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"Also EV trucks are allowed another 2k pounds" - Ah that explains the 82,000lbs mentioned in the Tesla demo. Max weight for conventional trucks is 80K.

There were about 10-12 concrete barriers as load in the demo each weighing 39,000lbs. So the weight being carried is around 40ishK lbs. So rough approximation - half the weight of the truck is load and half is the truck itself.

When the solution requires more work than exhaustively examining all possibilities - is that really the answer ?

The big question is how local regions of low entropy that exhibit metabolism and replication (ie. life) came into existance out of inanimate matter. Where it happened is secondary.

< but how to convert to USD? >

You type "586.2 crore indian rupees in U.S dollars" into Google search.

USD 70,757,505.48 https://t.ly/xfAe

Client/Consumer CPUs(Ryzen) is just one business for AMD. The others are graphics (Radeon), datacenter (EPYC), and embedded (Xilinx, PS & Xbox consoles). The one year forecast will probably have to be adjusted based on current unexpected economic conditions but they will keep growing.

What folks don't appreciate is that AMD is on a roll. A clear roadmap and processes in place to execute like clockwork in tandem with TSMC. Intel can easily bounce back in about 3-4 years if they fix their foundry issues.

10 years ago, phones, tablets were the big thing. But smart management realized that no one was making money without a full vertical stack. The choices were iOS or Android. Besides Apple and Samsung no one was making money from phone and tablet. On the other hand - high performance computing and data center was a growing market. So smart money put the bet on high performance chips where you could have >50% margins. That's why AMD cancelled all their low power tablet chips (both X86 and ARM) and focused on Zen and the datacenter.

To be clear, AMD third quarter revenue is expected to be approximately $5.6 billion, an increase of 29% year-over-year. Previous guidance was 55% YoY.

It's a country that committed genocide against its own people.

"3,000,000 people were killed during the genocide, making it the largest genocide since the Holocaust during World War II" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide.

What is the function of the thin rods parallel to the thigh and foot ?

< Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said "we have a program that we call Supra Coders and we’re trying to build indigenous software experts inside of our service…And then as we develop these Supra Coders, we’re looking at what’s the best place to put them,” Raymond said. “And so we’re putting them in software factories…We’re putting them in innovation cells in our deltas, to be able to give them the tough challenges to work on and see if they can write code to be able to help us, and there’s been some really good example of where we have made some progress embedding those folks with our operators.” " >

In case you were wondering: this is a bootcamp to teach javascript, html, react and server side databases. https://supracoders.us/software-development-immersive

Wonder how much money is being siphoned off to consulting/contracting companies for this.

'Overall, the UK has 6,192 armed police officers ... that’s 4.3 percent of the country’s total 142,526 police.'

From an interview about why Xerox failed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM

aave: (likely) African-American Vernacular English.

Russia received an estimated $430 billion over the past year from oil and gas exports to Europe. https://www.bbc.com/news/58888451

Even if you had your GPU-packed Kilo-Google per person multiplanetary Gigagalactic computer guessing numbers for 37 times the age of the universe, it would still have a 1 in 32 billion chance of cracking. https://youtu.be/S9JGmA5_unY?t=32

<I wonder if the rain hitting Pakistan is "Spain's water" or if it's coming via a different atmospheric route. >

By golly, you might be onto something. If you look at a map, there is a straight line from Pakistan across the Arabian Sea, around Yemen, up the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and right across the Mediterranean to Spain.

So it is conceivable the rain in Spain stays mainly in the Balochistan plain!

India also has a minority population of Anglo-Indians with British surnames. Williams, Jones, Norton, Barnes, Peters, O'Brien are names you can find in Mumbai and Kolkata and Chennai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian_people

The history was more complex. There are Syrian Christians (600AD), Catholics (1500), Anglican Protestants (1800) and more recently, evangelical Christians. Each group is linguistically and culturally distinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India

Mangalorean Catholics for instance are mostly Saraswat Brahmins who converted around 1700s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalorean_Catholics

On an iPhone, what does 'sharing your contact list' imply ?

Does the app get just name and phone numbers or all the meta data like address and personal notes that I put into my contacts ? I haven't been able to figure this out - does anyone know what Apple's policy is on this ?

Major floods in the Sacramento Valley take place every 100 to 200 years according to sediment cores. Based on this evidence, scientists predict that the next major flood event in California is due in the next 40 years. Los Angeles streets will be under water, tornados will destroy Santa Monica pier and there are sharks everywhere.

Similar testing of Tesla on this channel https://youtu.be/p7lp5f0aqzU?t=74 shows it failing badly on simple hazard object scenarios like a chair, wooden pallet, trash can etc. Also when the car does give an alert, it is too late for a human to react.

You can watch his presentations at the Royal Institute.

How the Krebs cycle powers life and death - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiIDwBOqQA

Why is Life the Way it Is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcWfecmZhE

Lane has a talk at the Royal Institute based on his new book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiIDwBOqQA

Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QmB5bW_WQ

Nevertheless, his writings are incoherent word soups and an utter waste of time.

In the late 1800's there was increasing interest in mysticism and eastern religions in the West. One lady, Helena Blavatsky an Ukrainian co-founded a movement called Theosophy which made it's way to India and merged with a mish-mash of Indian nationalists and Hindu philosophers around 1880-1890.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky#India:_1879%E...

As a young boy JD Krishamurthy (born 1895 in south India) was picked by leaders of the Theosophical Society of India as a 'vehicle' for an expected World Teacher. JDK quickly gained a following and wrote profound philosophical books that people found hard to understand which only increased his popularity among those seeking Eastern mysticism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

Like many Indian godmen and spiritual entrepreneurs, JD Krishnamurthy set out for the most lucrative market for his work: California. He spent the rest of his life churning out psychobabble and settled in lovely Ojai valley (having an affair with his best friend's wife). For a sampling of JDK's profound wisdom you should check out his quotes [3].

Here's a sampling:

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” ― Krishnamurti

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” ― J. Krishnamurti

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.” ― J. Krishnamurti

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/850512.J_Krishnamurt...

Old process: Me -> Privacy.com -> My checking account

New process: Me -> Privacy.com -> Patriot Bank credit account -> My checking account.

My concern is I am forced to sign up for Patriot Bank credit services. Also Patriot Bank gets my checking account information.

They have switched to a new process with an intermediary 'Patriot Bank' in the middle. They pass your checking account info to Patriot Bank - somehow your transaction which was a simple debit is now a credit card transaction through this third party bank. Patriot Bank itself seems legit but I don't understand the process and have stopped using Privacy because of this change until I get my head wrapped around what is going on.

Are you comfortable with the recent change in Privacy.com ?

They are using Patriot Bank out of North Dakota as an intermediary. Previously Privacy.com would directly debit from your checking account. In the new process you are signing up for a credit card with Patriot Bank under the hood. They pass on your checking account info to Patriot Bank and somehow money gets exchanged. I don't fully understand the process and don't trust men-in-the-middle like this.

I wasn't satisfied with the information I got from Privacy.com customer service. Has anyone researched this and confirmed there are no shenanigans in the new process. I used to use Privacy for many years but stopped because of this.

Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/