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> “I applaud your greenness,” Chris Landis, an architect and board member, told Preister at a meeting in October 2019, “but I just have this vision of a row of houses with solar panels on the front of them and it just—it upsets me.”

My blood boils, of all the things to be a busybody about what someone builds on the roof of their own property, you want to have them throw away free energy and keep burning fossil fuels because you are used to the current aesthetics of the roof, no doubt made that way out of practical choices made with the technology of the time but now frozen for the dubious benefits of nostalgia..
Oh good point, I didn't watch that yet.

You're right, it seems to be pretty wide, especially when she walks away.

I wonder how they manage to do 100 simultaneous feeds with such poor accuracy though. But perhaps this is a "best case scenario".
Has anyone had experience teaching using this and Swift Playgrounds? Is there any comparison?
In Tokyo it's uncommon to jaywalk and it's still considered the #4 most pedestrian friendly city. It's more efficient and safe for everyone this way.
Large Asteroid Impact Simulation
Climate change made heat waves more frequent and severe

Concrete/asphalt infrastructure and lack of shade makes cities several degrees hotter than rural areas
One thing I think they could do to make them more popular would be to ship units as modules without roofs. It would add some complexity to the logistics, but in my opinion one of the big weaknesses of manufactured home design is the limit on roof design resulting from the need to tow them down the road. If the roof was built on-site it would give them a more traditional design that would expand the appeal.
As we have seen in America, big companies love fascists, because corps stand to monopolize and make tons of money.
Can’t I just scan a boarding pass and get the info and not do a bunch of biometric stuff?
Structural engineer here. Much of what is said in the other responses is correct, but I will try to explain it as structural engineers do and also use industry-standard terms.

There are many things called concrete. I am going to use the word "concrete" to mean "Portland cement concrete". That's what you are describing in your questions.

Concrete is the stuff sidewalks are made of. Some people use the word "cement" when describing sidewalks. But that is akin to calling bread yeast. Sure, there is cement in concrete like there is yeast in bread but concrete is more than cement as bread is more than yeast. Cement and yeast are the active ingredients only.

Hardened concrete is a composite material made up of aggregates and a binding matrix that holds the aggregates together. Aggregates in concrete include sand (fine aggregate) and gravel or crushed stone (course aggregate). The matrix consists of cement particles and minerals that grow out of those particles as the cement reacts with water: a process we call hydration. These minerals or "hydration products" grow around the aggregates and give the concrete its strength.

What we call cement is rightly called Portland cement. It is added to a concrete mix in the form of a very fine powder. The cement is manufactured from limestone (primarily) that has been fired in a kiln before being ground to that extremely fine powder. The kiln treatment is how it becomes hydraulically reactive.

Material that reacts with water similar to Portland cement also occurs naturally around volcanoes. I believe that is where the Romans got the cement for their concrete. But nowadays we manufacture Portland cement it instead.

Hardened concrete is strong in compression (when squeezed) but weak in tension (when pulled apart). When we need tensile strength, we add steel reinforcement. The resulting composite material is referred to as reinforced concrete. Concrete can also be used without steel reinforcement when it is not subject to tensile loads. This we call either plain concrete or unreinforced concrete.

The word "rock" or "stone" encompasses a wide range of naturally-occurring solid materials made up of various minerals. Limestone, granite, marble, and sandstone are common examples. Most of the solid rock you see around your world is much stronger than concrete. Concrete is an imitation of rock. In fact, the name Portland cement was given to it because the concrete resulting from its use supposedly looks similar to natural stone quarried on the Isle of Portland in the United Kingdom.

I hope this helps. In short: Portland cement, water, and aggregate (sand and crushed natural rock or gravel) are mixed or "batched" and harden by a chemical reaction called hydration to produce a solid material similar to natural stone but with many practical advantages over rock.
I did the same, but succeeded. Only humidity was lower then in USA south. Humidity makes it hotter.
This is also a good point. Scratch isn't designed to make coding easy so much as conceptually understandable.
It totally was. I watched it all play out. The cynicism was breathtaking to behold.

But it was not a conspiracy. It was just a plan. Conspiracy is collusion to commit a crime. Cynical politics is not a crime.
> It is a truth that the human population should have never become this large.

It would be tough to cite exactly how large is too much, and there's a legitimate difference of opinion on whether it's already too late by now.

Regardless of the absolute population size at the time, the real problem seems to be out-of-control growth.

For that there's no citation needed if you're old enough.

Because of the rise in radio, then TV, today's elderly are about the first to have lifetime exposure to world events and developments in real time across the widest number of decades physically possible for our species.

Not everyone gets wiser as they get older, but plenty do and that's a type of wisdom that can not be acquired any other way.

