Prettejohn said: “[Forward-deployed engineers] know that the only valuable software is not how exquisite its code is or how beautiful the language?.?.?.?It’s only valuable if it means something for the end customer.”

The United States military is upgrading a long-abandoned former Cold War naval base in the Caribbean, a Reuters visual investigation has found, suggesting preparations for sustained operations that could help support possible actions inside Venezuela. 

But in the space of its first three years, it leapfrogged incumbents to become the world’s third-largest handset vendor and expanded its product line-up to include everything from rice cookers to robot vacuums.

“Very few legacy automakers are positioned to compete with Tesla, Rivian or the leading Chinese EV makers when it comes to building a pervasive automotive operation system,” says Tsuguo Nobe, a former executive at Intel and Nissan who is now a professor at Nagoya University. Ultimately, analysts warn that the auto industry is likely to go in the same direction as smartphones and PCs, with a small number of operating systems like iOS and Android eventually dominating the software space.

Germans who choose to work beyond the retirement age will be able to earn up to €2,000 a month tax-free, as part of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s push to tackle labour shortages and revive Europe’s largest economy. The government estimates that the measure will cost €890mn a year from the moment it takes effect, on January 1, according to draft legislation seen by the Financial Times. The figure represents the tax revenue shortfall for the 285,000 retirees who are already working and who will immediately benefit from the incentive, according to a person familiar with the matter.

This was Gen Con, the largest board-game convention in North America. More than 70,000 people were in Indianapolis to roll dice, deal cards, move meeples, lay tiles, deduce and deceive. Football would have to wait — the indoor kids had arrived. Across downtown, gamers gathered around a wild variety of scenarios, dilemmas and processes. Some games mirrored historical events. Some had wizards and dragons. Some asked players to consider the world as it is, and attempt to make better choices than those in power today have made — a task sometimes difficult and other times less so. While they do this largely for fun, the games industry finds itself in need of all the strategic prowess it may possess, as the Trump administration’s trade wars imperil its existence, from independent designers to major publishers.

Ferrero declined to comment on whether rising hazelnut prices could force it to increase the price tag for Nutella. Botta said confectionery makers in general would find a way to manage any “disproportionately high” prices by adjusting recipes to change flavours or reduce expensive ingredients.

20) Let me repeat that: Parties are a public service, you’re doing people a favor by throwing them. Someone might meet their new best friend or future lover at your gathering. In the short term, lovely people may feel less lonely, and that’s thanks to you. In the long term, whole new children may ultimately exist in the world because you bothered to throw a party. Throwing parties is stressful for most people, but a great kindness to the community, so genuinely pat yourself on the back for doing this.

It was one of those moments where something you once knew suddenly clicks again with fresh significance. Here was a URL doing far more than just pointing to a page. It was storing state, encoding intent, and making my entire setup shareable and recoverable. No database. No cookies. No localStorage. Just a URL.

A 77-year-old man was found alive after spending three days in a ravine in southern Lozère, following a cycling accident. The man, considered a true miracle survivor, owes his life to his shopping bag and an incredible survival instinct.

Community solar offers a promising, market-based tool to address these challenges. Unlike large utility-run projects or costly individual rooftop systems, community solar allows households, businesses, and organizations to subscribe to shared solar arrays built in their communities. In return, participants receive credits on their electricity bills, saving consumers money while growing the overall grid capacity.

Greetings to everyone pulling up my site on their phones from a voting booth. For your convenience I’ve put links to (hopefully) all of this year’s races. If you scroll and don’t find what you’re looking for, try searching a candidate name, but remember, I only write about races that appear on the ballot in Minneapolis or Saint Paul.

The Challenge of Benchmarking WebAssembly. The aforementioned suite of 24 benchmarks is the PolybenchC benchmark suite [5], which is designed to measure the effect of polyhedral loop optimizations in compilers. All the benchmarks in the suite are small scientific computing kernels rather than full applications (e.g., matrix multiplication and LU Decomposition); each is roughly 100 LOC. While WebAssembly is designed to accelerate scientific kernels on the Web, it is also explicitly designed for a much richer set of full applications.

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements:

Johnston has also played a courageous and key role in this battle. In a quarterly meeting of the SEB on May 7, 2024, Johnston’s motion to refer SEB2023-025 to Georgia’s Attorney General was rebuffed due to a lack of votes. However, during the meeting Johnston made clear her concerns about the 2020 presidential election. She addressed clear violations of state laws, poor vote reconciliation, the pitfalls of voting machines, and the fact that the state continued to withhold physical ballots for review. “With over 140 violations of election laws and rules, it would be a travesty not to refer this to the Attorney General and let this ride,” Johnston said.

When published in 2023, Hu’s book became a bestseller in China. Readers lapped up anecdotes of the lives of some of the millions of couriers powering the country’s ultra-efficient e-commerce industry, which treats individual laborers as dispensable. Many also related to Hu’s experience with economic uncertainty, dwindling social mobility, unemployment, and unfulfilling work.

Higher levels of optimism have been linked to reduced risk of premature mortality (4); however, researchers have not considered the association between optimism and achievement of exceptional longevity (18–20). Although no standard definition for exceptional longevity has been established, it has been defined as surviving to older age, and age 85 is a commonly used cutoff (1, 21) as it is well beyond the average life expectancy of individuals born in the early 20th century, but not extremely rare. Using data from 2 long-running observational cohorts composed of men or women, we evaluated the hypothesis that higher optimism is associated with longer life span and a greater likelihood of achieving exceptional longevity. We considered associations in men and women, and accounted for potential confounders identified in prior work, including other psychosocial factors, baseline health conditions, and health behaviors (4, 6).

Scott Horton is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Horton is a libertarian and anti-war activist. He and Steve discuss the Russia Hoax and its connection to American foreign policy, in light of new evidence that has emerged since the first Trump term.

“I highly recommend booking a backup ticket on another carrier.”

Embraer’s largest aircraft are the E195-E2 and the KC-390 tanker-transport. Dimensionally, these are about the same size as the Boeing 737-8 and Airbus A320neo.

