Of course Stack Exchange/Overflow needs to make money, but this, a huge ad, with no easy way to dismiss, to go question view by default, no way to escape it that’s intuitive, and only the hamburger menu or footer menu, is very bad design. I’ve been a member of Stack Overflow for years, but these are the kind of steps that kind of turn you off and make you consider making your own Q & A site that doesn’t pull these kind of shenanigans without consulting the community. But that’s okay, all companies do that eventually, giving rise to the competition that appeals to the alienated user base.

In their paper, published as a manuscript this week in Renewable Energy, the researchers propose three different methods of providing consistent power among all energy sectors – transportation; heating and cooling; industry; and agriculture, forestry and fishing – in 20 world regions encompassing 139 countries after all sectors have been converted to 100 percent clean, renewable energy. The solutions in the current paper address these criticisms by suggesting several different solutions for stabilizing energy produced with 100 percent clean, renewable sources, including solutions with no added hydropower turbines and no storage in water, ice or rocks. “One of the biggest challenges facing energy systems based entirely on clean, zero-emission wind, water and solar power is to match supply and demand with near-perfect reliability at reasonable cost,” said Mark Delucchi, co-author of the paper and a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

A window manager for X that is extensible in Guile Scheme

Xlambda currently ships with the following basic functions:

Returns the x coordinate of the top-leftmost pixel of a window (including borders). As there is currently no mouse support, Xlambda must be used with another window manager in order to be useful. On the other hand, if Xlambda is looking to be a practical window manager, the “most abstract” version of it is something I’ve been thinking about for some time now, which I’ve jokingly called the “Window Manager Calculus”.

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. The launch site for the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is mostly running on a cluster of 18 of the little devices themselves. Cloudflare is still handling the brunt of the raw network traffic, though, and the database—by far the heaviest storage load on a WordPress site—isn’t running on the little Pi cluster, either.

In their paper, published as a manuscript this week in Renewable Energy, the researchers propose three different methods of providing consistent power among all energy sectors – transportation; heating and cooling; industry; and agriculture, forestry and fishing – in 20 world regions encompassing 139 countries after all sectors have been converted to 100 percent clean, renewable energy. The solutions in the current paper address these criticisms by suggesting several different solutions for stabilizing energy produced with 100 percent clean, renewable sources, including solutions with no added hydropower turbines and no storage in water, ice or rocks. “One of the biggest challenges facing energy systems based entirely on clean, zero-emission wind, water and solar power is to match supply and demand with near-perfect reliability at reasonable cost,” said Mark Delucchi, co-author of the paper and a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device, under an EU rule coming into force on Monday. All new types of four-wheel electric vehicle must be fitted with the device, which sounds like a traditional engine. Alternatively-fuelled vehicles made up 6.6% of the new car market in May, compared with 5.6% during the same month in 2018.

Below are some tips to help you do just that:

By simply making a list with weekly meals in mind, you can save money and time and eat healthier food. The Food: Too Good to Waste Toolkit will help you figure out how much food is really going to waste in your home and what you can do to waste less. By making small shifts in how you shop for, prepare, and store food, you can save time and money, and keep the valuable resources used to produce and distribute food from going to waste!

It was thus compatible with most protected-mode DOS programs (an early demo involved running Doom in a window), most Windows 3 programs, and even Win32s-compatible 32-bit Windows programs (at least on OS/2 Warp 4). Note that OS/2 does require more resources for basic use than DOS and Windows, so when it first came out, many potential users would have been frustrated if they’d tried it — it really needs at least 8MiB of RAM (which was still unusual in early 1992) and a decent amount of disk space. Some consider that this excellent compatibility contributed to OS/2’s demise: since it was so good at running DOS and Windows programs, there wasn’t much incentive for developers to provide OS/2-specific applications.

It is yet to be a “Lehman moment” — where the credit market freezes, banks stop lending to each other and the economy teeters above the abyss —but it has, as Societe Generale’s Wei Yao noted, “triggered severe liquidity tensions in the interbank market”. “Interbank borrowing rates for smaller banks rose after the Baoshang default, and China’s central bank has been busily playing whack-a-mole by injecting cash,” J Capital’s Anne Stevenson-Yang wrote in a recent note to clients. “After this liquidity squeeze — even if it is over soon — financial institutions will keep adjusting to the new paradigm of non-zero counter-party risk in the interbank market, supposedly the safest segment of the financial system.”

On June 10, the Wikimedia Foundation did something unprecedented in its decade and a half history: It banned a user from the English-language Wikipedia for a year. Within the Wikipedia community, Fram is known as a rigorous and prolific administrator with a special talent for quality control: removing spam, handling copyright issues, and, ironically, booting banned users who post under new names. That night, the foundation released a short statement explaining that the ban had originated in complaints from the Wikipedia community.