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They're also missing the winter bit, where an AC heatpump needs three ou four times less energy than a resistive heater ... oh well.

You're doing it wrong. I bumped into this 'Short Guide to Russian literature':

"Russian literature consists of suffering. Either writer suffers, or protagonist, or reader. If all three suffer simultaneously--then it is a masterpiece. In every difficult situation always read Russian classic literature--it is even worse in there."

> cared for the environment

It wasn't "more CO2" grade, it was "more NOx" grade. This in urban settings will actually kill more people with respiratory problems.

VW's "clever hack" probably, statistically, killed people.

> Europeans from 5am-2pm PST

Well, the EU is putting the kibosh on that PDQ. The precious stays at home.

Read. Guy knows what he's doing.

Do you have anything on those TRW floating point chips that used to titillate junior engineers in trade mag advertisements before that?

For example, an adder's total delay depends on a carry chain. If you have N 4-bit slices, the last slice has to wait for the carry to propagate through all N-1 previous slices.

But if you duplicate all your slices, you can have the results for both carry = 0 and carry = 1 inputs. Then just switch which one is correct - total time 1 add plus N-1 switches.

Just for double (and change) the hardware. Cheap.

> pedestrian cars.

That's an interesting turn of phrase ...

Now you've made me think of the Mac Portable, aka Boat Anchor.

("Am I chopped liver?!" yells the shade of the Osborne 1)

> "Human dignity does not depend on a person's abilities"

That should be a hard line no one is allowed to cross. If you do, no logic will keep you from ending up in a very bad place.

For instance, I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories, where his humorous and compassionate tales comment on much of human experience. It's a fantasy world with wizards, trolls, dwarfs, vampires, etc.

In one book he goes into ghouls - obscure, despised and persecuted almost to extinction, but in the story it is found they secretly make beautiful ethereal music. So a concert is arranged to present the music, and all is well, the end. Except for my doubts - I mean, if they didn't make nice music, then it would be alright to dispose of them?

Benthamite utility has a particularly ugly underside to it, and it is easily converted into "disposal of negative value" of the nastiest kind. Which can only be stopped by a moral hard line, as stated.

> superpower

That's an anachronism, from the 19th to mid-20th century there were just "great powers", not perfectly matched but considered to be in the same class. The Ottoman empire falling off the league ("sick old man") was a bit of a shocker.

> bringing refuse facilities into the home

Well spotted. India is apparently going through that, and they have a joke - older people complain that new generations are lost: "They dine outside and shit inside!"

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Ahah, China going Adam Smith on the EU.

Peacefully, so far. Let's hope they don't go "opium war" on free trade.

I remember one business class anecdote, where the conclusion of changing workplace conditions (light, music, etc. both ways) was that productivity studies increase productivity ...

I was never convinced by the "vision only" approach - I don't see the point of throwing out or refusing to have additional data from other sensors.

I suppose that with modern ML they can just toss it in the blender and reap the benefits ...

(Camus quoted)

He will hereafter be known (and forgotten) not for what he is, but for the picture that a hurried journalist has given of him. To make a name for oneself in the literary world, it is no longer necessary to write many books. It suffices to have written one that the evening newspapers have talked about and on which the writer’s reputation will henceforth rest.

Ah, the days of morning and evening newspapers... A foreign country, they do things differently there.

(I also find fascinating those early XX century English letters/bios where Londoners send invitations by mail in the morning and get replies after lunch. Take that WhatsApp )

Oh, please. We're not cavemen here. A little coaching on internet best practices, a dash of psychological assistance, perhaps a girl scout cookie or two ...

You do you, John C. Calhoun of Minerva Road, Springfield, CO.

An agent will be shortly with you to assist in that endeavor.

Training/practice/collaboration matters. Eating won't make you a chef, watching movies won't make you a director, etc.

> Our Washington Office is working energetically, on both sides of the aisle,

Oh.

(bit curious, when did that sprout?)

> spots that are actually great but not hyped up

One phenomenon I noticed is that unpaid things (even if they're world class museums) often get left in the shadow of others that sell tickets - these get packaged in "city pass" cards, etc. and get more exposure from their selling.

> do not believe Instagram is reading

Well, not when they had to pay people for it. Now, however ...

> now every chat message

"It hurts when I do that."

"Don't do that."

> In cars, the factory line both costs and produces all the value.

Does that apply to phones?

Wax on, wax off.

Die. Die better. So many clever ways to die.

> Lua is not on base on most distros, that's sad. Also it stops being as portable.

Huh? Usually programs just embed a Lua interpreter, I think. Famously light.

I think it was tor.com that last year had a story where the newbie hired for the corporate HR dept ended up being the last human left after all others were replaced.

Ah, here we go, courtesy of google-ml: '"Human Resources" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published on Reactor[...] https://reactormag.com/human-resources-adrian-tchaikovsky/ '

I've long been a fan of Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5z1D3tEHdw )

Foreseeing (plausible) political takedowns is useful.