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Before you get too far down this rabbit hole (like I did) for a home mail server, make sure that your ISP supports inbound/outbound mail traffic. Mine blocks it permanently, and I've been unsuccessful at getting it changed. In fact, I can't even get the tech support people to understand the traffic is blocked before it reaches my house and it's not a "firewall" thing.

> Previous commercial concentrating solar thermal systems could only reach temperatures of 565 degrees Celsius, the company said. That’s useful for generating power, but can’t meet the needs of industrial processes.

Or we could build more nuclear power plants, which have the duty cycle necessary for industrial applications. It's no wonder that the more conservative politicians seem to love nuclear more: it's a pro-business, pro-industry carbon-free energy source, unlike wind and solar (or the insane amount of batteries to make it work.

Really cool site and instructions for an automatic watch. I recently switched to a manual watch, and I think personally I prefer it more. Winding my watch is now part of my every day routine and I look forward to it.

I also calculated that each "click" on the wind represents 15 minutes, so when I wind it up and hear the clicks, I know that's time I'll spend today that I won't get back, so spend it well!

The problem is you’re delighted by the code but everyone who comes after you can’t stand it.

For CLI it’s true to the Go mantra. If the flags library is “good enough” why not just use it and avoid being fancy?

Besides, isn’t it feasible someone might confuse long and short options? “Is -d and —delete the same, or is -d —debug??” KISS even if it’s annoying.

As for loops, I know that they’re generally more common in Go. Another example is finding if an element exists in a slice. Most of the implementations is this stuff is just a loop under the hood in the end.

From a Java background it was strange to me because I’m used to dealing with classes and there’s always a method for this or that...

"Python 2.7 only??!"

Here's a "partisan" topic: "Have Democrats Tried to Impeach Every GOP President Since Ike?"[1]

According to their site it's 5 out of 6 presidents, or roughly 80%. Their rating: mostly false. Looks mostly true to me.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dems-impeach-gop-president...

> Actual headline: "Did CNN Purchase an Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News"

What line does this walk? Things that are even physically possible and things that are not? I just can't believe Snopes dedicated cycles to debunking this.

Thankfully it got some press and they changed the label to "satire". I can't tell exactly when because the snopes link has been excluded from the way back machine (for whatever reason).

I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering what was up with that.

Also, snopes is not an innocent reference site. Their “debunking” of satire like Babylonbee can cause those sites to be deplatformed.

This can be done easily and without jail breaking on any iPhone with tools such as Charles proxy (provided they don’t do certificate pinning). They work by having you generate, install, and trust a profile which includes a root CA.

My assumption was that the system had finite ram available, whether that's serialized in a database or read directly into the program.

A Tasmanian devil though??!

> The report doesn’t identify these “super emitters,” but notes that landfills give off more methane than any other source in the state. NASA’s equipment found that a subset of these landfills were the largest emitters in California and exhibited “persistent anomalous activity.”

Is the problem here that the trash is breaking down, or it's breaking down in a suboptimal way (such as anaerobic activity) that's causing methane to be released instead of a more benign gas?

Exactly! I have so many side projects I like to tinker with while I'm at home. I use them as a way to learn a new skill. Eventually those skills will come home to my employer, either with new ideas, frameworks, experience, etc. But for that to happen I need the time to self-explore and follow my own ideas.

Sometimes I wonder if we were just a different type of people 100 years ago. People were standing in the balcony while it was being lifted? Going to work as normal!? Society would never tolerate such risk these days.

why would they pay for someone else to use their energy? It just eats into their profits and means that their normal customers have to pay more for the solar energy.

I paid $11k for my used 2015 leaf about 2 years ago. I charge it every other day (90 mile range) by plugging it in at work or at home into a DC charger that’s connected to my dryer outlet.

For these cars they work great but you have to accept that they usually have to be charged every other day.

You’re taking a loan out. How’s does it “make” money without negative interest rate? And I missing something??

> The increase in price funds much of their retirement.

What increase in price? Your “profits” were simply transferred to the other home owners profits. To extract real benefit you need to move out of state which is not what a lot of people want to do.

> Because a housing crisis leads to skyrocketing home values. They benefit from increased housing prices.

That’s the point I’m trying to make. A home’s value is NOT liquid. You can’t extract any portion of it until you move. And you have to move AWAY to get that value.

The best you get is a relatively low interest HELOC but that’s hardly a money maker.

In fact a lot of people are stuck in their homes for that reason. Any move would be a 5x or 10x change in property tax bill.

> huge money source for local home owners, who are the demographic setting the local policies.

And why do you think this? A home is one of the least liquid assets one can own. It’s not a huge money source. It’s not even a money source home owners at all.

Personally I wouldn’t surprised at all. The people working in HFT are some of the smartest in the world, and they have the smarts, tools and the algorithms to smell blood/weakness from thousands of miles away.

It only took one or two of these smart people to identify a weakness in the system, and then they raked in I’m sure millions from it.

I don’t understand. What’s the pricing costs? Bandwidth? Instance hours? S3? A database?!?

This website can literally be hosted on a free tier at almost any major cloud provider.

Norway’s top personal tax rate is similar to the US (39%, which is less than what some people pay in high cost of living states here).

The difference, as I’m sure you already know, is state oil revenue, and that can’t last forever even with sovereign wealth funds.

> Most people seem to agree with this statement, which is the very definition of a pyramid scheme (see my point about hysteresis above). We've defined the goalposts such that this statement is in some sense tautologically true, but it leaves me with a profound sense of "so what?"

For countries with any kind of social / welfare programs, there is no option available but to grow population. Even here in the USA programs like social security are only solvent to 2037[1]. Many state programs (such as public pensions) are in way worse positions...

1. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html

With sqlite3 package and Go this doesn’t look possible, or at least not easy.

https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/212#issuecomment-...

I tried doing this once with Go, hoping for a static binary, but SQLite library requires glibc.

There’s a huge need for a sql-compatible sqite-like database for this purpose in Go.

And I’ll add another: Not feeling the creative juices flowing? Restrict yourself to a particular pentameter or style when writing that poem.

Working with restrictions is one of the not-so-secret prerequisites to a lot of creative discipline.

I think the issue is that the 50% screen time for teens is using apps that cause and reinforce anxiety and other diagnosable mental health issues.

The teens by virtue of their age probably aren’t working, so I don’t that screen tune can be attributed to work requirements.

The never-ending word treadmill we're on is amusing. A perfectly descriptive word is associated with something awful. We stop using that "offensive" word in favor of another word. The new word is then associated with something awful and the cycle repeats.

It's almost as if the only point of updating our vocabulary and retiring "offensive" terms is to signal our virtue and tribe.