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I think your advice of not learning the operations is really bad advice, especially for a small business. If it's a low margin business, hiring people when you should be doing the work yourself isn't going to help. Small business owner definitely need to get their hands dirty. While I'm not totally convinced, Elon Musk thinks owners should get their hands dirty even when in a large corporation.
Not building something because it will allow poorer people to move around our cities more easily is just wrong no matter what the consequences. There are also criminals and kids who strut around and flex from rough areas of town that have cars. Should we get rid of roads that connect those neighborhoods to the rest of the city?

These issues just reveal deep problems we have as a society and the solution we have had so far of trying to avoid it at all costs only making it worse.
You know, before we had interceptor missiles that were tolerably good against ballistic missiles, pretty much the exact same argument was made by experts like Edward Teller for why space based lasers and/or particle beams were essential to intercept ballistic missiles.

Not saying its necessarily wrong now, but it was definitely very expensively wrong the last time.
Similar to 13. These kinds of superstitions should not be allowed in the modern world. Ever.
I haven't quit, and have no plans of quitting, but I scratch the manual labor itch by, well, manually laboring at home.

I've dug hundreds of feet of trenches to move around sprinkler and water lines to account for a new patio and fence. Added walls to my home to add an extra bedroom and office. New trim, new solid core doors, etc.

I've painted rooms, ran Ethernet to all the bedrooms, added some outlets, replaced all outlets with tamper resistant ones, and the list goes on and on.

To top it off, I have a project car that I've been working on. They constantly require some small amount of maintenance and something can always be made better. You can be in troubleshooting mode, tracing electrical gremlins, or you can just be mindlessly sanding off rust from the frame.

Once my kids are older, I hope to get them involved somewhat just to teach them some skills. I cherish the memory of my grandfather teaching me some of this stuff and hold on to some things he made for me.

I structure things so that I can have two or so small projects running that I can pick up and set down without fuss, since life and kids often get in the way.

I've definitely saved thousands on some of the work I've done
EM Shielding is not high-tech by the way, so it's something that could always be done.

What is needed is simply using quality metal cans, shielded cables, metal braided tape etc.

The problem is not the tech. It's cost savings.
Pretty sure that Magnasanti is 3000, not 2000.
It’s the Commodification of Attention, Stupid
What about the case where a doctor’s office calls, then you have to call back, navigate the menus, stay on hold, then get sent to voicemail & they call back n hours later?

This is a really common scenario for me, so I have to leave the ringer on to avoid it.
I know, and you're right that it has lost its definition. I'm making a case that that is what has driven the very common poor use of, as in the article here, modal windows. If implementers really, thoughtfully considered the problems and were well apprised of core concepts, it wouldn't happen as often.

Here's a common case for web application in-line modal forms, which are certainly not exceptional: airline ticket purchase flows.
Or a country that doesn't have enough unserviced demand spikes to make pumped hydro useful.
I know a lot of people like Shop Class as Soulcraft, but I found the author's rosy glasses and philosophy about the "dignity" in manual labor to be extremely tiresome. There is an irony that really didn't transition to crappy m/c mechanic like the book would have you believe, but rather to an author with a best selling book.
Granted I also think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of the most overrated books ever, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
This shows why taking 15-20 years from decision to operational status, like nuclear power in the west does, is hugely risky. The world has moved past the need. Add on another 20-40 years to turn a profit and the prospects are laughable.

> The output of Finland's newest nuclear power facility, Olkiluoto 3, has been significantly cut back because electricity has become too cheap, according to the plant's owner, Teollisuuden Voima (TVO).

https://yle.fi/a/74-20032375
How cheap are international cables compared to electrolysis for hydrogen production paired with lorries for transport?
> People on the board may also be heavily invested in the auto or gas industry who also strongly wish to see a return to the office.

Musk has be expressing concern even though it reduces emissions, nominally his primary goal, far more than electric commuting, and he himself heads so many companies that he mostly works remotely at all of them.

He says some contrived argument like that because people who deliver food and work in factories can't work at home, it isn't fair for office workers to so they should suffer as penance to balance out the karma scales. It's like saying if you eat Alaskan crab legs, your little league baseball coach job should be done on a boat in the Bering sea.
Amazing!, help to better understand OAuth
It probably doesn't apply here (and might well be country/region specific), but one thing I've heard from friends who've done similar has been some resentment/hostility related to jobs that are only people with previous money can afford to take.

