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Air drag energy losses are tiny comparing to other losses when burning petrol so you don't notice the difference.

The illustration gif is way too fast. Hard to understand what is going on. Slow it down 2x or so.

Let's say you are a bank and you make $10 on each $100K transfer. If customer disputes a transaction and you must return the money, you lose the whole amount and twice as much on lawyers, internal audit, compliance people working on the case. With this math you can't afford the risk if it is more than 1 in 30000.

For many European banks the math is even more brutal.

No bank got fined for not root checking, correct. However banks are on the hook for unauthorized transactions. And "unauthorized" means different thing in different countries.

In some jurisdictions if bank can prove that transaction was made with customer's key then customer can not demand their money back. That's the best case, but there are only few of such jurisdictions and even there the burden of proof is on the bank and it costs a lot.

In other jurisdictions bank must reverse a transaction even if it was proven that the transaction was signed with a legitimate key, but the key _may_ have been stolen.

In some jurisdictions (i.e U.S.) banks are required to reverse a transaction at a customer’s request, even if the customer does not dispute having made the transaction.

In any case dealing with all this is too expensive and risky.

Practically impossible to store secrets in a desktop app too. Besides, customers would not willing to install a desktop app. And those who would, will require support.

Well, I've built a bunch of mobile banking apps and we did detect if the phone was rooted, was in dev mode, etc. and it is not because we were "stupid, consumer-hostile, and anti-competitive".

If someone steals the secrets from a rooted phone and steals customer's money the bank is on the hook, so banks do everything they can to minimize this risk.

There is no way to store customer's secrets in a PC browser securely, so all the "dangerous" transactions were outright prohibited in the web app or made available only via temporary QR login.

All this is just is a negative side effect of customer protection laws.

I could use a 3D powerpoint. Even the most basic, boring arrows and boxes will look better in 3D. Some of the slides in a preso I use almost daily would convey the message better if they were in 3D.

maps as well. email client in the browser.

I would argue that accurate sizing is not that important as labor constitutes the bulk of the cost. My total bill was about $20K and going for 30% less capacity would net about $19K so its easier just to go for the maximum. Calling in an IR imaging drone would certainly cost more than the potential savings from accurate sizing.

Unlike gas furnaces which basically can only do ON or OFF, heat pumps can regulate the heat with much higher granularity.

What certainly calls for innovation is managing the labor costs. In my case installation involved way too many people and way too many visits.

Hey, corruption is rampant on each and every continent, except Antarctica. Asia is not the worst by far. Why are you singling out Asia specifically?

So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.

As a child growing up in Central Asia, I saw people piling up stones, sticks, and other debris along the ancient lines people used to control herds and wild animals. The ones built for hunting often had a narrow, funnel-like end, while those meant for managing herds could take on almost any shape. One of the photos in that article looks exactly like the walls I remember from my childhood.

I don't know, looks like hunting walls to me. When chased, animals naturally follow such walls, however insignificant they are (sometimes they follow even a line drawn on the grass), and get onto predictable trajectory leading them into ambush.

Does it exist? I could not find a wikipedia article about it. This Gobi Wall can not be a part of what is known as the Great Wall of China as it was built 5 centuries later, no? Can someone explain?

There is a difference in the way it went for Saudis and Iranians. Saudis, not having the tech, capital, knowledge at the time, still retained ownership. Iranians did not. Saudis had enough bargaining power (and balls), Iranian Shakh agreed to exploitative concessions.

Those who had the tech, capital and expertise in the end just lined up in front of Saudis to be hired.

What is Persian writing?

One does not need to develop the tech to own the oil and monetize it. Those who developed the tech can be hired.

This got me thinking: I use heatpumps but I still have baseboard heaters in each room and all the piping between them. Thinking if I can connect my office fridge to it somehow and thus expel the heat somewhere far away in the garage instead of running a fan in my office.

It is a solved problem for those who can install fans, filters, exhaust and intake valves far away from the room itself and just carry the stale and fresh air via ducts. Always fresh air without noise and mosquitoes.

Far Manager works in Linux and Mac OS and works great.

For context: number of earthquakes which potentially may generate tsunamis is measured in hundreds per year across the planet. Number of potential tsunami events for any given "coast" is measured in single digits per year. In the hottest areas it is tens of events per year.

This data augments USGS earthquake data and tsunami simulation data, so it is far better than "fundamental analysis". I am guessing it will not take long to train a simple neural network to do the job.

Operators suspended their services and now reject US-bound packages.

Shut up and take my money!

Web channel traffic is typically a tiny fraction of mobile traffic for banks. In some banks its like single digit share.

Try following this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6893f888-8a70-800c-ad8a-0987257b93...

In frigate, add this to the top of your configuration file:

mqtt:

  enabled: true

  host: IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_HOMEASSISTANT

  port: 1883

  topic_prefix: frigate

  user: USERNAME_YOU_CREATED_FOR_MQTT

  password: PASSOWRD_YOU_CREATED_FOR_MQTT

Frigate will start sending various messages to Homeassistant. Go to HA, go to MQTT settings and listen to a topic frigate/#

Observe the messages, pick the one which suits your needs.

Follow this for an example: https://chatgpt.com/share/6893fd1c-2940-800c-a358-a840029e6e...

You dont really need to add the HA automation via yaml, you can click it through manually.

PCI DSS is a relatively new thing. Before it card data flew in the open

My frigate runs in a separate container and is configured to send MQTT messages to Homeassistant. Frigate can also expose snapshots which Homeassistant displays: http://myfrigate.lan:1984/api/frame.jpeg?src=CAMERA_GARAGE

Ukrainians benefit from this data a bit more than russians do. Our Ukrainian brothers will be on the forefront of so so many things because of this war. So many startups to keep track of! Udachi nashym Ukrayinsʹkym bratam

US banks lose about 3x more to fraud than average and about 10x more than some countries with sane regulators. Those are direct losses, not accounting for "prevention, detection, and recovery" costs.