As far as I can find, the Paris Métro's rubber tire lines all run on special rollways and not traditional railways like the vehicles in the article.
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I've heard these called 'Benton Blocks', though, looking that up now, that seems to be a brand [0], not sure if there's a more specific generic term other than 'concrete block'.
> Somewhat related: The famed "Jersey Divider" is cast in a similar way, albeit without any consideration for vertical stacking.
I think Jersey Barriers are usually re-enforced with steel rebar and all the ones that I've seen have a steel cable running through them with a loop at either end to link up to the one next to it, by dropping a pole or similar through both sets of loops, to create a continuous wall. (Though, interestingly, the Wikipedia article [1] doesn't seem to mention that feature.)
[0] https://betonblockusa.com/us/products/concrete-blocks [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier
> Software that has source code available that automatically becomes open source at some explicitly specified, unchangeable, point in the future.
Though, I know that another team at the same company loved it, but they were all in on java (and groovy and kotlin). As I understand it protobuf meshes with Java's type system much better (and probably Go's too?).
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I did some benchmarking on various formats/rust libraries when we were deciding on what the protocol should be used for ^ and, IIRC, JSON fared better than you'd have expected. My assumption is that JSON just has had way more eyes/hands on the implementation than anything else. The things that I can remember beating it were (1) bincode, (2) cbor, and (3) protobuf, then JSON was #4.
In retrospect I wish we'd have gone with bincode, but we weren't sure if we were going to need some java code to interact with this service at the time and, at least at the time, bincode was rust-only (and possibly not even stable between compiler releases?). It would have been much faster to develop with and there was a whole bunch of overhead from protobuf that didn't really do anything for us since we were talking over a unix domain socket within a single system.
Yep, that.
My understanding of this argument (which for the record, I'm loosely convinced is probably true, but probably isn't the only, and maybe not the main, factor) is that your body's hungry signal is it needs non-calorie nutrients, but our food is less nutrient dense so you get a lot more calories than your body is prepared to handle for a given quantity of nutrients.
For something the size of a home fridge the costs would be immense compared to the energy savings. You're far far better off spending that money on more efficient heat pumps and more/better insulation.
The federal limit for the amount of power a fridge can pull is 527 kWh/year, which at my rates (admittedly on the low end these days) is ~$70/year. There are very commonly available fridges that are < 300 kWh/year, which would be ~< $40/year. So before even taking into account the efficiencies you implicitly make back when you're heating your house anyway, that's your per-attached-appliance limit for input cost on building out, maintaining and running that system.
Though, I admit that the idea of a completely silent fridge & A/C is alluring. Here's to hoping we make some breakthroughs on sold-state heat pumps.
I've only ever dabbled in webdev, but I thought this _was_ the right way to do it? Having an actual anchor tag with an href that overrides onclick means that your fancy javascripty partial page load works, but so does middle click and regular clicking without javascript. Is there some other way that's even more compatible?
Middle-clicking everything on mcmaster's site seemed to work for me in firefox.
I'd say it's about equal to, or maybe a slight improvement over, the the "team room" I was in before the open office where it was me and ~10 other engineers all working on generally the same categorical area of a product (in my case the hardware team).
The only thing that I could see possibly being an improvement would be an even smaller, very quiet room that is located within walking distance of my home where only my direct sub-team mates and I sit, they're all people I like, and we all have good "when it's okay to talk" etiquette.
I feel like that would be an incredibly hard thing to arrange. So, fully remote, working from home, seems to me to be the next best option.
> 2.3. Network Topology
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> This protocol may operate in the absence of globally routable IPv6 infrastructure. This requirement enables operation in a network disconnected or firewalled from the global Internet.
IIRC Zigbee is: 802.15.4 -> "Zigbee"
And my (mostly incomplete) understanding of matter is it's: 802.15.4 -> 6LoWPAN -> Thread -> "The device model of Zigbee"-like Application Layer (for thread devices)
Thread is a protocol, this is only as true as the statement "WiFi gives each device access to the internet".
