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

I've never used Ogg much (if at all), though I'm certainly aware of it.

I'm currently doing some mobile application development. Android will have a go at playing just about anything as a ringtone or notification sound, but since the system sounds are all in Ogg (maybe this is a Samsung thing?), I've included our custom alert sounds as Ogg in the app.

...laura

In my 20's, working in a multinational bank in Japan, it was seen as a badge of honour to work those long hours. if someone walked out the door at 5:00pm after starting at 9:00 AM, we'd joke they were having a half day.
My typical day was 8:30AM to 7:00PM for most days, though if there was a code release might be until 8:00 PM if things went well, or several hours later if it went poorly. These were usually on a Thursday or Friday.
On top of that, we had a "hot phone" that we each had on rotation about once a week or so, where you could be phoned or messaged if there were any problems with any of the various batch processes during the night.
After work, we'd usually head down to the basement bar two or three days a week and often end up partying hard in Roppongi after that once or twice a week.

My employers closed a couple of offices for good in 2022 and 2023. Work from home or quit. Since I work very remotely (head office in Dallas, me in Canada) work from home is here to stay. We tried a shared packaged office space a few years ago but decided the costs didn't justify the benefits.

The Powers That Be decided this year that it would be a good idea for remote people to be seen in person every now and then, so I spent a few days in Dallas early in December. It was good to interact with the voices on the computer. And far less expensive than maintaining a remote office. Perfect weather and good food didn't hurt.

...laura

Communism, of course.

Battleship.
That movie was a complete troll of the US navy. The aliens were explicitly shown to not target civilians, tried to avoid non-military casualties and even minimised damage against military targets where possible, while the navy went in guns blazing before there was any provocation.
Even the final credits song was an anti-war song (Favorite Son
  by Creedence Clearwater) yet most people seem to think it's a homage to the US Navy.

Extreme left or extreme right suffer from the same thing - authoritarianism.
The main characteristics are use of state apparatus to enforce their political views, and intolerance of any opposing view, which typically involves describing opposing views as extremists that must be eliminated by any means possible.