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> So, how many liters of seawater can in process before it needs an "electromembrane" change?

It doesn't need regular changes, because it's not a filter.

That's also why it's called an "electromembrane" and not a "filter"... Because (can you you hear me in the back) it's not a filter.

If you want technical details in how the device operates, you should probably not be consulting pop sci news articles that are written from press releases... Maybe Wikipedia has an article about it, say https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromembrane_extraction ?
They are getting eaten alive by a content company with better content that had the money to buy their way into technology that was just as good when they acquired BamTech.

Disney+ is also hosted on AWS.
It's interesting that TTS is getting better and better while consumer access to it is more and more restricted. A decade ago there were a half dozen totally separate TTS engines I could install on my phone and my Kindle came with its own that worked on any book.
Cool, I didn't realize you used sqlite-utils for your performance demo!

It's not particularly designed for speed - it should be fast as far as Python code goes (I use some generator tricks to stream data and avoid having to load everything into memory at once) but I wouldn't expect "sqlite-utils insert" to win any performance competitions with tools written in other languages.

Those benchmarks against sqlite itself are definitely interesting. I'm looking forward to playing with the "native ZNG support for Python" mentioned on https://github.com/brimdata/zed/blob/main/docs/libraries/pyt... when that becomes available.
im using one now. and yes, i consider it too big to use one-handed without dropping it.

also, the physical buttons are way too easy to press. every time i hold it, i accidentally press something :(

5.5 inches is about the limit for me, with pretty avg hands, imo.

previous phones were sony xperia compacts. last one was xz2 compact and felt pretty good, though could have been a tad thinner/lighter.
Believe it or not, but occasionally people in Europe are fired too.
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are a much lower fire risk. Lithium polymer batteries are basically a single BMS bug away from a fire at all times
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>It’s already happening, but it’s occurring too slow.

the problem is more subtle than it just being slow. its the distributed nature of it. everyone must reduce their consumption also its unclear by how much, as developed nations have achieved much using their 'carbon budgets' but developing nations are yet to. or should it just be an even percent reduction per capita, what about disproportionate consumption by income segments. now you start to see the tragedy of the commons angle of it? same decision tree applies at all levels including states & cities. in the end you need just a few bad actors (bolsenaro for instance) for the majority of reductions to be offsetted.

the only way I can even imagine it work out in my head is if there is some sort of global carbon pricing & the gains from that are strictly limited to preservation & geoengineering works. I know you dont think geoengineering is workable but imo humanity is good at focused efforts like moon landing & manhatten project. for instance today cost to pull a pound of co2 from air is $100-200 but if scaledup and more R&D (i.e.. more money thrown at it) it can potentially fall below $10. at that point it is at least thinkable in terms of global economy.
Chrono Trigger reference?
As far as I know, most browsers only display the Unicode character on a whitelisted set of TLDs that have rules to prevent homographs.

.cc isn't part of this list and I only see the punycode.
Whilst the Gutenberg Project doesn't have every single book, it is a substantial effort to compile them. The last time I downloaded the complete English collection, it was around 40Gb in plaintext form, and a little closer to 60Gb in HTML, which should be pretty comparable to ePub.
Agreed. Being laid off after a couple of years at 500k/yr is better than grinding it out for a decade at 100k/yr. And you can always choose the grind after the layoff.
That means the US has broken the contracts first, not Russia. So that means that Russia just walks away from all of those debts. Tough titties for the lending companies.
To be fair, the majority of professional sports contracts include items that keep the athlete on payroll while injured or otherwise unable to play, and teams will often invest significant resources waiting for a player to return to health (or even actively assisting the athlete in their recovery journey).

I'm not saying these contracts are "for life", but there are plenty of athletes who either a) get injured and are unable to play or b) take a significant period of time to deliver on their initial promise. Nature might be cruel, but sports teams are often quite fair & accommodating...
I am using an iPhone SE only because of its size. Android devices are huge, the top factor is its battery life - to have a good battery (as Android consumes more battery) they need to keep its size big.
Beat him up, and you’ll earn 15 silver points!
Doesn't the term 'shadowbanned' mean that your posts are just invisible to other users, without them telling you that? How would you know if you never posted anything?
Industry research lab claims human parity on end-to-end text-to-speech and releases a web page with five samples as proof? Microsoft, you're a little late to the party - Google has been using this playbook for 5 years!
I've been waiting for my paper white to break, but it just keeps on going. I might just have to upgrade anyhow.
I don’t think Ali was well liked by most Americans when he condemned the draft and said “No VietCong ever called me a N#^++&”
Why not? Their system simulates latency between their facilities in two cities. Latency does not change much. Their solution adjusts to realtime latency variance, but they don't show that such realtime adjustment is needed. The article doesn't say whether they even measured latency variance.

