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>What people don't realize is that solar power is not enough to support industrial production. Neither is hydro and wind power.

You need energy storage as well, people have realized this and it's being built in most countries. Hydro however is enough on it's own, and is in fact also one of the best forms of energy storage. If you have enough hydro to cover half your needs, adding "half your needs" from wind and solar lets you save hydro for the other half (This is a huge simplification but essentially true)

>Panels block the sunlight beneath, so you can't plant anything where the panels are. On the other hand, you need space for agriculture. So, you see where the problem is.

I don't see where the problem is. You seem to postulate that a solar power plant needs to be built like a nuclear power plant and take up a huge area of new land. It doesn't. You can put solar where you are already doing other things.

In fact, we could just build solar roofs on existing parking lots! Shade is very nice for parked cars and the area currently used by parking lots is enough in most countries.

Also, parking lots are not used for agriculture.

I think the real thing people don't realize is just how great a solution solar power really is, because it's new and has enormous implications. So far most of the development has been done on a basically amateur level.

Distributed energy generation and decimated price of electricity will disrupt a lot of powerful incumbents, so there's bound to be some propaganda against it from many sources.

If the claims in the story are true, anyone using IEA as a source would be lead to believe that solar has no future, for example. But the actual solar developments have surpassed IEAs 20-year estimates within 1 year, 13 years in a row.
I hope Lemoine gets the help they need
I've not had KDE crashed in a long time. Maybe it's the distro you're using.

I'm on the bleeding edge with KDE OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
> completely mouse driven with insufficient keyboard controls.

Certainly not. I suspect you aren't familiar with win, it has a lot of these although MS seems determined to wreck them.

I'm no MS shill, I wish they would DIAF, but I do find windows highly reliable and the UI was pretty good until they decided to fuck with it. By comparison I found gnome actively user hostile. Even small niceties that windows has are missing (eg one of very many, go up a folder in windows and the folder you were on will be the one selected, very handy). I would like to sit down with you and compare experiences, but ain't going to happen. Glad it works for you though.
I thought prenups were for couples where one or both parties are bringing assets into the divorce? Like, I'd consider one if I had any real assets or savings beyond my retirement accounts, but at the time I got married I didn't.
What can search engines do about user-agent based content differentiation? Say my robots.txt allows Googlebot and nothing else. If Google attempts to double-check with a covert user agent, robots.txt is violated. Assign humans to review reported pages? It’s pretty easy to swamp a manual system like that. Just forget about robots.txt?
> but I think GNOME is the perfect desktop for productivity

I'd agree if it weren't for the default keyboard shortcuts.

Like every app in existence uses ctrl+tab to switch between tabs, but GNOME's apps (like Files and Terminal) use ctrl+pgdown.
Absolutely agree. I edited my post to add the credential because elsewhere in this thread someone callously called me a "garden variety fraud"

You're welcome to prove any of my conclusions wrong. It actually incentivizes me - it shows someone is willing to listen and engage with what I spent some years learning. The way I see its a win-win. Nothing makes a researcher happier to see someone taking interest to indulge. But letting know by an edit, where I stand, is a means of mental preservation. It hurts to get dissed irrationally
Interesting policy change for RDP

'The default policy for Windows 11 builds – specifically, Insider Preview 22528.1000 and newer – will automatically lock accounts for 10 minutes after 10 attempts to sign in fail. Users can tweak this, changing the number of failed sign-in attempts that trigger a lock and how long the account will be locked.'
And people that try to provide workarounds will get called 'clowns' and sabotaged by the GTK people:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4829
>"my nation's telecommunications backbone has a malicious FPGA hidden somewhere so it can man-in-the-middle critical communications"

Not just that, for about a decade now I've had a thought that you could just have a chip "self-destruct" when a signal goes out and bam a chip re-writes itself to be bricked.

If you bake this into some common chip (or just include it in a firmware update), or something used in say backbone level network hardware, or something in millions of cellphones you could send out the instruction in some previously routine traffic to and from the mothership and then a clock starts counting down. You build in long enough of a delay to ensure you get most devices to receive the signal, say a week or even a month, and you suddenly cripple millions of devices and create mild to moderate chaos which gives gives you a leg up for an invasion or has a massive impact on the markets, or cripples internet access for a large area for weeks or months until hardware can be replaced.
Add another anecdote to the anecdata pile. Past three months, McAffee and north american shopping chain spam is breaking through Gmail filters. And reporting as spam does not help. I assume they've been somehow building Google reputation for the spam accounts.
Find hobbies / meetup groups. If you want to improve your situation you need to actively work on it. It doesn't magically fall into your lap.