People was told that the CS100 (A220-100) would not sell well without the capability. Well, informally I told people around me that Airbus sold thousands of A320 aircraft family with only TWO aircraft having the steep approach capability. Those are the two A318 that were operated by British Airways until they dropped them. I dismissed the notion that the C Series can sell only if the CS100 had the steep approach capability.

Second, permits. The U.S. permitting process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. In Australia, no permit is required for a standard installation—you simply notify the distributor and have an accredited installer certify safety. In Australia, a rooftop solar panel is treated like an appliance; in the U.S., it’s treated like a mini power plant.

Most BC homeowners have no idea: your “fee simple” property is almost certainly overlapped by one of the 200+ unresolved Aboriginal title claims. Courts are now declaring Aboriginal title over private lands (e.g., Cowichan 2025 ruling). Here is a link to a Govt website where you can see if your land title is being claimed by First Nations: bctreaty.ca/map/

“This is a troubling pattern of secretive negotiations and agreements that have real and direct impacts on our members and the general public. The economic repercussions and uncertainties are being felt across our province.”

If people can’t figure out how to feed themselves in Glenview, IL then maybe we need more financial literacy education.

A MUST-read interview with a high-ranking $MSFT employee on data centers and what is happening right now ( $NVDA/ $AMD, liquid cooling, and HHD):

The U.S. permitting process is slow, fragmented, and expensive. In Australia, no permit is required for a standard installation—you simply notify the distributor and have an accredited installer certify safety. In Australia, a rooftop solar panel is treated like an appliance; in the U.S., it’s treated like a mini power plant. Germany takes a similar approach to Australia, with national standards and an “as-of-right” presumption for rooftop solar that removes red tape.

Someone has a single-trigger acceleration on termination clause in their vesting agreement that they finagled during the M&A haggling. HR convo is a bit different when you’re holding a billion-dollar gun to their heads.

It is with a great appreciation and heartfelt emotions that we write to share some sad news. After more than 200 years of sharing a unique blend of weather, wit and wisdom, we’ve made the very difficult decision to write the final chapter of this historical publication. The 2026 Farmers’ Almanac will be our last edition.

The B.C. filing also drew attention to how the sought-after designation of Aboriginal title would include tracts of privately owned land. “In the previous Aboriginal title cases brought to the Supreme Court of Canada, no claim was made against lands held privately,” B.C. noted. “This case will require the courts to consider such claims.”. Such was the situation when the province filed its amended response nine years ago this month.

Trump allies launched the super PAC last month after Massie voted against Trump’s signature “Big, Beautiful Bill.” The Kentucky lawmaker has also criticized the president on a range of other issues including war powers and the Epstein files. MAGA KY has spent $1.2 million so far on ads opposing Massie, according to AdImpact, as the group aims to take him out in next year’s primary.

The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit. Its political giving has also dropped. Federal campaign-finance records show $3.6 million in donations from the Sierra Club during the push to defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020, but none as Mr. Trump stormed back to the presidency in 2024.

The 65-year-old Wyoming diesel mechanic spent seven months in federal prison for tweaking and removing emissions systems on ailing engines. He was originally sentenced to one year and one day in prison, but was released early to home confinement with an ankle monitor in September. He and his business Elite Diesel were also fined $52,000

Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed.

A week ago, I set up an infinite nonsense crawler trap – now it makes up 99% of my server’s traffic. What surprised me is that feeding scrapers garbage is the cheapest and easiest thing I could do.

TV’s top creator has just closed a massive deal with rival NBCUniversal for film and TV when his commitments with Paramount are up. It’s a major move for the ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Landman’ creator, but perhaps an even bigger coup for NBCU’s Donna Langley—and suggests that her company is still playing to win.

Why does Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “Buy Canadian” policy exclude Albertan oil? How can Canada become a self-sufficient energy superpower while importing crude oil into Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces? Canada spends approximately $20 billion annually importing oil into eastern Canadian provinces. Every year eastern Canadians convert $20 billion Canadian dollars into USD to pay for the imported oil they consume. Essentially $20 billion Canadian dollars are exported from Canada’s economy annually.

Today, it has the highest GDP per capita of any city in Germany. Yet, much like the country, it looks to the future with fear. As its entire existence depends on the ailing German car industry, Wolfsburg worries: will it become the next Detroit. At first glance, Wolfsburg might seem an unlikely symbol of Germany’s economic unease. Neat, prosperous, and meticulously planned, it is dominated by the monumental VW plant, which still ranks among the largest car factories in the world. Yet to look closely at Wolfsburg today is to glimpse the deeper structural malaise afflicting Germany’s once-mighty industrial power. As Detroit once did for the United States, Wolfsburg mirrors the fate of its nation’s manufacturing heart – a city built on the dream of mobility, modernity and prosperity, now confronting the limits of its model.

Unfortunately, big clients are cottoning on to the advantages too. One finance chief of a large UK company outlined the issue for Breakingviews via an illustrative example. Say an outsourced project costs the client $1 million to do themselves, and Accenture and the like have historically been able to do the same job for $200,000. With the advent of machine learning, companies can do the same work for just $10,000.

Money is almost no object. The new government managed to exempt all defence spending above 1% of GDP from the country’s once-rigid fiscal rules. While larger items on the wish list will still have to be signed off by a parliamentary committee, the scale of the overall plan suggests that the government expects consensus on the general direction of rearmament.

Now, almost a year later, OKDiario released a new report claiming that Apple is installing more than 100 cameras at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Real Madrid’s home, to conduct tests during the Wednesday match against Juventus.

These observations suggest that strategic assessments of emergent technology and novel weapons are shaped by several cognitive biases: (1) a tendency to assume the future techno-strategic setting will resemble the present; (2) the belief that strategic assessments are universal and are not driven by the somewhat idiosyncratic influence of strategic culture and the pressing political and bureaucratic imperatives of the moment; and (3) a tendency to embrace a “one-size fits all” attitude that fails to consider how black swan events could upset the applecart. Indeed, that black swan took flight on September 11, 2001, a few short years after Gray tapped into another strategic theme of the day — that low-intensity conflict was on the strategic horizon.

