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Madison, Canada. Now I just need to sell this to the Canadians.

Anyone notice that the plain burger is only 190 Yen ($1.20) vs $3.99 in the US. https://www.mac-menus.com/

Why does this keep popping up?

"Evidence does not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for the prevention of cancer, respiratory infections or rheumatoid arthritis. Similarly, evidence does not support vitamin D supplementation for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis or for improving depression/mental well-being."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4907952/#:~:text=Bo...

Fascinating! I would buy this in a "coffee table" style book.

The thing that resonated the most with me was the idea that slow processors need to focus on strategic thinking. I am a 60 year old and now retired software developer. I keep myself busy by actively continuing to code every day. I definitely have experienced a slowing of thinking in the last ten years. I have read that this could be because I have more information to sift and sort but being honest with myself, the machinery is not as well tuned as it once was.

I am fine with all this. I love coding and I doubt I will ever stop doing it for pleasure. I have had to become more methodical and intentional with my time on the laptop but reflecting on this piece, being more strategic would be a wise thing for me to contemplate on.

It is better to give to homeless shelters and food banks.

It was the books in my Dad's library that first got me to read for pleasure. I remember him suggesting The Lord of the Rings but it would be several years before I read it. 50 years later I can't actually remember what I read first but over the course of my late childhood, the one that sticks out the most is:

The Magus by John Fowles

I was maybe 14 at the time. You just never know because kids are weird.

+1 for Mad Scientist Club

Yes, that is it. Seemed fishy so I posted... post haste :)

You left your credentials in the open on your github site. Please change them post haste!

If you look at sports, it used to be that people looked at basic stats for hiring. Then came the age of money-ball where people started looking at group success. Turns out that those people are often quite valuable even though their metrics might not be as sexy.

That is a fair point. I forgot about kids. That could be a nightmare trying to find your tween at a big festival.

Like other posters, I read the whole thing and couldn't think of a reason for this device. I have experienced the many people cell issue but I am old enough to remember a time before cell phones at concerts.

This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem.

Safety guys always ruin the fun. I was in the Marine Corps and every time we got to test some new piece of gear the safety officer was like "No, you can't live fire it off the flight deck of the ship" or "No, not here, that village is down wind of the dust you will kick up when it goes off." No, that has a kill distance of 6 miles, you have to fire it into a hill." Blah, blah, blah.

So after I got out I joined the National Guard.

Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gonna give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if it doesn't pay

Everything Is Free Song by Gillian Welch

I did the same thing and it was also a great learning aid. Now I run my own my own set of plugins but this got me past that initial learning curve. I think it says something that it finally happened to me after 4 decades of software development.

Microsoft has a long history of fracturing programming language markets. It's not so much that it is a bad idea, more that it divides an already healthy market. There is MicroPython, Arduino, and Node-RED not to mention all of the C/C++ based systems out there: mBed, Zephyr, and RIOT OS. Another addition is not helpful.

I am on same on Ubunutu 23.01 and seems fine. ff 113.01 fwiw

I don't want to get grabbed on a side street and beaten but... Rust is language designed to solve a process problem (bad buggy code) with a straitjacket language approach. It is pedantic to the point of being unreadable and in it's own problem domain (system, embedded and up) has been ticking the wrong boxes. Zig is substantially better yet I think a better language is still around the corner. Having said that, you absolutely can't go wrong mastering C. Zig wraps C in a way that doesn't choke you on configuration issues. Zig's out-of-the-box support for many target's is a savvy decision too.

However, both Zig and Rust make some of the same errors so I will put my plea here for future language developers. How you work with Threads, Async, Interrupts are all implementation details. Please don't make them part of the language. A good Function type is sufficient to make elegant solutions that do not require language support.

Try writing something on this without knowing cursive! I rest my case.

The Milk Carton Kids do a funny bit about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpZRb8VP50 If you haven't heard of them and like singer-song writer with harmonies check em out.

Reminds me of the Faces of Mars theory. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/remem...

I have had two heat pumps in the last 20(ish) years. The first one worked ok for heating. Warm air I can only describe as tepid blew out of the registers. The second heat pump is amazing. We live in Madison, WI, so very cold. This heat pump blows out air that feels just like the gas furnace air and is able to heat our house down to around 5 degrees Fahrenheit. It consumes quite a bit more energy at that temp and cost wise gas is better.

I would second @quirkot in all of his points. I consider myself a good home re modeler. I have done plumbing, electrical including replacing all the wiring up to the pigtail at the top of the roof. I will not touch HVAC or gas.

Transparent solar cells. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15352-x I think this is far more interesting than Fast Company speculation.

I suspect like Wordle, or crosswords for that matter, it will take a certain amount of practice to get the hang of it. But! 43 guesses and I feel good about it.

Yes. I suggest the book "The Chinese Greenhouse". A very straightforward look at constructing a partially sunken greenhouse.

Chiras, D. D., Chiras, F., & Rao, A. (2020). The chinese greenhouse: Design and build a low-cost, passive solar greenhouse. New Society Publishers.

Looking for better information on exactly what components were on the board I found these references:

contains many references to pictures and such. https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/iranian-drones-i...

Most remarkably https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1577619774292606976

I think to understand the problem you need to see a list of components that are being used but also to understand that substitution is relatively easy in today's world of cross platform embedded systems. I have ordered many of these boards from places like DigiKey and Mouser. Here is on example:

https://os.mbed.com/platforms/

Many of these boards are capable of providing the flight control systems for these drones.

Good point. I took a chance with my Great Courses only knowledge of game theory.

Another point people are pointing out is that bees don't usually die after stinging other bee. Other bees are the easiest vectors for the infections I have had to deal with. I wonder what evolutionary advantage of not returning to the hive grants when a bee stings a larger animal (mammal, bird, etc).

As a beekeeper for several years I have posited that bees have evolved to die after stinging because the act of stinging can cause pathogens from the creature being stung to adhere to the stinging bee. This would create an easy vector into the hive where it would then spread eventually infecting the queen. It would be interesting if someone with some game theory experience could model this behavior.

Pricing? Telemetry? Mac first?

Nope