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This being the rural United States, burn barrels for household waste were a thing for most of a century and spewed dioxin and a lot of other stuff all over the place. You can find lots of studies for background levels of dioxin.

It isn't a binary "Is there dioxin?" There certainly is. The question is, is it elevated above background? Is it elevated about established safe levels? If you run it through that nearby incinerator, will the dispersed plume raise land above acceptable levels?

The EPA has experience with dioxin sites and incineration. They bought a town of 800 people, demolished everything, hauled all the surface dirt to a site-built incinerator and over the course of a year incinerated everything and built a mound out of it. The locals were vocally aggrieved that the incineration was done near them. Its now a nice park for bicycle riding on flat land by a river.

You could make the LEDs be different colors based on location to model the light coming from that direction, at that time of day. Then you could get your plants to track.

It might take much brighter LEDs, since the relatively few sunward ones would need to really crank out the photons while most of them were more chill and bluer.

The wildcard is what has to change for the thickness of the shell as it scales. That either makes it work, or be infeasible. More research required.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/guineaworm/biology.html

When you uncoil the cable it will be laying flat on the ground with no twists.

An alternative for massive cables it lay it out in a figure 8 on the ground. That will also pay out without twists.

Extension: The upright vacuum cleaner you've been using that releases the cord from the handle by twisting the top hook down? If it is leaving you with a twisted mess of cord, that means you haven't been winding it up in a figure 8.

Even more, since you got this far: Do this with your short cables too. Your USB and audio cables will last longer. When you have a twisted cable, a torque shows up at each individual wire where it meets its connector. The repeated twisting and untwisting leads to connection failure.

And when you get a new cable that is rolled up (any Apple cable), unroll it instead of pulling the ends apart. Then you cable need never have twists put into it.

It appears the plan with pricing doesn't include the weather data, just the transformation. You still need keys to the ultimate source.

I do feel the pain though. I moved to WeatherKit REST API when they stopped Dark Sky. The tiny amount of calls I make were free and easy in Dark Sky. In WeatherKit it is still free, but I had to figure out how to have my server generate JWT tokens which is a grade 2 pain in the ass on the 0 to 10 scale. (Also, the APIs are still marked as "beta". If you are killing a service and replacing it with a new one, maybe nail down that new one before cut over day? They are also sadly vague, the kind of stuff a programmer jots in because comments are required. If there is 3mm of rain followed by 50mm of snow, what does the precipitationAmount field have? The documentation says "The amount of precipitation forecasted to occur during the day, in millimeters.". Thanks, 12 words to tell me nothing. )

How about Unicode "Thin Space" 0x2009 for a legal identifier character? (HN isn't letting me put the Thin Space in there.)

How about Unicode "Middle Dot" 0x00B7 for a legal identifier·character?

Best if you aren't in a fixed with editor for those.

I used middle dot in an experimental language which was Unicode heavy so already didn't like fixed width fonts. It parses trivially and reads well.

I haven't tried the thin space in earnest, but the example code I typed up looked reasonable.

Cars meant for the rest of the world have separate yellow lights in back and you could flash those. I think they are adding a rapid burst flash for alert with those.

I'm fairly certain this isn't a legal option in the United States. That would be unattended self driving.

It's probably a better solution, it just isn't available.

It came in a gallon water jug, like you would buy water in a grocery store. Ultimately I think that was its demise. When I went looking for it to subdivide I couldn't find it. But I had used a gallon of spring water to prime a well, I suspect I grabbed the wrong jug and primed the well with moonshine. The previously clear well kept producing a cloudy material that year.

No great loss, it isn't a "fine drinking" product. They make it from sugar since that's cheaper and cleaner. It's very much a "get you drunk cheap" product.

If instead you chunk based off of local content (conceptually like chunking text into sentences at periods, but its a binary thing on has an upper size limit and lower size limit and I couldn't find the algorithm specification) so that after an insertion or deletion in a small number of bytes you start getting the same chunks as before.

