and then there will be an "... of Jack Grape, 234" under that, and there you go: page 234 is where Jack Grape dies.

Or, conversely, people reading your programming language specification do not avoid reading the later sections first, for fear of spoiling the plot! "Wow, this declaration syntax is so exciting, it really has me on edge as to whether there is an object system ... but I'm afraid of reading ahead to spoil the surprise!"

Something written to be read from cover to cover in a linear way as a work of art requires a different approach from a reference work.
Right, people may focus on "ivy league" as it is the "it" option, but most people have to settle for "state college" which is much more widely available. however, subscription fees for this option have steadily been increasing as well.

Either way, you are expected to keep the programming updated at your expense. Without it, your Small Child unit might fall behind other versions and become a negative influence on other Small Child units.
Doesn't DC have a height limit on buildings? Seems like eliminating that would be a way for the city to increase economic activity without spending any money
It’s not the left; it’s the biden administration feeding meat into the machine. They have absolutely betrayed their voter base in favor of their corporate donors and they will pay for it in the next election when that base simply doesn’t show up.
> lost that battle, and the serialized results of queries were an order of magnitude larger than they needed to be...

Before or after Content-Encoding: gzip?
Just to be clear (I lived in DC/northern Virginia for 10 years, and witnessed induced demand over and over), if the goal of widening a highway is to ease traffic congestion, induced demand quickly makes this a failed strategy. In northern Virginia, every project to widen 66 or 95 has always been sold to taxpayers as a move to ease congestion. But the result of that is temporary. As soon as the congestion is eased, cheapish land opens up for new development and more affordable housing. People flock to these new developments, and the cycle repeats.

It does result in growth for an area, but quality of life stagnates. The traffic in northern Virginia/DC/Maryland is at a point where it noticeably affects the mood of a bulk of the people who live there. Spending 90 minutes each way day after day after day fucks people's heads up.
Envy goes a step further. See, Jealousy is wanting the same things somebody else has. Envy means that you'd take it from them if that meant you could have it. It means you'd deprive them of it to your own benefit.
Back in 2004 a friend and I were driving from Seoul (Korea) to Daejeon when a huge snowstorm blew in. We were on a 56 mile stretch of expressway through the mountains with no exits when the traffic ground to a halt. After a couple of hours it was clear from the radio that the road would be struck for a long time (the jam was reported to be 50 miles long), so we walked a couple of miles back to a service station we'd passed and queued in a huge queue to buy some snacks. What was interesting was that everyone was very polite, and although there was a sense that maybe things could descend into anarchy with little provocation, no-one was buying more than they immediately needed and there was no arguing. If this had been Europe or the US, I suspect it would have been very different.

We walked back to the car and waited, turning the engine on for 5 minutes every half hour to warm up. Fortunately we had warm clothes with us. What was most frustrating was that the road was clear of traffic and not too much snow in the other direction, but was blocked many miles further ahead. The radio kept saying they were air-dropping water and food, but we never saw any. Eventually a bunch of people just in front of us formed a plan and shuffled a few cars back and forward to make some space. Then they built a ramp out of snow up and over the crash barrier. A bunch of SUVs escaped that way. We debated whether it would be possible for us to get over in a normal car - we didn't think so. Eventually a few more SUVs got over, and there was just enough space for us to get a short run up. The car grounded in the middle, but we carried on over and down the other side. We checked under the car, and were surprised to see we hadn't done any damage. We drove the couple of miles back the service station, filled up and returned to Seoul after an 18 hour drive to nowhere.

We heard later that it took two days to free everyone, and that 10,000 cars had been stuck. We were very glad we hadn't waited. Since then I've always carried some spare warm clothing and never let the fuel run low when the weather looks doubtful.
> Example: Container shortage > bad > supply chain crunch. Etc.

One thing I learned working in manufacturing is to think about movement and management of empty carriers. If you fill something, it will be empty at some point and it doesn't just disappear. You have to get it back to where you fill it again.
I think you should read before you are sending something, first paragraph from your link:

> […] historical usage shows that both mean "covetous" and are interchangeable when describing desiring someone else's possessions.

Maybe that’s why your friends have more money than you /s
How are quick/http3 servers usually upgraded? As you say, it seems tricky.
Dammit it sucks I can't just bitch and whine my way into FU money right? But then we get up, pull our pants on and get to work.