I've got several friends that made a lot of money in tech/law before switching to more fullfilling jobs (things like furniture maker, barista, something music-related, plumber, museum curator, librarian).

One argument they've heard is that by taking jobs that aren't economically feasible to do without money, they're encouraging low pay for others in that field who don't have any other choice. One or two volunteer for free, and have heard complaints that volunteers have destroyed careers in certain sectors.
I've been a sw engineer for 12 years, from intern to junior to engineer to senior. About 4 years ago it had taken so large of a toll on my mental health I quit with no plans other than hiking some bucket list thru hikes with my wife.

After the time off, really looking at what matters to me, I find myself looking to careers that will provide me with personal enrichment rather than another one that is "easy," high paying, and providing "skill development".

Right now I'm looking at starting very low paying trail angel services that would let me meet a lot of Appalachian trail thru hikers. And taking a job as a flight attendant so that I can travel the world for free. Both would give me complete control over my schedule so I wouldn't find myself trapped in the same cage that destroyed my mental health before.
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Honestly, wasting the energy is cheap compared to batteries.

It's okay to waste excess capacity so long as it is wind/solar/nuclear.
the fcc should not have put robocall abatement policies on hold for 4 years. for me, that ruined voice calls.
Underwater? I’ve heard of underground compressed air storage, but not underwater.
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That's all well and good until you hire Web and Dev.
The Parking Reform That Could Transform Manhattan
In high school I developed a "C" shaped mount that made it possible to affix closed loop liquid coolers (now pervasive, like those now made by NZXT and Corsair) to graphics cards in a time where the only real option for water cooling a GPU was to spend hundreds of dollars on a water-block, radiator pump etc if you wanted to overclock. With a CLC and my mount you could get nearly identical performance for $80 (circa 2012).

Initially, I published progress on the Overclock.net forum. People eventually asked if they could buy it and in time I was laser cutting hundreds a week and shipping with the help of my younger brother.

I basically used the income from this project to pay for college and eventually sold the IP to a well known PC accessories manufacturer. Asetek fortunately waited to dig up a private doc outlining IP claims they they had provisionally patented the notion of "affixing a CLC to a GPU" prior, but fortunately by the time they tried to bother me I'd already sold.

My biggest take away was how powerful building an audience can be - without that none of this would have happened.

Here's a showcase of the mounts from a corsair employee https://forum.corsair.com/blog/system-build-inspiration/the-...

Another more clear image of the mount: https://www.overclock.net/media/no-title.3710949/full
On police documentary shows, it’s frequently stated that anything in public view is not considered private.

Is this different here (legally that is)?
> You see the same BS with bike paths through residential neighborhoods.

I'd invite you to take a look at the Springwater Corridor in Portland. It is plausible that ubiquitous bike paths would not have the same problem, but it is difficult to fault someone for taking one look at that disaster and wanting it to come to their own quiet neighborhood.
When will the paper unicorns fold?
This guy keeps track of it nicely, 75 hours with negative prices so far this year:

https://nitter.net/BM_Visser/status/1660605197142351875#m

Consumers can sign up for dynamic electricity price to get the benefits (and risk a huge bill like in Texas last year):
https://enever.nl/grafieken-stroomprijs-vandaag-morgen/
The author and most people here are using "modal" with a very common popular meaning where the word is a short form of "modal window".

You are confusing it with the much less common but technically accurate meaning in UI. So you are just confused by terminology, and even though it would be better if people stick to unambiguous words, they are talking about something well defined enough that discussing terminology isn't useful.
Are you serious right now? You can talk to your therapist about it, noone on this earth cares about some corpos losing money or workers.
As other replies are saying, that does include the atmospheric drag. But that number wouldn't actually happen with rocket thrust. You'd never actually do that, launch a rocket from the surface of Venus - you'd first take advantage of the atmosphere to do aerodynamic flight, first carry the rocket to much higher altitude with an airplane and then ignite it from there.
This would be me if I could figure out a way to make it happen. A good friend of mine has a tiny farm but he is in poor health. I go out to his farm fairly often to help him. I absolutely love it (being outdoors and the peacefulness).
True, but isn't the complexity of Rust closures essential rather than accidental?

Fundamentally closures are easy in e.g. Go because you don't have to think about lifetimes, at all. As soon as you capture a variable, the GC guarantees it won't be dropped from underneath your feet. With non-GC'd languages that responsibility moves from the GC to the programmer. The trickyness of using closures in Rust seems largely to be the trickyness of managing the lifetimes of captured variables.
> It’s why they like “classifying” to keep their evil deeds covered and hidden behind an vail of authority.

