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It was over 30 degrees in May here in [redacted] this year and since then we have been several degrees above historical norms pretty much every week.

The heat wave of 40 degrees a few weeks ago was intense not just because it was 40 degrees but because the night time temperates did not drop by much.

Usually in [redacted] while we have some very hot days once the sun goes down temperatures drop to the low 20s or even high teens so we can open the windows and our homes cool by heat exchange and it isn't too uncomfortable (without AC).

However recently we have had nights where it is still 28 or 29 degrees at 2am meaning it is still hotter outside than inside (indoor temperatures in my home without AC on is usually 25-26 even when it is high 30s outside) so opening a window just lets in warmer air. Without some kind of air cooling you end up with a hotter ambient temperature in your home which is horrible night after night after night.

And of course warmer rivers make nuclear power plant cooling more difficult.

I am from the UK originally so follow what is happening back in my home country too and the heat there has been insane as well. Highest recorded temperatures, way above what anyone can consider "nice" in a country with homes designed to keep as much heat in as possible and almost nobody having AC.

It is changes like we see here that worry me a lot for the future my son will be living in when he is my age. Really sorry state the world is in these days :(
> According to the report, a "police spokeswoman acknowledged that the section on starlight tours had been deleted using a computer within the department, but said investigators were unable to pinpoint who did it."

Can't even solve a case within their own dept, what's the hope for anyone else?
Does the "native GUI" requirement not exclude Electron, though?
Yes, but it could definitely be true of literally every single desk job. There are also many manufacturing, retail, and warehouse jobs that could be done by someone controlling a robot over the internet. If that becomes practical one could envision a 100% WFH economy. IMO it's an inevitability and is way way more practical than autonomous robots replacing jobs.
It’s just standard. The standard Canadian mortgage contract is for a 5-year term with a fixed rate. Variable rate mortgages have notably lower costs to end early. (Early repayment terms are typically something like “can optionally pay up to 15% extra per year without penalty.”)
Sounds a lot like Bruce Lees famous quote! https://mobile.twitter.com/brucelee/status/13618679498967040...
I think you've raised a very relevant issue. Some brands include a perceived element of social signaling (especially 'wealth-signaling'), and that will inevitably generate some negative pushback, as we see here

Tesla would be another example, and also most so-called 'luxury' brands like Ferrari of course

I'm not saying it's right, or it's wrong, but this phenomenon exists
> The reason Apple didn't support Flash was it was too good

It wasn't good on mobile. And at that point it was barely good on desktop, too. By good we mean: power and memory consumption, security vulnerabilities etc.

You just don't remember how badly Adobe mismanaged the whole thing.
> They mention a host of things that the autorouters are bad at as evidence that autorouters are useless, instead of recognizing the opportunity to improve autorouters to make their jobs easier.

Sounds like a job for DL! No, really, I'm serious.

If you can feed in enough existing layouts, and give the inputs enough information in terms of what signals are differential pairs, what is the intended impedance, what is high-speed, etc. it might be possible to have a system learn how to do this.

I'd think there's enough gerbers and such laying around the Internet from reference designs to have a big enough data set.

Free business idea for anyone who wants to disrupt the EDA market...
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The challenge with this is that many orgs have hundreds if not thousands of standards that must be adhered to in this situation. So if a engineer wishes to use a database, they can stand one up with the CDK no problem. But it's going to fail every audit unless they are aware of these requirements. And even if they are aware of these requirements, doing the integration for things like privileged access management, billing and security monitoring are a pain in the ass that provide no incremental value.

On the flipside, having a single platform team write the IaC components that do all of this grunt work tends to reduce the degrees of freedom that the engineer has to build the application architecture exactly how they want it.
The problem with using one word, "recall", for a massive range of issues, is that people mistake really small issues to be more in the middle of the range.

In this case the issue is tiny, the fix is tiny. It's not like a recall where a decent number of people will die from exploding gas tanks, which also falls under the word "recall".

Maybe if they added a severity, even a simple 1-5, like computer people use for vulnerabilities, or the military uses for levels of alert, or we use for storms, and so on, this would not happen.

