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Bamboo, it's the most efficient plant at doing what you want. The challenge is harvesting and processing it, and it's considered an invasive species many places so you kinda gotta grow it where it's already
Why does the EU have to limit trade? Importing energy? Can't you just leave that to the countries themselves? That's my whole point: the EU was never a good plan.
Really hoping this gets shut down everywhere, not just the UK.

Adobe consolidating/owning every possible design tool is not a good thing.
Will there be any support for Wasm as a target for compilation?
Sure the car will come out less damaged, but the pedestrians will be far more likely to die.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but FuSa dev teams are often full of "risky developers" who frankly shouldn't be within mile of any codebase your life depends on. You can only hope the safety culture and tooling keeps them in check.

There's genuinely good parts of the standards, but a lot of the rituals are just checklist items to assure certification authorities you have a defined process similar to what they've seen before, regardless of whether that's actually effective at issue reduction/detection. In many cases, they're actually counterproductive and encourage people to focus on minute, obscure error sources rather than addressing significantly more common issues like memory safety and undefined behavior.
> It'll be interesting to see how quickly Tesla brings out another truck to replace this model.

That seems unlikely given how much of Elon's ego is tied up in this thing. It'd be the sanest thing for them to do, but I just don't see it happening.

I'd be overjoyed by an electric minivan.
Looks very nice from the ergonomics point of view. Trying to figure out the "call stack" of a bunch of Actors communicating via promises and futures is a mess (the physical call stack doesn't match the logical one at all) and their solution looks great. Also great work on making Swift and C++ seemingly so interoperable--I didn't know that was possible.

I wish they talked about performance. FoundationDB has a lot of low-level optimizations to make the overhead for the concurrency primitives low, custom arena-based allocators, etc. Given that C++ is often chosen for systems code because of potential for low performance overhead, it would have been interesting to see some benchmarks of how well the new Swift code performs compared to the Flow/C++ code.
Why Apple is working hard to break into its own iPhones
It won't have a high production rate in the beginning anyway, so we'll have time to see how it goes.

I personally think it's great that they are attempting to build such a thing.

EDIT: Media sure tries to put negative stories out around launch time.
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American Airlines will pay to bury 10k tons of CO2 underground
Pretty sure we have more sophisticated materials science now, so we don't simply have to use such a heavy metal; better to use a lightweight alloy, with the usual crumble zones and strength from design integrity, not basic material strength.
China's Transsion, No. 5 smartphone maker, keeps ascending
It dates at least from the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Article 12 uses the word "piracy".) I presume the Berne Convention wasn't the first hyperbolic use of "piracy" to describe copying without permission.

The Barbary Pirates were still somewhat operating until France took Algiers in 1830. I'm not sure which other pirates would have been around after 1830, but the real threat of piracy was within living memory in 1886.

Murder and plunder on the high seas is so much more exciting to claim you're fighting, rather than admit you're cracking down on someone in a basement with a printing press.
Manufacturers learned decades ago that aluminum is safer for driving, more efficient, and easier to manufacture.
> Those VMs are where exactly

Well that's my point.
Google Maps routed drivers into a desert during dust storm
Live data would be great, but I'd be interested even in historic data. Not like 1880s but a timeseries of 15-minute granularity of train positions for last year. It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks were and what other routing possibilities there could have been.
Comically large yet you can't fit a mountain bike in the trunk.
Not if you plough your 10(?) tonnes vehicle into another one.
> The lawsuit claimed that the hospital and OPO had frozen Mike out of the decision-making process for Brittany’s care, instead favoring Mike’s ex-wife, Shawna, Brittany’s mother. Mike said they did this as soon as they learned that he did not want her organs to be donated and that he believed she may still be alive.

> Brittany was an unmarried adult without adult children. The suit claimed that both organizations had colluded to violate the California Uniform Anatomical Gift Act by conspiring to obtain consent from only one parent instead of the legally required two, and that they made no “reasonable effort” to contact Mike for his consent.

That seems like a pretty open and shut case if they failed to get the legally required consent so I'm curious why this case hasn't been settled yet. Is it because the plaintiff is going for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" and wants them to admit guilt, or is there more to the story?

If the hospital did as alleged, what in the world was the medical team's incentive? I thought organ transplant waiting lists were strictly controlled and there's practically no way any of them would have a relationship to someone on the list. Do they get a bonus per transplant done or something?
That's not really how crumple zones and modern automotive safety works.

There are videos of old cars vs. new in crash safety tests. The old cars are "stronger" and hold their shape better, but that doesn't help the occupants at all. It only transfers more energy into the humans inside.
the minimap on this page is so cool
Does this mean that all future ones will also break?

