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by michaelt 8mo ago
According to [1] it breaks down like this: EV at rapid/ultra-rapid chargers: 25p/mile Petrol, diesel: 15p/mile EV charging at home: 8p/mile This is because there's a government price cap on home electricity, but n
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> If the system is broken, this is actually a good thing. Sometimes when you reveal extensive noncompliance with dumb requirements, the requirements get less dumb. Other times, the organisation doubles down and starts punishing the non
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> IMHO it wasn't that common to replace batteries, anyway. Different phone users have very different usage patterns, in my experience. I don't use my smartphone at home (I have a PC), at work (I have a PC, and a sense of prof
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I don't think this is Facebook playing 4D chess trying to hide content from politicians by detecting who is traveling internationally. I agree the triggering criteria isn't international travel - but giving VIP treatment to
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Except here on HN, other people take care of the downvoting for me. I only have to reach for the downvote button a few times a year. Whereas on Facebook style algorithmic feeds, you have to "use those functions liberally" and the
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> If the system is configured to "fail open", and it's something validating access (say anti-fraud), The problem here isn't the DoS, it's the fail open design.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Are you suggesting that anyone who lives and works here in the US can be accepted as “American”? Whether you're born in Moscow and named Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, or born in Pretoria and named Elon Reeve Musk, or born in Hyderab
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by michaelt 8mo ago
When people are trying to justify ads, they often lean on "our servers cost $X per month and we have Y journalists paid $Z per month, therefore we need revenue from ads" which makes it sound like they need to raise a fixed, finite
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by michaelt 8mo ago
To be more precise: I think they have a fixed repertoire of moves that they can blend together and slightly tweak on the fly, but only within certain limits. This would also be normal for human performers - touring ballet companies travel w
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by michaelt 8mo ago
When is that? With the poles at the 1 minute mark, the robots enter holding them and their left hand never moves on the pole. Also note the stationary hand is matte grey while the moving hand is metallic silver. Likewise with the wine gourd
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Yes and no. An Aldebaran Nao can fall over with no damage because it’s only 5kg and 58cm. And you can use relatively low power motors, so nobody can lose a finger to crushing in the joints. But you miss out on the benefits of being able to
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by michaelt 8mo ago
I've worked on much less expensive, much smaller humanoid robots. These robots are certainly running through a scripted set of poses which has been extensively tested for the conditions (Humans would also be choreographed and have to h
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Here is the original: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ Here is the slop copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20251205141857/https://learn.mic... The '
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by michaelt 8mo ago
About half of road deaths involve drivers who are drunk or high. But only a very small fraction of drivers drive drunk or high - 50% of deaths are caused by 2% of drivers. A self-driving car that merely achieves parity would be worse than 9
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Almost every organization has software it can’t easily automate: specialized systems and tools built before modern interfaces like APIs existed. [...] > hundreds of tasks across real software (Chrome, LibreOffice, VS Code, and mo
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by michaelt 8mo ago
I think that tonnage is for all textiles, not just high-end clothing. https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/the-destr... says "Based on available studies, an estimated 4-9% of all textile
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Isn't that good though? It's good for shoppers (if they're informed), the recycler, and the environment. It's bad for the original maker. Imagine a factory mix-up means some ExampleCo jeans are made of much lower
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Hands, mechanically are fairly simple to mimic I can assure you they are not. Human hands have absolutely crazy performance. Human hands have 15+ degrees of freedom. Sub-millimeter precision, no backlash. Strong enough to lift 100 lb
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> It was very confidently wrong, and battled its point The "good" news is a lot of newer LLMs are grovelling, obsequious yes-men.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> As a non-American, I think the breakup of AT&T/Bell Labs was a mistake. With the benefit of hindsight, the break up was performed in the most ineffective way you could possibly imagine. Take a national monopoly, and convert
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> You're telling me that if Tim Cook wasn't getting on his knees every couple of weeks Apple would end? That's farcical. I think that a 30%, 64% or 145% tax on Chinese imports would be a huge blow for a $400 billion busi
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by michaelt 8mo ago
I interpret ‘caved’ in this context to mean they’re not gaining much in return - they make a loss by doing this, just they make an even bigger loss if they were targets of a Trump tantrum.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
That's because it's not true. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ordering Order - transitive verb - 1. to put in order : arrange - "The books are ordered alphabetically by author." noun - 4.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Long term residents may own their properties, protecting them from rent increases and letting them share in the wealth should they sell up and move. For various reasons it’s extremely rare for retail businesses to own the buildings they ope
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> In fact, knowledge-based quizzes are used routinely by credit reporting agencies -- the big ones like Experian. And they've been presented by background check services, too. Yes - and they don't work. > They work like t
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Store doesn't get to photograph your ID, share it with 548 of their advertising partners, and leak it to 7 different hacker groups.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Knowledge-based authentication is a joke - it doesn't work at all. This basically only gets used for businesses that need a fig leaf for regulatory purposes. You know, $30 loans for uber eats and tiny loans like that.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
As I understand it, 'Windows Hello' requires a near-IR image alongside the RGB image. It's not the fancy structured light of phone-style Face ID, but it still protects against the more common ways of fooling biometrics, like
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. Do platforms want to counter it? Seems to me with an unreliable video selfie age verification: * Reasonable people with common sense don't need to upload scans of
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> I do drive in the slow lane frequently - and this still occurs. One part of your post was about people passing on the right. People won't do that if you're in the rightmost lane.

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