But using the correct word can be alarmist if articles, headlines, or pundits use it to scare beliefs into the middle of the possible range when it's at the low end.
They are a religious minority with a long history of being persecuted. And Muslims are a majority in Hamtramck and Black people are a majority in Baltimore—that doesn’t change that they’re properly called minorities in the US.
Oh jesus. 99,5 percent of sites use terrible, bland, uninteresting images. Like people have no sense of beauty at all. Now people will use these horrible abominations that DALLE shits out, well, a very nice and bright future is ahead of us :D.
Hah — crowded indeed :-)
Fascinating to me, because you likely know that any such declarations are wastes of time and will be unproductive. But you want this because of what it signals...
> The next phase will be only EV's that are half the width of a normal car lane will be allowed in the downtown core.

i don't think anyone's going to bother

i think we'll just all do what paris did and kick them out, rather than to try to create a whole new batch of differently-sized ones
That’s why it’s been explained a countless number of times in layman’s terms. We also have an education system that in theory should be teaching people about it
This is one of those "pizza was invented in New York City" arguments. Popularized and refined != invent.

The Brit Tim Berners-Lee designed the architecture, wrote the first browser and web server, and wrote the first HTML spec at CERN around 1989. Mosaic was released in like 1993 after Berners-Lee released his specs and source.

To claim the internet was invented in Europe is equally absurd.
Plus the approach. I'm not sure we need AI at all for self driving.
The treatment of native and african Americans in the North American continent is so unjust and severe, and has been persistent for decades in a way that it's almost like a long drawn-out genocide.
There's a poplar meme called "midwit meme"[0]. I guess it's a popular observation.

[0] https://imgflip.com/i/6peco7
Another looming reality is that F1 transmission Ferraris made prior to the DCT transmission introduced in the 458 are largely a ticking financial bomb: The cost to replace the primitive paddle shift introduce late 90s and only somewhat perfected in the 430 Scuderia (around 09) is enormous. So much that these cars have depreciated significantly while manual versions have skyrocketed in value, especially the F430 manual.

It's the uncomfortable truth that while Ferraris are great cars, they are horribly made, without much consideration for durability or efficiency that you find in German manufacturers.

You might get lucky and never have to spend more than the yearly maintenance and oil changes but you certainly wouldn't push lot of KMs on it knowing what it does to your resale value and chances of "Ferrari recommended repairs".

Ferrari feels like rackateering. Pay them a ridiculous premium for a non-stellar build quality and ever increasing residual fees to an authorized dealership that will be happy to charge you a few thousand dollars for something that costs way less elsewhere. Steering is light and doesn't instill a sense of confidence at high speeds like you would get with Lamborghini or Porsche.

On top of that Ferrari can go after their own customers for doing whats within their fair use (ex. Purrari) and blacklist them so their cars cannot be serviced or out right banned from purchasing (ex. David Lee) for something that wasn't in their control.

but my god they sound great and fun to drive. its just that the drama and high maintenance cost isn't an issue with other brands in this segment (except McLaren).
If you were remote controlling a robot you probably could
Agreed, quarterly earnings reports will be the death of us, at the present rate the Apocalypse will roughly coincide with record profits.
my take on dealerships is that you just have to know the maintenance schedule for your vehicle, and like you mention, understand how to gauge wear items yourself, because they will try to sell you services ahead of schedule, or on the "extreme use" schedule. as long as you pay attention and are willing to say no, dealerships are reasonable places to get your car serviced.

I've had bad luck with independent mechanics taking on jobs they weren't capable of doing properly and ruining a car in the past. Although it sounds like you had an honest one, independent mechanics aren't necessarily above selling you goods and services that you don't need, especially if you don't know the maintenance schedule or have maintenance records.
Even the progenitors of JIT did not advocate for zero warehousing - they advocated for not warehousing components which could be manufactured on demand.

Chips do not fall into this category.
Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ
The people do not support lawmakers who pass laws they do not want. Making traffic enforcement automatic would only be supported by the most strict law-abiding drivers, which is probably a minority. Your elected officials will not create laws that would cause you to vote them out of office. So, we don't have those laws, because we don't want them.

> I feel like I wouldn't be upset about rule enforcement if I knew everyone was more or less following them. What makes me ignore rules is when I see people taking advantage of them over and over without repercussions.

Yep, this is absolutely what happens. Very hard to get people to self-sacrifice and cooperate if there isn't enough momentum.

