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New York bridge gets stuck open after getting too hot
  • Water also needs a substantial amount of energy to evaporate, hence it will sip some heat from the environment around it when it evaporates. Combined with the good thermal conductivity of steel, the bridge cools off.

    You get a similar effect when walking out of a hot shower. The hot water evaporates and cools you down.

  • Belgium shifts right — but not far right
  • Belgian here. It's about money and racism. Flanders (north) makes more money and has a higher employment rate. The separatist movement aims to put Flanders' wealth first.

    Foreigners are perceived to threaten our way of life and are perceived to cost money too. Vlaams Belang has been rather controversial in their statements earlier with a new young team creating some uproar. Both claim to benefit the Flemish citizen and will create better jobs with higher incomes.

    Far left also gained ground so we are becoming more polarised.

  • Ioniq 5 N v Urus Performante v Macan GTS v F-Pace SVR v Grecale Trofeo — Cammisa Ultimate Drag Race - YouTube
  • I'm not sure either, but I'm happy it exists!

    I own a 1973 Citroen DS Pallas 23ie with semi automatic gearbox. Few of these survived so it should be on the road. Yet "burning dinosaurs" doesn't sit right with me. Who do you preserve a car experience for if it will ruin them anyhow. The engine was never the DS's forté so an electric engine couod make a lot of sense, especially if you can simulate the feel.

    As for hooning around, I guess it could be fun. It's been pointless fun on a track before. It would still be pointless fun. Perhaps it will feel a bit more empty.

  • Is there a "markup language" to describe a debugging session?
  • I write my notes in org-mode. It's supported in many editors in a basic form, letting you add code snippets etc in an unobtrusive way. Using a well thought out format helps you in the long run.

    I use this in Emacs, through which it lets me refer to emails, execute code snippets, attach related files, fetch content on/from remote servers, send off the debug session as an html email, ... Support will depend on your editor but even as raw text it works.

    I don't use something specific to make non-code repeatable as you suggest here, but you could embed a test language in an org code block.

    The syntax is straight-forward and exports to multiple external formats exist (eg: html).

  • Hand-rolling a parser in Scheme for EBNF (already made the tokenizer!)
  • https://github.com/mu-semtech/sparql-parser contains an EBNF parser for SPARQL, an LL(1) language. You might be able to borrow code, not sure how well it translates to scheme. GitHub asked me to log in to see the gist so I'd have to have a peek later.

    sparql-ast folder contains the relevant bits regarding the parsing.

  • More EVs lose US tax credits including Tesla, Nissan, GM vehicles
  • Depends on how much the old banger is driven. The tipping point is much earlier than I expected.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RhtiPefVzM

    I'd love to drive the old bangers more though. The rumbling sounds and the hope it'll keep up as the engine gets pushed beyond reasonable limits before the inevitable gear change. The whistling turbo as you reach its zone and the gently ticking valves of a cold engine. But turns out gas guzzling fun was never going to be a lasting treat in our habitat. As I write this, our neighbourhood has a reasonable chance of getting flooded because of the strange weather lately, and I am glad I've grown to appreciate the lovely hum of our electric minibus.

    We need to travel less and enjoy it longer. Much much less. Every region is different. Our region has good public transport if you accept cycling for 30 minutes. Traveling 100km for work daily is bad for the environment. So we mostly need a culture change here. And people who lack the funds seem to care even more for cars here so we need cheap electric cool econoboxes with too, I guess.

  • Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times
  • Kubernetetes is crazy complex when comparing to docker-compose. It is built to solve scaling problems us self-hosters don't have.

    First learn a few docker commands, set some environment variables, mount some volumes, publish a port. Then learn docker-compose.

    Tutorials are plenty, if those from docker.com still exist they're likely still sufficient.

  • Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • Agree.

    I found it more tempting to accept the initial answers I got from GPT4 (and derivatives) because they are so well written. I know there are more like me.

    With the advent of working LLMs, reference manuals should gain importance too. I check them more often than before because LLMs have forced me to. Could be very positive.

  • Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • Agree.

    I found it more tempting to accept the initial answers I got from GPT4 (and derivatives) because they are so well written. I know there are more like me.

    With the advent of working LLMs, reference manuals should gain importance too. I check them more often than before because LLMs have forced me to. Could be very positive.

  • Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder
  • Perplexity.ai has been my go to for this reason.

    It often brings up bad solutions to a problem and checking the sources it references shows it regulary misses the gist of these sources.

    There sources it selects are often not the ones I end up using. They are starting point, but not the best starting point.

    What it is good for is for finding content when I don't know the terminology of the domain. It is a starting point ready to lead me astray with exquisitely written content.

    Find trustworthy sources and use them.

  • 'Scandalous': Anger as BBC 'refuse to cover' anti-Brexit rally in London
  • The sentiment I hear around me is that you have been lied to.

    We have kept the lights on, like many of you asked, and we are looking forward to welcoming a new humorous generation.

    Sure, it is not going to be under the same conditions. Things have moved around when you left. Empty voids have been filled. Regardless, I'd love for us to see the propaganda of the time for what it was, propaganda and lies, and to bring the actors and platforms responsible for willingly spreading lies to their knees.

    Together we stand stronger in a strong Europe, and reuniting is a sign of Europe's resilience to external influences.

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