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Probably more this sort of meddling: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-boosts-nra..., where New York leaned on banks and insurance companies to stop doing business with organizations they (the regulators) didn't like.

Perhaps the competition will discourage future misbehavior like this.

I think the mismatch here is in your definition of smartphone. Expand the definition to include any feature beyond placing and receiving phone calls. I live right next door to takes perverse pride in his inability to text. It's a thing.

You can enjoy living in a city but also enjoy outdoorsy pursuits. TTS is a measure of your ability to do both.

It can also be a measure of the maximum size of city you enjoy. There are people who like cities but still wouldn't want to live in NY/LA/London

This is a great problem to have, if (IME) rare. Step 1 Understand the System helps you figure out when tests can be eliminated as no longer relevant and/or which tests can be merged.

Forgive the dumb question... it's been ages since I've done Amiga programming in C. What behaves differently? Is the lower K of memory mapped, such that null pointer deferences cause excitement rather than simply crashing your program? Or is it something else?

But why, if you don't need to

Yes. They were installed many decades ago and haven't been replaced because a) it would be extremely expensive to do so and b) there are additives which AIUI prevent or at least significantly reduce leaching.

I'd be shocked if the EPA's cost estimates turns out to even be within an order of magnitude off the actual cost. Maybe they're just measuring the cost to utilities for the parts not on private property.

In my high school, English class existed to teach you to do two things - read books and write essays. No other class cared about both things (individually or separately). Kids need to do both, so emphasizing one over the other does them a disservice. TFA talks about the problems that result when you starve the reading side, and this post suggests (I think) starving the writing side (writing your "real thoughts" vs learning to structure them as an essay).

Great. So he's well-motivated to dig up and publicize hitherto-unknown (or barely-known) shenanigans from Forbes etc al, and he knows where to look.

If he wasn't going to investigate this, who would? CNN? USA Today?

A different comment says librewolf disables webgl by default, breaking OP's decompression. Is that what you're seeing?

The book ending ("and then they gave up") put me off so much that I never bothered finishing the TV series. Given that, any thoughts on how I might find the TV series ending?

May I suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)

Thank you for heads up will get my code submitted before world ends.

That's true, but NYC still ships trash all over the place: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8714ca7999a64704b59721c...

At the end of the day it has to go somewhere, and there's no room for it in the five boroughs, so they pay what they need to pay. And it's still cheaper than sending it overseas (otherwise they would).

The photos are gorgeous. The first one, of the motor disassembly area, has a bridge crane (labeled M-23) with a 1-ton capacity?? I didn't realize bridge cranes that size went that low.

I doubt they're being creative. Far more likely they're locating the charging port based on the needs of the vehicle's internal layout. Or to be consistent with the manufacturer's standard, which was likely set by the needs of their first EV's internal layout.

How dare they attempt to defray their costs.

Two things. First, the time of friction is important. Pretty much all friction points with vehicle ownership are distributed throughout the year, *and are amortized across all uses of the vehicle*. When you want the vehicle to haul the mulch you press the button and you get bacon. Contrast with renting a truck to pick up mulch, or renting a restaurant for a party, or putting your parents in a hotel. Those friction points happen every single time you want to do the fun thing, and happen when you want to do the fun thing. Press button, pay tax, *then* get bacon. There's a big psychological difference there.

Second, I think you're framing it as {truck + self pickup} vs {no vehicle + delivered}, but I think the more likely comparison is {truck + self pickup} vs {sedan + delivered}. Nobody's going to get a truck as their only vehicle that they'll literally only use a few times a year. They'll be choosing between truck and sedan as their daily driver (or truck as second vehicle). In the replacement case in particular (truck vs sedan) the friction delta is very small.

The value is that (ideally) they've asked around and figured out how half a dozen peer firms do what you're struggling with. So while they may not have solved your management problem personally, they can give you an idea of what's worked for your peers without all the icky industrial espionage and antitrust violations you'd need to find it out yourself.

The article is pretty terrible all around. You have to get to the last sentence before they throw in the detail that it's not actually an Ironman race -- it's a half-iron. I wouldn't mind it so much in a general-interest source, but ESPN writers of all people should know the difference and should sweat even the immaterial details. A "so-called" half-iron? No that's actually what it is. No need for the "so-called".

My goodness are those "just"s doing a lot of work.

Universal Florida does this really "well" with their Hagrids ride. There's an outside part, then you wander around in a room, and only then discover the real line -- the three days you'll spend wandering around in tunnels with no sight lines to help you figure out how far along you are.

The idea is that you can keep them in your lap, which tends to be a more relaxed position than actively gripping the wheel. It may not be your thing, which is fine. But I do a 10hr road trip a few times a year, and personally would see a benefit.

Personally I could care less about automating driving on surface streets. I'm a fan of just about anything that makes the long hauls easier.

"Don't have to firmly grip the steering wheel" is a thing. You're supposed to keep your hands loosely on the wheel, following along while the car takes the lead on turning the wheel.

The Ford thing is "hands in your lap," and is publicly advertised that way. It's far rarer.

Adaptive cruise control is automatic speed adjustment, with you doing the steering. This adds automatic steering and removes the need to keep your hands on the wheel. Hands-free is the big differentiator from existing lane-keeping systems.

yes, because you'll be done with your thing before others figure out how to lay out your spreadsheet. also your solution will be reusable.

(based on my experience where people who could've benefited from awk for a one-liner dependably reach for sheets/excel rather than something like python or perl)

script seems to require you to type the demo commands perfectly and at the right pace for the demo. That openssl command, for example. Contrast with this tool, where you can get the command right at your leisure then apply magic to look like it's being typed in interactively. The two steps (running commands, interactive typing with desired timing) are much easier to get right separately than together.

This Tom Scott video shows some of the surprising (to me) lengths to which the USPS does go to figure out the right address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c Obviously this doesn't apply to your case, but I certainly didn't think they'd have a national center for decoding terrible handwriting.

Zip codes are nation-scoped, not state-scoped, so yes they'd know which state.