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nilloc ,

Gay sex is on those conservative minds every month. Probably most minutes as well.

nilloc ,

As long as you aren’t working to oppress LGBT+ folks while you’re thinking about it, we’re cool.

nilloc ,

We’re all FBI agents on this blessed day.

nilloc ,

We know, but we don’t have time to change. We have another site waiting to get slammed out as soon as the one we’re working on, which was underfunded with a ridiculous timeline goes live.

There’s still a fair bit of “my nephew makes websites, it can’t be that [hard, expensive, time consuming], oh and by the way, e we need a way to edit every word and image on the site, that both our intern and barely literate CEO can understand, even though we’re literally never going to edit anything ever.”

nilloc ,

Probably best not to be running on autopilot around North Fucking Koreans though.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

nilloc ,

No other wipers are this long and stupid though…

nilloc ,

Rivian had shown off their EV truck a year and a half before Tesla announced the Cyber Truck. And it’s a much more useful vehicle.

I believe the Ford Lightning EV might have been in the works already too, but not sure if it was announced yet.

Rivian also started delivering its truck in 2021 after showing the concept in may 2018.

nilloc ,

Rivian was also first to market and showed their concept a year and a half before the cyber truck reveal (where the first showed it and smashed its windows).

nilloc ,

It was teased and unnamed in 2016c but we didn’t see the concept truck until November 2019.

The steering system and power delivery is interesting but not not enough to overcome the dangerously sharp, blind spot riddled, and impractical body design.

The couldn’t even be bothered to put a digital rear view mirror in the place other companies and third parties have been doing it for a decade.

nilloc ,

A 30% mortality rate would probably do a lot more than that over the long term. Especially if it’s the coal rolling dude bros who get it from raw milk.

Plus it was an 8% reduction we never would have gotten otherwise. I’ll take it!

nilloc ,

Don’t corpses usually get cooler though? This ones hitting record temps every year.

nilloc ,

Naw, they already added cooled platforms and safe areas for the rich people.

And they are mostly rich from selling oil.

nilloc ,

But it doesn’t. PHEVs can still regenerate during braking though. ICE only vehicles can cut fuel when off throttle, but that’s not going reclaim the heat lost to braking.

PHEVs should still be more efficient overall especially in cities and stop and go traffic.

If we had ICE only vehicles with tiny engines maybe your point could work, but we don’t anymore at least not in the US.

nilloc ,

Apple has a long history of insanely expensive ( but quite high quality) displays.

There are photographers and design professionals out there, but it’s pretty niche market. That’s what the Vision Pro seems to be aimed at. But it’s not very good for mouse based design, and harder to trust in the usual proofing/editing environment. Plus wearing it for an 8-10 hour shift is never going to happen.

nilloc ,

This was my feeling after seeing it too. Architects also love to see models and more tangible things, even printouts in my experience.

Offering a fully rendered environment sounds amazing but someone would have to do a lot lore work at the office before presenting it to the client because it would look less complete than simple foam models can.

It may be useful for investor presentations for really large projects (Saudis or UAE style projects), but again, those are pretty narrow audiences and so expensive that bespoke displays could be viable.

nilloc ,

Add single use garbage like party favors too, which pollute the earth to the list.

World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source ( www.tomshardware.com )

Designed for use in a remotely piloted underwater rover, the mrxSwitch v2.0 supplies five 100 Mbps Ethernet ports at a footprint of only 44.9mm by 42.2mm. Network switches of this form factor are typically reserved for highly embedded systems; the team prioritizes its use in remote-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) or...

nilloc ,

That was before the right made up “public/private partnerships” to hide government handouts to Boeing, defense contractors, drug companies, and Monsanto (or whatever their new name is).

nilloc ,

I was about to agree, but they fucking disabled reader mode! No dark mode is no bueno for me.

nilloc ,

My mom tried one of those with her golden doodle (around 70 pounds, hyper like a poodle and dumb like a golden retriever).

5 minutes in he ran for something, knocked her down (she was in her mid 60s at the time), and dragged her bike away. It had some sort of breakaway plastic coupler too, but it was too pliable and just stretched a bit instead of breaking. Looked like HDPE maybe.

Now the contraption is in my garage, in scrap metal pile. If she wants to ride somewhere with the dog she tires him in a trailer.

Be careful with them!

nilloc ,

The OP’s photo actually looks a bit safer, assuming the dog can support the scooter if the rider were to let go/jump off.

You’d still potentially have a dog running off with your scooter though, which I’d totally watch a short video about…

nilloc ,

Thanks for sharing some of your story and acknowledging an important aspect of your success.

Do you have any plans to use your position to help change the system (political, educational or otherwise)?

nilloc ,

Aren’t ribs a good thing sometimes?

nilloc ,

If the stock wasn’t so overly valued based on Musk-lies I’d agree, but I think they’re in trouble either way.

nilloc ,

My money out on a major state banning the cyber truck after it Julians a pedestrian.

I know that a normal car with sharp protruding bodywork/rust holes, wouldn’t pass the safety inspection in at least the 2 New England states I’ve owned cars in.

I could see CA and the rest of the west coast banning their sales first, or requiring so much rework that they aren’t viable cars there.

nilloc ,

Which economy is that?

