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EE Power systems Graduate but only work with power systems projects, migrated to CS in the middle of the course, but I come from Brazil (one of top 5 of Brazil) so be aware of that, Course completion total 5 years but average was 6.5 years with 70% dropout.

The think about electrical engineering depends a lot on what field you work, the "projects field" are easier and more hands on, there is actually in my opinion very few eletrical engineering knowledge in here, on the other side everything that is affected by electromagnetism is very abstract and hard, almost a religion.

Also debugging software is way more easy then debugging harder + software which is more common on electrical engineering like embedded systems for measurement. If you work with electronically devices which is a common think your problems can be related to external effects of electromagnetism that are generating impulses on the system, I don't have any experience on that but I have friends who work on development of electronics for power systems.

CS for me always felt way more easier and practical, computers you can most of the time validate and check based on coding, it's easier to find errors, being that assembly, python, javascript. Also the community is so much bigger you can find so much stuff in the internet.

So basically eletromagnetism is a religion that makes EE so hard, because it's highly abstract and is the responsible for generating tons of unpractical effects on EE daily life of work making hard to understand the daily problems in my opinion on the opposite side CS is coding and coding is executable and viewed in a computer with tons of tools to facilitate that. The problem with CS is not CS by itself but the quality of the professionals while in eletrical engineering I believe the trade by itself is already hard.
You realize nature populated the forests in the first place. Birds carry seeds. It is not impossible.
It is likely that there are smaller, internal pressurant tanks that are sealed and could keep the craft bouyant
Sadly, years ago they tossed their massive, intricate website that was filled with goodies (you could even download study guides for documentaries they broadcast years ago, or go through their citations), replaced it with a modern nothing, and hid their streams behind crappy apps.
I find it interesting because it raises questions that I don't have answers to. For example:

- What caused the temperature above Greenland to be 5°C warmer than today? Why is it cooler now compared to 120,000 years ago? What causes the interglacial periods? Is glaciation the more common state of the climate?

- The article says the ice sheet is melting at the bottom? Why? Pressure from above? Friction from movement? Heat from the Earth? Something else?

- Was the ice sheet shrinking or growing when the temperatures above Greenland were 5°C warmer than now? Does existence of the ice sheet imply that 5°C warmer for some period of time is not enough to melt the Greenland ice sheet?

- How much climate data has been lost to melting from the bottom? Is the ice sheet thickening or thinning compared 120,000 years ago? How would we know?

- How much has the Greenland land mass moved in 120,000 years due to plate tectonics? Could this have impacted the ice sheet in this short amount of time?

- Humans adapt. How did humans adapt to a climate that was warmer by up to 5°C 120,000 years ago?

- How long did the warm temperatures persist 120,000 years ago? 10,000 years? 50,000 years? Or more?

- Could a cooling climate be more worrisome to humanity than a warming one?
That's a major oversimplification. The reason the US is mostly (entirely) running Gen 2 reactors is because we simply lost interest in building new reactors for a long time. There were regulatory hurdles that caused this, but there were tons and tons of other factors that were (IMO) more important. Especially economic factors related to the cost and mismanagement of large nuclear projects, public opinions shifting over nuclear power, and alternatives like natural gas being super cheap.

The NRC has been approving Gen 3 designs for a while now but nobody wanted to follow through on building them.
Except for how there's no stable sort order for windows, even if you turn off the setting that's supposed to not rearrange it all the time. Mission control was probably one of the things I liked least about the Mac when I used one for work... To the point that I ended up using hammerspoon to create shortcuts to switch between my applications directly rather than deal with it.
Potemkin as an adjective is such a useful tool when talking about the crypto scene. here's a post from when I used it extensively I guess about 8 years ago, in the same vein. Unfortunately as part of the cold war argot it seems to just draw blank stares from a lot of people under 35 or so.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3hrum5/degenerate...>

"Potemkin exchange, Potemkin conversation, it's Potemkins all the way down. Like a matrioshka doll each layer deeper is identical to the one before, but smaller and less articulately defined. "
The BSD systems have their own init system, called rc. I've never written an rc script, but as a user/admin, I find it very nice.

There was an effort to create something akin to macOS's launchd for FreeBSD, but I don't know how that worked out.
Thanks

I'll do that next time. Not trying to spam.
xBrowserSync is another one.

You can use https://github.com/ishani/xSyn for self-hosting.
> At some point us humans will probably simply have forgotten how to maintain them.

Nah, these systems are simple and incredibly well documented. A ton of people have operated them, too. They'll be fine.

I'd expect something like that to happen to a university cubesat lol.
Scary thought but you’d (have to) stop digging way above the molten part.

It heats up way above 100C long before you get there, which should be plenty for geothermal energy.

