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> violent deaths on Earth have been massively trending downward for decades.

Right after they spiked to an all time high during WW1/WW2/Stalin/Mao reign.

I know what you mean and I don't want to dismiss it outright - a lot of the small conquests that dominated Europa for millennia have indeed vanished and the motivations for war in a knowledge economy are very different. But I think we've mostly switched lots of small wars between small countries for fewer big wars between bigger countries - with bigger intervals in between.

The trending downwards for decades statement requires to take measurement only in very specific timeframes and regions. If we take the last 100 years as a whole, they certainly have not.
Being laser in itself is afaik less of a factor, but being IR and a very small spot are more so.
You would buy, or rent from the local library, a book for ZX Spectrum and type that Pascal compiler source code in.

https://worldofspectrum.net/pub/sinclair/books-pics/p/Pascal...
Also like modern Croatian architecture. They're even repainting older buildings in white with black details. Blergh.
I used to use windows a few hours a day. Almost every day I would have to track down a rogue process that pegged my cpu and sometimes disk and would bring other programs to a halt.

It was almost always Cortana or index service or disk defender or something Microsoft added with very good intentions. And I would deprioritize it, or tune it, or disable it if it was optional. And every time, Microsoft would turn it back on against my configuration settings and wishes and it would start messing up my system.

The most frustrating part of this was googling and debugging and finding many other people struggling with this, for years; and Microsoft not fixing it. And it seemed like they would gaslight by saying it didn’t happen, or shouldn’t happen, or it is acceptable that it happened.

I expect that this new feature will suck so hard. I’m glad I rarely use windows these days.
didn't notice before, but the CNN article has a link to a PDF report that gives a lot more details.

https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/report_1_E.pdf

Here's the longer description of the same thing. It sure sounds more serious.

> When applying for certification of side collision tests for vehicles developed by Daihatsu for overseas markets (four models), the person in charge of conducting the tests, concerned that it would be problematic if the development and sales schedule was not met due to the failure of the certification tests, made manual modifications on the certified prototype vehicles that differed from those of mass-produced vehicles, such as cutting the back of the plastic front door trims to prevent sharp edges in the event of a collision, in order to ensure that the vehicles
would pass the certification tests.
What if people enjoy their privacy at homes? Leave them be...
This is my experience as well. I encounter cert errors more now than ever, and I tend to ignore them.
Borland never really cared to support Turbo Pascal for Mac, from what I've read. Most of TP popularity is from the PC market after all
This just saved many people years of therapy and self-doubt.
It looks like all existing solutions are too slow by a huge factor then :)
To be fair, the car she had at the time did not beep on low gas.

That said, most of the utility comes from not having to spend time stopping by a gas station to fill up. Just park in the garage and spend about 10 seconds plugging in the car, and it's filled up in the morning ready to go.
>But instead of spending the money on a house big enough to host those dinner parties, you could host them at a fancy restaurant, with better food and the ability to spend the entire evening with the guests instead of in the kitchen.

Maybe we can skip it all and send them a gift card from Uber Eats?

If you think eating at a fancy restaurant is a substitute for being surround by family while you cook a huge dinner in a large, cozy home then I feel bad for you.

>I find life to be more comfortable when treating edge cases like edge cases, and finding an appropriate solution.

I bet if we looked at your life, "car" and "house" are compromises you are willing to make, "edge cases", but there are other things in there that you are not.

Can I ask why you are so concerned about policing how other people want to spend their time and money?
You can use Pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/
FXYT pattern drawing language with 36 commands
“Common sense”?

Never had one of those toys…

https://images.app.goo.gl/nFwVrEe26vkxxJWLA
Could this idea be used, for example, to power a landline phone like it was done with POTS? So no external power was needed for the phone and it even worked in the event of a blackout.
Nitter link to see the whole thread (including the correction stating that the "with liquid nitrogen" should be "without liquid nitrogen"): https://nitter.net/pronounced_kyle/status/174258812762836180...
Most fossils are two rocks - one around the animal, and one that fills the cavity of the animal later.

The 'filler' usually isn't sedimentary - it tends to be formed by something that seeps through then crystalizes.

Those crystals are super hard, and generally won't be compressible at all.

Although there is a good chance the cavity compressed a bit before being filled.
We’ve road-tripped over much of the American West in our Tesla. The range issue is indeed FUD - it’s really not a big inconvenience to stop and charge while you’re eating, sleeping, or stretching your legs.

We thought we’d take the gas car on those longer trips, but the trip is comfortable enough that we take the EV despite the charging stops.

I have high hopes that the NACS standardization and Tesla’s growing supercharger network will put range anxiety to rest for good.
I think I speak on behalf of just about everybody except those you are blowing the whistle about: good for you, thank you for doing the right thing.
> No one claimed that the average suburban "Main St" is going to compare to high-density urban planning

You did. Dense cities are struggling to implement the 15mn trip to any amenities. Yet you are claiming that everything is in a range of 8km from the average house in an American suburb, that roughly 15mn on an e-bike.

