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honesty?

From what I understand, the queue is not there always.

There is a very narrow window in spring during which the ascent is possible, due to weather (enough ice to get over some sections, but weather not leathal). If you go too early you freeze or get blown off in 0 visibility, if you go too late, the ice has thawed too much and you get washed off in the rapids.

Sometimes the window is only something like 10 days during which you (and everyone else) have to ascent and descent from basecamp.

I call it forward thinking: they assume massive inflation due to income taxes breaking away.

I love computational mapping projects, because there is this hard problem of which towns to show on the map.

Your Scotland map shows towns without rail (although some had rail previously, like Callander, Aberfeldy), it prefers insignificant (population-wise) places while ignoring the larger cities next to it (Scone instead of Perth, Bannockburn instead of Stirling, Inverness is missing, Dundee is missing, Aberdeen is missing). All these places are drawn on the map, but not labelled.

All this clearly shows to me how bad it is. Yes it makes it look pretty, but given your task, I would have expected to give you meaningful map labelling.

Something basic like this would get you a long way:

    0. cluster population centers into commonly known cities (i.e. show London instead of Islington or Walhamstrow)
    1. display names of the top 10 population centers in the UK
    2. display towns with stations (if crowded prioritize termination points and junctions, and prioritize larger places over smaller places)

Quite interesting that some service stations did not report a change for weeks.

Like this one: https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk/stations/7fd603ba12430695595b2...

I wonder if your API queries get capped / paginated or if those stations really do not report any changes for so long. It would be interesting to know if there is a pattern with those low frequency updates.

Is that what the spec says? Or is this something that Google decided, by making an optional feature a requirement when interoperating with their systems?

Ha! Since you mention SVG, there is a trick!

Draw your free-hand shape in Inkscape, export to SVG, import it in FreeCAD and go from there.

I used that trick to trace a part from an image and it worked surprisingly well. Not very efficient compared to commercial tooling, but despite the clumsiness its fairly intuitive and free.

They felt like they'd eventually get swallowed unless they did something and the end result was WWI. And WW2 if you think about it.

I think this exactly how the US administration _feels_. Alexandr Dugin proposed spheres of influence. Russia starts acting on those. China is getting more powerful. Its now or never.

Remember that there are more flights during the day than during the night. When you posted this it was late afternoon in Europe, noon on the East Coast US and early morning on the West Coast. And of course it was night in Asia.

I would file this under blogspam, given the length of the article, the atrocious oversimplifying, highly compressed map and the number of ads.

If you are interested in the geology of Scotland, there are excellent books available, including "Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland". I am sure good books about the Appalachians and the Atlas are available, too.

I did something similar many years ago. I was amazed that Fortran was not more discussed as an option to write performant code within a Python / numpy codebase.

At the time everyone seems to default to using C instead. But Fortran is so much easier! It even has slicing notations for arrays and the code looked so much like Numpy as you say.

The headline should have been ...especially in English Class.

Even in the 90s most people got book summaries to get through the curriculums. I would say, the highest performing language students and teachers pets at school did exactly that.

School unfortunately is largely about reciting of the teachers knowledge, so there is no need to read the source and think for yourself.

Same for me. My Pixel magically fixed scrambled words (and was very fast doing it). iOS is terrible, even without described bug.

I am now much faster typing with the speech-to-text feature. Maybe that is what they are pushing. Maybe Apple wants to remove the keyboard and it is slowly increasing the friction so people use it less and less? Similarly how Chrome degrades browser performance until it gets restarted to force an update.

If that is true, then the data impacted was likely account data, as we also got the email and yet we are only just starting the integration work, and we dont have events in there yet.

This is not an issue for the Government though. They can change the laws. That takes time and due process of course. But thats what the German government is doing [0]

[0] https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/gesetzgebungsverfahren/DE...

Adding an example would be useful to see how it renders.

Obviously a cool side-project. but I dont understand why anyone would want automate CV generation for "production use".

CVs are personal, and get updated once a year or so. Each life is different, each CV is different. So it does not easily scale across people.

As someone who is reviewing CVs, I review CVs from two aspects:

1. does the person have the skills I need, and 2. can the person communicate and do they have professional pride

Its much easier to get 1 & 2 across if you craft your CV. Think about what message you want to get across and work very hard to get that message across on one page. Expand with more detail in pages 2 and following.

As a hiring manager I am filtering roughly in this order:

1. has core skills I need, if yes, then 2. has used core skills I need in enough projects to likely meet our bar, if yes, then 3. are the relevant projects close enough to what we are building?

Later in the interview process, interviewers will look at the CV more closely to prepare for the interview.

