grecy

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811.
by grecy 3y ago
It was very clear how intelligent they are. I saw them distract and trick each other (and me), I saw them quickly hone in on my keys in my pocket and try to get them, I saw them be kind, gentle, hurtful, violent, angry, sad, lazy, sleepy.
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by grecy 3y ago
> living side by side with creatures that are only quite like us is an experience that has been lost in the collective human memory I played with and interacted with chimpanzees quite a few times around Africa [1], and spent hundreds o
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by grecy 3y ago
Hasn't it been known for a while that dogs and birds react before an earthquake? They must be sensing something we can make an artificial sensor for.
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by grecy 3y ago
The Core - Best b-grade disaster movie of recent times! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/
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by grecy 3y ago
I think you need to look more closely at the wildfires in the western USA, and wet bulb temps high enough to kill people just sitting in the shade drinking water.[1] A power outage there will cause a very large number of deaths. [1] https:
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by grecy 3y ago
These articles are always "Don't buy an EV yet, MUCH better ones are coming soon". Same article since 2010, always Coming Soon™.
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by grecy 3y ago
...and force them to pay 10x child support for life, at a minimum
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by grecy 3y ago
Yep, climate change is coming very fast across the North. It's already very noticeably different up there since I lived there from 2011-2015. Way, way warmer temperatures in the winter, the glaciers have retreated and shrunk drastica
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by grecy 3y ago
I studded my own tires by putting screws through from the inside out. Frostbite can be a problem if you stand still or if it's really windy, but usually not something to really worry about. Not only did I ride to work every day for 3 y
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by grecy 3y ago
Come up to the Yukon! The colder it gets the more people are out. I rode my bike to work every day of the year, plenty of times past -40. Friends were advised not to go running at -55C (-67F) because it can freeze your lungs. So they went w
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by grecy 3y ago
> It's an interesting case-study on how society reacts to outliers And sadly, as you experienced, that reaction is often negative. I've done quite a few things in my life that are "not normal", and the negative resp
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by grecy 3y ago
Elon has said a few times he would like to make an entire car the same way they make matchbox cars - i.e. one single injection moulded piece. It will be incredibly interesting to see if Apple really are working on new manufacturing techniqu
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by grecy 3y ago
> "Against" is a pretty clear winner at this point. You seem very confident that "against" will win after only two years have elapsed since the bet was made, when there are still EIGHT YEARS of time remaining on the
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by grecy 3y ago
> I still don't understand what's the game that Apple is trying to play here. Manufacturing a car is completely a different business to small digital devices I agree 100%, and I don't think it makes any sense for Apple
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by grecy 3y ago
> Assuming he hasn't changed his mind, there may come a day he just calls it quits I have not idea what leads you to that conclusion. At their last investor day every single department head gave a very detailed presentation abou
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by grecy 3y ago
It can't ride at either of it's two highest settings when going above 15 and 25 mph respectively.
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by grecy 3y ago
I would be very shocked to learn those polls were funded by the makers of large SUVs and trucks. /s
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by grecy 3y ago
The Cybertruck is lighter than the Rivian and the F-150 Lightning. It's around 3,000lbs lighter than the electric Hummer. It's also lower than all of them. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46031051/2024
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by grecy 3y ago
Tesla famously had by far the highest margins pushing 30%, though they've dropped a lot recently with price cuts. They are still by far the highest in the industry
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by grecy 3y ago
> everyone pays something for launch, no matter who they use, and SpaceX has to build and launch the rockets themselves. Starlink and SpaceX are the same company. Of couse they're getting it at cost price. > but it's mono
831.
by grecy 3y ago
How can any company be a competitor to Starlink when they have to pay ~$67M per launch and SpaceX's internal price is something less than half that (likely a third or quarter). Furthermore, how can they compete when Starlink already ha
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by grecy 3y ago
So it's something you do infrequently then. Airdrop is something I use 10x a week.
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by grecy 3y ago
I can't think of a flight I've taken in the last 5 years where my seat didn't have it's own 110V/220V outlet and multiple USB ports. Always literally the cheapest tickets I could book, always economy class. Domestic
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by grecy 3y ago
> The last time I had to do this between two Android devices I just used wifi direct and it worked flawlessly And you had to disconnect each device from the wifi they were using, separately.. and you couldn't use the internet duri
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by grecy 3y ago
When using Apple devices I often feel like ordinary people sat down and said "I wish I could do X", and so Apple make that work, and they make it insanely easy to do. AirDrop, syncing stuff, backups, auto adjust volume for headpho
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by grecy 3y ago
I wonder how much power they would save in their own data centres by switching to Apple Silicon. Surely it would be astronomical
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by grecy 3y ago
I think Mad Max holds the record. (the original) Mad Max. $200k budget, almost $100m worldwide, for a 495x ROI
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by grecy 3y ago
> At least where I live the error seems to average 5-10 minutes And what I meant was you are not seeing "error", it's just a difference in definition.
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The Pentagon, one of the largest buildings, is getting rooftop solar(electrek.co)
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by grecy 3y ago
I'm daily driving a mid-2014 MBP 13 inch. It's got 16GB of RAM. I bought it used in 2019 for $500 (iirc) Daily Final Cut Pro 1080 video editing, lightroom editing in a catalogue with 5000+ images from a Sony a7iii, web stuff, lots

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