https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/04/new-ev-vs-old-beater-which-is-better-for-the-environment/

According to a recent Reuters article using a model developed by the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, the point at which an EV’s carbon footprint meets and begins to fall below that of a comparable gas vehicle in the United States is at around 13,500 miles. So after an average year of driving, the EV is better for the environment. Beyond that, the gap widens.

As for keeping your current car:

As far as manufacturing goes, the old car is already built, so let’s give it a pass regarding its manufacturing carbon footprint. According to a 2015 Union of Concerned Scientists report, a full-size long-range (265 miles) vehicle had a carbon footprint of about six tons, or 12,000 pounds.

In two years, the EV will have caught up to the used car in terms of ecological footprint. After that, as with new gas cars, an EV surpasses it in efficiency for its entire life cycle.

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Is there any evidence that species with higher rates of mutation, and therefore higher chances of evolutionary advantages, stick around? Or is rate of mutation not something which can be encoded in DNA / biology?

What’s the difference between the two?

Only available in Spanish ☹️

Doesn’t it just use Google / Bing under the hood? If those both suck then it wouldn’t improve much, right? Isn’t SearXNG more about privacy?

Cross platform? It’s a browser extension.

I get those are problems for you, but Windows also has many problems. No OS is perfect.

Of those issues, I think the vast majority of users will not have any idea what Optimus or LSPCON are, and wouldn’t care too much about HDR support.

The maximized windows thing - yeah I agree. It’s crazy to me that they haven’t fixed this.

This is great, but I still don’t understand why we even need to file anything.

What’s wrong with Ubuntu? I’ve used it daily for years.

What about a VM?

Someone recently told me that they sometimes feel gaslighted around me because I effortlessly make them question their beliefs and feelings

That says more about them than about you. An intelligent, stable adult shouldn’t be able to be so easily affected, even if they were in a room with Hannibal Lecter.

I’ve always been quite critical of myself

Lots of people are. That’s a good thing, as long as it’s constructive criticism. Sometimes it can go overboard and become unhealthy.

don’t consider myself a very nice person

Yeah that’s not great. You should be nice.

I have very strong morals

Then I think you’re not a psychopath.

However, this includes things like not lying, which means I always speak the truth, even if not everyone likes hearing it. I don’t conform to many social norms expected of me

That’s great! I wish more people in the world were like this.

However, it’s also important to say things in a respectful way. That doesn’t mean beating around the bush or sugar coating anything. It just means take their feelings into account.

E.g. if someone asks you if they are good at their job, and the truth is they suck, don’t say “no, you suck” (unless they deserve it). Say “there’s room for improvement. You can get there by working on x, y, and z.” The latter is constructive and gives them a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. In a way, that is more truthful than no light at all. Everyone can improve and change and better themselves, and it’s important to remind others (and yourself) of that.

Not conforming to society is great. I wish fewer people conformed.

But I can’t help but wonder why they don’t see me as I see myself

No one can do that but you.

I worry that I’m hiding the true me so well that people don’t actually like me, but rather the facade I unknowingly maintain

That’s called being an adult. As a child, we aren’t required to regulate our emotions, or enter complicated relationships with others. Life is full of tradeoffs, and after enough of them, even if you always make the best choices, you’ll still be far from where you felt when you started. We’re all strangers in foreign lands after a while. That doesn’t make you a psychopath; it makes you human.

I would 100% be for shutting those down. Doing so would probably lead us into the next Renaissance.

Did they ask the exact same questions as before? If they did, it would probably skew the results. If they didn’t, it would also probably skew the results.

COVID vaccines do not contain any COVID.

Not a doctor so may be a stupid question, but wouldn’t the blood brain barrier protection stuff degrade or shut down when you die? Could it have leaked in after death?

YouTube == TikTok? What?

I think the point is this is paradoxical. Everything must be proven by facts and we cannot trust any general, abstract statement of its own accord, then how can we prove “everything must be proven by facts and we cannot trust any general, abstract statement of its own accord”? What if that’s a wrong assumption?

Maybe the truth is we don’t always need to rely on observable facts, but we don’t know that because we’re making the aforementioned assumption without having any proof that it’s correct.

You can do all that with Rust. Maybe C/C++ is good to teach if the professor explains why they should almost never be used, but IMO it would probably be better to just educate them using a well designed language like Rust so that they have the experience for a career.

IMO the “stuck in their ways” isn’t about experience at all. It’s about good or bad devs. I’ve seen green devs stuck in their ways.

Sometimes managers or devs who don’t know any better think that knowing the right thing to do is the same as being inflexible, because they don’t understand the rationale since they aren’t experienced programmers.