Only if it’s windy and cloudy. A calm sunny day at 21f is fine for walking around in shirtsleeves.

I recently switched to a self hosted FreshRSS. I used Feedly for probably a decade tho.

It makes more sense to have a server downloading and consolidating the data from the various sources, rather than syncing and downloading from dozens or hundreds of sources to build the feed in real time.

It’s technically possible to do it all client side, but it would put more load on the RSS sources, and be a much slower user experience.

Probably zero since this all happened decades ago at this point.

You are 100% correct, EXCEPT for the emergency cash flow thing is backwards.

Let’s say you have $20,000 for a car. If you put that whole $20,000 to buy a car, and an emergency comes up where you need $5,000, it will be much harder to get a loan to pay for that on the same terms as a car loan.

On the other hand, if you put $2,000 towards the car and borrow $18,000 at 3% for 5 years, that’s $325 a month, give or take depends on fees. Now you still have $18,000 free for emergencies, and you’re theoretically still making money at your job, so you can keep building that neat egg with interest. If that same $5,000 emergency comes up, you still have $13,000, which is more than 3 years of payments to cover the rest of that $5,000.

Obviously emotions come into it. Obviously some folks can’t just leave that $18,000 in the bank. But there are real tangible benefits to just taking out a loan.

That’s fine if that’s what you want to do, but when car loans are less than 2% and bank interest rates can be 3-4%, you can literally make money by taking out a loan.

On top of that, if you are in an industry that gives regular raises, having a 5 year loan means you’re paying less of your paycheck every year towards the car.

Obviously most people aren’t thinking this far ahead, but even if you have the cash, sometimes it actually makes sense to take out a loan.

At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.

Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.

4D batteries just doesn’t make sense in 2024. That was for incandescent lights, modern LEDs are brighter and use a small fraction of that power. You could still have the form factor if you really wanted a giant flashlight for self defense or something, but a pair of AA’s if you really don’t want rechargeables would be more than enough for a long life flashlight.

But any LiIon battery is going to far outperform alkaline batteries.

They’re assuming zero maintenance and all that’s needed is refueling. I think if they have any anomalies they’ll need to pull the booster to another location for inspection/repair.

Which is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.

Camping equipment.

Cleaning service.

NASA, nor anyone else, has done this before. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you say NASA did this already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year

And makes turnaround much faster since it’s already back on the launch pad.

Though it does make it so a damaged launch pad from either an abnormal launch or landing can stop all launch progress until things are rebuilt. We’ve seen the very reliable Falcon 9 damage the drone ships with a hard landing.

Would be interesting to see more than the two launch towers created to create more redundancy.

There was a lot of extra fire at the end, but it looked amazing.

It’s going both way slower than expected, but progress is also super rapid. This is exactly what they needed to get going with the Artemis moon landing. Without this catch they’d never be able to refuel cost effectively.

Wonder what international event 6ish years ago brought that image to the forefront…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

Cats Quest 2

Pretty cute game and if one person is significantly better at games, they can carry the team pretty well.

It takes less time to remove a valve stem then it does to sit there and let the air out.

Removing the valve stem is not permanent damage either as long as they don’t let the truck sit on a flat for a long time.

Doping is a common term in electronics, it’s just that the article is on Top Gear so they didn’t explain it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)

Any other election, I wait until closer to election day, just in case information comes out that might change my mind.

This one, I’m getting that ballot into a direct election drop box ASAP just in case something screwy happens.