On the one hand, by converting fibrous plants that people can’t eat into protein-rich meat and milk, grazing animals like cows and sheep are an important source of human food.

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Disingenuous. As if the choice for humans was eat grass or meat. There are other sources of protein. (I'm not a vegetarian, much less an eco-terrorist, too bad, you'll have to argue in other grounds). Historically, humans thrived while eating significantly less meat than in the current epoch. And today, large differences between countries.

Note to anyone picking a company name: never have the first two words be an oxymoron

"This service sucks! I want you to cancel it now!!"

"Sounds like you want a speed increase. Alright, do you want to upgrade your bundle to super mega plus, or to super mega plus pro?"

ev9_tarantula said:

I'm 99% sure it will be Cortex-X925, that will be competitive with anything else around.

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I thought 10 wide was crazy a decade ago. Man how technology progresses.

blackhawk887 said:

When they also own the business?

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Even still. Harvey Weinstein had his fucking name on the door.

I don't expect interest rates to come down much. I doubt they'll drop below 3% for at least 10 years, if ever unless there's another massive financial crash. I feel like people have unrealistic expectations and/or have put themselves into a financial position that isn't tenable unless those expectations become reality.

Prices are climbing. People expect to be paid more. Expect to have more. Unless the post-covid 'you only live once' mindset completely dissipates. Food prices in the UK have been artificially low for years. We've seen and are seeing big corrections to this. Energy prices aren't really coming down in a way that will make a meaningful impact. The most recent drops equate to about £100 per year.

MMarsh said:

Having been born in the mid '80s, I'm old enough to remember when credit cards were processed with carbon paper and a pressure imprint roller.

Even in the 2010s there were a few times when I was at a store and the POS terminals went down. Cashiers would be confused, lots of "well I'm not sure what to do," and then a 60 year old lady would come out of the back office carrying an old yellow box. She'd say "OK kids, time you learned to deal with it the old fashioned way", break out a 40 year old imprint roller and a stack of CC forms, and tell them to press really hard when you're writing the dollar amount because you're making three copies.

In the last 5-6 years it seems that even those have disappeared. The last few times I've been in a store that had a POS network issue, everything really did grind to a halt and the managers had no idea what to do.

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Can't even do that anymore because credit cards no longer have the embossing needed to generate a triplicate form. Long after merchants transitioned to POS terminals, credit cards still used the old school embossed info.

It wasn't that long ago that I received my first "flat" debit card. It had the numbers printed on the front, but did not have the familiar raised embossing. First merchant where I used that card did a double-take, thinking that the card was fake.

Now that cards have gone contactless, all the info is now printed on the back. The front is just blank. My bank only stopped issuing credit cards with embossed numbers a couple of years. Coincided with them finally going contactless.

Good staging

sword_9mm said:

They voted; that's why we pin it on them.

It wasn't your parents or my parents or xyz's parents. They didn't pull up the ladder by hand; they voted to pull it up cresting with Reagan and now we got the rest of that shit these people STILL vote for fucking us.

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Let's all be very clear, however, that merely being able to afford a 2-4 year old car is not really within the category of that shit.

MMarsh said:

Having been born in the mid '80s, I'm old enough to remember when credit cards were processed with carbon paper and a pressure imprint roller.

Even in the 2010s there were a few times when I was at a store and the POS terminals went down. Cashiers would be confused, lots of "well I'm not sure what to do," and then a 60 year old lady would come out of the back office carrying an old yellow box. She'd say "OK kids, time you learned to deal with it the old fashioned way", break out a 40 year old imprint roller and a stack of CC forms, and tell them to press really hard when you're writing the dollar amount because you're making three copies.

In the last 5-6 years it seems that even those have disappeared. The last few times I've been in a store that had a POS network issue, everything really did grind to a halt and the managers had no idea what to do.

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I mean, most cards don't even have embossed numbers anymore.

Haven't watched a night launch in a while. All that ice falling off the booster looks prettily sparky from the booster cam.

alphathreethree said:

I love the comments on these articles. "I dont know how this works, I don't have the skills or experience to actually work on it, but let me tell you how bad it is and and how it will fail" hahah

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Sometimes, just a healthy level of general scientific awareness, and awareness of past science and technology history, is all you need.

