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Then you would like that "Gov. Janet Mills received a commitment from Hydro-Quebec to directly sell enough discounted energy in Maine each year to run 70,000 homes."

First to shuck 50 oysters would fit local flavor.

The referendum was sneakily worded. Based on your sentiments, I expect you meant to vote 'yes' to suspend the project?

I heard that as well and it really detracted from the 'green' component of the project. Did HydroQuebec give any contractual guarantee that this would indeed be hydro-power and not just whatever's surplus in their grid?

75 feet wide over a 53 mile section of land already owned by the local power company. https://www.pressherald.com/2021/10/17/qa-on-question-1-will...

Another interesting tidbit of Maine news is that a municipal Portland election ended in a tie in the final round of ranked choice voting. Around ~19,000 votes total.

By state law they'll resolve the tie by drawing lots at the city hall building tomorrow morning: https://www.pressherald.com/2021/11/03/tied-instant-runoff-f...

I believe HydroQuebec put in more money than anyone for this referendum.

Ironically, much of the funding for 'Yes' (which was in opposition to the new power lines) was provided by a nuclear reactor in New Hampshire that didn't want to compete against the lower electricity rates this would bring.

I agree. Also, those who claim it's more reliable than alternatives seem to have no qualms installing a native app. Like-for-like comparison with browser-based alternatives doesn't perform favorably.

Could you elaborate on what makes a protein complete?

I infer that you mean that a senior professional is more adept at mitigating the effects of burnout. While that may often correlate, I don't think it follows that someone is less professional or at an insufficient level if they are suffering from burnout. Many times the factors at play exist within an organization regardless of how one member performs.

The forces behind burnout don't decrease just by operating as a senior.

VR Optician now accepts an ASX for astigmatism correction. I don't think it adds to the base $69 USD cost. Prism corrections for $50 more.

I also blinked at that. But then took it to mean constitutionally in a pure sense - whether they can keep a strength of belief enough to follow through. Unrelated to 'The Constitution' from a US citizen's point of view. Although now I'm pondering just how misplaced and powerful our reverence of that cobbled together document is.

The iPad has the advantage of cellular data. But if your nomadic goals are not cramped by being near WiFi, I find a cheap thin ChromeOS client (ideally with a 3:2 display) works substantially better. I have been code-server'ing from a gaming desktop for three years now this way. My clients have been a Asus C302, Pixelbook, an Acer Spin 13, and now a Framework laptop on Manjaro Sway edition. It's been a revelation. The desktop cranks on web dev stuff in a way no laptop can.

Yeah I had a similar reaction. Chalk it up to the chum bucket fatigue at the end of listicles.

I am recently considering that imagery on the web is too powerful. It can be detrimental or subversive to my attention. I feel rejuvenated from HN much of the time because it's textual and thoughtful, not so much of the web that's trying to influence me with images (moving images even more so). Using reader mode / pocket can help.

Binary trees during the hiring process for software engineers is not a part of the entire industry. I'd be surprised if it was even the majority. But it is prevalent, and posts pop up here regularly disparaging it.

Places lean into Google's way of doing things by default without demonstrating that it leads to positive outcomes _for their business_. Google themselves do it due to no small part to compensate for the pitfalls of getting as big as they have. Pointing out that what they do is ubiquitous and inherently optimal is conflating scale with success.

That's not a fair reading. You're conflating success with scale, something the parent post explains has a fractal of unwanted externalities.

Yep, I think that's the way. No matter the vocation. Cut out the management tier as much as possible between you and your customer.

Sorry to hear that it wasn't working well for you. I'm sure there's a pile of edge cases yet to resolve in Wayland and its compositors. I can only say that for my experience on this very bleeding edge of hardware, kernel, tiling manager, I'm not encountering anything of import. I saw some flicker in tooltips on Bitwarden FF extension's popup window yesterday. I can live with that. Hopefully you'll have a better experience soon.

Just one anecdote, but one that might temper expectations: A friend of mine with two decades of experience who'd already proven herself indispensable at a famous (and completely dysfunctional) NYC French restaurant looked around for the next step in her career. She interviewed at a highly competitive Michelen star restaurant in Manhattan and got the offer: minimum wage and an expected 60 hours a week. While they charge a typical customer 200-300 a dinner. That was before the pandemic.

She wondered what the point of striving in the field was if that's what it was like at the top. She's since moved to a state where recreational use of cannabis is legal and makes more money healing people with chocolate than she ever did baking. Has weekends again. No sociopathic or sexual abuse from coworkers. Consistent peaceful workload. Creative and high craft output instead of crank-out-that-coconut-cake-again.

This is just one story and it may not last once the industry consolidates, but now is an excellent moment for bakers' mental health to shift to producing edibles.

Edit: Beware the expensive culinary schools. They can be a lot of money and don't necessarily help finding employment. Akin to bootcamps and art institutes.

What you describe reminds me of my time with the Pixelbook. Nothing since has come close to comfort and peace of mind that brought me.

expand the lawsuit to Apple, Google, other heathen browser makers

My sway config has `output eDP-1 scale 1.25`. I started out with 1.5 liked it but eventually felt text still a little too large. At 1.25 I am finding I need to bump font size up with some sites. I've not seen tearing or any other graphical artifacts in any applications.

I use fusuma for gestures. Had to change BAT0 to BAT1 in waybar config to get the battery to show up. Had to install Intel's WiFi drivers, probably because the Sway edition is on 5.10 kernel. I've upped to 5.14 without any noticeable issues.

About a month back I decided it's long past due for me to try a tiling window manager. I've been rocking a DIY edition running Manjaro Sway community edition. There's been a learning curve coming from ChromeOS but I'm ecstatic. It feels like the first time I've had hardware and software tailored towards the priorities I have for a computer.

The only thing I haven't gotten sorted is Bluetooth. I got it working once but it didn't survive a reboot. Others have figured it out, so I'm hopeful that I will too.

Love seeing a reasonably priced replacement battery here in the marketplace. I may buy one now just to throw in the backpack. Swapping it out looks like it'd be a ~3 minute job.

Oh, and it gets especially sillytown when you hear an American say 'this place is turning into a third world country'

My hunch is that the minds behind Windows 10 being the last Windows have moved on. New blood needs a reason for a promotion.

I've recently embraced my petty little self dinking around with Manjaro Sway.

Changing a line in a config file to put the waybar anywhere I please, and storing that config file in a dotfiles repo so that the next time I need to set up a machine. Bliss.

Unfortunately modern Windows is a goodbad pile of everything that came before. You still have to hack the registry for certain problems.

My pet peeve is 'third world' (in lower case), originally intended as Third World (in upper case). An alternative presented by certain countries as the Cold War heated up. Binding together to resist ceding functional sovereignty to either the First World (US and its allies) or Second World (the USSR and its allies).

It is today usually employed neutered of its casing and tossed around by First World citizens as a general unfalsifiable pejorative towards places that are less politically or economically stable. In many cases because of First World decisions such as Bretton Woods 1973.

Yes words can change meaning, but this is a particularly devious evolution.