It’s a pretty solved problem. In NSW, Australia we have automated systems for heavy vehicle noise fines. (They could of course be used for regular vehicles as well, we just don’t)

For all vehicles the police can issue a defect notice to anything that seems too loud. The owner then has to present to an inspection station and prove that they’re compliant. If they don’t show up or don’t test as compliant their registration is voided and they’re fined. Of course, they can remove the modification before visiting the induction station then reinstall it afterwards, but that gets pretty time consuming pretty fast and people largely stay within the bounds of reason as a result. The system isn’t perfect but it works fine.

That’s what they did for CS:GO, developed by Hidden Path.

That resonates for me. I spend lot of time teaching volunteers. Early on, I encourage them to learn the skill from me, but also take any opportunity to have others explain and demonstrate the same thing to them. I tend to work from first principles, explaining how the pump functions and why that means water goes in here and out there, and what different configurations of valves are therefore valid and which ones will never do anything useful. Others often explain it in terms of which valves to turn in which order to achieve a given outcome.

Neither is right or wrong. Most people will be left pretty cold by one explanation while the other will land neatly into a hole in their brain shaped perfectly for it. Which one is which will be different for each person.

I think that there’s value in gearing educational settings towards having a plurality of instructors available on each subject and letting students gravitate towards the ones that work for them.

One of the hardest things about teaching others in my opinion is that to really teach effectively you have to be able to meet them where they are.

As in, you have to be able to have some understanding still of what being fresh and new to the subject is like, coupled with the ability to change how you teach something.

I wouldn’t say I’m exceptionally good at changing how I teach unless someone can give me a hint of how they learn best. (Unfortunately, this is one of those things people don’t always know well about themselves and can sometimes change based on context. ).

I try to always stay humble in that 1. I know I’m not the best at anything I’m teaching. 2. Usually if someone isn’t understanding, it’s 100% on how I’m communicating, and 3. Really it’s both of us learning - many insights can come from those new to material at times.

Those are abbreviated and perhaps not communicated in the best way.

But 100% a plurality of instructors, and techniques, is incredibly helpful.

I once heard, that a masters degree qualifies one to teach the subject matter. To do so, you had to organize the material in a way to accommodate students with different backgrounds, learning, and thinking process. In the process of doing so, you come to explore the limitations of your own understanding of the subject.

I have also been very happy with Hyprland as a past dwm user.

I was completely unaware of view transitions and speculation rules. All of my products are server rendered for speed and simplicity. It’s amazing how snappy the interface is when your pages just load quickly because your software is performant. These seem like a great way to add an extra 10% of flavour.

Floodwater is horrible. Full of sewage overflow, agricultural runoff, etc. Any building contaminated with floodwater will at the least need to have all the furniture, floor covering, drywall etc ripped out and replaced. Even then you’re rolling the dice that the timber in the frame won’t just grow mould forever.

To what extent is clean water just as bad, though?

Won't the timber become moldy just the same?

And this is a restaurant. They already removed the furniture, there's presumably no floor covering, etc.

It is pretty smart, but I wonder how much you gain in the end. Everything is still wet and needs to be replaced.

The US border has been more trouble than it’s worth for over a decade.

Okay so you're saying this is, without nuance, nothing different.

Parenting isn’t just about defending your kid’s boundaries on their behalf. It’s also helping your kid to grow and expand those boundaries, and giving them the skills to manage them independently.

The end goal is to create a happy, fully functioning adult.

It appears to me that the positioning of that port is only useful when the battery pan has been removed from the vehicle.

There is no way I’m crawling under an EV that’s already on fire while wearing breathing apparatus and wrestling a charged line to get a branch up and under a chassis rail to puncture that weather seal. You’ll find me in the cab of the truck aiming there remote control monitor while on the radio calling for every bulk water appliance in the district.

As you can see from the media attached to the press release[1], the port is exposed through an opening below the rear seats it looks like. Based on the wording in the press release, seems like they assume the battery wouldn't start burning on its own and so any fire that got the battery burning already consumed the interior.

So this is not so much for saving your car, but rather not binding firefighters up for hours.

[1]: https://media.renaultgroup.com/fireman-access-an-exclusive-i...

Right, I see the quick shot in the video now. Looks like it would be inaccessible until the rear seat frames are removed. Also, it appears the only way to get the angle required to penetrate the adhesive disc is to clamber inside the vehicle, directly above the battery pack that is on fire and/or in thermal runaway.

That is once again a big no-thankyou from this hose dragger.

I came across someone in a Renault Picasso the other week stopped in the middle of an intersection late at night. I blocked oncoming traffic and went to see what was wrong. Turned out their alternator was faulty and the battery had run down to the point where the car shut down, fair enough.

First option, push the vehicle to a safer location then sort it out. The fine people at Renault, however, had equipped the vehicle with a button-operated handbrake and a by-wire automatic gearbox. No overrides obvious, none listed in the ACAP first responder guide entry for the vehicle, and no mention of anything in the vehicle manual. No way of pushing it. Great.

Next plan, jump-start the vehicle where it is. Did that, engine started, battery had enough voltage to run everything even without being charged from the alternator, no problems. However, the Renault flatly refused to disengage the park brake or go into gear because of the fault code being thrown by the alternator. Even though the engine was running and all systems were powered, it refused to permit the driver to operate it. After a few cycles of shutting off and jump starting it we managed to get it to agree to if not drive under it's own power, at least permit the wheels to be turned so it could be pushed.

Once we finally got it out of the intersection, I learned the driver was only a few hundred metres from home. I suggested they might want to remove the battery from the vehicle, take it home, and stick it on a battery tender overnight so that they had a shot at driving it to a mechanic the next day. Unfortunately, the fine engineers at Renault had decided that the battery should be mounted lengthways in the engine compartment with 90% of it buried (had to ground the negative lead to the chassis when jumping it). Removal of the battery apparently required disassembly of half the radiator shroud and general engine plastics which took at least 30 minutes.

I made an offer to fetch a drip torch in order to burn the bloody thing to the ground, which was politely declined. We all went home.

The people buying your ads want to know how many people saw them. If your ad is embedded in 3D space, when did someone “see” it? If they were standing at a 10 degree angle for 6 seconds does that count? 11 degrees and 5 seconds?

With video ads they want completion rates. With all ads they like people to be able to click through and engage further with the product. None of these questions have satisfying answers with embedded ads. That’s why they never took off.