Imagine hiring a taxi without having your lawyer review the terms and conditions, lol

It uses the nomenclature from brochures etc. Trifolds have two folds but 3 panels.

I think it’s supposed to be inflation adjusted?

What is intelligence though? Maybe I’m getting through life just by being pretty good at predicting what to say or do next…

I’m not sure that’s true for pedestrians? Going over the hood on a sedan might be better…

Are you a vampire?

Because he wasn’t moving very fast… To be in orbit you need to be traveling around the earth extremely quickly. The problem is slowing down, not the altitude.

I don’t think they were necessarily claiming they were happy, just that we didn’t know for sure what they were thinking. Some people were claiming that they were definitely unhappy… But I don’t think you can know that without asking them.

Obviously it sucks if they have to move, but it’s hard to feel too sorry for people that have become incredibly wealthy…

Also, municipal expenses don’t scale directly with property values… So while local taxes are often based on home values, they are adjusted to the level that meets the municipal budget. If everyone’s house doubles in value one year, taxes stay the same, not double…

Battery failure https://spacenews.com/directv-fears-explosion-risk-from-satellite-with-damaged-battery/

Yeah, it’s taken forever for this version to come out. Xbox series x (and s) got a native version relatively recently.

You could use the PS4 version before. Hopefully this new version will use the PS5 hardware to the fullest.

$1.5k is still not a very expensive bike. Only at the low end of “non trash components”.

But you have to select if it was human or not, right? So if you can’t tell, then you’d expect 50%. That’s different than “I can tell, and I know this is a human” but you are wrong… Now that we know the bots are so good, I’m not sure how people will decide how to answer these tests. They’re going to encounter something that seems human-like and then essentially try to guess based on minor clues… So there will be inherent randomness. If something was a really crappy bot then it wouldn’t ever fool anyone and the result would be 0%.

Some auto makers have said they will accept liability… https://www.thedrive.com/tech/455/volvo-accepting-full-liability-in-autonomous-car-crashes

How much could a tweet cost? $10?

This sounds like the Pomodoro technique… There are a lot of apps for that.

I think the one in Maine was mostly in Canada so the portion in the US was smaller.

Interesting. Kinda hard to understand the reason behind these differences sometimes. For clothes washers I think 30C would actually be considered cold in NA. My washer has tap cold, cold, warm, hot settings. So “cold” is actually heated… Only tap cold is unheated.

If your dishwasher starts washing shortly after you turn it on, then it probably didn’t have time to heat the water… At least in North America, dishwashers have water heaters but they still rely on hot water coming in for best performance.