Maybe you can try running a video capture tool (edit: or just point your phone camera on the screen) and then scrub the video frames to find out what exactly the command window is displaying …

ERIFNOMI said:

No, coasting and one-pedal driving are polar opposites. One-pedal driving means braking when lifting, and even before fully lifting. And no, I do not want one-pedal driving in my EV.

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You get used to it fast and if properly implemented, it's fantastic!

headache said:

Must be a German thing. I made the mistake of using the orange wiper fluid instead of the blue stuff in my VW, and it now always reports as out of fluid. This is apparently a known thing with an "easy" remedy, but it requires removing the entire front bumper assembly to access.

So I live with an orange light on my dash and a spare bottle of fluid in the back, that I refill when I remember it or when it starts to seem low.

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The orange one, specifically the rain-x blend, destroys washer fluid sensors used in most German cars. I think it's a standard Bosch part so it's no good either on French / other European cars.

The cheap generic blue is fine, we top it off with whatever the gas station sells and it's never the OEM stuff. Or just water in the summer lol. Rain-x is applied using the spray bottle glass cleaner, but it's very rare here, need to special order it.


A class action suit vs Rain-x claims it damages:

Volkswagen
Audi
Mini Cooper
BMW
Mercedes Benz
Chrysler

And in the thread a Dodge Ram owner says it killed his too.



It seems to be a Rain-x problem if it affects that many brands, and that's only what is on the USA market. Wouldn't try on anything driving around here.

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One-pedal driving mode allows the accelerator pedal to also control deceleration by engaging regenerative braking as you lift. With one-pedal mode off, EV motors don't have nearly as much parasitic loss as an ICE drivetrain, so when you lift the car decelerates much more gradually and you can coast in the flow of traffic. One-pedal is best on surface roads, where intersections, no passing zones, and twisties have you in and out of braking frequently. It's not as good on highways, though, where acceleration and regen get in a tug-of-war as you maintain speed. Accelerate-and-coast is smoother and better at preserving range.

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Honestly with my Renault Clio hybrid (non-plugin) I love One-pedal on the highway and never want anything else anymore! the regen kicks in gradually, it can be very strong when you lift up your foot too fast, and near non-existant when you lift up a little bit. This is perfect. Even if I need to slowly decelerate (often too slow for the person behind me to notice.. ), I can do so for a while (20-30sec) and charge the tiny 1.2KWh battery a little bit (1 bar, Yess!) without loosing much speed.

Which in turn increases my efficiency. Less fuel. Me happy.

Looking at https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/ , both Con and Lab are polling worse than during the Truss years days.

Do they still block you from using the phone projection mode "Android Auto" (as opposed to the car operating system "Android Automotive")? Polestar for the PS2 was one of the few car manufacturers on android automotive that completely blocked android auto phone projection and it made the experience awful. I really wish tech sites would cover the differences because using android automotive with an android phone is basically like using Bluetooth circa 2011. You don't get messages (text or Whatsapp), you don't get notifications and Google's awesome notifications system with quick replies and now AI summarized messages, you can't use any music app other than Spotify (with an extremely poor client), you don't get native calls and the Bluetooth call quality is had, the cellular signal strength is limited to 4G and is worse than your phone, and the version of google maps is noticeably worse (no speed trap warnings, alt routes aren't presented as clearly). Android Automotive by nature of being a whole ass OS controlled by the OEM also gets updated way less often. I get that most tech folks have iPhones and car play will still work on anything not GM, but it really is a huge usability thing for people with androids and I feel like Google's confusing naming scheme has let them slide under the radar.
There is an ability to do phone projection with android automotive but some manufacturers actually prohibit this with an OS level setting. Phone projection was one of the few consumer friendly tech trends to come out the past 10 years and now companies are running away from it as fast as possible and it matters for Android users just as much as it does iOS.

Today is the day the US could fail to get out of the group stage of COPA America and USMNT can get a new manager.

ZenBeam said:

I'm a day behind, so maybe this was addressed earlier, but something in your gutter being magnetic does not mean it's a meteorite.

I guess the thought process is magnets are mysterious and meteorites are mysterious so magnets must be meteorites, but that's simply not correct.

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The magnet helps collect them. The next step is to examine them with a microscope to determine whether they are, in fact, micrometeorites. See for example, BBC, Popular Science.