And they also don't show that their dynamic adjustments are more fair than a static adjustment. I think it's likely that their system penalizes local players for too long after a short remote latency spike.
I've been using my iPhone SE since 2016 and man do I wish there was something to switch to by now. I don't think I can stand PWM on newer OLED iPhones (that includes 12/13 mini) and I will dearly miss the headphone jack. If there were a modern (un-Googled) Android phone like the 1st-gen iPhone SE, I'd be ready to spend $800 on it, I don't even care about cameras, fingerprint sensors, or NFC.
I don't think so, that's why I prefer AURs over flatpak... you can very install script in AURs but not on flatpak.
Switzerland is also special. We have a flag, but the shape is a square.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Switzerland
A lot of uni exams are bullshit because they're drafted by overworked and underpaid TAs and some (particularly undergrad) professors just don't give enough of a shit to really rewrite their exams.

I took a class on logistics as part of my major, and our course professor was rotating an exam he had given three years prior, with weirdly dated examples and all.
Topaz was also used for long tail books, as there was a pipeline that could convert the high resolution search inside the book scans with minimal amount of human work. At the time OCR wasn't an option, so it used glyph binning similar to JBIG. The OCR'd text was included for searching. The biggest downside was no font changes
Oh, I thought it was the one where you type in words. Can't remember where to find the word-typing choir plug if that's not the one.

But here's I guess a more pure-synth version (depending on what that means, like is any real voice data OK at any point in the algo?), not too bad.

https://youtu.be/9vEA4iSjajg?t=517

Edit: Ah, here's a type & speak version...who knows what cheats there are, could be somebody under his desk for all I know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNyQ7FWV2E8

Less drama, though different software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtVGHl1AFM&t=177s
There's massive and audible differences between speakers, but it's difficult and time-consuming to do good blind ABX testing.

If you look into Harman preference score, that's the only real published stuff.

The room will also make a massive difference and probably needs room treatment.

I agree with you about electronics however... everything is so good now, well-designed amplifiers and electronics have ruler-flat frequency response. Amplifiers, cables and electronics are the last place people should spend money trying to improve their system.
Professional players lose the ability to play at that level after a few years. Programmers can usually find another job after staying a few years at Netflix.
> Attack on Titan: 96% fresh on RT, and … they only get the first season? Like, why build your viewer up with a good show and not be able to finish the story?

It's even worse than that. You can't access the English subtitles in some countries! I was watching in France and after reaching out to support they told me that their license didn't cover English subtitles lmao. And people wonder why handsomely paid people pirate stuff...
It sounds like a reasonable idea, but what content companies would be willing to put themselves in such a vulnerable position?
> and it's not useful for singing, for example.

There's this: http://zeehio.github.io/festival/doc/Singing-Synthesis.html It won't sound as good as Vocaloid, but it uses XML with singing synthesis.
I think this is really just a factor of what you're used to, because none of those Python examples seem like an issue to me, and the Perl examples seem much harder to parse. I personally prefer print as a function rather than a statement, and keeping most standard lib functionality in modules seems like the right choice for anything other than a DSL.

I agree scope leakage is a major stumbling block with Python for sure, but it only occurs with control-flow so rarely causes actual issues once you're aware of it. Aside from that my biggest qualms with Python are the typesystem and whitespace for scoping, but those two don't cause much trouble for typical scripting purposes.

And, for what it's worth, Python's f-strings have been the go-to string formatting approach since 2016 so your example becomes something like:

print(f"Hello {name}")

Which is doubly nice because you can also use format specifiers and arbitrary expressions like so:

>>> f"The current year is {datetime.now().year} and the value of pi is approximately: {22/7:.2f}"
'The current year is 2022 and the value of pi is approximately: 3.14'
Yeah, it was weird for me too. XD
All of Render's native environments include Node by default.
The more I learn of 1950s to 1970s NASA and related, the less over the top Cave Johnson from Portal 2 seems.

And then I read books like Ignition! and realize that, at that time, parts of rocket science literally were, "What are the most energetically explosive sets of things we can mix together and actually live with?" Turns out, not that many, despite an awful lot of efforts.
Virtual Museum of War Memory
So what happens on the day my kindle updates? Do I lose access to anything in Mobi format already on my kindle? That’s a PITA
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Coming from a country where private schools dominate public schools in terms of the quality of education, i assure you this is not great news. Public schools will be left with underprivileged students and the worst teaching/administration staff and it would become a great source of inequality.
> can you imagine the frustration?

