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Besides that, even if you are pointed at the same thing, you might disagree on or have different needs for gain, exposure time, and filters. GP’s comment is hilariously confident yet ignorant.

Is there an RSS feed for this newsletter? The RSS link at the bottom of the site leads to the same thing as the News button on the top, which was last updated in Oct 24 and doesn't have these updates included.

This has inspired me.

I do a lot of stargazing and have experimented with voice memos for recording my observations. The problem of course is later going back and listening to the voice memo and getting organized information out of what essentially turns into me rambling to myself.

I'm going to try to use whisper + AI to transcribe my voice memos into structured notes.

In the US, wilderness area is a specific legal term[1], which have very restrictive rules about what visitors are allowed to do. Very specifically, dogs are _not_ allowed off-leash in wilderness areas, because they can disturb the local wildlife, and the stated goal of wilderness areas is to protect the local wildlife to the highest extent possible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness#United_States

I'm currently on the free trial of Capture One Pro. It's a $300 license for the current version, which gets updates for a year. It's super pricey but it's the only program I've found that plays well on Mac, has the features I want and is intuitive to use.

Financial institutions in the US do this constantly. They call you, and then they ask you for stuff like the last four of your SSN and what loans you might have with them to prove that they're speaking to the right person. They act surprised when you don't want to answer because they called you.

This so far is the biggest sting to current Tesla owners. A lot of the stupid stuff it was kind of possible to ignore because it didn't affect the ownership directly, but this is insane.

Superchargers have been the greatest competitive advantage of Tesla for as long as the company existed. They've been so great at keeping them reliably operating , drastically easing range anxiety for Tesla owners. With this layoff I expect the Supercharger network to become just like the rest of them: broken over 50% of the time.

One of the exciting things about the broad switch to NACS in the US was that other fast charger networks were going to have to compete with Tesla's network, which might have brought the level of reliability and ease of use up dramatically. Instead, we're going to have zero reliable fast charging networks.

I think this broadly dooms the EV movement in the US. I need to sell my Tesla and I guess get a PEHV or something.

> Health officials maintain — and experts agree — that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus.

> “Right now, all indication is that pasteurization is effective,” said Dr. Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University.

The federal government is not beholden to federal employment laws, ironically

My credit union seems to blanket ban European IP addresses. You basically get an nginx 403 page if you try to access their site from anywhere that isn’t the US. It’s dumb but I like their other services so I make due with a vpn when I’m in Europe

> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.

Which, in the worst case, will start a fire that will burn down your house. It's not worth the risk of using cheap chargers; buy from a reputable brand

It depends on the kinds of changes you mean. The kinds of local changes I have are just env variables that allow the software to run locally a little bit differently than in the production environment. I'm able to do this by using a .env file and a library for my languages of choice that read a .env file if it's there, but use defaults that make sense for prod when it's not there. Then the .env file is gitignored so it doesn't make its way over to the production environment.

Each developer can modify their .env however they want without having to make any changes visible to git.

I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"

The latest Tesla heat pumps can extract heat from the air to heat the battery and cabin down to -10C. Past that, they have to use resistive heating which is much less efficient. I would say that’s where the “cold” line begins, and of course the colder it is the more battery you have to waste. Last weekend I took a 3 hour round trip (starting with 90% charge) in -30C and had to charge only for 5 minutes to complete the trip.

I agree that it’s pretty intuitive if you’re used to it, but we also all know how users won’t read basically any text pit in front of them. If you know where the supercharger station is in your neighborhood you might drive there without navigating, and when you get there you immediately start browsing your phone and don’t see anything your car puts in front of your face.

Tesla is still the simplest EV to fast charge but there’s still a lot people have to learn about EVs to get the most out of them

Public key authentication, with your private keys in your .ssh folder and your public key in the server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file

Yeah, I was looking at the histograms too, having trouble comparing them and thinking they were a strange choice for showing differences.

Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq

If you look at the specs of the regular, Pro and Max chips on the M1 and M3 generations, it's easier to see M1 Pro as a sort of "Max Lite" chip. You got identical CPU core counts on both the Pro and Max variants in the M1 and M2 generations, but that's no longer true with the M3.

Apple seems to have realized that people with only CPU heavy workloads won't buy the Max variant, so it seems to me they've weakened the Pro line on the M3 to push more people toward the Max.

It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.

It's worth noting that Cobalt is now the problem element for BEVs [1], though there is a lot of work that is being done and has been done to reduce the amount of cobalt in Lithium Ion batteries.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/congo-mining-human-rights-73b3edc...

If I understand correctly, both of those technologies use quantum dots to increase brightness. The difference is that QD-OLED also increases contrast since there is no backlight, and the pixels themselves emit the light.

Currently, none of the big players in the passkey space support exporting or importing of passkeys, because the spec for doing this securely has not been agreed upon, and nobody wants to allow plaintext export of passkeys.

See a recent post in the 1Password passkey AMA about this subject: https://old.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/16to6x7/hey_redd...

Re. your point about 1Password going down: Your passwords and passkeys are all stored locally when they sync to your devices. If 1Password becomes unreachable for any reason, you still have access to everything in your vaults, you just can't sync between devices any more.

Out of curiosity, could you clarify what you think is a good email? I feel like I have this skill but since I've never really been taught it, I don't really know.

What is the size of your basil bed? 50 kg of basil per season seems wonderful!

This is less true now, with the option to enable “advanced data protection”. Turning this setting on disables Apple’s access to your iMessage keys along with a bunch of other stuff, though of course if you get locked out, Apple can’t help you

+1 to this for translations of Russian literature by Constance Garnett. She was prolific and her works are now out of copyright, but more recent translations will be more pleasant to read and generally be truer to the source material. Personally, I’m a fan of Pevear & Volokhonsky, but a cursory search will reveal a massive controversy over whether they’re great or awful. I suspect this is true of most translators of for languages as well.

When reading works in translation, the translator is just as important as the author of the source material. Do your research!

That rule is specific to school busses with the red STOP lights flashing, and you’re allowed to pass the other way if there’s a physical divider like a median in the road.

Commuter busses do not have this rule

I recommend looking on italki.com to see what options there are for language lessons. I started using them years ago, doing two lessons a week, and it’s helped massively with my native language progress

Yeah I think the documentation is a bit ambiguous here. Postgres "schemas" have a very specific meaning, different from what most people think of when they hear the word. It's more like a table namespace.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-schemas.html