I found classified docs pretty boring. Most of them remained classified because the information presented had limited distribution, which could identify sources. I never worked at the CIA though, so maybe you're right, the entire CIA is just a Ton Clancy novel.
Yes, that is absolutely an option. Your credit will remain on your account through the lifetime of your subscription, so long as you have available credit that can be applied towards a subscription. We will always draw from available credit first. So if you apply a giftcard to your account and later add a payment method, we would charge the difference between the remaining balance on the gift card and the standard price to the payment method.
Niche subreddits are usually good, unfortunately when a subreddit becomes famous lots of people start posting without learning the etiquette.

Moderating a big subreddit is not easy, you can go from having several chains of comments removed (eg. r/science) to getting flooded with bots (eg. reddit.com).
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If you really think it's so outre you face being blackballed for having the wrong opinion then probably going on about the shadowy forces not letting you state your opinion isn't that wise either, but I think that's an absurd level of paranoia.
Preach.

You don't even necessarily need to place it in a new page, probably you can just expand it inline.

Most modals are just lazy.

"Where should I put this piece of UI/information?"

"Just place it above everything else."

With SPAs you don't even have an excuse that "a full-page reload will take longer" because you can change the whole page/layout instantly.
Reminds me of the post about the loop which did nothing but take up cycles. And reducing the number of loops sped up the software.

Can't remember which one it was.
Any large battery installations you're aware of?
It’s honestly difficult being on this site some days the way people are such consumers

No, I really don’t want “a better product”. I don’t want to be “sold” anything.

I made the choice long ago just to not invest in garbage media. It was easy when they made it cumbersome to get.

Instead of sitting around pouting, demanding the media corps behave in a not sociopathic way, I realized there are way better things to invest my limited life in than consuming propaganda

And looking back I cringe hard at how many grown adults can’t get off this tit no matter how unreasonable the supply chain is. But to each his own
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There’s several thresholds here. Something that operates 50% of the time can mostly limit things to cheap power. Something that’s viable operated 10% of the time can always get cheap power.
I've read most of this article so that I may bring you the money quote:

"If you think hypersonic is fast, that’s nothing compared to the speed of light."
This is the job path that the market forces people down (in UK IT at least).

Bad permanent salaries push people to contracts/consulting. That just doesn't go many places.

My version of "manual labour" is thinking about going back into the industry with a more output/reward-driven role. IT roles feel kinda dead end.
I took a few gigs with a roommate who is a gastro chef doing catering a few years ago for the hell of it. Was really quite the experience. I love to cook but never had done it for like 80+ people on a level of expectation of a certain high quality before then. Made Spanish Paella for one event, Brazilian steak at another... Everyone thought I was some special professional foreign chef flown in from Canada which is the funniest part. We just rolled with it because while we didn't even intend for anyone to think that, they just loved it. They even invited me for doing their Christmas dinner but I figured working over those days was a bit much and politely declined.

One of the things it helped me realize is that I need to be in better shape. Felt like I got in a fight or something after each gig, spending all day and night preparing a ton of food is NOT easy, it is extremely demanding and you need to make sure of a bunch of stuff that matters less if you're just a programmer like kitchen hygiene.
Edit: I misread. Sub cent tax makes a lot more sense :)

The tax is 0.15 euros / kWh?! That's higher than my total rate (amortized connection fee, per kWh cost, taxes)!
You're delusional.
Do you have a favourite resource to learn about UWCAES, please?
About two years ago, someone named Alnar (a man I do not know) requested information about health insurance. For whatever reason, either as a mistake or otherwise, he gave them my Google Voice phone number.

I was getting, without hyperbole, more than 150 calls per day, about 100 of which were Robocalls, all of which were trying to sell me healthcare. When I would get humans, they were always asking for Alnar.

This went on for about three months, until I just decided to no longer have my Google Voice number route to a "real" phone anymore. I still get about 40 calls a day, most from robots, but they're manifested in the form of transcripts on Google Voice.

I hate Alnar, I hope he steps on a Lego block, but even more I hate that it must be at least a little profitable to do this phone spam. They're making the phones largely unusable.
No large batteries (100MW+), but they are maxing out exporting power to Estonia constantly after that recent nuclear generator came online (which is leading to Estonia having a very clean carbon profile at the moment). Both countries recently signed a MOU to build an additional 1GW underwater HVDC interconnector ("EstLink3"), but it won't be done for a decade.