And while the US had successfully built thousands of ships very rapidly during the war, it had come at a cost: the US cargo ships, using modern methods, were more expensive to build than similar British ships. Though some British shipbuilders recognized the potential of welding and prefabrication, they weren’t clearly worth reorganizing the entire industry around.

England and Germany got into printing very slowly because the numbers were so small. But Luther’s 95 Theses printed over 5,000 copies in two weeks (1517) Luther’s prolific German established his language instead of clinging to Latin, which was the norm of scholars. 

To return Americans to the Moon, SpaceX aligned Starship development along two paths: development of the core Starship system and supporting infrastructure, including production facilities, test facilities, and launch sites — which SpaceX is self-funding representing over 90% of system costs — and development of the HLS-specific Starship configuration, which leverages and modifies the core vehicle capability to support NASA’s requirements for landing crew on and returning them from the Moon. SpaceX is working under a fixed-price contract with NASA, ensuring that the company is only paid after the successful completion of progress milestones, and American taxpayers are not on the hook for increased SpaceX costs. SpaceX provides significant insight to NASA at every stage of the development process along both paths, including access to flight data from missions not funded under the HLS contract. ……. To date, SpaceX has produced more than three dozen Starships and 600 Raptor rocket engines

Dr. Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola were first charged with hate crimes in 2021 for the publication of a 2004 booklet which articulates historic Christian teaching on human sexuality, with Dr. Räsänen charged as the author and Bishop Pohjola as the publisher. Dr. Räsänen was also charged for a 2019 tweet which included a picture of a Bible verse and for comments made during a 2019 radio program. The two stood trial in 2022 at the Helsinki District Court, where they were unanimously acquitted by a panel of three judges who declared: “It is not the role of the district court to interpret biblical concepts.” An appeal by the prosecution was subsequently heard in the Helsinki Court of Appeal, with the two again unanimously acquitted on all charges in 2023.

In August, a B.C Supreme Court judge ruled the Cowichan Tribes have Aboriginal title over the land on the Fraser River, that Crown and city titles on the land are defective and invalid, and the granting of private titles on it by the government unjustifiably infringed on the Cowichan title.

Powell’s Books’ flagship store on West Burnside Street downtown represents the world’s largest independent bookstore, according to the company’s website. They have other locations, including on Southeast Hawthorne Street, among others, around the Portland area. “As with many businesses right now, we’re seeing expenses rise faster than sales. This has been an ongoing challenge since the pandemic, and while we’ve taken many steps to grow revenue and control costs, this most recent action was an unfortunate but necessary step to help ensure the long-term stability of Powell’s Books,” Solly added.

But how? The most important thing rich countries — including China — can do is to fully open their markets to these countries’ products. The economic literature is pretty conclusive that this raises economic growth in poor countries, at least somewhat. There are many instances in which rich countries have actually done this, and there are a lot of ways we can evaluate the results of those experiments. For example, Romalis (2007) found that when America reduced its tariffs under the Most Favored Nation program, poor countries sold more products to the U.S. and grew faster as a result:

Orion and SLS have burned through nearly $100b to date. If I took $100b in $20 bills and stapled them end to end, they would run from my office, down the hall, out the front door, down the drive, onto the road, onto the ramp, down the local freeway, past the crumbling remnants of JPL, up the mountain, then up into the sky, through the troposphere, past the space station, between 10,000 Starlink satellites, past geostationary orbit (my string of bills is now longer than a space elevator!), all the way to the Moon, around the entire lunar equator, between all the legs of all the lunar landers of all the missions that have landed there, then all the way back to the Earth, through the atmosphere, down the mountain, down the road, through my front door, and back to my desk. At the present rate of NASA’s budget, additional bill consumption, stapling, and ejection from my office desk would break the speed of sound. 

I think it’s safe to say the lens manufacturing industry is undergoing a seismic shift. As Chinese manufacturers start delivering more and more lenses with a high degree of optical sophistication, they’ll also iterate on the remaining features that are lacking, such as image stabilization and faster autofocus motors. Much of this technology is locked by patents, though, so that is one area where Canon, with its massive patent library, may have an advantage over these manufacturers. I’m not entirely convinced, though, that it’s going to stop the manufacturers for very 

The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible, and constantly pulling focus rather than supporting seamless access to content. Instead of smoothing the path for everyday tasks, iOS 26 makes users relearn basics while enduring a constant parade of visual stunts.

…… that they can build an Apollo Lunar Module-like lander within 30 months. Amit Kshatriya, NASA’s associate administrator, favors this government-led approach, sources said.

A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows that firm exit rates and job destruction rates are positively correlated with growth in labor productivity; creative destruction in a nutshell.

Now, that era of power transitions is ending. For the first time in centuries, no country is rising fast enough to overturn the global balance. The demographic booms, industrial breakthroughs, and territorial acquisitions that once fueled great powers have largely run their course. China, the last major riser, is already peaking, its economy slowing and its population shrinking. Japan, Russia, and Europe stalled more than a decade ago. India has youth but lacks the human capital and state capacity to turn it into strength. The United States faces its own troubles—debt, sluggish growth, political dysfunction—but still outpaces rivals sinking into deeper decay. The rapid ascents that once defined modern geopolitics have yielded to sclerosis: the world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states

gonna go out on a limb and say that 99% of the journalists snarkily-quote tweeting this clip haven’t actually watched it, because what Luckey is saying is not only uncontroversial but basically identical to Toni Morrison’s comments on the same topic circa 1989.

But Araque and many other pioneers of next-generation geothermal tech are undeterred. If humanity can someday economically drill wells more than 6 miles deep, he says, we can tap energy that amounts to more than double all the electricity used on earth today. Others, like researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, have calculated that in the U.S. alone, thousands of times as much energy as Americans use in a year is already available at much shallower depths.

The NYC Voting Guide for People Who Aren’t Insane:

“Look, you can pull statistics up but our murder rate has been cut in half.”

