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Thanks, never new that service existed. They should advertise it more

Unfortunately the terrible production quality of the video makes the conversations quite hard to follow. Going to try nonetheless

Interesting also that for all providers except azure storage can only scale together with cpu/ram. Never understood why that is.

Azure does, 35 days PITR andI beleive you only pay for the storage costs. Recovery is only on a database server level (not an individual database), and works by creating a new instance (the original instance is left as is) that is set to the state at the desired point in time.

That is indeed exactly what the nytimes article suggested

The windy.com site is really useful. It is the only way I know to get the ECMWF forecasts for free. As far as I know all the AccuWeather and similar spyware apps use the freely available but inferior GFS model.

Exactly, the fact that this is apparently considered normal sounds like a pretty big problem

I believe at least some desalination plants add copper and or chlorine to the input water to prevent biofouling. In that case running more water through the plant to produce less concentrated brine would require more chemicals

Always good to do some math. I double checked your input figure, and that should be per day, not per year. So 365 times as high. Other assumptions being the same that would give 0.2% rise per year, or 4% in twenty years. Not 50%, but not insignificant.

That is what I intuitively thought, until I learnt that salinity in the Persian Gulf (a huge body of water connected to the ocean) is up significantly due to desalination. Salinity has risen 50% over the last two decades. See e.g. https://financialtribune.com/articles/people-environment/434...

Has anyone tried this yet?

managing giant monocultures with a few giant machines (that may or may not be human controlled) is not what this article is about; it is about the huge potential that smallish robots have for farming. More diverse crops, less pesticides, less damage to soil, less energy use, mixed instead of mono cultures. Really exciting if this takes off, such a win for the environment, the landscape, and ultimately for everyone of us

Actually she had a page, but it was deleted. And then someone recreated the page, and it was rejected in review. QED

"...using 58 types of Technic custom-made elements", anyone have a information on what those pieces are? They really spent an incedible amount of hours and effort on this. 13k+ man hours...

more details here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med... (including a 714mb zip with images which I am still downloading)

Some facts:

    Over 1,000,000 LEGO Technic elements in total 
    339 types of LEGO Technic elements used 
    No glue used in the assembly 
    Total weight: 1,500 kg 
    Engine contains:
    2,304 LEGO Power Functions motors
    4,032 LEGO Technic gear wheels 
    2,016 LEGO Technic cross axles 
    Theoretical performance of 5.3 HP 
    Estimated torque of 92 Nm
    Functional rear spoiler (using both LEGO Power Functions and pneumatics) 
    Functional speedometer built entirely from LEGO Technic elements 
    13,438 man hours used on development and construction

Edit: images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built

Are you sure? I just checked for myself, but (on the google maps version I am served) the south pole is still shows as a black hole when zoomed out far enough that the earth is rendered as a sphere. Also the elongated shape of the tiles near the poles looks an awful lot like a mercator projection.

Cool, but now I would love to see a map which is colored by the total are (km^2) reachable in a given time.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1667/

From that article Ireland is the most highly educated country in Europe, I never would have guessed that.

I wonder how many plausible alternative captions we can come up with for this map? A few takes: * Corruption level (blue is less) * Income per capita (blue is more) * Education level (blue is better) * Price of a beer (blue is more) * etc

If I wanted to combine Excel and SQL, I would look at MS Access first. How does this compare? Also with the latest powerquery add ons Excel you can actually do joins in Excel itself

> “Sleep deprivation really has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression,” says Benedetti. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But if you’re depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. But, Benedetti adds, there’s a catch: once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you’ll have a 95 per cent chance of relapse.

This is really counter intuitive to me. The article goes on explaining that using a combination of skipping sleep, lithium and light treatment the results are much better.

Great pitch, I have been on the lookout for a proper offline-first realtime data connection with some kind of conflict resolution. It seems to me like such a natural combination of functions, but I haven't come across any tool that has it all yet. Will definitely check this out!

The backstory behind the data gathering to make the map is a good read. They have put a lot of effort to cleanse and understand the raw data. There are plenty of nice articles on the what and why: http://globalfishingwatch.org/explainers/data/what-does-an-a...

I am a heavy notebook user, but have just decided to switch to Jupyter Lab 5 minutes ago. This will make working on a remote server so much nicer, just start Jupyter Lab and an ssh tunnel and you have a terminal plus notebooks plus file editors all in one browser window. Great improvement, thanks!!

This so much. It is my only real complaint about notebooks. Would be so much nicer if a notebook was split in two files, like `my-notebook.input.ipynb` and `my-notebook.output.ipynb`, where `my-notebook.input.ipynb` would only contain code and be editable with any text editor similar to a .md file (and not some verbose xml). The output would contain all outputs, so that would be easily separated from the input if needed.

I can see the benefits of stuffing everything into a single file, but separating would be so much better IMHO. Version control is too important to mess with. Sometimes I want input and output to be version controlled, sometimes I only want the input. By splitting I can easily do that with simple .gitignore rules.

There are only a few companies that own nearly all brands you can find in a typical first world supermarket. Not much more than these few: Procter&Gamble, Unilever, Mars, Mondelez, Goodman Fielder, Nestle

I had the same experience. I manually partitioned a pg10 db and it was quite a lot of work to make sure I had all the partitions I need. Then I switched to timescale and got it was just a breeze. I could partition a dataset both in time and in foreign_key with a single command, and performance (especially huge inserts) jumped up. Or to be more accurate, the performance degradation of my table which made each subsequent insert a bit slower than the previous was completely gone. All in all, very happy with timescaledb.

Congrats with the funding!

From the article:

> This attack is called XeroDay

This has already been done for the Netherlands a few times, and is repeated every 5 or so years. See all the data in your browser here: http://ahn2.pointclouds.nl/