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15 cents per kWh is much more expensive than what you buy electricity for around the world. Also, they can time their usage for when the electricity is free or very cheap

I'm not sure what's forbidden here. You don't need 100% relative humidity to grab water from the air in fact in any wood has a moisture content that in equilibrium is in relation to the air moisture content. The moisture diffuses into every material and evaporates based on where it finds less vapor pressure. That's why you may have dry lips at 40% RH versus moisturized lips at 70% RH.

What you're referring to is condensation and is caused by air oversaturation due to a temperature drop which doesn't seem to be the case here.

Theoretically speaking, you can have a material that somehow absorbs high moisture from the air but has microscale properties that promote creation of droplets then somehow these droplets are separated from the rest of the air (with something like a smart vapor retarder, a passive material) and the water gets harvested.

My local forestery product association already claims that per unit of weight, wood is stronger than steel. We are seeing taller and taller high rises going up with mass timber.

The idea here holds merit and has been attempted before. The video below is a great watch about "bulletproof wood".

This company however is using it for the facade of the building not the structure, which is kind of a yellow flag. Many fancy headquarter buildings are after some novelty to show off. Facade is not a reliable market unless they can somehow integrate their wood into curtain wall systems and other high wind load applications.

https://youtu.be/CglNRNrMFGM?si=LhVQnWZfMyw_wssH

Can someone explain the English of this slogan? It makes no sense to me. The thing being advertised is "what nobody else can give you". If I consider that to be "it", then the slogan becomes:

Buy it for twice the price.

So it should have cost $298 then?

Wasn't it better to end the sentence with "at half the price"?

Be the change you want to see

I like it! It has most of the features I need in a PDF doc and nothing of the bloat. The only features missing for me are: callout text comments, redact text, and flatten PDF. It's snappy and pretty easy to understand. Good job

As much as I'd like it, we all know it can't remain "100% free and no sign-up". What's your plan to avoid enshitification?

E-waste prevention is hella important. It's a tough situation though. I think for a board that goes out in the public, even at a prototyping level, it's important to know the chip you have is not tampered with. I once wanted to make a little people counter at a university campus with an ESP8266. I simply couldn't make sure it's resilient against some CS students poking at it.

Is it safe to say that would not have happened without China? With all of the strong energy incumbents that the US has and their lack of desire for disruptive innovation I wonder how much the US can take credit for this reduction.

Studies have shown correlation with CO2 levels and performance but pinpointing the effect to CO2 alone hasn't been established. In fact, CO2's presence chemically helps with the oxygenation of the blood.

CO2 is an indicator. I don't let it climb in my home, and you shouldn't either. The problem is when people fixate on the CO2 levels. For example, you paint your walls with high VOC compounds, your flooring/furniture off-gas a lot, your vacuum cleaner doesn't have the proper filtration but you don't recognize your issues because your CO2 monitor shows 700ppm. That 700ppm can be a lot worse than a 700ppm your see in a home that has all of those considered.

It's good to keep in mind that in your home the CO2 usually ranges from 400ppm to say 2,000 ppm. Getting to something like 100,000 ppm is not really plausible for a typical home. I get how in a submarine the conditions are different.

From 9:50 onwards of this video explains what I meant: https://youtu.be/CkGDN85I29U?t=590

Our current understanding is that no amount of CO2 is dangerous as long as everything else is fine, but in reality CO2 acts like the canary in the coal mine. When it climbs, it shows accumulation of stuff you don't want to deal with.

Measurement of compounds is best done using a monitor like Aranet, but incidental bumps in different values don't mean much. Long trends matter. If Radon is an issue in your region, a detector for that. Mold testing kits are readily available in market indicating moisture issues and you can get lead and other hazmat testing done diy/professionally

I have a degree in building science, so maybe I can chime in. Note of caution: you will find yourself breathing heavily after reading this. It's normal.

We do a terrible job at ventilating our indoor spaces. As a cave-dwelling species our brains are quite comfortable with tuning out bad smells and tolerating stale air -- but the effect of it on our mode and well-being is almost immediate. You don't notice the effect, but it is there.

That's why they tell you if the airplane's cabin depressurizes, put on your own mask first. People who don't manage to that quickly enough their eyes stay open, they don't even feel anything is wrong, but they are physically unable to put on their masks until they pass out.