One of my favorite things to do on 55mph PA highways near Philly is to go the speed limit. All other drivers on that road are going 75-85mph. They treat you like a terrible person for going the speed limit. But eventually one person slows down behind you, then another, and after about 45 minutes, there's a line of cars going the speed limit, while people zooming by wonder if they should slow down.
That’s bull market thinking. The stock could just as easily continue sliding down.
interview with sean carroll was excellent

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/23/198-...
Matthias Wandel's channel, mainly on carpentry but really, on anything he posts, is very good. He's so good at what he does that I'd add him to that old cliché - "if you look up Engineer in the dictionary, his picture comes up". From his series on woodworking machine construction to just about anything else, his analytic mind has visualized the solution and has avoided the various pitfalls related to it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Matthiaswandel
Buridan's ass:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
This is opposite to reality.

The car dealership is doing work under warranty, so they don't make any real money from you (they can put in the work/time/labour for whatever the manufacturer wanted them to fix, but that has a set margin that's determined by corporate - who for sure have counted their beans) - the real money is in upselling - getting you to do brakes while you get the warranty repair done, selling you new windshield wipers while you're there, etc.

Hey while you're in for servicing, why don't we do a fuel system treatment too? it's only $50 and we'll get your car fixed for the warranty and get it to run better too!

The other side for car dealership warranty repairs that I've also seen is that they get so many repairs in the shop that they can't do each one properly cause they are under pressure from corporate to do the servicing for a certain dollar amount, and they can't spend any additional labour hours/time to do it right.

this happened on engine recalls, due to the complexity of an engine recall, the mechanics didn't get allotted enough time to do each one, so basically, corporate tried to shove 4 hours of work into 2 paid hours - the end result is shoddy workmanship due to the mechanics only doing 2 hours of work on a 4 hour job (so rushed, loosed bolts, parts left over, not installed correctly, etc) - there ended up being a 2nd recall on top of the first recall because it wasn't the dealer mechanic's fault - they weren't being given enough time to do each one
I think it's the American Reality, if you're extremely fortunate. The American Dream was to be able to comfortably support a family on one income with a high school diploma.
Replace "monopoly" with "common carrier" and my comment still reads the same.
Depending on where you live it's not 'going to get' but 'is'. The future not arriving everywhere at the same time goes for this as well.
I would at least recommend trying tauri.studio out instead of Electron. :)
As far as I can tell, the manual is no longer the cheap option in the US. I assume that's because it uses exotic equipment put into thousands of cars rather than the standard stuff put into millions of cars:

Fewer manual cars produced => lower scale efficiencies => higher delivered costs

It could also reflect the willingness of enthusiasts to pay more for a manual transmission (or to avoid the automatic).

BTW, the average new car price is nearly $50k. RIP to the $35k latest/greatest.
That's is one brilliant observation - love it!
This is an intellectually consistent view, which is good.

It seems to me to be relativistic to the point where I would call it nihilism, but it is, at least, consistent.
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What grounds would there be to fight? I don't think GitHub has any standing to fight the sanctions themselves. And if an entity is sanctioned all US persons and companies must stop providing them services. Hosting a git repo for them certainly counts as a service, doesn't it?

Perhaps there is some grey area as to what qualifies as a service being provided to that entity. Is my fork still a service being provided to them? Or is it a service being provided to me? But that is still something useful to the sanctioned entity, so am I now providing them a service? In which case GitHub is still a party to providing them a service.
The Seattle Report on Database Research (2022)
What should matter is their relative carbon footprints
They have the "intel atom" brand for low-power CPUs
Functions should absolutely be written in isolation. That's the point of functions!

If I see this line of code

result = val.method(foo, bar)

I make certain assumptions. Primarily that the implementation of val.method will in general only interact with foo, bar, and the fields of val. Metrics and logging should be dependencies injected to the val struct, not globals; expedience sometimes requires us to take shortcuts, sure, but those are exceptions, not patterns.

More fundamentally, that line of code, as it exists on the page, expresses an unambiguous flow of execution. Callers provide specific inputs to a function, the function goes off to do _something_ in a new level of the call stack, and, importantly, returns a result to me. Then I continue to the next thing.

