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Building renewables requires mining for precious metals and rare earths though, which is very energy-intensive. So to deploy these non-polluting renewable energy sources, you first have to pollute a lot. And it's not even clear if there are enough resources on Earth to do this.

Solar panels, batteries, wind mills and such do not appear out of thin air.

It loops while the condition is true. When an underflow happens, it stops being true.

> "What's up?" is nearly universally a way to prompt someone to ask you that question back, so you can tell them about the thing you really want to say without it seeming sudden or forced.

Maybe in the United States, but I would hardly call it universal.

> Isn't there a requirement for all cube-sats to pass radiation tests / shock tests or whatever for them to be accepted for launch?

I guess the launch provider doesn't care whether your satellite will actually work and survive in orbit. They just don't want it to break into pieces during launch and damage the rest of the payload. So they most likely just want vibration tests.

Okay, that covers gender as far as I can tell. But how about sexual orientation?

But why would an employer keep tabs on the gender identities or sexual orientations of their employees?

You can use the same image for every page on the website if you want.

They don't really serve the same purpose. Vulkan is a low-level graphics API while CUDA is a much higher level toolkit for GPGPU.

It adds up surprisingly quickly when you have to do a TLS handshake, download many resources on pageload etc. The TLS handshake alone costs 3 round-trips over the network.

It was edited. Previously the article did not spell it out.

I assume FOMO means ”fear of missing out” in this context, but the article never actually spells it out.

"USB stick".

So effectively they couldn't be made just anywhere, if they can't be made in the US?

Because cost of living is different?

The rubber soles don't mean much, though. The electric current just passed through kilometers of insulation (air). It doesn't care about 2 cm of rubber.

Yup, Azure Portal has been acting up all morning, randomly not letting me in. Now there was an issue with Azure CDN not serving files but instead randomly closing connections or returning 404. It recovered pretty fast, though.

It's not exactly best practice to store passwords in version control.

You could use `git add -p`

It lets you stage individual changes inside files instead of the whole file.

Cool! How do you get in and out of the chair with the screen and everything in the way?

Why does it need a name?

I had exactly the same experience. It's a simple system, but felt very confusing at first.

St. Petersburg is already less than 100 miles from Estonia, which is a NATO country.

Physically Based Rendering was a great primer into linear algebra, statistics, sampling theory and whatnot. It's also available online for free these days: https://pbr-book.org/

The same concept exists elsewhere, usually with more or less the same name.

Why wouldn't they?

So if you turn off your phone for 5 minutes while staying at home and turn it on again, does your garage door open?

EDIT: Or do you need to go press a button on a webpage before going out for a run to make this work? The last part seems to suggest so.

NVIDIA provides tools that just mostly do not exist for other GPUs, making it easier to build on CUDA instead of something else.

Smart speakers are very marginal products even in many very developed but non-English-speaking countries because their native language is not supported. Quick googling says Alexa supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese.

> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house.

This mostly applies to the USA.

> There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification about reasoning, but when someone is constantly challenging every decision made by management then it becomes an impediment to getting things done. If you want to be the person calling the shots, you should probably be applying for management positions. If you want to take an IC engineer position but constantly argue with the work, the company will eventually need to isolate you with a patient manager or remove you from the team in order to keep everyone aligned.

> More broadly: If you expect every manager to reflect exactly how you would choose to run things, you may be trying to act as a “backseat driver” manager without taking the responsibility of actual being a manager.

These hit close to home. Need to do some introspection, since I think I kind of behave this way. Thanks for writing this!