Be aware that using magnets is now frowned upon in some circles because it destroys their magnetic history. Eg MIT News. It probably doesn't matter for microscopic ones found in your gutter which weren't going to be donated to science anyway.

If I remember correctly 2 thrusters failed in the second unmanned test, is there any reason they didn't keep that one on station, run two weeks of trials and find the issue then? Instead they called it at 5 days and reported it as a success. Im just surprised they are surprised that the thrusters are failing like last time

wicker_man said:

I get that lithium is expensive, but those prices to position Polestar into the “premium” segment aren’t doing it, or adoption of EVs any justice.

It also doesn’t have the “premium” feel, judging by the pictures.

BYD, Omoda et als will come for their lunch.

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But this is already a Chinese car. Why would they let another domestic maker take their market share?

Citrine said:

Trump's support is baked in; roughly half the electorate is pretty much down for every single piece of awful shit the Republicans get up to and quite willing to trust Trump over their own lying eyes. If they didn't decisively reject him in 2020 what makes you think they'll reject him now, when the memories of all the bad shit has four years to cool and get argued away?

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First: The "Electorate" is everyone who is eligible to vote, not everyone who votes. In 2020, the total number of people in the US was ~331 million, but the total electorate was only ~240 million. Biden got 81 million; Trump got 74 million. So the voting Republicans represent only 30.8% of the electorate. Think of it as a little more than a third of the population votes D, a little less than a third of the population votes R, and the remaining ~third doesn't vote at all. When people get energized, more people vote on both sides, but Democrats benefit from higher turnout more than Republicans.

Second: It's entirely possible that 2020 was peak Trump, that he's not capable of hitting 74 million again. January 6 broke off a sizable number of non-Trumpist Republicans who had believed in him up until that point. Every following scandal, racist comment, and conviction has chipped away more people who had voted on him in the past.

I'm pegging Trump at ~60 million in 2024, plus or minus ten percent. I think Biden can beat that unless the electorate is disillusioned and depressed.

My NAS is a self-built TrueNAS box, with a pair of 18TB WD DC HC550 drives in a Z mirror. It has a 10GBit link to my main PC, and when copying large files I do see sustained speeds over 170MB/s, sometimes touching over 200MB/s. But realistically it needs a beefier storage config to do it consistently.

sjl said:

Not so.

If you are logged into an admin account and you're doing admin-type things, macOS will ask for your password to allow it to proceed. The main exception, from memory, is dragging and dropping an application into the system-wide Applications folder (but running a package installer requires the password.)

If you are logged into a non admin account and you're doing admin-type things, macOS will ask for an admin username and password to allow it to proceed. This includes dragging and dropping an application into the system-wide Applications folder. You can still do the thing - but only if you know an admin username and the password that goes with it. If you've been set up as a regular user and don't have an admin username/password combo, you can't do admin-type things.

The latter setup - being logged into a non admin account - is how I run my Mac Studio, and how I ran my Mac Pro before it was retired (it's still sitting there, but it's not been powered on in quite some time.) The admin account is there, and I can use the username and password when admin credentials are needed, but my main account has no rights to do admin-type stuff on its own. I have a few family members who also have logins to my Mac Studio, but they don't know the admin username or password, so they can't alter the administrative-level stuff.

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I do the same and for the most part it's not too intrusive, plus it adds an additional layer of protection. The one exception is admin stuff from the commandline as you can't sudo with a non-admin account. You have to su to the admin account and then sudo from that. Kind of annoying but fortunately I don't have to do that too often, and it's a price worth paying for some additional security.

Possibly the favourite thing I've learned, ever, is that America doesn't use the metric system because it was stolen by pirates.

I wonder how well the LLMs perform if you give them undergraduate subjects but put in the effort to replace all the terms that are replaceable with lesser used synonyms...

graylshaped said:

I"ll leave it with these thoughts from a former Ars staffer, whose essay that spawned the name of his web site has shaped my thinking on mimicry vs artistry. Which, should be mentioned, I originally encountered here on Ars.

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It's a good set of arguments. I can find no fault in it.

Yet gripping hand remains that the technology is here. It will not be regulated or put back into a bottle easily, or at all.
Thus we need to change the way our society works in order to make sure that humans are still incentivized to create art.

