Second this, even though I expect its for developing anti-venoms.

Yeah, but I grew up in a part of the world too hot year round to wear them, so as an adult, most jackets are just really uncomfortable for me. Doubly so for water proof materials that don’t breathe.

The high temperature efficiency drop off of solar panels is something I’ve only recently become aware of, but am glad this helps with that.

Even in hotter areas, I’ll bet a vertical / near vertical orientation would help them vent heat (if placed on dams there).

Does anyone have any specific experience with this kind of engineering to confirm/deny that would actually help?

Yeah, I’m sure for my interests, I could strap a lock box to the bike with all weather gear (so that I don’t have to think about bringing it with me all the time).

Still, a neat idea. I’d love the vibes of being a biking Fred Flintstone.

So it sounds like its an exchange of size for customizability.

If you had a different installer for each language and/or video quality, then each installation could be much smaller. But since we (gamers) want to be able to change texture quality “on the fly” via the settings menu, we have to deal with all the possible textures coming in the game files.

Does that sound like I have it right?

These are great points and suddenly I feel like the all weather point is showing a nonexistant / totally under served market.

A quick google search shows even quadricycles tend to be un covered. Man, this feels like a real business opportunity.

Ofc, cause #Murica, I’ll bet I’m the one in a million people who’d want a covered bicycle / quadicycle (vs trying to get a golf cart) for local mobility.

Wait, didn’t they JUST start rolling these stupid things out? And theyre already to “its a subscription now” levels of enshitification?

Boy, I guess we’re just speed running everything these days.

In a draft notice of intent in the Federal Register, scheduled to be published Monday, the federal agency says it will temporarily make 7-OH a Schedule I drug.

Link to Wikipedia list of Schedule I drugs, for reference

Yeah, doubt most here would appreciate the Southern Victory series by Harry Turtledove, but in the series, Confederates win American Civil War; Lincoln doesn’t get assassinated, and so proceeds to spin off a far more left wing Socialist party from the Republicans towards the end of the 1800’s.

This leads to interesting dynamics through a modified WWI + WWII.

If we’re already in a world war, it should really be called world war 4 or 5. This has the global reach comparable to Vietnam or the Russia/Afghanistan conflict.

It’d really be cool to see Venus colonized following some greenhouse gas cleanup like that.

I know someone in Florida who pays about 40% more than me in home owners insurance, despite my mid-Atlantic house being worth ~2.5x as much.

More likely the way one politician limply holds their wrist while pouring water for another politician; or some equally arcane “power move”.

We will see WWIII in my life time (next 50 years, if I’m lucky).

It will be started over something that will seem incredibly silly, in hindsight.

Yeah, I’m in the market for a truck for trailering and having a bed as we get into some home improvement projects.

I feel the need to only look for older trucks (1990-2000 model years) most for reasons listed here. That plus so many trucks today are short bed with HUGE cabs. I will never understand why people want basically an SUV with a truck bed.

Being a technical expert != being a good leader

There are a set of skills and attributes that enable one to leader well. An ideal leader will have both technical skills and leadership capability, but it is possible for each to exist independently in a person.

A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work.

This part is definitely true but I think it misses the point. A single expert can be a force multiplier, or they can be overbearing dead weight. There is the possibility a technical expert wants to micromanage and see every step as it is done (thus holding up work that can be done while the expert is elsewhere).

I conjecture that those skills and attributes that separate the two experts we’ve described is what “good leadership” consists of.

I would never trust a leader who has no technical skills, but neither would I trust a leader who has only technical skills.

Legal != Moral

Fake Money for Criminals.

Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.

Another reason I commonly see: to change the structure / “main pointer” to a data structure (esp during freeing and cleanup).