I wonder if sustained high temperature exposure would gradually decompose plastic / toxic waste / other bad things into less harmful components.

Of course, heavy elements came from down there, so it’s probably not an issue to dump them back down. Just stay well clear of the water table!

I am of course not a geologist, and it’d be interesting if one could give a perspective on this.
That's just the first and lowest bar - exchanges and broker/dealers not outright stealing the customer's money. Then come issues such as self-dealing, trading on an exchange that you you run, and similar market manipulation offenses.

Coinbase has issuer-side problems, too. Coinbase claims that their "staking as a service" offering is not a securities offering, but it looks a lot like a mutual fund. You buy in, and someone else manages the money. Just because the management strategy is pre-defined and passive doesn't matter.
Passively managed mutual funds, such as index funds and ETFs, are still considered regulated investment offerings.
China wants to gain a technological edge on all other countries. If they happen to be the first to turn a room temperature superconductor into usable commercial or military materials, then they'll have a huge military or economic advantage for some period of time.
I'd argue that's still part of the consumer's responsibility to vote with their wallet, since part of what makes a brand a brand is its reputation.

This has long been the case for cars, where Japanese brands focused on reliability and were able to outcompete less reliable brands when new, and command higher prices in the used car market. Many Japanese brands are now no more reliable than their domestic counterparts, but that doesn't mean they're unreliable, and consumers are still voting with their wallets based on their past experience.

Bringing this back to home appliances, when my parents purchased their home, it came with a fancy-looking Samsung fridge, which broke shortly after the warranty period. That meant that when it came time to purchase my own fridge, I wrote off Samsung completely. Additionally, my parents purchased a nice LG washing machine, which has been running great for well over a decade now, and again when it came time to purchase my own, I went with LG. None of these were the cheapest, and I as a consumer voted with my wallet.
> There really are no trees that are "great" for where you live, because without human intervention like what you described, there really are no trees that sustain themselves in the Lower Sonoran area. It is essentially a desert.

The Lower Sonoron us actually a steppe biome. There are plenty of native trees and shrubs that thrive all on its own with the given rainfall. People see "desert" and picture wastelands like the Sahara or the Gobi. Many people who never been to the area are surprised at how lush both the lower and upper Sonoran are.

As far as human intervention goes, there is a nuance here: there is a big difference between acting upon the world as apart from the ecosystem, and acting within the world as part of the ecosystem.

My neighbor's Pakistani white mulberry is very well suited for growing here in the Sonoron, with some help. Jujube trees (one of the buckthorne family) is very well suited here. So are moringas, with people growing dense, backyard moringa groves here in Phoenix.

There are people who figured out how to grow the classic fruit-bearing trees here. Using dwarf varieties, careful pruning, use of deep mulch basins, chop-and-drop, companion planting, they can do very well here without having to rely on flood irrigation.

> Competing for sun isn't really a thing in a desert, because canopies in that landscape are a liability rather than an advantage. They contribute to water loss, which is extremely scarce.

In the park environment I am talking about, despite it being in the Sonoran, it is actually designed like a park you would see in temperate biomes. That means the overstory trees there are large ponderosa pines (which has high water requirements for the area, so they flood irrigate the park during the summer). The tree I was talking about in that park s going to be starved for sunlight is surrounded by the shadows of several of the overstory trees

> If anything, having partial shade is good protection for young trees, which are more susceptible to variations in drought and heat.

That's partially correct. There are other ways to work with this. For example, the people who sold my black mission fig to me told me that it doesn't shade itself. Well, it does shade itself, as long as you don't trim the lower branches that forces you to then put the white reflective paint on its trunks.

In the Sonoran, the mesquites and the ironwood act as nursery trees, providing partial shade to support a variety of plants. The Suguoro cactus, for example, requires a nursery tree to help it along when it is young. Then it kills off the nursery tree when it gets mature enough. Ironwood, despite growing extremely slowly, because it acts as a nursery tree for a variety of plants, is a keystone species.
The differences in empathy was kinda the whole point of the book. Which is to say, the androids didn't have any. In the context of the story, they could act and look like humans, but were essentially psychopathic killing machines. PKD felt that being fully human required empathy.
The author has acknowledged that one as a fake.
No; inevitable is a claim, not a support.
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This makes it more believable not less. History is littered with nut jobs achieving. The wilder the story the more credibility I give it. Within bounds. Universe is optimised for entertainment and irony
> ...seven years late and $17 billion over budget...

And how much of that was a result of red tape from the NRC, DOE, and EPA?
I kinda disagree here.

When you're addicted you aren't free as in freedom

You want to stop smoking, but you cant.

