This is the way. Time yourself by hand. Automate. Use the saved time to automate further. Meet deadlines as if you were doing it by hand. Then during the inevitable crunch time you can miraculously come through. Each quarter, cut about 10% off the time you “need” to do automated tasks, showing constant improvement.

Lastly, always guard source code closely and be aware if coding on company time means they own that code. You can bring up that you think something can be automated, but this is a job they’re gonna have to pay you extra for. Show a demo if you need to, but remember that coding automations isn’t your job, so don’t hand that over for free (payment in social capital depends on your job).

The key is that you’re usually not following the recipe as accurately as you think.

Also, burnt out & liquid in means too hot. Calibrate your oven so you’re actually baking at the temps the recipe calls for!

The “make it twice as long” is genius.

Magnetic bag clips. Boom. Done

I have a prius prime! Works perfect for my use case. Everyday driving is full battery with maybe a bit of gas. Big long trips require no extra planning or stops.

Not for everyone, and i figure will last until EVs are nice and developed with better infrastructure up where i live.

Honestly i e yet to hear someone who owns an ioniq5 not love it.

I couldn’t pull the trigger on a trade. Not enough range and infrastructure, plus the rate of tech improvement is still pretty quick. I went with a plugin hybrid with the hopes that i can trade it in once evs get a bit more settled.

I thought they defined persistence as literally the length of time an entity exists. There are many ways to persis under their model.

For non biological systems, it’s about being in a energetically favorable state for the environment. For example, while many chemicals will form and break down quickly as their environment changes, with form more stable structures that persist through the shifting environments. These structures are selected for as the basis of potentially new reactions and chemicals.

I haven’t given chemistry much thought, but the idea holds pretty well for biological systems.

Ultimately, you’re right this is totally a thought piece. However, it’s great discussion material.

Evo biologist here. These ideas are not really new to the field of evolution, but they are well laid out (if a little dense) & somewhat codified here.

The paper is an interesting read. Dunno if i agree with all of it yet, but it’s good to see the case made for thinking about evolution as a process that spans systems come up again.

Fair point. There are bigger fish to fry but this is a change people can easily make 👍

They will. Mass extinctions worse than what we would cause have happened in the past.

“Life, uh, finds a way”

We’re just not part of it

Guerilla solar will not & cannot take off. Community solar, however, yes. A “power co-op” where communities / towns / neighborhoods can pool power gen, storage, and use. Forming a small grid of their own that sips from the larger grid if needed.

Vampire devices are largely irrelevant, but always worth knowing which of your devices draws power. My 3d printer just sitting, but on, draws 10w. Off, it draws <1w or lower. My unplugged phone charger? Less than 0.1w. Is this larger than 0? Yep, is it enough to matter, no, not really. Being extremely pessimistic, we can say that all powered off devices plugged in vamp about 1w of power. At worst, my whole house would waste about 30wH. Over a day, that’s 720wH. A week is 5kwH, 20kwH/month, 241kwH a year. An average home for my homes size & area uses 12,632 kwh/year.

Now, we put this a slightly more realistic scenario where most unused devices vamp between 0.4-0.1 (avg 0.2w), and 241kwH/yr -> 48kwH/year, or about 0.3% of my average household consumption.

All that said, know what your devices pull. unplug or turn off the that are “big spenders” when idle. I turn off my printer and unplug TVs that rarely get used. Power strips help for things like stereo or home theater systems.

Thing is, if you need a car you cant afford to not have one. My options are buy a used car or a new car. Used cars are difficult to gauge reliability. And anything less than 5 years old is only ~5k under the price of a new car.

Mf subaru people had the gall to show me 2018 forester with 20k miles on it and be like “$29,000”. For reference, a new, 2023 forester with no miles costs $31,000. Insane.

Your choices are currently: buy a reliable used car for the MSRP of a new car and less warranty, buy a very old, unreliable used car for 2x-6x what it was worth 3 years ago, or buy a new car at or above MSRP.

Shits fucked yo.

I wish i could trust AI to do data entry.

Get all vaccines and boosters. Literally no reason not to unless you already have complex health issues.

I’ve done sequencing and the unidentifiable dna is just stuff that didn’t map back to the human genome. For old samples, this is because dna doesn’t preserve too well and you end up with super short reads that are too small to map. The computer kicks those out as “unidentifiable”. So not “new genes” just chaff from poorly preserved material.

Possibly honey mushrooms. They tend to grow like that on dead or dying wood. They’re a parasitic species so will likely keep popping up in the same place and nearby.

There’s also a handful of other species that look similar.

Yea but i don’t like sync for privacy, ad, and pricing reasons right now.

All i want is a client that has posts as list mode and the ability to have different accounts with different settings and blocklists.

Connect is not the business for this, blocking one instance blocked it across all my accounts.

Post exposure shots should be covered by nearly every insurance. The preexposure ones are not.

This is so true. But also range is a big issue. Charging takes 6-8 hours at home and on most chargers available. Charging faster is bad for the battery. Topping up is bad for the battery.

So I’ve got to make SURE i know how far im traveling today and tomorrow so i can keep charged. I need to make sure i can spend enough time at a charging site.

EVs are still limited by thier range, though it is improving. Once they hit about 400 REAL LIFE mi for a 30k car, it’ll be much better. EVs say 300 mi range.
But you shouldnt take it below 10%, shouldnt charge above 85%. So that’s 25% gone.
Now 225 mi range. We’re gonna be running that air conditioning, that’ll knock efficiently by, conservatively, 5%.
Now 215 mi. The weather is often cold in the upper 50% of the US. This drops battery by another 15% in my experience.
Now 183mi. We’re not driving on flat land, nor are we driving perfectly efficiently. Lets be generous and say that probably knocks off 5% from the total possible range determined by driving on a track.
Now 168 miles. Lastly, we have degradation. Usually 2-5% per year, at best, then slowing. So after 2 years we’ll say we lose 7% of the total capacity (assuming we’re practicing BEST battery charging practices).
148 mi.

So a “300 mile” car can, under real world conditions and assuming you keep your car for kore than 2 years, healthily get about 150 miles before you should recharge it (but not right away and not drive right after because that’s bad for battery health).

We’re getting there, but there’s a ways to go.

It’s gonna take some improvement, bit we’re on the right track.