Like, this subject is currently very similar to claims of making breakthroughs towards shortterm commercial-grade nuclear fusion: there's a lot of hype and attention that is weaponized to distort just how many more (sometimes very wide) gaps we still have to bridge.

Sure, General AI is somewhat different in that it's less clear what exactly is still missing. But that doesn't necessarilly make the situation better. It just means pure optimism looks a bit less naive an uninformed.

Psyborgue said:

You're making a big deal about an EV cord going across a sidewalk, hand wringing about a trip hazard and "illegal" (is it even) when, as a Canadian, you shouldn't be talking about the condition of your sidewalks.

I've been there in winter. Handle anybody shovels their sidewalks. They're all covered with ice outside major cities. I guess slip and fall lawsuits aren't a thing there.

Why exactly you care about such a tiny little thing?

I act like EVs are the solution in the US (and Canada) because public transportation isn't happening for the reasons outlined in my previous post. Because it's not, EVs are the only way to cut carbon emissions.

I wish we could have the sort of public transportation Europe does, but that won't happen outside NY, Montreal, Vancouver and some other rare cities where it's done well and you don't actually need a vehicle. Infrastructure was designed around individual vehicles and "freedom". Undoing that isn't feasible -- culturally, politically, or otherwise. I accept the good. I don't demand perfect if it's unattainable.

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You might want to look at SMC 15.04.072 (Assuming you are in Seattle.)

Check out Seattle charging cord guidelines.

Sudoma bin Usri said:

Yet another Venture Capitalists FTW event…

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Venture Capital is about funding new ventures, ie startups, generally. Your perfectly valid criticism should be pointed at Private Equity firms. VCs don't do shit like this with longstanding companies.

Liftoff!!!

bobdotorg said:

If it were in a pre-2024 movie, seeing the newspaper headline, "North Korea and South Korea are fighting a proxy war in Ukraine" would likely have exceeded my capabilities for suspension of disbelief.

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Now Proxy wars have proxy wars...

icwhatudidthere said:

Possibly also about size. There's a neighborhood of townhouses by me that was built around 40+ years ago and modern cars just don't fit inside anymore. Plenty are just too long.

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I’m sure that’s a factor, especially given the buying preference changes as middle-class buyers started using low interest rates to buy things larger than the 1970s Cadillacs they couldn’t have afforded back then, but I see even people driving small cars doing it. It seems like an example of how malleable our baseline for normal is: if street parking didn’t exist or cost a lot, nobody would think anything about the extra seconds it takes to park on their own property but after acclimating it seems like an imposition.

I upgraded to the latest release firmware last week, over WiFi, and I haven't had any serious problems since then, but my main gripe remains the latency when displaying the backup camera. That's probably my main source of dissatisfaction with the product right now, and it's actually a safety issue when I have literally a decade's worth of muscle-memory that expects the rear view to show up earlier than it does.

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If they were to use chiplets they could replace an existing CCD with an ARM CCD.

In other words I’m not sure why you think this wouldn’t be a chiplet. The issue really is if they have a superior in house core, or if they will use stock ARM (assuming this happens)

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I'm 99% sure it will be Cortex-X925, that will be competitive with anything else around.

The Nvidia/MediaTek chip is meant to be Cortex-X925 with the Nvidia Blackwell GPU on a TSMC 3nm process. MediaTek and Nvidia also have some automotive SoCs with supposedly the same CPU and GPU, but presumably a lot more I/O for displays and cameras, plus lock-step realtime CPU subsystems for safety.

MediaTek's own Windows SoC is probably like their Kompanio SoCs that are used in Chromebooks but for Windows. I would guess it will be a low-end to mid-range part with a Mali GPU.

AMD's SoC might be something they are co-developing with Microsoft, but Reuters didn't mention that only naming AMD itself.

Just hope he gets his nap and dinner in before hand.

Don't want a tired and cranky Biden up there with a ranting Trump.