Thus smoking which leads to addiction isn't "freedom"
It’s just wild to me that these billion dollar businesses are operating like they still exist on the dark web. Is it really not enough for these folks to be exorbitantly wealthy they also need to criminally defraud their customers? I suppose some habits die hard.
No, like, how many companies are paying support contracts for Nginx, anything you npm install, anything their engineers 'brew install'. Some of these might have support contracts that you can buy, but that's not used in the vast majority of cases.

I really do think you're not seeing the forest through the trees here.
Wait, i don't understand. I was under the assumption that this text was a joke, but now I'm seeing it in reference to air force training materials? Is it a joke there as well or did someone actually write this text seriously, and plan for it's use as intelligible instruction?
Your comment doesn’t refute the idea that JAMStack isn’t modern web development. All you did was pull up the over-used statistic of “80% of the web is PHP” which I’ve heard for well over a decade. It may have been true at one point, but I highly doubt it is now. (Citation needed)

Netlify has done nothing but innovate and push the needle forward for front-end devs. I’ll be there until there’s a VERY strong reason not to be.
I think it would be easy to recognize diamagnetism vs Superconducting and thus these superconducter experts wouldn’t embarrass themselves outing such papers
Makes sense if your software is responsible for keeping people alive. Most of us don't need to work to such a standard (thankfully).
They could do that by entering the 21st century and having an IP-locked subscription system.
Ah, "everyone knows." The only argument that can't possibly work against anyone.
My word. I and at least one other poster here were misled by the picture at the top of the article.

But, for whatever it's worth, a trip to Wikipedia tells me that they took 2 years off, due to covid.
do you have a link to the git guide?
I don't know... I run six wordpress sites and only have three phones.
There are still trees native to the Sonoran though? Palo Verde, desert ironwood, acacia, palms, and the not strictly native but highly adapted mesquite. You'll see these trees planted all over the metro and if you visit someplace like Granite Reef, you'll find entire natural groves of them creating dense shade even in the hottest months. The key to this is obviously water, but far less than you'd need for stands of other tree species (and it can be deeper).
Unless all your shade trees are evergreens (unlikely) there's this thing called "autumn" when the leaves fall off the trees and they don't provide shade any more.
We don't know intelligent beings that aren't mammals, either, but that doesn't imply that one is a prerequisite for the other. One could reasonably argue that self-directed agencies are an outcome of the evolutionary process, and predate evolution of intelligence, so the latter necessarily comes with those strings attached in nature. But we're past the "in nature" part by now.

I know that in my mental model of what intelligence is, a completely passive entity that responds to my questions in a certain way would qualify.
https://www.netlify.com/pricing/#pricing-table-full-feature-...

Almost every feature you charge for is something you can achieve for free inside of a basic VPS. I understand you have the classic SV "Hotel California" model where you can check in but you can never leave. But frankly this makes the internet worse in every way possible and part of the point of the original article.
Being discriminating about who you let use powerful things is a feature, not a bug. Using the word to imply predujice/unfairness is tiring and incorrect.
Yeah I've used a lot of drugs and the only one I'd classify as genuinely easy to get addicted and difficult to quit is nicotine.

With weed I go through periods of using it constantly for a couple weeks, and then just getting bored with it and not using for months.
What's performance like without BLAS acceleration?
Your point is about the factual statement (whether Intel x86 is actually dead).

But this subthread (as started by amusingimpala75), and your direct parent's question was about whether the idiomatic usage of "(old) X is dead, long live (new) X" was correct (given that the author believes AMD taking over Intel is the factual case). That is, not about whether the factual statement is correct or not, just whether it's expressed well idiomatically.
Yo. Thanks for Netlify. It’s legit and I, for one, welcome our new overlords.

All jesting aside it’s easily one of the most pleasant developer experiences you can have as a modern web dev in 2023. Everything just works and failures are loud, obvious, and usually dead simple to fix.

Well done, says I.
The original poster hinted that "notifications" and email were options.

For SMS text message notifications, I use an AWK script to send SMTP to an email-SMS gateway. I try to keep these under the 160 character limit, only sent in extraordinary situations (high server room temp, decoy port triggering on the firewall hinting an intrusion, etc). I don't want this blowing up my phone.

For email, I have a MIME pack script that allows me to send a message with an arbitrary number of base64-encoded attachments.

Does that cover what might be in a failure alert script?
Then those traffic engineers are idiots, because they should be designing the roads so that people don't feel like they can safely drive at speeds that will endanger themself and others.
Did you read some that said they were amturish or did you actually think that
This will make for the ultimate "that time I brought down production" story for the engineers involved in this oversight.
On the other hand there’s something to be said for a comfortable climate that leaves people with time to think when the everyday isn’t a constant complex struggle.