Also, stop working 9-8. Obviously it's more difficult to find the energy to do things when you're tired from working 11 hours per day.
Nice for binary shaders too, e.g. SPIR-V bytecode generated by glslc.
I'm surprised about the position of a country like Indonesia. It is ok, but it has a lot of drawbacks for a foreigner: religiously integrist country where you can easily have issues for normal things for westerners.
Food and water sanitary conditions that are not very good and can get you sick easily. Like in India.

Maybe if for them Indonesia is Bali, that is ok, but the rest of Indonesia would not be on my top even not in the worst also. Just average.
I didn't know about Mr. Chromebox. Very cool. You can also press CTRL+D at boot when you have dev mode enabled to boot an OS from external storage. This is viable on ARM architectures with, for example, Arch Linux ARM.
Europe is a big continent, even EU is so diverse.

A lot of people in Eastern Europe live in apartments and houses that can be insulated extremely cheap. There are even EU or government programs that make it affordable.
I’m constantly baffled by cold brew coffee seeming like a mysterious and arduously-obtained concoction.

Stick ground coffee in some filter bags and put it in some cold water in the fridge. Come back the next day and drink it. Leave it in there however long you want.
Yes, LSM trees are specifically designed with this propery in mind.
IP Fronting too: https://research.cloudflare.com/publications/Fayed2021/
Maybe you can help steer the project toward a dual use of a reservoir or pasture.

When you don't have to pay rent on land, you don't need to pack the panels cheek by jowl. Pasture doesn't normally generate much revenue, per acre, and it tends to be all at once, so something producing year-round is a welcome buffer. The livestock keep down weeds and benefit from shelter, so are healthier.

On water, the panels are kept cool and therefore both notably more efficient, but also last much longer. Nobody knows yet how much longer. They cut evaporation and biofouling.
The Polynesians got to South America so yes.

> Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement

> Here we analyse genome-wide variation in individuals from islands across Polynesia for signs of Native American admixture, analysing 807 individuals from 17 island populations and 15 Pacific coast Native American groups. We find conclusive evidence for prehistoric contact of Polynesian individuals with Native American individuals (around AD 1200) contemporaneous with the settlement of remote Oceania13-15.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32641827/
Yeah it's going to tone down the fruitiness, though some may remain depending on how fruit-forward your coffee is.
Censorship bypass needn't necessarily be a security solution.
Same for me, later I switched back to zsh after I discovered this plugin:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Best of both world really.
So a bit of a paint on container is used for routing? How feasible it is for criminals to repaint number on a container enroute to divert it and therefore steal its content?
because Qbits are just random numbers. They want to make u believe that Qbits represent a range of values, which is true in theory, but in reality it's just a plain old single random number. So all QC calculation are basically random + random * random - random = ... random ofc. I think google it's only QC application was a program that generates some random hash. Other than that, QC hasnt done anything else, nor do i believe it can.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227490-googles-quantum...

Note, it turned out later that classical computers could still do this faster, so, another QC fail.
> Fox News and CNN are both legitimate news sites.

I avoid both.
> Lots of Dresdeners were supporters of faschism before the war and after the war.

Loads of Afghans support the Taliban. Doesn't mean firebombing any city there is the proper answer to anything there.

And loads of people support the US government, the Russian government, the British government, and so on and so on. All of those countries have some absolutely massive atrocities under their belts.

And absolutely none of it is deserving of burning the flesh off civilians and children.
Learn the art of invoice.

I create an invoice immediately.

Start invoicing after the first conversation where you agree you will be doing the work.

Invoice immediately.

Micro invoice if you have to.

Invoice in minimum four hour blocks just for talking.

Invoice in ten+ hour blocks like a retainer for mom and pop shops so you can inch forward.

Invoice requesting portions up front (just to begin!) on invoices worth over 10k.

Bill reguglarly.

Invoice up front for the TOTAL amount, and then send the same (modified) invoice periodically (once a week, once every two weeks, every 30 days, or on incremental delivery. What ever works best!) for regular payments on completion of milestones.

And did I mention KEEP INVOICING! Don’t have feelings. The contract part is you will DO THE WORK and they PAY YOU.

You may think I’m being silly. Too many fine technical folks are ignorant and afraid of MONEY.

Bill for everything productive (talking, email, meetings). In fact, a good rule of thumb is to add 25% to your estimated project costs for TALKING and other administrative tasks (as low as 15 minute increments if necessary.)

Good luck! And remember, INVOICE!
California is a Community Property state, New York is not.

The rules in Community Property states is marital assets have to be divided equally (50/50) in non-Community Property states they must only be divided up "equitably."
As a long time user, and a front-end developer, Gnome 2 and its derivatives don't make much sense to me. "Vertical taskbar? Not on my watch!"

