LeChuck

It's fascinating how any Firefox thread here inevitably devolves into accusations that Mozilla has abandoned users and a push to switch to alternatives, despite Mozilla working in the interest of users to a infinitely greater degree than any other major browser vendor.

See also this article from 2004:

http://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/

>The left won’t accept this awful truth about the American soul, a beast that they believe they can fix “if only the people knew the Truth.”

>But what if the Truth is that Americans don’t want to know the Truth? What if Americans consciously choose lies over truth when given the chance–and not even very interesting lies, but rather the blandest, dumbest and meanest lies? What if Americans are not a likeable people? The left’s wires short-circuit when confronted with this terrible possibility; the right, on the other hand, warmly embraces Middle America’s rank soul and exploits it to their full advantage. The Republicans know Americans better than the left. They know that it’s not so much Goering’s famous “bigger lie” that works here, but the dumber and meaner the lie, the more the public wants to hear it repeated.

This phrase gets repeated a lot, “U.S. patrolling the worlds a shipping lanes” but what does it mean, concretely? Which shipping lanes and how? They’re certainly not doing a stellar job of it in the Red Sea, for instance.

Because walking is good for you and good for the environment. Additionally, if everyone walked/biked when possible the roads would be more pleasant for you to drive on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0

A city designed for other modes of transport is also better for drivers because only those who need (or really want) to drive need to do so. Result, less congestion and more relaxed driving.

If you have 15 minutes to spare, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k

I work in a country with strict laws around firing and while I suspect our laws are generally too strict, this is one of the big upsides in my view. It just makes for a healthier dynamic. People feel (reasonably) free to speak their mind, disagree, or stand up for themselves. Management is based more on merits and consensus than power and hierarchy.

Disclaimer: I've never worked in the US. The difference is probably not as pronounced as I imagine it to be!

You are being downvoted but you're right. New entrants are joining the market. Problem is, these are usually smaller local players who don't have enough capacity to have any influence on rates.

https://theloadstar.com/ellerman-city-liner-relaunches-china...

There's an enormous amount of additional capacity coming online. What makes you think there isn't?

What has changed, in your view? At my workplace we chat. About our spouses, kids, hobbies etc. Sometimes about difficulties at home or our frustrations and ambitions at work and life. We have dinner or drinks after work sometimes. We’re not friends, per se, but we’re certainly friendly. Are you referring to something else?

Very nice, love it. I play the chess version of this pretty often. You might like to take a look at Lichess’ Puzzle Storm (and Puzzle Streak/Puzzle Race) for some inspiration on other game modes.

https://lichess.org/storm

Eh. The word I would use to describe these suburbs is bland. They're not particularly ugly, but there's nothing interesting about them either.

This, though:

>there are two very different urban Netherlands the older downtowns [...] jammed with tourists, and then there are the outer rings of bizarre Lego-like perfunctory two-story apartment complexes, with few if any shops, beyond an Aldi, a hair saloon, a weed store, and maybe a bike-repair stand."

is taken to such an extreme I would almost call it a lie. Firstly, there are a lot of beautiful inner cities (and villages) not inundated by tourists. Leiden, which he mentions and is one of the most beautiful cities in the Netherlands, sees very little tourists (I've lived there for 10 years). Secondly, I do not recognize his description of the outer rings at all. They may very well exist as described, but I don't know them. These suburbs are bland an boring, sure, but there's plenty of variety in building-types to be found and there usually are pleny of shops within walking/biking distance.

It's not 5x redundancy in that sense. There are times when the ship needs all five auxiliary engines. There are five smaller engines because it allows for more efficient utilization.

The main engine, which provides the propulsion, is a two-stroke engine connected directly to the propeller shaft. If the ship needs to reverse the engine is stopped, and started again going the other way. Consequently, there's no way to make use of some sort of fall back propulsion.

Lastly, I doubt a 1000 HP engine is powerful enough to do anything useful. Especially because it would only be needed for emergency maneuvering.

