It depends on where you live. I had solar heat as a kid, and I lived in far north America (St Paul area, Minnesota). Solar heat was on 2 hours a day and had to be shoveled off continuously, including roof panels. I would rate it a 1/10 for convenience and due to the short days, 1/10 for heat. Probably cost my parents 5000x what it benefited them and that was because 2 kids constantly shoveled off the panels on the roof, then dived into a snow pile from clearing the driveway (ok, that was fun). So yeah, I'm saying despite improvements, it still has serious problems in some areas. The other major issue is China requires manufacturing in China if you use their rare earth elements. When I worked on wind turbines, 90% of manufacturing was done and required to be done in China. The US still has the largest REE mine in the world, subsidized by the US military.

So heâ(TM)s going to sue because he doesnâ(TM)t like the *editorial* recommendations?

Iâ(TM)m glad the self proclaimed defender of free speech is defending free speech.

Well, yeah - I've seen AI actually write decent code... without error conditions, or bounds checking, but following the happy path, it really does work. Still needs to learn how people with bad intentions get in, but, you know, the happy path code is serviceable. Can save me a few hours, but I still need to program in sad paths. Don't know if that is more time or less time, really, but it kind of negates itself, I still need to code review and fix shit.

I think Clementine was my favorite, for it showed not just his imagination and humor, but his skill.

I haven't been to a Chuck-E-Cheese since the 1980s, I'm joking with my subject. I've seen them, but terrible pizza, old video games, no reason to go in.

Well, Siemens shutting down their nuclear division (probably with Merkel at the whip) didn't help. And yeah, they restarted multiple coal plants to replace that power. Good choice, Germany! (BAD, BAD, BAD CHOICE YOU IGNORANT FUCKS). OK, as someone with German and Austrian ancestry, I 100% think I should voice my opinion here. Fast fission is a great solution, fusion isn't bad either, both have ~100 year waste issues if done right.

It took the life of Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, now the computer gaming world :(

Communism? It sounds like it lines the wannabe dictator's pockets. Remember, communism is supposed to redistribute the wealth to the people (and yeah, most don't). The Amish and Mennonites do it right, albeit with some crazy shit attached.

That may very well be the point, they can get you for anything now.

Search: Mommy says Daddy was killed by Al-Qaeda, what's that?
Result: Child S-214, you have searched for a forbidden word. Please report to reprogramming center 201592 for reprogramming or termination. The Benefactor thanks you for your service!

Since I'm sure most people haven't read it, that is a direct reference to the Yevgeny Zamyatin dystopian novel We, which Orwell and possibly Huxley borrowed from to write 1984 and Brave New World, respectively. If you think Putin is bad now, wait until he starts putting people in glass buildings for surveillance with a number for a name and making them apply for impersonal sex visits...

Yeah, well Linux was even worse, lol. It did take a huge chunk of the *nix market at one point, though. I'm actually doing work on Linux servers and did support on mac OS X servers, no bias, I'd prefer *nix/Linux for servers.

There is something seriously wrong with this crash, the pilot didn't pull in the landing gears and seems to have intentionally crashed it by descending intentionally into a housing area. Sorry, but blaming Boeing, I really want to see the evidence. No Dreamliner has ever crashed until this, and everything is suspect. Having door bolts blow out on a different plane is a totally different issue. Sorry, but I've worked with Boeing for years and while they have fucked up, they've tried to put safety first IMO. I know of entire planes that got reworked due to safety issues, costing them billions, and you probably never heard of them. I worked for Lockheed Martin, which Boeing bought and never actually worked for either until recently, but have always had ties.

Yeah, I can get 3/3Gbit now, or 10Gbit with Comqworst, which is more like 1.5kbs/2kbps on peak hours. Not great choices, T-Mobile has a horrible rate of like 1..5Gbs max but it is half the cost and beats both on throughput. Qworst, I mean US Worst, bought by ComQworst, I mean Q actually gets the best pings right now, 50-60ms, not 2-3s on peak hours for ComQworst. My experience is probably outdated, but god were they bad when I had them. Then again, the godawful almost outage with AWS was all on the Qworst side (sorry, Q is still Qworst to me).

This cannot be emphasized enough: Boeing lied.

I do not remember all the details right now. But in order to fit a larger engine with enough ground clearance, they had to change its thrust angle slightly. They told the FAA there were no changes that pilots needed to know about or retrain for. They lied, to airlines, to the FAA and to the public. The two crashes were due to pilots not knowing about the changes.

        Because I am drunk, this Independence Night,
        I watch the fireworks from far away,
        from a high hill, across the moony green
        Of lakes and other hills to the town harbor,
        Where stately illuminations are flung aloft,
        One light shattering in a hundred lights
        Minute by minute. The reason I am crying,
        Aside from only being country drunk,
        That is, may be that I have just remembered
        The sparklers, rockets, roman candles and
        so on, we used to be allowed to buy
        When I was a boy, and set off by ourselves
        At some peril to life and property.
        Our freedom to abuse our freedom thus
        Has since, I understand, been remedied
        By legislation. Now the authorities
        Arrange a perfectly safe public display
        To be watched at a distance; and now also
        The contribution of all the taxpayers
        Together makes a more spectacular
        Result than any could achieve alone
        (A few pale pinwheels, or a firecracker
        Fused at the dog's tail). It is, indeed, splendid:
        Showers of roses in the sky, fountains
        Of emeralds, and those profusely scattered zircons
        Falling and falling, flowering as they fall
        And followed distantly by a noise of thunder.
        My eyes are half-afloat in happy tears.
        God bless our Nation on a night like this,
        And bless the careful and secure officials
        Who celebrate our independence now.

Rollover protection is part of why A pillars are so much thicker now. The first time I drove one of them, it amazed me how much I had to keep moving my head just to keep track of what was across the intersection.