Does the Bavarian power grid also routinely go down because they don't invest in it and at the same time also refuse to add interconnects with other regions?
Not sure, but I think the grid integration is international with significant connections to e.g. France, rather than federal states within DE having their own thing?
More that the stereotypes people have of Germany/USA are really of Bavaria/Texas (beef, guns, lederhosen), more (small c) conservative, and there are occasional mumbles and grumbles of independence but they don't have any substance to them.
At least, that's what it seems. My grasp of German means there's a game of telephone between reality and my understanding of Bavaria, and I've never even been to Texas so I'm judging them by what people say online.
The report compares countries, not states. What point are you trying to make by comparing US states with EU countries (and Canada, and Australia, and New Zealand)?
> a three-ring binder called the Prompt File, stuffed with printouts of the dozens of tables in the system, and religiously updated anytime anyone changed anything of significance.
Letter variables? Luxury! One of the calculator had ops like STO, RCL, PAU, GTO, GSB and some numbered "cells", where you could store the result of the calculation.
The other had ops like '74' which were coordinates of the key which activated the given function.
Getting the full screen of the ZX Spectrum surely spoiled me :)
Geometrical proofs could be construed as such, even with some propositional logic given that someone comes up with a solid, universal way of expressing it (cf. The Golden Record)
Well, as a DBA, I periodically use a 3rd party tool to print out the schema. It's mainly for new hires to learn from.
But sometimes I'll flip through it and notice:
- mis-spelled table names, usually duplicate tables
- missing FKs
- missing unique keys, most commonly for early RoR apps
- developer-specific EAV tables with 1 row.
The benefit always outweighs the dead trees, but printing once a year is typical. Back in the day, more frequenctly on 25-line terminals where there was too much scrolling.
User redis_mlc has been shadowbanned for eight months which is an abhorrent practice. He is a prolific contributor, but most readers will never see his comments. Occasionally, a reader with showdead:yes in the options and sufficient karma will "vouch" a post back into general visibility.
Restrictions were lifted while most people under 30 weren't even vaccinated once. It was announced as "the summer of love", but unfortunately it's starting to look more like "the summer foreign holidays are cancelled due to travel restrictions".
From an article on The Atlantic website [1] concerning the origin of the goal of 10,000 steps per day:
> Based on conversations she’s had with Japanese researchers, [professor of epidemiology I-Min] Lee believes that name was chosen for the product because the character for “10,000” looks sort of like a man walking. [2]
If the character for 5,000 or 50,000 happened to have looked like a walking person, we might have had that number of steps as our daily or weekly goal. It's remarkable that the actual optimum of steps for health benefits is that close to a heuristic from the 1960s.
> Caffeine itself might not be bad for you, but the sleep it’s stealing from you may have a price. According to [neuroscientist Matt] Walker, research suggests that insufficient sleep may be a key factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, arteriosclerosis, stroke, heart failure, depression, anxiety, suicide and obesity. “The shorter you sleep,” he bluntly concludes, “the shorter your lifespan.”
> But here’s what’s uniquely insidious about caffeine: the drug is not only a leading cause of our sleep deprivation; it is also the principal tool we rely on to remedy the problem. Most of the caffeine consumed today is being used to compensate for the lousy sleep that caffeine causes – which means that caffeine is helping to hide from our awareness the very problem that caffeine creates.
After reading just the headline my initial reaction was "Well, no. It's never time to give up caffeine." But after reading the article I must say my view has changed somewhat. Not enough to banish caffeine forever, but enough to question the amount of 'maintenance caffeine' I consume to offset the consumption of the previous day. This cycle is somehow culturally accepted when it concerns caffeine, yet frowned upon when it involves alcohol. Essentially, it's the same trap.