This is part 1 in a 5 part series about challenges and solutions in accelerating heat pump adoption across the US. Stay tuned for the next issue!

Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS environment built on the JupyterLab framework. Its objective is to bring QGIS-inspired workflows into the browser, enabling real-time collaborative editing, seamless integration with notebooks, and support for core geospatial data formats.

….. but rather because of the single sensible — if very belated — thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.

We cannot trust crime stats in America. They have been widely corrupted to serve a racist agenda.

“As an economist, I don’t think it’s a problem that there are different prices for the same (items) across town,” Stevens said. “That actually makes a lot of sense.”. It might seem concerning at first, he said, “but when you dig under the hood, it’s like, ‘Oh yes, there are lots of reasons that could be true.’ It’s a complicated ecosystem of retail and food sales.

The German language has acquired strange new phrases since I emigrated. Spend enough time in a different country and your mother tongue moves on without you. One of those modern idioms I’ve never really got the hang of is: “Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?” which loosely and lamely translates as: “Is this art or is it rubbish?” It was first introduced by a comedian and is now frequently used to poke fun at modern art, implying that the piece in question is so abstract that you can’t even tell it’s art and might mistake it for a piece of rubbish to be binned.

REPORT: How AARP Makes Health Insurance Unaffordable.

Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes

But <output>? Most have never touched it. Some don’t even know it exists.

Toyota said that its new batteries could significantly enhance driving range, charging times, and output, potentially transforming the future of automobiles. Compared to current liquid-based batteries, which use electrolyte solutions, Toyota’s all-solid-state batteries utilize a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte. According to Toyota, the next-gen battery tech “offers the potential for smaller size, higher output, and longer life.”

For both hiring and promotion, decision-makers have a legibility problem. This problem will inevitability lead to a focus on details that are easier to observe directly precisely because they are easier to observe directly. This is how fields like graphology and phrenology come about. But just because we can directly observe someone’s handwriting or the shapes of the bumps on their head doesn’t mean that those are effective techniques for learning something about that person’s personality. 

Instead, state inspectors documented nearly 100 alleged new violations of the agreement. The letter also accuses the company of failing to hire an independent environmental manager to regularly inspect its construction sites. State regulators counted 689 missed inspections. The Boring Co. is disputing the violation letter, a state spokesperson said.

That’s because for decades, May and his family have managed May Ranch near the Arkansas River — a major tributary of the Mississippi River — to encourage native habitat to thrive alongside their cattle. This region is part of a swath of grassland that sweeps from central Canada to northern Mexico, vital to many species of birds that migrate across North America.

He managed to leave Saudi Arabia and was attempting to build a new life for himself in Virginia. All he wanted to do was write— and writing for the Washington Post, especially when we translated his work into Arabic, meant the world to him, even as he came under great pressure.

I started wondering: for the Free Texting service, could I bypass the messaging app restriction and access other websites freely?

Geosynchronous (GEO) satellite links provide IP backhaul to remote critical infrastructure for utilities, telecom, government, military, and commercial users. To date, academic studies of GEO infrastructure have focused on a handful of satellites and specific use cases. We perform the first broad scan of IP traffic on 39 GEO satellites across 25 distinct longitudes with 411 transponders using consumer grade equipment. We overcome the poor signal quality plaguing prior work and build the first general parser that can handle the diverse protocols in use by heterogeneous endpoints. We found 50% of GEO links contained cleartext IP traffic; while link-layer encryption has been standard practice in satellite TV for decades, IP links typically lacked encryption at both the link and network layers. This gives us a unique view into the internal network security practices of these organizations. We observed unencrypted cellular backhaul traffic from several providers including cleartext call and text contents, job scheduling and industrial control systems for utility infrastructure, military asset tracking, inventory management for global retail stores, and in-flight wifi.

What emerged is one of the most complete pictures to date of the modern surveillance industry. The tracking archive is unprecedented in scope, and reveals how the company and its clients surveilled all types of people from all over the world. Reporters interviewed more than a hundred victims, as well as former employees and industry insiders. A trove of confidential emails and documents provide a detailed inside account of how First Wap’s tech was marketed to authoritarian governments and accessed by corporate actors. Behind closed doors, First Wap’s executives touted their ability to hack WhatsApp accounts, and laughed about evading sanctions.

So John Kerry is back, lecturing us that agriculture—the very foundation of human civilization—is a climate villain that must be “front and center” to be “solved.”. Let’s translate the globalist grift. He isn’t talking about Chinese coal plants or private jets. He’s talking about YOUR food. What John Kerry is really saying: “We’ve calculated that independent farming and ranching are incompatible with our centralized control model. Your steak is a symbol of sovereignty. Your local dairy farmer is a node of resilience we cannot monitor or manage.

Erebor was granted “preliminary and conditional” approval by regulators on Wednesday, just four months after its application for a national bank charter in June — a sign of the Trump administration’s initiative to lower regulatory hurdles and encourage new banking entrants focused on digital assets and services. The administration has encouraged new entrants to the banking sector including from technology groups, prompting a number of fintechs and cryptocurrency companies to seek bank charters this year.

The Fact Graph is a production-ready knowledge graph for modeling, among other things, the United States Internal Revenue Code and related tax law. It can be used in JavaScript as well as any JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, etc.).

The California decision was announced by Space Launch Delta 30 this week. Under the new approval, SpaceX will be able to launch both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets from its two pads — Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) and Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6).

“Almost every reasonable AI company that’s out there is saying, listen, if it’s a fair playing field, then we’re happy to pay for content,” Prince said. “The problem is that all of them are terrified of Google because if Google gets content for free but they all have to pay for it, they are always going to be at an inherent disadvantage.”

The “New Stuff” that you’ll see here is the result of my journey into the world of digital art. Believe me, this has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747. (True, I don’t get out much.) But as overwhelmed as I was, there was still something familiar there—a sense of adventure. That had always been at the core of what I enjoyed most when I was drawing The Far Side, that sense of exploring, reaching for something, taking some risks, sometimes hitting a home run and sometimes coming up with “Cow tools.” (Let’s not get into that.) But as a jazz teacher once said to me about improvisation, “You want to try and take people somewhere where they might not have been before.” I think that my approach to cartooning was similar—I’m just not sure if even I knew where I was going. But I was having fun.