Our supply chain is not fragile at all! It took an enormous, global pandemic to cause a disruption and even then, goods kept flowing. Don't forget, Everyone braced for an economic downturn and all of a sudden demand for transported goods shot up. That's what caused the congestion, hugely growing demand. Containers never stopped moving, demand for transport was simply greater than supply. Prices rose, sure, but that's what's supposed to happen right? After the pandemic was over prices plummeted even faster than they climbed and are now under pre-pandemic levels.

Right now containers ships have (largely) stopped transiting the Suez Canal, passing the Horn of Africa instead. Adding weeks to their transit time. This is a mayor disruption and, while freight rates are once again rising, no one notices. Goods keep flowing, stores are stocked.

I work in logistics, so I'm somewhat biased, but to me it's amazing how robust supply chains really are

Container ships can have thousands of reefer containers on board.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container

This is overstating it quite a bit. They do not operate the port. They operate one of several container terminals in those ports.

What works for me is figuring out which dishes (or partly completed dishes) can wait. Either on or off the flame. Most of the time only 1 or 2 dishes require exact timing. The rest can be (partially) prepared beforehand and reheated/finished at the end.

Here's an office shaped like a huge ship, for a seafood wholesaler.

https://goo.gl/maps/FB6xqEtUFKdpuEze9

You're saying Hans only cheated twice, and chess.com is falsy accusing him of cheating more often than that because they're working on a takeover of Magnus' company?

That's straying pretty far into conspiracy theory territory.

The Netherlands did not stop fracking. The earthquakes in the Netherlands are not caused by fracking.

Not to mention the assumption that everyone "sit[s] in front of a computer for 8 hours (perhaps with a few minimally productive meetings here and there)".

The terminal doesn't always know the destination. Why would it? And anyway, intended destinations can change.

I was talking about 3000 nautical miles, which is a bit more than 5000 km. The section above the one you're referencing.

> For example, for a 5,000 km range small neo-Panamax ship, we estimate that a 5 GWh battery with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry, with a specific energy of 260 Wh kg−1 (ref. 34), will weigh 20,000 t [...].

Even then, a ship with 5000 km range is only useful in very limited circumstances. 3000 km range is almost useless.

The format is not a problem per se. It's grueling, sure but that's what a word-championship match should be. Magnus Carlsen just feels there's not much to gain anymore for him, by defending his title. That's all there is to it I think.

A typical Panamax ship has a DWT of approximately 55000 t (more actually, but this is roughly the max in order to transit the Panama Canal). It's not tenable to sacrifice more than 1/3 of that for batteries. And this for a range of not even 3000 NM!

The discharging and loading of containers is already automated. Modern container terminals work almost completely autonomously. What specific automation did you have in mind to help with discharging/loading?

I think you underestimate the distances involved. It'll be impossible to maintain the infrastructure. How are you going to get these people there? Additionally, You will need an enormous number of tugs. It's' not like there are clearly marked highways or anything. The area to be covered is going to be huge. What are they going to do in bad weather? Then, who is going to coordinate all of this? How do the tugs know where to go and when? If the weather is bad and there is no fresh tug available the ship will go down. Let's not even talk about how inefficient and slow this will be.

The forces of nature these ships work against are nothing to sneeze at. This stuff is not at all trivial.

I work in container shipping in Europe. Everything is coordinated by e-mailing EDI files (baplie, coprar, iftdgn etc.) Back and forth. Tens of millions containers per year.

Even though it should be a standard, you can't just e-mail a file to someone and except it to work. There's always integration work needed on both sides. Even then, errors frequently occur where you have to manually adjust something. I work on the operational side, but have become quite the edifact expert just to be able to do my work.

Eh. I've worked at a massively automated container terminal free from unions (not in the US). It's not any faster than your US terminals. Less people, sure, but not any faster. I think you massively overestimate the gains automation would bring you.

I agree with you. I think people are downvoting you because they misunderstand your first sentence. Using the concept of induced demand to justify building fewer roads is bullshit, if you don't figure out why there's so much pent up demand to begin with. The way forward should be making all the alternatives more attractive, so that the demand for cars disappears.

Agreed! Love Firefox, never jumped on the Chrome bandwagon. People like to complain about Firefox/Mozilla corp. but I sure as hell trust them more than I trust Google.