I assume this is water-equivalent snowpack, essentially if the square foot of snow melted into water and stayed within that square foot, that would be the number represented in this graph?

The Sierras have an absolute shitload of snow this year, and it's pretty incredible. Looking forward to all that snow melting and being used to recharge our aquifers and reservoirs and growing insane amounts of food.

It's also incredible that over 70 million acre-feet of runoff from rain and snow is expected this water year in California alone. That's almost 6 times the entire Colorado River Basin's flow over the past 20 years (~12 million acre-feet). Of course we can only capture a fraction of it, but it's still enough to bring the state back into a good spot (though aquifers take many years to recharge).

I have built some of these homes in San Jose for their bridge housing communities. They aren’t much, but they have a bed, a shelf, an outlet, a light, heating & cooling, insulation, and most importantly, a lockable door.

It’s truly one of the most emotionally moving experiences when you get to move the complete home onto the actual site, usually past existing tent encampments. Knowing that you had a part in building someone’s first safe place to sleep in many years is one of the best feelings of gratitude and satisfaction.

These communities, though often are fought against by the surrounding communities, are one of the most effective and efficient ways to successfully and permanently pull people out of chronic homelessness.

If you live in a city that is building or considering building one of these, please help support the effort! Volunteer to build, attend public meetings, and spread the word.

Your engine braking will only contribute several dozen horsepower, since it's just drivetrain loss and vacuum pulling from the throttle body causing the drag.

Even on a typical Toyota Camry, its brakes are capable of over 1500 hp of braking power. The brakes will easily overpower the maximum traction of your tires, which is when ABS kicks in and keeps the brakes at maximum braking power (because sliding friction is lower than static friction, ABS helps to minimize tire slipping).

So just push the clutch in, slam the brakes, and let your car do its thing.

I’m more curious than anything, but this is absolutely a whole new layer of immersion that makes VR an even better experience. I’d absolutely try this out, not just for the gunshot/stabbing feedback but other sensory inputs like wind, chills, intense heartbeats, etc.

Imagine what SOMA in VR would be like with this. (Please make a VR port of SOMA!)

The majority of chips are made on much older and/or more specialized process nodes, and those capacities won’t be expanded any time soon, if at all. Things like protection devices, discrete transistors, op amps, and power regulators are built on larger nodes like 130nm and 250nm. Most automotive controller ICs are also built on 90nm or larger nodes too. Those nodes are still absolutely crushed right now and will be for at least another year. It’s slowly getting better, but the market is still crazy tight.

Yep one of my friends got layed off from a biomedical startup and she got 2 new job offers within a week. Tech is still hiring like crazy, just not at the companies who overhired during the pandemic and rely entirely on ad revenue to survive.

Glutamic acid can also be found in high concentrations in all sorts of normal foods.

Carrots, mushrooms, and seaweed are all high in glutamic acid. Parmesan cheese is 1.6% by weight raw glutamic acid. Eggs are 10-11% glutamic acid.

Atlantic cod is 15 grams per 6 oz portion.

I think phones and laptops and pads yes, not sure about headphone charging cases, but my guess is also yes.

Though Magsafe3 is still safe, because the MacBooks can also charge from USBC and are thus already compliant.

Well you’re already miles ahead of most people in the fact that you’re intending to use foil tape instead of duct tape. Any foil tape will work, but the ones with the removable backing are 10,000 times easier to work with and are absolutely with the extra few bucks.