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…this kind of short-sighted innovation, just the kind Silicon Valley adores, is untested and untrustworthy and will cause a societal meltdown that will make the results of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans look like Sunday school, possibly ending in a near-famine if adopted.
… it looks really cool and fun. It’s the same with Andor… when it creates something unashamedly adult, it’s really engaging. When Star Wars falls into the gap in between adult and kids – it flounders. Maybe they should produce stuff that sits at either end of the age spectrum and not muddy the creative…
The complex crises we face demand that we move beyond totalising attitudes to optimism and realism. We must embrace a more nuanced understanding that incorporates a range of adaptive strategies and actions. This model is intended not as a new, fixed framework for the way things are, but a device with which to loosen up…
The Pico 2 board retails for $5 and, according to the Pi team, retains backwards hardware and software compatibility with previous versions. While the on-chip memory has been upped to 520KB – there is also 4 MB of on-board QSPI flash – the two RISC-V Hazard3 CPU cores included in the microcontroller may well interest…
I totally love this! A joule thief is a sort of minimum-component voltage booster that can suck nearly every last drop of energy from even seemingly-drained batteries, and is probably most famously used to light LEDs from cells that are considered “dead”.
… just maybe Hey there neo-liberalism. Careful the door doesn’t hit you on the ass on the way out.
While sales of petrol- and diesel-powered cars slumped in July, sales of fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were up 37% compared to a year before. As a result, new-energy vehicles comprised 51% of total sales, according to the CPCA. For context, the International Energy Agency projects that electric models will account for one in…
Permission structures and vibes… Some super insightful comments here.
Rails 7.2 introduced a new rate limit feature that uses the Rails cache for preventing abuse of routes in your applications. https://gorails.com/episodes/rate-limit-requests-rails-7-2
When I was young I said to my father that I didn’t see a lot of racism. He, a child of the Great Depression, replied, “wait till times are bad.” The “other”, the immigrant, is always an easy target. The actual villains are the UK’s ruling class and if violence is the method then the…
The Chinese have executed the low-end disruption playbook to perfection… cars is just *one* of the markets. This story is going to play out again and again. Driving China’s ascendancy is a massive and abrupt shift to electric vehicles. The EV share of total car sales will jump to almost 50% this year, up from…
In the short run, enforced dominance can offer rewards, both financial and related to ego, mostly to senior management. But the short run is fairly short, and the resilience, productivity and utility that come from agility and serving customers and employees more effectively is worth the transition. The very thing that enabled these companies to…
hurdy gurdys, lutes, gregorian chants, thundering drums and punishing percussive foley fx. the ep-1320 is the first of its kind:featuring a large library of phrases, play ready instruments and one-shot samples from an age where darkness reigned supreme,the instrumentalis electronicum is the ultimate,and only, medieval beat machine. https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320 Teenage Engineering is the most exciting tech…
Chile is phasing out coal faster than any other developing nation thanks in part to regulations that bolstered environmental standards and gave investors the right signals, says former environment minister Marcelo Mena-Carrasco. In the first half of 2024, coal accounted for just 17.5% of Chile’s electricity output, data collated by research group Ember shows. That’s…
Every time the rich are criticised they run to the usual defence of “it’s the politics of envy”… … there is no such thing. It’s the politics of power. The rich have taken too much power and the working and middle class want it back.
The addition to the hangar, which is situated near Bosten Lake in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, can be seen in new satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs. Construction of the original 1,150-foot-long and 450-foot-wide hangar, which is also extremely tall, started in 2013 and looks to have wrapped up in 2015. To give…
I have a pathological aversion to personal debt. It has meant that I have remained a free agent for my 30 year career. I haven’t had fancy things, but I’ve alway had the freedom to walk. Turns out that scales to a country level too.. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/06/debt-is-political-why-wealth-flows-from-poor-to-rich Debt and lack of taxes on the wealthy makes…
In a world of BS talking points… it’s heartening to see this one die. Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of Liebreich Associates and managing partner of EcoPragma Capital, is more blunt. “There are no longer any so-called hard-to-abate sectors,” he wrote for BloombergNEF earlier this year. “There are only some sectors in which clean solutions…
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