Why is this better than the scripting environment in other CAD systems? I’m particular, I looked a bit at https://openscad.org/ previously, though didn’t make much headway modeling the thing I wanted.

Why is a language-level approach better than just an API in an existing, popular language?

A bit more technical detail from greencarreports. I was wondering if 800v charging necessarily implies anything about motor voltage, and apparently it’s “sometimes”.

GM’s GMC Hummer EV, for instance, runs at 400 volts, and each layer of its dual-layer battery pack operates in some ways as an individual pack. In 400-volt charging, the packs are connected in parallel, but for 800-volt charging a switch allows them to be connected in series—like the cells in a long, multi-cell flashlight—to take advantage of the higher voltage.

That 800-volt “trick” permits the Hummer EV pickup, with its 205-kwh battery pack, to charge at 350 kw and gain nearly 100 miles of range in 10 minutes—despite its 400-volt system and its inefficiency compared to other EVs.

Anyone know what the stuff headed NW is? Pyroclastic flow on the ground? Different altitude / wind direction carrying ash?

The impact of handle shape is negligible next to tire size (the 19" and 20" tires many EVs have reduce range) or lack of rear wheel cowlings. I read an article about it recently related to people dying in Teslas + EU legislation, but can’t remember the source.

Also, from the article:

The company hides the door handles to improve aerodynamics, a common feature on high-end electric cars, but one that’s about to be banned in China due to safety fears.

I am annoyed by Christmas before Thanksgiving, but the change doesn’t seem that egregious, just avoiding the case where it could be a week later than usual:

in 1863, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln established the last Thursday of November as the official date for Thanksgiving to be celebrated each year. Following this tradition, every president thereafter declared a general day of Thanksgiving to be observed on the last Thursday in November. However, in 1939, during the Great Depression, November had five Thursdays, and the last one fell on November 30, which left little time for the Christmas shopping season. To address this concern, in August 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to break from tradition and issued an executive order declaring that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on November 23 instead of November 30.

Also it didn’t work:

A 1941 Commerce Department survey found no significant expansion of retail sales due to the change.

Crispng adds:

Court documents show Ruth was previously charged with stalking, trespassing, and prowling at night, but had no felony convictions.

Thanks. Sounds to me like a person who reasonable gun control laws would have prevented from gun ownership.

At least it enhances every day value for the customer!

Ugh.

Aljazeera has a scant few additional details:

Police said the officers were there to serve a warrant. At a news conference, Christopher Paris, the state police commissioner, explained that they were following up on an investigation that began the day before, but he shared few other details. “The general heading of that investigation, I would say,

From the original article:

“This kind of violence is not OK. We need to do better as a society,” Shapiro said.

Seems like quite a juxtaposition there. I wonder what the “disturbance” was, and what de-escalation approaches were attempted.

I think the suggestion to just stitch around it is probably sufficient, but an earlier post in this community pointed me to using a speedweve to basically weave a little patch in-place, picking up stitches around all the sides to sew it onto the mended garment. Looks pretty cool if you want to go to that much effort.

(Edit: Video with clearer instructions, also demos on non-hand-knit fabric.)

Bummer, I had a pretty high opinion of RPI up until now. I would say ‘wait and see what results get published,’ but we saw how that worked out with the elections, and I can’t imagine anyone would take that money without knowing the result they’re expected to deliver.

Hah. It’s I am not a lawyer.

If all the employees/execs agree, could they quit en masse and form a new company? I guess they’d need to build new factories. And maybe run afoul of non competes.

But yeah, seems like selling your soul and then asking the public to ransom it for you is irresponsible.

100 coins in the clock was probably my toughest of the 120 stars.

And shooting them.

Better South Korea than a concentration camp, but all these headlines calling it “home” is misleading, their homes are presumably near their workplace.

Misleading title, “flown home” actually means taken “to South Korea on a chartered flight”.

Use polars, or some framework that’s been built with performance from the start?

I have optimized pandas notebooks before, but it seems a bit like a foundation of sand.

plus a GPU-powered drop-in accelerator, cudf.pandas, that delivers order-of-magnitude speedups with no code changes.

Don’t have a GPU on your machine? No problem—you can use cudf.pandas for free in Google Colab, where GPUs are available and the library comes pre-installed.

Ah, I see why NVIDIA is writing about it.

Ballotopedia is not so ad encrusted and has this breakdown:

Wu has said she would prioritize reducing dependence on cars. Wu has highlighted her record on public transportation, including working with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to eliminate slow zones, as well as increasing ridership with fare-free bus lines, installing speed humps, and using technology to reduce congestion.[9] Kraft has said he wouldn’t prioritize reducing dependence on cars and instead would focus on fixing roads and sidewalks, as well as temporarily pause bike lane construction to conduct an audit on the efficiency of proposed bike lanes.[18]