And that's something we need to do quickly, because what I keep saying is that artists being out of a job due to LLM's isn't the end result or goal of those currently investing enormous amounts of resources into the development of functional LLM's.
Picture Amazon with but a single employee in every warehouse dealing with the ever rarer algorithm conflicts of the automated robotics. Skyscrapers on Wall Street where only a single employee exists on every floor. The call center 'manned' by only a single person dealing with complaints escalated beyond the capacity of machines to handle.

The core premise of LLM's is that they promise to replace humanity in as may job types as is possible in general. The holy grail sought for so long by every corporation in the world. The abolition of the need for employees.

It won't just be the artists out of a job. Once the first LLM proves capable of completely replacing customer service, ten years later not a single job in CS will exist. Same as with the vast majority of white and blue collar work alike.

What then? Our near future may be one where the majority of the population lives off a sort of 'citizen's salary' and the upper crust alone holds down some sort of job. In the best of all possible worlds this should be the first step towards the post-scarcity society of Star Trek where every human focuses on self-improvement.
I'm sure that we non-fictional people will somehow manage to fuck ourselves into an even grimmer dystopia instead.

Ecmaster76 said:

I don't have a steam deck but keep in mind that you can't pause the game. I'm not sure how well suspension would work unless you are resting at a site of grace or at least exit to the main menu

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Just a PSA: in spite of From games looking like they don't have a save game function, they actually do save the current state when you exit the game. So you can stop playing at any time.

They just reset everything when you die, not when you exit because rl calls.

The Polestar 4 isn't quite that heavy—5,192 lbs (2,355 kg)—so it forgoes air suspension in favor of conventional coil springs and dampers.

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Not that heavy? Since when has a more than two ton passenger car been considered "not quite that heavy"? A small carbon foot print is kind of a misnomer when considering externalities like road and tire wear.

NomadUK said:

I also loved The Witness and The Talos Principle so very much, and have been terribly disappointed that the sequel to Talos doesn’t run natively on my Mac (even a Mac Studio M3), and won’t even run under VMware as it requires far too advanced a version of DirectX.

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maxplanar said:

Damn, really? I loved TTP.

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ThirtyNerdy said:

I know it's not native but have you tried running The Talos Principle 2 in Whisky?

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Another way to run TTP2 ‘natively’ on Mac is via GeForce Now. It’s one of the games they support. I have GFN and quite like it. At the highest level it’s like equipping all my Mac / iOS devices with a RTX 4080. I can say TTP2 runs smooth as butter on my 4K screen & on my macbook.

Overall annual cost is cheaper than upgrading my Mac, or keeping a spare Windows machine with a high-end GPU. Also it abstracts away many of the ‘fiddling’ that comes with Windows, OS upgrades etc.

Works best with Ethernet from computer to a fibre optic feed, but WiFi to cable or ADSL also works adequately, just with a bit more latency. But for a game like TTP latency isn’t an issue.

You can test it for free for an hour or buy a day / month pass. Note it works with games you have already purchased, in your Stream or Epic etc library. Most - but far from all - popular games are supported.

This chart from the FT does a good job of setting out just how unpopular the Tories are right now. The comparison with Major in 1997 shows while he wasn't doing great, the sentiment against him is nothing like what we are seeing right now.

Am I the only one feeling let down by the fact he's not literally going head to head with the sharks?

Let's see how high he can jump with a great white chasing him.
Can he out-swim a mako in the open ocean while smeared with shark-attractant?

Back in my day, you could buy a tank for a dollar a gallon! </caneshake>

Guess I'll move the stuff about my aquarium side-project here.

gotosoda said:

It is hard to believe an Ars reader could be so uninformed. There has been plenty of consensus and action on border issues. Just this year, Senators from both sides of the aisle hammered out a very extensive proposal. It had wide support until Trump made a phone call and killed it for what he freely admits were purely political reasons. The only real difference of opinion comes from the extreme right-wing. Most people in any political party in the US are for strong control over illegal immigration. It is just that Trump and the far right hate all immigrants, legal or not. Notice he just says "immigrant" now in his tirades, he does not even bother with the word "illegal" anymore.

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I look forward to a brighter future where the Simpsons episode Much Apu About Nothing becomes an interesting historical footnote in pop culture studies rather than a poignant and timely commentary.
"Immigants, I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!"

Yep. the McMaster-Carr experience is so good that I don't mind paying the prices (usually). And I know it'll get to me in 2-3 days with no shenanigans.

crombie said:

Shouldn't that be a Thursday problem down there?

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That's probably what's pissing him off.