cameldrv

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by cameldrv 9mo ago
I think you’re pretty much spot on, but the societal incentives we’ve set up that make this profitable are really bad. Many things require some personal sacrifice to achieve a collective goal, and if people can’t be swayed by those argumen
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
Most people don't need to tow 4000 lbs period. If I had a Maverick and needed to tow 4000 lbs I would absolutely do it though. I've towed more than that in an older Tacoma that's not that different from the Maverick. Would
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
You need to have AWD for the Maverick to have the 4000 lbs rating. It's going to be sending power to the rear wheels when you're towing. You can't really compare the tow ratings with a 1985 Ranger. Back then the ratings wer
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by cameldrv 9mo ago
I don't get this attitude. Everyone criticizes auto companies for not making a small truck anymore, and then Ford comes out with the Maverick and then you say it doesn't have enough towing capacity. It can tow 4000 lbs. That co
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
The electric backpack leaf blower isn’t that much more expensive than the gas ones. If you’re using it in a business, the extra cost really isn’t significant amortized over thousands of uses. If you’re poor and using it on your own propert
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
They should. Unfortunately a lot of incentives are not aligned. Due to the profit cap as a percentage of premiums, generally higher medical spending increases health insurance profits rather than reducing them. It's the same thing w
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
You shouldn't constantly be hovering over your kids. Still, you don't want them to get in serious trouble. As a parent, you can curate the options they have without knowing exactly what they are doing. You can fill bookshelves
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
I have one and it's OK for my kitchen with hardwood floors. I have a lot of stairs in my house. In a couple of places, there are just one or two stairs going up or down between rooms, but obviously the Roomba can't do it. Becau
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
I think that the difficulty is that Chinese companies both don't respect IP, but also move much faster than U.S. companies in the consumer electronics space. Part of the speed advantage is being physically close, linguistically close,
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
Honestly I think it's more that he was backed into a corner. The Teslas from ~9 years ago when they first started selling "full self driving" as an option, had some OK cameras and, by modern standards, a very crappy radar. T
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
This is headed for a severe backlash. Social media has broken a lot of trust, but the way AI is being deployed is taking that ball and running way further. If someone who you thought was untrustworthy offered to sit in on your sensitive bo
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
Yes it's one thing to say that game theory is inevitable, but defection is not inevitable. In fact, if you consider all levels of the organization of life, from multicellularity to large organisms, to families, corporations, towns, na
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
I think it's a combination of money laundering and phone scams where people are told they owe money to the IRS or something and are tricked into buying a bunch of gift cards. That said, if buying and redeeming gift cards are such an in
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
I guess I'm talking about drone defense in more of a "Coast Guard" scenario than a "Navy" one. If there is some mass drone swarm coming at your cities you probably want to take a Navy approach and shoot them down b
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
For short range, a shotgun with birdshot is pretty safe. The pellets aren't going to have much velocity on the way down to do any harm. For longer range, there are a lot of options, but an interceptor drone is probably pretty good. Y
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2300
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
Honestly I think the reason the ad is so popular is because at the end, the look that the wife gives to the husband is precisely what every man wants in his life.
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by cameldrv 10mo ago
Maybe. I think the difficulty is that in a place like Korea, the dependency ratio will become extremely high, and so taxes will have to go up sharply. Most voters will be retired and so will vote for the few young people to pay them. Thi
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
I didn't do the measurment and it's been a while so it's possible I misremembered the temperature delta, or maybe it was degrees F. It was about a 2-3 square meter sheet and it made about a liter of water overnight.
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
Not an engine, but some friends of mine got a mylar sheet that's black on one side and reflective on the other. We tried it out in the desert tied onto trees/vehicles. You put the shiny side down, so the hot IR radiation of the
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
It might be interesting for an enterprising lawyer to try to flip this around. Suppose you send a letter to your car manufacturer saying that, as the owner of the car, you are prohibiting them from accessing the location of the car or perf
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
This more recently happened to IBM (as a computer manufacturer). If your platform is not accessible to hobbyists, the next generation will not be familiar with it, and when they go get a job, it probably won't be with the technology t
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
Did you see in the article that picture of the Air Busan plane from last year? The one without the roof? That incident happened on the ground as they were getting ready for takeoff. If that were the middle of the ocean, those people woul
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
My guess is that there is no single mechanism, it's just degrees of freedom + capitalism. If you have a relatively unprocessed food, there's definitionally not that much you can do to it. Market forces dictate that food companies
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
Couldn't you frac the rock like they do with oil and gas drilling or have a branching borehole?
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
I think CATL is promoting a hybrid pack of LFP and Sodium that would give you the cheapness and density of LFP, but with maybe 30% Sodium that you could use for a quick partial charge, and could also be used when the car is cold-soaked. On
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
o11y is not a word. What do you mean?
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
They’re sort of separate. In a sense you could say that the ChatGPT model is a lossily compressed version of its training corpus. We acknowledge that a jpeg of a copyrighted image is a violation. If the model can recite Harry Potter word
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
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by cameldrv 11mo ago
I'm sort of surprised by SwissMicros focus on the 42. I have a 42S and a 48GX and the 48GX is IMO far superior in almost every way. My only complaint is that the UI can be sluggish in places, but with a modern CPU this would complete

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