If you really meant this economic system, then, yeah it’s a big uphill battle.

But if you just meant the current economic factors (jobs (I know), prices (I know, groceries and housing are screwing us), and growth (again current system)), you sound like a right wing shill.

nilloc ,

Thanks for that nightmare fuel.

nilloc ,

Yeah the DMCA really fucked things up for creative work. It’s way too easy to take down things you don’t like fraudulently.

nilloc ,

I think the term documentation can and should include bug reports, community questions and answers, and project examples and guides that are often only shared in Discord servers in recent years.

Most of these servers would be better off as discussion forums, but spam and ancient software have really hurt them. Young web devs need to start giving a shit about open web again. Time to make something better than phpbb, wordpress, and discord.

nilloc ,

You can get a deal on taxes and healthcare if you live in the US, it’s literally why my wife and I married.

We’re still happy like before and It’s been 19 years.

nilloc ,

Darth Marge has never closed those windows.

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

nilloc ,

I figured they were trying to ban them so we wouldn’t learn what they actually do with lost luggage.

nilloc ,

I wonder what the “template” had as a headline before the replaced it with MAGA?

Deutschland Uber Alles?
Hitler Wins?

I bet they wouldn’t want to admit what attracted them to it.

nilloc ,

This is why is assumed they mark them to overwrite. Google knows a lot about what makes drives last longer, and OS and drive firmware makers have known for decades too.

nilloc ,

And apples, naval oranges, corn (especially gmo).

nilloc ,

It’s a contribution thing. He contributed enough to society to deserve to not worry about money for the rest of his life. It’s rare though since we have a bunch of billionaires who skim the rewards from huge swaths of the population who also have contributed their part.

The financialization of retirement is a huge part of the problem for the middle class (or what’s left of it, upper-lower-class is probably more accurate). We have to invest in these assholes in order to save for retirement. The harder workers in services, laborers, and fields don’t even get that.

nilloc ,

Entrepreneurial ego plays a part I think. Unless they already found 60 people that want them for this price.

Developing an agile enough process and factory to make things like this might be an interesting business model. Probably way Too low profit to attract investors though.

nilloc ,

The Sinclair C5 is pretty much the same idea and from the 80s.

But not enclosed.

nilloc ,

I miss my free cable and Wi-Fi in my first Boston apartment. I didn’t discover it worked until 2 months into living there (just after 9/11 actually). It went month to month when the owners sold the place and we wouldn’t have ever left if it weren’t for the shitty icebox and terrible parking in that neighborhood.

Last Mile Delivery Is Standardizing With Two Cubic Meter Roro Boxes For E-Cargo Trikes - CleanTechnica ( cleantechnica.com )

Low-speed, electrified, increasingly autonomous vehicles are going to be the norm, not the outlier. Standardized roro boxes and cargo trikes are part of it.

nilloc ,

I’ll be surprised if TVs get much larger. We’re already have Modular wall displays if you want a theater at home, though most still use projectors in that situation.

The problem is that most homes don’t have a big enough room for a TV wider than 60 inches or so.

nilloc ,

Yeah, you’d either have to be good at meeting strangers to charge at private homes, or ready to hike to public outlets (and camp near them) if you want to solo a e scooter across the country.

nilloc ,

HOA manger merde.

nilloc ,

It also means there are probably 7 other “brands” that need recalling because there’ they’re the same helmet.

nilloc ,

Pleasantly surprised by the cheapest Bikeroo helmet. Pretty disturbed by the counterfeit $300 one.

We bought a Bluey helmet at Wally world for my toddler when he was learning (we started during a vacation and options were limited). The glue holding the adjustable headband in softens in the sun, then glued his hair to the helmet. So that’s gone now.

Looking forward to VT testing kids helmets. Seems like something that would have already been done, since we’ve had kids bike helmets since the 80s (when I started wearing one).

nilloc ,

Yeah he’s already upgraded to a MIPS helmet.

The Bluey helmet might have actually been a Schwinn. It has I think the identical molding and hardware as this one. I know Schwinn isn’t what it used to be (I assume the name was sold off to a holding company years ago), but it still seems like they should be better than the alphabet soup brands on Amazon.

nilloc ,

We’re lucky if they get past 2 amendments.

Then after committing crime because they assumed said 1st and 2nd amendments allowed it, the learn about the 5th amendment.

nilloc ,

But fish don’t exist.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

nilloc ,

Here’s the link, it’s helped me out a bunch of times in the 6-8 years I’ve had it.

2 notes though

  • these are hard cheese grade metal. Don’t plan on removing any high torque, Rusty or partly stripped screws with them, they’ll either break or round off.
  • if the screw is too recesses down a narrow hole, these won’t help. The bit holders are too wide to fit in. I have a Honeywell Air Purifier with one security Torx that is 3-4” down a hole that this set failed me on.
nilloc ,

Carter built houses for 4 decades after his presidency mismanaged the Iran hostages, energy crisis, and 70s inflation (though I’m not sure he deserves credit for the last one).

Bush is eating playing with paint and hiding from his mismanagement of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent unrelated war he started.

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