I did some towing of loaded ~1500lb trailers with a 1.6 liter Corolla twenty years ago and it was sort of OK... Not great, not terrible. Requires some patience and some extra planning ahead.

Of course an ICE uses more fuel in absolute terms on a higher load than a lower one. But the proportion of fuel wasted compared to fuel turned into propulsion improves as load is increased (at least up to a point, maybe not all the way to absolute maximum load).

Electric systems also have efficiency curves, but they are less drastic within the primary load range.

(Very small groups of) people used be in awe at LAN parties when I showed them how Linux could play an MP3 without stutters while copying large files across the network and browsing images.

Then it was time to play games and people were less impressed by me not being able to join any other game than Quake...

You can perhaps collect negative experiences from people you trust, and use that to narrow your selection. But you can't use good experiences, since the treatment people were happy with might as well have been a no-op and whatever problem they have would have gone away by itself in a short time. And if there wasn't a noticable pre-existing problem that was treated, but something the dentist made up on the stop, the treament someone was happy with might as well have been actively harmful, just not enough to be noticed right away.

Dentistry simply have too little credibility as a profession. If you need to pull a tooth out to make it stop hurting, sure, a random dentist is quite likely to do a reasonable job. At least compared to a random blacksmith. But as countless articles linked in this thread shows, dentists have absolutely no clue if you have cavities that need to be treated.

Anyway, ICQ was not some elite hacker thing. Anyone with enough reading comprehension to tell milk and orange juice apart from reading a label could operate it just fine.

It is a bit of an old-school experience, but all the important parts are there and get the work done.

Maybe it will improve by itself over time, but maybe not? There are a lot of things that humans generally suck at, and successful, human-friendly design must take that into account and work around it systematically.

Maybe phones/it/banking/payments/identity/authorization needs to be radically changed, in order to serve society well.

Some people will use the same pin for screen lock and BankID, and if someone gets their code and their phone they can cause a huge amount of trouble in a very short time.

My Flipbelt has lost some tightness after three years and many laundry cycles, but it still manages a Pixel 10a with no problems.

The belt rests over the hip and I usually have the phone flat on my backside. I don't really notice it after a few steps.

The shelling of Mauripol in Ukraine at the beginning of the current war was roughly equivalent to Hiroshima in explosive yield. It had a lot more destructive power though, since it was distributed across a huge amount of explosions, and blast damage falls approximately with the square of distance to center of explosion.

Mauripol in 2022 was not a place you wanted to be in. When a bomb falls on top of you, it makes no difference if it is small nuclear or large conventional, you very much die anyway.

I'm not trying to make war seem nice or sell the idea that the world is heading in a great direction, I'm trying to make the point that nuclear annihilation is less of a threat today than before.

I don't mean that things are fine, just that Nuclear annihilation is less of a concern than some make it out to be.

Originally created for production usage on RHEL8 systems where the target application is tied hard to system Python.

Intended to also be useful for similar situations on newer LTS editions of Ubuntu, RedHat etc.

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