By consuming very large amounts of informative media
If you wash a car it uses less fuel. Dirt makes cars less aerodynamic.
The big problem crop for water in California is almonds.
The big problem crop for water in Australia is cotton.
The big problem crop for water anywhere is not beef
If you live in a low humidity area you can cool with an evaporative cooler cheaper than with air con. Evaporative coolers consume quite a bit of water
How much of a prude must you be to think you need to censor the word tits?
If you want to accelerate a person to "fly high into the air" speed over a distance of a see saw's arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot
My workplace which now uses scaled agile used to be waterfall. We have an enormous system to take care of and there's loads of specialised knowledge, so we were pretty well siloed
So obviously when the sales people sold agile to the organisation they also sold the idea that a programmer is a programmer, designer a designer, tester a tester; no need for specialists, so in 2015 they spun up 50-odd agile teams in about six trains, one for each major system (where the used to be seven silos in one of those systems) grabbed one senior designer and programmer from each major project to put in an "expert" team
And told the rest of us we were working on the whole of our giant system. Where we had trouble understanding how part of it worked, we could talk to one of the experts
Now nine years later those experts have mostly retired, we have lost so much institutional knowledge and if someone runs into a wall you need to hope that someone wrote a knowledge transfer document or a wiki for that bit of the system
30% of jobs are going if self driving is achieved. Low pay jobs are here to stay for a while as they're too expensive to automate. The current LLM stuff seems to obsolete low productivity people but still need the skilled writers or programmers to come up with new stuff or do the correct detail work the LLM sucks at.
Some management is going to royally screw up by firing junior programmers since the senior programmers can get all the work done with the help of copilot
But they'll forget that they will in future need new senior programmers to herd the LLMs
Perhaps it's that I am not an early adopter. I wait until I have good reason to update. It sucks that they make their customers unwitting beta testers, but they seem to have stuff sorted after the phone has been on the market for several months
My pixel 1 was and is fine. Pixel 3 was an excellent phone. The only bad phone I recall from Google was the Nexus 5x which was made by LG
I take it you missed the recent fourth integrated flight test, in which the ship soft landed on the ocean near Australia as planned and the booster soft landed on the ocean near the launch site as planned
Their failure in that flight was expected. They hoped thermal tiles sealing the hinge for the aerodynamic surfaces would seal those against plasma during reentry. They didn't. Had they, it would have been much cheaper than sealing those more thoroughly. The ship landed regardless of that failure
Disliking Musk is fair, but SpaceX is doing good stuff
Actual real world right now giant rockets include
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One that is being built under waterfall methodology. It has been being built for several years. That's the Blue Origin New Glen heavy lift reusable rocket
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One that is being developed under an agile methodology, it flew as a subscale lander to test their engine and flight control, it has flown four full test flights, improving on each. That's SpaceX's Starship
We are yet to see either launch a payload to orbit
The problem is if only 10% of the population is obsoleted, that ten percent needs to find new, different, jobs.
There are so many advances in game systems since the Palladium system I use, so I have stolen shamelessly to make combat last less than 1 game session rather than the two or three under standard rules
The universe is good, the rules are ancient
I do have a shelf of books though for Rifts, TMNT, after the bomb
I was fat, not anymore; hay fever, gone; gout, gone
I cut out all plant based food and substituted fatty meat and eggs
Beware though that reference ranges are averages of the population the testing lab sees and only sick people get their blood checked.
Yeah Baldur's gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly
Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)
I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical
Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished
I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don't play Minecraft like I play Minecraft
Meat eating extends human life expectancy
We all know this, but this might be a good article to share with friends and relatives, it's two years old, but I hadn't seen it before.
TLDR: University of Adelaide (in Australia) scientists examined meat eating in cultures world wide, and found that more meat correlates with longer life.
They point out that previous research efforts indicating meat causes bad health are badly designed and suspect on the face of them, but even more suspect with this study
[Bug/Feature request] Remember user hidden comments
When I refresh a post, all the comments I have hidden become unhidden
When I comment, all the comments I have hidden are unhidden
Please make remember hidden comments, ideally f forever, but at least for the session. The current state of hidden comments is frustrating
Reddit Enhancement Suite for example keeps hidden stuff hidden, and annotates the root hidden comments with a count of new unread comments above them