Then one day at a Berkeley community bulletin board “there was a posting that said, ‘I’m driving to Madison, Wisconsin, and I’m looking to split gas with someone.’ And my mother took it.”

For 32 years, competitors have come from around the globe armed with their spurtles, the tapered sticks Scots use to stir their oats, to see what they can conjure up in their pots in the allotted 30 minutes. It seems simple enough. In its traditional form there are just three ingredients to porridge: water, oats and salt. Yet so much can go wrong.

GREAT interview with @USComptroller:
?the bias of federal bank regulators “that only the largest banks can do innovation safely” must end (YES!)

This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid “perk” by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800  (BA)  planes to have what it classifies as a “refreshed range of seating options.”. In actuality, this means making customers pay for a seat that reclines.

I measured my reputation with mail-testerand got a 10/10 score. The missing PTR record did give me negative points, but those were offset by 2 free points for “trusted relay”. I’m also not on any blocklists, so my IP really is lucky 🙂

NEON CLASSES: BENDING BASICS

The art of neon and the bending of neon tubes is a fascinating craft! Learn the basics of neon and glass bending.

The Space Force is paying SpaceX $714 million for the five launches awarded Friday, for an average of roughly $143 million per mission. ULA will receive $428 million for two missions, or $214 million for each launch. That’s about 50 percent more expensive than SpaceX’s price per mission.

Summary: People often over-engineer solutions, and it leads to them running into problems with their CSS. In this article, we’ll take a look at the least amount of CSS that you need to make a decent looking page.

The book provides enough details to piece together how the early Standard Oil business model worked. The reality seems different than many popular accounts and is much more logically consistent.

That effort turned into the Clinton administration’s first crisis, but over time, what is now called diversity, equity and inclusion won out. President Barack Obama ended Mr. Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 2010, allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the armed forces. He approved women in combat in 2013 and in 2016 opened all combat positions to women, revising some physical training requirements in the process. In 2016 he also opened the ranks to transgender soldiers.

Once the New York Times held out as unconnected contractually to the NFL – free to criticize its public subsidies, billionaire ownership class and bad examples set for young people. No more

Software quality was already collapsing when AI coding assistants arrived. What happened next was predictable.

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling.

The 25 most interesting ideas I’ve found in 2025 (so far).

This is exactly my problem. Tech arrives as an option and ends up as an obligation.

But history doesn’t quite bear this out. Galileo was in his forties when he published his most radical works. Thomas Paine was forty when Common Sense reshaped political thought. Susan B. Anthony was fifty-two when she cast her first illegal vote. The assumption that genius peaks young has always been a convenient myth. It flatters the ambitious and terrifies the hesitant. It also blinds us to the fact that many of history’s breakthroughs came from people who had been around long enough to see patterns others missed.

7th edition of the Map of Near and Middle East Oil. Published by B. Orchard Lisle, International Oil Consultant, Pertroleum Technologist, Research Analystd, 1965. Majestic Bldg., Fort Worth Texas

It’s widely accepted that rosin potatoes hail from the South’s turpentine camps, where workers chipped and slashed and scraped pine trees to collect oleoresin (aka resin or gum), the trees’ natural defense mechanism. When a tree’s bark is breached — by a beetle, fungus, or a woodsman’s hack — it oozes gum, not sap, from the wound. When fossilized, oleoresin transforms into amber. When distilled, it yields turpentine and rosin, whose uses range from paint thinner and Vicks VapoRub to rubber cement and chewing gum, respectively.

Did you know we created an Excel chart with drivetrain part prices taken directly from official service catalogs – precisely to stop the misinformation pushed by mainstream media? The truth is that the most expensive vehicles to maintain are actually: 1) hybrids, 2) fossil-fuel cars, and only after that come EVs.

The Software Essays that Shaped Me

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. 

If you’ve worked on legacy systems that were written by other people, perhaps decades ago, you’ll recognise this phenomenon. Before we can safely change code, we first need to understand it – understand what it does, and also oftentimes why it does it the way it does. In that sense, this is nothing new. What is new is the scale of the problem being created as lightning-speed code generators spew reams of unread code into millions of projects.

It’s September 2025. We have Claude Opus 4.1. GPT-5. Nano banana. There has never been a better time in the history of computing to build software. Here are a few ideas I wish existed.

The Boat Race ins’t a cocktail party for gilded Oxbridge types. It’s free to watch, pulls two hundred thousand ordinary spectators to the Thames every year, and has always been a working-class London day out. Rowing may have its posh stereotype, but the event is about rivalry, endurance and spectacle – things any nation should be proud to show the world. Yet the BBC’s cultural gatekeepers have a deeper allergy: tradition that isn’t re-branded, rewritten, or apologised for. They can throw millions at “inclusive” events nobody asked for and wall-to-wall virtue TV. But a British crowd on the riverbank waving flags? That’s suspect. That’s “exclusive.”

Second, I speculate that the round circle carved into the stone, the centerpiece of the image, is not the sun but instead represents the North Celestial Pole (Earth’s projected rotational axis) as it appeared at some point in the distant past—based upon our knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes. Finally, I presume that the stone’s artist was both skilled in their knowledge of the night sky over their home and bore a desire to communicate an important message to those generations who followed.

After all, the transformation of the microcomputer hobby into a large-scale commercial enterprise came as a surprise to most outsiders. In 1977, the established mainframe and minicomputer makers remained cooly aloof from the microcomputer business. Clearly, computer enthusiasts had found in the Altair and its successors a fascinating gadget to occupy their spare hours. It did not necessarily follow that these toys had anything to do with the “real” computer business, any more than model rocketry had to do with putting a man on the moon. In a la of the leading minicomputer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Digital, were offered ready-made micro designs by computing-loving engineers within their ranks (Steve Wozniak and Dave Ahl, respectively), but both rejected the idea, unwilling to pursue a fringe market that seemed to have nothing to do with their business.[2]

The purpose of this article is to articulate how NASA ended up falling behind China, and more importantly, how the Western world could realistically retake the lead. But first, space policymakers must learn from their mistakes.

