The Pacifica and Sienna (and probably Odyssey as well) are absolute garbage for hauling crap. If that is what you are looking for, get a used one from the prior generation.
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But each one has a maturity date. If you still own it on that date, it goes away and you get your $1000 deposited into your account, which you can use to buy a new one. Or not.
If all you own are the bills, that means that none of them will last a long time before they turn into cash - they aren’t as risky (if you think owning US Treasuries are risky).
A Treasury bill matures in 1 year or less from when it was issued. A Treasury note is more than 1 year but up to and including 10 years. Treasury bonds are anything more than 10 years.
> The Morris Operation … is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel.
Reindeer are the only deer where the male and female both grow antlers, so it could help.
But… antlers fall off and regrow the next year, so you’d have to keep repainting…
Also, when the males rut, they tend to scrape their antlers on trees, so that’s probably not good for keeping paint on the antlers. Bonus! Finnish drivers will likely be able to see reflective trees and avoid them!
Just sayin’
In that Wii Mario game players could “bubble themselves” to avoid death. And then shake their controller to bring their bubble closer to an active player, who could pop the bubble and turn the “bubbled” player back into an active player. And if all players were “bubbled” then you’d go back to the world selection screen without any player losing a life - you’d only lose any powerups you had.
So is this the correct source for the terminology, or did nobody using it actually play the game, or???
It’s a little different viewpoint than presented in this article :)
They answered that question in the article ;)
However, for many hundreds of years - longer than the US has had a navy - there has been a belief that allowing sailors to put their hands in their pockets would lead to mutinies. And more accidents. I think (hope) we can safely say that there wasn’t an increase in mutinies.
But studying the accident rate on ships based on a hands-in-pockets policy is actually valuable work. I hope they publish the results.
There are existing rules for wide loads. They’d just use them.
That’s the extent of my knowledge. I think that everyone they’ve talked to doesn’t want it to happen, and that is coloring their view of whether it can happen. But I could be wrong.
When they needed to move the shuttle-sized Muon G-2 magnet ring from Brookhaven to Fermilab, they carefully packaged it up and sent it by barge for 85% of the trip. The east coast and gulf coast portions used the intracoastal waterway, which is exactly the same route they would use for the shuttle. And yes, that magnet ring is a hell of a lot more fragile than a shuttle.
I’m sorry to say, but transportation is not at all a barrier to such a move.
Here is a photo of it passing St. Louis. You can see how tiny it looks compared to the kind of barge they’d use:
https://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/images/gallery/20130719-St...
Fun: if you’ve got Apple Maps (I’m sure Android has this as well), ask for walking directions from Minneapolis to something 35-40 miles away. I chose “Elko New Market” - 36 miles from downtown. Click on the walking details and you can see the elevation change. You’re going from around 800 feet above sea level to 1100 feet above sea level, a difference of ~300 feet. But the total change over the course of the walk is nearly 4000 feet!
There are a lot of ways to become a millionaire, but perhaps the “easiest” is to get a good job in a big city and then live frugally over the course of years or decades.
Which is really to say that if 1 in 22 New Yorkers is a millionaire, then it’s pretty likely that far better than 1 in 22 New Yorkers that ride the subway are millionaires.
PS if the next question is whether I’d pay for it, the answer is likely no ;)
A suggestion: I forget the HTML tag off the top of my head, but there is something you can do that turns off the keyboard autocorrect. Setting the search box input type to something specific or something like that… stock tickers aren’t dictionary words :)
The vast majority of caffeine that is available to add to products is extracted from coffee arabica. Either from the creation of decaf coffee or from other plant matter. IE caffeine is a useful byproduct of coffee arabica production.
There are most definitely other sources of caffeine, but if coffee arabica is no longer grown/harvested in the quantity it is currently, you would expect the cost of caffeine to increase significantly. I doubt we’d have shortages or anything like that, but I suppose it’s possible.
Start a goroutine and use channels to communicate and coordinate reading/writing. Use defer in the goroutine.
HP tried to kill it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 years ago they announced the EOL. This company - VMS Software Inc (VSI) was formed specifically to buy the rights and maintain/port it. So you have an interesting situation.
Old VAX and Alpha systems are supported, supposedly indefinitely, but if you have an Itanium system it has to be newer than a certain age. HP didn’t sell the rights to support the older Itaniums, and no longer issues licenses for them. So there is a VMS hardware age gap. Really old is ok. Really new is ok.
Meh, who cares? My son is a freshman at a large public high school in suburban Chicago. Yes, it’s “honors” English, but they read a novel cover-to-cover every 3-4 weeks. I get the weekly email from the school about which universities are visiting. Elite ones never visit, and as an Ivy League grad I get notified when they are in the area visiting more prestigious schools so I can schedule my son to go over to them for a visit (i.e. I know that they come visit in the area).
