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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
There is a lot of truth here. Especially the part about capitalizing on the interest without ever producing a vehicle. This is something that I have considered when looking at Slate, Rivian, and other interesting vehicle concepts. Those two
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Nice start to what can be a really useful tool. I did try some of the filters and I think there is a problem in your lookup database somewhere. I clicked on one of the listings in south Texas, Real County, and instead of the map showing the
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Not the poster but I had to go check the website to see this. I believe it is in Spanish. It makes me pretty happy to realize that even though I have had little or no conversations with Spanish speakers for about 30 years I was able to unde
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I agree on both points. They are testing the waters and trying to get a foot in the door. Starting with a gasser only configuration gets them into production with enough interest from people who would like a smaller truck at a lower price p
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Thanks for reminding me that these guys exist. I had to read a little since I had not checked on their progress in a while. First, I like the backgrounds and experience levels of the key personnel in the company. Many are oil and gas indust
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
A bit like that. I don't see a new vehicle manufacturer spending the time or capital to develop drivetrain components when there are already trusted manufacturers with decades of experience and products on the shelf that already functi
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I agree. The last thing I want in a dumbed down vehicle is a function that is tied to a smart phone. I know that many people use CarPlay but I think the best way to deal with music, etc in a new vehicle would be for the manufacturer to incl
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Today it only exists in the imagination of the company CEO and a few trusted others, none of whom have figured out how to hire someone with automobile CAD experience to produce a mock-up that might increase interest for their proposed produ
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Very true. This truck, if it ever exists in the promised form, ticks almost everyone's boxes. The one thing I would change would be the CarPlay offering. All I want in a vehicle is a DIN or double-DIN slot. I'll fill it with whate
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I agree though I kinda wish it was a hybrid. Maybe down the line that will happen. The price point is a valid point and it ticks all our boxes - 4WD, manual transmission, not huge. I've priced out components for one of my trucks and $2
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Boy how I wish it had used ultrasonic frequencies. Sadly enough though, I spent large parts of every day in front of a laptop connected to a transducer waiting for signals to appear in the noisy stream of data coming from the standpipe tran
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Downhole tools used in MWD/LWD do not use ultrasonic frequencies. Drilling is a very noisy environment. The first tool that I used employed a downhole pulser with a surface transducer and operated at about 0.5-1 Hz. That's not ult
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
>How can UHC use AI in the same way? They're an insurance company. They're not administering the actual healthcare? UHC, the HC stands for Health Care, does have a field operation that handles home health care evaluations for t
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
>About 14% of Americans think AI is moving us towards a better world. About 17% are creationists. About 26% believe in Telekinesis. 0 people that I know are in all three. Pretty confident about that. For the any two of three cases where
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I'm a person who will definitely not eat a banana that is past its prime. I completely understand the option to just throw it out since bananas are inexpensive and widely available. I have a solution that we have instituted here at hom
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
The nurses in my family would agree with your assessment.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Indeed, increasing quality tends to increase costs and decrease profits so keeping costs aligned with their profit goals automatically degrades quality.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Slurping their way up to the C-suite.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
With all of that in mind I have to wonder whether there is overlap between these response groups and if so, how much. Could be zero to 100% without more information.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
Yes it is. Somehow that might appear to be incentive to improve quality of care but maybe their corporate culture is a bad fit for quality.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
This problem with workplace AI interfering with nurses ability to manage healthcare obligations for their clients is not confined to Kaiser. UHC has also introduced the AI surveillance tools and are using it to do similar things.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
That gas station is way out in the boonies on a long stretch of two-lane highway (at the time) that takes you cross-country into Grants Pass. It is one of those "last gas for 150 miles" type places. I should've just rolled on
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I agree. They are easy to work with. Easy to reach online or over the phone. I'm glad we switched all those years ago.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
That "US PayPay" is pretty funny. That is similar to the name our dealership adjuster called them. He said that they are very good about coverage and will work with repair facilities to get the vehicles back on the road. I wanted
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
This is interesting because it doesn't fit with my own experiences dealing with USAA home or auto insurance claims. During 2025 we had contacted them twice to file claims and in both cases the claims were paid according to the existing
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I was looking at the lake water level tracker and reminiscing. I worked up at Heber City, Utah back around 1983-1984 doing seismic work. The snow and rainfall and snow-melt were creating floods all over the region. The lake was filling rapi
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
YW. I got stuck for a bit there reading some of those articles. Very fun. Good writing about things that I need to know more about. Like you I love the sense that they are trying to have fun with their writing.
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I really enjoyed that article. Documenting the entire process helps me understand what the final product should taste like. I love the smell of barley and had never considered roasting any. The fact that it apparently smells a bit like popc
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
I had to chuckle a week or so ago when I was bumbling across the internet and landed on an article that had a link to a nutjob page where the title was something like: "CERN found something so disturbing they had to shut down immediate
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by doodlebugging 3mo ago
If Klaus Knopper or his wife Adriane finds this thread I want to say thank you for all the useful tools that you included in Knoppix. I learned so much and it was greatly simplified by the ease of operation of the live boot CD with its auto

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