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Agreed with H2odragon about moving away from the term "self sufficient". If you really want to go down the road of individual resilience, then their suggestions (and moving rural) are good ones.

Another (and for the majority of folks, probably better) option is to pursue a "neighborhood self sufficiency" model. This gets around a lot of the issues of local government getting in your way, because if you get enough neighborhood buy-in, then there's more you can get away with / make happen. A good place to start is the transition towns movement, which, though it can sometimes be a little new age / hippie for folks tastes, it really is trying to tackle all the things you talked about. Good luck! Whatever you decide, share it back (here, YouTube, whatever). Humans best feature is talking to each other about how to solve problems.
> You can back that up with combustion turbines.

So, back that up with burning natural gas.

> so backing up the entire grid this way is cheap (in capital cost) compared to the capital cost of a nuclear-powered grid.

> To cut down on that fuel cost, you can also add some batteries to reduce the fraction of time the turbines are required to operate.

So, the "cheap" is in reality:

- many gas powered energy plants (that are not there, and need to be built)

- plus many batteries (that are not there, and need to be built)

- plus cheap natural gas to burn

So much for "green energy already has the capacity to replace something"
Physicists discover that clouds of ultracold atoms can form “quantum tornadoes”
Isn’t that the idea?
In a nutshell: living "off the grid" and growing your own food. Basically pretending like you're in the 1800's.
Here's the thing....long family history of farming row crops and raising cattle. What is shown on YouTube by these popular channels isn't real life. They don't have the camera strapped to their heads 24/7. They are showing what they know will get them eyeballs....and that's the fantasy world.

You nailed it it is a crap load of hard work. It is soul crushing trying to save a newborn calf and having it die in your arms. Have had it happen numerous times and it does not get any easier. Have seen hundreds of acres of crops destroyed in 30 seconds from a weather event. Stress is real and it sucks.
Because many of the parts that in an IC are part of the "engine" are on EVs not part of the "motor". All the piping for air/exhaust/cooling, all the wiring and control units, are included in IC engines. But such external systems on an EV are somehow conceptually dissociated from the motor. Its like looking at the block of a tiny rotary engine. Very small and powerful, but certainly not the whole picture.
I don't think there are any losses on a (reasonably short, i.e. without intermediate supports) axle transmission, the only form of attrition are bearings and on both sides of such a setup you need one anyway, unless the same bearing is common between the wheel hub and the motor (i.e. the motor is actually the hub).
Question: if it's a 12 years old blog, then I assume it's simple. Why don't you rebuild it with the theme you choose?

Granted, I don't know how WordPress works, or any if its technical circumstances.
> And the answer is that building out wind/solar and insulating buildings is at the moment way more effective than keeping old nuclear power plants running.

This is already what we have been doing, and that's including that we can "make do" with energy savings.

It just doesn't close the gap. Nordics/northern europe need nuclear or equivalent power source to close the gap, or a revolution in energy storage.

I think we need more energy in the future, for all the green technology, not less. Energy is the currency, even more so than already, of the future economy.
Yes, this is a place where Node.js will diverge from the spec see discussion on the fetch PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41749#issuecomment-10254...
Ask HN: How do you support your employees' career development?
For managers: how do you support your employees' career development? Let's say they want to move up levels in your company- what do you do/not do? I'd love some kind of framework to apply that will create clarity for them.

Or, how has a great manager helped you grow your career?

I'm a people manager and want my employees to advance their careers (typically this means moving up at a current company). I also am extremely busy and have many direct reports, which means I need to find a balance.

Currently I provide consistent coaching ad-hoc (reviewing projects) and give feedback as I see it, but it lacks structure. I do a good job of providing them projects where they can stretch themselves and grow into the next level, but when it comes to promotions it feels a bit fuzzy. Maybe concrete milestones would be helpful?

It's also the case that getting promoted isn't as simple as "do 1, 2, and 3". We have leveling guidelines but they're not a checklist.
I don't understand why people are scared of "Alien Chemicals" in food but will take plenty of OTC medication. If we didn't trust anything made in labs people would still be dying at 30 years old.

Also, artificial sweeteners help people who have obesity problems, being obese will reduce your life expectancy by up to 15 years, drinking diet soda hasn't killed anyone.
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> If C had better builtin constructs...

