Umart sounds like Best Buy in the US. Fuck Best Buy.

I think it’s a truck for regulatory reasons. Trucks get a pass on a bunch of things that can be a regulatory issue for cars, because of course they do.

They are offering kits to make it a van or SUV. Still no coupe, but better than a truck for many purposes.

By the time most people start pumping gasoline, they are almost past the part of their lives they take many standardized tests in.

I hate it too, and yes the current layout is way better. I’ll try it, but I might try other browsers too. I hate that most times a ui for a phone is updated it reduces the number of functions presented, becoming simpler and cartoony. Sometimes a feature or setting you used previously takes longer to get to, sometimes it’s gone. (Not firefox for the features being gone entirely part, that I’ve noticed)

The chemical is capsaicin, and it’s a neurotoxin. That’s why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.

Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.

Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.

I like there being no requirement for a cloud account, but the storage being on a card in the camera seems vulnerable. What’s to keep someone from taking the card?

I would never expect a good analysis of a movie from an LLM. It can’t actually produce original thought, and can’t even watch the movie itself. It maybe has some version of the script in its training database, and definitely has things that people have said about the movie, and similar movies, and similar books, and whatever else they scraped. It it just returns words that are often grouped together and that have high likelihood of relevance to your query.

This was interesting. Most of these jobs are dangerous because they increase your exposure to car accidents it looks like.

I had heard that most police officers deaths are from car accidents, but this says “violence by other people or animals”. Must be just their category name, not because animals are a significant danger. That category is shared with one other profession in the top 25 most dangerous, supervisor of mechanics at number 19. I guess bossing around people with a lot of potentially dangerous tools at hand goes bad fairly often.

Well, one way or another it won’t be too many generations. Either we figure out it’s a bad idea or sooner or later things will go off the wheels enough that we won’t maintain the infrastructure to support everyone using this type of “AI”. Being kind of right 90% of the time is not good enough at a power plant.

Heavy things can bounce if they have the right properties. That ball looked to be going somewhere between 5-10 mph and that guy went down fast. That momentum had to come from the ball, and that ball has to weigh considerably more than he does to hit with that much force at that speed.

Radiant heat is great for intermittent heating. Instead of heating a space, you heat the objects (and people) in the space, and that heat can be felt seconds after starting the heater. It doesn’t matter if the air temp is actually 2C if the radiant heat makes it feel like 22C.

Yeah, drug names and Pokémon names are running into the same problem. They can’t reuse them, and there are so many already.

Actually, I suppose a name being used for a drug or a Pokémon precludes it from being used for the other, so it is a very shared issue, lol.

Wonder how far they have to reserve names in advance to prevent overlap. A Nintendo vs GSK court case for a name would be less absurd than many news stories this year.

True, but by a different mechanism. Immune memory was not involved in their continued resistance.

They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.

I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.

I do 3D modeling and design and I am a hard #5. Can’t see a thing unless I’m dreaming. But when I think about a part or machine I’m designing I do have an awareness of it in my head, but it’s like it is related to my proprioception (the awareness of where your body parts are) instead my vision. I can imagine the surfaces of what I’m thinking about, and how those surfaces will interact as things move, but can’t see them whatsoever.

I didn’t know real visualization and aphantasia were things until I was well over a decade into this career, haha.

Yeah, I read the article because I wanted to see why they were claiming the pole flipping would make a noise at all. Given that the idea it would make this noise will still be at least some people’s takeaway, this presentation of the data is worse than useless, it’s misleading.

That is a pretty low bar.

A few months before. Theory checks out.

If your set starts with the Magician’s Nephew, move it to second from last. Read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first. The Magician’s Nephew is chronologically first, but the wrong order to tell the story. Which is why the author didn’t put it first.

It all makes sense if you read Magician’s Nephew first, but it removes mystery from the others. And the reveal of the events in Magician’s Nephew was more exciting after reading most of the rest of the series, instead of being the intro to that universe. It takes some of the magic out of the series. As someone who has read most of C.S. Lewis’s books more than once, I’m pretty confident he’d be pissed about it.

Spoilers below, it is a pretty good series, read it. But also, do not start with the Magician’s Nephew. It is chronologically first, so some publisher changed it after the author died, use the original order.

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