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I think the point is that we can't know what's going on deeper down, and changes happening there could be a reason to changes in the cycle. No idea if that's a reasonable suggestion, as I don't know about workings of sunspots and the cycle here.

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.

I'm not too much of a fan of the SQL equivalent of SELECT not being at the top. Granted I'm fairly sure there are some arguments for it. Since select is optional there's a higher mental load trying to figure out where and what is actually being returned imo. At least from looking at this for the first time.

On the other hand, i'd kill for f-strings, the top N in group (which is nigh unreadable in SQL), and null handling that doesn't require me to write either COALSECE or NVL too often. The joins were a little less pretty though, I'm quite fond of normal SQL joins since they are very reasonable unless chained beyond the line count your screen can show.

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/

Can't possibly be any of those reconnaissance tours held the days before. /s

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.

I guess it depends on country, but failure to pay is it something you can easily sue for or win in legal courts? I can only assume there exists a contract saying when payments are made, and you can easily prove how failure to pay is costing your company. They should be on the hook for more than just interest here, no?

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...

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.

This is also the reason I'm all open source. Not just games, but seeing someone abandon a program hurts. Or just wanting to make a change on your own to suit your needs. I don't have any big fancy programs, but I at least put my code openly on github.com for that reason. Both my "big" ones are just me using another program and realizing I could make something that worked better for me. At like 100x the time investment, but programming is fun.

I just mean, when you hold the phone you instinctively have your finger on the power button and audio button. That amount of force won't press any down. But when you want change volume, you also press power button by accident. Instead, to avoid this i try to place my finger on the audio slider(ring, vibrate, silent slide, so not actually a button you press) that is above the power button. As that also forms a natural place to place your finger. At least with the case I'm using.

It doesn't exactly prevent pressing volume when going for the power button though, so you have to be a bit aware of if you have the finger on the audio buttons. But for me, it most happens when I change volume, and not when using the power button.

I do this on my 7 pro. It's a slight annoyance, but for my phone the trick is to condition myself to press on the volume switch above the power button instead, when I want to adjust the volume.

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.

Getting out quicker is always good.

But the main reason, there isn't much traffic where you are backing in. But backing out sure as hell will have both passing cars and people assume you see them perfectly well. I also have no depth perception so the ass of my car is like a big unknown. So backing into a spot is easy because I can just use the side mirror to line up my position relative to there cars. Only issue is how far back I can go. Now I got a camera back there, and everything is much easier.