There is already 2,270 MWh of battery storage at the Moss Landing Power Plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I own an empty residential lot in San Jose (south bay instead of east bay). The county of Santa Clara requires that all land always be mowed and never have grass taller than 6 inches. Their excuse is fire danger. Even if the grass is green. Even if it is the rainy season and the grass will grow back in a week. Even in a residential area.

I would like to use an electric string trimmer, but the city won't let me get electricity service without a building permit. Building permits cost 10% of construction costs, so realistically $100k. I hear other local governments in the bay area are even worse.

The lot is big enough that it would cost me around $1000 for enough batteries to mow the entire lot. I can do it with less than $1 worth of gas with my $400 4-stroke gas string trimmer. On top of that, lithium batteries only last a couple of years before they need to be replaced.

A policy like this would increase the cost of staying in compliance with the other rules by an order of magnitude.

That said, I hate gas law equipment as much as the next person. Ideally I would like to see all laws and codes requiring the use of lawn equipment dropped along with a ban as implemented in Oakland. I just know from experience that local governments aren't capable of considering the interactions between their various laws and codes.

There is an option in the BIOS on my Thinkpad to disable the trackpad. Some laptops have a dedicated button to disable the trackpad.

You might like Go. It has most of that line-count saving stuff removed. It is really quite polarizing.

Many editors, such as Sublime Text, have an option to display tabs and spaces differently.

Example

From TFA:

It is just Alphabet that is dropping it.

A Russian reconnaissance satellite failed to make it to nuclear safe orbit and reentered, scattering radioactive debris over northern Canada:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That isn't exactly what I would call a perfect safety record.

I found the original source for the map with a key:
http://imgur.com/rn7h1xP

Maybe the same company that made a business workstation without a Trackpoint?

They are not using the entire linux kernel. At this point most of vmkernel is their own code and they are (for the most part) only linking in the parts of the linux kernel that deal with hardware. Linux has way better hardware support than BSD.

I am running it now. It is still on Xfce 4.10. Not saying that it isn't possible to install though.

I downloaded the actual paper and discovered that the gerbil in question is Rhombomys opimus, more commonly known as the great gerbil.

Here is the Wikipedia page in case you want to learn more or see some pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Have you tried tasksel in Ubuntu? It won't setup your vituralhosts or Emacs CLI, but it does nearly everything else you mentioned.

It doesn't look like it. The article's source is a blog written in the first person. The blog is hosted on edsjunk.net which is registered to one Eddie Zarick.