I was in school way before the new math thing. I figured out doing it all in my head like this on my own because i hated writing out and solving math problems. Especially long division, and was able to coast through all my math classes. It felt pretty natural, which is how I think they decided to start doing "new math".
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....
In the US, almost no one buys their phones outright. They "lease to own". Anyone whe does buy their phone outright can just buy the unlocked ones.
So I'm not sure what this rule would actually change. You're already not Carrier locked if you bought your phone. You're only Carrier locked if you lease it.
The big fuck up was eliminating competition by allowing t mobile to buy sprint. Too many pieces of shit were in charge 2016 to 2020.
I've had a couple. The issue is that you don't save any money on their service if you have your own. So it's basically "you can pay us $70 a month and buy your phone yourself, or you can pay us $70 a month and have this phone under contract for two years that we'll give you."
Yep. Or quasi installments. They usually make it where your paying like $20 a month on the phone for two years, but they're deducting $20 a month off your monthly service at the same time. That way if you try to break contract, you have to pay for the rest of your phone that you still owe.
The problem is that you don't get to have a cheaper plan whether or not you own your own phone. Same monthly cost if you get their free phone under lease, or if you bring your own phone.
I'm very good with electronics (repairs and care). I'm on an unlocked Note 20 ultra I bought used in early 2021 and it's still in flawless condition. Not parting with it anytime soon and already replaced the battery in it so it would keep going.
Issue with things like mint or rocket is that you get bumped down in priority as soon as towers get a bit congested. I'm paying more, but I like having unlimited data and 40 or 50 GB of hotspot a month.
Possibility for private planes, but none for commercial planes. Just imagine a commercial passenger plane or cargo plane that needed a giant amount of electricity and like 12 hours of charging in between every flight.
Then, for safety reasons you'll need to have two batteries in case one goes bad.
There just needs to be a cemented in place ban that can't be undone for at least 20 years.
There's nothing being made in the US for batteries because you can't beat China in price and companies aren't going to put six billion dollars and 5 tears of construction I to making a battery factory if they don't believe the ban would last long enough for it to be worth it.
Googles find my device network has been live for a couple of months now, after it was delayed (supposedly waiting on Apple) for like a year. Two other companies released trackers around the end of March. There's a few more sold in non US markets. Moto saying they'll have a tracker for sale in the coming months while others have already left the gate would be the slow poke part. There was a huge amount of info about the find my device network rollout. Moto really should have done this and been selling it already. It's a copy of what's already available.
What? No they aren't. They almost always fail on a curve of power and voltage loss.
Also, I didn't look it up, but I'd be very surprised if the model Y tesla didn't require (suggest and oem?) an AGM battery. It's still lead, but due to how they're made they can't get a dead short in them like older regular lead acid batteries can once they get old, although it still isn't very common for it to happen.
No they aren't. They degrade before they fail. If tesla wanted to provide a warning of a failing battery that pretty much always worked it could have wired in a load test and went off voltage drop under a heavier load.
Testing if batteries are good or bad does not qualify a person to chart out battery degradation.
Once again, I did this for a living, for a decade. We would constantly have cars with failed batteries, we would bring them in, charge them up, test them, they would pass, we'd send them on their way, and they would fail again
I also test batteries and this just looks like you all didn't test them well. Like you skipped the capacity test because it takes being hooked up for a long time instead of the test that takes 20 seconds to do.
If it were a game that didn't use a pay to play/continue/win model, I'd agree that she was the best at it. Or at least played it the most. It's hard to say she's the best when you have to spend money to do it and you aren't playing against anyone.
They still get way better gas mileage. They also don't cost $15,000 when the battery goes bad. I replaced my 12 year old prius battery myself in like two hours after buying a brand new $2,900 replacement from the Toyota dealership. Could have just bought and replaced the bad cell in it, but in a 12 year old battery I'd probably have another to replace within a year and just have to keep going in and replacing one after the other, which would be a pain.
"Charges 30% fee"
"That's too high! You're ripping us off"
"Charges 10% fee"
"That's too low! No other platforms could hope to compete against you with that!"
This is nothing but people bitching about nothing for the price gouging. I will give merit to the anti competitive nature if game makers aren't allowed to have their games listed for less at other stores. As far as add on game packages locking you in goes....that might be a technical minefield to ensure compatibility.
Maybe don't break up what was one massive and awesome game into 3 games over the course of like 8+ years. You don't even get to keep levels and abilities across each game. I know they have made them quite a bit different from the original game, but I still know I'm only getting to have 1/3 of a story at a time, now. I don't want to read half a book and know I can't finish the other half for another 5 years. Let alone that it may have to be on a different game system.
I was going to re-buy the OG ff7 just to play on my steam deck using all the awesome mods that it has to balance things and improve the looks.
Well I nixed that idea. Fucking square requires an active internet to play their 28 year old single player RPG. I may just pirate the thing, but then I can't use all the mods that have been made.
US animation existed for the sole purpose of merchandising and advertisements. Back in the 80s when transformers were all the rage (the cartoon existed for the almost sole purpose of selling the action figures) they released a movie that killed off most of the transformers (children cried) and they did this so they could bring in all new transformers to carry on the battle, so that kids would have to go out and buy more new toys.
I mean, realistically, there's just no way the airline would have been providing that defense. The PR would be a thousand times worse than the bit of payout to the 9 year olds family would be.
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I'm struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Welcome back to blue collar, boys. Just keep it union so no one gets fucked on pay.
