A common battery for grid level storage is pumped hydro - that is, use the peak power during the day(s) to push water from the bottom of an elevation to the top, and hold it there - bonus points if it captures water delivered from other solar processes (evaporation -> rain)

But the truth is - so do I - as a humble contributor to a document, test, bug fix, or feature add to a FOSS project - where's the beef?

Some parts of birdwatching could be Virtual - watching a feeder somewhere (anywhere) waiting for birds to come in and watch what they do - or watching different trees/plants at different points in the year attracting different birds exhibiting different behaviours (eg. I have a love of seeing Tui[NZ] when Taiwanese Cherry or Kowhai are in flower, they gather in the tree at different times of the day when the nectar is at its peak, there are fights for dominance between the birds, there's a racket as they all feast, then boom, as quickly as they arrive they're gone again, off to the next tree)

You live in an area rich with history stretching back 35 - 50 thousand years

This glares for me - I'm not "listing" by creation time per se; I'm taking advantage of locality - the page of data that a given key's data is in should also contain data of other keys created around the same time.

That locality means that I have less disk calls if I want to get the data for a series of rows that were created around the same time.

The blog post seems to be saying that (worst case) I cannot rely on that aspect.

To put it into a software developers context - which hopefully makes it easier to understand for some.

The law is legacy code that stretches back a few centuries (literally) that has been written by many many people with little in common, and has active users who must be consulted upon change.

This behaviour, by Joe Public, is a serious problem, in that it's an emotional response, not a logical one, and absolutely never based on informed debate

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/11194/SocMed

And that is my core complaint - data races are well-understood and preventable now, whether statically via Rust's borrow checker (or pure immutability in functional languages) or dynamically with tools like Go's -race detector.

Logic races remain an application-level problem regardless of language design.

I have indeed.

> The main problem with having a 5yo is more generally sanding down their ego. “no bud you can’t swim. not well. yet” and “I think you probably have some more to learn about chess. no I don’t think you can beat me.”

I don't think you've understood my post at all.

If, as you say, you have to spend that amount of time adjusting expectations, which I too have had to do with children, adults, and managers alike, then, if you understand my post, you would do that in a way that teaches them that adjustments don't have to come with ridicule, or cause for fear.

The suggestion that you don't steer the children toward understanding that there are limitations to the world (including their own abilities) is the complete reverse of my post - the opposite is what I am saying, I even explicitly mention telling your child that "there will always be some things that nobody knows yet"

In fact, I would go further, teaching your child that there will be times that they fail, but can come to you with their head held high because they learnt from that experience, is what safety is all about.

Please copy and paste from my post where that's being asserted

> Its touted purely as a _memory_ safe language

Which is different from what was said... how?

> To claim otherwise is absurd and very telling of the writer's biases

To pretend that those claims were made is what's actually telling of biases.

It still, like every other language/tool we have that shares state between threads, has race conditions, for example.

Learn to tell them that you don't have all the answers, and there's a chance that the pair of you can work together to find it out, but there will always be some things that nobody knows yet.

But, most of all, I cam here to say - the foundation you're suggesting building is the strongest one we know of - safety in their emotions, having someone they can talk to, share their feelings with without ridicule or fear.

Start there and children always have someone they can talk to

The country's biggest scandal - Watergate, was fundamentally an election sabotage/political espionage scandal

Bush in Florida stopping the vote count was definitely democracy being tagged.

I've always taken the view that it was luck - lucky that my interests aligned with the market, lucky the market put value in what I am interested in doing, and lucky that I was given the chance.

I was never in it for the money, I was always in it for the enjoyment, and I will remain in it for the same thing.

The market for my knowledge and skills might come and go, there might have been a brief moment in history when someone like me could make a living off these skills, but like so many other creative careers that time was always going to be fleeting