Such annotations exist in specific compilers (e.g. clang has things like _Nullable and _Nonnull), they are just not part of the standard (unfortunately). But those annotations are visible in Clang's ast-dump, so they can be used to create more correct language bindings.
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It's hard to take some of these arguments seriously when one of the core arguments:

> In people who are previously infected vaccines offer zero additional benefit with respect to hospitalization

is so fatally flawed. The reason that previously infected people have lower hospitalization rates is that some percentage of people who were previously infected and at risk of hospitalization _died_. You're literally clearing out the population that is most likely to skew these numbers.

Second, this argument:

> vaccinated and unvaccinated persons with detectable infection have the same viral loads, despite the reduction in disease severity for the former group.

is similarly flawed, in that it goes right to transmission after successful infection, without touching on infection rates themselves. Sure, yes, when you have a breakthrough case, and are infected, you're probably similarly likely to infect household members. It's common sense.

But the raw infection rates for fully vaccinated people are much lower, even with omicron. The data from NYC is very clear:

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/fQBNe/16/

So vaccination is important because it reduces spread, and reduces infections. The medications he cites as justification for reduced need for vaccination are not widely available, and in the case of fluvoxamine, not widely prescribed. Over and over the author simply manipulates data to support their argument.
The digital economy and Australia's corporate tax system [pdf]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
> No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons.

Could you please expand on this? What is the ideal uptime for a nuclear plant vs wind/solar?
The smart contract gets its state updated by trusted external APIs, in that ecosystem they are called oracles. So they would use the same one they use in their web2 system, just write the results onchain instead of just in their database or just on a tv.

And yes the low side of the market is one of the reasons why people start trading in capital markets, other ways to make money with bets are too limiting even if you find an edge. There are usually a couple places around the world with higher amounts possible.
I've read all the rants about how the Bluetooth spec is too long and complicated and hence the protocol is impossible to implement properly, but

Honestly I have so much trouble with Wi-Fi as well, it randomly won't see a network, it won't roam to 5 GHz leaving me on slow 2.4 GHz (turning on "band steering" on the router makes it even worse, it just drops completely), you check the forums, people swear that this new OS update made the range worse somehow.

Even Apple's AirDrop on which they own the whole stack is very unreliable if it will see the other device.

Digital wireless just seems like a very very difficult field.

The only digital wireless communication tech that seems rock-solid is the 3GPP stack (GSM/UMTS/LTE/5G). It just always works, flawlessly, 24/7. Even with the random crap Chinese "iFOE" Mediatek knockoff I bought once.
Why does nuclear have a niche in a green future? I don't see it surviving. Locations with insufficient wind/solar will be supplied externally, either by grid or by transport of synthetic chemical fuels. Places like very high latitudes (where wind is often very good, btw) are so sparsely populated they cannot by themselves sustain a nuclear industry.
Heh, that's interesting:

"The country where everything is bigger (*)"

(* except for consumer goods that would be designed around a practicable supply current of 10A elsewhere)
A new standard would need buy-in from browsers to actually be a standard. Browsers likely don't have a lot of incentive to make spec changes only Node is interested in (like making the whole spec more complicated from their point of view because of Node's (or Deno's) different security model).

The level of collaboration and good-faith we've been getting from spec bodies like WHATWG is very high as it is and we really don't want to push or abuse it.
All those things may be true, but they still count against nuclear energy. Lack of public support and lack of continuous development make building capacity more difficult to deploy in the present. Technical superiority is not enough.
"Earth", "Air" and "Human" are not abstract nouns because they have physical things we can match those words to.

Contrast that to abstract nouns like "truth", "danger" or "happiness", which are actually interpretations of something other. Statements using these tend to be opinions or non-verifiable. Fact-Checking doesn't work for them.
You have to compare district heating to about 7 million households using natural gas for heating in The Netherlands alone.

So keeping a few nuclear power plants open has hardly any effect on the amount of natural gas that is used.
Most programming languages are really good. People who talk ill of them just don't know them well, and also probably never lived while there were no high-level languages. And honestly, people are creatures of trends; we don't use the most popular languages because they're flawless.

The only major problem with C is its community never took off with a popular library packager and linter. Every other language that seems so cool today would be just as painful as C if they didn't have so many contributed modules and tweaks. Port those to C and people would fall in love with it all over again.
It sounds like you romanticized homestead life if you find that lifestyle "soul crushing". As with many things, it's about the journey, not the destination.

If you expected to do homesteading stuff for a couple years and then 'retire' in some garden of eden, I suspect you are realizing that will never be the case. The homesteading life (or at least why I chose it myself) is about personal fulfillment in managing the land and animals, the DIY and semi-self-sustainable aspect of it and the freedom that comes with privacy and your own space.

