Greenhouse keeps home in the 60’s, even when it’s freezing outside; allows family to grow Mediterranean fruit in Sweden

Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto literally live in a bubble, insulated from the cold and the harshness of the elements, while taking in the best of what nature has to offer. Their house is built inside of a greenhouse, providing them free heat and free food in the winter. On top of free heat, the couple has also installed a rainwater collection system for free water, and a composting toilet system that provides free fertilizer for their plants.

It’s been six months since Garrett Wilson Slacked his boss an “I quit” GIF and set out to pursue his dream of traveling to every corner of his 816-square-foot Mission District apartment. “I woke up one day and realized something: I did not want to trade the wonders of Earth, and more specifically the marvels of my 3rd-story, rent-controlled apartment, for a cubicle prison,” Wilson told TechLoaf via Skype on Tuesday. Wilson dreams of one day seeing the bay windows in the den or perhaps even witnessing the majesty of the guest bathroom, which he has only ever seen on his apartment’s Zillow listing.

“The name ‘Autopilot’ was associated with the highest likelihood that drivers believed a behavior was safe while in operation, for every behavior measured, compared with other system names,” said the study released this week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Courtesy of Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) 
“Tesla provides owners with clear guidance on how to properly use Autopilot, as well as in-car instructions before they use the system and while the feature is in use,” a Tesla spokeswoman said Friday. The IIHS also cited studies in 2016 and 2018 that found similar results: “The current study adds to the growing body of evidence… that ‘Autopilot’ is a misleading name for a Level 2 driving automation system.”

Late last year, the China-based processor designer Zhaoxin Semiconductor (jointly owned by the Shangai government and VIA Technologies, another semiconductor corporation) promised its upcoming octa-core CPUs based on the 16nm node from TSMC would be able to match Intel’s quad-core i5 processors, and today is that day: the newly-announced KX-6000 CPUs are said to deliver performance on par with the Core i5-7400, yet supposedly pull off the feat at a mere 3 GHz. Companies like VIA and Zhaoxin are eager to compete with Intel, AMD, IBM, and others because China wants its own processors, not only to compete within its own borders but also to compete abroad and reduce the country’s exposure to outside influence. Intel’s traditional rival AMD and the more server- and specialist-focused IBM are Intel’s only real competition; it would certainly shake up the dynamic if Zhaoxin could field competitive processors for the x86 market.

Examples of the kind of things that come in are: coordinate an evaluation of our testing strategy, lead on recruitment for a senior engineer role, work out what team should take on a piece of work and help define it, give an answer to this technical question from another team, and many others. People email our group email address rather than me or individuals in the team much more often, which means we all have a lot more context, and we can respond to things much faster as questions don’t get lost in someone’s inbox. We haven’t quite worked out the best format for the planning meetings yet, but so far it’s involved discussing a list of things that are coming up that we are not sure are being addressed in other ways; for example things that we don’t think are covered by our tech strategy and possibly should be.

Atrium Records creates a collaborative file locker for you and your lawyer so you always have access to the latest versions of corporate documents. Atrium Records improves on the clumsy status quo where clients have to dig through emails from their lawyers hoping to find the most up-to-date versions of important corporate documents. Kan tells me Atrium’s goal is to continue building on its archive of more than 100,000 legal documents to develop aggregated pools of data clients could opt into.

According to a report from the US Office of the Inspector General (OIG), someone connected an unauthorized Raspberry Pi to a JPL network, giving hackers a way into the systems. The comprehensive federal review of JPL’s systems stemmed from an April 2018 incident when someone at JPL attached the Raspberry Pi to the network there for an unknown purpose. This would be bad enough, but the OIG review dived deeper and revealed more issues with the way JPL runs its networks.

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But it houses the Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre ( ), where up to 100 air-traffic controllers work at a time to ensure that planes flying high above Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and north-western Germany do not bump into each other. Last October , an umbrella group for controller unions in Europe, attacked the idea of setting targets for improving air-traffic services as “a waste of time and effort”. After all, America and China, continent-sized countries with single air-traffic control services, still endure rising congestion.

A problem of the latter variety recently turned up in how some C programs are passing strings to Fortran subroutines, with unpleasant effects on widely used packages like LAPACK

The C language famously does not worry much about the length of strings, which simply extend until the null byte at the end. When strings are passed as arguments to functions or subroutines, the GCC Fortran argument-passing conventions state that the length of each string is to be appended to the list of arguments. The C compiler will do no such thing, though, so the proper call to that function from C would look like:

From C, the length of must be passed explicitly the end of the list of arguments.