Live long enough with enough attention to these things locally and in communication with a lifetime of first-hand information as well as world-wide media, things which turn out to be fully corroborated in every single way you just eventually can not realistically deny.

The unbridled reproduction of consumers rather than producers for quite some time now seems to be the underlying exponential problem.

And that's not human nature, it's simply expressing the same inhuman nature as all the other living creatures.

According to all sources, always, everywhere, things were better for everyone, when they were less crowded with consumers for which there is not enough being sustainably produced.

If we're not going to end up joining the majority of Earth species that have become extinct, this is one key element where a much more distinctly human touch needs to be completely ingrained in place of natural instinct.

Not surprisingly, out-of-control reproduction is almost like cancer leading to eventual death in a local microcosm and many have been aware of this for millennia.

With nothing but text and oral tradition to preserve these near-prehistoric observations, that may be why so many different ancient cultures have such elaborate taboos regarding reproductive activity.
True, but 85 million Italian speakers vs 500 million Spanish speakers so that tells you something. Sure the Roman Empire was big back in the day but the time has passed.
I once watched 2 people (whom I later discovered to be Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs) try to make their Apple ][ “computer” work, at the 1977 Westcoast Computer Fair. I predicted to my friend that Apple would be bankrupt within 6 months.

Lots of people have made predictions that have turned out to be wrong. You can read many of those in the Business section of your newspaper.

This article takes articles from newspapers and magazines, but not from refereed scientific journals. As to climate change: at present, there's a heat dome in Northern Canada that is resulting in record-breaking temperatures; we had one in southern BC last year that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. Lake Mead is at record lows. The arctic ice pack has shrunk by a yearly average of 2.5±0.9% from 1979 to 2002 [1].

Science and scientists are often wrong. That's why they gather further data to confirm or refute their theories. There's a famous apocryphal quote from Einstein when a reporter asked how a conference was going: “Wonderful! Everything we knew about physics this morning is wrong!”

So: this article is not in anyway a refutation of climate change, or a useful analysis of where science goes “wrong”. It is merely a collection of out-of-context quotations presented in order to affirm a point of view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_ice_pack
Dos-Like Programming Library
In practice both major runtimes have long-term stability guarantees (e.g. tokio has committed to maintained 1.0 for at least 5 years), so if you use libraries compatible with Tokio 1.0 then you're unlikely to have issues with this for some time.
I'd love an SD card slot so I can offload footage/pictures from cameras... at least they added that back on the Pro models. The 13" Air had it, for a few years :(
How does this make climate change worse?

Isn't it possible for a complex ecosystem to develop without knowing exactly how it happens? My compost heap hosts a fairly complex ecosystem - more complex than I understand, and I created it merely by heaping my yard waste and food scraps in the corner of my lot.

If someone gave you $15B, how would you use it to put a dent in climate change?
One thing I really appreciate about visual programming languages, especially as I watch the sorts of challenges students encounters wrapping their heads around the concepts in programming, is that the development environment and the nature of the visual language make it very hard to build syntactically incorrect programs. In contrast, text-based languages sample from the sea of all possible strings of characters, and except a vastly tiny subset of that sea as valid input; the rest are just rejected programs.

I think there's a lot of meat on the bones of creating tools that make it structurally impossible to write statically invalid programs. Consider how much time the average developer consumes in a simple iterative process of writing a program, discovering they have made a simple syntax error, and correcting it. IDEs have come a long way in shortening that loop by providing interactive feedback that the current program is invalid, but if the static analysis rules of the language move all the way into the development tooling, you're compiler doesn't even need a static analysis step!
What unrelated subjects do people not on your side have the right to talk about?
Strictly speaking he’s right in that you are still leaking a little extra information that a targeted attacker could use against you in an attack. This is your first legal name, and which gate you may be heading towards in the future. It’s not much information but it is still extra information.
In Britain, reliably, once per day it'll rain. Only the rest of the weather is unpredictable.
Although humanity is gigantic, individual human beings are incredibly small.

Super-small I should say. Life satisfaction is incredibly dependant upon what happens in the very immediate proximity: I call this the H.H.R. rule (housing, health, relationships).

Moving to SV your health should remain the same, but you'll have smaller housing, and you'll leave behind all your relationships, so you'll have no support system and no family so that's already a huge minus, in order to compensate for that people usually turn to friendship and other type relationships, but good luck finding them in SV while you are working like a maniac to fundraise and get your company off the ground. Your employees can't and won't ever be relationships. Maybe in other parts of the country, but not in SV, entrepreneurs see them as costs and employees see entrepreneurs as authority figures to manouver around to work the minimum as they possibly can. Did I mention the skewed gender ratio?

SV is a giant battlefield and everybody knows that it's a ginat battlefield and also everybody knows that everybody knows that it's a giant battlefield. People go there to figtht and landgrab.