"Too much clean energy" is a good problem to have! Probably means Finland can pull forward retiring the 2.6GW of coal generation capacity they have (which has been running somewhat consistently at <100MW with the latest nuclear generation addition).

https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-first-large-scale-san...

https://elering.ee/en/elering-and-fingrid-launch-joint-activ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estlink

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FI

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/EE

(EDIT: my note: smaller batteries mentioned in other comments for grid support are helpful for phasing out thermal generation traditionally providing grid support services, like maintaining frequency or voltage, but aren't big enough for material energy arbitrage)
Gasoline has an energy density like 100x batteries. As an energy storage medium, it's excellent.

The thousand pounds of batteries in a Tesla contain the same amount of energy as ~3 gallons of gas.
It's worth watching the videos of the Kinzhal/Patriot showdown in Kiev. As far as I can tell the actual raw videos are pretty rare anywhere mainstream. I found the Telegraph with a minute of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sTZ1_9Cn8

And just some rando with the closest to the original raw video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjxX2gqdlkQ

Objectively as possible it looks like ~30 Patriot missiles were fired (plausibly the whole 32 missile battery). The production rate of these by Lockheed Martin is 500 missiles, annual. Up to 550/year starting this year. They're apparently attempting to intercept somewhere between 2-6 Kinzhals fired, and it appears 1-2 of those Kinzhals (i.e. between 15-100%) got through and struck the Patriot battery and at least damaged it. That's around 3 weeks total annual production of Patriot missiles fired in 2 minutes at a handful of targets with at best partial success.

So it's both correct that Kinzhal is really just an air-launched SRBM not a hypersonic glide weapon, and that our existing missile defense looks at best barely capable of partially defending against very limited numbers of conventional SRBM.
I would say yes you're being a little naive. You'll be sitting in traffic, setting out early and getting back late, dealing with parking tickets and difficult end users. You will ache from driving and working in strange positions. It will get old quickly.
Surely alot of the latter. But it's not a matter of being few, it's also a matter of who has the support of the board / shareholders / owners to actually steer the company.

Even if you're the best for the job, if you don't have the backing of the board you won't get anything drastic done.

Whether those who have the support of the board are really the best ones for the job, that's another question...

From my experience the additional aspect is also that shareholders and/or the management board often have unrealistic expectations on what the company is capable of, and are unhappy when facing reality.

So such a parachute can also be useful to force the company to work through tough decisions, because firing the person who insists on them will not be cheap either.
Not so hard… almost anywhere they pump to will be a higher location. The Atlantic Ocean, for example.
In some sense yes, if they couldn't live only from the return on their investments, they are technically a worker. That would be the Marxist definition but it's obviously more of a spectrum than a binary. CEOs in most large companies of course have enough wealth that they could live on that alone and they are only working as CEOs in order to increase that wealth. Their work also plays an anti-labour role in collaborating with the shareholder class against the interests of the worker.
That first link doesn't say what you claim it does.

SCOTUS rejected hearing the case and has let the 9th circuit decision stand for now. That means the ruling ONLY applies in areas of the US that fall under the 9th circuit. Further, if SCOTUS chooses to hear the case in the future, they may well overturn the 9th circuit decision.

As they point out in that article, this decision would instantly make hundreds of thousands of business non-compliant and open them up to being destroyed by accessibility lawsuits.

A megacorp will just do the work and write off the expenses.

Small businesses are different. Faced with tens of thousands in expenses, they have two options. The first is that they eliminate their website entirely. This hurts them and almost all of their customers (including disabled people who might have relied on the partially accessible features). The second is to lay off employees to pay for the work. Neither option is very good.
This was a really great comment, thanks for taking the time to post it gave me food for thought
> taking 15-20 years from decision to operational status, like nuclear power does, is hugely risky.

It takes China 6 years to build a reactor, and they build them in parallel.

> The world has moved past the need.

Except when, you know, it's a quiet night
Superfluous when talking about the European Commission. That's literally all they do. Should be called the Business Lobby instead.
My favorite is when I get promoted to open the store to pay $1 for the ability to open .heic files from explorer
How do you handle deliveries then?
On the shorter side, there is a very good article from the New Yorker which was published last October for the 75th birthday of the CIA entitled "Has the C.I.A. done more harm than good?" [1]

The journalist is clearly verging on the side of more harm.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-do...
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Or just normal statistical variance.
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