My read of Albion’s Seed and American Nations is that they’re more about how a regional culture was germinated and founded, under the idea that the culture (including legal and economic systems) is even more durable than a specific group. So it’s not exactly connected to current demographics.
Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as New England.
American Nations is a more recent book that describes more of the United States, though with less depth.
Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down
I’ve worked on several TS projects that don’t type check but still “compile” (emit non-TS JavaScript). To me that’s the difference between a linter and a compiler, and I wish those projects had stopped compiling when they could no longer type check.
I've been happily hacking on my Ikea Bekant for three years. I replaced the top, replaced the buttons with a double throw rocker switch (1), built a Mac Mini/laptop shelf on the back half, a KVM switch on a little shelf in the front.
Cable management isn't horrible but there's a lot of room for improvement. I'd like to replace all the AC adapters with one big one that can supply everything.
I've built some outlandish and unsatisfying desks in the past, the gradual approach has been better.
1. This is unsafe for children, as they might figure out a way to flip the switch and crush themselves. Please take this consideration into account.
Sometimes they work together! I submitted an email receipt and it kept getting rejected because Concur only shows the first page of a multi-page PDF unless you go through some very non-obvious navigation to see the whole thing.
In North America alone, 30,000 square kilometers for all oil and gas[0].
For a rough approximation, the US produced 14% of oil in the world in 2021[1] and this guy on Quora[2] says that 12% of the world's oil and gas goes into aviation fuel.