This drastically reduces the cost of identifying unmodified chunks.

$3k keeps the limited units out of drawers and in the hands of people that will be making something with them.

This device has a lot of cameras and scanners in it. After they work out what is actually required and used the consumer model may have fewer to control cost.

Apple will deliver an app or two to set the user experience quality bar, it sounds like VR conferencing is one of those, but that doesn't mean they think that is what the device is for. It is just that they need to give an example of what the user experience should be or you will have developers delivering poorly performing, battery eating, usability disasters and customers will think that is inherent to the device.

For requests which are "reading" you just serve content, unless for some reason you only want human eyeballs to see your content.

In your proposed scenario, reading the publicly accessible contents of the web, there should be no problems. (Of course some percentage of sites will accidentally have required PAT at any time and be unscannable, but presumably they figure that out and fix it.)

Now for the good side: I, reluctantly, implemented a geolocation filter to control anonymous content additions to that service I was alluding to. I felt bad about it, but I also felt bad having to filter out content spam every day. It turned out that all my strange content spam came from one country, so I banned 143 million people from anonymous content creation for my convenience.

With PAT I can remove the national ban and let any "probably human" in.

Sounds more like the driver defeated the safety systems which stop the vehicle if the driver is incapacitated.

I've encountered failing USB disks which appear to work fine on macOS, but suddenly operations take minutes to perform and can block operations system wide. They don't report errors, and they don't show as CPU use in any program, but everything on the system slows to a crawl when you hit sensitive spots on the disk.

It's worth removing external storage devices and adding them back one by one any time you have a hanging or slow Mac to diagnose.

Apple hates to scare or confuse users, but if a disk drive is taking a four orders of magnitude more time to do operations than it used to, I'd like my computer to please let me know.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm6...

It depends on the formulation of your diesel. If you had a tank of "summer diesel" it would be gel at that temperature. Generally the supply chain starts changing the formulation as the weather gets colder and everything is good until you get to arctic temperatures. But if you fill up at a station that doesn't sell a lot of diesel and they still have summer diesel and its an early cold spell, or you are driving a vehicle you don't fill often, you can be in trouble. There are also additives you can add on your own if you know you have summer diesel.

Sometimes we forget that we have 100 years of infrastructure behind our internal combustion engines and about 10 behind the electric vehicles.

In the first 10 years of internal combustion engines, you bought benzene at the local apothecary and used that to fuel your car.

Three years of EV in a more or less unheated garage and I'm still just charging off my 15A 120V outlet. It's fine. I plug in every other day or so. But you know what I don't do? Freeze my ass off standing in a gas station in subzero temperatures and howling winds! Not missing that at all.

The solar panels installed on the White House during the Carter years were a solar hot water heater, not a photovoltaic system.

Here is part of his speech from the dedication ceremony in 1979: "In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people."

Details are not readily available without clearance, but the roof of the White House is a limited commodity and there was probably an antimissile system installed there after the solar panels. They might have needed the space.

Here in 2022 we can see which road was chosen. We didn't get to 20% renewables by 2000, but we are up to 12%, so making progress, if somewhat more slowly.

Someone should spend a couple years doing some PhD work on Martian dust blowing turbine designs, but not burn out completely so they can write a 1000 word, interesting blog post with some pretty pictures for me to consume.

I suspect it has something to do with the non-linear response of the human eye. You don’t have to reflect a lot of light to be perceived as significantly lighter than black, so diverting 25% of the light from the panel to reflected light makes the panel look quite light.

In an EV this would be handled when charging by running a heater until it is a safe to accept charge. When driving, any time the battery becomes too cold you would divert regenerative braking energy into heating the batteries instead.

It forms the basis of some magic tricks involving walking on or supporting things in water. (I say some, the rest are totally magic and you should enjoy them.)

The sort of solar panels one would use in a large installation are around 23% efficient.

So they are close in "power/hectare". From there it is capital costs and cost of operation that will make the decision.