The Inuits of Greenland and Sami people of Lapland didn’t have Aristotle or Confucius.
Of course. A captive portal can also be more sneaky and mangle the packets to redirect them to their own DNS service, since it's not encrypted.

But that's the beauty of iodine. It will still work because if the captive portal's name servers actually fully resolve requests, it will contact your upstream iodine controlled name servers and forward the response as-is, because that's just how DNS works.

Of course it's also fairly easy to detect/block since your DNS usage will be completely abnormal.
We would need add 20000+ of them, give or take.
Discovery of a Supernova Remnant
>Is it just me or has anyone else noticed an increase in arguing over the meaning of words on HN lately?

Depends on what you mean by increase, arguing, and words.
Mostly agree... though I think Solar tech still needs to improve a bit. Nuclear power is definitely needed for the grid, though preferably more inland in places less likely to be affected by natural disaster. I get why the NY plant was closed.

I also hope that the build and cost timelines can be shortened. I think the push for electric cars is a bit of a miss in this, only because the grid needs to improve dramatically before such efforts can be effective and are barely keeping pace with current demands.
Storing hydrogen in vehicles has never seemed like a good idea to me. The risk is too high since the gas tanks can't be made indestructible and hydrogen goes boom quite spectacularly.

But as a grid storage medium it could make a lot of sense. The fundamental equation is just too good to ignore - energy plus water becomes hydrogen, hydrogen becomes energy plus water - and only water.

The world needs both energy and clean water, so it seems like a potentially perfect "twofer". (I must admit that I have no idea if the amount of water generated from combustion is relevant).

The inefficiency doesn't seem to be a fundamental problem, as we get increasingly more surplus energy from solar and wind. This summer utility companies have had to "pay" customers to use electricity in Europe, a mere 6 months after they had the highest electricity prices on record. Any method to store even a fraction of the current surplus so that it can be sold for 50+ cents per kwh in 6 months should be very interesting.
Water is called the "universal solvent" for a reason. We use soap for the exceptions, but water still does the bulk of the removal of things you don't want (dirt, salt), while soap handles the rest (generally oil based stains)
I've done the usual moderation things in that thread to try to dampen the offtopicness. That's a separate issue from merging dupes. Though I completely agree with you otherwise.

If there are subthreads there that ought to be ranked lower than they are, let me know here and I'll take a sterner look!
Similar. Rhubarb is perennial. You're forcing the first flush of growth for the year but you can't force it all season. Later harvests will look different. Still edible, but you're never pulling the entire plant out of the ground with rhubarb like you have to do for Belgian endive.
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A trillion trees by 2030, each fixating 30 kg of CO₂ per year [1], with a global CO₂ emission of about 40 trillion kg by 2030 - roughly linearly extrapolated from [2] - that would capture about 75 % of global emissions, much more than I would have guessed. A billion trees on the other hand are just 0.075 % of global or 0.6 % of US emissions [3]. Also according to [1] a billion trees will need 20,000 km², a trillion 20,000,000 km², that are 0.2 % and 200 % of the US land area. And a trillion trees till the end of 2030, that are 369 million trees per day every day, that seems quite ambitious. The numbers used are the first thing a search turned up, I hope they are at least good enough for the orders of magnitude.

[1] https://www.encon.eu/en/calculation-co2-offsetting-trees

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...
LSD used correctly is an insanely effective way to combat addiction
Pee-wee Herman actor and creator Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70
The difference is that high level languages actually bring a level of abstraction not present in assembly. Tailwind does not exist on a higher level of abstraction. It's at the same level but written in a different vernacular
Who’s taking it seriously? It’s fantastic armchair entertainment.
> Of course, when confronted, they say it's not addictive and they dont have a problem. As we know this is the first sign of a very serious addiction.

this has to be more nuanced, because according to this logic 100% of all humans have this addiction. If you confront a non-addict, they too will tell you that they don't have a problem.
Is it really "space junk" if it was meant to fall back into the ocean during launch? I thought it meant the junk orbiting earth and pose a risk of orbital collisions.
If Bitcoiners Don't Do More, CBDCs Will Win
I prefer my microwave. I often just press the "Reheat" button once and its practically always perfectly cooked. It'll even suggest turning or stirring if it thinks it needs it, which is usually only for large things.

I don't even have to think about how far to turn the dial.
"Roof" != "house". Houses are closer to luxury, we previously defined that.
GitHub has too many hidden features
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php 77.4% as of today.
Just to add a little more complexity to the equation. Note that there is a weird level of approval for some substances ( coffee, uppers, whatever NY brokers and med students use ), because they help some corporate goals, while those that do not increase bottom line and are even detrimental to it ( alchohol, pot and so on ) are frowned upon, because they lead to downtime.

I am mostly thinking out lout.