I didn't do Erasmus, but I won a similar exchange program that brought me from the University of Granada to UC Irvine, where I met my now wife. Life changing experience.
100%. It can double up as maintenance route which is a plus. And this would make such a nice commute option for many in Oakland/Berkeley who now just WFH on principle.
The size of the data sample is massively different. Only a few thousand people have earned any Olympic medals, so variance is expected to be higher than in the "years lived" metric, where we have literally billions of data points.
If that's a feature, it's a costly one, at the expense of ceding the public square to the substance abuse crowd. This LA Times story about the decline of the Metro system since the pandemic almost brought me to tears. I've enjoyed the lines and stations mentioned in the story, and I can see why they're deserted now.
I was thinking the same. I just built a new product incredibly fast, and now I feel like I'm going at limping speed with Google only when I'm in doubt.
Predictability is an important factor, and yes, bikes are better at that. By the way, try a vinyl liner between the tube and the tire for puncture protection. Since I started doing this, my puncture rate has fallen easily by 90%.
> A related joke I have is that everyone talks about the terrible twos, but says nothing about threes. Because it turns out that two year old tantrums are sort of adorable, and if we told people what happens next, they would never take off the condom.
Yes it is, there's a connection fee of approximately $10/month for that same reason. Net metering is a totally unrelated topic. What's being argued about is the rate. Until now, rooftop solar customers get a retail-level payback for excess production sent to the grid. Under the proposal, this payback would be at the wholesale price, which is significantly lower.
A daily life parallel: You can use a lighter to put a small amount of energy into a bunch of wood to extract more energy than you put it. In the case of fusion, this energy is coming from fusing hydrogen atoms, rather than a chemical reaction.
My kid really took to Scratch last year when he was 6. We got a Raspberry Pi 400 and reading the manual he saw a full chapter on Python. Now when I'm working, he'll come by and say "hey! that's Python!"
Conveniently, the [turtle module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html) comes built-in and he also got to draw some fun patterns after reading the "Secret Coders" comic book series. It's really fascinating to see him develop his mental models.
Yes, I'm aware, and I'm not expecting much, but I'm really curious. I'll probably graft a couple varieties this coming spring, just to be sure I get something viable, plus it's fun to have a salad tree.
Yes, that's definitely a problem. Most home insurance products cover bikes (I've had my stolen road bike mostly replaced by insurance), but it's not an ideal solution given the hassle and time cost. I imagine theft prevention trackers would make this less of an issue over time, at least on the higher end models.
Same here. The squirrels in the backyard are definitely a drain on the batteries. Another reason to hate them (the main one is that they eat my nectarines).
I was hoping for some e-bike mentions, which are far outselling the electric car market for many reasons, and would be revolutionary if we only dedicated a fraction of the effort we devote to car infrastructure.
Oh man, I liked a Cameo apple so much the other year that I kept the seeds to grow something at least remotely similar. Right now the tree is standing a good 8ft tall, and I expect it to yield some fruit next fall. Only time will tell if it's only a 50/100 apple, or a great one like I remember.
Indeed, I recently worked on a fairly simple deployment for a state government agency. When I described the process to their IT staff and mentioned that we prefer using WSL, they looked at me like I had grown 2 heads.
The way I understand this at the gut, conversational level, is by noticing that hot air can carry more water, therefore it will dry your skin faster, which is what "feels" like the air being dry.
Heating doesn't remove water from the air, as you explained. But that's what people assume when they argue that "heating doesn't dry the air" as I've heard in the past. Using relative humidity is a good explanation.