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Honestly they should just scrap it all and do a full rewrite in Rust

/s

I was notified by Samsung that my new washing machine had a recall because the control module could overheat and a firmware fix would prevent any damage. It required me to download the Samsung Smart Things App to my phone, create a Samsung account, connect my washing machine to my WiFi using the app and wait for the washer to decide to download the firmware fix.

Connecting a washing machine to the WiFi/Internet made me feel slimy.

An emergency is a valid concern and I believe all cars, regardless of Tesla, that feature electronic (fancy) doors also feature physical escape latches. In the Model 3 you can pull up on a handle on the door to force the door open without the power required to first roll down the window to clear the weather seal this will also unlock the door as well.

From your own linked article:

> Juhta criticized the emergency protocol for Tesla’s electric cars, saying that it isn’t intuitive enough.

Which is kinda ironic to me considering anytime a new rider is in my car I make sure to tell them about pressing the small button to open the door because they seem to find that escape latch on their own and often think it's just a regular open door latch.

I know it's personal preference but I think a good number of people don't know they will be fine without 15 buttons on the steering wheel or 10 different buttons for climate control. I haven't missed any of that moving to a Model 3.

> It's also certified for AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync, but doesn't have hardware acceleration for either.

What does that statement mean? Does this monitor support the GPU frame syncing or not?

For anyone who doesn’t want to watch the video the key differences that made Gamers Nexus cables better than what Igor showed was GNs cables were 300V rated vs 150V and the solder joints where the cable meets the connector bus bar was higher quality.

I have not had success with Ibuprofen and hangovers. My goto is water and 3x Aspirin.

It's a shame that Younger Dryas x Humans is a fringe topic in some circles. I find the conversation regarding humans in this time to be very entertaining and somewhat fascinating. Particularly the fringe thesis that humans might have been more advanced then we thought roughly 10-15,000 years ago and that a cosmic/stellar event such as what is theorized to happen during the Younger Dryas set our species back thousands of years. The part I find most fascinating is the explanations of how many religions and stories from many different peoples around the world speak of "biblical" floods and untold destruction around the world at roughly the same time period. How the people who became known as the Egyptians may have inherited those pyramids from a more advanced civilization considering constructions that can be attributed to the Egyptians are usually of lower quality to the Great Pyramid, etc.

kWh is power over time. When planning a power backup solution you have to account for spike loads, building code inspectors will insist on it. For an average central air conditioning system the outdoor refrigerant compressor has a locked rotor starting amp requirement of ~80A (typically). According to Ford the max amp feed back to your home from the truck is 80A. Building code will let you hook up your outdoor unit only in that case, the inside air handler will not be allowed because (assuming internal is 15A) you would be asking for 95A. You will most likely require either load shed devices or a transfer switch which will most likely not include your whole home or your AC/HeatPump. At least by building code.

Powering a house for days is a very broad statement. Does this include things are that electrified such as a central air conditioner and/or heat pump? Electric water heater? Electric clothes dryer? Maybe the last two would be considered a luxury in an emergency situation but I've lost power for 3+ days twice in the past two years during a major snow/ice storm. It's brutal not having a heat source and if you live in a hot climate I'm sure it's equally brutal in the summer.

Pretty sure these devices are being installed all over the world, including countries with very strict gun laws and very low rates of gun ownership.

I believe he is warning that the terminals, while transmitting, may give enough of a SIGINT/ELINT signature to allow an adversary to target it with munitions.

Reminds me of my Army days using the Wet Bulb device to obtain the "Flag" status.

Used a dry bulb, wet bulb, and a black bulb fed into a slide rule calculator to determine the heat index and thus working conditions.

http://www.wetglobe.com/

> But that won't translate into ratings so don't hold your breath waiting for it.

I don't think it's mechanically possible. Average cable news show is 5 minutes of <insert subject> and then cut for commercial. It's also common for "panels" of people to be involved so that's 5 minutes for multiple people to talk over each other trying to get their point of view across. It's madness.

