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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 vehicles.
So, yeah, we actually care.
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 probably between 13 and 16. Not allowed to serve alcohol until they are 18, and can take on the personal legal responsibilities for Responsible Service of Alcohol.
Most jobs for teenagers here are in fast food service - two of my friends have mid/late teenagers working these jobs. Most jobs in retail, at least near me, seem to be taken by adults.
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 included.
It's been a best practice for a long time. I really enjoyed this when I read it ~10 years ago, and it still stands the test of time:
https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/#24-development-process
The rationale was articulated clearly in:
https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/cha...
If you have time, do yourself a favour and read the whole lot. And then liberally copy parts of C4 into your own process. I have advocated for many components of it, in many contexts, at $employer, and will continue to do so.
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 its rationale is well explained too:
https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/cha...
Saddened by realizing that Pieter would have had amazing things to say about AI.
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 people running without oversight for years pre-COVID, relying on being smart at 2am change windows. Now half or a full std. dev. lower on the IQ scale, hubris means fewer guard rails before change, and far lower ability to recover during change window.
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, then sous vide if I was going for smoke and internal texture.
But if you're going for a bark/crust, I am not sure sous vide helps, as the moisture coming out of the meat is part of that process.
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 house on the strength of the train set alone, but did managed to convince on the strength of the house... now he has to sell the lie?
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.
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 that assumes X, often X is assumed by the LLM to be true. ChatGPT has gotten better at correcting this with its web searches.
I am able to get better results with Claude when I ask for answers that include links to the relevant authoritative source of information. But sometimes it still makes up stuff that is not in the source material.
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 experts in double meanings.
"I will not drop bombs on Acmeland." Instead, I will send missiles.
"At this point in time, we do not intend to end the tariffs." The intent will change when conditions change, which is forecast next week.
"We are not in negotations to acquire AI Co for $1B." We are negotiating for $0.9B.
"Our results show an improvement for a majority of recipients." 51% saw an improvement of 1%, 49% saw a decline of 5%...
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"
It's just as funny today as when I first heard it in 2002/2003... to which my professor at the time would add:
"But really, naming things is colouring. And cache invalidation is colouring. So really there's only one problem in computer science, colouring and counting... which doesn't sound so hard after all".
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 just good tropey fun! :-)
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 for anything close.
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 theatre!
American Hustle Culture. Infected the world.
The Qantas 16h 45m flight from Dallas to Sydney aims for Brisbane, and then turns to Sydney as the plane approaches Australia. (10th longest commercial route in the world).
This allows the plane to land at Brisbane and refuel if the calculations are done wrong. Couldn't find stats on how many times it's had to land in BNE.
Pre-COVID, it was apparently common to try and off-load passengers to single stopover flights to reduce fuel needs (I was one of those passengers, and the crew confirmed it was a regular occurance).
However, in larger doses it also contributes towards feelings of anxiety, which is counter productive. Proceed with caution.
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24332470-900-does-a-...
Responses are by readers, so take with a pinch of salt
There's your answer: mashed potato.
Not only did you boil the potato, but you pre-chewed it too. Mashed potato is about as close as you can get to refined potato (potato flour). What you've created is easily digestable amylopectin - pre-chewed, already gelatinized and suspension with water. The amylase in your saliva can mix extremely well with mashed potatoes, and within minutes that amylopectin will be available as glucose. Maybe you mix in a little fat with butter or oil, but probably not much.
Vs. more or less any other potato cooking method. Even though the starch will have gelatinized with the water present in the potatoe, the potato's structure is more intact than boiling & mashing. Even after chewing the starch is not as well mixed with water, and this will take longer to digest.
We don't eat much mash in our house.
"Because our users are irresponsible, and will order 1000's of dollars of externally signed certificates..."
shock horror maybe they might actually ... get more done and therefore need more stuff :D