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    A most “abnormal” Atlantic hurricane season officially ends this week

    I see. So it’s like “if these factors stay within these limits our models give these fairly accurate results, but we can’t really tell when they will and when they won’t”.
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    American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021

    How much did they increase fossil powered electricity generation? The 0,54% and the 0,15% are not calculated against the same base number.
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    A most “abnormal” Atlantic hurricane season officially ends this week

    But why were their forecasts so off? Don’t their models include “wind shear” and “dry air” (humidity?) ?
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    After ICBM test, US stresses it was “not the result of current world events”

    Considering nuclear weapons have kept the world more or less safe for 75 years, they really should be called SANE.
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    10 malicious Python packages exposed in latest repository attack

    Yes, but keep in mind, 75% of developers are now self-taught JavaScript of Python cowboys and -girls working alone or in a small business with no DevSecOps-police oversight. Not everyone is a bank or the aerospace industry.
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    Until demand drops, Amazon limiting Plan B purchases to 3 per week

    Wow, so people actually knew about plan b pills, they just chose to have an abortion instead in the case they actually got pregnant, which they didn’t always off course. Are abortions cheaper than these pills, or at least not significantly more expensive?
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    Samsung’s QD-OLED TV challenges premium OLEDs with $2,200 starting price 

    Now that Samsung finally has OLED, maybe we will see an end to the brightness and burn-in industrialized trolling and let LCD disappear forever.
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    Kia’s new EV6 electric crossover goes straight to the head of the pack

    Almost all Teslas are under warranty still. Poor long term quality and therefore second hand value is my personal concern. The novelty will wear off somewhat too when more alternatives with better price performance are available. The Supercharger network is on the other hand their greatest...
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    Kia’s new EV6 electric crossover goes straight to the head of the pack

    Tesla is Microsoft. No taste, quality or craftsmanship. A short blip of popularity. Also, a rediculous nerd at the wheel.
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    Emissions from aluminum production are bad news for solar energy

    If you use recycled aluminium for solar, then virgin aluminium will be used somewhere else. Solar requires new aluminium, and it will tie it up indefinitely. So you can ignore recycling in an alternate analysis comparing solar and wind, for instance. What I want to know is how long must a...
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    Meet 2022’s World Rally cars: Much more power, much more sustainable

    Nope. Torque is not power. The torque is always the same in a symmetrical differential. Like a rotary see-saw. The power flows according to the rpm. Power = torque * rpm.
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    Meet 2022’s World Rally cars: Much more power, much more sustainable

    Wait, what? A differential IS a fixed distribution of torque. What’s giving the fixed distribution if it’s not a differential? A direct connection gives fixed angular velocity, leading to wildly changing distribution of torque.
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    The critical Log4Shell zero-day affects a who’s who of big cloud services

    Unless you need transactional logging, this is not true. Logging should be asynchronous and not hold up the worker thread outside of collecting context data. Still debug level logging generates way too much data under almost any circumstances. Regarding sanitizing: to properly sanitize, you...
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    The critical Log4Shell zero-day affects a who’s who of big cloud services

    Shouldn’t only known required outbound traffic be allowed? Target host, port and protocol?
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    The critical Log4Shell zero-day affects a who’s who of big cloud services

    I agree. Magic string functions like this smell of vestigial C/Perl caveman do-it-in-one-statement behavior. You don’t want a second programming language embedded in your strings. One occasionally stoops to the regex level though 😖
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    Theranos tests detected prostate-cancer marker in prostateless women

    Yes. Why needlessly exclude prostateless men?
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    Hyundai hints at Ioniq 7 with its latest concept EV, SEVEN

    They would be better off sticking with 100kW?
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    Traffic deaths climb higher than miles traveled in 2021, NHTSA finds

    Kind of puts the 20 unarmed people killed by police in the same period into context. I know what I will be worrying about if I visit the U.S.
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    Making sense of Mazda’s MX-30 electric commuter car

    Like Nate Dogg and Warren G?
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    Tesla on Autopilot slammed into police cars despite flashing lights, lawsuit says

    Subaru launched their first stereoscopic computer vision in the Japanese market in 1999.