Also it was a ball, not a hammer.
And what evidence is there that it's mossad?
I send many good vibes. I wish her new place calls her today to use her awesome skills! Happy Gracias Day! ;)
> That's a weak argument, because it implies that there is a price at which this is OK.

It implied the opposite to me.
I mean, the obvious alternative would be to use aluminum, which doesn't rust at all and has twice the strength-to-weight ratio.
This brings back horrible memories at uni.
>> money has enslaved you and others...that is why you should get rid of them....

You forgot: "... and give them to me!" LOL :)
Is the book labelled as fiction?

I understand that early versions of NT emitted error messages identifying itself as OS/2. Did the book explain when NT became "brand new OS from scratch".

I think there's been a bit of revisionist history WRT the roots of NT. MS wants to make it something "we did without their help."

I didn't read your entire blog so apologies if you addressed this.
>Are terms and conditions that specifically stipulate what local laws and courts preside over any legal actions useless?

When they go against the law, yeah. You don't think it seems absurd for Cloudflare to do business worldwide but then insist it can only be reached in courts in California? That Cloudflare can just disavow compliance with German law because it says it likes California law?
Best practice is not to run update queries on production DB

Too many things can go wrong...in fact nobody should have permissions to do so...if you think there is a danger the entire customers table might be dropped, backup the DB
> So I posit this to you; Would it have been easier for him to have a fake relationship with a real person, or a real relationship with a fake person?

Well, the real relationship eventually broke, forcing him to accept the reality. Also, the fake relationship was probably closer to a real relationship than an AI chatbot would be.

That being said, neither is a good option and this is like wondering whether and SQL injection or buffer overflow is the better vulnerability to have.
A lot of “recycling” ends up in landfills, especially since China stopped accepting it. Some people like separating their garbage because they enjoy the illusion that they’re doing something virtuous, and it’s easier to indulge that fantasy than to actually have multiple waste management streams.
It's also accepted publishing standards to expand an acronym the first time it is used. Of course, kids today don't know what standards are because a boomer made them or some such nonsense excuse for just I do what I want
The article is framing is as some kind of cruel organ harvesting case, but at its core, this is more of a case of artificially forcing someone who has already died to remain "alive" in a quite frankly horrifying way.

The father in this story should have just accepted the truth about his daughter: she was already dead.
A WSJ article I read suggested, though they admitted it was only rumor, that Musk initially wanted the car to be bullet proof.

I suspect in the end, since they're not advertising this "feature", the Cybertruck is likely more-resistant-than-average to bullets, but nothing that could be legally advertised.

edit: Not a rumor after all, Musk specifically mentions in this clip: https://youtu.be/25ZuKkbHdqM?t=167
I heard the NPR piece about this yesterday. I enjoyed when they asked a 100 year what the most impactful invention of their lifetime has been and they said the interior spring mattress.
Aladdin and The Lion King are two games that come to mind from this time.
> I'm a Brazilian software engineer,

Ha! This is why R9 is up front and CR7 only makes the bench ;)
I've seen a pre-launch test mule EV in the wild from a "legacy" automaker. Aside from the weird paint job they always have, it looked absolutely fine.

This close to launch, we should not be seeing the kind of build issues we're seeing with the Cybertruck.
not 3rd party
Yes, I know, it was just a poor joke :/
Often they did.
Yard waste I get, although IMO you’re a fool if you just give away your own perfectly good yard waste instead of using it to feed your own yard.
That article appears unrelated to NXP.
Relentless consumption driving the climate crisis
And Google has no history of buying things and then shutting them down when they see a different shiny object… right?

The only guarantee this plant survives Google’s next manic-depressive episode is if it can manage to drive ad revenue or violate user data privacy.
Ransomware attack could have been better option for NXP. It would likely be over quickly and force them to take security seriously. Now, they were bleeding industrial and trade secrets for more than a year.
It's an acquisition from 2017 but do you happen to know why Amazon bought FreeRTOS?
You only save the changes that improve the loss values no? Those are the survivors whose progeny go on to the next iteration.
>I think Cloudflare didn't help their case when they started blocking websites based on their content (I think it started with a neo-Nazi journal).

Was this cited by the court in making its determination? I'd imagine not. In fact, I imagine this has nothing to do with Cloudflare's liability at all.
> Why many programmers need tools to enforce something upon them? Why not they can't take slow, be mindful about what they write and add a couple of layers as pre-commit hooks? Like a code formatter and maybe a linter?

