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However, whenever I have to print something, there is pretty much just one possibility in Markdown: export as pdf. And export as pdf uses Latex. Latex is cool. But if you want to customize your document, you will sooner or later need to include latex headers into the "build" process of your file, and soon you have a clusterfuck of tooling and a make file for a document that was supposed to be a simple report. And then I'd rather write it in Latex.
Does anybody have a solution for this? Some kind of print-friendly Markdown-to-PDF workflow? All the non-Latex alternatives looked horrible. In fact, I sometimes export markdown documents to Word just to print them.
[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/killing-may-end-the-blind-ey...
- Battery capacity: 1MWh [1]
- Charging power: 6MW (assuming they charge the full battery in the 10 minutes mentioned in the article)
Unfortunately, I cannot find the article, but I believe I once read that charging the batteries that quickly caused problems with power grid stability, so they had "auxiliary batteries" at the ports that they charged with lower power, and then transferred the energy from those batteries to the ship batteries with high power, which effectively tripled the battery cost. [EDIT: the issue is actually mentioned in article [1], where they have two 410kWh shore charging stations]
On Mozilla, I recommend to use Reader Mode.
OK, according to the "global wealth pyramid" [1], a graphical representation of global wealth distribution, the bottom 3 billion own less than 10'000$. I'm not saying that being poor is equal to lacking shelter, but there is probably a correlation there.
3d printing homes is cool and might have potential, but it won't help a poor farmer in rural Azerbaijan get shelter. It would be great if the media could stop presenting this as a panacea to homelessness.
[1] https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/articles/news-and...
I completely agree, and it also appears to change every other decade.
Suddenly, drinking coffee became healthy, eggs stopped being unhealthy and drinking a glass of wine a day became a major risk for CVD.
Engineers are spoiled when it comes disentangeling relationships between causes and effects because our systems are relatively simple compared to the huge and complicated mess that is human (or, indeed, any) biology.
"We see a future where, say, I can send my friend 100XLM, and, via Keybase, I can send it to her by knowing only her Twitter or Reddit handle."
[1] https://www.stellar.org/blog/keybase-and-stellar-partnership...
In the early days of Macromedia Flash, I wanted to build a GTA I clone. I didn't know about trigonometric functions yet, so I had a line of height 1, width 0 that I rotated around one of its ends at a fixed angular velocity while the user pressed the left and right arrow keys.
Then I read the height and width of the rotated object and added it to the x and y coordinates of the car, respectively.
For some reason, trigonometry is treated pretty late in Swiss schools (often only during the Matura, where students are 16-20y/o). I never understood this, since understanding trig can be really useful in a lot of everyday situations.
"We were warned by our NASA escort to not touch our faces after handling equipment coated in the solid rocket exhaust and to wash our hands ASAP after arriving back at the KSC Press Site."
Next picture: touches exhaust residue with bare hands. Please, use gloves!
"Using a glass filter triples the area that dew can form prior to liftoff."
A-ha, it is time to start building heated glass filters for rocket photography enthusiasts!
"This is probably out of fear on the part of the government that "N" = "n terms in office", where possibly n > 2; as in "liánrèn n jiè 连任n届" ("n successive terms in office"), which would be forbidden anyway because of the liánrèn 连任 ("continue in office") part."
I don't know any Mandarin or Cantonese, but this seems like a very strange explanation to me. Are there any native speakers with more insight on this?
I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from her story. Don't work too hard and learn to say no, I guess. There is no clear narrative and the article reeks of self pity (she does not get tired of mentioning that she's a "twice an immigrant" and a woman).
EDIT: what bothers me about the article is that there is no root cause analysis and no solution is offered.
Also, I am unsure the n-th order immigrant argument is valid. The very concept of a second order immigrant seems bizarre to me. And if they exist, it remains to be proven that k-th order immigrants have it strictly more difficult than l-th order immigrants for all k>l.
I used to work at a company that makes pumps with magnetic bearings. To pump hot liquids, we needed special magnets with higher Curie temperatures than traditional Neodymium magnets. Our high-temperature products had Samarium-Cobalt magnets and ran, if memory serves, up to almost 200°C.
It might well be - the Vietnamese like to clean their house before Tết to start fresh into the new year.
This sparked my interest in pole expeditions, and I was surprised to learn that:
1) Amundsen was not only the first person to reach the geographic south pole, but also most likely the first to reach the geographic north pole. Today, the two expeditions that claimed to have reached the north pole prior to him are both thought to have missed the pole by several hundred kilometers.
2) He reached the north pole in a rigid air ship with Umberto Nobile, my new explorer hero, who later rescued his Jewish girlfriend in fascist Italy and went on to build air ships for the Soviet Union and later teach aerodynamics in the United States.
EDIT: And I'm getting more chills just thinking about Sjaak Lucasson's planned north pole expedition with a modified Yamaha R1 motorcycle pulling a huge sled full of fuel [1]
EDIT 2: Funnily enough, the navigator on Shackleton's boat sailing to the attempted pole traversal was also called Worsley.
And of course, you will only be able to use HP filaments!
Finding good Kp, Ki, Kd gains by just sampling the [Kp, Ki, Kd]- space at random and trying it out on the real system is often not recommended. Firstly, because the state space is relatively large. Secondly, many systems can fail catastrophically if they become unstable, causing potential harm to man and machine. The second objection does not apply to a wine fermentation chamber, as far as I can see.
In a company I worked at, there were PLCs controlling sensitive processes, including heaters for welding plastic, connected to the company network via Modbus-over-TCP. A visitor with a guest access, nmap and pymodbus could read AND SET temperatures of any of the devices. A black hat could easily have started fires or leaked acid in our production floor.