My suggestion is to take advantage of how small you are and be extremely focused on curating your H.H.R.

EDIT: If you can't push back the strong desire to see how does it feel to be a millionaire you could travel further south towards Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Nicaragua , Ecuador...South Africa, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand are also honorable mentions. You'll be a de-facto millionaire on a Purchasing-Power-Parity basis, and you'll be having too much of a blast to even care about what Peter Thiel said or what maniac Elon Musk tweeted about.
Has there been any analysis done on the firmware running on the various ICs in the Pixel phones?
Albeit the title doesn't match the content that much (you have to give some thought for it to make sense), I would partially agree with the sentence, based on personal experiences.

I don't have a hard time talking to women in general (I am a father of two), regardless of beauty, but if a woman approaches me, with hints of interest, I get really scared/shy/anxious. If it is the contrary, that is, I am doing the approach, usually I am cool. But thinking through, it is quite interesting, given that in a social circumstance having a woman approaching you, it means that she found something on you more interesting than other guys.
Only when developers insist in using stuff like vi to write it by hand.
What is toxic about that opinion?
How long is it ok to lie to a child once they figure out the ruse though? Her mother tells the rest of the story much better and how she tried to dance around it without lying to her kid, but ultimately she caved, and despite telling her daughter to keep it quiet.. kids with secrets are dying to share them.

It also isn't a matter of belief. If you show me a grown parent that legitimately believes Santa will bring presents to their kids, they'll only be disappointed once. It's a marketing gimmick convenient for parents because it encourages good behaviour. It would be far more useful to not put them through the eventual trauma of realizing it later in life and instead focus on gifting gifts to each other in the spirit of some holiday because they care about each other. Instead we all play a stupid game that involves lying because we're too afraid to be the one who isn't.

What if another family is foreign, and has not such myth or custom? How does that child feel in an environment where the people teaching them are telling them their own parents are lying to them?

Respecting a belief is one thing. Pretending it is true is another.
People Are Running Backward. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
https://archive.ph/StYwo
It's amazing how many problems are solvable when a society chooses to solve them.
I feel the opposite. In 20 years people who are avid comic historians may remember him, like how a few people today may remember Fred Astaire (greatest dancer of black and white films). But in the grand scheme of things C&H is fading into nothingness. Few Gen Z or kids today have heard of it, and that percentage will grow each decade. Large brands like Potter, Garfield, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars will live on potentially forever as long as the brands and businesses are well managed.

I respect his decision but it makes me sad. I loved C&H as a kids but as I type this in a store it is nowhere to be found. Immortality at the cost of creative compromise.
What’s the point of using it over out Poetry then ? Why do we need a other ?
I'm pretty sure large portions of Latin America, Europe, ex-USSR and perhaps India/South East Asia have 30 year mortgages.
You missed my remark between parenthesis.
Alcohol study funded by Bill Gates finds only risk, no benefits for young adults
Go to a private clinic and you’ll have your privacy

If healthcare is socialise IMO it’s worth contributing your data, not only taxes.
Exciting project and I'm a proponent. I'm curious about privacy aspects and how they're are handled. I didn't see anything in my cursorily glance at the website.

For example if neighbor complains about their land being mapped. I don't even know if it's a justifiable complaint. I'm sure it depends on the local laws.

I guess my question is, how is this project (or drone pilots) going to defend against lawsuits. (if they occur) (seems inevitable)
Because normal users expect a unified app experience and launching a local server that opens a tab in the browser is not an acceptable experience to them.

There's also limitations with that, like the inability to use the browser native file browser picker.
Yep, but, well, about that https://www.science.org/content/article/even-50-year-old-cli...
> the electric wires are 3-in-1 wires that snap directly into the outlets

I’m curious what these are. I’ve seen these, and they’re quite nice and more expensive than normal outlets:

https://www.legrand.us/pass-and-seymour/plugtail

They’re convenient if you have a large electrical box and you need a pigtail anyway (e.g. you’re jumping off the box to feed another outlet), but not really a win otherwise. If you buy them, get the stranded version for an extra dollar or so and consider using lever nuts to make installing it even more pleasant.
The real answer of course is that your friend and the elite class are all on stimulants! And you can too!
It should be noted that whether rails are continuous or not depends a lot on the country and the region. There are still many places around the world where you'll find tracks made of separate pieces. For example, Russia has around 10,000 kilometers of track like that (out of 85,000 km total).
I'm in Eastern California, Nevada City.

I'm pretty sure no new mobile home parks have been approved in this area for many, many years and I think that's true for many areas in California.

Heck, even Paradise CA (North of me), which was destroyed by fire entirely and so had many displaced people a year or two after the fire, the city wouldn't approve any area for the siting of trailers to house those who didn't yet have homes.

