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Derek Lowe mentions dimethyl mercury as the first substance that's not worth the risk:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/a-risk-not-worth-taki...

Perhaps education has an intrinsic value to society that does not need to be measured?

Well, the primary particles that hit the atmosphere are mostly protons. They cause avalanche of secondaires that are varied but mostly muons,

I'd recommend listening to Webern's Op. 27, it's a strict 2nd Viennese school 12-tone composition but also very expensive, I love it (although it works better in a concert setting then a recording): https://youtu.be/ZEtqEzPakxA?is=JgbN1lpHF1lxrXOT

Leisure only, there hasn't been commercial traffic on that canal for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Canal_(Scotland)

That's what you think...

It seems to be more heat resistant?

Secondary school physics teacher here: The article is conflating power (watt or joule per second) and energy (joule or kilowatt-hour), so any claim they make is nonsense and the article shouldn't be taken seriously. My students make the same mistake all the time but they don't get to publish it :-)

Power is energy per time unit (thus: energy = power x time), so while the power of a lightning strike is very high (~10GW), the overall energy isn't because it only lasts for a very short duration (apparently the duration of a lightning event is hard to define, [1] says about 0,5 seconds, other places mention much shorter durations, ~10us). So if that 10GW lasts for 0,5 seconds, the total energy is 1,4MWh, which is 1/6 to 1/10 of the electrical energy an average American household consumes in a year[2].

[1] https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/16/547/2023/ [2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...

I think it does:

Right at the bottom under Frequently Asked Questions:

  How much lightning would we need to capture to power the entire U.S. electricity grid?

  Merely capturing the energy from 115 lightning strikes would supply all of the U.S.'s annual electricity needs.

I believe it would be a far greater problem if those people didn't die. Aging populations are a huge problem around the globe and unless we'd improve the quality of life to such a margin that octo- and nonagenarians are able to care for each other, I think we're all better off with people dying of old age.

I work for a small company, around 10 devs. We've picked up quite a few projects over the years where a freelance team came in, built something and when the going got tough, walked away. That said, I've seen the same happen at renowned companies, so perhaps it's just an issue of generally people taking advantage of the shortage in experienced devs. I would aim to get some longer term stability, either by working with a company you trust through your network, or engage a tech Lead/CTO for a longer term who can oversee the contractors.

This should be a reliable source on 3mmc, but it is in Dutch: https://www.trimbos.nl/aanbod/webwinkel/af1916-factsheet-3mm...

I've read somewhere that the iodine can negatively affect the fermentation process, so that it's better to use iodine free sea salt. Cant remember the source, though.

I do _really_ hate the slugs in my garden

Is it just me, or has DDG been having trouble often lately? Or is it just a combination with some outage + degradation of search results lately that makes me g! regularly these days? Didn't use to need that.

My mom grew up in South Africa, '40s and '50s, she always made us wash our lips after eating mango to avoid a rash. Only later did I discover I didn't need to, I always assumed the rash-causing compound has been bred out of modern mangos.

Same, but on gentoo :-p

Funny, I started typing a comment here, about the author not getting the Ruby side of things right, that actually the difference would rather be that Ruby uses a special language construct and Python just normal methods and conventions. But just skimming through the previous comments it seems that Python also has these a `yield` keyword that would be more idiomatic to use.

I think we're dealing with someone who had limited experience with both Python and Ruby. This article is somehow getting more attention then it merits.

It's hard to compare as the business model has changed, I believe that nowadays it's basically impossible for a library to get an individual subscription to a individual journal: subscriptions are bundled and (online) subscriptions are sold institution wide with contracts running in the millions. That's very different from what Kunth is describing, where individual libraries choosing what subscriptions they need (eg we need the JoA in our (physical) collection so we buy a subscription to that).

I guess you should take into account that you are not (one of) the most preeminent computer scientists in the world, right?

I agree, if you think of just a few big OSS project, like Linux, Postgres, Sqlite, nginx or apache web server, run as proprietary companies each of those would easily be worth way more then $177M (for reference, nginx was sold for $670M in 2019).

This is a webserver that can run various web applications for you. In a typical setup you'd run a web/http server (nginx or Apache etc) to handle the 'slow' connections to the client and a separate app server (say, an express application, or Django or Rails etc) that is completely separate from the webserver. The web server acts as a reverse proxy, sending the request on to the app server. The response from the app server is then passed to the webserver, which sends it back tot he client. So a request would this path: client -> web server -> app server -> web server -> client.

This is done because web servers are optimised to handle (many) requests from clients (including things like TLS termination, optimised handling of static files, orchestrate to which backend service to send a request and much more), while application servers are optimised to run the application code.

In this model, the web and app servers run separately, for example in separate containers and they have to talk to each other so you have to somehow connect them (often this is done through a network socket).

So what Nginx Unit does is combining the two: it can do the standard web server stuff (not everything a normal nginx can do, but often that's not needed anyway), but also run your application for you, which could, depending on your setup, make your life a bit easier, as now you don't have to tie the two together.

Why would that be misleading? This seems to be just an attempt to better understand (some of the / potential) causes that unknown condition. Perhaps it doesn't help to diagnose it, as there might not be any direct evidence left in the body to point at the original cause, but in the longer term it certainly helps if you know where to look.

Do you know what the consequences of that would be?

Did you invent something and forgot to tell us about it?

But also the sun is burning fuel and eventually that will run out and we don't really have any means of renewing that fuel (I don't know where to order intergalactic hydrogen).

I quite stormy disagree with you here: in order to reason about complex things it's absolutely necessary to have ready knowledge so that you can combine those bits and draw conclusions, see bigger pictures etc, you just can't do that by googling some facts.

Hmm, never knew they have highways in the UK.

I agree, but some of my favourite cookbooks are American. What can you do?

In philosophy, the most common definition of knowledge is that it is true, justified belief[1]. In that definition knowledge certainly is predicated to be correct.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis