Well. Assuming the cost of splitting water is lower than the energy produced from the same amount of hydrogen.

After using it, coming to python and not having a super easy way to work with dates is a pain.

But DateTime in dotNet have horrible timezone support. It’s essentially either local timezone, not timezone or utc. And the utc part is somewhat rough. There’s some datetimeoffset and the like, but they too just don’t let working with timezones be easy.

We avoid that, because just at a glance you might not see the function flow change when returns are at the end of lines. It’s a minor thing of course.

Been a while since I used the new thing, immediately hated it. All on mobile.

First of a, the bottom scroll thing on my phone to select a server or whatever it was just ain’t it. I didn’t use it much, but it seemed extremely annoying to move between dm and servers, especially if they weren’t the top ones. You can get lists and such by swiping.

Second was that server channels turned into a huge mess. Showing the last message makes absolutely no sense on any server I use. Especially on bigger game server like destiny group finding one’s already long lists turned into miles long lists. Absolutely unusable. I need things compact and clean personally, having the channels big and wide wastes so much space, and again long lists.

Being in a server hides any notifications and dms too.

Everything that was close at hand before is now far away. And that sucks for me.

It’s fairly common, you’ll see plenty of Tesla in Norway at least.

I could have ended up with Tesla if I could earn a car before Elon ruined his public persona. Now I’m definitely not getting one. But I do think anyone will get much negative feedback. I’d probably advice them to avoid one, but they are still better then it comes to software, most cars are shit at that.

I do hope a potential strike helps change their image more though.

I don’t have this issue, except once when I got my first desktop connected with wired internet. Turns out, yeah the wired internet (or the adapter/driver) can actually wake the computer… Turned it off and been mostly problem free from wakeups.

It gets less effective, down to running at 100% and not moving heat. Heat pumps work by expanding a gas, which cools it. Since it’s cold, the “heat” outside was the gas. Then the gas is taken inside and compressed, the gas heats up from the compression (since all the energy is squeezed into a smaller space, effectively speaking). Now that heat can be transferred to the colder air inside. So long as the expanded gas turns colder than the outside, it can absorb heat.

From a Google, common ones can go as low as - 25C, which means they are able to cool a gas to lower temps than that when expanded. There is still heat to get, even in -25C.

Except global warming, even if we went net zero today, is still gonna have temps rise for a long time. We’ll have to go net negative by a ton before we can reverse the effect.

Not to mention, cheap to make doesn’t imply full on adoption. Oil, gas and coal will still be in use around then. I’d love to be wrong here, but it costs more to change than to stick with what’s working.

Here’s a little article which highlights jxl well. https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/02/28/modern-data-compression-in-2021-part-2-the-battle-to-dethrone-jpeg-with-jpeg-xl-avif-and-webp/

I do not think it’s mentioned there, but I think webp and also it’s indirect successor avif afaik, both lack progressive loading which is not optimal for website loading. It’s has incremental loading which I think is akin the the old dial up time of loading top to bottom row for row. They proclaim progressive decoding is costly on memory and cpu, but progressive gives the best user experience imo.

Lastly a fringe issue, re-encooding multiple times. The good old reason why jpgs turn into trash over time because people encode instead of save images. Or because sites re-encode when uploading. Jxl wins here. It also is very easy to see why jpg turns into what it does rather quickly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/ju18pz/generation_loss_comparing_jpeg_webp_jxl_and_avif/

All of them are OK, except mkv is less a file type and more a container. What should be specified is the code for video, which for most things I’d say AV1, but high res movies might not be the most suitable. Throw in opus for the audio track, and you can use mkv, but might as well use webm anyways since it’s more clear what’s behind it. (though can still be other things)

I’d also add that jxl should be the standard for lossy images. Better than jpg. And you want something other than png for massive images because that quickly gets costly in terms of size due to png being lossless.

Probably not your problem, but my completely different phone (oneplus 7 pro)has been pretty solid. But, lint and dust gathered into the port, making some of the plugs extremely loose to the point it would fall out from the weight of the cable… I took a needle and scraped out the compacted lint at the bottom. (avoiding touching the middle thing in the port. Good as new afterwards, even the one cable I’ve been using with the phone since 2019 which is pretty loose after use now, still sits without problems when moving the phone around.

