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The confabulation to justify picking out related images that the left brain never observed (chicken and snow shovel in the article) reminds me profoundly of the confident slop produced by LLMs. Make you wonder if llms might be one half of the "brain" of a true AGI

Ok, lets get some things straight.

Musk has /claimed/ (repeatedly) that he is a free speech absolutist, and by extension that twitter is as well.

This is false: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

I'm not clear on how you're defining edge cases here, and regardless, it doesnt matter.

"Sorry officer, those murders back there were just a few edge cases! I've publicly pledged to a murder free life!"

I see very few in this thread pretending anything

Interesting take! Is this suggestion for performance cars only or were you omagining this would be an imporvement for every car?

Personally, I wouldnt love having needing to have a lift to swap my brake pads, or to dissasemble my suspension and pull apart the half shaft to replace my rotors

On the assumption you are acting in good faith, that is a very poor analogy.

I think a more apt one would be: Imagine asking for a shit-free meal, and you're served a meal with just a little bit of shit in it.

It happens often enough in linguistics to have its own name, a deverbal noun. Have a drink, go for a walk, and I guess now "has more compute". As far as modern english language development, seems better than skibidi toilet

Ask and ye shall receive. Not only titles, but thumbnails as well!

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

Oof. Yeah this shouldve stayed a render. The headline tells me all I need to know. Industrial designer creating a tool is like a graphic designer making a bridge.

To any industrial designers here, this is said with minimum animosity, the arts are important and I cherish them. But for the love of god, if you send me over another step file with a surfacing update that has moved the model coodinate system like 3 microns and changed almost nothing else I might come over and throw your macbook out the window. With love - a mechanical engineer

Ohhh thats not even all of them! Be prepared... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_featurin...

If you've got the budget for it, e-ink monitors are becoming more available recently, and I've heard that they make a huge difference for eye strain. There are still only a few companies manufacturing panels that large, and I think the framerate can be pretty jarring for anything other than text, but I have been keeping an eye out for when the prices drop.

Fascinating. I was curious to see when and if any serious correlated conditions would arise from this class of medication. They're so incredibly popular, I'm sure theres plenty of opportunity to gather data.

Im not sure an increased risk of pancreatitis is going to sway many minds on taking this drug, for cosmetic purposes or for actual diabetes. After all, being diabetic already increases your risk of pancreatitis:

>Incidence rates were 30.1 and 54.0 per 100,000 person-years in the general population and the diabetes cohort, respectively.[1]

Here's to hoping that 10 year expousure studies arent terrifying. The massive public uptake of this drug is a bit concerning, but it really does seem almost miraculous in its ability to treat so many things

Sure, so then if background checks worked...then problem would already be solved.

And if background checks are not useful for keeping weapons/ammo out of the hands of criminals, then what purpose does this bill serve?

Conservatives will view it as more overreach by the nanny state, and progressives with any critical thinking skills will see it for what it is, useless.

Echoing all the comments here calling this bill absolutely ludicrous. If you're determined to make a gun, and determined to 3d print it, then making a diy machine is as easy as ordering a few stepper motors, some linear extrusion and a motor control board. Are they gonna background check before you buy those too? What about a lathe? Or any steel tube? Or a hacksaw FFS. Unabomber made his pistol from broken car parts and a goddamn hand drill:

" [A] few days ago I finished making a twenty two caliber pistol. This took me a long time, for a year and a half, thereby preventing me from working on some other projects I would have liked to carry out. Gun works well and I get as much accuracy out of it as I'd expect for an inexperienced pistol shot like me. It is equipped with improvised silencer which does not work as well as I hoped. At a guess it cuts noise down to maybe one third. It is said that it is easy for machinist to make a gun, but of course I did not have machine tools, but only a few files, hacksaw blades, small vice, a rickety hand drill, etc. I took the barrel from an old pneumatic pistol. I made the other parts out of several metal pieces. Most of them come from the old abandoned cars near here. I needed to make the parts with enough precision but I made them well and I'm very satisfied. I want to use the gun as a homicide weapon"

You know what you can't easily manufacture at home? Bullets.

Draw your own conclusions on why that isn't up for regulation here

Not only that, but it the way it wraps around their skull acts like a shock dampener for their brain when they peck. Their skulls experience something like 1200g during a peck, humans get a serious concussion around 60g. Evolution is wild

This is pretty bizarre. Anyone technical enough to know or care about ISO standards is going to be able to see right through this bullshit.

Honestly all this does is weaken the other standards out forth by ISO, to my eyes.

What's next? "Disney announces it now meets ISO 26123 certification for good movies"?

I've had wonderful experiences at DOL offices (which are 3rd party contracted), not so much at the DMV. Which one are you going to? Honestly worth a drive (or bus ride, depending on the issue) to go to a a decent one

If you're into the custom PCB design, I highly recommend Carl Bugeja: https://youtube.com/@carlbugeja He has lots of super interesting projects using micromagnetics, motors, flappers, and the like.

If you liked the part where he machined the housing, check out Clickspring. I think it's fair to say he is the greatest machinist currently active on YouTube, both in videography and storytelling, and in actual skill. https://youtube.com/@clickspring

A bit beside the point of TFA, but reading about "rewilding ourselves" reminded me of some research on human parasites [0].

Tldr is that the parasite dampens the immune system, and our bodies have evolved to deal with that dampening, so in places (like the US) where parasitic infection is relatively rare, diseases involving hyperactive immune systems (allergies, T2 diabetes, asthma, etc) are much more common.

So to really rewild, maybe we should all go out and eat some raw snails out of the nearest stagnant body of water. (50% /s?)