Sometimes I feel like I am the only person to setup a vertical bar and complain about them using a repeating 1x30px (don't remember the actual number) image for background, rendering the bar barely usable. Something MS nailed back with windows 95!

Gnome 3 is mostly fine but not before you reach for at least a couple of basic add-ons. I truly believe believe they are trolling people with the default behaviour of Gnome 3

I liked Canonical's Unity very much, although it's no longer the prettiest. I realized that last part due to the recent reboot
Ask HN: Courses/resources you can recommend to start with ML/AI
I am a backend dev and would like to learn a little about ML/AI. No concrete plan to use the knowledge on any project, but think it will become more and more important in the next years and want to be prepared to that.

What resources can you recommend to get started?

Should be self-paced or with max 2h mandatory sync time commitment per week and if possible be less than 100$ per month

I am more interested in fundamentals and concepts than a project driven “code along this python project” kinda style.

Thanks for your help!
Oh, I didn't realize they were the same computer! that's quite the price difference!
Exsolation might find a use. Big mirrors at L2 to reflect sunlight to solar farms at night? They would need to focus very precisely, from a million miles off.
Yes I built this feature last year!
I don't think a PERT distribution accurately describes software estimates due to the upper tail being potentially infinite.

See figure 1-3 here for my mental model: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/articles/article.aspx?p=...

(Pretty sure if this distribution has a name but I can't remember it)
If shipping was done under now void contract, will transport company be paid at all?
Not the op, but that only worked half of the time when running install scripts from the internet. To make it really work you basically had to setup and maintain a full bash environment in parallel to the fish environment (env variables, paths, etc...). Most software packages out there really expect that you're running in a bash-compatible environment.
>At this point if you're wearing a mask you are quite a kook

Masks are still very much a thing for a LOT of people in the midwest. In the past 2 weeks we've had at last 7 family members (my 69 year old mother, some of my wife's siblings and their children) diagnosed with covid. One of my sisters-in-law works in a nursing home and they currently have 17 cases of covid between staff and residents.
It works really well, but there's a bug: the exported JPG is different from the actual drawing. Draw a circle, put some text in it, export to JPG. Pay close attention to the alignment, it will differ.
It is quite a standard 2-generations house (at that 1925 time), 250 m² and two apartments, + a base level with an office. I am not saying that this is the universal standard - but it is _a_ standard that I do see quite often here, especially if you look outside cities, where the turnaround for reconstructon of houses is slower.

.. and this was quite thoroughly calculated. I can tear down the house and build a new one, but apart from the waste of resources - building a new one will also cost minimum €200k - so I thought, why not 'oversize' PV, if it only costs €100k and can heat the house without improving on insulation?

To emphasize, this conclusion will likely not apply to the majority of people (especially here on HN) because as many have said here, parameters and contexts differ widely.
I use the latest Ubuntu with Gnome and it seems… OK? I’m not super picky, I can find my way around - and tolerate - anything as long as it’s not Windows.

That said, I have a Framework laptop for my personal use (my company gives us Mac devices), and they say Fedora has the best driver support. Since I’ll be evaluating a new distro, I’m also considering taking another serious look at KDE after a long time using Ubuntu’s Unity and Gnome. Concretely, what would I gain, and what might I lose?
Like many things I think balance is key. Unless the government is theocratic religious organiztions have no place in it. But individuals (elected or not) should fully operate and make decisions in accordance with their openly held beliefs. Whether that belief is conformant or influenced by organized religion is not relevant. What is important is whether or not their beliefs have been made known to those electing or appointing them.

A government of the people must reflect the beliefs of the people.

What if the people believe in sharia law and they are only a neighborhood in Marseille? That's what rights are for, they are there to protect the minority, the people must agree on rights that apply for everyone that cannot be overriden by popular support. Individual beliefs should not override rights of the people.

What you see in many european countries and even in the US is open bigotry. Hatred and hostility to people of faith as a whole. "You can believe things but you can't practice them in public" you might as well make atheism the state religion like communist russia. No religion or lack thereof should be supported by the government, this includes not having a religion. Atheists should be allowed to run for office and practice their lack of religion as should a sharia law supporting muslim but neither shall infringe on the rights of the people. However they may well infringe on many aspects of people's lives that are not protected by law as rights.

The west as a whole owes its way of life in some shape or form to religion because before atheism and secularism became mainstream like it is today every aspect of people lives was influenced by religion and in some cases it revolved around religion. Unless the claim is that the only accomplishments of civilization that count are ones made after secularism and prior accomplishments were not a stepping stone to post-secular accomplishments?