Becoming truly self-sustaining and self-sufficient is incredibly difficult these days. Good luck to you.
You make an interesting point that I hadn't thought of. I haven't had alcohol since I switched to this schedule (right after the holidays).

Plus, since I'm not eating after 8 and I still eat breakfast (with other kid) at 8, I'm in this sort of accidental intermittent fasting mode. I wonder how much that is contributing.
> that wants closer relations between C and C++

That wasn't possible anymore from the moment on when C++ decided to not treat C as a proper subset (like Objective-C did), but instead fork its C subset into a slightly different language.
> We have reached a point where it has been a mainstream position to view the idea of defending free speech as disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.

I disagree.

There is a very vocal, very small minority that's ruining it for everyone else.

Certainly not mainstream.
Not yet but it's planned to eventually happen.
Farming is hard work with little pay. Homesteading is harder with less pay.

If I had to guess, you've never lived much in the country before; even just country living is much different and a significantly different point of reference.

I would say ditch homesteading and try your hand at farming and see where that gets you, if you want to continue. Embrace country social groups.
> Wait 'til your forties, its like this except you're fatter, uglier and no one wants to hire you any more.

If you're not a manager or retired in your 40s you might as well not work.
That sounds heavy. How much would it weigh?
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Day care for infants and toddlers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/cqegh2/daycar...
I don't get it. How is this engine going to save internal combustion? Ok, it's a small engine with a lot of power, and probably has some cute technical details, but what's the efficiency?

Almost one third of all greenhouse emissions come from transportation, which is the same as saying from ICE's. There are 2 ways to reduce that: replace ICEs with electric motors, or increase their efficiency. If you manage to double the efficiency of ICE's, you're doing as good as replacing half of the ICEs with electric motors. If you increase their efficiency by 20%, it's like replacing 20% of the ICEs with electric motors.

So, yes, you could certainly revive ICEs, but only if you dramatically increase their efficiency.

Now, a typical ICE has an efficiency of 25%. Nissan is working on an ICE with an efficiency of 50% [1]. That thing can save ICEs. Anything else, it's just word spinning.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1131416_nissan-claims-5...
> Filling in crossword answers also gives more info

Yeah, fair point, but...

> for everything it crosses.

Whereas in Wordle, every step is more info about the single answer - much more efficient. But I definitely should have worded it better - you're absolutely correct.
I have those headphones and they do indeed rock. The problem is: most cellphones don’t have headphone jacks. My cellphone broke last summer and everything with a headphone jack was backordered. So now when my headphones die on (say) a long flight, I just can’t listen to music anymore, because they don’t work while plugged in. Bluetooth sucks, and not just because it’s unreliable.
> I explained this fairly simply but the message didn't get through (to a reasonably intelligent person) and they thought I was saying the complete opposite of what I was saying.

If I detected you were being condescending I would do exactly this. Mostly to piss you off for thinking you’re better / smarter than me. You may know more than this staff member on this subject but there’s an appropriate way to explain things. Assuming from the get go they’re too stupid / uneducated is offensive.
On the one hand, web push is a welcome sight and I really hope they gate it a little (only allowing if you installed the pwa, explicit permission et ) and had some solid spam reporting for end users tied to apple dev. credentials to keep it a pleasant ux for customers and not a spam channel.

On the other hand, not jazzed to have debug what they managed to break in indexedDB this time round...
It's behind a flag so that it can land in the next v16 semver minor - so soon'ish but keep in mind it _is_ experimental.
The first two are symptoms, the two last are national statistics. I don't see this as weird, but I will take it, I love being weird!
"BlackBerry's sale is to what could be considered a "Non-practicing entity," a company that doesn't earn revenue from product or services sales, but is more likely to do so through asset protection. Many refer to these sorts of entities as "patent trolls.""

That looks pretty bad. Seems pretty obvious this is going to cost Apple & Google some serious money, even if it's just hiring more lawyers for the lawsuits from "Catapult IP Innovations".
thank you for that link. Does AMD have the same shenanigans of locking out consumer grade gpu's? Intel has GVT-g vGPU virtualization which works with intel integrated graphics, it will be interesting to see what road Intel takes with their dedicated GPUs.
> You can easily install all your games on another user on your linux box and run as that user.

No, you can't play all your games on linux. Anti cheat is one of the big problems for example.
> So, back that up with burning natural gas.

