We had a wasps nest last summer inside the wall under the eaves of our house, some kid from the exterminator's came with a long telescoping rod and puffed some kind of white powder into the opening. He explained that it was something like a slow-acting poison (or maybe like diatomaceous earth) that would cover the drones when they left or arrived at the nest and that it was enough for one of these drones to brush up against the queen to kill her. They swarmed around for a few hours then we never saw them again, so it apparently worked.
This was after attempting to spray the opening with regular wasp spray a few times. Sure, it killed a dozen or so drones each time but never really put a dent in the population.
A good spray picking off the very earliest dozen or so wasps in the early spring may actually directly get the queen, who has not always permanently settled in. That point or the next few weeks is an excellent opportunity to add secondary toxins that the workers will carry in, because the nest is so small they will encounter the queen.
Beyond that I guess only completely saturating an internal trunk route through the thing with a tool like that is going to work!
> The minimum house temperature your home should be kept at to avoid damp, mould and condensation is 18°C, according to health and energy experts.
That article and the supposed experts are idiotic. Condensation is a function of relative temperatures and humidities. If your house is warmer than outdoors, then you're not going to get condensation from outdoor air.
The outdoor air isn't really relevant, the issue is human activity (breathing, showering, laundry, etc.) raising the indoor humidity when combined with low indoor temperatures causing surfaces to approach the dew point. Particularly external walls or windows that will be a lower temperature than the room as a whole.
At 70% RH and 15C air temperatures, the dew point is 10C - which could easily be achieved along the exterior walls of an older more poorly insulated house.
Good to someone, somewhere, telling everyone else what good is.
Arguably, code formatters should be configurable, to get a format for your code that you want. Unfortunately, prettier isn't one, and it is a form of regression in many communities at the cost of choice pruning.
It might be great for a CI pipeline for constraining how code should look (use prettier, dumbass!), but it isn't great for actually formatting code, as it just makes the code "prettier".
Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want. But it ends up in the repo following the guidelines of the repo. Minimizing unnecessary back-and-forth with PRs. Extremely useful in my opinion.
Even though prettier has defaults, but they can be modified to quite some extent to suit your projects needs: https://prettier.io/docs/options
> Using it as a precommit hook in OSS projects makes it so that people can write code however they want.
That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).
> quite some extent
Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.
IMO, its not great, which is kind of how things work out when you try to do everything in one project.
> That is the point of a formatter, so any formatter would do that (and there were many more active projects to allow formatting before prettier came around).
No arguments here. You are free to choose the formatter you want.
> Not really, and I have written prettier plugins to get around that constraint.
Or you could simply use those better formatters you were talking about.
Poorly made slop aside, your framing of this just makes it look and sound like you're extremely bitter over losing a hackathon (?) to this guy. I think you should've focused on the company solely and dropped the snide and sarcastic references calling the CEO/dev a "hero" or "mastermind". It's not particularly mature or productive.
Which didn't stop the US and other western countries to embargo them after their invasion of northern Cyprus (yes it was in 1974, but it's when the Turkish domestic defense sector really started so it's not irrelevant even if it's 50 years old).
They mostly seem interested in JRPG anime slop, and even then Expedition 33 was released just this year and is probably the best example of that genre from the last 20 years? That's also by a relatively small studio though..
I would agree that big AAA studios are basically entirely creatively bankrupt at this point, but that's not exclusive to games, the same trend is apparent with movies (remakes of Disney movies, Star Wars sequels, etc.).
Presumably that's how many users they had 2 weeks ago, as indicated by the giant "Recent" indicator and the dates? You can always switch to "All Data".
Not zero indexing is misleading if you are comparing discrete things like GPU performance, not in the case of plotting a timeline graph. Their published stats could be seen as misleading if they only displayed a short and/or a specific timeline (excluding the latest data for example).
Hint: This has nothing to do with a zero y-axis, why would one need to have a zero value to have the y-axis start at zero?
The reason to have a non-zero y-axis for time series is to amplify changes, e.g. the changes might be to small to see with a zeroed y-axis. Or you have ups and downs and want to compare them, with a zeroed y-axis again the changes might be too small to compare.
Whenever you want to show growth, a non-zero y-axis is usually a sign that the aim is to overstate growth, because we as humans estimate growth by the steepness of the graph, not by the numbers. A non-zero y-axis creates a much steeper graph and thus growth is perceived much higher than it is.
I have never been able to understand the argument about the supposed high water use - the water doesn't magically cease to exist after it's been used to cool a datacenter. You put freshwater in and get the same, but warmer, freshwater out. Probably doesn't require much (if any) in the way of treatment to become potable again.
Am I missing something or is it a bit of a disingenuous argument?
I'm not actually familiar with current DC cooling equipment...but I suspect they use a lot forced-draft, evaporative cooling towers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower ). That is far more efficient than "dry" cooling (so long as the outdoor humidity isn't too high). But the waste water from it (what hasn't evaporated) has too high a mineral content to be re-used. Unless you ran it through a desalination plant, which would get very expensive.
To my understanding it's common to use evaporative cooling or discharge into a natural body of water, which would require full treatment again.
Though ultimately if a data center is carbon negative and water positive (which to be clear is not generally the case yet, but there is progress) I think raw energy/water usage numbers are less relevant.
I think in a lot of cases, there are already solutions for recovering at least the heat from the water as energy. I'm not sure about the water itself, but I think OP's point is that there's not really such a thing as 'waste water'—it'll just go back into the normal water cycle, either being pumped out into a nearby river, or evaporated up into the air.
I think the key concern is the wasted energy, as a lot of energy is used to clean the water prior to it being used in the data centre.
There is another problem with evaporative cooling in regards to the effect on climate: water vapor has an incredibly strong greenhouse effect. It's complicated though, because white clouds have the opposite effect: they reflect heat back into space. I have no idea how you could begin to calculate the net effect from additional humidity introduced into the environment, you would have to somehow figure out how much becomes just humidity and how much contributes to more cloud formation.
There might also an effect on fish spawning if the temperature is higher, some fish may not return to spawn until the water is cool enough or they have lower chances of survival if they hatch early due to increased temperatures. That is, assuming the remaining water flow allows for passage of fish runs.
You need to realize that open palm slapping your 2 year old (in public, no less) for accidentally kicking a table is not an "obvious attempt to generate outrage" when the act itself is obviously outrageous to anyone from a place where such things are illegal and seen as morally abhorrent.
Not to mention the fact that when they're not busy slapping their kids around they seem content to leave parenting up to an iPad.
IMO, these people are clearly, obviously unfit to be parents, and the state should intervene before more harm can be done. The children's names alone are tantamount to abuse, honestly..