The effects of hospital systems acquiring physician practices are hard to determine, because until now, there has been no comprehensive source of data about these mergers and the effects of integration on pricing can be hard to isolate. New research by Yale SOM economist Fiona Scott Morton tackles these challenges, determining the scale of hospital-physician mergers and examining their effects on pricing. In their study, Scott Morton and her co-authors—Yale economist Zack Cooper; Stuart V. Craig and Ashley T. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Aristotelis Epanomeritakis of Harvard University; Matthew Grennan of Emory University; and Joseph R. Martinez of the University of California, San Francisco—found that these integrations significantly increase prices for consumers, because competition decreases.

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The guarantee structure (a more accurate way of saying it than “buyout”) is an interesting one, allowing the school some relief based on performance, and only up to 75%.  Of course, head coach candidates with more leverage would fight a clause like that and probably keep it out.

To get started, you need to have an Apple Silicon Mac (we support all M1 – M4 series chips) running macOS 15 or newer, with Xcode 16 or newer installed. The version of the Metal Shading Language we use (3.2, AIR bitcode version 2.7.0) needs the macOS 15 SDK, and you’ll get an error about incompatible bitcode versions if you run on an older macOS or use an older version of Xcode that doesn’t have the macOS 15 SDK.

“It dawned on me that it wasn’t going to be a (continuing) business and that it was just going to slide away and somebody would develop it into something else,” Fiege said. “I think the only way we can (keep) traditions is by taking the bull by the horns and making it happen.”

And while Mr. Kirk was building a conservative powerhouse in Phoenix, Ms. Kirk, who had spent her adolescence in nearby Scottsdale, had chosen to live in Manhattan.  Once he had confessed that he wanted to date her rather than hire her, and she recovered from the shock, “he engulfed me into his world,” Ms. Kirk said. “I made that choice. It’s so hard to articulate the beauty of an Ephesians 5 marriage when you actually have a man that’s worth following, to have a true example of a leader to look up to. And I had that in Charlie.” She added, “I’ve had so many people ask, ‘Do you feel anger toward this man? Like, do you want to seek the death penalty?’ I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?”

Packers data suite.

Season ticket sales in general seating areas fell 10% from 2024 to 2025, and attendance at the first two home games was the lowest it has been since 1992.

When the family is unable to afford a spot at a campground, which can cost $25 to $45 a night, they park on remote federal lands, which are free for two weeks. But those sites don’t come with water or electricity and have spotty cell service. At times, the family has bathed and washed their clothes in a river and gone to the bathroom in the woods to conserve the water in their RV’s tank.

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know.

The standard ‘iron bomb’ to which the kits are added to create complete JDAMs raises the full price point by another few thousand dollars. The latest variants of the AIM-120 cost around $1 million apiece, while current-generation AIM-9Xs each have a price tag around $450,000.

Stories like the recent widow whose husband used to mow everyone on the block’s lawn who can’t do it themselves, because of age or infirmity, so now that is how she spends her free day, the one day a week she isn’t working at the plant or caring for her grandkids, pushing the lawn mower, which does tear her up now and then because it smells of her husband, can you believe that, a mower smelling of a man dead for over a year, but it does, and if you had only met him you would know why that brings me to tears, because they don’t make men like that anymore, a man who didn’t have a bad word to say about anyone and only cared about helping and that is who God struck down at sixty-five, which doesn’t seem fair, but he lived a good life and I only wish he would have had a few more years to go to his favorite granddaughter’s wedding, which is next weekend, down at the casino. Have you been? You should go if you haven’t.

A devout Christian, Thiel is expanding on a number of speeches and public interviews he has given about the Antichrist in a closed, four-part lecture series this month in San Francisco. The second lecture happened on Monday, and the series will end in early October. 

The findings appear to point to a program running outside the bounds of statute or oversight, experts say, with CBP officers exercising broad discretion to capture genetic material from Americans and have it funneled into a law-enforcement database designed in part for convicted offenders. Critics warn that anyone added to the database could endure heightened scrutiny by US law enforcement for life.

As a production engineer who has spent the majority of my professional life in manufacturing facilities, I cannot emphasise enough how much the unboxed process is a game changer. If Tesla make this happen, production costs will fall so dramatically that the competition will disappear from the market – wiped away. There is simply no way to compete with Tesla any more as product will remain superior but costs will be way down and with verxy low prices demand will grow exponentially.

Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing.

For more than a decade, Murkowski has moved in the same Arctic policy circles as Maxwell, Borgerson, and Rogoff.

The other option is to ignore range or depreciation and buy the cheapest car possible and drive it into the ground. This works well for people who only need a car for around town — most people don’t drive more than 40 miles a day — and don’t care about features. This is what Helveston did when he bought a 10-year-old Leaf off Facebook Marketplace for $5,000. It had a remaining range of just 60 miles, but he drives no more than 30 per day.  “The miles are double what I need,” he said, and he doesn’t have to pay for gas or oil changes, either. “If it dies on me, I only invested five grand in it and I’ll buy another one.”

Unified by the VW.os operating system, these architectures aim to support over 40 million vehicles by 2030

There’s a problem with boxed mixes, and it’s impacting grandmas’ most beloved recipes. At some point last year, shoppers noticed Betty Crocker cake mixes shrank (again), this time from 15.25 ounces down to 13.25 ounces. And while few people would ever argue for less cake, the 2-ounce decrease is weighing particularly heavy on grandmas. 

Here he preached his first sermon on the Second Sunday in Advent, December 4, 1524, and on the following Saturday, December 10, was burned at the stake in the nearby village of Heide by a band of drunken peasants instigated by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities.

While marketing glorifies and normalizes complexity, several deeper, more innate forces draw us developers toward it:

Kitchen United raised $100 million in July 2022, including funding from grocery giant Kroger². Fifteen months later, the company shut down all eight of its Kroger locations². That represented 44% of Kitchen United’s entire 18-unit footprint². The company then announced it would sell or close every remaining physical location and pivot to “software only”³. Translation: We burned through $100 million and have nothing left to show for it.

