The only other wrinkle that does need considering here is what happens when you have power outages. In a lot places those last 4-10 hours depending on what happened.

If you have have everyone using EVs and many/most living in older homes with 60/80/100/200a services using L2s dialed down to 30A and less it easy to imagine an entire community waking up in the morning after a thunderstorm to cars that did not get charged. It could be very disruptive. It is I think not hard to imagine this outcome in a lot places like Western-VA, WV, PA, KY, TN, NC, SC, Upstate-NY, RI, VT, ME etc. You have a lot of old housing stock with a lot of single feed electric substations.

Even with fast charge infrastructure fairly near by, get a 100 or so daily use vehicles in a depleted battery situation the line for the six L3 chargers at the local Walmart could get quite long.

I think EVs suck for a lot of reasons but the the at home charging thing isnt really the issue people make it out to be.

You really just need two phases, even on 30 amps circuit so ~23 can flow to car you can top an EV overnight. There are devices now that can disable the charger when other major electrical appliance likes dryers or ranges are running, so max load calculations are not a issue either.

The biggest problem is electrical codes in places need to catch up to allow some of this stuff, so home owners don't have to rip the stuff out before they sell and people running rentals can actually deploy it.

As long 8-10 hours for a charge is acceptable the idea people need to replace their entire electrical service to have an EV isn't really the case. Obviously this still falls down if you are trying to charge multiple EVs on very limited electrical service.

I am aware that has been done for stuff like 'neuclear batteries' and the like. I have my doubts that building a safety shell large enough to accommodate 50 tons of heavy metal contaminated soil for example that can survive a fall from 18 miles up; while not adding so much mass we can't get the thing off the ground isn't a hard problem.

I am not areospace engineer so I don't know, maybe there is an 'easy' button for that but if so I am wondering what it has taken more than decade and billions of dollars to get SLS off the ground.

I am not saying this can't work for launching a few spent fuel rods into space. That probably can work but when people talk about 'toxic wastes' the kind people bury in old mines its not usually a 50gal drum or two its often thousands tons of contaminated soil and volumes or water for which Olympic swimming pools might be a reasonable unit of measure.

If we were really going to separate the harmful material from this stuff, storage would not really be that much of a problem in the first place, we could probably create and run a facility to safely house the stuff every bit as easily as blasting it into space.

yeah because those things never fail....

It is not in anyway much more risky that something like a slat mine leaking, than a rocket failing and spraying toxic soup across hundreds of square miles.

Trying to launch large volumes of toxic waste into space is CRAZY.

STOP

yes this is crazy. There can be tremendous social pressures on someone to make them feel they are a 'burden' etc even if they really want to go on living. That is before you start to worry about really self serving actors applying coercive pressure.

Then there is the matter that pain often manifests, depressed people frequently experience chronic pain that really is all in their head and with the right treatment can go on to live happy lives. What do you think the medical industry is going to do though when 'getting the diagnosis wrong' means their (costly) problems vanish.

This is ***** sick, and will end up like Canada and Oregon where people are victimized and killed.

it is still just industrial lobby BS. You could just truck all the local slash from construction and development projects elsewhere and the yard waste otherwise landfill bound and dump in these places. In a few decades you'll have soil again and forestation would start.

Cheap, easy and would probably do more for global temperatures than solar farm not near where the power will be used requiring probably more deforestation to put in transfer lines.

Obvously still heavily contaminated with heavy metals and other issues, so nobody will want to be living there for quite some time, but just filling the places with organic waste and letting nature take its course is simple and effective.

LGBT people do not exist - they are not some different species or something. There is no gay gene after 30+ years of searching...

What exists are people who practice various forms of sodomy and experience varying degree of mental illness.

You don't say Baseball People exist because some people like playing baseball. We call them baseball players. What really needs defeating is this delusion that LGBTQwerty are some kind of legitimate class.

The community would face challenges. Like MacOS does not have touch controls etc. Might not be to hard of you can bring the code over from iOS components and do new builds; while being out of reach for "the community" which is more or less restricted to mixing binaries from different sources and applying the odd patch.

