Yes. Each team gets exactly three bananas to drop in "banana mode" for each race. However, banana mode can only be activated if the car is at least 2.17 seconds ahead of the nearest trailing car, unless that trailing car is outside an 18 degree cone whose vertex is at the nose of the lead car. Banana mode cannot be used if a driver has more than 16.5 MJ of energy in the liquid fuel tank, or less than 3.27 MJ of energy in the hybrid battery, nor can it be used if there are less than 37.3km of travel on the current set of tires. Both the lead and trailing car must have a velocity of at least 82.3m/s for banana mode to be active. At most one banana can be dropped between any two pit stops.

I rarely use semicolons; decades ago my teachers always used a red pen to replace them with a period and capitalize the next word. I eventually just gave up and complied with their grammar regime.

I purchased it used, your honor, never got presented with an EULA.

I don't have anything against JS, it's fine for manipulating webpages client side because it's the only standard option (fine, WASM, but realistically). Where I draw (drew?) the line is "let's run it on the server too!". That was a terrible idea. Then someone decided, hey, don't code that, use an npm that you have never read or validated. That was the terrible idea amongst terrible ideas. Now they've reached the apex of idea terribleness by letting LLMs write code that is never read, using npms that are never validated, on a server without a sandbox. I'm eagerly awaiting to see how they top this, might I suggest running the whole thing on Node using root?

> The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers and data scientists.

What is the implied definition of "early" in "early career" here? Limited experience with a specific technology? Limited experience with a specific software stack? Limited experience working for the government? Is the "early" in "early career" subjective or objective? I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's objective, since admitting it's subjective would have literally all the age discrimination lawyers ordering new Porsches. Given "late-career" is generally defined as "the final phase of a person's working life", I would be more measured with my choice of words rather than try to argue that "early career", the polar opposite of "late career", does not implicitly include any age component.

Maybe originally, but now the demand for gasoline far outstrips the amount naturally found in crude oil. That's why they invented cracking.

If one day there ever were an excess of light components in oil, they could simply transform it into higher-weight molecules. Along those lines, one of the biggest uses for natural gas is for building polymer chains.

Whatever, dude.

Efficiency is based on differences in energy that are economically accessible, not on some rambling theories in a newline-free paragraph.

You can access room temperature. You can' economically access the blackness of outer space from the earth's surface. Likewise, you can access the negative terminal on your battery, but not some static charge in the upper atmosphere.

You pump X amount of energy into a heat engine, it expels that energy to an accessible exhaust, and typically 70 to 95 percent of that energy is *not* converted to work. You pump X amount of energy into a battery, it dumps that energy through a motor to its negative terminal, and only 5 to 10 percent of that energy is not converted to work. That's the only way to practically analyze the situation.

We could also all have infinite free energy if we could access the levels below the zero point energy in the quantum fields. One little problem: that's not accessible either.

For the example in TFS of 200F water and assuming room temperature exhaust, Mr. Carnot says that the max possible efficiency is less than 20%. Any real world engine, including this one, probably ends up at a low-to-mid single digit percent efficiency. IOW, the vast majority of the heat would still be wasted.

The operator of the facility generating the waste heat might get more energy savings at lower cost by tweaking their processes to be a few percent more efficient in the first place, instead of trying to recover this low-grade energy source with an elaborate engine and plumbing.

Once you import numpy, Python has arrays.

That would never fly. You just know that some dufus at the gym would bring a 10kg steel dumbbell into the MRI room and ruin things for everyone.

They tried, but quarreling parent groups couldn't agree on whether to teach the kids that they were coding with 3 registers or 259 registers.

I think that many of those people were also recent DOS users. Given that DOS systems would often simply freeze up several times per day and require a reboot (easy to do since any bug in the user's application could do this), once they added a protected mode pseudo-kernel to Windows (maybe starting with Windows/386 2.1), it was actually a slight improvement over what they were used to since DOS crashes could sometimes be isolated to one virtual terminal.

But I was told that the sole reason insurance rates are high is because of BIDEN!!!!1!

I bought a nice pair of gloves this year with ChatGPT, but when they arrived I found that they each had six fingers.