It _can_ give devices access to the internet, but only if you plug your (border) router into an internet connection. (Or otherwise bridge the networks. Your border router could still have internet access itself without bridging the thread network out to the internet.)
I would imagine that it sees the `history.pushState()` or w/e without any interaction and knows that it's a dead state/page/(?).
Bring back the tender[0], but fill it with batteries instead of coal. Or better yet, intermodal container shaped batteries that could be swapped for pure electric long distance trains.
> SQLite4 was an experimental rewrite of SQLite that was active from 2012 through 2014. All development work on SQLite4 has ended.
You got me really excited for a moment there.
ST doesn't actually support multiple hubs working together. Even the ST WiFi (mesh WiFi router with a built in st hub) only uses the non-primary APs as standard ZigBee and ZWave repeaters, the same as if there were an outlet or light switch there.
And Aeotec is one of the more trustworthy brands in home IoT and the Aeotec hub is exacly the same hardware that was sold as the samsumg v3, even still made by the same OEM.
My best advice is, if you can afford it, quit your job and don't do anything until it sounds good. Like literally sit and stare at a wall until something sounds fun. My recovery was definitely delayed because I thought doing hobbies was how I was going to recover, so I forced myself to try to do things because I though I'd want to have accomplished them after my sabbatical was done.
If you want to call it mediation, call it that. If you want to call it sitting in the shower with a beer call it that. If you want to call it renting a cabin on a mountain to with no internet, call it that. The important thing is you're giving your mind time to (if you will) run a defrag on itself.
I'm still not 100% over being burnt out, so I can't give any guarantee, but giving myself that time has definitely helped immensely.
> Should I tell my boss and/or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?
Hard to say. How's your relationship with your boss/team? If quitting is the most likely outcome, you have nothing to lose, and maybe they can help. If your work reletionships are more adversarial, maybe not.
> Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I'm hesitant because I don't have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn't much to do anyway. I don't think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I've been there before and I don't handle boredom well.
In my opinion, yes.
I don't know you or your personality, but for me not handling boredom well was a symptom of being burnt out. Or as I said it, I was "bad at" relaxing. I still am, but I'm getting better about it. And the thing that is helping the most with that is telling myself that I'm allowed to be bored and then scheduling some time to be bored. That might sound stupid, but I really think that is the thing that has helped my mental health recently more than anything else.
> If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.
Can you work less? I've actually started a new gig (2 months after my last day as the last one), but I'm working part time (though salaried w/ benefits) and it's great having more time in the mornings and afternoons. I don't think I could swing a full time gig at the moment, but working half-time has silenced the part of my brain that kept telling me I should be making money and being a contributing member of society.
AFAICT, it's fully open source software (except, presumably, the nordic hal stuff?), with a JS SDK and a hosted IDE. But, I haven't used it yet because it requires WebBluetooth, and I refuse to use chrome, and I haven't figured out if the rasppi hosted IDE is still supported or not, it seems that the `nw` package doesn't support arm (anymore?).
But this was the best option I found when I was looking awhile ago.
The other things I considered were the Pinetime (software is still a bit too early from what I've seen) and "Paul's Open-Smartwatch" https://open-smartwatch.github.io/, but I really wanted GPS and that version's design isn't finished yet.
I mean, clearly OP doesn't need to worry about the lack of NAT, but not having gone through all of the things listed on that list, I would assume that they all require an active participant behind the NAT/firewall, and would still be required for just a plain old stateful firewall (assuming you don't have the ports open) when you want to communicate with some other endpoint behind another firewall.
Actually, you can do exactly that now: https://developer-preview.smartthings.com/docs/devices/hub-c... Though that's only for device integrations, so not an exact solution to removing the cloud from the loop on your stuff.
ST is slowly getting away from being totally cloud-centric.
Though, I don't even use it myself anymore, I just gave up caring if I've seen all the replies in a thread.
Maybe I'm just not a normal user of telegram and I'm lucky that this doesn't affect me, but this seems like the most reasonable way to do ads. Though something along the lines of discord's nitro would be a nicer way to fund things. I wonder why telegram doesn't do something like that.