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Builder and breaker of things, enjoying AI development while missing the days of register optimizing in hand crafted asm.
Read more, "Taming hurricanes with arrays of offshore wind turbines", https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2120
...and..., "Wind Turbines in Extreme Weather: Solutions for Hurricane Resiliency", https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/wind-turbines-extreme-w...
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/how-to-block-cookies-on-most-b...
A lot of folks now have ransomware protected backups for critical data so they aren't paying for decryption keys.
This has escalated to hack and release, the attackers are now exfiltrating data and threatening to make it public in addition to encrypting it on the host system.
There's a ton of information out there about this, from my understanding it is really important as you age, especially for females, and then for males as testosterone levels drop.
WebMD overview about it: https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/features/weight-training
If they're going to just build another The Woodlands (x2, they have twice this much land too) this isn't a very ambitious and transformative project, it's just a big fancy housing development with a Mayor and City Council instead of an HOA.
For perspective on how big 55,000 acres is, 640 per square mile, is 86 square miles, enough land to hold the city limits of Choose 2 of 3: Paris, Barcelona, and San Francisco.
Paris city limits, 2.1 million residents, 41 square miles
Barcelona city limits, 1.6 million residents, 39 square miles
San Francisco city, 800k residents, 47 square miles
City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research
May not be Ring directly, could be in 3rd party supplier with an undetermined level of data access https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1635506291232894976
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-cabinetmaker-spent-30-ye...
Super simplifying, if risk free interest rate is 0% then you can value current cash flow the same as future ones. When you have 5% risk free in 14 years that new dollar is worth half of what it is today.
This has big impact on enterprise value for growing businesses.
The United States extends tax to citizens and businesses living or operating outside its sovereign territory. United States citizens and businesses are large property and commerce owners in countries globally.
While the United States is not directly appointing governments and directly managing policy language, it does influence indirectly. This is one pillar of difference between how it operates and a traditional empire. My perspective is this is a difference without distinction.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/03/28/all-th...
This happened with Facebook Android app years ago, nearly all mobile devs were in iOS and they were ordered to use Android phone until the app performed as well as the iOS version. Feels like deja vu VR edition.
The interesting piece in decision process from my view is can North African customers support their operations with European regions due to the better peering/additional cabling while further south they really need something local in order to drive cloud adoption?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_G...
Texas generates more wind energy than any other state (in gigawatthours). I'm unsure if any other state has a higher percentage of their total production in wind. Texas is around 20% of total in wind on ongoing basis (and another few percent in solar).
During recent heatwave solar and wind provided nearly 40%, " Several experts told CNN that it's owed in large part to strong performances from wind and solar, which generated 27 gigawatts of electricity during Sunday's peak demand -- close to 40% of the total needed."
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/us/texas-energy-record-solar-...
With barely over 50% of the population working in most countries [1] median based on population will be skewed too.
Then we have to agree on working age population.
Then we have to measure unmeasured income (ex. providing child care, teaching at a home school, preparing meals, cleaning, maintaining your own car, repairing or upgrading your residence, etc.) oe you lose all of this in the data.
The real challenge from my perspective is trying to boil down something as complex as a population into a single stat.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_St...
I travel to work in NYC fairly often and I've found myself staying in Hoboken lately, easy to get into city via the tunnels or train depending on where you're going, certainly as convenient as Brooklyn or Queens.
[1] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/brands/2020-full-year-glob...
Direct caloric burn, long term metabolism changes, etc. for a given activity vary based on the input fitness level of the person.
Calories in is the easiest levee to pull for rapid change as exercising enough for major direct calorie burn is challenging at the beginning. The biggest short term exercise impact is from activities that increase muscle mass as muscle takes calories to maintain thus boosting metabolism.
We understand this isn't what all folks want and don't mandate involvement.
...one of the 2 days teams are all in together, they focus on internal team activities.
...the other of the 2 days team members spread out across the week, they focus on collaboration with other teams.
It does limit our prospective candidates to being in specific geographies or being willing to move to them, the trade-off is we're seeing many people who voluntarily are in more than 2 days per week, they really missed the separation of home/work, the getting to meet and know new people (WFH video/phone/chat is works for getting work done with each other, it isn't great at really getting to build relationships, it happens much more slowly).
This is an area where we're still innovating on overall as a company and we will continue to do so, also what works for us may not work for others, there isn't a global monoculture. One of our [4] core values is, "People First -- We provide an opportunity for people to do meaningful work with people they love to work with", and as we live the value, we find people enjoy being at the office because they enjoy being around their team members.
WFH 100% roles don't do innovation and collaboration the same way that happens in person and even flying folks together for planning sessions is subpar for our goal to impact the communities we operate in positively. With a critical mass volunteering for causes the local team cares about, getting involved with schools, setting up internship programs, etc. are all much easier to achieve.
My long-term belief is we'll see a sorting of companies deciding on how they want to operate, then advertising that in recruiting, and finding people who are also passionate about the same. While we go through the changes it will be turbulent for both employee and employer.
For someone with your technical skill level it's very manageable, most folks don't know what a mainboard is.
To an average user it's much easier to work with restoring their My Documents (and if they need full system state have Parallels save VMs under that folder path).
An example hypothetical, you have deeply embedded malware and you're unsure when it infected the system, it could have been sitting latent for months. In this situation you have to restore back and lose months of application data or restore a recent snapshot and then try to remove the malware in a clean room. It is much safer and easier to start from a clean OS and then restoring only the data on the system which is much simpler to scan for infection and sanitize.