Vlip said:

I'm sorry but where is all that bile coming from? We ordered a weapon system with ammunition. Our delivery gets delayed because Ukraine needs re more important than ours. Not a single person or politician is quoted being pissed about it, we don't make any official protest of any kind and yet, people act as if we pissed in Zelensky's cornflakes for some reason....

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See above of how much I trust blick.ch as single source; I definitely was not ready to accept this as accurate merely on that reporting.

The truth, however, is that Switzerland burned a lot of goodwill with shit like Rheinmetall having to move their ammo-factory from Switzerland to Germany just so they could keep making rounds for the Gepard SPAAGs. Unlike countries like Germany (which is now the second-largest provider of military support to Ukraine after the US) Switzerland hasn't really stepped up in any other way to make up for that.

No other European country contributed, on a percentage of GDP, less to Ukraine than Switzerland; heck, on a percentage-of-GDP basis Japan gave financial/humanitarian aid at 1.5x of Switzerland's contribution, and they're on the other bloody side of the globe and have a big fucking national security problem spelled P-R-C right at their doorstep.

Switzerland's contribution to house war refugees is in nominal terms (it gets of course even more dire if we also convert this to a percentage of GDP) equal to the magnificently rich country known as 'Romania'. What's worse, while there may be constitutional reasons for why Switzerland cannot be more active in military support to Ukraine even if the government wanted to, this really doesn't apply in the context of humanitarian or monetary aid, does it?

Look, I know that you, personally, are in favor of Switzerland doing more; I have no doubt many other upstanding Swiss citizens share the same sentiment. But looking objectively at Switzerland as a country the allegation that it either is doing both far less than other countries do, and/or what it could do, is hard to deny, even two years into this war.

This is where the damage to the Swiss reputation comes from. Not the tabloid shit coming from blick.ch.

GN 2024 case update.

I kind of like the Lian Li LC 207, with it's interesting approach to getting more GPU cooling. I like cases that make GPU cooling a priority:

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After a couple of weeks, I had the following additional feedback:

1. I'm going to upgrade my review of the general sound quality to "Better than factory BT."
   1. I don't know if this is just placebo effect or real, but I've had a few instances listening to my collection of Al Di Meola tracks where I thought, "Hey, this sounds really good!"
2. But I'm still getting periodic audio dropouts.
   1. I set my iPhone to Do Not Disturb mode for awhile, which suppresses all notifications and alerts, and I still got dropouts.
   2. Then I turned DND off, and sent myself a bunch of messages and emails, and the incoming alerts and notifications did not trigger audio dropouts.
   3. So I don't think the dropouts are related to alerts and notifications.
3. I finally found the microphone gain setting (in the Grom settings, NOT the CarPlay settings!), and it's better now, but not as nearly as good as my factory BT was for phone calls.
   1. The installer tech fiddled with the placement and direction of the mic, but could not get any improvement.
   2. The installer tech said that the Grom unit uses the Grom-supplied mic, and that connecting to the factory mic was not an option. Is that true?
   3. Does Grom sell an upgraded mic?
4. I connected my Grom unit to my home WiFi and checked the firmware versions, and I'm current.
   1. But I haven't had any more crashes, so maybe that was just a one-time problem.
5. The delay between shifting into reverse and seeing the backup camera display is more annoying than I'd originally thought.
   1. Try a 3-point turn or a 5-point parallel park, and you'll see that the extra 1-2 seconds to see the display is actually meaningful.
   2. I hope this is something that can be improved with some software optimization, because I'm guessing that the vast majority of people shift into reverse when they start their car, so this is literally one of the very first things they'll see out of the Grom unit, every single day, so it's important that it be a good experience.
6. Is there any way to overlay the current audio volume over the CarPlay display?
   1. Right now there is no visual indicator of the current audio volume setting.
7. Is there any way to overlay the climate control temperature settings over the CarPlay display?
   1. Right now there is no visual indicator of the climate control temperature settings.

Overall I'm still giving this a thumbs-up, and I'm glad I bought this upgrade, especially because I didn't think it would ever be possible to add CarPlay to a 13 year old car.