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by tempestn 3y ago
You're talking smartphone displays? You certainly don't need anywhere close to 300ppi on a computer monitor to have crisp fonts.
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by tempestn 3y ago
I wonder if anyone's experimented with a robotic arm and camera approach. That's certainly where my mind goes if trying to design a pinsetter from scratch. I would think something like that could be close to traditional pinsetters
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by tempestn 3y ago
You can look at it either way. "Phase" literally means the offset of the waveforms. With 3-phase, each of the phases is 120° out of sync. With split phase, you can look at it as a single, 240V phase with neutral in the middle, all
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by tempestn 3y ago
I think the idea is that so far, and for now, the chargers have indeed helped them keep a significant lead in EV sales. Eventually though, many other companies will also be selling very good EVs, and if Tesla doesn't open their charger
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by tempestn 3y ago
There's research showing that extended exposure to (extremely bright) sunlight can damage the eyes. There's no research I'm aware of showing that blue spectrum light from, eg., a computer or cellphone screen, which is what pe
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by tempestn 3y ago
I don't think anyone's arguing they shouldn't be digitized, just that the originals shouldn't be destroyed.
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by tempestn 3y ago
The feature actually sounds amazing if you had to commute in heavy traffic every day. I wouldn't trust a fully autonomous system at highway speed yet, but under 40mph in a traffic jam, and I can read a book? Sign me up.
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by tempestn 3y ago
No, it's not.
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by tempestn 3y ago
That's the full decommissioning process, not the process that would be required to avoid a meltdown.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Parts of this seem almost scientific, but when you get to things like catastrophic meltdowns of nuclear facilities, it's just absurd. Even if you accept that global warming will lead to the extinction of humanity, it won't happen
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by tempestn 3y ago
Elon Musk predicts a lot of things. Full self driving, hyperloops, under-city tunnel networks for traffic, multiple Starship launches per day... Anyway, even within the realm of engineered solutions, I expect there are options more practica
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah, I recall some of the various levels of heaven stuff. But it's more the second part that gets me. Most people who reject this belief system in life do so because there's no solid evidence to support it. But if they've di
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by tempestn 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, assuming someone is sitting in literal Purgatory and is presented with this choice, can you imagine any conceivable reason why they would reject it? I have zero belief in any of this myself, but if I died and was pro
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah, it didn't affect the drive train, and it was also quite quick - less than a minute between when the screen went dark and when it had finished rebooting and sent notifications that an update had been installed. So presumably just
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by tempestn 3y ago
Amusingly the infotainment system in our Model Y actually crashed on the way home tonight, and when it rebooted it decided to install the update then, while driving. Sent me a notification on my phone immediately afterwards. To be fair, the
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by tempestn 3y ago
Better to keep 5c and 25c rather than 10c and 25c imo, if you're keeping two. 10 is fairly redundant when you have 5 and 25. (Even more so with 5 and 20, as with bills.)
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by tempestn 3y ago
I believe Musk is smart, but also bipolar and narcissistic, and likely often on stimulants, which makes him regularly do dumb things.
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by tempestn 3y ago
There's no reason why it couldn't be lockable while still having a physical button to open.
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by tempestn 3y ago
What's particularly frustrating, and I think relevant here, is when new things are better in some respects, but glaringly worse in others. So you can only have the good parts of the new thing if you accept the shit along with it.
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by tempestn 3y ago
I agree, but I find it hard to comprehend the social circles that shun people for not having an iDevice. Why would people choose to use a platform that not everyone can participate in, when there are just-as-good alternatives that are avail
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by tempestn 3y ago
Do you account for the fact that you can "sell" the depreciated asset by canceling the subscription?
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by tempestn 3y ago
+1 on the rent point. I've gotten significant discounts on rent in the past by paying a full year in advance. This makes sense from the landlord's perspective too, as they're not only gaining the time value of money, but also
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by tempestn 3y ago
I haven't used it through Bing recently, but last I tried, I found whatever custom prompt and/or tuning they're using made it much more cumbersome than chatgpt plus. It's far less willing to give you answers from trainin
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by tempestn 3y ago
Found an interesting recent article on the murder rate too: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/mexico-city-mu...
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by tempestn 3y ago
Mexico City had a crime rate in 2022 of 46k crimes per 100k inhabitants. In New York City it was 2900.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Curious what you see as the main pros and cons of Australia vs Canada.
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by tempestn 3y ago
Afaik Australia is neither far wealthier nor does it have far fewer people, at least as I would define "far". Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty compa
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by tempestn 3y ago
> No amount of systems redundancy could have made it a safe flight. But it did! One obvious example being the redundancy that allowed the plane to fly safely despite one of the engines not restarting. The plane encountered an entirely un
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah, same here. Maximize the window, can scroll with mouse on far right. Though I've never tried to scroll that way before as I use three monitors and generally have the browser in the middle. (Which does make these trendy new thin sc
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by tempestn 3y ago
Or Exit under the hamburger menu, if you don't want to remember the keyboard shortcut.

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