That's on you for using primevideo in the first place! Jokes aside, I hate that platform ever since it decided it was normal to play a show, that I was excited about, starting with the last episode. It ended up ruining the entire thing.
I would like to know this too, I'd never heard the phrase "Legacy G Suite" until this issue began to be discussed and then I started wondering whether GMail + a few files + occasional use of sheets/docs was that ?
Better yet, use Safari and view WSJ in Reader Mode: no more pesky nags for your email address.
> If the reason is that students are being homeschooled or going to private schools, then this seems like great news.

It's not (the plunging enrollment is largely due to age demographics, which the article acknowledges, with the rest apparently associated with the pandemic, with the article admitting that no one knows the underlying dynamics really are, but insisting that experts are somehow sure that they are durable), but it wouldn't be great news if it was..

> It's well known that the public school system in the US is just not up to snuff.

It's less well-known, but no less true, that (controlling for factors that determine success within the public schools, like parental engagement, parental educational attainment, socioeconomic status, etc.) the alternatives are no better, though they look better before controlling for those things (though less so over time as the demographics in the alternatives become less skewed) because they tend to cherry pick the most advantaged students, largely simply by being non-default choices and therefore cutting off the low tail of the parental involvement distribution.
If I had the capital and the content, I could hire any number of third party companies that could spin up the infrastructure.
https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...

Search for medical imaging.

Additionally, clinicians are not allowed to share your data without your permission (barring exceptions such as self harm or unconscious). Your data must not be identifiable to persons other than care team members. And on top of that, you have a right to access that data.

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/information-blocking

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/patient-access-health-records...
To the Kindle thing, I wonder if the rise of audiobooks as a product killed the latter off to remove competition.
Maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy, but for me there's no room for remote competitors in a serious competition. Either it all happens on the same LAN or its just playing for funsies.
Some might want to do it on purpose… like recording videos in a pool or lake. I’ve done it with a 6S, it survived just fine.
Unlike almost all other treaties about borders, in the Good Friday Agreement Ireland does not recognize Northern Ireland as a perpetual part of the UK and does not recognize unconditional sovereignty of UK over NI - it's a recognition of the current situation as reflecting the current wishes of the population but explicitly leaves the long-term outcome open ended, stipulates that UK sovereignty is conditional upon NI population wishing to stay part of UK and mandates that if that choice of NI people changes, then UK has a binding obligation to cede Northern Ireland, no matter what people in England/Scotland/Wales would vote for.
"Damn tenants, paying rent and then acting all "entitled" to having a home and not buying gifts or thank you cards for their landlords!" Really?

Some tenants really are just terrible, and I can sympathize with landlords stuck with the messes they cause, but I'd guess that far more often good tenants are being overcharged for rent that goes up every year in amounts far exceeding any increase to their income, are screwed out of security deposits they should have gotten, are forced to let strangers into their homes with little to no notice, and all while having to deal with the countless other indignities that so often come with rental living (forced to get up at 5am to move your car every morning there's half an inch of snowfall, old inefficient appliances, putting up with loud neighbors and a general reduction in privacy, running out of hot water, etc).

You can argue that anyone who doesn't want to put up will all of that should just buy a home, but I think many if not most renters would much rather be home owners yet simply can't afford it. They've got little choice but to rent and because of a huge lack of affordable units are often forced to pay more than they'd like for housing. Just a couple generations ago home ownership was far more accessible and a little before that it was commonly attainable on just a single person's modest salary. Because home ownership is out of reach for so many landlords have been able to take advantage of the situation. As for renters being litigious I'm guessing most couldn't even afford a layer while property management companies have far more resources giving them a huge advantage in our pay-to-win legal system, the laws themselves are often stacked against renters too. Renters also have a reputation at stake as well. Depending on the area, a bad rental history can limit your options severely.

Landlords can have a difficult time too, but I don't think renters brought this on themselves, I think properties have been being bought up by investors (foreign and domestic) who would rather list those properties on airbnb where they have fewer regulations and tenant's rights to worry about. It lets them rake in fast money at variable rates often from wealthy vacationers as opposed to being locked into year long leases from families and professionals looking for a home. It's lower risk since vacationers don't often have problems paying because they were laid off or because they got sick and were unable to work. It's a great deal for property owners, but it drives up prices and limits options for everyone else.
There’s a joke I futurama where they go to the library and it’s just two discs: fiction and non-fiction.

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the modern version is just two SD cards. At least if you only want the text.
Maybe this will create the voting bloc needed to get charter- and voucher-based schools off the ground, and out of the hands of unions. Public-sector monopolies don't have a great track record.
Oh, almost forgot the famous wreck on Mount Rainier's South Tacoma Glacier...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tahoma_Glacier#History

Crashed in December 1946 with 32 US Marines aboard... This was before helicopters and GPS, so the wreck wasn't located quickly enough, and got buried by the early Winter snowfall. Some recoveries in the following years, but the bulk of the wreck and the bodies were left in place, as a permanent monument.

