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Having seen the shuttle in person in LA museum, I was struck by how much it looked like a plane sitting on a flat heat shield surface

Someone posted about a little Easter egg wherein the Next icon was buried somewhere in iPadOs but I’ve never been able to track it down since.

I'm so glad someone documented this. it's been driving me crazy. I was just in a serious crunch mode for a couple of week, so all kinds of minor speed bumps in my workflow have become really evident to me. The UI transition between PR "tabs" has been one of the worst.

There have been a lot of studies that show the correlation with lead up and down and varied by lead in different cities countries with different phaseout timelines.

Kevin drum and Rick Bevin both did a ton to lay this out systematically.

As leaving drum has noted, Lead is NOT the only contributor to crime, but it was the cause of the largest variations for most of the 20th century.

Somebody once shared an Easter egg on an iPad, where they wrote a little code in the playground app and were able to pull up the next logo from the ROM, or something like that. I reproduced it at the time, but I’ve never been able to find a reference since. This was like 6 years ago or so

Why?

This really resonates for me. I have been thinking for sometime that it would be much more useful than scratch, if we could have a simple programming language with a simple canvas next to a text/console output, both of which were separate from the editor.

And ta da!! You’ve done it.

I really think this is wonderful.

No one bothers going downtown much. Too much bother when they can just fire up Netflix.

this is so incredible. I'd love if it supported continents.

I have dreamt of some entity trying to do this. A completely stripped down vehicle sold for a (hopefully) sustainable profit. I wish them as well as possible, and they will have my interest in purchasing one.

And every restauranteur I’ve spoken to uniformly describe the last few years as miserable

Such a good writer. He always challenged me. Even when he had conclusions, I disagreed with, he always provided data that often challenged my notions.

It is very odd grieving the loss of writers in the blog era. The para-social relationship is more intense, but typically barely any more reciprocated than that of a magazine columnist.

I will definitely grieve this loss in a way that feels very personal, yet unlike some of the losses I’ve experienced of in person, friends, there is much less shared grief.

Grieving, as I’ve come to learn in my life involves a lot of conversation. And his readers don’t really have anyone to have those with except for some comment threads.

“Interesting“ observations aside, RIP, Kevin!

This and insufficient taxation of higher income brackets is basically my entire politics these days.

Almost all legitimate scientific research can be accurately described either in a way that sounds weird, possibly useless, or in a way that sounds important and useful.

The former is usually characterized by describing the details of the experiment, which are meaningless to the untrained audience, the latter is characterized by describing its ultimate goal.

This could sound like a blind defense of “trust the experts“, which can be a problematic attitude. The point is that someone you can’t answer the latter question, then any critique should be suspect. If the researcher can’t answer the latter question concisely, then a closer look is definitely warranted.

That’s not really its purpose. I think it’s makers are generally going for a cool device for geeks

I had one when I was like 11 or so. Loved its fake Pacman game. I learned some Basic. Such a distinct memory of spending a whole day copying a program from Byte magazine (or something like it), getting the game to run well after my bedtime, playing it one or two times, then… just turning off the computer, losing all that work. I was never able to convince my mom to buy the fancy tape recorder that would have let me save programs. It was a while till I programmed again, but the seed was definitely planted.

Side note: Medicare advantage is the worst. If you have an elderly relative, make sure they stay on traditional Medicare.

Not sure how many of you still read Kevin's blog, but as Calpundit he was a very early political blogger. Always rigorous and thought provoking, he had a knack for cutting through BS.

He's ailing, and I just wanted to let folks know.

I for one remain incredibly grateful that they shoveled money out the door, and imperfectly helped lots of small businesses provide some cash to some employees. If they had sat around worrying about the critics or trying to prevent any possible fraud before sending out the money, everything in our country would have frozen up that much more.

“Cali”? No.

would it be possible to trigger profiles with Bluetooth Beacons?

I wish someone more knowledgeable could explain how this is currently valued at $25 billion.

Is that legitimately $25 billion “on paper”, or is that like an initial “stated value”? I don’t even have the precise language for the question.

Regardless, I’m sure it’s a big grift almost certainly, but I don’t understand the valuation.

Assuming the energy input is atmospheric warmth, then the real question is what volume of ammonia can you produce with this device per acre? Then how does that amount of captured energy compare with wind/solar in the same area?

Otherwise, you’re just better off, producing electricity from one of those sources, or producing ammonia, using electricity from one of those sources, after accounting for losses in the various processes of course.

wow. that took a real turn! Using coal to amend soil.

I have some serious question about the heavy metal contamination that might result, given that both Lead and Mercury occur at ~ PPM levels, not to mention Chromium.

I long ago noticed the early 70's divergence of income inequality. I didn't realize that there was a Breton-Woods angle that some were pushing. I have no comment on that. I have always thought this was more closely related to the clawing back of higher tax rates on high income, which certainly helped set the conditions for higher executive compensation.

I’m sure Musk is non-trivia part of this, but also there haven’t been any significant remodel, update or new models (for typical consumers, cybertruck is fairly niche) released in quite a while.

At the same time tons of new e-vehicles are coming out from a ton of competitors.

I think the primary point is that until the 20th century, most people did not ever have a choice. Communal living was the only primary successful strategy for survival, so we are fairly hardwired for that environment. In that environment occasional solitude was probably a benefit.

It’s like the physical exercise which until the 20th century was just a part of everyone’s life. We sought relief from it whenever possible, but that wasn’t often possible. But in modern life we can go weeks without much physical exertion. And we know the consequences of that.

I think that’s one beautiful aspect of the scene in Schindlers list when they are agonizing over the list of names in tedious detail. It’s rare that this kind of work is dramatized without altering its quotidien nature.

Every 80’s kid knows this trick from those old books where you cross your eyes to reveal images.

Interestingly this paper probably underestimates things since it is not evaluating food sources, such as lead sweetened wine commonly drunk by the elites. I suspect the effects were non trivial.