The orchards will be hiring fruit pickers before Labor Day. Feel free to apply and displace an H2-A worker, or better yet an illegal immigrant.

3 PM Eastern Washington weather, 86 F, 12 mph wind, 19% relative humidity, No AC needed.

Don't worry, we'll get our roasting eventually. It is summer after all. Then I will set the heat pump to Cool. Last year I needed cooling mode 21 days. It's in heating mode from mid October to Mid April.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weat...

If you scroll down near the bottom of that article there is an interesting graphic, the 1930s really were hot.

Answer 1; Highmore South Dakota. Admire the pictures of the windfarm after the windstorm. So much for free power.

Answer 2, Night. So much for solar power, now you have to add batteries. Take a modest 50 MW data center and a 15 hour winter night and see how many Tesla Max power batteries (3.9 MWH each) it takes to get through the night, and then calculate their combined weight.

Now it's morning, the batteries are flat and you have 9 hours to recharge them and still keep the data center running.

Bonus problem, there is a heavy overcast today. The PV is at 8% of nameplate. (That's a real number by the way,) Now how many solar panels do you need to run the data center and recharge the batteries?

I have a ":w! saves" mug ;)

I have to ask: did you literally never use a computer lab at all in the DOS era?

Not "logging into DOS" - logging into your account. I literally said "mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands", e.g., you're at the DOS prompt. When you want to login, you ran LOGIN.EXE, which "mounted" your network account. I believe it was Novell NetWare-based.

Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss.

Same sort of technique I used back in secondary school, lol ;) We had a programming class (in Basic on DOS), and it was painfully trivial, so I'd always complete the assignments in like 5 minutes and then spend the rest of class messing around. So one thing I wrote was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands, and when someone ran the login command and typed in their username and password, it would say that the password was incorrect so they'd think they had typed it wrong (while it was actually saving their username and password, then logging out of my account), so that when they tried again, it worked. I would launch on a bunch of computers in the lab after class when I could get away with it..

Among the passwords collected were the teacher's administrator username and password. So when it came time to write my final project for the course, among the various demo-style scenes in it was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was her username and password. ;)

(Thankfully she had a good attitude about it... seemed like she wanted to get mad at me but also found it funny. In retrospect, that could have gone very badly had she gotten angry...)

But you still didn't answer the question, what are all these people missing from the workforce actually doing? I know two millennials who are literally living in their mother's basement playing video games on her dime, but is this normal? Is the drug trade taking that many people?

No one knows where the missing workers are, or what they are doing.

Yeah, this is what I always worry about when I see studies like this. I know they always try to control for confounders, but it's really hard to do right. If you mess up, you get another "Regular wine drinking improves your health!" craze (wine consumption is correlated with wealth and better access to healthcare, and also, people with serious health problems often have to give up drinking)

White folks used to pick the fruit in the orchards. I picked cucumbers as a teenager. Call the employment office and see how to get hired.

All true, and it also includes working under the table. They are getting lunch money somewhere, but where seems to be eluding the official statistics.

Just trying to keep people safe. Nothing to do with lock-in, rent seeking, control over everything you watch, or mass surveillance. Not about any of that AT ALL!

Hang on, let me Google it...

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Middle-range strike drones are much cheaper than JDAMs (smaller payload, but you don't care about that against trucks), longer range, and let you operate in fully contested airspace or even when the enemy has air superiority.

Aerial bombs are for entirely different purposes; they're for destroying fortified positions. Whether the aircraft should be manned or not is an entirely separate question, but one thing is unambiguous, it needs to be big enough to carry said bomb (aerial bombs are very heavy).

But again, complete overkill for a transport vehicle.

Re, the terrain of Donbas: compare, at the same zoom level:

Donbas

To a stereotypically flat place in the US, like, say:

Kansas

Unless you mean the "Smoky Hills" of Kansas:

Smoky Hills

Though their relief is only about 2/3rds that of that in Donbas. Donbas's relief is more like that of the Piedmont Province (the area west of the Appalachians), the dissected till-plains of southern Iowa / northern Missouri, the Tennessee / Kentucky western highland rim, or the low glaciated plateaus of the northeastern US (NE. Pennsylvania to southern NY).

It's not as forested as it used to be, but still has sizable patches left, such as along the Siversky Donetsk, mainly pine. Maybe the area east of the Appalachians would be a good reference for the mix of farmland with residual forest patches (well more than midwest states like e.g. Kansas). Defensive lines are commonly built in the forested areas, for greater cover.