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Largely gas and coal powered, which isn't ideal. It is cheap though.

The Midwest makes some sense for building fabs. The two largest inputs are power and water - and the midwest has plenty of both. There's a small but thriving fab community in Minneapolis.

Hilariously, there isn't much in the way of fabs left in Silicon Valley. Those aren't suitable for any production. The last high volume fab to close was the Linear Technologies fab out in Milpitas.

There's a Raytheon fab in Lompoc CA, a few defense related fabs down in Santa Barbara and LA, but that's about it.

The major semiconductor manufacturing states in the US right now are Arizona, Texas, Oregon and NY. It's nice to see Ohio joining the list. Hopefully other companies will follow Intel's lead here.

There are a few options for smaller fabs. There's SiView from IBM, a few products from Inficon which can handle much of an MES's capabilities and some others:

[1] https://www.ibm.com/products/siview [2] https://ims.inficon.com/ [3] https://kontron-ais.com/en/products/factory-automation/fabea... [4] https://www.peergroup.com/expertise/factories/factory-automa...

I'd bet there is a reasonable market for a good SAAS MES, or at least parts of a total solution. I imagine that you would want at last part of the solution to be on-prem, to avoid shuttling the large amounts of data that process tools are producing offsite.

I just looked up how much energy my last dryer load used. It came in just shy of 6kWh. The unit is a standard electric dryer, around 10yr old. Just wanted to provide some additional data.

We do about 4 loads per week here. I hope that the newer heat pump based dryers are reliable!

I'm not really seeing it. In most of the workflows I've used, one person is responsible for maintaining most of the document including the bibliography. The other coauthors will add in notes requesting to add in a new item, etc.

Zotero is used primarily for managing the PDF library, the actual writing will happen in Word, LateX, etc. The reference list produced by Zotero is just text.

I don't see any real requirement that everyone working on a project would need to actually use Zotero, though I guess it would be handy to keep a coordinated shared library of papers.

I believe that they support WebDav.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services

You also have an option to use the Zotfile extension to sync with other services.

At least in Massachusetts, much of the data are being imported from state GIS resources. House data, street data, etc.

Most of the mapping which needs to be done are enhancing the park data, etc.

$20 / yr is perfectly reasonable. GM wants $50/mo for that service. The basic on/off, lock / unlock function is still $25/mo.

I love our induction stove - on the same burner that I can boil a full pot of water in 2m, I can keep a soup going at a precise simmer. I could never get our old gas stove setup that precisely.

I doubt that they’re cheaper to install if you’re already putting in air conditioning.

Plus you save the $30/mo meter fee from the gas company.

Is there anything which prevents non-CSAM images from being added into this catalogue? As I understand it, the only thing stopping that is a promise from Apple - which can be steamrolled by a government request.

I’d suggest that dense city living without the suburban sprawl would be the ideal. Pack the people in, and free up as much open space and agricultural land as possible.

To be fair, many of the outdoor eating spaces are 8-10ft wide, 20+ feet long and have substantial structure like roofs. An SUV is probably be easier to tow out of the way.

We’ve recently transitioned to Salesforce for a project. It’s remarkable how laggy the interface is. Removing a line from a quote takes three clicks and four seconds. The UI also doesn’t always refresh the items in a reasonable period of time, requiring a page reload.

Reloading the page is like 20MB as well. Great when you’re tethered to your phone.

Because silicon carbide has a wide band gap, you can use it to switch higher voltages. This means lower current losses through wiring.

It also can operate at higher temperatures more effectively, so it can be driven harder than a silicon transistor.

I saw the original video on the Twitters, but didn't check out the followup until now. I'm thrilled that her visit worked and that the files were posted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ

Their devices look really neat, but I don't think I can bring myself to buy one until they resolve their GPL violations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/fz4yka/max3_revi...

I believe that the feedstock for most plastics is natural gas.

I wonder if those plants are just particularly good at leaching lead from soil.

Phytoremediation is an area of active study for cleaning toxic soils.

I was fortunate enough to subscribe to the Times through the Apple Subscription platform. Only took me one click to unsubscribe.

Someone could easily get into my house in 20m with a reciprocating saw. The lock is only there to make it marginally more annoying to break in.

I really enjoyed my time as a Blue Apron customer, but the sheer amount of packaging that I threw out made us stop. Very little of it was recyclable.

I really love visiting there. Hoping that I can get over there sometime soon!

Thanks for the recommendation! In pre-COVID times, I would visit Budapest a few times per year.

My coffee stops are usually Addicted2Caffeine on Bartok Bela, and Tamp & Pull, depending on which hotel I'm staying at.

There's also Barako Kavehaz, which serves an interesting Filipino coffee varietal called Liberica Barako.

Interesting. I don’t think we got those questions for either of our kids. We do live in an urban area though.

I recall some questions about food security and heat security though.

The other tip with the instant pot I’ve found is to put your food in a glass bowl on the steamer tray in the instant pot. This way you can add exactly the amount of water, and you don’t make a mess of the pot.

The Superfest glass process is very similar to what is used to produce Gorilla glass. The glass is heated up and submerged in or sprayed with a potassium solution. The hot glass matrix opens up enough for potassium ions to diffuse into it. When the glass cools, the potassium ions are trapped creating a lot of internal stress.

This internal stress helps the glass to resist being scratched or broken —- until it fails catastrophically. :-)

Assuming that the water supply holds up. Unfortunately one of the largest semiconductor inputs is clean water.

I don’t believe that the data stored in iCloud is encrypted from Apple since you can view it through the iCloud website.

That’s at least a pretty honest response.