I never put two and two together but I think this tracks with my experience. I don't get deep sleep like I used to. For the last few years, I dream and wake up multiple times every night. I used to sleep through the night and only dream here and there. I also got tinnitus a few years ago. I couldn't swear that these happened at the same time but it makes sense.
I hope the FAA and EVTOL companies can work this out and these new rules don't significantly disrupt or destroy such a nascent industry. Of course the aircraft need to be safe but I hope there will still be a clear path for them to become fully certified.
I will say, not all bike lanes are created equal. In the Netherlands, a lot of bike lanes are built as proper infrastructure. They're separated with a curb, nicely paved, free of debris, heck they often have their own traffic lights. In many US cities, they just slap some paint on the ground and call it good.
Having ridden on both types, the Dutch style bike lane feels much safer.
It might not be a silver bullet to solve all of the US's healthcare issues but it could certainly fix a lot. If you combine all the US government's healthcare spending, it spends more per capita than any other country and it still isn't universal or free. I'm not sure people outside the US realize how bad and expensive healthcare can be in the US if you're not wealthy and/or well-insured.
Wow, it really takes an insane amount of money these days to make a leading edge fab. I really hope they can pull this off and it doesn't end up like Foxconn in Wisconsin...
In many places, heat pumps and electric hot water heaters would work great! Even in relatively cold places, heat pumps can still work. My office in Vermont switched over to using heat pumps to heat and cool the entire building and we have plenty of heat this winter plus very efficient AC in the summer.
Two years into the pandemic, I've wondered why Amazon still allows counterfeit KN95 to be sold all over their site. It's really hard to verify that the masks you're buying actually have the rating they claim unless you buy from a trusted vendor that gets their masks directly from known good suppliers, sites like projectn95.org.
I always preferred gas stoves over electric too until I learned what a massive source of indoor air pollution they are. They natural gas gives off tons of particulates too small to see and create levels of air pollution that if it were outside would be considered very unhealthy. Now I don't want one in my home but I'm stuck with the one in my apartment.
Sometimes I wonder if human innovation sits on an S-curve and we alive today plus a few generations before us just experienced the steep part. Maybe it will flatten out again. Although who knows, maybe not.
I get frustrated with Google Docs because there's no good way to organize your documents into folders. Technically, there's a way to do it but Google makes it a pain in the ass and purposely hides it from you. Instead, they show a gigantic list of your most recent documents. For me, that's frustrating but I guess if you grew up with that being the default, that's just what you're used to. Like smartphones, technically the folder structure is there but it's hidden away and difficult to access, so almost no one uses it. I guess the latest generation have really just used desktops and laptops as portals to the internet rather than doing things locally on computers themselves.
This reminds me of when the spacebar stopped working in the YouTube search box. I thought my keyboard broke for a sec until I realized it worked just fine everywhere but YouTube. Then later I found out it wasn't just me...
Alternatively, if you want to flip back to the old UI in Firefox 89, you can go to about:config, search for browser.proton.enabled, set it to false, and then restart. That should do it too.
If you want to revert the UI changes, go to about:config, search for browser.proton.enabled, and set it to false. Then restart Firefox and you should be good.
Side note: I don't know how often this happens but it's kinda cool that Firefox went straight from 87.0 to 88.0 without any sub-versions. They didn't seem to have any security/bug patches, they just got it right on the first try.
I bought a pack of Elixir guitar strings the other day and noticed on the back it said they're made by W.L. Gore as in the people who make Gore-Tex. Turns out the strings are all coated in PFAS to keep them from corroding. I guess I knew they were coated but I just never really thought with what...
I'm hoping this update helps with Firefox's performance watching Twitch streams. Twitch kinda chugs no matter what browser I use but it's noticeably worse with Firefox. From the googling I've done, I'm not alone in this. I considered switching back to Chrome but didn't feel like moving all my stuff over, so hopefully now I won't have to.
I think this makes perfect sense. Competition fundamentally doesn't work when it comes to infrastructure like this. I don't hear anyone saying that we need more privatized competition in our sewer systems. Why? Because it's incredibly costly to build and having private companies build two, three, or more sewer systems in one city/town would be insane. The costs per user of each one of those systems would rise dramatically because you would have far fewer people paying into each system. Same goes for our internet connections. Creating multiple competing networks in this case raises prices for everyone and we needlessly duplicate the amount of infrastructure required to serve everyone. That is why we make services like sewer, water, and electricity regulated monopolies. I don't see how internet, in this day in age, is any different. Just like everyone needs electricity, everyone needs internet. That being said, we do need competent government officials that can balance costs with public good. If we elect incompetent people, we get incompetent results.
I think that has a lot to do with your municipality. I have municipal electricity and not only is it very affordable, it's 100% renewable because they started the shift to renewables back in the 1980s. They haven't had to raise rates in years. My internet is also municipally owned and it is about half the cost for double the speed as Comcast, which is it's only local competition. So, I think it largely depends on how well the government is run. If government officials look out for the public interest, listen to science, and think long-term, we'll get better outcomes.
They make a good point in this article, I just wish Newsweek and other media outlets would get this pissed off about climate change. "Old and unafraid of the climate crisis? Good for you. Now stop killing future generations." If we're mobilizing to stop a pandemic, why the hell aren't we mobilizing to stop climate change?
I know this is going to get downvoted into oblivion, I just wanted to say it.
Could someone explain this a bit better? I've read two articles on this this morning and I still don't understand what the privacy concerns are with this feature. Thanks!
I feel like this article ended before it should have. I'm still not exactly sure what the author means by Don't Repeat Knowledge. Should we not be refactoring or... just don't go overboard?