I believe the area is now off-limits to climbers, as well.
Mental Pivot
Oh absolutely, the same way Amazon removed physical buttons so they could use them as leverage for their overpriced Oasis reader. My twelve year old Kindle 3 has TTS, page turn buttons, and a headphone jack, and it cost a hundred bucks.
Northern Ireland has its own football team, although players from both sides of the border can play for either team.
I’ve never had any lag from any of the major content providers. Streaming pre-recorded content at scale once you have good content is solved problem. How do you think all of the content providers were able to offer a streaming offering so quickly? They threw money at third parties.
I plagiarized a few times in high school to get out of deadlines for work I didn't care to do. I would copy paste the the essay on Word from a CliffsNotes-type site and rewrite some of it, rearrange some sentences and insert typos to make it look legit. Got As and passed the class. This was a long time ago, before it was possible to easily check this stuff. But in college? no way. they are way smarter at checking that stuff. Considering how much businesses delegate, I don't see the harm of letting people do it it. I think it's only wrong if someone is paying for original content or there is the expectation of original content through the implicit trust between the reader and the writer.
Keep spendin' dem billions, Boss!

Every dollar spent on obsolete carrier groups is a dollar that could be better employed elsewhere.

Back in 1941 the carrier obsoleted the battleship. The trouble was it took the actual loss of many battleships in many navies for the lesson to sink home. Today the carrier has been obsoleted by missile technology. Again, it will take the loss of many carriers before that lesson finally sinks home.
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Hmmm a 2% layoff? Yeah, they just wanted fired a bunch of low performers and disgruntled employees. Much easier in a layoff so no one can sue.
Thanks for the break down. How is this "meant" to be attractive exactly then? What is the value proposition they are intending here? Why would someone ever buy something a stable coin that they could only ever redeem a maximum of 80% of what they paid for it?
Yes, the point I was trying to make is that it works because the error messages are formulaic. In which case I think it's too bad the whole pattern can't be abstracted.
Fixed now. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
I wonder why you’d think, even after a rare murder conviction of a cop, that the murder victim being the “main character” is odd. The trial isn’t the “story”, only its conclusion.
OMG, so nothing ever changes, the game has just been upped is all!

But here is sort of the funny thing, as I have gotten older, I have grown to appreciate things like poetry a lot more and have even tried my hand at it a few times for fun.

I guess it just proves the old adage "retirement is wasted on the old and school is wasted on the young". Not sure who said that. I probably just committed plagiarism for not including an attribution. Sorry to whomever said it, wait, let me copy some Tracy Chapman Lyrics for the apology :)
> toppled the Blockbuster monopoly

Blockbuster was never a monopoly. Hollywood Video had a comparable number of locations, and there were many smaller competitors. The business model had no real moat.
Not everything is reformable via public vote. Property rights and constitutional rights are largely on the side of the agricultural users.

Faucets will never go dry because human drinking water is a minuscule use. Some sprinklers and pools may go dry in times of drought
It’s a good thing that Supreme Court has more public trust than Congress or Executive branch.
One of the authors was a NeXTstep freak, so I suspect Don Norman can also live with himself.
How is streaming a picture to Zoom more convenient than uploading a profile picture to Zoom? If you stream the picture, you have to have special software running all the time. With a profile picture, you don't.
The silly part of that is that you could spend 12 billion on one single monstrosity or that same 12 billion on twelve ships costing a billion each. (Which would no doubt give you much better bangs for the bucks.)
Maybe it is time to liberalize NYC's housing restrictions and create abundance instead of scarcity: https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/01/yimbys-2021-construction-re...
It was a rights issue. The Authors' Guild argued that TTS required audio rights. Here's an article from 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/01/auth...
That's a lot of CD's to burn.
+1 for Camo.

They recently updated it so that it works in all apps now, including FaceTime.
One trick I sometimes use is to pipe it through pv to get a progress bar:

% pv conn.json | sqlite-utils insert conn.db conn - --nl
36.9MiB 0:00:06 [5.81MiB/s] [==> ] 9% ETA 0:01:00
You can use Calibre to convert with kindles, but some documents don't convert well without a lot of effort/tuning and you really shouldn't have to. Spend your money elsewhere.

The biggest downside of Kobo for me has been Rakuten's update cadence. The system updates opt-out doesn't actually work from what I can tell and my device only comes out of airplane mode once every few months. Every damn time I do so it has to download an update, lagging out for a long time, and changing the UI in exciting new ways.