You didn't read my whole comment there. One could use green hydrogen.
Don't think so. Taking Germany as an example, many people joined these movements after the country was in large parts affected (to this day actually) by the nuclear fallout of the disaster in Chernobyl. So I guess experiencing this first hand made a huge impact for many people. Personally I don't have a very strong opinion on nuclear (neither positive nor negative) but I also believe that you can't simply take these experiences away from people and it would be wrong to invalidate them.
So consumption increases about x1.5 from the "best case" to "autobahn speeds"? Sounds about right -- a 500km range would get reduced to ~340km. It's better than the 500km -> 300~250km claimed by GP, but it's still a big reduction in range.
While I completely understand the need for why underrepresented groups should be given preference in certain application and hiring processes, I still carry a desire that this would not be necessary.

I do not judge people I interact with based on their gender, skin color, race, or such irrelevancies. I judge them by how they behave toward me. In the process, many stereotypical "old white men" come off very badly. Although I am almost an old white man myself.
I wish for a world where it doesn't matter what gender someone identifies by or what that person is doing in bed, on the couch, at the kitchen table, or anywhere else with anyone else.

And of course I know that this argument is misused to sweep systematic discrimination of social groups under the carpet. That's why I'm not in favor of judging members of such groups only on the basis of performance criteria that favor people who were born and raised in a privileged situation by a lucky coincidence.

Nevertheless, I find it important to deal with the argument that, in a better world, we should not judge anyone by such criteria. It should not play a role in an ideal world.

And I believe that with our ever increasing diversification we are playing into the hands of those who want a divided, disunited society/opposition.

Divide et impera has always been a very successful strategy and it has always been successful to play individual sub-groups off against each other, even though they have much more in common than what divides them.

So I personally consider it a gain to deal with dissenting opinions. And be it in the worst case only to sharpen and polish my own arguments.
I used to have many problems with Bluetooth, but my Bluetooth 5.0 earbuds seem to work quite consistently. I can't see myself ever going back to wired earphones.
This can happen regardless of whether you set up a certificate yourself.

If you're using plain HTTP, someone can MITM in HTTP, and a rogue authority can issue a certificate to someone who isn't you. This is not an argument against you using HTTPS at all.
It makes me sad that the top comment on a really cool new motor design is a gripe about units.
> Honestly, I recommend psychedelics - no other “simple fix” will be as effective in helping you spin the thread of your life.

Does Amazon Prime two-day ship LSD? No? Well, this advice doesn't work for a majority of people.
I just use an aux cord into the headphone jack. Easy peasy.
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>I feel Bluetooth is the ever-unstable technology we have been beta testing for 2 decades.

Meanwhile I just transferred via Bluetooth some old high-school photos from an 2003 NEC flip-phone with Bluetooth v1.1 onto my 2021 OnePlus Android phone with Bluetooth v5.1 seamlessly.

And as a test, both phones managed to connect flawlessly to my shitty 2014 Fiat entertainment system and to my dad's ancient 2005 Audi entertainment system. Even my brand spanking new Sony noise cancelling bluetooth headphones from 2021 worked with that NEC flip phone from 2003. The backwards- and cross- compatibility of bluetooth is nothing but impressive.

The only bluetooth device that gave me issues were some M-Pow headphones off Amazon that I threw away after a couple of weeks due to how terrible they were and a work colleague constantly had issues with his LG Android phone because LG apparently fudged the Bluetooth firmware implementation on that phone.
The size of the explosion doesn't really scale with it - it's the size of moved earth that determines the power in the tsunami. So the power of the landslide or moving seabed, if I understand correctly.

See also the description of the generation of the 2004 tsunami: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_a...
If terrible websites hadn't destroyed the utility of popup windows, and caused browsers to block them by default, the MSAL popup flow would be clearly better than using the redirect flow. It's a much nicer experience, and far easier to code for.

Ironically, I only learned it existed because I did some work with a Teams application that had a tab, and login.microsoft.com doesn't work inside of an iframe, so there you cannot use the redirect flow.
I hadn't done today's and it was definitely tough. 12/12 for me, but at least I got it. I felt stupid when I figured it out though.
You don't do centrally heated water in apartments over there? I don't think I've seen anything else here in Sweden. We actually buy heated water from the grid in my housing cooperative, but a lot of them have "downhole heat exchangers"* installed and produce their own centrally heated water circuit, which is also common for villas over here.

*: called bergvärme in Swedish, I just looked up the Swedish wikipedia article and clicked English so I don't know if this is the right term
I would say it needs to be realigned to only allow productive companies to hold/protect patents.
Whether Bluetooth sucks or not I'm not sure. But man they didn't help themselves with the robotic voice "HUA-IP 20 Pro disconnect" followed shortly by "Connected to HUA-IP 20 Pro and GBK-w-006" every time something goes in or out of range.