Running a formatter and linter in a pre-commit hook is literally using tools to enforce things?
"Tesla to introduce new Model C made entirely out of grated cheese, a feat never even tried before. Ecstatic fans lauding a 'masterful gambit' from Musk"
For me it's a perfect replacement for React. I've been using it for years, and I'm much more happy about it than React. And I was already very happy with React compared to before that. I think it's the logical next step, but you need to unlearn some React concepts and relearn some Web Component concepts before you are really comfortable with it. But when you know how to work with it it's really super nice, and you'll appreciate better understanding the powerful browser and DOM APIs.
metal choice is such a small factor for crash outcomes... what if the other side is a semi truck?
>The article is framing is as some kind of cruel organ harvesting case

It was. They murdered a person and stole her organs.
It seems misinformed; I'd argue it's more down to nodejs, electron, and whatever allows you to wrap a webapp in a mobile app these days; runtimes that move web apps outside of the browser, the "write once, run anywhere" that was once pushed by Java's marketing department.
I mean if no one wants to do it there may be a valid reason behind it...
Longevity / resistant to ocean air, strength compared to plastic, and its neat that it's bulletproof?
There are good challenges and bad challenges

800V charging? Great hard problem, strategic advantages

Stainless Steel body? Bad hard problem. No advantage in inventing expensive new precise manufacturing techniques, specifically to use a more expensive material for this one model. The market doesn't really value bulletproof body panels and stainless brushed appearances could be replicated.

Model 3 and Y are why Tesla is worth anything - solve a market need efficiently and effectively. X and S, Elon's passion projects, were terrible for the business.
Prettier: Change UseTabs to True by Default
Doesn't matter how good the tech gets, you'll eventually run out of resources to build them.

Between topsoil depletion, fresh water scarcity, usable sand and precious metal scarcity, and ocean acidification leading to an eventual possible extinction of all edible seafood, it's looking like we aren't going to be able to just keep building new tech to keep supporting our current population, especially at the rampant level of consumption companies have been training them on (nevermind a perpetually increasing population).

And likely we're going to start running out of these things (and others) in certain locations, and eventually everywhere, if we don't find the will to completely reverse course (and it's clear there's been no real will to do so by those in charge). Conversion to electric cars and solar panels just improves the CO2 problem, it doesn't address the rest.

I like Vitalik and own Ethereum and I love technology, but I still don't see anything that's likely to resolve the fundamental problem that we're just using resources way, way faster than they can be replaced on this finite planet, and eventually it's going to catch up to us, short of some form of major human cataclysm (like a super pandemic or something) that happens before resources start running out.
That is all well and good on a small team of senior people , but if your project has more than a handful, with mixed experience levels, you want tools to enforce a minimum standard before even getting to code review
But Facebook aren't really charging 250 Euros either. The actual price they're charging is 9.99 Euros per month, or 120 per year.

The subscription really is priced in line with their ad revenue. It might not be priced in line with the value you're getting from Meta's apps, but it definitely isn't any kind of play to make it intentionally so expensive that nobody would buy it.

Any cheaper, and they'd be basically guaranteed to lose money by offering the subscriptions just due to adverse selection effects. (Frequent users are more likely to subscribe, but also will see more ads.)
Cheers! If you don't mind me asking, could it be due to the "buzziness" they add to Glados voice? I have a friend who received an eardrum patch as a kid, but it never fell off, so some frequencies resonate insanely loudly for him.
Spyware Targeting Against Serbian Civil Society
Deliveries are slated to happen in less than two days. These are "production" units. Worse still, they're the cherry picked, extra attention, showcase examples to be paraded around. And they're terrible.

There are numerous comments that seem to believe this is some sort of example moonshot that demonstrates Tesla greatness. Yet the core, foundational issue with this vehicle is that they decided to make it with stainless steel for zero rational reason beyond apparently that Elon was infatuated with the Delorean that was a cool car in his youth. The benefits of stainless steel are very limited, and the detriments are enormous. For instance the horrendous angular design is courtesy of the horrible fabrication qualities of that material. This carries over into fit and finish problems that are going to curse this vehicle until it is axed in the near future.

The gigantic wiper. The abhorrent visibility out of the front of the vehicle. The pedestrian killing facade. The complete and utter impracticality that makes it useless as a "truck", and deficient as a car. If Tesla had any sort of functioning management this abomination would never have continued so long.
Also form the article:

> Hospitals are paid for the organ procurement organizations’ use of their operating rooms and surgical resources.
My Personal Data Backup Pipeline
Fermi's Great Filters don't need to wipe out a species to work. All a filter needs to do is to prevent them from becoming an obviously detectable spacefaring colonial species.

