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Except agriculture and almost all logistics, rely heavily on imported liquid fuel. And whilst EV's or Hybrds are about 50% of new vehicles, there are a lot of existing ICE domestic…

Down to 15 minutes, yes, retailers exist, if you have a smart meter (which are 4G connected for near-real time data back to the grid and retailer).

Digital conservation type work?

Surprised it is so little!

I am in Sydney, Australia. It was a nice surprise to see teenagers working in my local brewery this past weekend, collecting glasses, clearing and cleaning tables, etc. They were p…

Posted down thread, but worth posting as a comment too. I know Simon follows this "Issue First" style of work in his projects, with a strong requirement for passing tests to be inc…

If only there were community standards for this... Oh, there are, for years :D This has really stood the test of time: https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/#24-development-process And it…

I was thinking "how much smaller than the cheap 30mm x 25mm boards on AliE can you go?" ... much smaller! Very nice.

Agreed. Most people are not self reflective reflective enough to notice. Need to trust the studies. Far more plausible than the AI ideas. I find it far more likely these are smart …

From Meathead's posts, he talks about the smoke only being absorbed in the first part of the cooking. I had assumed that correlated to the temperature... I would be smoking first, …

Oh yeah... he "found it"... How would a buildings and pest inspection have missed it? Or, maybe he found it during inspections, knew he would never convince his wife to buy the hou…

Thank you, this is a very clear explanation for me. It filled the critical gaps in my intuition that I didn't have the brain cycles to formulate hypotheses against.

It's not succinct. It's repetitive. I was hoping it would give more insights, but instead it repeated the same ideas. This is one of PG's worse essays.

Yeah, nah. I worked on telco grade systems running on Rhino, in interpreted mode, in 2006. Leveraging Java to JS bindings. Responding to HTTP/JMS/etc.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/china-allegedly-has-two-...

I find more hallucination - like when you're taught as a child to reflect back the question at the start of your answer. If I am not careful, and "asking the question" in a way tha…

What you describe sounds a bit like Graphistry: https://pygraphistry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/performance.ht...

I assumed it was their target, and indeed a semi-private joke... but you make the case for coincidental. I prefer to believe it was by design :D

Yes, have you watched The Wheel of Time? Better to read the books... the characters bound to tell the truth are experts in double meanings. Successful politicans and sociopaths are…

Did you get the Duolingo renewal email? :D

> Which is a reference to the "two hard problems" jokes, the most used is "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors…

I have a feeling this would work well with MadMen. There were always a few "filler" episodes that didn't move the story forward much, if at all. But sometimes those filler's are ju…

Oh man, I loved that show "Bad Influence" - I'm amazed looking back at the level of discourse vs. what is now generally the state of tech reporting/shows... got to go to a YouTuber…

In the UK, police don't generally carry guns. Of those that do, firearms officers - why would they carry a handgun? And you are right - there is of course an element of security th…

American Hustle Culture. Infected the world.