All of this is solved by keeping sufficient distance between you and the car in front.

If you are 3 seconds behind the car in front, that 0.7 second reaction time still allows you enough room for your vehicle to stop, even if the car in front slams on the brakes to full lock.

At 100 kmh (60 mph) 3 seconds stopping distance is about 100 meters.
These are typical reaction distances, stopping distances and total distance required to come to a full stop for various speeds of a family vehicle. on a dry road.

speed react stop total
40km/h 17m 9m 26m
50km/h 21m 14m 35m
60km/h 25m 20m 45m
70km/h 29m 27m 56m
80km/h 33m 36m 69m
90km/h 38m 45m 83m
100km/h 42m 56m 98m
110km/h 46m 67m 113m

The best road safety rules that police could enforce is tailgating and making sure drivers left sufficient space, regardless of speed. Unfortunately there's an obsession in my country by road safety authorities about "every k over is a killer", with steep speeding fines being issued for even 2 or 3 kmh over the limit. (yes, I have been fined for this for doing 85 kmh in an 80 zone, at the bottom of a hill)
As a result a lot of drivers are obsessively looking at their speedo to make sure they aren't doing a few k over the limit, rather than making sure they aren't too close to the guy in front.
Now I use cruise control even when driving round town in traffic, to make sure I don't accidentally exceed the limit.

I'll remember that the next time I'm tired and emotional.

Seat belt cams are not revenue raising. If drivers or their passengers are too dumb to wear a seatbelt they deserve a fine, because they are statistically going to suffer more injuries in a crash, and raise the cost of mandatory car insurance that we all have to pay.

Revenue raising is having a speed camera on the last 100m straight approach road to an onramp to a 100 km/h highway that has no intersections or turn offs, which is still only zoned 60 km/h then fining you for exceeding that limit, or having a speed camera at the bottom of a straight road that has a steep downhill then uphill again section, when there are no intersections driveways or turnoffs that could be a danger for you to be doing a few km over the limit at the bottommost part.

My dad did this at the guest house he ran the 70's - lots of coils of black poly pipe on the roof, connected to the inlet of the gas hot water system, so the water was at least partly pre-heated, reducing the amount of gas needed.

The advantage of the electric solar / heat pump hot water setup is that you can use the electricity for other stuff when your hot water is hot enough, and if you have to boost the temperature it's a lot cheaper than the resistive heaters that most thermal solar boosters use.

Thermal solar panels are ridiculously expensive here in Australia - I can buy 6kw of electrical solar panels and an inverter for the same price as a 300L close coupled thermal solar, which range from about $4000 - $8000.

I was all set ot load VMWare on my new laptop so I could more conveniently dual-boot Windows and Linux. Those plans have now changed. It's a good product but it's just not worth that much to me, especially with cheaper solutions available. I used Virtual PC back in the day and it worked well. My work laptop booted XP (company politics plus driver compatibility), but to do anything real I booted Slackware under Virtual PC.

At work we use VMWare extensively. I haven't discussed the licensing changes with my boss.

...laura

If you could lower the temperature of the planet by up to 1 degree by say, injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere, that would still be a short term solution unless carbon emissions are reduced, because eventually the ever increasing amount of carbon will result in even higher temperatures, despite the geoengineering efforts. Even worse, if the geoengineering efforts should stop, either due to lack of resources (ie. running low on sulphur) or because it turns out the geoengineering has worse side effects ( like say, acid rain) then the temperature would rise even more catastrophically quickly.

The current effort that is being used, creating clouds from brine has the obvious possible side effect of causing salty rain, which if the clouds happened to blow over farmland and would be obviously not a great thing for agriculture.

The only real solution is to reduce carbon and methane emissions so we don't keep increasing the temperature further. The longer that is put off, the worse it will be for everyone, but particularly for those who can not afford to adapt how or where they live. I personally will be fine - I can easily afford to move to a house on a hill somewhere if my current coastal location starts to flood. Most people living in say, Bangladesh, or a corn farm in Iowa who depends on current rainfall patterns probably will not.

Your neighbour, whos house is not yet on fire might think otherwise.

All the current shareholders will lose equity, and those shareholders who held shares for the specified period ( April 2018 - April 2019) will be paid some money.

There are currently about 13.5 billion google shares, so this $350 million payout will cost current shareholders about 2.7 cents per share.

There were about 15 billion google(ie. Alphabet) shares in 2018, so a $350 million settlement less $200 million for legal fees, should work out to something like $150 million divided amongst all those 15 billion shares, or about 1 cent per share.

Don't spend it all at once.

That's no excuse - everyone who finished high school should have learnt science basics like the difference between units for electrical power and electrical energy. Even a glance at your electrical bill would show you the correct units to use for energy. If you are a journalist reporting in that sector, it's your responsibility to at least refresh your knowledge of such basic concepts, or you are failing as a journalist to convey information accurately.

That disincentives investment into energy storage, which could otherwise be used to levelize power load.

If you are turning your knife and fork into a shove, you better start with a very big knife and fork, or you are going to end up with a pretty small shovel.
Don't know if I would want to drink from a cup made from that shovel either, if martian farming is anything like what was shown on The Martian, where human waste is used as fertilizer.

Having just suffered through 8 days of COVID with full body aches, fever, heavy phlegm that hardly moves, and puss and crap coming out my swollen blood red eyes, that's not the only proof he offers that he hates us. This is the first day in the last 8 it's eased up enough that I can actually make it to my computer instead of coughing my guts out in bed all day and night.

Python is a great language for knocking out code fast and flexibly, but if performance is a concern, it's the wrong tool for the job.
I worked on a large ROS project that used python, C and C++ for various nodes to control a multi robot fab line. All the heavy lifting such as trajectory planning, evaluating laser scan data and updating world state was done in C++, with real-time controllers written in C, and a lot of task pipelining and messaging between various bits and pieces using Python. Occasionally when some new piece of equipment was being added to the system it might be controlled using a python script, but if it got to the point where that looked like it would be a bottleneck, it made a lot more sense to just rewrite or move some slow critical part out of the python script into a C++ node.

Pilots used to navigate with ground-based beacons (VOR, NDB), inertial references, and, sometimes, by simply looking out the window. Everybody is so in love with GPS (it is handy) that they've de-emphasized backup technologies.

...laura, private pilot who flies mostly by looking out the window