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One last point he makes is the personal savings rate soared during lockdowns, as key costs like childcare and commuting vanished. “When the world reopened, the costs returned, but now inflated by 20%. The rage we feel today is the hangover from that brief moment where the American Option was momentarily back in the money,” he says.

So people were actually better off during the pandemic. smh

Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it’s still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?

I wonder if this means it’s less locked down the Deck? Like is it kind of an iPad vs Mac situation? When I got the Deck and it was my only CPU travelling around at one point, I tried installing some general tools so I could get some actual work done on the road. Things were fairly heavily sandboxed, though nothing was a total deal-breaker I guess?

Your coworker is reaching out to you in his own way, and you are making his life more bearable than you may know. What seems a little bump in the road may be a mountain to him. But life’s a marathon, and he might come around yet.

I was just trying to make sure that this is ok and won’t tangle up my code later on.

I guess the main issue there is Python doesn’t like circular dependencies? Like if you try to import dep2 from dep1 and dep1 from dep2, you’re going to have a problem. You’d essentially have to refactor your code to have a dep3 that both can import to use the common functionality I guess.

As others have mentioned, I would add a src/__init__.py file to turn src into a package.

Then, inside dep1.py, you can do a relative import with:

from . import dep2  

I’m not sure why you’re using as to make the module name longer? Usually, if I use it at all, I use it make things shorter. Anyway, once you’ve imported dep2, you can call dep2.some_fn(). You could also go:

from .dep2 import some_fn  
some_fn()  

I lost a close male relative to breast cancer and he had been in the US Navy. It can happen to anyone and with men, it’s often not diagnosed until it’s too late due to the stigma and general lack of awareness that it’s a thing.

I wish they had put snake on there for comparison purposes. They seem to have a certain economy of motion compared to legged animals, though friction could be an issue?

Heck, I’d have bet a Greenland Shark, or a Whale Shark to beat salmon.

They’re only considering “land” travellers. Though they include birds and fish that are not directly propelling themselves using the land, so take from that what you will.

Yeah mine does, but it’s a USB-A. Not sure of its max output, but it’s rather limited compared to what USB-C could theoretically give you.

I suppose with USB-C, you could flip it around and use the bike battery as a giant power bank you can plug your laptop or whatever into?

This of course hinges on my parents and uncle staying reasonably healthy and financially secure, if they end up as vegetables with a nursing home draining all of their assets or decide to blow all of their wealth in Vegas or something the whole plan could kind of fall apart.

I’m a Gen X with Gen Z kids and this is literally the kind of thing that keeps me up at night. I don’t want to go through a long and costly retirement. My mom got dementia. My dad lived to be a hundred. Either of those outcomes fills me with dread that there is no way I have saved anywhere near enough to make that work. At least I don’t see myself doing the Vegas thing, unless it’s a side-effect of the dementia?

Among the requirements of the DMA is that Apple ensures that headphones made by other brands will work with iPhones. It said this has been a block on it releasing its live translation service in the EU as it allows rival companies to access data from conversations, creating a privacy problem.

I’m not really understanding this. Where is the privacy problem? What is different with airpods that solves this? At the end of the day, are they not just bluetooth headphones? Do they add some extra security layer beyond what bluetooth itself offers?

Yeah I guess the big issue there is the voltage on the main battery is pretty high. Too high for USB. But it has to be brought down anyway for the electronics, so why not let people tap into it at that point? It’s petty not to offer the option.

Mine was a USB-A connector hidden under the display. Once I realized where it was, it was easy enough to get to. On my wife’s bike, it was trickier to find/use. I had to crane my neck and look carefully under where the finger controls were and there was a tiny panel with a USB-C connector behind it.

This all reminds a bit of what happened when we got a hybrid car and my coworker needed a boost. I had jumper cables on me but it was a real head-scratcher to figure out where to attach them on a hybrid? Like in the bike case, the battery is plenty powerful but the voltage is way too high. Eventually, I found a positive 12V terminal hidden in the fuse box! You remove the cover and there’s this U-shaped piece of metal sticking out you can attach the positive clip to.

I’ve tried it both ways. What I have noticed with the e-bike is I ride it 7 days a week, where it was more like half that with my old bike. Frankly, it is so much fun I am making excuses to get out there.

Some points based on my experience:

• I used to avoid deep ravine trails due to the steep climbs involved. Now I seek them out.
• I don’t mind travelling somewhat out of my way to reach said trails. It’s really no bother on an e-bike. Nothing is ever a slog anymore.
• Heat waves and smog alerts don’t phase me anymore.
• As for winter, you have more options. You can get fat tires that ride better through snow or mud, for example. Of course you can do so with a regular bike also, but it adds weight, so there’s a trade-off.
• Travel times have lowered somewhat, but more importantly, they have become much more consistent. You don’t pay a time penalty for fighting head winds.
• I don’t show up at work a sweaty mess.
• If I want a stronger workout, I can choose where and when to do it, such as on a trail rather than busy city streets, and on the way home rather than work.
• I tend to slow down more often, where before I was blowing through stop signs and what not.
• If you have any muscle or joint issues, e-bikes are a godsend.
• A minor point, but my e-bike has a usb for charging phones. (These things are amazingly stealth. I owned mine for like a year before realizing it was tucked under a rubberized cover below the front panel, and then I found it on my wife’s bike in a different spot.)

On the negative side:

• My e-bike model at least is bulkier than a regular bike (I do have the fat tires for winter and all that), which can make it more challenging to lock it up at bike racks.
• Brake pads don’t seem to last as long as they used to.
• Yes, it costs more initially. But as the article points out, if this is an alternative to driving, you quickly make back the investment. A regular bike is obviously the cheapest option of all though.

The carbon tax was revenue neutral. It came back to you in the form of rebates. If you were an average Joe and did absolutely nothing in response to it, you’d still break even.

But if you did do something to lower your personal carbon footprint, you’d get ahead. You’d be getting back more than you were paying. And the higher the tax went, the bigger the payout would become. That was the point of it. It was an incentive to lower your taxes and emissions at the same time.

But all people with half a brain could hear was TAX TAX TAX. And so here we are…

I’ve been thinking of late that his tweets look AI generated. You just enter something like: take today’s news from a reputable source, invert all the facts, add lots of hyperbole, and capitalize words for emphasis.

That was epic. Thank you!

I think Guitar Hero was a good investment for my kids, as they came to love all the classics I grew up on.

This looks fascinating! Definitely signing up for the early access.

One thing to note here, though I researched this a few years ago so it may be dated? I was wondering at the time why there was almost no solar contribution compared to wind, and learned that while utilities operate most wind farms, solar tends to be private operations that sell their power to the grid and are often not included on a site like this which monitors only the utility’s contributions.