>> a choice of restaurants, bars, cafés, hotels, etc.

> All of that is included in the "etc." part.

Now who's moving the goal post?
I hope that what we’ll see happen is charging stations become more family friendly. Clean facilities, and things for the kids to do to get the wiggles out. I think range concern would go away if people didn’t picture themselves sitting in their car for 30 or so minutes waiting for a charge every few hours.
That the missiles target needs to be 35.7219° N, 51.3347° E
Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me that the fact that you need an extra coffee break whenever you drive for more than 4-5 hours at a time is ostensibly such a huge inconvenience, but somehow the fact that you never need to go to a gas station at any other time doesn't matter.

In the real world, I've never met an EV owner who didn't prefer it to a gas-guzzler, so I'm somewhat skeptical of the number of people on social media who claim to have returned theirs.
You’re valuing your own time at $0/hr that is spent at gas stations, doing oil changes and other ICE maintenance, unless you have a personal assistant to do that stuff for you.

My calculation was 15 minutes/week for gas, 1 hour every 3 months for oil changes, and 1 hour a month on average dealing with other ICE problems (for instance I had a water pump failure cause my engine to overheat on a busy highway, had to wait 2 hours for a tow truck waiting in a dangerous location, then took another 2 hours to finally get home).

So that’s ~30 hours of my time per year. I value my own free time at $300/hr so even at a much higher initial cost an EV still made sense to me.
> can help level as much as is necessary in Yemen

That's not how it works.

> risk a lot of collateral damage in land attacks in Yemen than give the impression that a ceasefire happened through blackmail.

This is just a very, very bad take, you're basically saying "it's better for Yemeni kids and women to get killed [my reading of collateral damage] than for the West to lose face [my reading of the blackmail thing]". Hasn't the West learned anything from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, like, literally, anything?
When you start it, you get a first start wizard that allows you to start a tutorial
On the Atari ST (and the Amiga I am told) there were several Modula compilers available. You can download the source of the Megamax Modula-2 compiler from Thomas Tempelmann's homepage:

http://www.tempel.org/files-d.html
... because winds are static and the greenhouse just affects the area where the pollution is created. And what about the people living there, aren't they entitled to some fresh air? And for the record, the areas are not that remote to local population centers.

The main point about climate change and everything is that you can't play ostrich and if you don't see happening it means you're gonna be ok. If the US pollutes too much (for example's sake) and the ice shelf at the North pole melts, you're gonna feel it all over the world because the water will rise equally.
The thing is: We have a binary definition of safety for cryptographic hash functions, and it works well.

You can add a non-binary sense of safety to cryptographic hash functions, but it makes stuff a lot more complicated for no good reason. If you use the "preimage-safe-but-not-collission-safe" ones, you need to do a lot more analysis to show safety of your whole construction. You could do that, but it gives you no advantage.
> ...wouldn't passing the return value on the stack also allow reentrancy? Passing args and return values in registers instead of on the stack would definitely be faster, and on 8-bit CPUs, every clock cycle mattered.

But stack is memory. At least in these systems. So I think the problems could rise if we would throw concurrency into the picture, where you also have to synchronize the memory access, maybe?
Also relatively giant:

> growing to more than 30cm in length
TIL...NYC currently HAS parking minimums!
But this aura is also a lot of social conditioning. People pick up on this aura because people have been taught that ornament is art based architecture and modern designs are function based architecture.
I agree about Netanyahu, sadly. But regarding a peaceful solution, one has to take into account the mentality and stated position of the two sides.

Whatever one thinks about land and settlements, it's worth noting that the Israelis are fighting against an opponent who targets their civilian population with the standard terror tactics along with systematic rape and torture [1], and who maintains that they will never stop as long as Israel exists (not borders, not land, nothing short of Israel's destruction).

The people advocating for a ceasefire generally aren't proposing a solution to the Israeli and international hostages held by Hamas, and who could be returned to Israel if Hamas truly wanted a ceasefire.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-at...
The supercharger network makes road trips fine too. I’ve done them they’re not a big deal.

I also somewhat take issue with the article’s premise anyway - model y was the top selling car on earth this year. Clearly people are buying EVs.
> People keep taking everything personally when it comes to personal anecdotes when this is about mere majorities. Gatekeeping is not the intent. It's to speak of a broader group that has an impulse to want a thing, but many in that group will be served fine with alternatives. And wanting something doesn't mean you thought it through.

No, no.
They are simply saying 'cater for the edge cases'. No more, no less.
We know what you are saying.

They're just saying that you're ignoring nuance to their detriment (true), and therefore you are not trustworthy in decision making (true).

