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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Competency implies having some qualification other than loyalty, listening to subject matter experts, considering consequences. The result of competency could easily be just a matter of degree and awareness.

  For example, tariffs can be a powerful tool for addressing specific trade inequities or supporting local production, especially in conjunction with other tools. Many US administrations have successfully used them. Only an incompetent buffoon would just throw them down everywhere all at once as the only tool, or as a bullying tactic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And some turnip brain has thrown down a random slalom course of giant boulders of tariffs, terrorizing immigrant labor, and a full clown car of national “leadership” whose only qualification is personal loyalty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense. Thanks for helping clarify

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts y'all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When someone says you stand like you have a stick olio your ass, they mean the other way. It should help keep you vertical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I read this differently than you. I don’t see this as volunteering personal time, but asking people during their work time to help iwith a different job. Not that the article says either way, but volunteering personal time seems unlikely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Best way to recover from a spin is push the yoke to straight down and rudder opposite the spin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you safely film a group of masked armed men while they are in the process of committing a crime, without them knowing that you are recording? [USA]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that it helps the victims but maybe we need a bunch of falsely abused and detained reporters able to afford significant lawsuits.

  I like to think I’d stand up and do it, but I’m white and in a state where we don’t often have such conflict.

  I mean we do, you can’t avoid it with the current administration. However it’s just not as often. Actually a couple of weeks ago one of my city councillors was roughly detained for videoing a gang of masked thugs depriving people of their rights. However while I don’t think it’s as simple as racism, he is Hispanic and that clearly makes a difference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lidar has strengths that complement where video has weaknesses. That seems like a good thing. However it is bulky and expensive, and not yet produced at scale. Those are bad things. Whether it really makes a difference in simplifying the machine learning, only those developers know. You have to balance the pluses and minuses, and just because one company came up with something different, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

  Maybe it won’t work without lidar but maybe it will - in the meantime Tesla has saved like $1,000/car times however many million they produce. If they succeed, then they have a solid cost and scalability advantage

  The deciding point is if someone does develop general self-driving. Will those who are behind be able to swallow their pride and modify their approach?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Window retracting on door opening is no different than other cars with frameless windows. Most lowering the window may damage the weatherstripping but is no impediment to door opening.

  True that the door latch itself is just a solenoid. I actually forgot the the outside handles don’t do anything but give you something to pull on.

  The worst part of the manual door release is that it’s different on each model. For mine, the front door manual release is easily accessible to the point I have to tell people not to use it. Back door is a problem though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At ideal conditions. As the temperature difference is greater, the efficiency goes down. So right when you need heat the most, gas is still at 90+% efficiency while heat pumps are closer to or under 200%.

  Then you have to look at capacity. It can be expensive sizing for the greater temp differences when it usually isn’t. If you have a heat pump that can be 400% efficient, do you really want to pay for quadruple the capacity so that even when it’s at 100% efficiency it still puts out enough heat? No one can afford that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just a snow covered road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t though. Waymo runs a few pilots in a few specific geolocked locations with essentially hand built cars at a huge loss. They also have human remote supervisions. They do seem fairly successful and maybe their slow careful rollout will eventually be at scale in the areas that need it most. Hopefully it will work.

  While it’s easy to argue Tesla hasn’t had those successes yet, they do have the “at scale” part down and are already profitable on the vehicles. They are close enough to self-driving them at they’re willing to try their own pilots with human intervention. If they succeed, they already have the scaling up done and are profitable on hardware so will quickly surpass other competitors.

  I like that different companies are taking different approaches, so we have competition. May the best technology succeed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but if you make that argument, even relatively dumb cars have that as well. At least antilock brakes have been mandatory for a few years (in the US) and traction control might be as well. Both lead to immediate adjustments in driving, more quickly than any human can react.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your goal in using fake info? If it’s general privacy, it’s easy enough to register where your info is private to the registrar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s all true:

  • humans drive based on vision alone
  • moving to one type of sensor simplifies the ai
  • lidar has been much bulkier, much more expensive than other sensors.

  Most importantly, since no one has self driving yet, it’s premature to talk about that as a mistake. Let it fail or succeed on its merits. Let other self-driving attempts fail or succeed on their merits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In this crash, part of the blame was on retracting handles. If the handle is retracted, it’s tough to open the door from the outside.

  • model s has electrically presented handles. The car has to be somewhat functional for the handles to extend …. I haven’t heard of extend on emergency or extend of power lost, or any other failsafe
  • model 3/y door handles are not electrical. You have to press on one end to extend the other. You may or may not like them, but at least they don’t have that failure case of what happens when the car loses power
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been looking at that decision. My furnace is well beyond its expected life and I’d like to replace it before it dies so it’s not an emergency. I’ve looked at heat pumps and really want to make that choice. The incentives help with the initial cost, at least for a couple more months.

