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My first BA was in history before I went into tech stuff.

It's honestly a hard question and depends on you. I think there's two core challenges: 1. What would be interesting to you and motivate you 2. Finding quality sources

The first one is easy but the second one is hard if you don't already know a fair amount of history, and there's tons of junk out there.

I'm admittedly pretty snobby on my sources but some recommendations (pick whatever works for you): - The Revolutions podcast is excellent. Made by the same guy as History of Rome - Unironically, the AskHistorians subreddit is a gem. It's hard to find questions with answers. Just search for their Sunday day of reflection posts. It's a compilation of interesting answers - If you're able to get into textbooks (not everyone is), do a search for an intro level textbook that's a short survey of an area/time. For example you find smallish intros to most regions and times from Cambridge

What are you interested in and how do you think you'd enjoy learning?

Windy allows you to select your model. For that reason it's my go to for accuracy.

Different models have different strengths, though. Some are shorter range (72h) or longer range (1-3 weeks). Some are higher resolution for where you live (the size of an area which it assigns a forecast to, so your forecast is more local).

Some governments will have their own weather model for your country that is the most accurate for where you live. What I did for a long time was use Windy and use HDRPS (a Canadian short range model with a higher resolution in Canada so I have more accurate forecasts). Now I just use the government of Canada weather app.

I genuinely wonder what the weather Channel, iPhone/Android official weather apps, etc. use under the hood for global models. My gut says ECMWF (a European model with global coverage) mixed with a little magic.

Kobo devices do a full page refresh periodically, which is probably what you're seeing. iirc it will do it on chapter transitions to make it less jarring.

Basically, it's intentional and relatively rare (unless you have really really short chapters).

Pixel 10 Phones 11 months ago

In fairness it's AI "upscaled". What kind of car that is isn't actually present in the original image's data, it's a best guess from the AI.

It feels simplistic, but if the primary problem is fissures and pockets forming, I'd assume they would be full of air. If you know the volume of the wheel and the density per pound, you could weigh it on a very precise scale

What did you find hard about sideloading on the Kobo? I've had a Clara and now a Libra, sideloading books is as easy as plugging in a USB cable and clicking and dragging files onto it like it's a usb stick.

It's optional, but you can use Calibre with an extension to convert epub to kepub as well.

iirc (it's been over a decade), the Oyster card is a plastic card with an NFC in it. Montreal's Opus card does the exact same thing (and is probably modelled off of it and similar implementations in other cities). This article is describing the disposable, single-use ones.

If you don't want to use disposable ones, the same kiosk that dispenses the temporary cards will allow you to buy a permanent one which you can load with fares as normal.

Caddy 2.8 2 years ago

Also go.sum is roughly equivalent to your package-lock.json. go.mod would be the package.json equivalent

The blurb on his background:

Matthew Bromberg is currently a Senior Advisor to Blackstone (NYSE: BX), a global alternative asset manager. He also sits on the board of directors of Bumble (NASDAQ: BMBL), where he has been a member of the audit committee; Monzo, a privately held, U.K.-chartered bank; and Blast, a privately held esports company. From 2018 to 2021, he was on the board of directors of Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) where he was a member of both the compensation and nominating and governance committees. Between August 2016 to November 2021, Mr. Bromberg served as Chief Operating Officer at Zynga. Prior to Zynga, he held various leadership roles at Electronic Arts including Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations of the company’s mobile division and Group General Manager for all BioWare studios worldwide. Earlier in his career, he pioneered the esports revolution as the President and CEO of Major League Gaming. Mr. Bromberg holds a B.A. in English from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Honestly what he says makes sense in his "rebuttal", except for the part where he continues emailing after being told to stop.

I actually stumbled across the AI stuff being turned off by default yesterday when I got curious and was poking around the feature request forum. It was explicitly because a lot of people hate it for moral/ethical reasons. A lot of the comments in the replies are specifically about the AI stuff in spite of it being disabled by default.

Most of this seems fine for a startup?