So it's no wonder long format Podcasts and YouTube shows are gaining popularity. I think there is a huge market for people wanting to passively hear more information. And this can be on any topic, not just politics and the crisis of the week.

The ratings are dropping, the clicks are slowing, legacy media (including Ars that pivoted from tech to politics like Gizmodo) are annoyed at competition and are lashing out.

First attempt I tried:

  45677
  56779 (Didn't read the instructions, the 5 should have stayed from 1st)
  15809
  35869
  65839 (Solved)

EDIT: I'm slow today, just realized they are both the same primes.

> Avoid “noisy neighbor” problems. In order to get the most from MinIO, it should be the only workload running on the hypervisor, the same as you would do for any high performance system in a virtualized environment. This will prevent loss of performance caused by resources being consumed by workloads as they run on other VM’s.

I understand their logic behind this but if MinIO is best used as the only VM on an entire physical system why bother with running it on a hypervisor? I guess "single pane of glass management" but why bother with the license cost of VMware, RHEL, etc.?

I was under the impression that "over the horizon" anti-aircraft (air or ground launched) missile systems made dog fights obsolete.

As a forced Teams user, I would like to say it is absolutely terrible. From a technology point of view, it works- and it works well enough. The problem is that it enables the worst tendencies in managers to "hyper" engage to the point where it feels like they are just parked at my desk. Chats, calls, meetings, shared documents, all so easy and just a click a way so why not?-- Right guys?

I hope they aren't referring to the Warp Drives from Warhammer 40,000 because that would be horrific.

I find this drone concept interesting. I can't wait for the footage of this product interacting with house cats.

I'm no expert on this and this isn't a political post although it's been politicized, please don't beat me up.

Can someone who is knowledgeable explain to me how this virus could have evolved in nature with such sensitivity to UV light? I've heard it explained that the driving belief that this virus was modified in a lab for study of SARS class viruses and escaped (not released, not as a weapon) is because it never had to adapt to sunlight. Is there a way that science could answer or prove this virus is in fact a natural mutation/evolution?

Because of this, when I'm sent video links to watch I will open them up in a Private Window / Incognito so I do not pollute my account.

In the book 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins' by Annie Jacobsen, she mentions this effect when the US Army stood up the secretive 10th Special Forces after WWII. Even though it was the first of its kind the idea was that if the U.S.S.R found out about it they would worry there were 9 other such groups.

Calling your pit stops makes sense, sort of, for drivers. Top drivers like Vettel (well pre-Sbinalla Vettel) have a better "feel" for the tires and can gauge how they are doing. But this often times is risky and breaks down in races because the human brain, especially under the pressure of F1 racing, is not going to be tracking thousandths, hundredths, or even tenths of seconds off lap times over 4-5KM of traveled distance. You can hear frustration in engineers voices when trying to convince a top driver they need to get new tires after ignoring previous calls to "box" (come in for a pitstop).

I hear this a lot, but if I'm not mistaken other law enforcement organizations in other European nations with equally strict gun laws and a citizen culture of not wanting guns have armed police. While traveling into Germany, getting off the plane in Frankfurt I'm greeted by Polizei carrying full auto capable sub-machine guns (mostly HK MP5s, some HK G36Ks). Even in America it's rare to see police open carrying anything more than a pistol and I've never traveled through an airport and seen weapons like that either, including Airports at our nations capital (Dulles to be exact).

I wonder how that much power would affect someone with metal fillings in their teeth.

Very scary indeed. https://youtu.be/y8iipFTBanc

> Bugs in silicon do exist. Often there's nothing a supplier can do about it.

I learned this the hard way with my 1U Intel Atom C2000 series server. Completely bricked due to a bug in the CPU.

Is there anyone else that cannot stand the numpad being put onto a laptop keyboard? The laptop looks good enough but the keyboard layout means I would never get one.

The US Army has an interesting program called 'High School to Flight School' for Warrant Officer pilot candidates.