How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts

Thus the naïve reader, who wants to take the printed word at its nominal value, logically infers a common attitude and purpose among the previously named Western politicians and the soviet enemies of perestroika. Common sense could protect the sane man from such an absurdity, but this runs out of answers in the face of the schizophrenia of political vocabulary, proving insufficiently idiosyncratic; he seems to have resigned himself without grumbling. The common retort is that conservatives are defenders of the status quo, whatever that may look like in the particular case, so conservatives living in very different societies, unsurprisingly, advocate very different and even contradictory programs. But if political classifications are not backed by political substance, then these classifications must be grounded in psychological or anthropological factors, common attitudes towards life. 

How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?

Chinese President Xi Jinping in July gave his clearest warning yet against “involution” — extreme price competition stemming from industrial overcapacity — when he pointed to reckless investment plans and questioned whether every province needed EV factories. Stella Li, the executive vice-president of BYD, China’s dominant EV maker, last week said Beijing’s crackdown on aggressive discounting could see as many as 100 carmakers out of more than 120 being “pushed out”. She was speaking on the sidelines of the Munich motor show.

Roll is the co-author of a new report, titled “Redshift,” on the acceleration of China’s commercial and civil space activities and the threat these pose to similar efforts in the United States. Published on Tuesday, the report was sponsored by the US-based Commercial Space Federation, which advocates for the country’s commercial space industry. It is a sobering read and comes as China not only projects to land humans on the lunar surface before the US can return, but also is advancing across several spaceflight fronts to challenge America. “The trend line is unmistakable,” the report states. “China is not only racing to catch up—it is setting pace, deregulating, and, at times, redefining what leadership looks like on and above Earth. This new space race will not be won with a single breakthrough or headline achievement, but with sustained commitment, clear-eyed vigilance, and a willingness to adapt over decades.”

But many of these beloved settings weren’t born from pure imagination. They were inspired by real places across Japan – some sacred, others endangered but all profoundly cherished. As Studio Ghibli celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, we’re exploring the real-world places behind some of its most iconic films.

Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of All Demos” at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect.

The intricate model features what Macken says are hundreds of thousands buildings, landmarks and geographic elements across the five boroughs and their surroundings, including bridges, airports, the Hudson and East rivers, New York Harbor, Central Park, One World Trade Center and the original World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building. The work consists of 350 handmade sections that are pieced together and can be taken apart and moved.

IBM Tethnology Atlas

Elon came up with a new genius trick to beat rivals at time-to-market. Colossus 2 will be an even more impressive achievement than xAI’s first cluster. Let’s dig in.  The first half of this report will dig into the Colossus 2 prowess. The second half will discuss Grok models, our mid-to-long term thoughts on xAI, and the unique RL method xAI is using that may lead them to leapfrog OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.  More.

While that’s troubling, some law enforcement experts are more concerned that the accused man was able to stand directly next to the state’s most powerful executive despite having outstanding warrants in four states.

Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our Fairwater datacenter in Wisconsin, we also have multiple identical Fairwater datacenters under construction in other locations across the US.

“When you play blackjack, you play the odds, and every hand, there’s a right [or] wrong answer?.?.?. that wasn’t so dissimilar here, where the hand that we’re dealt by the FCC was one that there’s only one logical path that we’re going to be able to take.”

The actual design of the building is also spurring disgust over how ugly it is. Many are blasting the design as a “monstrosity” and an eyesore. Some have even said it looks like something the evil empire in Star Wars would build for the movies. But perhaps more concerning, the center has become a threat to the residents in the area.

Launch sites of the future need to be fully operationalized like an airport. That means multiple launches a day from multiple providers, able to launch when ready to support a variety of vehicles and missions. SpaceX is committed to working collaboratively with federal regulators, the federal ranges, and industry partners to realize this vision, including making significant investments in scientific research on blast and acoustics, physical infrastructure, and operational techniques and modern tools that foster dynamic, safe, and high-cadence spaceports in the U.S.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster on Thursday, accusing the online broker of raking in profits through exorbitant fees and turning a blind eye as bots illegally resell millions of tickets to customers.

If people are uneducated and foolish, you can’t do much about it. People like to be foolish, but don’t make it easy for them. Argue with them.”

“The Imperial needs to be a destination, so a restaurant without a drive-thru should be there,” Sanford said. “Sadly, Imperial Garden cannot be the restaurant there because Chinese food is prepared over high heat and generates smoke and cooking aroma, which is problematic with residential units above.”

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances.

It strikes me that no matter the service charge, or the quality of the restaurant — which John chides as “more like a backstreet cafe” — or whether privately owned or council-housed, you may still end up defecating onto your shoe in the middle of a bistro. No amount of ground rent can protect your dignity when there is an intrinsic lack of it in ageing. That’s the part The Thursday Murder Club glosses over. You don’t see Pierce Brosnan shuffling down a hallway in stained joggers, unsure where he’s going. Helen Mirren isn’t seen denuded of dignity, lying on her back and promising she won’t sue.

As California AG, Kamala Harris raided the home of journalist David Daleiden and dragged him through the court system for years after he exposed Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal body parts.

The VW Transporter has been in production in its various forms for 75 years in 2025, having first appeared way back in 1950. It’s won countless accolades and many more fans over that time, and plenty of those have been paying tribute in what is yet another notable anniversary year for the bus/van.

I agree that her role is less direct and, unlike with McIntosh/Fickell I’m not necessarily calling for her termination. With that said, I’ll direct your attention to this:

So, what’s the danger? If something on Starship fails, it could disintegrate in the atmosphere. Surviving debris would rain down to the ground, as it did over the Turks and Caicos Islands after two Starship launch failures earlier this year. Two other Starship flights ran into problems once in space, tumbling out of control and breaking apart during reentry over the Indian Ocean.

