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Its varies by state. In MO I can theoretically do it online, but I can't get through the ID verification step. I have to go to town to get my car inspected, so it's only an extra five or ten minutes to stop off at the License Office. If the experience was poor I'd work harder to get the online registration working, but it's so easy I don't see the point.

The privatized "DMV"s in Missourri are amazing. You have a question? Call your local "License Office" and you don't have to go through a robo call router, it rings and a person picks up. Go into the office and you get served almost immediately (depending on volume/time/location). In MO, vehicle registration is every second year (even year cars in even years, odd in odd). I am in every y ear for one vehicle or another. Last year I registered three cars in under five minutes. No papers to fill out, just showed them my tax invoice, my insurance card, and my inspection cards. They checked a few boxes, and told me to have a nice day.

Follow-up on the results of his barrel adventure https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48222707

Ah, I see. I guess that's possibly true. On the other hand, the loss of someone close to you is practically inevitable. Eventually almost everyone will experience a devastating death (unless the person is the devastating death).

In my observation, the inability to let a child off on their own without any form of supervision or in this case tracking, means that the parent is not ready to let go of that child when they are an adult and need to be given the freedom to succeed or fail on their own.

I am admittedly biased. My sister was tracked from about 12 until this day and she's now 26, I believe. She gets upset when my mother isn't checking in on her. Likewise, my mother can't go more than a few hours without calling my sister. She will regularly check her phone to see where my sister is and then comment on her whereabouts and call or text her to ask why she's where ever.

Likely there are parents who are going to be able to handle these tools responsibly, but I am not sure there is a responsible way to use these.

But I am also biased against them, hopefully I am wrong. I saw how my sister has turned out from having a late-blooming helicopter parent and my wife (one of a dozen kids, so very hands off parents) and I have tried to give our own kids age appropriate freedoms.

I have been amazed by historic accounts of children. One example that sticks out to me is a letter a man in Texas wrote to his brother. The man's wife had died and he had to take care of some affairs in Texas. The man's brother lived in Kansas and he was writing because he'd sent his two children (12 & 13) to Kansas with his herd of cattle to sell. I don't think I'd ever be there, but I do think children are more capable and trustworthy than we give them credit for and we don't give children enough room and as a result we have some extremely childish adults who have never been given the chance to fail and get back up.

I sometimes think about what my life would be like if my wife passed away. I'm also a father, and sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I lost my entire family. I think I'd have a hard time finding purpose and would either spiral or would become hyper focused in my career.

It is amazing. I had the same "best friend" for 20 years, from age 3 until 23, but almost as soon as I set eyes on my wife she became my best friend and became a much deeper and beloved one. I find that much of my motivation in life is because I want the best for her and our children.

Not a knock on Feynman, but he did re-marry in '52, which ended in divorce a few years later and then married a third time in '60, and stayed married until his death.

I'm not sure I follow your meaning, kids still die. I have lost a child and a tracker that ruins their confidence and privacy wouldn't have done anything. Not that much changes.

My sister is in her twenties. About the time she was in high school these tracking apps became available. My mother used it to keep an eye on her. Fast forward almost a decade, she freaks out if my mother isn't checking in on her now. It's quite disgusting.

I am glad to be about 10 years older and have entirely missed this plague.

Ditto I have four kids between 8 and 1. These things keep children AND parents from growing up.

Also an American and the same story. I have owned six "modern" (post 2000) vehicles and none cost more than $5000 and all have had very long and problem free lives with me. The only two vehicles I don't still own is a Dodge van that had an engine issue (owner fault) and a Mitsubishi that my wife's friend wrapped around a pole.

Agreed, also a nuclear strike would serve no purpose to the aggressor, they would want the land to be healthy, not irradiated. Invasions are not ever going to be won through the threat of nuclear war.

Ya I have not been able to find monthly highs (not average) or even just median high temps.

I've seen some amazing old buildings there and elsewhere in that general area of the world that were able to even produce ice despite this heat. Shame that these olds technologies have been passed by for tech from more humid climates.

Yes I saw that too. Quite an extraordinary temp by almost any US state's standard! I looked up the temp in Turbat today, only 86F, cooler than where I live in the midwest. Wild the temp range between the two places.

