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by schiffern 7mo ago
Ahh, the power of defaults. Does it (still) make sense for this to be "default allow?" Why not have the trucking industry lobby for every Truck Overtaking zone, instead of making residents lobby for the opposite?
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by schiffern 7mo ago
It seemed like the author had moved on from EVs so I thought he was done, but okay. Should've finished I guess. The article still never accounts for the fact that motors+inverters are ~2 tonnes lighter than an engine+transmission.
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by schiffern 7mo ago
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by schiffern 8mo ago
The same Luminar from the Mark Rober video? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/03/17/youtub...
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>they're easier to clean I've never had an issue cleaning the dials. They're smooth hard plastic, and they don't get particularly dirty. >though they usually manage [to mess up the interface] anyway by
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by schiffern 8mo ago
I noticed, it's an unfortunate regression. What's amazing is how the vibe of using the microwave completely changed. Before it was: "Okay, how much time?? I've gotta get this right, I only get one shot. Think!!" t
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by schiffern 8mo ago
I feel like 80% of the microwave's downfall was adopting VCR-like push button interfaces. The two dial microwave was peak UX. Quick, painless, no wondering what sequence to press on a strange 'wave, zero time delay between input
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by schiffern 8mo ago
TIL microwaves can double as a Blow Air Across It machine. If one person in the house can't tolerate very hot foods, it could be useful for eg cooling off grandma's bowl of soup so she doesn't need to wait.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
At least someone got it, lol. "GNU is Not Unix" et al. ;) Clean It All Clean also sounds like a 50s detergent slogan, so it's got that going for it.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
Aggravatingly, you can't set Night Shift to actually be on 24/7. It always has a "seam" where it fades off and then turns back on. One trick is to schedule this as a bedtime reminder to put down the phone for the night (
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by schiffern 8mo ago
"ciaclean" is a nice touch. I assume CIA stands for Clean It All.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
Per the video it seems the songs are not being listened to so much, but rather artificially boosted by fake traffic and/or (less likely imo) Spotify itself.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>If educating people worked there wouldn’t be any [bad stuff] I think you're confusing "works" and "works perfectly." Education works. It doesn't work perfectly.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
I realize there's near zero probability, but the mention of mysterious Japanese gold made my mind immediately go to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold
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by schiffern 8mo ago
What's most alarming IMO is that we're probably (still) systematically underestimating the effects of climate change.[0] The idea that this current apocalyptic prediction is expected to be better than reality is... not comfort
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by schiffern 8mo ago
There's definitely not enough Waymos to replace the transport needs of 2% of the population, so 0.1% is a more accurate figure of merit.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
Precisely, it's just a selection effect. There's always uncertainty, and scientists are heavily incentivized to "prune" models that show large effect sizes. The result is the observed systematic underestimations, punctu
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>Despite decades of research and sophisticated computational climate modeling, the magnitude and pace of these events have surprised scientists, raising questions about how well current climate projections capture risk. "Yet
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by schiffern 8mo ago
The answer is "long enough to avoid giving away operational details," not some robotically applied constant multiplier like 10x. We also don't know whether they expected this to take 1 day or more. Just because it worked out
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by schiffern 8mo ago
> yup, it was a lie Note that Rep Crockett doesn't claim inside information, she was just entering a newspaper article into the record. Presumably you also want to fact-check the newspaper article. https://www.tex
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by schiffern 8mo ago
This is OpSec 101. Making the public closure too "tight" around the operational timeline could (negligently) leak operational details. You can always cancel a closure later.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
Right, I got it now. But for literally the entire time I've seen that (now obsolete) label, I've misunderstood it as "no artificial colors" not "no artificially added colors." I can't be the only one! It&#
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by schiffern 8mo ago
Poisoning is still illegal though. This is not an application of the naturalistic fallacy, this is just about accuracy in labeling.
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>In the past, companies were generally only able to make such [no artificial color] claims when their products had no added color whatsoever — whether derived from natural sources or otherwise So what is the word "artificial
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by schiffern 8mo ago
I really wanted to like the iD4. iD4 feels like they took every lesson of predictable UX design and then intentionally reversed it to make the most frustrating UI possible. The window controls, touch buttons, screen, steering wheel controls
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by schiffern 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/sGvJW
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>your values may actually be correct They used PV=nRT, so it better be! Note that a 28% increase in drag results in a roughly 22% decrease in range, because 1/1.28 ~= 0.78. Also there are other losses (like rolling friction
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by schiffern 8mo ago
"More video" (gigabytes) is a straw man. The key metric is more unusual situations . That scales with miles driven, not gigabytes. With onboard inference the car simply logs anything 'unusual' (low confidence) to select
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by schiffern 8mo ago
>Waymo is doing the thing. This worldview is overly simplistic. Waymo has (very shrewdly, for prospective investors at least) executed a strategy that most quickly scales to 0.1% of the population. Unfortunately it doesn't scale f
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by schiffern 8mo ago
I'm not ignoring it, I'm just realizing that it's on a substantial cost decline curve. SpaceX knows that too, obviously.

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