If not eating proper food kills you in 3 weeks, not breathing proper air kills you in 3 minutes. Yet, people spend thousands of dollars on a new diet, but have no idea what kind of stuff are going into their lungs.

The situation is not life and death. It's feeling nice versus feeling low. People end up with indoor air that is often stale and full of volatile compounds. We often make it worse by using essential oil diffusers and not using the vent hood when cooking.

When you do a breathing exercise, all of a sudden you are giving your starving brain a dose of what it could be like. When you have a walk in the nature, you do the same.

So yes, breathing exercises are great, but it's even better if we fix our indoor environments to feel great at all times.

I think my experience has been different from everyone else. As an owner of a pixel phone and multiple Google accounts, I wanted this to be true. But Gemini has been super inconsistent with tasks that are trivial for Google Assistant. I even bought the $26 AI plan for my account to help with some proofreading and it's been awful compared to ChatGPT. I'm about to cancel it.

Cybersquatting is one prime example of value extraction vs value creation. HugeDomain has sat on my obscure family name's .com domain name and wants to sell it to me. Every year their price goes up a thousand dollars.

Hot take:

We should work towards dethroning .com as the default so that all the people who trade domain names lose all the money they had never earned. I'm also for a more expensive .com base price. Some of the things that make moving away from .com hard is the blanket gtld level email/traffic bans in Sophos and other security firms

Not a coding project, but I have been writing a sci-fi novel about a world where time goes backwards and forwards. It has some interesting history in it too. I'm looking for beta readers.

Recently I was practicing QA with ChatGPT, I wondered if I say "stay silent for 4 seconds before talking" will it work? lo and behold, it didn't.

That's not true. Except for nuclear and solar collectors, all renewables, especially hydro, have nothing to do with steam.

Right now uBlock Origin Lite is "featured" on Chrome web store and so far navigation has been ok in the "complete" mode.

Funnily enough, it made me review the block lists of the extension and I realized that I could select more of them. Too early to jump to conclusions.

> hope to reach 60 in August and all I want for my birthday is another one

This sentence is so powerful. I am very sorry to hear this. In these situations, I can't help but feel it's so unfair.

I'm not talking about unfair as in people dying young. Unfair as in there is a particular combination of alterations to physical matter that is going to solve this problem. It's out there. We just haven't found it.

I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to fill health in no time. today was not that day.

Imagine you have 6,050 bitcoins but they didn't work out for you the way that you hoped. The most reasonable thing to do is to still advertise a bullish position because otherwise you are devaluing your own asset.

There is a strong sentiment around bitcoin in El Salvador and it can make them money; but the experiment around it being a legal tender, well, failed.

A couple of years ago I came to the possession of a Google daydream VR. It sat for a little while because my phone was old. Then I got to upgrade to a Pixel 5 and one of the first things that excited me was the ability to explore the headset.

To my disappointment the two products, both coming out of Google, were incompatible even though they were only 2 years apart.

I don't believe that flip floppy culture has had a reason to change.

This is a thing not because it adds strength or sustainability. We produce way too much corn and they are looking for ways to use them up.

For the uninitiated like myself, PearAi just took the source code of continue.dev (not fork, they copy pasted) and did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC.

One might look at this and think "huh 30% success is not too bad" missing the fact that this is from a VC perspective.

From a founder perspective, this is abysmal because the chance of you getting funded by the likes of a16z or YC is already really slim, about 1% according to YC.

So let me ask you something: would you embark on a journey if you knew your chance of success is 0.3%?

So many good startups go to oblivion, pandering to the VCs. Where they could have been more resilient on their own.

I don't mean to diminish their work and I don't know much about the matter but the company founder is some billionaire's daughter. I fear ever having a boss like that just because of the fundamental difference in perspective and life experiences. I'm sure I won't be able to communicate with them.

This kind of argument ignores the real cost of having to upkeep a 50s car: the human suffering. Cubans are forced to use this option and their society suffers from it.

I think it's pretty elitist to judge the quality of a content via whether it's in a book/journal or not. In fact, the recent wave of scientific fraud discovery shows that one can hide data manipulation pretty effectively in an academic journal. I'd much rather scientists spend their time making eli5 videos.

It says not available in Canada, just pointing it out in case that was not intended

You don't get the "run everywhere" ability that threejs has. It appears you "fighting the js ecosystem" comes from lack of experience and familiarity

I recently tried Metal a bit. Some features are only available for visionOS (the headset) and not iOS or macOS and vice versa.