My problem was the hold would stay for almost 2 weeks. It’s fine to hold for an hour or 2 but I’d spend $15 on gas but have $60 hold I couldn’t use until it was time to go get more gas

I paid over $200 in over draft fees due to these asinine holds from gas stations when I lived in the US. Luckily the banks in NZ aren’t allowed to do that shit.

The Martian

Fractional CTO: Some small companies benefit from the senior experience of these kinds of executives but don’t have the money or the need to hire one full time. A fraction of the time they are C suite for various companies.

New Zealand has good QoL but does have issues with inequality with the Maori (original Polynesian settlers). They are strict about immigration which tries to help reduce immigrant inequality. Australia has better economic QoL, but there is no wildlife in NZ that will kill you.

It’s classification AI not generative AI. Basically smart tagging. And it’s optional. Super helpful though and runs locally on your machine.

Nothing. Just helps pay for development.

I have ANZ here in NZ and can use them in AU as well. The only permission I allow them is notifications.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alovoa.expo

Oh goody. Another fucking max championship.

Entertaining children

I lived in NC for 28 years, never heard of buttermilk pie. Derby and pumkin were popular as well as pecan.

Kombucha

Yes, exactly. I used to design tools to test these and we weren’t allowed to patent them, but I think some of the high level concepts were secret patents though I can’t know that.

For anyone wondering the thing ICBMs (and jet planes) use is called a gyroscope and gives the same output but it isn’t a “spinning top” gyro that you might be thinking of. Rather think super sensitive dynamo, or reversed motor. Tiny rotation turns into voltage signal.

There is an even newer type that uses laser but I don’t know anything about it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them have to do with rocketry or bioweapons and other things to make them work. I’ve designed things personally that are not destructive themselves but aid in testing or improving accuracy of hypersonic vehicles. The DOW (formerly DOD) did not allow us to apply for patents due to national security.

And almost certainly the oldest mountains in the solar system

Solar panels collect solar energy and turn it into electrical energy. Radiative cooling takes heat and sends it into space via Infrared. This is pretty simple as all matter above 0K loses heat energy by emitting IR. While it is slightly more effective at night, it works all the time if you set it up right (in other words shade it so it doesn’t absorb more heat via the sun.

Ancient civilizations like the Babylonians used this concept to make ice in the desert. If you build a tall enough tower you can put a pool of water in eternal shade but always being able to emit IR into space. Add some well placed vents and you lose more heat via evaporative cooling.

With billions more people starting to have access to modern technologies and wanting/needing air conditioning to survive we must utilize these ideas to manage power consumption without killing the planet even more.

A grocery store near LA did an experiment where half of it’s roof was solar and half was radiative cooling its fridges and the radiative cooling was more effective and more consistent. Cloudy sky means no solar but radiation is still leaving your building, it’s just warming the clouds instead of space.

If you have a black roof it absorbs light and your house warms. If you have a white roof it reflects light meaning less heat. If you can reflect IR even better. Most of the ways we make white paint for hard surfaces is by suspending tiny bubbles in the paint. More bubbles more reflections including IR. With enough layers of white paint you can get a roof cooler then ambient air.

Different versions of this were plastered all over high schools in my area when I attended a decade ago. Not satire unfortunately.

Trunpet gang about getting fingering and mouthing right then a little stroke when you get to the D.

I put the cat tree next to my front door so my kitty could affection attack my head and shoulders instead of tripping me when I got home from work.