  But then it comes down to gas is cheaper than electricity. If electricity is twice the cost per unit of energy, is it really sufficient for the heat pump to be twice as efficient? How can I rationalize the choice that is not only more expensive to install but more expensive to run?

  And the answer is not sinking yet more money into also doing solar. My house is mostly shaded, and I’m not killing treees just to make this mess work together

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If we had just moved ahead with solar heat and hot water, or even solar panels, back when It resident ,Carter was trying to encourage it, we would already be moved away from fossil fuels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree with we should have started 40 years ago. We knew we should have and we did have sufficient technology to take other paths.

  But I’ll disagree on whether we have the technology now. There was a recent post on Lemmy that in a sunny place like Las Vegas, you could replace 97% of energy generation with renewables and batteries. Cheaper. Not just that you can but that it’s cheaper. We have the technology.

  The challenge is always to bring the cost down. We do have technology to create aviation fuel from green sources. We do have several options for fueling shipping that we know how to do. Even if we’re just making ammonia or hydrogel or green diesel, that is a huge step forward that we have the technology for. The problem is we don’t yet have a compelling economic case to (especially since climate change is externalized, not counted as a cost), nor anyone with the fortitude to make it so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you’re confusing being aware with specific choices of how to respond. Being aware is always good, but you can always argue with what people choose to do with that knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think the bidet is the problem - you aren’t going through tp quickly enough. It has more time to fall apart.

  All I got is try other brands and clean more often.

  While you say your partner is unwilling to switch, there are still multiple ultra soft brands. For example I’ve switched from Charmin Ultrasoft to Kirkland (Costco). It seems just as soft, but it has less dust, it’s individual sheets are bigger, and it’s cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you even find companies to work with ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you open to moving?

  My niece jumped on a video program in high school and is going to college for film. In both cases, industry connections were a huge part of the program, and she has been able to find a good amount of part time work to help offset the costs of college. She even has IMDb.com profile and credits.

  From what little I know about the industry, this seems like one of those careers where connections are critical. Of course the problem is you’ll find only a small number of schools and locations with those connections.

  I know moving is not realistic for most people so I’ll second the other recommendations about seeing what your school can do for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess mine was. I wanted to try it out, but I’m not willing to give away that much of my privacy to any website so it was pretty useless. There was literally nothing: fill out a form and I guess there are supposed to be emails of responses. I live in a major metropolitan area and never got any, but I refused to give details so that’s not a surprise.

  I just thought there’d be something to see before I committed my privacy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a video where a guy was claiming vertical solar panels can effectively generate more power more often. They can catch a little something when the sun is low in winter , or on the shoulder hours of sun-up/down, where traditional solar can’t, and they don’t get snow buildup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the wind blow year round? I’m imagining a similar case for wind, then you can say that for the union of these two sets, renewables are cheaper than legacy energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the other line on the graph. Solar alone, covering up to 60% of energy use, is already cheaper than gas in Las Vegas. Sure, other places will have their own lower numbers, but until we achieve this threshold, we’re just a bunch of reactionaries captured by current business owners. If anyone actually believed in the free market, we’d expect it to trend to that line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hinge won’t even show a landing page with “privacy enabled”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, even up here in woke-ville, punishments have gotten a lot more strict for kids. There’s a lot more involvement of police, courts, jail. As a parent it causes me a lot of anxiety - whatever happened to school being a “sandbox” where a kid can make mistakes without adult consequences, without ruining their lives? Did that ever exist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never futile. Sure, Trump will never listen, never care about anyone whose not himself, never face justice (crap, now you’re depressing me), but what about Al the minion who do his bidding. I mean, they’re evil too, but going deeper ….

  This all can’t happen without supporters. Maybe it’s voters who are low information or easily manipulated finally seeing the truth. Maybe it’s federal employees feeling the support to do the right thing. Maybe it’s law enforcement growing shame at how they’ve been used. Maybe it’s judicial branch standing up from being marginalized and corporatized, fighting back against legalized bribery and corroded ethics at the highest court.

  The billionaires big bill was passed in the senate on a tie breaker. It would have take only one more senator to be swayed. Big elections coming up in a little over a year- your peers might elect someone who will actually serve them. Various states and cities, corps and law firms are standing up for what’s right: maybe you can get one more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping everyone would turn out for another No Kings event but I guess too many people complained.

  If we can’t be proud of the mess we’re in now, maybe we can be proud of the people who speak up, who try to create change. Maybe we can hark back to our origins tearing down oppressive political and corporate systems. Maybe we can hold up the mythical ideas that used to unite us and fight to make them true. It’s our duty as patriotic citizens to set our country on the right path toward one we can be proud of.