But I’d definitely suggest cleaning it out if you haven’t. Even the small specs you get out makes a big difference. My powerbank came wouldn’t stay in, after cleaning it’s more well behaved. But there’s a clear difference in USB-c plugs and how they fit phones.

On the 7 Pro, stuck on the oneplus navigation gestures, pop up front facing cam. Fully working phone, still no other phone to replace it when it comes to having a screen without a bump. And I can get a free phone through work, but there isn’t one I want yet…

The carbon case is that light passes by, it’s beyond me but that comes down to molecular structure and not individual atoms.

Atoms actually have color, just not one. Atoms have these electron orbits, if an electron gets hit with the right energy (which is actual discreet energy levels) the electrons can jump to a higher orbit. It can then fall back, and emit light of a specific wavelength corresponding to that energy difference. It’s how spectroscopy works, by testing all visible colors of light (and probably outside visible spectrum too) you will get dark areas in the color band where said light/energy was absorbed.(because the emitted light of the same type that hit it goes off in random directions)

Each atom will therefore have a unique color strip for identification, so we can say atoms have colors!

Not sure if it was security, but one can of soda/alcohol went missing from each of our luggage traveling back from Hawaii. I assumed it was for drug tests, but we got our stuff back broken into with the zippers bent open to circumvent the locks, along with scratch marks on the locks. TSA should have had a key for the universal unlock. But they only took a single can, one out of 5 for me. Only happened traveling through the US with checked in baggage, that got lost on the way.

My point was just, just input and output often isn’t enough to tell you how to use something. Qt is an extreme example, but even the C++ docs leave how to use more complex objects out. Which makes em a pain to learn to use. I see some similar examples mentioned for the python docs here as well.

I’ve been generally happy with the documentation, but sometimes you need to see how something is supposed to be used.

It’s not the python documentation, but the Qt documentation (which is used to understand PyQt) where I wanted to play some video. Well, you need a QMediaPlayer to control the video. But the video apparently needs to be a QGraphicsVideoItem for the actual video, but wait that also has to be in something, Turns out you need to put it into a QGraphicsScene, which ALSO needs to be in a QGraphicsView. And it wasn’t easy to find out, because some of these needed to take another item as init argument, while others needed to call a method to add them. So you are left to figure out what all these things are and what purpose each of them do differently, which order all should be created in, and try too keep track without messing up all the similar type names. One place where loosely typed python gets real weak. It’s seemingly obvious from the way I wrote it though, but having just the video playback as my starting point, finding out what classes to use to begin with was hard.

Another case isn’t Python, but C#. Where some framework docs give class definitions but don’t tell you that those are used to be “subclassed” to override a specific method and then the class is set as a property on a object you want behavior to change for, using a class name that really wasn’t letting on what it was doing at all. This happened after ChatGPT came into existence, and it throw me a complete example. Other times tho, it makes up a similar thing… which sucks

It still makes sense, no?

Where does this even come from, passwords are increasingly insecure and adding another factor, especially authenticator codes, doesn’t even require you to give up a single new piece of personal information. The entire thing is just adding a local code that your program of choice remembers and uses to generate the one-time password. No data collection, no proprietary software. Other areas might be doing bad shit for all I know, but this change is entirely a forced security measure because people are too bad at passwords.

After seing the frequent attempted logins on my Microsoft account, I’m “just” a lucky guess away from losing it if I do not have another thing blocking access.

It’s fun with screenshots, you save it and realize, you didn’t check what path it saved to because you (read: me) always puts downloads in the Downloads folder by default. It’s the last place you saved an image, shouldn’t be too hard? Just gotta find an IMG_something either in user photos or documents usually. And then fail to do so, and do a walk of shame back and try save again just to see where it actually ended up…

I do love Everything though, it’s amazing and I constantly use it for looking for things. I know names at least partially, and that does it 99% of the time. Sorting by Path also makes it very easy to navigate when you get a lot of hits. Just a pro-tip to those yet to learn of that power.

How about clicking a document link, and they fucking put Word as a tab inside Teams, just so Teams can be even more bloated and make viewing documents a pain. Teams have come a long way from when I started my job, now it’s not a dysfunctional mess, but things like that still annoy me.