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by porphyra 2y ago
The "headlights shelf" is because the protruding bumper is designed to be lower, to make the vehicle compatible with other cars during a crash, in order to protect the safety of other cars. Anyway, the Cybertruck is a uniquely fun
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by porphyra 2y ago
It is a little sad honestly how Canon has now been surpassed by Sony in both sensor technology and lens optical quality and yet they double down on forcing people to use their expensive lenses. I miss the old days when EF mount was the ling
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by porphyra 2y ago
There are Chinese modded 4090s with 48 and 96 GB of ram that seem like a sweet spot for fast inference of these moderately sized models.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yea there is auto mode for seat heating and cooling.
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by porphyra 2y ago
People are naive to trust the obviously wrong numbers from the iSeeCars study though.
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by porphyra 2y ago
yea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic
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by porphyra 2y ago
My understanding is that MSA is understandable by most arabs thanks to media exposure but it's kinda like the transatlantic accent in that nobody speaks it natively. Morroccan arabic is the most different one as they have strong spanis
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by porphyra 2y ago
The Tesla exec has access to the actual figure for miles traveled and why should he lie about something like that? And just from visual inspection, it is evident that there are numerous surprises with the iSeeCars study that are difficult t
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by porphyra 2y ago
That study was already debunked. They had underestimated the number of miles traveled by a large margin. https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1gyznda/t...
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by porphyra 2y ago
Honestly, it seems like people who clamor for physical controls are a vocal minority --- Teslas sell very well [0] and owner satisfaction is very high [1] despite the loud complaints from non-Tesla drivers online. It seems most people who a
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by porphyra 2y ago
You set the temperature and the hvac adjusts the fan speed and turns on the air conditioner or heating as needed. Honestly, after setting my car to my preferred temperature months ago, I never had to touch the hvac ever since. No idea why p
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah people are acting like car manufacturers have turned over a new leaf when in fact they are just gaming the regulations as usual.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Wearing glasses for over 20 years, I am super bugged by chromatic aberrations when looking anywhere except straight ahead. I chose lenses with the highest Abbe number that I could find but there are still chromatic aberrations. I might fina
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by porphyra 2y ago
Wipers have physical controls on the wheel/stalk. You never need to touch the AC controls when driving thanks to auto mode. In the worst case you can use voice control, which you can again trigger from a physical control. The 3D visual
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah some hobbyists just like to try new features. I remember when Windows Longhorn (pre Vista) was in beta and I would download the ISO and burn a DVD just to try out the latest transparency effects and the sidebar lol.
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by porphyra 2y ago
I uploaded a picture of my Chinese mouthwash [0] and it made a ton of mistakes and hallucinated a lot. Very disappointing. For example it says the usage instructions is to use 80 ml each time, even though the actual usage instruction on the
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by porphyra 2y ago
Hmm the Thinkpad T14 might drop to $1000 but I've literally never seen a current generation X1 Carbon go that low.
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by porphyra 2y ago
Very true, but the person I replied to specifically only cares about: > I want 2TB storage, a 4k (or close) HiDPI display, good build quality, and not a bulky gaming laptop. The XPS 15 was perfect, it had those specs
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by porphyra 2y ago
I feel like somehow my big Linux desktop with a Ryzen 7950X and 64 GB of ram feels less "snappy" than my M2 Macbook Air running Asahi when doing lightweight tasks, despite the big Ryzen being obviously much better at compilation a
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by porphyra 2y ago
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition is in fact lighter than the Macbook Air, has Lunar Lake, up to 2 TB storage, great battery life, and a 2880 x 1800 OLED display. It's pricy, though.
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by porphyra 2y ago
To be fair, the optical light gathering ability of a full frame f/1.4 lens is slightly better than that of the Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8, and modern digital sensors have eclipsed 6x6 film in every respect, such as resolution, sensitiv
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by porphyra 2y ago
Yeah due to the lack of a blue sky, shadows on the moon are basically completely black and challenging to photograph. Also the Hasselblad camera they sent to the moon back then was actually pretty good even by modern standards.
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by porphyra 2y ago
I mean "low income" is 6 figures in the silicon valley [1]. So 6 figures really isn't much anymore. [1] https://hoodline.com/2023/06/new-ca-income-limits-classify-s...
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by porphyra 2y ago
idk try to make a FOIA request
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by porphyra 2y ago
Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain, according to 17 U.S.C. § 105, except for classified or restricted information (but none of what he posted is classified or restric
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by porphyra 2y ago
Probably one of the most famous examples is Jiro sushi which is in a subway station.
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by porphyra 2y ago
It seems that end to end neural networks for robotics are really taking off. Can someone point me towards where to learn about these, what the state of the art architectures look like, etc? Do they just convert the video into a stream of to
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by porphyra 2y ago
Singapore rich. Indonesia poor.
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by porphyra 2y ago
There was once a proposal to run an extension cord from Australia to Singapore [1] since Australia could have plentiful and cheap solar power. However, the project collapsed after the capricious billionaire backers ditched it. [1] https:&#
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by porphyra 2y ago
I wonder just how bad those essential oil diffusers are, compared with, say, smoking, laser printers, and tyre microplastics.

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