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Possibly not a solution for your use case, but I use earlyoom[0]. When memory crosses a threshold value, it will kill the worst offender. Has some knobs to tweak: what threshold level you want, which programs to keep safe, which to prioritize, etc. Never had to touch the configuration, out of the box has been sufficient for me.

I use it when I am doing exploratory work and might materialize something too big. It has always killed the Python process or terminal program which did something silly.

[0] https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

  ...“designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold in the state as original equipment.” 

My nose for unintended consequences says manufacturers could start selling cars with worse tires to bring down the average.

That being said, the quoted figures do sound good. Maybe less compelling in someplace like Texas with very low gas prices:

  The energy commission calculated that more efficient tires cost between $6 and $26 more per set, but that increase is more than offset by reduced fuel consumption. It put net savings at $85 to $153 over the lifetime of the tire when gasoline is $4.60 a gallon, though the savings could be 25 percent higher with this year’s price spikes.

That ad claims it removes microplastics. I was led to believe there are few easy ways to accomplish such a thing. Is this a, "Well technically, we started at 100ug/mL and ended at 99.8ug/mL => reduction!" or is this a meaningful improvement in water quality? The pot looks to just be clay + charcoal + silver - which is not significantly different from other home water filtration systems.

The grievance was that not enough journalists were getting thrown into jails without proper procedures or medical care?

The most recent Steam Hardware Survey[0] lists the most popular VRAM at 16GB in 25.9% of users. Second most popular build is 8GB in 25.3%. >=24GB is ~7%, which is quite a bit higher than I expected.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/En

Do you have a write-up of this? I enjoy seeing these Playstation/ASIC/GPU mining installations which are usually some combination of incredibly clever engineering and duct tape.

I swear I read of pharma companies experimenting with this. The idea that because the molecules are so foreign, the body lacks enzymes to breakdown the product, so the drug gets a much longer half-life than would be typical.

While I am not sure a web framework can ever be "done", there is certainly a lot less churn required for something so mature[0]. That it also syncs up with Python releases is just an extra cherry on top.

[0] Which isn't to say I am fully satisfied. I do have plenty of special-feature-requests I would love to see incorporated.

Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it. Choose something taught in schools (Python) and you are going to find 10,000 traveling salesmen homework problems and Django todo applications.

Not sure how you thread the needle on the quality vs quantity dynamic.

You are going to have to give more support for those assertions. I write Python every day, and never would I call it a good candidate for the clankers. Pretty much any dynamic language would be ruled out, as there is too much implicit logic which makes it harder to understand what is happening.

It takes 1000 calories of feed to make 100 calories of animal protein. While the type of animal feed is not what humans probably want to eat, the calories already exist today. Without livestock, there would be a huge surplus of available food.

Wikipedia[0] Says that US directs 4345 million bushels of just corn to livestock feed. Which would be ~13 bushels or 330kg per American.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_...

That's basically my weather app. Though, I made it fancy at 7 lines of bash which takes location arguments and pipes into jq for display.

A suggestion I liked was to time-shift water heaters as a thermal battery. Water heaters are a significant sink (~20%) of household energy. They are already installed and well insulated, you just want to over-heat them during cheap noon solar to off-set the heat losses over the day.

That might have to do with existing deal structures to maintain a non-renewable base load. Something like, if cloud cover/wind suddenly changes, we want to ensure there is already X% of natural gas running so there is a less sudden surge. There is a lot behind the scenes planning to try and ensure grid robustness.

California is certainly curtailing a lot of energy. EIA report[0] said 3.4 TWh in 2024, which was a 29% increase over 2023. If I am reading this[1] chart correctly, the 2024 California demand was ~275TWh.

CASIO also has pages dedicated to curtailment with much of the data available[2].

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65364

[1] PDF https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/2024_C...

[2] https://www.caiso.com/about/our-business/managing-the-evolvi...

Does anyone even do repairs anymore? Swap a motherboard and that's it.

Sure enough. Oxford only gives a bewildered definition. Although, their ambiguous examples could fit an amused/confused definition.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...

Teams still does not make it easy to share your screen when you have a non-standard size. Have to either make the receiver deal with the size mismatch, or share a single window at a time. I have to maintain a 1080p monitor on the side just to have a convenient place to host a screen share.

Come on, Microsoft, please. I would even take a vibe-coded, crap solution that only works on Tuesdays.

  > no headphone jack

I am fully old man screaming at the clouds here, but what does this cost for Dell to include? I insist on a wired headset - telecommunications already barely works, I don't want to add wireless+battery problems into the mix.

I only think of bemused as "confused".

Maybe incredulous at a stretch?

During peak Covid, Vampire Survivors blew up as the hot game. It is a pedestrian dual stick shooter. There are hundreds of examples which do the same thing, possibly better.

Getting a hit game requires decent fundamentals and a heap of luck.

Quake came out in 1996, Diablo in 1997, Starcraft in 1998. Sure the adrenaline juicing is more sophisticated now, but there were already multiplayer games which could hook one for life.

Even at cloud prices, 50GB of storage is ~$1/month. Offering an additional tier with pathetic storage to save $0.80 or whatever is muddling the offering.

I guess they could offer a 0GB storage option that only operated as a relay?

The signal speed in fiber is some 200k km/s. If you go 10 miles outside of a city, you are adding 0.1ms ping, and you will have dramatically fewer pitch forks.

The ping between New York and LA is ~70msec. Chatting with a LLM is not latency sensitive.

Wikipedia has an article about it[0]. Gas had been leaking for three years before they were able to use a nuke to seal the well. Estimated that it was burning 12 million m3 of gas daily.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtabulak_gas_field

What is DP?

What mythical software is this? The only infinitely customizable software I can think of is emacs, and that takes an enormous amount of effort to become proficient.

You are assuming the changes would all be positive, minus some UI hassle. I have seen plenty of products where vital workflows were scrapped entirely or made significantly more clunky.

Modern software is quicksand. Maybe an update improves things, but users have all experienced working software made worse.

There was also the video where he did write the doctoral research project in a weekend.

Gutenberg's copy of Moby Dick is 1.2MB[0]. Which is to say the slowest benchmarked terminal could display a paltry ~53 Moby Dicks per second, while shitty gives you ~98 Moby Dicks.

I am not sure how many Moby Dicks I require per second, but it is good to have options.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

On the other hand, plenty of NAS/file server systems are going to have paltry CPU and memory. Running slower with a more modest memory foot print might be the only way to keep the system stable.