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maherbeg··on Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
Texas could be a good example that is ramping up more battery usage without having massive energy prices. Granted the energy system in Texas needs other changes (feb 2021 winter storm for instance!) but it could end up being a good template in the long run.
maherbeg··on Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
Huh, I'd love to taste a sample. This would be such a nice extension to an existing Espresso setup!
maherbeg··on Venice tests a 5-euro fee for day-trippers as the city grapples with overtourism
yeah they could easily just say "foreign tourists pay 50euro per day" on high traffic days and call it good.
maherbeg··on This is a teenager
Saying society is going to collapse due to population decline is about as absurd as saying society will collapse due to overpopulation.

What will end up happening is that some groups will maintain replacement fertility levels or higher, and some groups won't, but we'll trend towards an equilibrium, or flop between too little fertility and too much fertility. Either way we won't go extinct unless we explicitly kill each other.

maherbeg··on Getting the Grid to Net Zero
Battery recycling is already spinning up and becoming profitable. It also means we won't have to rely as much on imports of rare earth materials because we can use already mined materials over time!
maherbeg··on Getting the Grid to Net Zero
Did you know that something like 70% of tires in America are recycled?
maherbeg··on A brief history of keyboard encoding (2023)
There's also this new result for diodeless keyboards with many more keys despite limited GPIO: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1berag2/...
maherbeg··on Keep your home powered during an outage? Try a big battery that lasts 3 days
If they're LFP batteries, then they should be pretty safe. That chemistry has a much higher bar for runaway fires.
maherbeg··on Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound [video]
Could this be used for removing calcified plaques or even soft plaques in hearts?
maherbeg··on Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled
Interesting that colorectal, kidney and stomach cancers are some of the largest increases which could point to something in the food supply.

It's surprising that the rates increased in Western Europe that also have more stringent standards on food additives. This could mean something wide spread like microplastics rather than food dyes.

maherbeg··on Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
ugh yeah, currently in the same boat and haven't taken on the work to deal with this hassle. definitely looking for a solution!
maherbeg··on The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains
I wonder if they could bore some geothermal loops to move the heat someplace else to dissipate more easily.
maherbeg··on River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres
I think you may be misunderstanding the design here. The transaction for initiating the job is only for queuing. The dequeue and execution of the job happens in a separate process.

The example on the home page makes this clear where a user is created and a job is created at the same time. This ensures that the job is queued up with the user creation. If any parts of that initial transaction fails, then the job queuing doesn't actually happen.

maherbeg··on Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments
Food production being manually intensive today isn't going to be the case forever. There are lots of innovations happening in ag-tech that continue to reduce the need for humans in the loop * laser precise weeding * drone flyovers + image detection for keeping tabs on the land without going out there * purpose built harvesters that could eventually be driven by an autonomous agent
maherbeg··on Common fungus candida albicans might fuel Alzheimer's onset
Does this mean a fecal transplant could be really beneficial in the early stages of Alzheimer onset?
maherbeg··on Toyota’s advanced battery technology roadmap
This is likely how most charging stations with this power requirement will work too. They will have on-site batteries that are charged at a slower rate to help increase the overall charge speed. Charging stations aren't used 24/7 and this additional battery capacity can absorb day time solar power as needed.
maherbeg··on PFAS Forever Chemicals Present in Some Plastic Recyclable Bottles
I definitely agree with this, though it seems like the EU has stricter standards on a lot of chemicals (like dyes and such). I really wish a movement would pick up to start fixing this.
maherbeg··on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
If you use hledger, you can actually write a csv importer directly in the tool: https://hledger.org/import-csv.html

I wrote my own idempotent parser before this existed but would give this a try first

maherbeg··on Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce CVD Risk
Coconut Water tends to have a good amount of Potassium in it if you're deficient and want something "pre-mixed".
maherbeg··on Rethinking Window Management
I've converted to a tiling window manager person after using Amethyst on MacOS. It's buggy and crashes but I absolutely love using a tiling manager to handle the common scenarios of two windows side by side, or a primary window + multiple windows tiled on the second half.

Once you find a setup that works for you, this ends up being super easy to work with.

maherbeg··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
This is 100% the lazy approach to creating equity. Instead of investing more to help the kids at the bottom move up, they just cap the top.
maherbeg··on Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages
Yeah, and the next question is, is the numerator growing faster than the denominator?
maherbeg··on Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace
What are the top recommendations to migrate to these days?
maherbeg··on Cormac McCarthy has died
I feel like it would do better as a limited series ideally on HBO.
maherbeg··on Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2020)
Oh man, this brings me back to writing a hot key based application launcher in assembly for windows to learn assembly and the various tools for compiling and building things. Good times!
maherbeg··on An auto CEO came close to saying the right thing about heavy EV batteries
Batteries with higher energy densities are already going into production, and things like new anode materials, semi-solid state and solid state batteries are starting to come online and be productionized.

As charging density and speed increases, a lot of users will get more comfortable with smaller batteries over time as well. This is really just a temporary state of affairs.

maherbeg··on Plain Text Accounting
Same here. I love hledger and have a few scripts to convert downloaded CSVs from various institutions into the appropriate format and dedupe any overlap if necessary. Once a month I download a bunch of statements, run a script and have all of the data available to me.
maherbeg··on Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]
Better roads and drainage would solve that problem.
maherbeg··on Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice
I also recommend storing your specialty ice in a brown paper bag. It'll keep for a surprisingly long while without sticking to each other!

I have a premade directional ice kit and make 10 ice cubes per night and then throw them into the paper bags. We never run out of ice for weekend gatherings with this trick.

maherbeg··on Urban Density and Home Prices
It'd be amazing if we got to Paris style density in half of the top 20 cities in the US. I just haven't seen great ideas or plans to transform the heavily car dependent sun belt cities into denser places.
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