Or is it that religion causes wars and all kinds of horrible things? I got news for you, people will find excuses to do all manners of evil and cruelty with or without religion. Both world wars and every american war were not caused by religion. Every civilization with or without religion has wars, genocide,etc.... we humans suck. The french themselves even to this day facilitate all manners of cruelty in africa without needing any religion to support their actions. It is a terrible excuse to appear superior to one's ancestors and avoid confronting the mess inherited from them.
The maturity of a desktop project that drops the GUI designer, expects devs to simply type raw XML, while the upcoming designer uses Web technologies to draw what are supposed to be native UIs.
More like: Google fires employee who violated the company PR guidelines to publicize their personal agenda.
nice comment bro
I think the open source community can definitely do something cool like this. Although good UX has been historically the Achilles Heel of open source, I believe the focus would help a lot in this regard. No need to worry about the engine part itself. Godot's editor for example is already quite good, and it's only a portion of the engine. Imagine what a team with more focus could achieve.

It would also help tremendously in standardising file formats and other conventions. We've kinda settled on either ECS or Node-Based architectures, so there's an obvious starting point, concept-wise. Just have each engine provide a configuration file telling which components (or node types) are available, and how they can be configured. Or provide a language-server-like API so it's extensible.

There's no need to worry about high-fidelity, physics, sounds, or scripting during the editing (only during debugging), so some editor that just knows the 3D formats is enough. If debugging is needed there should be an optional way, like with code editors.

I've been looking for a big project to tackle, maybe that's something I can try to start myself :)
>I wonder if quantum computing is just a mirage

Or something else.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
"prevent injection of a driver that can divert all my shit at the kernel level" is exactly what you want secure boot protecting you from.

The only thing Secure Boot is doing here is preventing you from loading a driver not blessed by Microsoft. They would happily bless "a driver that can divert all my shit at the kernel level", but it costs too much for the maintainer of WinDivert.
There's a very obvious paper trail of people not wanting renewables.

As the article notes this price decline was predictable decades ago, but you can't really blame people for being dubious about predictions. Maybe the people who got it right were just lucky.

But since real actual installed wind and solar became cheaper a while ago, the people still openly arguing against renewables slide ever close to cartoon supervillain status.
We're not far off: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rc2u5h/this_is_a_note...
My father recently died and one of the strangest emotions that I felt after his death was not of sadness but of relief.
He wasn't old or in pain. It wasn't relief for him. His death was an accident and I'm sad about that for his wife and everyone else including me.

The relief I felt was from expectations lifting. It's made me do a lot of thinking about how I live my life, and the implicit choices I've made due to expectations on me. Most of which I didn't really see as external forces for the longest time.

Whilst it's easy to say, but hard to do, I would suggest you just live life how you want, your parents are adults and are responsible for their emotions.
Again it's easy to say this. Hard to do it.
This isn't how divorce or child support payments work. This is just a popular line of reasoning in Men's Rights circles. It's certainly possible but very unlikely.

I know lots of people that are divorced, with partial custody. Most like the situation better than when they were married.
I've done this same thing for bicycle rides. Each step of a turn on a line, loop the thing around the handlebar, and tape so it's a loop. Worked just fine.
Wow that sounds too high. Maybe insulate only the parts you frequently use, perhaps?
Divorce as a service. We already have marriage as a service in the form of “open relationships” one can argue. How about child bearing as a service? Perhaps in the form of surrogate or finding willing donors/carriers? And then child care as a service under the umbrella of adoption as a service, child rearing/daycare as a service (for example an app that allows each party to sign up when and how they would split the time spent with the children.

I think this model in western society has a long way to go in each of the above areas open for disruption some form or other.
The proportion of comp sci tasks that have practical importance for which a quantum computer can shave off a factor of ~000s seems to be sufficiently small to doubt it will "change the world".
Yeah. Frankly I don't know much at all about Wolfram's work, other than that Mathematica is the best maths software in the world. As far as I have gathered, his work is so strange and different that it has very little contact with most physicists. I work in quantum measurement and non-linear quantum optics and no one discusses him, either on the experimental or theoretical side. He seems to be a smart maverick with a bunch of money. I don't know if anything will come of it in the end
Germany cancelled projects in Africa with HVDC cables up-continent when solar panel cost dropped to the point that they can just buy enough local panels to meet power needs.

Siting panels in the desert is kind of stupid. The high temperatures make them less efficient, and degrade quicker. They would better be floated on reservoirs, constructed for the occasion if necessary. Nobody doesn't like more reservoirs, or shade for the reservoirs they have. The reservoirs could be kept full by desalinating water when power demand is lower.
Sorry, might be a dumb question, but isn't this simply a matter of encrypting your packets or using a VPN?
Just take my money!!!
Until you get your firmware remotely updated by a malware exploiting security vulnerability.
Async let – A new concurrency primitive?