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Wouldn't the small sharing libraries also be at risk under a system with more power held by copyright owners?

Biomass is actually listed as a separate category (at least on the BBC report I linked).

Coal progress looks great but feels contradictory with the New Scientist link. Not a lot of people talking about the large gas dependency...

These seem like excellent resources! It's still odd that the UK has been criticised for coal subsidies and the transparency around this if coal has shrunk so dramatically and even imports are relatively small.

I don't know what is going on in the UK:

* On the one hand, supposedly one of the best users of clean energy (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48711649). Side question: where does it all come from? The UK doesn't have a lot of sunshine, nor do I see a lot of wind farms compared to other EU countries. Maybe north and around the coast? Wind seems likely given all the news about record wind output when speeds pick up. Wikipedia's number for zero-carbon production seem quite different than BBC's though.

* Government makes a vague declaration for the distant future, but Chancellor says we can't afford to do it.

* UK criticized for coal subsidies and lack of transparency (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130231-uk-government-s...)

There are IDEs on iOS.

Yeah, this is pretty weird and a little scary. I wonder if they are using it as a negotiating tactic - get offered a super low price and then give that price to Airbus to match? Airbus have already enthusiastically said they will bid on this business.

Google isn’t really an authority. The Google rate could be bad and MasterCard 0.1% worse. They could be from different times. Also, the MasterCard site says indicative only - if I convert the amount back again, MasterCard claims they are giving me free money.

GBPUSD spot is 0.002% wide (so you’d expect to pay ~0.001% for a single, instant transaction up to several million). It’s not actually too difficult to access this through a brokerage.

That said, if you could really get 0.1% from them it’d probably be considered good at retail.

It seems likely that the side switch is anyway connected to software - on iPad its purpose is configurable and I think it was for a short period on iPhone. I always assumed the point of the switch was for quick and convenient access, not for certainty. Besides, the hardware button also fails embarrassingly when full of lint.

I don't know what the MasterCard exchange rate is. However, someone recently told me regarding their credit card: "they give me the wholesale exchange rate, which is great". It turned out not to be so great (~1% wide market). It's good not to pay an additional fee/spread on top, but it can still be a poor deal overall.

Neither do any of the other Scotsmen I know.

You say “caught red handed” and other accusatory statements. The article says they had announced how (encrypted, anonymised) and why (to provide more accurate location information to users) before it was “discovered”.

It doesn’t really appear to be very nefarious, nor an advertising issue. Maybe an unintentional or neglectful privacy issue at worst, in the case of an already-stolen phone.

A sibling comment suggests that the insulation-on-the-inside approach (for cellars, at least) has been found to be wrong anyway for moisture-on-the-inside.

This would probably be good feedback to leave as a GitHub issue (or PR!).

Some people switch programming languages often. Exponentiation operators are common, both caret and double star are used. It does not seem amusing (surprising?) to me.

On the other hand, piping and redirection are relatively uncommon outside of the shell. There is certainly a clearer mental distinction for me between "I am in shell" and "I am not in shell" than "I should double star".

I always want the ability to skip the entire thread I'm currently viewing (as opposed to collapse the sub-thread I'm currently viewing). The official Reddit iOS app does this with a floating button, for example.

Unlimited version history is still listed on my account. I recall this was grandfathered indefinitely for all existing users. Does anyone know how this fits with the new announcement?

I have only ever used it outside of 30 days, and the "yay! look what we are forcing on you at a large price increase" email is not especially welcome anyway.

Wasn’t DFU reflash always available? Was there any example of Apple blocking a device from receiving updates or reinstalls? As far as I recall updates were not even authorised until a few years ago.

Yes; that is what I'm saying: power is the real issue, not lack of legal framework/remedy (and in most cases, private contracts are specifically the purpose contract law; "I intended it to be privately handled" would not be a winning argument. "I have the Soviet army over that hill" might be though).

The International Court of Arbitration already existed, and there were other such courts even earlier.

It may well be the case that this was never intended as a formal contract, but I am responding to the assertion that there was no way for it to be. I stand by the claim: the issue is authority/power, not the necessary legal means.

Contract law and international arbitration do exist though. The ultimate inability to enforce seems like it is a separate issue and not limited to bilateral contracts - nation states are more powerful than international courts in many cases.

I think they usually _don’t_ use twin studies because they are harder/more expensive. In this case they used the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort:

https://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/philadelphianeurodevelopmental...

I don’t see any mention of twins here or on JAMA, although I can’t access the full text currently.

The case is not being made particularly well, I feel, from the perspective of decision makers who incentivise quick-and-dirty tactics.

The cost/benefit of adding internal quality is only apparent over the entire lifetime of the product. If the product life is short, or only simple features are added, or not many of them, or the original design is a good fit for the feature scope in the future, you may never see sufficient benefit and the internal quality will be a net cost.

I'd grant that people tend to underestimate product lifetime and future complexity (perhaps wilfully, in some situations). A lot of people simply say "let's cut corners". I don't think there's a failure to explain to them that cutting corners can have downsides, as the article suggests. Everybody knows that. It is not unique to software, either.

12.2 is the release that mitigated this attack. So 12.2 also contains random noise in the sensor data - releases before this did not disable it by default (according to the article).

" The headline PPA values that Samsung is announcing are also impressive: compared to 7nm, 3GAE will offer 1.35x performance, 0.5x power, with a 0.65x die area." ... Samsung states that these performance numbers are based on using larger width cells for critical paths where frequency is important, and smaller width cells for non-critical paths where power savings are crucial. Technically Fmax of the widest cells is listed as 1.5x, while power at Fmax is 0.6x. Power at iso-performance is where the 0.5x number comes from."

I don't think 35% at fixed frequency makes sense; 35% is the frequency boost (with power savings too).

It's right there in the article: 1.35x. That sounds like raw speed though, with actual changes probably depending more on what people do with the new technology.

You are right. I mis-read the latter part due to the former implying total energy.

It's being rolled out:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Form_Autofill#Chil...

Shipping for Linux is waaay down the list:

https://github.com/orgs/FirefoxGraphics/projects/1

I assume due to driver issues?

Immediately followed by:

"Boiling a kettle, for example, takes around two kilowatts."

I guess that was a very small amount of water or it was already pretty hot.

Nonetheless, it feels like there should still be an FAQ for actual FAQs. It's harder to maintain than other documentation?