I tried the water based approach before and didn't work, but this may be a good one. What does work for me is a CO2 based trap. I have 4 neighbors on the street using them now. Mosquitos follow CO2 to find their targets, and get sucked into the bucket. Its kind of expensive (upfront cost of about $200 then about $60 in CO2 per summer, but I have a large bag full of mosquitos regularly so i know it works. And I can tell when the CO2 runs out because mosquiotos are back.
CO2 seems to be extremely effective in general, but what I really want is for someone to create a commercial version of something I saw DIY'd on Reddit. They used safely-contained smoldering coals placed behind a high-speed outdoor fan, with mosquito netting secured loosely (but with no gaps) to the front of the fan.
The fan intakes CO2 from the coals... and blows it out into the neighborhood (I think he claimed it was detectable at 60 or 80 feet?) to essentially advertise. When mosquitos approach, they're sucked into the fan intake, and can't get out past the blades and netting. Most are dead by morning, and the rest you spray down before removal. IIRC he said he only needed to do it one night every few weeks to keep the population unnoticeable, and he'd wake up to thousands in the netting the next morning.
I'm sketched-out by the CO2 mechanism, so I've never tried it, but figuring out an extremely slow release mechanism from a small tank seems doable. Maybe one day I'll get around to tinkering with it. My neighborhood started spraying, so it hasn't been bad enough to put much effort into.
I don't have a mosquito trapping solution, but wanted to also offer help to anyone harassed by mosquitos: Despite being a magnet for mosquitos, I've found a coconut-based moisturiser to be more effective than even "tropical-strength" repellants. I used to use various repellants and still get bitten, but this moisturiser is hilariously effective. (Brand is Palmers but others might work too.)
The company has always made it as a typical moisturiser/lotion but then started hearing from RV/caravan/campers that it was keeping mosquitoes away.
I don't know that i have ever used jpg or png lossless in practical usage (e.g. I don't think 99.9% of mobile app or web usecases are for lossless). WebP lossy performance is just not worth it in practice, which is why WebP never took off IMO.
Are there usecases for lossless other than archival?
I definitely noticed when the Play Store switched to lossy icons. I can still notice it to this day, though they did at least make it harder to notice (it was especially apparent on low-DPI displays). Fortunately, the apps once installed still seem to use lossless icons.
A lot of images should be lossless. Icons/pictograms/emoji, diagrams and line drawings (when rasterized), screenshots, etc. You can sometimes get away with large-resolution lossy for some of these if you scale it down, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a smaller file size than a lossless image at the intended resolution.
There's another problem with lossy images, which is re-encoding. Any app/site that lets you upload/share an image but also insists on re-encoding it can quickly turn it into pixelated mush.
It’s not just engineers. Society has collapsing birthrates and huge deficits. Basically, we are demanding massive technological gains enough to bump GDP by at least 5% more per year.
I strongly dislike the “updating of versions” whenever possible. Versions are rarely better in all ways, makes things harder. Just make it version 2.6.
my thoughts on the email design:
- Comparison is strange. One email has an image, the other text. Not the same email.
- Hiding the previous parts of the thread seem good by default, but how do you easily get them back?
- Where is "from" in new design?
- Where is "to" in new design?
- I do like expanding attachment a bit so you don't have to click twice to attach a photo (for example), but I'm not sure how often some of those options are used, may be too much. I could see a photo icon and general attach icon both showing.
- Back arrow looks broken in new design.
I’ve become increasingly frustrated with AWS because of this. They used to have a culture of providing constant price performance improvements. Not anymore. Every release has questionable improvements (for example, switching from r6 to r7 family of instances is more expensive with theoretically better performance but you probably can’t actually switch and save money). S3 costs haven’t gone done in a long time despite plummeting storage costs.
Very excited about the work done by 37Signals to encourage moving off.
In the 2037 timeframe, modeling trends doesn’t matter as much as looking at the actual players. I think odds are good because you have at least 4 very well funded groups shooting to have something before 2035: commercial groups including CFS, Helios, TAE, also the efforts by ITER. Maybe more. Each with generally independent approaches. I think scientific viability will be proven by 2035, but getting economic viability could take much longer.
Interesting study, good work by authors, I read it as little to no effect though. Confidence interval includes 0.14 kg of difference in weight loss. But I couldn’t read the full paper to show how they tested compliance between the groups.
For me, fasting (skipping breakfast or breakfast and lunch) and eating more vegetables (to feel full) are the easiest ways to hit calorie targets, but I suspect that is the only effect.
So the practical takeaway of this, and all diets, is focusing on what is the most sustainable way to hit calorie targets.
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