The elite schools have made their choice. They’ll discover their mistake later on.
For background, it's worth understanding that Hoover founded and ran the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI [1], which brought American food past the British blockade and German submarine patrols to prevent famine. And oddly, one of these relief ships was most likely the cause of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Relief_in_Belgi...
It makes very little sense at all, unless the next step after this is to make government assistance conditioned on family work seeking.
The Wright brothers were very aware of Lilienthal and his contributions.
Wilbur Wright, speaking to the Society of Western Engineers in Chicago, September 1901:
> The difficulties which obstruct the pathway to success in flying-machine construction are of three general classes: (1) Those which relate to the construction of the sustaining wings; (2) those which relate to the generation and application of the power required to drive the machine through the air; (3) those relating to the balancing and steering of the machine after it is actually in flight. Of these difficulties two are already to a certain extent solved.
> This inability to balance and steer still confronts students of the flying problem, although nearly eight years have passed. When this one feature has been worked out, the age of flying machines will have arrived, for all other difficulties are of minor importance.
> Herr Otto Lilienthal seems to have been the first man who really comprehended that balancing was the first instead of the last of the great problems in connection with human flight. He began where others left off, and thus saved the many thousands of dollars that it had theretofore been customary to spend in building and fitting expensive engines to machines which were uncontrollable when tried. He built a pair of wings of a size suitable to sustain his own weight, and made use of gravity as his motor.
> Lilienthal not only thought, but acted; and in so doing probably made the greatest contribution to the solution of the flying problem that has ever been made by any one man. He demonstrated the feasibility of actual practice in the air, without which success is impossible. Herr Lilienthal was followed by Mr. Pilcher, a young English engineer, and by Mr. Chanute, a distinguished member of the society I now address. A few others have built gliding machines, but nearly all that is of real value is due to the experiments conducted under the direction of the three men just mentioned.
> We figured that Lilienthal in five years of time had spent only about five hours in actual gliding through the air. The wonder was not that he had done so little, but that he had accomplished so much. It would not be considered at all safe for a bicycle rider to attempt to ride through a crowded city street after only five hours’ practice, spread out; in bits of ten seconds each over a period of five years; yet Lilienthal with this brief practice was remarkably successful in meeting the fluctuations and eddies of wind gusts.
https://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/In...
The Wright brothers found that Lilienthal’s method of controlling an airplane was never going to work, and devised something that would. That was their invention. Nothing more, nothing less.
Metra did it, I’m 99.9% sure they stopped years ago. But yeah, there would be a person at the platform when the train arrived downtown with a piece of paper saying that the train was delayed. A late slip.
Nowadays, you have real-time location tracking of the train. If it’s late, you can tell your employer what train you’re on and they could verify it. At least to a better degree than with the late slips. Still not perfect. But if you’ve got an employer that would want to verify such things, you’ve got worse problems.
I don’t know, how about holding on to our phones and computers a little longer, and not replacing perfectly good copper-laden objects just because there is a newer, shinier version on the market?
This book explains everything:
https://store.hbr.org/product/information-rules-a-strategic-...
I’ve never seen it in a library, but you can occasionally find used copies, if you don’t want to buy a brand-new book that is a roadmap to doing things you disagree with.
Someone could download a dump of the whole thing (the SEC has a link and updates it every night) and assemble all of the various documents in a way to get a decent estimate.
An example Form 4 (which will show cost basis of acquisitions):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581025...
An example Form 144 (which would give you a pretty good guess as to which shares are being sold; you can then correlate with a known Form 4):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000192109425...
It makes it seem that AI coding assistants are totally fine and the whole work is copyrightable as long as the human is bringing the code pieces in, deciding where they fit, etc. But if you are making "small" edits to a work that is primarily AI-generated then you are likely out of luck. I guess it really depends on how much you have to edit the AI work.
A few days ago on HN there was talk about vibe-coding in the current YC cohort in which they were saying "don't bother debugging, throw it all away and have the AI regenerate!" I can't help but think that this is incredibly risky. One disgruntled ex-employee blows the whistle and your startup might be toast.
My understanding is that this is more common in the middle of the US rather than the coastal schools.
My sister did this for chemical engineering while at Purdue. Each semester on site was at a different chemical plant around the US, for a major international corporation. Graduated with zero debt and a long list of companies that wanted to recruit her given the extensive experience.
But anyway, the mechanics of it is that the university registers you for a “course” during your time away that allows you to maintain your full-time status as far as the federal government is concerned. That’s the issue - the way things work, it’s really bad to lose official full-time status.
If this is something you truly believe in, lead by example.