When we develop the means to live in space away from a planet, there isn't much reason to keep the habitat close to a stellar gravity well. Provided a fleet of habitats is self-sufficient, it could just orbit the galactic center and swing by star systems on its own trajectory, replenishing materials or seeding planets for building further habitats, as needed. It wouldn't be easy to detect relatively small habitats crossing interstellar space, but they could have surfaces and usable volumes, and populations, much greater than Earth has.
That's an assertion absolutely not supported by the article.

They do appear to have done some procedural misconduct in a complex family scenario, but nothing about this was a murder.
Leveraging Bitcoin Miners as Flexible Load Resources for Power System Stability
Indeed, it should be cut and dry. Sounds like they failed to get the necessary consent from both parties to achieve the required majority, and proceeded anyway.
> I believe it's wishful thinking.

Why?
Newly discovered stem cell offers clues to a cancer mystery
I agree. I have pager duty, slack, teams, meet, new Relic, azure insights, service now, jira, Prometheus, and solarwinds. Luckily just got rid of prtg.

The issue is showing that to my managers would confuse them. I like the concept but it's just not clear.
"Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the spine that appears crucial to resolving a long-standing mystery: why far more cancer cells spread to the spine than to other bones in the body."
[Random advice from the internet]

Buy a printer, print the pictures, throw the prints in a shoebox.

Then you can look at them and so can other people.

You can buy a lot of ink for the price of a speced Studio Mac.

And some nice shoes too.

Good luck.
Five Learnings from Five Years as a First-Time Founder
The media often puts out negative stories around the launch of bad products. Remember Juicero?
The healthcare in the US is excellent for people with good insurance, which the jobs offering 3x the compensation will provide. I would never trade the quality of my healthcare with the healthcare my German family gets. But you definitely significantly better vacation/sick leave terms over there and it’s not even close.
The hospital is also paid for keeping a brain-dead patient on life support.
Evernote pushes users to upgrade with free plan limited to only 50 notes
Then we ought to start by looking at the moons like that in our own solar system.

I really really want to see what's under the ice (if anything) on Europa.
Of any sort of text, including but not limited to prose.
I find it a large leap to go from "broken housing, inflation, too much environmentalism, and declining healthcare" to "the EU is the problem". All these "problems", as far as they exist, exist in the whole EU as well as in the US. The cause is therefore unlikely to be the EU.

A more likely cause of some problems is the lack of people in the working age, that is, a demographic problem. The US has solved (historically) and is solving this via immigration, which is exactly the thing that Wilders wants to stop. Put differently, who is gonna build the houses? Many Dutch youths have completed a bachelor or master degree, so are not interested in that line of work.
The toughness of a pickup truck has been watered down and Musk is trying to build a vehicle that can stand to the definition of tough. That's what I gleam from his talks and publicly available information.
For instance - the bulletproof exterior, now I don't know why anyone would want a bullet proof exterior when your windows are not bulletproof. Then I think may be it is to stop some accidental bullets when you are out on a hunting expedition. Just taking a wild ass guess here.

Other than the toughness, I can't find a single reason why he would go with stainless steel.

Sitting here in India and contemplating about the CT, I would buy this vehicle in a heartbeat. It is so menacing, that it would give me peace of mind while driving on Indian roads. The vehicle by itself is an insurance against road rage :).
C2PA: an open standard to trace the origin of different types of media
Unreal Tournament didn't exist yet, and both Quake 1 and 2 were very much single-player focused games.
also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445529
> Bigger picture, I just like seeing attempts at stuff that is quite different. It feels like we’ve become incredibly risk averse.

That's a good point. Seeing this headline immediately filled me with schadenfreude, and I bet I'm not the only one. Instead it's worth it to take a step back from all that and just say, "Damn. I hope this weird truck gets made and helps change what a truck is."
Long Beach, CA systems back online after cyberattack
There has not been any public information about what was compromised or which systems were effected.
Exquilla is another paid add-on that does a similar job, and I believe the price is pretty comparable - in case Owl ever has issues :)
They're the vendor, not the manufacturer. Dell don't release all the source code for the components they construct their devices from.
It's the blanket disapproval of anything arbitrarily deemed "impure".

Genetically modified crops are as safe as any other food. Balancing intake & output (of calories) is the only practical reason to avoid carbs and dairy (obviously it should go without saying but I'll say it anyways: unless you have lactose intolerance or celiac or some other condition). Hormones, antibiotics, and "mold toxins" are not what's bad about industrial-scale livestock farming.
What's the chance this is some necessary legal step Google has to take to meet an unintended consequence of new regulation like Digital Services Act?
Nothing they wrote suggested anger. Settle down.

Mistake has more than 1 meaning. Saying the Wii, Wii U, and Switch were consciously different argues against 1. And Wii and Switch sales argue against another.