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Yes. Also, in my country, there are alternatives, but it is so much faster and time efficient to use car. I would gladly used any alternative that would not cost me additional time than car.

I can confirm that: I am from EU, far inland. Warmer climate seems like a good idea to me and rising sea level does not bother me at all.

Yes, I dislike storms, floods and droughts but these are thing we know and we are prepared. And it might be even cheaper to be better prepared for storms than to bear externalized costs of CO2 ... hard to estimate that.

We need some new technology, something very cheap, efficient and disruptive, that will force oil and gas to stay in the ground economically :-|

> low cost now, high cost for grandchildren.

[sarcasm] so, why transfer this "high cost" to grandchildren, let THEM solve whole problem of "habitability of this moist rock" [/sarcasm]

It's just a pity that the article ended just when I was most interested :-)

Yes, you cannot do that and I would prefer that they enable these features too.

But really, for most lay people it is better, safer and convenient to just use Apple selected method - to connect everything with one account/Apple ID. And I think that *primary reason* is better product for users. Overall it is easier to control user experience if you tightly control whole platform.

I am not sure if it could be even possible to create broad and well integrated platform similar to what Apple has now, with general opennes. Is there an example of this in any other tech domain?

Counter-example: Linux desktop is nice, functional, very open but so complicated and fragmented ... and it never took off and it is staying as a niche among desktops so far.

To "airpods" example - I think that it is more about Apple making great product than Apple enforcing control. Better eco system control is more of useful side effect.

There are other players who can make great products like good quality headphones, with standardized components, because they care about product. Although not common behaviour, it means that it can be done. So I think that most manufacturers just don't care enough, probably because most people don't care either :-(

This. And I think that we really should focus more on recyclable materials: like steel and aluminium instead of trying to use (unescessary) plastic everywhere.

I agree. Am I right - would it be solved by prefering https for all ip addresses except 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/24 and 172.16.0.0/16?

I liked especially living in cliff walls in "Red Mars"!

Anyway "Red Mars" sold me the impression of many people being "outside" quite a lot. But with accordance to dust problems this does not seems to be too likely. Moving freely in the world with similar gravity would be probably one of the killer features of colonizing another planet/asteroid.

I have prepared for my kids smooth gradual "helpers" in Minecraft - I did place command blocks for them first, later I created server mod with custom commands and teach them to write commands. They learnt to try and combine stuff in "command line" and they loved it. It worked great for them, I believe they acquire basic procedural knowledge sofar but they don't reach "java" level yet. I'll see.

Haha, this is mainly "programmer" viewpoint, for most people around the globe, timezones works flawlessly. And for programmers, they do/should use UTC everywhere already ;-)

I find spacer.gif or even this "inlined gif" solution much more elegant and straitforward - better than bothering with div/span element and correct styling. And Josh could easily implement that react component with gif!

So, everything would be solved (technically) if they can retrofit AoA disagree alarm? I am not sure what is the price tag for such operation but it has to be fortune otherwise they should included it in the first place.

Yeah. Problem is that it is pretty hard to fix such system problem:

- Plane was bad, so they band-aided it in factory, but band-aid keeps falling off sometimes. So planes stay grounded.

- Sure, they can make better band-aid but everyone knows planes are bad designed so it won't help much (even if super safe band-aid)

- Correct way is to rebuild the plane to make it good, but this is/was out of the table - it was already way too expensive in the first place.

And here we are.

I have (and had) laptop with slot for sim card for years but I never bothered to buy a sim card. I have gigabit ethernet port at work, at home, fast low latency wifi everywhere ...

Another way to look at it: I remember that 30y ago (in our Europe country) it was quite common to drive even without seatbelts in the back. Seatbelts were important in case of accident, but not needed in regular traffic. Traffic and cars are very different today, everything is faster and jittery. Nowadays, my experience is that seatbelts are needed always - they are securing kids even in regular traffic. And without proper car seat, seatbelt does not fit and function properly.

Or, we should just get used to live with more CO2 in the air.

Its not too much wet, you get rid of most of the water by spin drying. I have stone floors so I wouldnt be bothered anyway

Also it helps if you live somewhere with reasonable humidity.

Missing NOT. Or NAND

Web definitely needs a better keyboard interface, this seems interesting but it looks a bit difficult to learn and use.

I used and liked Gleebox quite intuitive, easy and powerful. But it is not developed anymore. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gleebox/miinkdcjgl...

Is it possible that similar deposits of this rock ringwoodite are present in under the surface or in cores of other planets?

Click to display cannot solve this completely, it will change general practice from using one tracking pixel to make all images tracking. Although, it could work for text emails with just tracking pixel.

Well, I believe that Dutch roads are quite ok because the speed limits are usually followed and drivers are attentive.

In other parts of Europe, road traffic is often much faster that speed limits (Central and Southern Europe) and drivers are not cooperative at all. Yeah, nothing that separated bike roads wouldn't solve.

> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking.

Yeah, that one. Your country is ridiculously flat with highest peak of around 300m above see level.

On the other hand, there are a lot of raining days in Netherlands! I was very surprised that Dutch don't care too much about weather, they ride on sunny days same as on rainy days.

Turbo Pascal was great.

The historical purpose of an engagement ring/gift was to demonstrate your serious interest and your intentions. Via spending money for her that cannot be taken back. Unfortunatelly, diamonds fit this quite nicely.

Actually, the best way to demonstrate it is via these rules:

(1) you have to get something that is very hard to get (more money than you normally have),

(2) something that has no use for you (you want to convince her, it wouldn't be convincing if you benefitted from spending)

(3) and preferrably it is not monetizable for recipient (in general, woman is much less motivated to tricking you only because of gift)

So, if she's already convinced to merry you, spending fortune for diamond ring is futile. And if you are in hurry, you can really just burn some money to ash in front of her, it would do the same :) Nonetheless, not as fancy as diamond ring for her :D

Just thinking, who should provide this decentralized service for common users? Someone who already provide them email? Their internet providers? Family?

I am not sure how he was getting free space for email warning, but in final state, running df showed plenty of space on disk, although writing to files signals "no disk space" error.

Anecdocte: our sysadmin set similar thing up (at 90%) at one of my boxes. but conflicting configuration of debian os also reserved 15% of capacity for OS, so system became completely unresponsive at 85% full disk, without emailing message about free space - 85% was for our purpose effectively 100% full disk.

Still dont know what lesson I should learn from this story.

Similar for me, doing low calorie intake for most days and it feels norm now. Inconvenient downside I feel more in social domain than in physical domain.