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I think the data he discloses in the post is the one that he got before getting in contact with the company. He does this in order to prove that the database was accesible to anyone on the internet, instead of the "no breach at all" claimed on the response email.

>in production

are there Nikola trucks on the road right now?

Most philantropy is closer to what MrBeast does than everyone is comfortable admitting. Most times I decide to read into some public philantropy intervention or other, especially those that happen in remote/far off places, it turns out it was a disaster, nothing was achieved, funds were stolen, and the intervention ended up doing more harm than good. Except to the philantropist's brand, which always comes out on top.

I have no idea how to treat chimps, let alone glorified chimps. What does this mean in practical terms?

Sheldon Brown wrote about this years ago: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/teachride.html

> The ideal bike for learning to ride, whether for a child or a deprived adult, is a bike that is "too small" for efficient riding. For learning purposes, the rider should be able to sit on the saddle with both feet flat on the ground and the knees slightly bent. The bike can then be used as a hobby horse or scooter, with the feet always ready to stop a fall. It may even be useful to remove the pedals at first, so that the feet can swing freely. (In case you are new to all this and haven't read the pages about pedals on this site: the left pedal unscrews clockwise!) Ideally, a bike for this approach should have at least one handbrake, so that the child can stop while using both feet for balance. A good place to practice is on a grassy field, perhaps with a slight downgrade.

> Unfortunately, it is often difficult for parents to justify the expense of a smaller bike that will be outgrown shortly, so there is a constant temptation to buy a bike that is a bit too large on the theory that the child will "grow into" it.

Well you cannot control the trail conditions right? unless you are doing an inspection beforehand

But yeah I agree road cycling is extremely dangerous, you are trusting that 100% percent of the drivers on the road will be mindful of cyclists, all the time.

Hard disagree. Argentina is only similar to the UK insofar as they both deindustrialized starting in the 80s. Besides that, I have no idea why it would be a "great analog".

I don't like it when the plane arrives 30 minutes - 1 hour early (has happened to me on long flights, I guess due to favorable wind + padding), and they brag about being the most "on time" airline or something like that. While better than 1 hour late, 1 hour early isn't on time either, I expected to get an extra hour of sleep.

This was my first objection as well. However, if most people flip coins like that, then the measurements are valid -- the conclusions are about what average people will do, not a perfect mechanical coin flip. Otherwise you're falling in the no true coin flip fallacy.

They have posted great news segment videos again

I'm mostly on the same boat as you, but yes, I'd say most people type complete sentences (usually questions) into Google. The results for these types of queries are usually:

- An autogenerated info card that usually is regurgitating wikipedia.

- Several SEO blog spam posts that have the exact query as the title and kinda answer it while trying to sell you something. No sources for more info of course, just a link to the store or whatever.

With this landscape, LLMs for search kinda make sense. In a way we are already 90% of the way there.

Since it's pretty much on the Equator it makes a lot of sense to keep time like that -- days and nights have the same duration all year long. Such a system doesn't make sense for places that have wide variations between seasons, unless you also alter the length of the hours to match (which I think was done at some point somewhere in Europe, but I can't find any references)

yeah a stem or a handle is necessary to keep your grimy warm hands out of direct contact with the container

Brazilians have a lot of techniques for always having the coldest beer. These are all things that are common among the population, even socially expected:

- Have a freezer specifically for beer in the home (kept at -2 to -3 celsius).

- Beer rarely comes in liter bottles (compared to neighboring countries at least), usually in cans of 330 to 500 ml. This minimizes the amount of beer you take out of the freezer at once.

- Once out of the freezer, the container is put in an insulating sleeve (this is very, very common).

- Several people are served at the same time from the same small container, into small drinking glasses such as the one shown in the picture. Drinking straight from the can is also common, but remember, cans have insulating sleeves.

All of these strategies ensures that the time that the beer has spent warming up before you drink it is minimized, without you having to worry too much about it (besides having to go many times to the freezer to fetch a new one, which is why the beer freezer is usually very close to the social area).

Brazilian beer is usually very weak (similar to American light beer, maybe even more so), and if drunk anything but very, very cold it's just disgusting. Brazilians will not accept beer that is not ice cold, unless the situation is really desperate.

> Assuming you can get access to someone's workstation when they're not looking

Man sometimes I really miss working in an office

This is great! It's cool that you can listen to each letter individually

I have roller shutters, I like them, they're common where I live. However, they are not great for keeping heat out during the day; yeah if you close them you get protected from the heat of the sun, but also from its light. An awning will let the ambient daylight through and not turn your room into a cave

Time to plug SumatraPDF[0] which I love! It's super lightweight and fast. It isn't able to edit the files though. What do you use to edit them? At this point I just use the reader included in Firefox

[0] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

this is great, well done to the author

Sometimes an interactive debugger session will make the issue you are researching not happen -- I don't know of a way of tracking down race conditions that isn't logging everything that happens until I find out which thing happened before which other thing that wasn't supposed to

They can afford to. Also, looking at the chart provided by the article, it looks like their power consumption peaked in ~2005? And it's been going down ever since. Compare with India, which is a much, much poorer country per capita, yet their energy consumption is every increasing

> After all, the British Museum, the main example for restitutions, is located in a global city, given completely free access to its huge collection on display and pays for preservation. The global cultural value it adds is much larger than individual museums all over the would could provide.

Most of the collection of the British Museum is not on display at any given moment (if ever). They could lose 90% of their inventory and the display would be exactly the same.

But that's beside the point. Museum entry may be free, but London is pretty expensive to go to, especially if you are from a place where the items in question were plundered (ie poor third world countries). In some cases it may even be illegal. Most of the people whose cultures those items belong to cannot afford to go visit the museum.

QWERTY proves GPs point, it's a suboptimal interface and basically impossible to get rid of now, even though we've moved the underlying implementation from typewriters to computer keyboards to touchscreens

Not surprised you haven't seen EVs for rent, since the charging network, although it exists, is woefully unsufficient for non-expert users. Montevideo is a city of ~1.5M people and there are less than 30 charging stations. It's not viable to charge "at home" unless you live in a house; I have never seen an apartment buildings garage prepared for EV charging.

No, if a human does it by accident, as is clearly the case here, we call it "hallucination", "misremembering", "mandela effect" or "dementia"

This sentence:

>We're still there. My 5 state institutions are dangerous hellholes. Homeless are everywhere here.

Implies that "Homeless are everywhere here" wouldn't be the case if the institutions were good. I disagree. I believe that if the institutions were good there would still be homeless people, unless somebody declares to be living on the streets to be a mental condition that warrants forced institutionalization.

I completely agree that mental institutions are important and need more funding/attention. However, your comment implies that all homeless people have mental problems that need treatment. Many are just very poor and most of their problems (mental or otherwise) are caused/exacerbated by homelessness itself. I consider myself sane but if I didn't have a permanent shelter and had to face the streets every night I'd go crazy too

I use the title because it's what the piece of paper my university gave me when I graduated says. "Programming" is a portion of my job, alongside reviewing other people's work, design, and sitting around in meetings with people who don't have technical knowledge. Any mechanical, electrical, civil, etc, engineer will have a similar experience in many cases, except replace "programming" with something related to their area

What is "carbon capture" exactly? How does the mechanism work? Does it take an energy input?

All that effort to make a weird "feature" that no user actually wanted. The reason it took them all that work to do is that the assumption that you wouldn't reorder seasons was baked into the architecture. For the engineers that designed it was just unthinkable, and for good reason.