1. There's something you need to get done that'll take some chunk of your time.
2. Give someone money to do it for you.
3. You have more time.
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2. Give someone money to do it for you.
3. You have more time.
https://www.recycledgoods.com/kurta-puck-puck-for-is-one-12x...
And yes, that's the sort of thing they are talking about.
(Edit: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm beginning to recall that mine had a cordless puck. It looked exactly like this one, without the cord, and had silver-gray conductive paint down each side so that it would turn on when you grabbed it.)
Two possible approaches to leverage quickly come to mind:
- The carrot: "You've got a loan with us for $xM at y%. If you show you are committed to this office by maximizing occupancy, that lowers our risk and we can give you a 0.1% discount."
- The stick: "Your loan term is expiring soon. I know it'd hurt to need to make that big balloon payment. Let's discuss our conditions for rolling you over into a new loan."
As to this proposed mandate... If it's mandating any safety device, and Bosch and others can freely compete without everyone paying SawStop, I'm all for it. But if it's mandating the SawStop design, or would require all competitors to pay SawStop, forget it.
Someone hurry up and sell me one.
Of course, the important bit is the poor little guy never gets any food to eat. So, no game.
https://archive.org/details/flash_flow
In fact, the motion of the little bit that it does feels much less smooth than I remember from last time I checked.
Look, I don't like or trust Facebook. But how many customers would Fastmail have if they defederated from Gmail? For that matter, how much would Gmail have grown if they had decided not to federate with Hotmail and Yahoo? If people can't use your service to talk to or follow friends & family on other services, they'll just use the services their friends & family use. Sure, they could use both, but why bother? The one that isn't huge has little or nothing to offer them.
I'm all for letting users of federated networks set up their own personal blocks of users, nodes, entire services, whatever. But when admins defederate, it blocks all good communication, too. And turns the federated network into an unfederated non-network.
> Don’t like it? Make your own fediverse node.
Sure. And when you do set up your own fediverse node with the intent of actually staying federated, you will quickly find yourself with a de-fediverse node, as admins punish you for daring to let your computer talk to the computer of someone they don't like.
Edit: To be more clear, I am NOT saying that fediverse nodes want or need to be huge like Gmail or Facebook. I'm saying that convincing people to escape the walled garden into the fediverse is mostly not gonna be possible without a demonstrated commitment to keeping the network connected. It'd be like trying to convince someone to set up their own email server, when nobody they know will ever see their emails because Gmail dumps it all into the spam bucket. What Gmail has done to the idea of a personal email server, the fediverse is doing to itself, self-inflicted.
Luckily for the centralized systems, the decentralized networks have a culture of defederation that is undermining their own mission.
This whole defederation thing is going to guarantee a win for centralized services.
"An equatorial mount is a mount for instruments that compensates for Earth's rotation by having one rotational axis, the polar axis, parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation."
> Note: Netflix games aren't available for Kids profiles.
SLC: 100K cycles
MLC: 10K cycles
TLC: 3K cycles
QLC: 1K cycles
https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/pc-performance/difference-b...
Now SSDs seem to be taking over the laptop world and HDDs are getting harder to find (and smaller, as the larger CMR drives get replaced with garbage SMR models). It seems like reliable storage in a laptop is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/for-both-road-and-rail-the-e...
> CATL and BYD's sodium-ion batteries will both be carried in mass-produced vehicles within the year, and they [the vehicle battery packs] will both be a mix of sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries, according to a report by local media 36kr today.
By my reading of that, and the rest of the article, it's saying that the vehicle battery will be assembled from of a mix of sodium-ion and lithium-ion battery cells, not that the sodium-ion cells contain lithium.
> With its pioneering AB battery system integration technology, CATL has achieved a mix of sodium ion and lithium ion, allowing them to complement each other and thus increase the energy density of the battery system, Huang said at the time.
Basically, a "battery system" using only sodium-ion cells does not yet have enough energy density to support their range targets, so they are using a mix of cell types to improve the energy density and increase the vehicle range.