The primarily motivation for this, uh, bullshit, is home valuation. Home owners, not entirely falsely, believe that a trailer park near them will reduce the value of their homes (so they'll oppose a park even they don't personally think there's anything wrong with them). And there you have it, with home values being a gigantic part of the US economy, they wag the dog of other decisions.

I mean, bless Construction Physics' heart for earnestly trying to find a technical solution to absurd home prices in the US (and some technical solutions are useful) but naturally they have to ignore or gloss over the basic it's all a racket, they want things this way part of current problems.
Sounds like wasted effort. When’s the last time you heard about a technology not being invented because developers decided it shouldn’t be invented? As long as there’s a legal business case, you’ll find someone who can and will build it for you. But I agree with the sentiment. I think that the right place to concentrate your efforts if you don’t like a technology is through the legal system. Regulations and laws.
The simplicity of the visual language that Scratch provides inherits from the simplicity of Lisp, via Logo. The Logo language (& the Mindstorms pedagogical philosophy), which is what Scratch builds off of in a visual way, was implemented as a dialect of Lisp.

From anecdotal experience, I do believe that the choice of a Lisp for Logo was an important criterion in the simplicity of the language, and thus the high impact of the learning impact.

I do think that if we find Scratch useful and powerful, then we should really re-/consider Clojure as an important language for real general purpose programming work, for many reasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-53JoGPE4
You're right. I meant SF
> If the vote does not go Draghi's way, a caretaker government with limited powers will take control until after an election. But Di Maio said this would leave Rome temporarily paralyzed to enact meaningful policies to arm Ukraine or help arrange new energy deals if Moscow cuts gas supplies.

Couldn't the Italian parliament vote to give the caretaker government specific extra powers that are relevant to helping Ukraine? I'm sure there must be someone in the country who could be trusted to carry out that narrow task in a temporary ministerial role while the caretaker government manages the more mundane executive tasks.
Yes that's shameful behavior. Good thing there are 5000 other communes that take their social responsibilities seriously.
Interior spaces were built taller, more attention was paid to ventilation, giving a natural draft where possible.

People sweated and drank more alcohol.

It was easier for many, before air conditioning, to adjust their schedule to the hot months, rise earlier and nap in the afternoon.
I love this quote:

> I discovered (or remembered) that I was more interested in doing things RIGHT than doing them NOW, which is bad news in the software industry; this wasn't the place for me.
Same with some large registrars that sell cheap, template / WordPress based sites as an add-on.
I found that odd as well; they could be confident that the Pixel phones hardware isn't backdoored at iron+firmware level, which would defeat any protection at upper OS and software level created by GrapheneOS.
What truth do they have to handle if you don't start with a lie?

We give gifts to each other on other holidays, birthdays, and even for no reason at all. Isn't that a better thing to teach a child to comprehend than a made up sky person who sneaks in your house after dark and who is constantly watching what you do, even while you're asleep?
I love what they've done and how my kids have taken to it. The combination of design tools and code reminds me of the "golden age" of Flash in some ways. Vector graphics editor, sound editor, code, it all works together - this is pretty special to see in one tool that kids can use.

The games are actually getting quite good on the platform, and that means it's hard for a lot of parents to understand how much time is gaming vs. coding.
This made me laugh! and then made me sad :’)
...I mean the last line is pretty telling that some magical thinking is going on.

>Klinger thinks it is essentially "making money on the backs of the fear that people have. We have been prioritizing the wrong things over and over and over and then wondering why nothing changes."

Somebody goes and adapts a product to a new use case, and it's doing things wrong? Seems to me it's actually something novel being done.

I too would like to see something drastically different done. Arming the children would probably go leagues beyond anything else, or say... requiring police to put their own lives at risk as part of doing their jobs, or training teachers to do the same. Or adults realizing that the world is a fundamentally dangerous place and taking responsibility for protecting not just their own lives, but their fellow man's...

But hell, that's hard.

Can't have that.
They also are against gun control, and generally favor allowing police to murder freely, provided the victims have brown-enough skin..

So, no: their politics are very, very far from consistent.
If an attacker is targeting your first name, there are any number of ways they can extract it from you in ways that are far, far easier than having to more or less literally sit on your shoulders so that they're in the same spatial coordinates as you to be able to see the custom display. They could catch your name on your boarding pass, unless you never display it inadvertently. They could read it from a luggage tag. They could catch your name off an order at an airport restaurant or cafe, unless you never give out your real name. They could also just ask you at the gate, unless you always give a fake name when introducing yourself to people as well.

The point being that 'guarding my first name at an airport' seems like an extremely niche concern, that far surpasses this particularly technology.