The thermal equator passes through Sindh. The hottest temp ever recorded was 53.5C/128.3F on May 26, 2010, the previous record high was 52.8C/127F on June 12, 1919.

So sounds like this is a hot, but not uncommonly hot day there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Sindh

Neat, I never knew this math trick before! Kind of seems obvious now... 2769=27710-27

And it works for "N1" too, 2771=27710+27

I'm not good enough at mental math to do 277 or 2707 so I don't think this will be too useful to me, but a good trick to know still!

This looks great. I'd love to try it and see where it can go. My two favorite development features are using slime/sly for lisp development and Elm's visualization of state and time travel. Put those together and you'd get a language I'd never want to leave!

Probably not a CDN, persay, but is using Cloudflare Pages as a host. Hosts static HTML for free on CF's CDNs. I use it for all my sites.

I have something kind of similar written in Common Lisp, however it uses stock HTML and then lisp. A template is a literal HTML template element, and it's referenced with custom elements. So `<my-el>` is in the file that will be compiled, say indet.html, and then there is a my-el.html file which is the reference that is inserted into the `<my-el>` as a child. This file is just stock HTML with a `<template shadowrootmode="open">` as the root element and then whatever in that. This is all rendered properly by the browser because it is just standard HTML. The slot element can be used to inject into these template els. All the lisp does really is recursively compile the HTML and then manage any logic writtel inside of `<script lang="cl">` tags

It actually supports any language, long as you define the lang= name in a config file to tell the compiler how to process it. Ie for python `python="python -m '$'"` would then let the cl compiler know how to handle `<script lang="python">`.

I saw that, but as you point out, whether it works or not is all a trust thing.

Is there a way to prevent this data from being used? Can I somehow not broadcast certain data over wifi or otherwise keep google and apple from using my wifi metadata without my consent?

Ya you're probably right. I think "common rail" injection is based on gas DI though.

And there are some engines that are indirect injection (called IDI). I've been on the hunt for a 90s 7.3l IDI. They're gutless without a turbo, but slap a pair of turbos on and it makes a heck of a towing machine. But I don't know as much about diesels, partly because they just never break the way a gas engine will. I've rebuilt a few gas engines, diesels just seem to be made of tougher stuff.

I wonder how similar it is to a mechanical fuel injected diesel. All my tractors are diesels and they have electric free fuel injection.

My tractors are something I always marvel over, besides the starter you don't need any power. I have an old Cat diesel that doesn't even have an electric starter! Uses a small gas engine (called a pony engine) to start the large diesel engine, and the gas engine uses a pull start, very similar to a lawn mower engine.

Ya if imports are your thing you're definitely going to have a few tool chests of one-off tools!

I have always stuck to American muscle and diesel tractors. The amazing simplicity of those machines has always attracted me. I love that I can hold a complete understand of the entire vehicle in my head. I'm sure you can even for modern vehicles, but they're not simple at all!

Ya the cis/kjet thing is something I have always thought was neat and also am glad that the vehicles I buy and work on don't have them!

I am an amateur mechanic, but have done a great deal of very technical work. My only formal training is three years of high school shop classes, everything else I learned under or in a car. The newest thing I have worked on is a 2022 GMC Sierra. Seemed to be pretty much the same as my 2003 Chevy Silverado.

You are definitely correct about foreign (non-USA) makes. My wife had an Audi when we got married. I own a small toolbox of tools specific to her Audi S4 that I will never use again, but that was a 2006, so this issue predates 2013 for the makes that it is true about.

Admittedly, I try to avoid fuel injected vehicles. So I don't go out of my way to work on new things.

This is really interesting but I can't get over how much NASCAR cars have changed.

In dead languages? Loads of important documents are written in dead languages. I can read them for myself without the interpretation of another.

The point in asking? I only know a single language that is spoken outside of schools, I'm curious if those dead languages still qualify for "polyglot" status. Seems the definition is nebulous.

Sanskrit and a few others are very difficult. We talked about it in an ANE Langs course but never even got to "coffee" level?

I hadn't even considered it