Despite all the AI and robotics, semi trucks will probably stay manned at least another 20 years, manual construction of houses and building will still be around for another 25 years, welders (non mass production) like building and piping will be around for quite some time, auto mechanics, and Healthcare workers, hvac techs, electricians, plumbers, construction, mailman, airline pilots (at least passenger airline), gun for hire, firefighter, police, emt/paramedic, and MORE.
There's a lot of jobs that aren't even close to being phased out. It's just that most of them involve you actually not sitting on your butt all day.
Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."
Scam how? Selling pre-launch could have been a scam. Money taken from investors could have been a scam, depending on what they pitched. But selling after a complete and known flop of a release? There's no cards left on the table to be scammy about. "Here's our brand name. Here's our patent collection. We'd like to think our patents are worth a ton of money, but we know we'd be lucky getting twenty million."
Even if they did want to give up their phones, they wouldn't for anything with a two to four hour device. Let alone something that only has a mild neato factor of a low powered laser projector. Smart watches do the same shit with a longer battery life and virtually no one's replacing their phones with those, either.
You generally don't buy a business and then figure all of that out. You figure it all out and then buy the business. IGN already would have 100% known the managerial setup at these companies.
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
Beyond the other good recommendations here, go on amazon and do your search for "mechanical keyboard" armed with a bit of information first, like knowing that you won't find a good mechanical keyboard for under $40.
Then click on one you're interested in that has at least 50 reviews and check that it's been for sale for at least 6 months. If anything hasn't been for sale very long, or hasn't gotten many reviews, it's likely a poor product.
Now for the other important bit. Go to the reviews and sort them by NEWEST. Every scam product in existence gets the initial ball rolling with fake/paid reviews, but then stops after a couple months. So when you sort by newest and look at the most recent 20 reviews, those are almost always mostly real people. Those are what you want to look at. If a product is rated 4.5 stars with 500 reviews, but the most recent 20 don't average out anywhere close to 4.5, you know the product is a lie.
As already leaked, the game is a 6v6 third-person hero-based shooter. Heroes include magicians, robots, creatures, humans, and more. There are currently 19 different heroes, each with different abilities and playstyles that you’d come to expect from a MOBA including ranged, healers, tanks, assassins, etc....
My issue with games like LoL is that they start making changes and adding so many new heroes to it, that eventually, unless you're playing it several times a week, you fall way behind on gameplay. I never like taking a couple months off to play some other things and then feeling completely swamped on new content or having to recognize 150 different heroes.
Any pay wall that let's you read that much article before showing itself to be behind a pay wall can burn in hell and would have no hope of getting my business purely out of spite.
I've thought of an improvement to an existing product, but don't have the thousands of dollars to try an patent it, or start selling it in it's improved fashion. It sucks, cause it would be nice to have and I think a lot of people would want to buy it.
If you read another article that has more information to it, instead of just this opinion piece, it looks like they hired and paid a voice actress and that it is her natural voice (supposedly).
Which begs the question: Can a voice actor be denied work or denied the ability to have their voice used, if they sound similar to someone else who is more famous?
Well one of the other articles I've read said they listened to and sampled 400 voice actors and selected 5 of them to have flown out to do all the voice work. The voice in the product also doesn't sound that much like Scar Jo. Just similar. She never had a very unique voice.
The voice they're using isn't a replicated one, though. It's a paid voice actress and it is supposed to be her natural voice. It also does sound a bit different than scar jo.
I tried to explain ADHD math to someone and they didn't understand at all
Edit: it appears that this is not exclusive to ADHD....
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days ( www.theregister.com )
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....
"In fact, let me take a few pages to describe how much I can't describe this" ( lemmy.world )
CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected ( electrek.co )
Motorola unveils moto tag: a tracking solution designed to work anytime, anywhere ( motorolanews.com )
Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died ( www.theverge.com )
fin ( fedia.io )
Nepal Suspends Sales of Injection Manufactured by Indian Company, Cites Serious Health Risks ( thewire.in )
Biotax 1gm, manufactured by the Indian firm Zydus Healthcare Ltd
Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show ( www.theregister.com )
$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players ( www.gamesradar.com )
Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately ( lemmy.world )
If Windows XP was released in 2024 ( lemmy.world )
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Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets ( gameworldobserver.com )
Google Pixel 9 successor: First proof of a "Samsung-free" Tensor G5 chip in the Pixel 10 ( www.notebookcheck.net )
iFixit: We’re Ending Our Samsung Collaboration ( www.ifixit.com )
American Airlines backtracks on filing that blamed 9-year-old for being filmed in bathroom ( abcnews.go.com )
"We do not believe this child is at fault," the airline said Wednesday.
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I'm struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company ( arstechnica.com )
Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell ( aftermath.site )
Welp, this didn't take long....
How do you search for honest product recommendations?
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
New Details on Valve's New Game 'Deadlock' - Insider Gaming ( insider-gaming.com )
As already leaked, the game is a 6v6 third-person hero-based shooter. Heroes include magicians, robots, creatures, humans, and more. There are currently 19 different heroes, each with different abilities and playstyles that you’d come to expect from a MOBA including ranged, healers, tanks, assassins, etc....
OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game ( www.theatlantic.com )
The only feeling worse than "Why didn't I think of that?" is "I thought of that, but didn't do anything about it!"
Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. ( boingboing.net )
In Moscow, a man who was assaulted and robbed tried to file a police report, but was fined 50,000 RUB and given a military summons because of his multicolored hair. ( sopuli.xyz )
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