The call stack underneath that function can be arbitrarily huge, sure. But I should be able to trust that when I read a sequence of expressions in my source code, the flow of execution through those expressions is exactly what it appears to be. Exceptions subvert this intuition. They make it so I can't know, or even predict, what will happen to my flow of execution when I jump into a new call stack. Every expression is potentially a return statement. That means I have to read the implementation of every function I call, recursively, in order to understand the execution flow of my code. This isn't tractable.

We obviously have to make some affordances for major failures, OOMs, div by 0, etc., so this isn't an absolute rule. But these have to be exceptional cases, not something that programmers need to consider as a matter of course. We simply don't have the cognitive capacity to model behavior in terms of recursively and arbitrarily complex implementation details. We need to be able to ignore this level of detail via simple and consistent abstractions.
> There are a lot of neat theories which model experimental work we already have results for, the problem is using said theories to make falsifiable predictions which are both realistic in terms of actually finding a way to do experimental verification and are different from predictions made by the standard model.

Ideally yes. But if you have two theories which make the same predictions, and one requires orders of magnitude fewer parameters than the other, then the former is, if nothing else, a valuable new perspective.

The analogy that comes to mind is the elaborate system of epicycles in the geocentric model of the solar system. These were quite accurate -- even more accurate than the first heliocentric model (if I recall correctly). But the heliocentric model was far simpler in that it required fewer parameters (and as we know it turned out to be the correct one).

It's still early days for the cosmological polytope. It's right to be skeptical, but the greatest scientific advances are usually considered ludicrous at first by the broader community. It's those who allow for the possibility that the new theory may be correct that will design and carry out experiments to provide evidence either way.
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> "Under the 2015 agreement, Iran curbed its nuclear program in return for relief from U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions. But former U.S. President Donald Trump reneged on the nuclear deal in 2018 and restored harsh U.S. sanctions, prompting Tehran to start violating the agreement's nuclear limits about a year later"

The unstable math of the way that the U.S. democracy works means that we are going to have increasingly unstable (and therefore untrustworthy) policy responses to many world events in the next decades. Iran, and every other country on earth, now knows not to trust us, and its future actions will have that baked in. We've lost the moral high ground, and that will hurt us more than help us.
Wondering what your issues were with Pulumi also?

I'm leading the engineering at a startup based in the UK and we actively chose Pulumi over CDK, TF etc....

Been going 12months now and we're really pleased with the decision so far.
Perceptions taken at face value are not evidence. Evidence is an observation interpreted within a consistent body of knowledge. Our consistent body of knowledge is inconsistent with the naive perceptions of qualia.

You can take the position that qualia are direct evidence and so our body of knowledge is mistaken, or you can take the position that qualia are likely deceptive and so cannot be taken as direct evidence, just like all of our other perceptions.

I'm constantly amazed how many people think the former position is more plausible.
yeah what.... it's literally just a float switch wired to the dash light
Airbyte has an interesting product worth checking out. Open source, also has a saas offering.
When you very oddly specify "growth" you're suggesting that the "West" that has had high emissions throughout your entire life, and almost certainly cumulatively more in that period, are not to blame because other nations slowly increased to output roughly the same amount but still less per capita?

That's harsh.
The dictionary defines recall as "officially order (someone) to return to a place".

> it just has to pop into the service garage

In other words, a recall. I don't see what's alarming about this. An inconvenience at best, but chances are that you'll pop in for routine service at some point anyway.
unbalanced representations only fuel the fire of antagonism; far too many examples on both sides of justice in the last sixty years, for a single summary right?
Yes but also take Jay's praises about Mclaren with a grain of salt. He is a celebrity, the rest of us are just sheeps. Mclaren's build quality and depreciation is a lot more serious than Ferrari. We are talking brand new cars purchased that create issues with unapolgeic stance from dealerships. Just watch all the horrible testimnonials from ex-Mclaren

Its almost like they saw what Ferrari was getting away with and decided to up them.
My bank credit card is indeed tied to real assets... am i supposed to declare all my assets?
Winner's prize is a lifetime place on the federal cybersecurity watchlist I assume.
Related: The Egg http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
If he wrote that, Gladwell seriously underestimates the adaptability of humans. We manage to do unsafe stuff just fine as the shifting becomes second nature.