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Waymo's usually something like 50% more expensive than Lyft in SF, in my experience. But the drivers don't tailgate, have colds, listen to your conversation (AFAIK)...I'll generally opt for Waymo now if I have a choice. The biggest problem I have is that it's usually a longer wait due to the smaller fleet size, but if I'm planning ahead, I'll just book one for a given time, and that takes care of it.

It was the same in the '90s. Something like a third didn't make it through in 4 years, although a long tail managed it in 5 or more.

Yep. Bright light does the same thing. Also, in dim light, I'd expect this to make it pretty hard to see. My optometrist mentioned it to me, but neither of us could see the point.

"Downtime for maintenance is part of normal operations, making this a far more forgiving early application of fusion, unlike the grid where every down hour is lost revenue."

Planned maintenance, sure, but unplanned maintenance means the same lost revenue, plus you're stuck floating in the middle of the pacific ocean, possibly in need of parts or debugging expertise that only exists half a planet away or, for that matter, food. It's certainly a good idea to find a niche to make market entry easier, but I would guess that reliability requirements are actually higher for ships than for microgrids. Find some isolated town or island running off flaky diesel generators on shipped-in fuel and negotiate a reasonable SLA.

This ignores, of course, the bigger problem: making fusion work at all at Q > 1. If it were me, I'd work on solving that before worrying too much about optimizing market entry. So far every single fusion effort has failed to clear that hurdle, and any effort on the other parts is wasted if you can't actually make power.

As one ridiculous-pong writer to another, I love your work. I really enjoy this kind of technical performance art, both to write and to view. It may also be part of why I juggle: "There must be a harder way to do this."

TANSTAAFL

After spreads, tracking error, and overhead, it'll be really hard to beat a Vanguard index fund.

I implemented pong as a cellular automaton [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155205]. It was a fun synthesis of skills I'd built on a bunch of previous projects, some of them professional, many of them actually useful. It's basically the one hobby project that I've ever really completed; the others always seem to drag on, semi-finished.

They still have to renew your prescription for you. If you're running out in 5/7 of a month, but only getting renewed monthly, you're just changing the granularity, not the dose.

That's a great list; while not explicitly writing them out, we raise our kids by similar rules, and I think it's been a huge help. #1 is huge. We also explicitly answer any question they ask (barring privacy concerns). The answers vary based on how old they are, and what they're capable of understanding, but they can always ask for more detail if we guess wrong. It lets them know that there are no taboo subjects with us, and they can always come to us with their hard questions.

It did mean nuanced conversations about how not to ruin the "Santa Clause game" for other kids, etc.

This is beautiful; the motion of the legs reminds me of some giant scuttling insect. I'd love to have a coffee table like that. I wouldn't even want the motor, actually. It looks like you can just push it and have it walk smoothly, as if pushing a table with fixed-orientation wheels.

Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's resograph: https://wiki.lspace.org/Riktor

It's a name-brand fan bought at a local showroom a decade ago. IIRC it was under $1000 at the time.

Efficacy is also going to vary with usage. I've got a 900CFM fan, but I can still smoke up the kitchen pretty badly if I sear on the front burner, even with the fan on high. However, if I use the back burner, even with the fan on low, the air stays pretty clear.

It's a cheap portable, with no calibration possible. I have no idea what effect pressure would have on it, unfortunately.

I tried something similar last week [https://guitar2tabs.klang.io], so I just ran yours with the same song [Surfin St. Helens by The Volcanos] to see how they compared.

* Lamucal did better on the chords--to my ear they're not perfect [e.g. D vs. D minor], but guitar2tabs couldn't do chords at all. * Guitar2tabs did pretty well at figuring out the melody; they couldn't grok the rhythm, but got a pretty decent sequence of notes. Lamucal didn't even try; the "tab" is just a list of chords.

One very nice feature of guitar2tabs is that you can play either the original audio or the extracted music, so you can hear how close it is. I'd recommend adding that--just playing the original is still useful, to see they sync with the extracted music, but playing the extraction is more so.

I carried a CO2 meter on a flight recently, to use CO2 as a proxy for COVID risk. The levels were quite high for the whole flight--over 1000 pretty much the whole time iirc and worse on the tarmac.

There are geared unicycles, e.g. https://krisholm.com/en/gear/component/kh-schlumpf Folks I know who've used them liked them because they took the place of both a 24" and a 36" wheel, in one unicycle. I don't know that they ever changed gears while riding, although I'm told it's possible.

Same--folks are generally interested and/or amused. It's been ages since I unicycled in public [I'm not great at it], but none of what's been posted here about reactions surprises me.

How odd. I was just thinking of this story the other day. I'd heard it read on NPR maybe 25 years ago, and then just happened to think of it and look it up and read it last week. Now it's on HN. Whenever things like happen I wonder if there was something in the news that subtly reminded many folks of the same thing. I can't remember what brought it up for me, but there must have been something.

Bodies vary. Years ago my partner of the time and I did low carb at the same time, eating a lot of the same meals, of course. We both lost weight. We both ran. I felt great and had a lot of energy. They felt miserable for the whole multi-month period.

We were considering a Hyundai Kona after seeing someone online just yank the modem without an issue. The first dealer I worked with said he could have their service department do it, but then couldn't get the model I wanted. The second had the model, but then said even disconnecting the cell modem would void my warranty, so they wouldn't do it without a letter from Hyundai corporate allowing it.

So now I own a brand-new Chevy Bolt. You just yank a single fuse and that takes out OnStar and nothing else.

I've been shopping for a new car recently, and got it down to the Chevy Bolt and the Hyundai Kona [because I want long-range electric and have a narrow garage]. On the Bolt it looks like you can just yank a fuse to kill the cellular radio, and on the Kona, there's a modem you can remove. I've even gotten the dealer to agree to have their shop do the removal, so as not to void any warranty =*).

That's lovely--really elegant lines.

Also, congratulations!

Let's wait for the news cycle and science to settle: https://peterattiamd.com/more-hype-than-substance-erythritol...

American bread certainly does go moldy, but the sugar absorbs moisture and keeps the bread softer longer.

That being said, I'd much rather they used less. At this point it's pretty hard to buy a hamburger bun around here [SF] that doesn't taste like a brioche to me.

If the wholesale price is down, and the retail price has yet to fall, someone in the middle must be making a profit. The article seems to imply that nobody is, but the margin must be going somewhere.

I've been a member of a number of juggling clubs over the years. If you're not into juggling, I'm sure there are other kinds of clubs around, but if you're a juggler or juggling-curious, they're great. They tend to be super open to new folks, whether they can juggle or not. Often folks would go out to eat afterward [depending on the time of the club meeting]; at one club they even had a weekly movie outing afterward for a long time.

The larger juggling community is great too--there are little festivals and larger conventions all over the world, with great shows but also great social scenes.

I met my spouse at a university juggling club. Neither of us attended the university, but we were both club members, as were lots of our friends [after a while, anyway].

Lots of grocers will have hard sausages, cheeses, olives, and nuts. It's not as easy as chips and food bars, I'll grant you, but it's doable.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the energy savings of LEDs may not actually be what you expect. We heat our home something like 330 days of the year. If we use LED bulbs instead of incandescents, we just have to run the gas furnace more to make up for the "saved" heat energy.

Add in the fact that LEDs have a much higher embedded energy of manufacture, and the fact that they seem to last a lot less than the 10 years they're specced for, and switching my house to LEDs appears to have increased our carbon footprint. Plus now we're using more heavy metals and such in circuit boards. Aaaaand the light sucks.