Apple's bigger problem would be getting any sort of cohesive environment for users that isn't a confusing mess. Do you have to swtich to iOS to run an 'app' or can you do in MacOS in a window? If you change iOS settings, grant permissions etc, does that impact MacOS for that app or not, what about the other way. If you really make it toggle switch where are my files/data? Can access the respective volumes from each platform or are they on the same volume. The iOS UI does have the files app but most apps don't have filesystem hierarchy concept for navigating. Am I expected to copy documents between them? If so how do I know which is the most recent version. What should MacOS do if I don't have an "application" associated but i do have an iOS app that has the right url handlers, suggest I visit the Mac App store, or launch the iOS app?

When WINE first appeared on the scene people wrote stuff like, just boot Windows if you want Windows. Wine took off because everyone who has ever done it knows multi-boot sucks! It can be alright for really dedicated tasks, like gaming "I don't want any interruptions no mail, no ims, I am killing zombies for the next two hours" but it absolutely blows if it means shutting down all my apps waiting for windows to start, using Quicken for 15min, than booting back to my linux desktop. Yeah a lot of us lived like that 25 years ago - never again.

Apple knows this is a terrible experience and they also know delivering it as a product would just leave a bad taste in the mouth of users and lead to a lot of bad reviews lying around for people to read and be turned off by. Asus and some others have tried this kind of thing with Android and Windows and there is a good reason you don't see those products now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

When your profiles are correlated in some way, and rest assured they will be eventually, you're going to be deported. Even if you do convince some wanna-king in black robe you are entitled to some process outside ICE, it will be slam dunk you lied on your app based on simple dates of the profiles.

I am sure your University won't refund the tuition.

Great strategy.

About the most fundamental statement in neuroscience is 'cells the fire together wire together'.

Of course the more time you spend thinking about and doing something the better you remember it and the more quickly you will be able recall the details.

I would think it would be obviously to anyone that using tools that allow you to skip over a lot of the composition effort, organizing facts you want to present into a narrative means you get less recall of those facts later.

Their reputation is only bad with a disaffected minority that like to fuss online. The vast majority of the people who work with, for, or in their industry admire them.

The absolutely will be either inspired to join or willing to do so thinking adding reservist to the CV might be a good career choice.

Second these companies and the governments ability to coordinate them in the event of a major conflict will be important. Having so familiarity with how the pentagon communicates, experience with the chain of command, and a feeling of personal inclusion will make things go more smoothly if suddenly the Defense Production Act or other war powers are being used to direct their activity.

But the Trump admin did it so naturally the Internet thinks it is dumb. Well it is not dumb, that is just your TDS showing. Now is it 'good' that is a different question...

Well Directx is a more complete package than vulkan, It might be nice if we could have an OSS solution like SDL or historically algegro etc be standard game engine API back-end but I am not so sure the current situation is bad.

Steam is a big enough market that it means developers even if they are not going to ship native binaries for anything not Windows they are probably going to at least test on Steam and Proton is open so stuff makes it way back into Wine and you can of course get proton on platforms other than steam. So really ultimately DirectX really isn't a target anymore, its the intersection of what works reasonably correctly on both Microsoft's and Wine/Proton implementations.

Iran in the 50s was violated the agreements they had made. The British and by extension a lot of American investors owned the stuff the prime minister was nationalizing. They were stealing! We did something about it. Simple as that.

What should other nation's do when another simply abandons its agreements? The options are
1) Shrug it off and move on
2) Go cry to some international body and hope you have influence to make a pariah out of them to the point they make good so they don't lose access to global trade.
3) War! / espionage.
 

That is find with Meta. They are not after building the best, they are after having the best offering. They already have the minimum saleable product. As far as Zuck is concerned staying a head of the competition is all the matters. That can be achieved by development in house, acquisition, or simply kneecapping the competitors; or any combination of the three. The precise mix is not important to him.

He is still butt hurt more people showed up for the "No Queens" event held back on 11/5/24 than this past weekends TDS support group gatherings, and can't admit that he really disappointed we have not experienced run away inflation due to the tariffs he promised we would.

Cut him slack though, it has to be hard being wrong about everything every time.