I have envy problems with what I perceive to be lucky rich folks. But that is all just in my own head. If I'm thinking about that then I'm not focused on my own path and will wallow in my own mess.
Hell, increase their current healthcare benefits if they're to teach during this crisis.
FFS someone please convince the author of this page to recompress these photos using high compression and a lossy format like jpg. Over a minute and still not loaded here.
web3 = Web 4.0 I guess ?

(Just like IPv5 never got anywhere ??)
The OneWheel is great in SF, I can take it 1.2mi to drop something off at the UPS store and back in 15min.

Doing this with mass transit would take an hour, walking would take an hour, driving would be a pain because of parking.

It's great for all sorts of little trips like this, probably up to a 6mi round trip (I have the pint).
Were you a subscriber and you cancelled your subscription? Or are you simply withholding future subscriptions?
Most millennials are hardworking and responsible. A very vocal minority are not.
I remember reading that Clickspring's Chris has committed to giving away the Antikythera device to a random patreon supporter of his once it is completed.
You've performed a very subtle conversational pivot here: I didn't assert that COVID is more deadly to children, or that public policy was structured around that hypothesis. I said that we didn't know how dangerous it was and that, among other things, treating COVID as potentially flu-like in young children was a reasonable policy.

When it became clear that children weren't dying in large numbers from COVID, keeping them out of school throughout 2020 because of the transmission theory was (and may still be, depending on other circumstances) sufficient justification.
I like the distance metaphor, I hadn't read that one before! We estimate stories before any particular developer picks them up, so it's especially important to estimate complexity and not time.
I think the most interesting part of the Old Testament is how the ancient Israelites justified their war against Canaan.

One of the main charges against Canaan is that they accused Canaan of sacrificing children. It's the exact same "think of the children" justification used endlessly today.
I was already dabbling in Linux with shared hosting for my hobbyist website, but Compiz made me lean into Linux and development full tilt.

Showing friends the crazy 3D desktop, the wobbling, burning windows, and all of the other crazy customization and effects it provided gave me a kind of unique confidence and excitedness in my explorations. It was like jet fuel for learning. Bash, vim, Unix philosophy, Python - all things I got sucked into because I liked the aesthetics and promise of Linux. Lessons that outlived the window manager and paved the way for my career.

Compiz couldn't have done a better job.
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Only to entertain the delusion that most people have when they hear the word "weather": that it doesn't involve anything outside a 1 cm buffer around them. When you gain even a tiny understanding of how the atmosphere works at a planetary scale, that misapprehension vanishes.
A 12V battery can kill you or seriously harm you. The entire chassis of the vehicle is the return path, and can make a short circuit or exposed wire exceptionally dangerous. Working around high current paths like the wire from the alternator can be a special hazard.

The battery can also release explosive gasses if charged or used improperly or if other parts of the electrical system are damaged. Combined with a spark and again death and serious injury are possible.

Pulleys and belts are under tension. It's probably not as lethal, but it's a stored energy hazard and has hurt plenty of technicians.

Suspension systems contain many stored energy hazards.

Tires with air pressure are a stored energy hazard, even if they're not attached to the vehicle.
>Teachers and administrators want schools open. ...and therefore politicians want schools open.

This is just false. The largest teacher unions in the country have been pushing school closures. This means many teachers, administrators and politicians also want school closures.

Until like the last week politicians have been reluctant to even suggest schools reopen

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-teachers-unions-odds-over-20482...
I read somewhere that a pandemic becomes an endemic when we agree on how many people we can accept dying each year.
That's probably an outlier item, but in general there's no way that Taiwan can replace the size of the Chinese market in Lithuanian sales.
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I’m not saying those shows weren’t good, just that Disney has monetized the Marvel brand really well with a long streak of movies that are printing money, and sure a few shows to promote their streaming service.

4 out for the top 5 grossing movies of all time for Disney (adjusted for inflation) are Marvel IP. By comparison none of the Marvel shows on Netflix have been a commercial hit for Netflix. Looking at the list of most watched Netflix shows none of those make the cut.

Basically Disney is well suited to turn Marvel IP into dollars and Netflix just wasn’t.