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by rladd 7y ago
And they still don't work and are still driving at barriers! https://np.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its_back...
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by rladd 7y ago
The Don Quijote I go to sometimes in Asakusa plays only the first 26 seconds of that on a continuous loop. It's maddening.
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by rladd 7y ago
What I understood him to mean by that is that, because the software of the vehicle will be updated with more capabilities, the value of the car, perhaps not in monetary terms but in terms of utility, would increase over time. Of course the
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by rladd 8y ago
The only reason there are commercial nuclear power plants in the USA is because their liability was artificially limited to $450M per plant by the Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by rladd 8y ago
What happens if two elderly people have to go up or down in a row? This seems to rely on one person alternately going up and then down.
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by rladd 8y ago
Your sentence rendering is very impressive and lifelike. Great job! One suggestion: pause a bit more after the end of paragraphs, particularly after long paragraphs. It can help comprehension.
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by rladd 8y ago
It changed the meaning of a paragraph I tested it with.
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by rladd 8y ago
What are you using for your internal wiki?
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by rladd 8y ago
Toyota Prius and Prius Prime also charge their batteries during braking, but use the brake pedal to decellerate. This seems safer to me and also easier to control: you press the brake and it brakes. If it can regen, it regens, if not, it us
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by rladd 8y ago
Me too. I want to see last year very often, last month not so much.
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by rladd 8y ago
If this is now their typical performance, they've come a long long way in the last 6 months. I was stuck behind Cruise cars twice in the same week that went 2/3 of the way into an intersection and stopped until the light turned re
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by rladd 8y ago
Not "dental floss" but specifically floss which contained PFASs. Other culprits were Teflon cookware and cardboard food packaging. The dental floss results are hidden in the Supplementary Information document linked in the origina
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by rladd 8y ago
Curtis Deutsch, a UW associate professor of oceanography and an author of the research, said if society continues to pump greenhouse gases at our current rate, “we have no reason to think it wouldn’t cause a similar type of extinction.”
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Global warming today mirrors conditions during earths largest extinction event(seattletimes.com)
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by rladd 8y ago
Or maybe the majority of their advertising is local, so it makes sense to block non-local people if supporting them is an added expense and produces no additional revenue.
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by rladd 8y ago
The fear of contracting something from equipment is one reason why I go to an eye doctor who uses contactless air-puff glaucoma diagnostic machines rather than the older style which touches the eye. In my last several visits, nothing has t
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by rladd 8y ago
Actually, all examples of consciousness can be explained as if we're all automatons. There's nothing we do which isn't produced (so far as we know) by physical (and therefore mechanistic) functions of the brain and body. &quo
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by rladd 8y ago
How about iOS, particularly for X series phones which have the "bionic" ML co-processor with installable models?
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by rladd 8y ago
Starts at 17:51
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by rladd 8y ago
For many years, my stock answer to anyone who says that computers are "fast enough" or "more powerful than most people need" is that I will only be satisfied when I can create photorealistic movies by talking to my machi
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by rladd 8y ago
If one watches the actual lecture, Kay says that his real title was altered by an "NIH low pass filter". The actual title was "Is it too late to create a healthy future?"
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by rladd 8y ago
It appears he was fired for saying basically: "We shouldn't have any shows that use the term 'retarded' because it can be as painful for a developmentally disabled person to hear as the word 'nigger' is for a b
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by rladd 8y ago
This NASA publication shows the plans in much more detail. Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA, SP-413 https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Conte... The space shuttle was only the first step in a
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by rladd 8y ago
Unless I'm missing it, his argument about why MWI is untenable in terms of physics is: - If the universe splits with each measurement (or interaction), then every possible outcome does occur - Therefore nothing could be predicted based
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by rladd 8y ago
Unfortunately there isn't.
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by rladd 8y ago
That looks streamlined. I thought the idea of the hyperloop was that it was low vacuum and the front of it was a giant fan to move the remaining air from front to back of the capsule to further reduce friction. Or was that only in the early
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by rladd 8y ago
Ancestry has the better chip at the moment: https://snpedia.com/index.php/Testing
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by rladd 8y ago
From a quick skim through their FAQ it wasn't clear that they are even encrypting the data on their servers, and I didn't notice any claim about users controlling access to their private information.
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by rladd 8y ago
Here's one: 4 hours by car from San Francisco. It says you can't reach South Lake Tahoe, but Google Maps (and my experience) show that it's usually about 3 1/2 hours. https://oalley.net/map/bd7
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by rladd 8y ago
Even genuine goods sold by Amazon can be problematic. I bought a consumer-grade router sold by Amazon, and what arrived was an obsolete version that had not been produced for 4 years. They did accept it back though.

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