Anyway, if anything I would only start with automating from page 2 and beyond.

wow your post gave me a bit of perspective. The distribution might really matter here.

Are those ~400-800 kg of aluminum oxide in cosmic dust each day uniformly distributed, and if not how big are those clouds of aluminum oxide that the earth is travelling through? Those 30kg from the satellites are going to be extremely concentrated and therefore take longer to "soak up".

It does not need to constantly change focus to what I am looking at, but when I press alt+tab / cmd +tab etc, I want the first window to be switched to to be the window I am looking at at the moment.

I need this combined with eye tracking so that I can switch the focus to what I am looking at. If it was a macOS app, I would definitely pay for it. Especially if it was a one-off fee of $50 or something like that.

Execution in the broad sense. Some things will depend on the availability of humanoid robots which can facilitate the execution in real-world domains that are designed for humans.

Right now AI is good as a manager, it can identify issues and propose solutions, but it struggles to actually implement them reliably. This is even the case with code today, despite the vast datasets, documentation, compilers, etc.

This problem becomes harder the more the unconstrained physical world is involved, in particular in slow moving legacy environments that have not been designed for AI / robots. Prime examples are physical infrastructure, and housing stock and the associated trades that maintain and upgrade those.

You probably found it already when doing your background search, but there is an acoup blog post about why the Industrial Revolution did not happen during the Roman period: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...

There might be some inspiration in there to guide the story towards breaking some of the chicken and egg problems. Maybe the Romans find a way (and reason) to exploit the English coal deposits and start encountering the same problems the English did eventually: how to pump water out of shafts.

Really? For me both commands set a timer for 15 minutes.

Does anyone know how Claude code compares to using Aider with anthropic API?

I have been using the Claude.ai interface in the past and have switched to Aider with Anthropic API. I really liked Claude.ai but using Aider is a much better dev experience. Is Claude Code even better?

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters might disagree: https://therp.co.uk/artists/

How do the people who dont deny the risk and dont want to damage the economy propose to handle this situation? Not changing things fast enough just kicks the can down the road to the younger and future generations.

Even for the middle-aged, climate damage might really make their retirement vastly different from todays pensioner life. If insurance is exorbitantly expensive (due to massive pay-outs year-after-year), safe place to live are scarce and expensive (due to neglection to build housing in safe areas for decades), then a lot of money has to be spend on basics. Property prices (and insurance) have a massive impact on any base-level pricing of everything, but mostly essentials: shelter and food.

Its even worse for the younger generation who will struggle to build up wealth, when growth is impossible due to regular wipe-outs of massive amount of wealth due to disasters, not to speak of wars triggered by mass migrations out of places that are untenable to live.

Incredible to see this play out here and good to see that this got unflagged now. I only saw this earlier (while this submission was still flagged) due to someone somewhere else mention that https://news.ycombinator.com/active exists.

Probably worth keeping an eye on it from time to time to get an idea what did not make the cut for whatever reason.

More on topic, I am wondering if this scenario shows that even wide-spread gun-ownership does not protect against state power (lawful or not). If ICE agents would kept getting shot during these type of arrests by people thinking they are about to get abducted by a gang and using their gun in self-defence, ICE would not do it this way. Therefore I am thinking that the agents are confident that just signalling that they represent a US federal (?) agency is enough to prevent bystanders and arrestees (?) from escalating.

These developments follow more than £150m of investment by the Company in its UK munitions facilities since 2022

The sustained need for artillery shells since 2022 did not arise because more countries wanted to decouple from American dependence, but because a war was started that did not allow for the typical NATO doctrine of air superiority to be used. I wonder when so many artillery shells were last used as they have been in Ukraine.

In their terms [0], Cloudflare says

2.2.1 Restrictions

Unless otherwise expressly permitted in writing by Cloudflare, you will not and you have no right to:

(i) use the Services to store or transmit any “protected health information” as that term is defined in 45 C.F.R. 160.103 without Cloudflare’s written consent;

We plan to process PHI data, so I need written permission. It turns out that I need an enterprise license (it took a long time to get to that realisation, because it is not documented, and ticket lead times even with a business account are weeks). The catch is, you cannot just upgrade to enterprise, you need to talk to someone.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/

Cloudflare seems to be the only company in the world where sales does not want to speak to you. So if Arroyo becomes part of the Cloudflare Enterprise offering, dont get your hopes up to be able to use it. Except maybe if you are already a Cloudflare Enterprise customer.

I have tried now for over a month to open an enterprise account with them, no luck yet. I filed tickets, called their hotline, but I just cannot get through to a sales person.

Are there any alternatives out there that provide a baseline of support and allow sending PHI data?

I was about to ask the same. 30° is a very uncanny number. Looks so much like summer temps in Europe