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For plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the real-world CO2 emissions were on average 3.5 times higher than the laboratory values, which confirms that these vehicles are currently not realising their potential, largely because they are not being charged and driven fully electrically as frequently as assumed.

counterpoint

there are some bizarre branding decisions happening at Microsoft

“textbooks one can study to reach expertise in mathematics and physics in the most efficient manner possible”

Trash collection for the ocean

I have not even heard of some of these instruments

hopefully this doesn’t just turn into the 15th competing standard

This quote has nice sentence rhythm

Naturally there are difference species of laziness: Eastern and Western.
The Eastern style is like the one practiced to perfection in India.
It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends.
Western laziness is quite different.
It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

even what seems like the simplest thing has hundreds of factors

bigger rolls in the streets, shrinkflation in the sheets

a very ambitious important thing

the reasoning on choices seems dumb (100 words does not mean 100 choices)

It’s harder to imagine a program that, over many sessions, helps you write a good novel. This hypothetical writing program might require you to enter a hundred thousand words of prompts in order for it to generate an entirely different hundred thousand words that make up the novel you’re envisioning. It’s not clear to me what such a program would look like. Theoretically, if such a program existed, the user could perhaps deserve to be called the author.

this sounds like describing programming. Most people don’t write compiled code

maybe this is it! I have been looking for this or a similar short story for 1.5 decades. This seems a little different to the one I remember but similar premise

cool little overlay to print and sit above piano keys, shows different scales

need more of this

more fun things to waste time learning about

Repo

Tool to develop prompts into full models