There are sailed powered logistics ships! Here's a grain ship that just launched. There are also companies that produce inflatable or deployable sails to reduce fuel consumption in favorable winds.
Ultimately there will be a need for chemical energy or similarly dense energy to move a ship. The wind doesn't always blow, and when it does it won't always be in the direction you want. Nuclear is certainly an interesting option.
Aerobic exercise in the heat is difficult. What I've found that works for me is "salt sticks." They're capsules of electrolytes that help rebalance during times of high water intake.
I take one after approximately consuming 1.5 liters of water, depending on temperature and water consumption rate. I also take one if my fingers start swelling; a certain sign of dehydration. It works for me and maybe it'll work for you.
This is the video that convinced me to give electrolytes a try is GearSkeptic's Performance Nutrition for Backpacking, Part 4: Electrolyte Balance. The whole playlist is good, as long as you're prepared for many hours of talking hands and reading up his sources.
-20 isn't so bad. Neither is the winter gear, assuming you go outside at all during winter, as it's the same gear as going out for a walk.
Studded tires are nice, but also not necessary if there's proper bike infrastructure. Plowing bike lanes goes a long way.
A friend of mine explained why it's important to his kids: they can't chat with a group of their friends.
Why? Because parents don't want to install WhatsApp or other group chats due to legitimate concerns about scammers, pedophiles, and other child predators. SMS chat fills that gap, but it breaks horribly for groups bigger than 10 people. Hence if some kid is on Android, they break their chat. Given the penetration of Apple devices, it's the kids with Android who are considered at-fault. "Just get an iPhone!"
Welcome to anticompetitive practices targeted at your children.
Spot on!
Sometimes even cheaters could be dealt with without an admin in those days. Servers would have fun game settings and odd maps that would break cheating gameplay.
My brother and I often played CS in the same room, on opposing teams because we didn't like being cheated and didn't want to be cheaters. We found an empty server with a sniping-only map. Made for great fun and someone joined in about 15 minutes later. They seemed really good, so we joined together to see if we could make it challenging. The new guy was just too good, so we decided to swap back and forth with the new guy to see if one of us could make a 1v2 miracle happen. That's when we figured out he was impossibly aim hacking. Bummer, our fun game was toasted.
Then we realized the map settings had friendly fire on and a 5 second start delay. Aim hacks don't target your own teammates. A perfect trap was available: we'd headshot TK the cheater at game start and then 1v1 each other. The cheater tried swapping to the other team only to find my brother using the same TK tactic. Our cheating friend found himself without a chance to grift. Needless to say, he didn't hang around for long.
Camping in the shoulder season is great! A little cool but often far fewer bugs.
I've only bikepacked once in an area more hike-a-bike than bikepacking, but I still enjoyed it. This photo is a great reminder to just get out and do it. :)
Edit: I just noticed you strapped on a Stanley cook set. That's easily my favorite camping set. I've gone much lighter these days, but I still haul that one out occasionally. It's so cheap yet so well designed. What a nice idea to strap it onto a bottle cage/holder.
Highways are a great way to install new regional transit. Brightline West is going to link Los Angeles to Las Vegas in the median of interstate 15. That highway is a total mess on weekends and this new line is expected to drastically reduce traffic with big convenience wins given its average speed of 101mph/165kph. And the project is funding wildlife overpasses and other habitat improvements.
As is typical, this science reporting isn't great. It's not only that AI can do it effectively, but that it can do it at scale. To quote the paper:
"Despite these models achieving near-expert human performance, they come at a fraction of the cost, requiring 100× less financial and 240× lower time investment than human labelers—making such privacy violations at scale possible for the first time."
They also demonstrate how interacting with an AI model can quickly extract more private info without looking like it is. A game of 20 questions, except you don't realize you're playing.
Those are two different theys. Huston is against freeway expansion. They even sued in a desperate attempt to prevent it.
There's no way we'll know this soon but, given there's been a huge push at the SEC to clamp down on crypto-related financial crimes[1], I wouldn't want to be anywhere near this debacle.
Before I go, I'll just leave this link: Report Suspected Securities Fraud or Wrongdoing.
What an unfortunate outcome. I hope his family and friends remember their good times together.
Hopefully John's death helps push for even safer cyclist and pedestrian infrastructure in Tucson. They're one of the best, perhaps the best, cycling city in Arizona. Residents there will provide political backing behind building safer streets.
Nortel wasn't killed by Huawei stealing their IP, which certainly did happen. They tanked themselves with some terrible accounting that hid the terrible situation they put themselves in. Nortel and Enron are the reason GAAP is the gold standard and legally required to be reported these days.