Polar circle?
Oh you mean the Arctic Circle.
Hardly
I live at latitude 43.44 N.
That is south of Florence Italy, and Nice and Cannes, France.
Also south of Madison, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis Minnesota.
And the most populous places in Canada are nearby.
But yeah, to Americans, we are "up north", so we have to be in the Arctic Circle.
Jesus, not this shit again. You know why colleges are 58-61% women? Because 55-60% of the application submitted are from women. Now, with us acknowledging that more women are in college (and graduating college) now look at something like amount of women CEOs. Or the general pay gap. Or even the pay gap in the same job (much smaller, but still exists). If women are getting more college degrees, shouldn't that mean they also earn more and get higher positions since people with college degrees earn more? So why isn't this happening? Care to explain how that with your anti-male bias BS?
Finally!
Someone who gets it
The editors massacred the submission, making the actual point obscure
The point they make is: "It is highly likely that the twice annual clock change will be abolished by legislators. When that happens we should go to standard time and NOT summer time".
But, if you read the vast majority of comments, they totally miss the points the researchers made. Some of them are highly upmodded even
The following was in my submission on the firehose, but the editors opted to remove it
Some of the key points, from the published article's summary:
Unfortunately, it seems that politicians and a good chunk of the public prefer Permanent DST.
- Permanent DST preserves later evening light that may facilitate commuting, recreation, social participation, and some economic activity, but it also prolongs darkness on winter mornings, with potential adverse effects on circadian alignment, sleep, mood, education, and productivity.
- Permanent ST is more closely aligned with circadian biology, although earlier dusk may limit some evening activities.
- Choosing pST is supported by accumulated evidence related to health and the recommendations of major sleep and chronobiology societies; if Canadian jurisdictions choose to adopt pDST, implementation should include anticipatory mitigation, protection for disproportionately affected groups, and transparent surveillance of population health impacts.
Sci.News also has a good overview.
I used various Raspberry Pi's over the past decade, starting with the Pi B+, then Pi 3 B , then Pi 4.
The Raspberry Pi's have support in mainline distros (e.g. Debian and Ubuntu), so that is why their support is good, compared to the more powerful SBC's that have 'one hit wonder' Linux releases (Odroid, Banana Pi, Orange Pi,
Although, something similar happened to me on the Pi 3 B: I am stuck with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and can't upgrade to 24.04 LTS or later, because they stopped support for 32bit ARM.
And the Pi suffer in other ways:
Power consumption used to be the Pi's forte, but now when you buy a mini PC, say with an Intel N100, you get low power consumption, and the difference between that and Pi's is negligible. For example, the N100 TDP is 6W, and the i5-1135G7 is 15W. Both are found in mini PCs these days, as well as other Intel and AMD CPUs.
6W means if you run it 24/7 at 25% utilization, and electricity cost is $0.25/kWh (Ontario's summer rate), your consumption is a whopping $3.28 PER YEAR.
Then there is hardware support. When you buy a mini PC, you get things included, such as a case, a fan (for some models that require it), upgradeable RAM, SATA connectors, an M.2 slot, and so on. Some of that is available on Raspberry Pis, but usually as a HAT or kit, for extra dollars
The experience with a mini PC is just as seemless as a laptop or a desktop: there is no difference at all in installation, upgrades,
I was on Kubuntu for many years as my sole desktop.
Then I ran into trouble upgrading (though I always stuck with LTS releases, never in between ones).
I switched to Xubuntu (XFCE), and never looked back.
There are sure some areas with more functionality in KDE, but I don't miss them at all.
XFCE stays out of the way, and allows you to focus on the applications.
Nowhere did I blame renewables. I was replying to someone talking about the huge price spikes pointing out that they applied to people lucky enough to have power.
We were out 5 and a half days for the derecho. We were in a hotel out in Sealey.
We had a generator for Beryl, but hadn't had it wired into the house yet. We had a lot of extension cords.
Later, I got the inlet and subpanel wired in. We ended up powering the house on gasoline pretty regularly without any named storms until we moved away from Houston.
*** for customers who can still receive power.
During the freeze in 2021 or so, we had rolling blackouts. Myhouse was without power for 26 hours, 14 hours, 11 hours, 5 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours, 3 hours, 1.5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 12 minutes or so that week.
Also, wind turbines kill approximately zero humans per gigawatt-hour. That cannot be said of coal or natural gas plants.
The corresponding author is Subir Sarkar.
He is a professor at Oxford who has done some interesting work about the expansion of the universe is NOT accelerating.
Instead, he is saying that there is a dipole effect because earth, and the galaxy cluster that we are in, are all moving in space, and that gives the effect of accelerating expansion!
He provides compelling evidence (for a non-specialist at least) for what he says and also casts doubts on the evidence for acceleration by analyzing their data (supernovae as standard candles, and their red shift), since a dipole effect is observed on that.
If his hypothesis is confirmed by other research and observations, then the 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter and Adam Reiss maybe for nothing
Watch his lecture on Beyond The Cosmological Standard Model.
This latest paper is yet another analysis towards that.
Let us see which hypothesis is supported by the evidence, current and future
I expect to see a bunch of foreign power companies staying at Trump properties, playing golf at Trump resorts, and buying a ton of Trump coin followed shortly by their equipment being said to be "safe" and allowed to be imported. We NEED this equipment because we don't make most of it here and definitely not enough of it, so it will have to be allowed in. This is just a way for Trump to get paid by them to be allowed in.
"could appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner."
What you are doing is exactly violating that. You set the goals based on where you want to be, not what you think the technology can do. That is what "technologically neutral" means. You are taking into account the technology when setting goals, which means you are not neutral at all. But what else would I expect from this band of asshats?
I'm not gambling, I am just trying to predict whether this slot machine will give me three cherries when I spin the wheel.
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