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5010150/

Respectfully, the issue here was not that intelligence agencies were saying "we have no eveidence of this". first few sentences of the article shows the reality, these agencies were vehemently stating that it was not possible that the Havana Syndrome was caused by bad foreign actors, full stop.

Very enlightening! I appreciate the reply. Hydrogen as a sort of stepping stone away from gas and oil makes sense, as does creating another pillar for energy resiliance.

I agree that is a better use for excess power than just dumping it into a resistor, but why go through all the extra effort? Batteries are getting better and better and better, and choosing to use excess generated power to generate hydrogen seems like one step backward. Why waste so much power on a doubly inefficient process (losses from hydrogen production and then again during use) when you could just, you know....store the actual pure energy you need for everything else?

Even barring a great battery, there are dozens of other great ways to store energy. Pumped hydro is 80%+ efficient, and all you need is a pump and a hill, vs hydrogen electrolysis, which maxes at 80% efficency, and then hydrogen combustion, which is like 40%, on top of all the exotic equipment required for manufacturing.

By all appearances, it just seems like an absolute no brainer....I really dont get it

Seems about a decade late. Did anyone other than toyota execs really believe hydrogen everstood a chance? Maybe if the push had started in 1984 they would have been able to effectively insert themselves into the market and properly compete with EVs before battery tech has grown to be able to be viable.

I'm genuinely baffled at the money and time that was poured into this when it seemed dead on arrival to almost everyone (as far as I know). Am I missing something? Is this some quirk of Japanese techno-optimism and simply a failed moonshot?

It absolutely is, especially realizing that a significant percentage of the applicants to these programs are international students, who have tuition fees 5x that of local students, and who have really no choice but to pay for another year of studies in order to reapply to their intended majors, or have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars and multiple years.

I am obviously jaded, after spending 2 years of tuition there, only to be rejected from my intended major, and told to spend the next year re-taking classes.

Convenience was not a factor. If you were unable to sign up for some of these courses, you would be barred from advancing in your studies. These were things like prerequisites for applying to your major, not just shuffling around your timeslots for an ideal schedule.

Im unsure if this was much more of an issue at UW specifically (also this was also over a decade ago), but UW accepted maybe ~30% of the applicants to a given major (in STEM). They dont tell you this as a freshman when you declare your intended course of study, but you're competing with your classmates to actually be able to study what you want to major in. This leads to critical classes filling up within seconds, massive waitlists, and delays of semesters possible if you miss courses you need.

College is not cheap in the US. Going to any university in the US implies a certain amount of wealth, and barring that (scholarship, e.g.) then you must be someone who is incredibly motivated. In either case, spending a few hundred dollars to guaruntee a spot in a required course to keep your studies on track, to be accepted into your major, and to eventually graduate on time is worth AT LEAST a few hundred dollars. Like the other commenter, i also ended up needing to graduate a semester late due to this nonsense, which cost me thousands in actual money, and much more in lost potential income.

If you had managed to build this system during my time at UW, I know for a fact that I and dozens of other students would have happily paid hundreds of dollars to use your project. The class and reservation system there was (and presumably is?) incredibly broken.

I remember literally the only way to get a spot reserved in some /mandatory/ courses was to find an upper classman with prioritized registration dates and a free schedule to hold the class for you. In you're in a frat, great. If you're a bit of an introvert that lives off campus, you're shit out of luck.

I imagine UW is fully aware of this, I cant believe that it's still so much an issue that they felt the jeed to expell you for even having the gall to demo an idea. Absolutely appalling

Awesome! Thanks for the lead, I'll check em out. Seems likely to be a rush next year to reap the federal incentives before the upcoming admiistration likely guts them

I'm looking at getting a few panels installed as well, as my roof needs re-shingled and the bundled price seems like a good deal. What company did you go with? Are they still operating? Ive heard thats an issue with some of the smaller/local installers

So is tiktok. And sugar. And video games. And a thousand other things people are exposed to. I'm all for regulation of harmful and addictive substances and its exposure to children/adolescents, but porno is pretty low on the list of "things fucking up kids that need to be regulated"

Not a source (and I'm also not GP), but 'duty to retreat' laws exist even in many states in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_retreat

Just google property crime + [any largeish US city] + reddit and youll find dozens of anecdotal stories from citizens.

Property crime seems to have essentially become a problem dealt with exclusively by citizens. Hell, SPD wouldnt even do anything to help when my car was stolen a few years ago. I got a call from the bar where it was abandoned and had to have it towed myself.

I think the argument GP was making was that of incentives. Police department have essentially zero incentive to devote time+manpower to petty theft or property crime, so the easiest solution is to simply encourage citizens to not 'resist' so to speak. If you get mugged, its a lot easier to deal with as a police officer if you simply hand them your wallet, vs starting a fist/knife/gun fight in the streets.

It seems hard to differntiate between chicken and the egg here. Do consumers really prefer big vehicles outright? Or do they prefer them based on the marketing of those vehicles as 'safer' or 'capable' or whatever? We know margins are higher on larger cars, so there is an incentive even in non-CAFE areas.

Part of it feels like an arms race played out on the road as well. I finally had to buy a new[er] car after my 2001 Volvo wagon died. Modern cars are massive, heavy, and have shit visibility. They also have surprisingly similar or even smaller interior volumes compared to similar exterior sozed cars of 15+ years ago. But let me tell you, test driving even like a modern RAV4 (not a huge car by modern standards) made me feel like a prince on the road compared to my low ride wagon. Didnt feel like every other car on the road could run me over without noticing either.

Seems like cars will just keep growing til they hit the limit of roads, parking lots, and garages?