No, we are not prepared to let you make decisions for us ("But many in that group will be served fine with alternatives"). No, that's precisely the problem - Centralised planning thinks that the alternatives are fine, and they are often not. Similar to Google not having a phone number to unblock locked accounts.

>And wanting something doesn't mean you thought it through.

Sure. We will assume that this is charitable / general statement (if it weren't: It is this attitude that makes one unqualified to make decisions. They think they know better, and assume that the other person does not.)
So that’s what that does. I have to press the FN key as modifier, and it does indeed open the menu. Never felt the need to press it before ;)
Is this perhaps just some weird, multi stage plan to get Saudi Arabia closer with the US?

Having Iran launch a proxy attack against merchant ships seems like the cover Saudi Arabia has wanted to escalate their attacks against this group.

I’m interested in Iran’s goal here, but don’t have a good analysis that doesn’t seem to be driving toward a particular narrative.
> You cannot help those who won’t accept help, getting left behind is a choice.

It’s a bit like antivaxxer parents: it’s their decision, but it puts all other kids at school at risk, especially those who can’t take vaccines for valid medical reasons.

It’s their decision, but the whole planet bears the consequences.
Would those be European or African football fields?
The free version of the app Stellarium allows you to search for such things and locate them in the sky.
The Windows logo changed even after they introduced the Windows key
It's not the amount of thought that brands it as something that could be mistaken for a chatgpt emission. Rather, chatgpt writing has a very formulaic style that is hard not to instantly recognize once you have seen it a few times.

It's not super surprising to me that people who use it frequently begin to unconsciously imitate the chatgpt style in their own writing after a time.
The first and only use of nuclear weapons in war, ending the largest war in history, serves as a useful objective demarcation point.

There is indeed much less war now than then. It seems that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction is working, for better or worse.

Cold wars, proxy wars, limited in scope and scale wars - these are better than what came before.
> decrease how efficient your mitochondria are at producing energy

So basically, a natural DNP?
These are quite the enabler for emergency comms, and ham-style radio. I think this can be used for disaster.radio, and can be used for meshtastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt6NOm0Gdy8

Andy Kirby has also been using it on the London Underground:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFT-lXvd9TA

It looks like the UK meshtastic 'network' uses 868MHz, using cheap Heltec boards like this (oled version) as base stations:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404619594371

You also can easily connect your phone to the network via the Android or IOS app.
I was, thanks for clarifying.
FWIW... The past few weeks i researched SBCs before buying one to supplement my collection of Raspberry Pis. Radxa has some truly compelling devices, and were initially my first choice, BUT... the Pi family beats out every competitor by a factor of 100 or more when it comes to support, both from the vendors and the communities. So i bought a pi5.

OTOH, the Pi5 is no longer price- and energy-competitive with many Intel-based mini-PCs. For example, my pi5 (140€ with power supply and Flirc case) idles at around 4.2 watts, whereas my 180€ MiniForums gn34 PC (roughly 2 years old) idles at a mere 2 watts and performs better. Both peak at roughly 7 watts. The pi5 is so much cuter, though :).
>With the exception of the recent Ukrainian war, violent deaths on Earth have been massively trending downward for decades

You're clearly out of touch here.

The war in Ukraine was going on sice 2014, and you also missed the Armenian Azerbaijan war in Nagorno-Karabakh, then the Papua conflict, then the dozens of other conflict on the African continent. And don't forget the war on terror which cost thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, 4 US presidents and 20 years just to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

War has never stopped. You just stopped looking for it since it's not happening in your back yard, if the only one you can mention is the one in Ukraine.
Italy is quite aggressive in blocking sites like Library Genesis or Torrent search engines, I learned during my last vacation.
The content beneath the button can scroll up and down. I doubt that it will be worthwhile generating a new gif for every single frame while scrolling.
I totally agree. Vulture capitalism.
I just hope they kill teams with fire. It is hot garbage.
Unless your point is that someone should somehow rent an extra bedroom in their own house, it isn't. Such things aren't fungible.
It appears like they're replacing the right control key, not the windows/menu key.
then you would have rediscovered the Erbium doped fiber amplifier
Knowing Microsoft they'll probably rebind their Office key/right Windows key rather than adding a new key to the keyboard.

I'm honestly a bit surprised we're still not seeing the emoji key on more keyboards, given how popular emoji are. Do that many people use the right Windows key? Or even the AltGr key in English-speaking locales?
They can definitely be readily found in South-Eastern Ohio grocery stores during season, and more sparingly grocery stores around all of Ohio - typically lesser-greater the distance from SEO.

Probably not going to find them in many chains outside of SEO, more likely in boutique markets.

