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I just zoomed out from Toronto and tried Waterloo/Kitchener and it worked... [edit] but apparently I was just lucky.

Haha, same here. I think my brain actually translated the title to "Unicode Character (right argument as a function)".

Currently I generate graph diagrams for papers and blog articles in emacs with graphviz, I wonder how mermaid.js compares in that workflow.

The default styles in mermaid look a little nicer than graphviz, which might be enough to motivate me to try it out. When/if I do, I'll probably try with this emacs package: https://github.com/abrochard/mermaid-mode.

Heat pumps are about 1.3x up front cost, but 0.75x over the life of the unit. New construction therefore tends to prefer a/c, but some federal and state subsidies are kicking in soon to sweeten the deal.

In really cold climates (e.g. Minneapolis, Montreal) heat pumps often also need a supplemental furnace or fireplace because the heat differential inside vs. outside exceeds what the pump can handle. Depending on your fuel source, you still come out ahead, but not as much.

I should note that I'm not an expert by any means; my brother in law works in this field and he gave me a crash course a couple weeks ago. So I probably feel like I know it better than I actually do.

[1]: https://carbonswitch.com/heat-pump-vs-ac/

In common usage, the term "A/C" refers to a kind of heat pump that only does cold, whereas "heat pump" means one that does both hot and cold.

A refrigerator also has a heat pump, but we just call them refrigerators.

Part of the problem is in temperate climates, if you have "A/C" you probably _also_ have a furnace. They might run on different fuels (electric vs. natural gas) so it makes it harder to get a ballpark estimate for the overall efficiency.

I hear you about the Expanse. The books are a blast and I'm hoping Amazon finishes the series because they are good adaptations. My dream series to watch (are you reading this HBO?) would be set in the Dune universe, with Denis Villeneuve doing prequel series covering the creation of the Bene Gesserit, discovery of Ecaz, etc.

Fractionated coconut oil or gtfo.

My first car was a manual, and several cars since then. I can assure you not only is it possible to drive stick and text, it is possible to concurrently drive stick, text with T9 word, adjust the radio, and put fire sauce on a chalupa while it's snowing at night.

The trick is to be an idiot teenager.

Cynical take: being this much more effective than their colleagues won't get OP promoted, but it might get the rest of the team fired.

Counterpoint - given that people will always text and drive, the auto makes the task slightly safer.

> feathering the clutch

For maximum fun, don't use the clutch at all except to start moving.

I almost feel like compression and embeddings are duals of each other, but I can't quite articulate it.

Embeddings use fixed-size vectors to minimize the dot product between vectors of similar inputs. Compressors use a variable-length encoding to minimize the overall stored size.

That's fair. I only use CSS for personal/hobby projects.

Before code review:

    // fires the missiles. 
    // Spongebob case (and extra underscores) makes it hard to accidentally type.
    void FiRE___MIsSiLeS();  // !!!!
    // be careful!
    void fire_missives(); // posts a witty tweet

After code review:

    void fire_missiles(); // fires the missiles
    void fire_missives(); // posts a witty tweet

Code is more uniform, zero downsides!

Platypus seriously? If you're going to make up an animal, at least try to give it a realistic sounding name.

Exactly. "Align things to a grid" seems like a simple concept, but CSS grid seemingly has at least 3 ways to place the top-left corner of an element, and it just gets worse from there. I tried it for a simple layout with 3 elements and quickly decided I prefer flexbox, tables, or even floats.

CSS grid feel like someone asked TikTok to design a rectangle and said yes to every suggestion.

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How about a tuition capped at the median salaries of its graduates?

And one in Bloomington, Indiana. Took the family to check it out last Thursday. Smells exactly as advertised.

Hardcore Henry plus Black Mirror, amazing.

Now if only I could remember how to spell caffeinate.

I found some papers [1,2] which claim conversions are not prohibitively expensive, though I assume not all office buildings are equally suitable. Open-plan office in particular seem impractical to convert. I wonder how many of the companies that built them that way to save money are now stuck with an empty building no one wants to buy?

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/da2d/49a0090e8631ff08eb4813...

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/004209805003803...

When I did electronics for a psychology department, nearly everything had to have both hard real-time sensing and be plug-and-play with Windows and MacOS. We ended up using a lot of Arduinos, but having a webserver on board would have been so much nicer than serial over USB, or transferring from SD cards.

After the geese died, researchers found a microorganism living (and thriving) in the extremely toxic lake. This microorganism was filtering out the toxins 900 times more effectively than any other known organism[1]. The origin of the microbe was the gut of the geese. Radiolab included this story in one episode[2].

[1]: https://www.millerwelldrilling.com/miracle-at-the-berkeley-p...

[2]: https://radiolab.org/podcast/91721-oops

anyParadigm :: RAM -> RAM

What part of the world? I've heard that the cost of converting office spaces to residential is more than building new.

As a teenager I read a story about someone who shaved the door handles on their car[1], then proceeded to shut their keys in with the motor running.

[1]: "Shaved" handles means there is no handle at all on the outside. You install a solenoid to electronically pop the door open instead of using a handle.

> what do you do? Forego the purchase?

Blasphemy!

You might appreciate this survey paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat...

Most of the work I have read in this field is focused on finding potential malware or stolen copyrighted code, so false positives are no big deal. But you don't want anything less than 100% valid code coming out of your compiler.