this made my day

as a kid I was thoroughly disappointed learning this not being real. probably more so than finding out about Santa.

Isn't mercury tidally locked? Day is always day, night is always night.

It is not (it has a 88d year, and a 58.65d.. day[0]) , we just had a post about it - if you travel at 4kph you can chase the sun.. A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator (18 points, 1 week ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720941

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)

Nuclear restrictions were instituted by beurocratic means, not democratic means.

In Austria we put it to a vote. Right after building the first fission plant. We never switched it on after a narrow defeat. At least in our narrow case, the restrictions were exclusively democratic.

It depends on the country. In many, there were actual rounds of dedicated votes.

Yes and who made up these bureaucrats and what regulations are they following? Who wrote those regulations? Who advocated for them? Who voted for them into law?

Sorry but we still live in a democratic society, as much as Sam Altman would convince you otherwise. The buck stops at failing to convince those we entrust with power to make pro-nuclear regulations.

Learn to organize better or continue failing at influencing society.

That's heat shrink tubing, but we're talking about one of these:

[1]: https://www.holley.com/products/engine/engine_dress_up/hoses... [2]: https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/dorman-conduct-tite/lig...

For performance vehicles I used adhesive-lined heat shrink tubing for basically everything.

[1] Braided tubing and [2] conduit, respectively.

Nobody has suggested using this for addition tasks in production. It's an academic exercise. What are you on about?

You can pay bills from your savings account with ACH in the US.

Interesting perspective. So, if I'm understanding you correctly, the pitch here would be:

1. Paycheck DD → straight to savings

2. "Spending money" for in-person transactions → transfer periodically to checking

3. Use debit card to spend from checking.

That's an interesting idea. Actually what is intriguing to me is another angle: I'd still never consider spending with debit. But my problem is that it's essentially impossible to get an ATM card that isn't a debit card anymore, meaning if I want to be able to use an ATM, I have to carry this stupid card around that would be easy to use to drain my checking account. With your approach, if I can get a savings account that is not linked to a checking account, I could use that as my default place where I pay my rent and credit card bills from. But it's a big if, because a lot of savings accounts have limits on how many withdrawals they can have per month, probably a residue of that regulation that someone else said was recently repealed.

While Regulation D was lifted a few years ago, there are often still restrictions to the number of withdrawals one can do from a lot of savings accounts.

Electrician

I'm not more "in the know" but it makes sense that new drivers could require it. New drivers, after all, are pretty much always written for newer platforms that Rust has support for. The main issue with enabling Rust (let alone requiring it) is that Linux still supports platforms which Rust does not.

I think code size is one notable reason

I am pretty sure Dragonbox is smaller than Ryu in terms of code size because it can compress the tables.

While saying "it's an herbicide, not a pesticide" is categorically incorrect, I still think it would be better if the journalist used the more specific and less confusing term here.