The PawPaw beer can be pretty good.
Something like this?

https://imgur.com/a/hPAaZUv

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Plus

You can also ask it to give you bounding boxes of objects.
Here is something I don't understand. Of all the factions in Israeli politics, why is the US supporting the most far-right one? Because support for US amongst Israelis is high either way, and the usefulness of Israel for the US is arguably higher if it had more moderate politics.
Some of these questions are not explainable by Realpolitik. Same with the Palestinian question. If you were concerned about Iran you'd want a peaceful long lasting solution that defangs Iran grip in the region. It just doesn't make sense.
> can help level as much as is necessary in Yemen and that mission is accomplished when shipping insurance rates return to what they were before.

Ah yes, because stupid ship insurance rates are more important than human lives in Yemen, nothing new to be honest, we know how the "human rights" world values human lives in Iraq with Abu gharib and the proxy war in Syria to the active genocide in Palestine.

As long as its not Europeans or Americans getting attacked it's "complex" and "blackmail".
> and if I run out of gas I can take a gas can to the car and problem solved.

Fair. IMO there should at least be an emergency slot for a short-range battery to get you a few miles.

> I don’t want a vehicle that gradually looses half of its range over time, then has to have over $10k invested (sometimes quite a bit more) in a new battery every 100-150k miles. It’s like buying a gasoline car where the engine not only wears out and performance greatly degrades, but is virtually guaranteed it will always need a complete engine replacement.

Sure, but also the engine doesn't need (so much) servicing in the meantime. You can pick your poison — and yours preference is of course valid, and I suspect the norm — but there's no perfect answer.

> When’s the last time you have seen a gasoline car spontaneously combust just sitting in a garage? Despite having a lot of flammable liquid it just doesn’t happen.

Apparently it does: https://electrek.co/2022/01/12/government-data-shows-gasolin...

> Then there’s Elon Musk. He’s reason alone for me to delay any EV purchase (not just Tesla) for as long as possible.

This is a bit of a surprise. "Musk -> no Tesla" I can understand, but why take his shenanigans to also exclude all the other car companies?
Grammar of Ornament
I don't know the legal system in Spain or the wider EU, but in the US for example stolen goods are stolen goods no matter how many hands they pass through. Washing them through a fence doesn't suddenly make them legitimate
It does look, like geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan warned, that international ship lanes are likely to become more dangerous.

It will be interesting how the USA and the international community respond to increasing incidents.
I don't think this qualifier is useful here. My very simple app needed 'constant' updates to avoid falling behind and needing a huge rework after 8 years.

Constant here meant regular. Following android Api updates is constant work. It can also mean that the intensity of work needed is the same, but I don't think it's the idea there (if it is, I disagree with the idea too, for different reason).

I think his idea was that good software exists in a nutshell and does not need upgrade. Which is true for embedded, like the arduino that manage the doors of my father's chicken coop (ideally. The photoresistor disagree here when I think about it, but the software is bad so that kinda prove GGP's point). Not as true for software with complex human interfaces though.
The bad thing for the US is that one cannot win wars based on the Navy (or on Navy airplanes) alone, which I guess that's where Stavridis's take comes from. In order to win wars you need hundreds of thousands of people actually on the ground, holding the terrain, and even then the odds are not all in the attacker's favor (just look at the results of the infamous US surge in Iraq).

I get it though, with more than 30% of the US defence budget the Navy feels left out of the whole war thing recently (not that much the Navy can help with in the war against Russia), similar to how the Japanese admirals felt left out of China and Manchuria back in the late '30s, so they'll take any opportunity of a war that they think they'll win easily with the most open of arms.
> But a peaceful solution seems like a pipe dream. It would need a profound change in Israeli politics to push for a two-state solution now, and the West has only limited leverage.

We need to use the same recipe used in South Africa, isolating the apartheid regime until it is forced to negotiate in good faith.
What Are GLP1 Agonists?
> immediately throw an error

That’s exactly what we don’t want in production code. We want it to work without errors.

An example: assign a variable to the output of a library function, then pass the variable in to a different function. Super basic, super common.

One instance of that is calling the first function and expecting an array back but getting any one of ‘String’ (edge case that the library maintainer decided is a good idea) or ‘False’ (maintainer decided that’s what happens when something fails during the call).

If you call ‘.each’ within the second function without verifying that the variable is iterable first the function will throw. (I’ve even seen a couple rare cases where a custom class responds to ‘.each’ but is not properly iterable).

Most Ruby devs will “just” check before they call ‘.each’, or wrap the second call in a rescue block, but that’s exactly the sort of potential for misstep I’m talking about.
> with very good intentions.

As if.
>especially with the tax credit (which most americans qualify for), EVs are cheaper.

Yes, if other people have to contribute their money to the purchase of your new car, it's cheaper for you.

>That's not even factoring in maintenance costs over 5 years

Well, the data says that Teslas have some of the highest costs of ownership in the first five years.