At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.

Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it’s taking away our livelihoods, and it’s not even really good at it. It’s also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we’d be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.

It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It’s good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It’s decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn’t documented.

It’s bad at art compared to an artist It’s good at art compared to an average electrician.

It’s good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It’s great at marketing to CEO’s.

There’s a lot more there than social issues.

So telling how it kept walking after it was lying face down. No proprioception, no mems feedback, of course, you could tell that from the shuffle.

At best it seems like AI driving a remote control car :/

I’ve been hoping for a low power 8" linux compat tablet. I’d just carry around a wireless access point.

He’s not talking about 80/20 limits. he’s talking about material breakdown at extremes. Not all manufacturers spec in 80/20 limits. AFAIK, only Samsung actually lets you stop it completely at 80, the rest just try to let it sit no higher than 80 all night.

If they were saccrificing 40% of runtime to keep you from having to replace your battery, that would 100% be in the sales pitch.

And honestly, that article isn’t a great source of truth. A number of the statements in there are inaccurate or, at the very least, misleading.

Charging beyond 100% or below 0% is mostly BS. The proper max voltage of the battery is a physics thing, they are in equilibrium at 4.7 / cell. Picking at a low power limit is up to the manufacturer and their choice in power distribution circuitry. He asked the chemist if you could overcharge or overdischarge a battery and mistook that as an answer that it was feasible to overcharge/overdischarge them.

“Leaving a charger plugged in at the wall and turned on wastes energy False (well, maybe a tiny bit)” This is still true for many chargers, and calling it out as a little bit in his own arbitrary numbers is disingenuous.

“Batteries perform worse when they’re cold False (mostly)”

Rest assured, your C rating is wildly affected by temperature; he’s trying to again call it out as slight, which is making his own narrative.

“Powering off a device occasionally helps preserve battery life False”

The whole time your phone is on, you are charging or discharging. Those cycles wear on the battery any time you shut your phone off, you are in the least damaging mode for your battery, especially if it’s around 50% or so.

“Using an unofficial charger damages your phone True”

100% BS, using a crappy charger might damage your phone. Buying a quality 3rd party chager is no problem at all.

The author doesn’t appear to have a strong electronics background and he didn’t ask the right questions or fully understand the importat parts of the answers

“And if too much current is delivered to a battery, that could mean ripping out too many of those lithium ions and leading to the same kind of degradation you read about earlier. That’s not to say that all off-brand chargers will be this bad, Griffith notes, but you’re still probably better off sticking with an official model.” is not the same as “Using an unofficial charger damages your phone”

They run off batteries, using either isotope decay or light sensor (or both)

I actually have one hanging off my ceiling right now, it’s battery was fine, but it tripped likely due to dust or a spider on the optical sensor. It went off at 2am, network sent them all off, took me 10m to find the right one I wasn’t about to just blow it out and out put it back on the ceiling :)

You’ve already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn’t autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.

It’s simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.

I don’t know, but if it’s more than 0, it’s too many.

I’m not saying he’s right, or good, just making an observation.

I see a Vet who lost his house, is in the process of losing his healthcare, and just feels like he needs a win on the bad investment he’s doubling down on.

get the grill ripping hot outside (500 degrees)

put cooking oil on a paper towel and swab the whole cast iron pan

Throw it on the grill until it stops smoking

pull it off, let it cool a little and swab it again (super thin layer)

Throw it on the grill until it stops smoking

repeat until you’re happy with the color

hell, I didn’t even know who it was. Took a bit of footwork to find out :)

The best description I’ve ever heard about getting very old, it’s like being in a nice hot shower all your life and as you near the end, they just keep slowly turning off the hot water until you’re miserable. We just kinda fall apart in old age. The only future you’re looking forward to is your family reaching their own milestones, unless you’re financially prepared, your income dwindles. I’m sure it’s not like that for everyone, but at least in my circles, panel for is more like “I’m scared, but you know it’s about time”

That only covers games that are loosely using servers for communication, piracy and cheating. That also puts game companies into the realm of losing their IP if they shut down temporarily in an acquisition. If you start a studio, run out of cash and get aquired, you’ll actually want that game you made to still be worth something, it doesn’t just affect those AAA players.

I think you need to add something like an escrow with x months of running costs. Once that well runs dry you need to go down to the providing a working server. I’ve been through the industry and I can confidently tell you that an API isn’t enough for a hell of a lot of games. Some of the stuff I’ve seen, it would take the actual game team a half a year to bring it back up with the source because the stuff they were using when they went under was ancient. You don’t want to buy a server authoratative game and wait around a year while the community tries to ressurect it.

it really wouldn’t have hurt them to make the shield on usb-a asymmetric

needs an ethernet there for good measure.

YES

galaxybrain is always an option

tbf, this meme isn’t particularly painting him in a great light

Shit, we’d be lucky if they went with someone as marginally craptastic as Newsom. We can’t put any candidate in if they have any chance of getting any of our agenda in; they have to be 100% right-friendly or they won’t even try.

;) not even once

When freedom of speech breaks down, and the government is logging / tracking all social media on the front end and back end AND private communication tools are under attack, nothing is really safe anymore. Most disturbingly, once they deem X or Y to be unlawful, if you’ve EVER talked about X or Y, you’re at risk.