“In some ways it was a complete success,” Tim Barnes, who leads the CCCBR’s methods team, told me about the reform. “Allowing people to do what they wanted to do within a framework for what they could do.” For his part, Earis is happy with the revisions. Stedman Jump Triples can finally be found in the CCCBR’s official library.

All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the representation of these abstract entities in programming languages and the mapping of these onto machine languages within space and speed constraints. Most of the big past gains in software productivity have come from removing artificial barriers that have made the accidental tasks inordinately hard, such as severe hardware constraints, awkward programming languages, lack of machine time. How much of what software engineers now do is still devoted to the accidental, as opposed to the essential? Unless it is more than 9/10 of all effort, shrinking all the accidental activities to zero time will not give an order of magnitude improvement.

In recent years, OpenStreetMap has emerged as the de facto standard for global electrical grid data. However, many developing countries are still lagging behind. This gap limits rural energy access and slows down climate action:

In our paper Extracting Profits from the Public, we explain how utilities are forcing regular ratepayers to pay for the discounts enjoyed by some of the nation’s largest companies and identify ways policymakers can limit the costs to the public. 

The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.

“The term ‘they aren’t listening’ typically means the council didn’t agree with them,” Guequierre said. He added the council considered the neighbors’ concerns about stormwater runoff and added traffic from the apartment complex but said sometimes people “arrive at different conclusions.”

SpaceX especially wants Apple to cooperate instead of pursuing the C-3 constellation because the H-block and AWS-4 spectrum, that SpaceX is now acquiring from EchoStar, is not supported by any current phones (EchoStar’s Band 66 and Band 70 used different frequency pairings). Thus support from device manufacturers will be needed to get the new capabilities enabled by this spectrum into consumers’ hands in the near term. Of course if Apple doesn’t come around, then there’s always the possibility that SpaceX will announce a “Starlink phone” as Apple executives worried about in the May article.

Porsche is using Apple Vision Pro to showcase the internals of the new 911 Turbo S.

The study found 95 percent of the world exhibits “no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise.” The researchers projected that observed sea level rise will work out to about six inches by 2100. That’s not insignificant. Six more inches of sea level could cause problems in many places. But they’ll be manageable problems, not calamities the instant-doomsday crowd says are coming. Bear in mind there’s money in crying doomsday – government grants, foundation funding, tenure, book contracts.

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change.

We provide a first?of?its?kind dataset of 5?D blur fields—for smartphone cameras, camera bodies equipped with a variety of lenses, etc. Finally, we show that acquired 5?D blur fields are expressive and accurate enough to reveal, for the first time, differences in optical behavior of smartphone devices of the same make and model.

Oracle’s new market cap, near a trillion dollars, up nearly 50% this week, driven largely by this one apparently non-binding deal with a party that doesn’t have the money to pay for the services, seems more bonkers than most.

One of Britain’s largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed can be found in the unlikeliest of locations: a vast former youth hostel in a pretty corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Meticulously sorted into subject areas, from naval history to 19th-century literature, architecture to zoology, over 150,000 volumes fill some 25 high-ceilinged rooms spread over four floors. To withstand the sheer weight of all those hardbacks, the building, which began life as a prep school in c1878, must surely be as strong as a Romanesque church.

Just like none of the buildings captured by F.A. Schwartz survived beyond the end of the nineteenth century, neither did the above Straßenmöbel make it for much longer. You might occasionally stumble upon one or the other gaslight but if so, cherish the sight – they are as good as gone, too.

It was a turbulent century of ideological struggles; the aristocracy survived by adapting to new political structures and by the absorption of an emerging bourgeoisie.

Can the biggest biotech outcomes come from repurposed drugs? “The most fruitful basis of the discovery of a new drug is to start with an old drug”, James Black (Nobel Laureate). Perhaps you can refuse to spend any money on early R&D and safety studies, and instead weaponize ChatGPT to index all the possible mechanisms in all the possible diseases and drugs that can potentially target those. I’ve heard this pitch from at least 4 different friends in the past 3 months, so I suspect many people are pursuing this avenue now, or some other approach to repurposing.

AdBlue is a diesel exhaust fluid used to reduce harmful emissions from diesel-powered vehicles. It is a legal requirement for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) over 7.5 tonnes and diesel engines fitted with selective catalytic reduction (SCR). The use of AdBlue became more widespread with the introduction of Euro 6 emission standards in September 2015, which imposed stricter limits on nitrogen oxide emissions. As a result, diesel cars produced from this date onwards are subject to these laws and are typically fitted with AdBlue tanks.

Roughly a year and a half later, after what Wall called “a long, drawn-out battle” over lighting, city departments finished reviewing the project, moving it closer to construction. Wall said he needs a building permit — which has yet to be issued — to move forward with demolishing the parking garage as part of the new development.

Trader hired one of the builders featured on “Container Homes” but now thinks the company, MODS International, never really intended to build the home. It was supposed to cost $165,000 and be done by the end of 2021. Ultimately, all the company did before walking away was pour a foundation and plunk the five containers — two 40-foot-long ones for the first floor and three 20-foot-long ones for the second — on top of it.

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 16, 2024: “Fed must cut by 75bps on Sept 18” (the Fed cut by 50bps two days later).

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 4, 2025 to Stephen Miran: “What you are doing (by pushing for lower rates) will take an axe to Fed independence”

Vector Tiles are small files that also represent geographic features, similar to GeoJSON. The key difference is that they represent a specific sector, a tile (thus the name), at a specific zoom. That means if I want to display a map of the world with Vector Tiles, it will actually be a collection of square tiles pieced together. Imagine taking a globe and cutting it up in multiple squares – that’s what vector tiles are (we’ll ignore distortion and projections for now, that’ll be a post for another time).

You are NOT counted as “vaccinated” until 2 weeks after your 2nd shot. For the first 6 weeks, the vaccine is ineffective. Infection & death rates rise. But all those deaths are attributed to the “unvaccinated” group.

Now imagine if SpaceX could’ve had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9’s reusability campaign. Imagine if they could’ve tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

Biden officials raised concerns with how he issued pardons, used autopen.

Can this vehicle save the German Auto Industry?