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pusher_robot
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12hr ago
If you just want to get a feel for driving one, pop into your nearest Tesla showroom and take a test drive. They're usually very accommodating, they don't handle sales directly, and they don't work on commission.
The controls are a bit different, though highly automatic and generally intuitive for someone who is familiar with screen UI. For example, changing driving modes is done with a selector on the screen or overhead buttons, but is usually not necessary because simply buckling in and stepping on the brake will select an appropriate gear for you. Same with Y-turns: turn the wheel hard and brake facing a road edge, and it will automatically select reverse; reverse, turn the wheel hard and brake, and it will automatically select drive. Most other functions are either automated, like headlights, wipers, and door locking, or have pretty obvious controls. If you are a control freak and don't like automatic functions, you will probably find the controls frustrating.
The accelerator operation is much different than in a standard automatic transmission and closed to driving a manual transmission with a high-compression engine. As soon as you lift the accelerator, the car will start to slow. Lift all the way and the car will slow as much as medium braking does in an automatic, so in most driving it is not necessary to use the brake at all. It takes a little getting used to, but not having to switch pedals constantly is a pleasure. The accelerator feels much more closely related to speed than power, as opposed to a gas automatic.
On longer trips, providing you input your destination, the navigation system is very good about getting you to charging locations, so that is rarely an issue. Even the standard rage is typically well over 200 miles, so you shouldn't have to stop more than once every couple of hours, and charging from a low state of charge to around 75% usually takes barely more time than to use the restroom, get a snack, and stretch your legs a bit. The one issue I've heard of with rentals is that they expected you to return them with the same state of charge as when you left, which can be inconvenient if it was very high, as it means you have to charge somewhere close to the rental location and charging to very high states of charge takes much longer than going from low to around 75%.
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2d ago
I use it almost every time I drive. It's not perfect, but almost certainly better than me. I did manage to buy it outright just before they discontinued that option. You still need to pay a little attention, but you can definitely just stare out the windshield and zone out.
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5d ago
For what it's worth, airliner air is not recycled. The air coming through the fresh air nozzles is coming from the pressurizing system, which typically uses bleed air from one of the jet engine compressor stages. At the same time, a relief valve lets air out to maintain the overall cabin pressure.
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11d ago
The Crust went 1.0, playing the main campaign. Lots of elements from Surviving Mars, but with a bit more factory automation elements.
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15d ago
I'm surprised they don't go with Land of Hope and Glory
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16d ago
No, I ended up giving it away when I no longer had any PCI devices.
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16d ago
That would be a null result, because the party with the presidency almost always loses seats in mid terms, especially during a lame duck term
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17d ago
It seems like a perverse outcome that strangers with a contract could have more rights to a woman's body than her husband. I wonder if people would feel more or less accepting of a husband who included such contractual terms in a prenup? Or is that actually common and I have no idea?
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18d ago
I was an undergrad at UW Madison. I had an ATI All-In-Wonder card in my PC and a scheduled task to wake up the PC and turn on CNN every morning as my alarm clock. That morning, the news was about a plane having crashed into the WTC. I had heard about the plane crashing into the Empire State Building and figured this was a similar story. I went to breakfast in the student commons where CNN was also on TV, and as I ate my toast and eggs I watched the second plane come in. I instantly lost all appetite and went back to my dorm room, glued to CNN while I called a couple of people on the dorm landline and talked a bit. I didn't like the feelings of rage that were bubbling up, so I had a couple of shots of bourbon and headed off to my first class. I can't recall at all what took place in the classroom. IIRC the rest of the classes that day were cancelled via electronic mail shortly afterwards.
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18d ago
Yes, this probably would have worked, broadly, but would not have achieved full integration due to the larger class disparity between blacks and whites. The Supreme Court therefore mandated the worst thing possible, bussing kids from low-class black neighborhoods into middle-class white neighborhoods and vice versa. The outcome was entirely predictable.
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18d ago
We already do this for American Indian tribes. No reason we couldn't grant reservations to ADOS.
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18d ago
Crime was undoubtedly a factor, but I think public school integration and the ham-fisted, obviously harmful way it was ordered implemented by the Supreme Court (putting aside the separation of powers overreach in that), was really the thing that started the mass exodus. You can avoid crime to a large degree even in a high-crime city by knowing where it is and is not safe to go, and when, but you couldn't (and in many places still can't) avoid sending your kids to a dysfunctional urban public school unless you got them into - and could afford - private school.
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18d ago
That punchline was so good I suspect the rest of the post of being a setup!
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20d ago
Do you use this description for any other category of people being paid welfare by the government to sit at home not working? Or only married mothers?
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21d ago
Would people buy a non-shitty version of Wired?
Oh man, I happened upon a 1999 Wired stuck in an old box of papers last weekend. The thing was so thick it had a spine and while visually bold had content for hours. The list price was $5.95 which inflation calculator tells me would be about $11.99 today. Seems steep for a magazine but probably worth it!
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23d ago
It gets tricky if you want to grid tie. In many places, the electrical interconnect can only be done by licensed electricians and must be certified and approved by the utility. The electricians have no real incentive to make things easy on the DIYer, especially if they are signing off on code compliance, and the utility has no incentive to make things easy on customers trying to reduce their utility consumption.
Currently working on Project Mars by Wernher von Braun. It's some of the driest science fiction I've read, with essentially no new science or engineering but filled with such an abundance of detail and explanatory calculations, it's obvious this was something he viewed as a serious proposal.
I wonder if he was a fan of Jules Verne.
ETA: According to AI inquiry, he was indeed well documented to be a massive fan, and considered Verne to be a foundational influence on his life.
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25d ago
Why would it? Would it reassure you to know that you can play Russian Roulette and survive without any injury at all?
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25d ago
The insanity defense should be trivially deemed appropriate - do you want to send your grandmother to jail because she has a UTI and attacks her nurse while in the ICU?
Jail? No, but the normal punishment for this act, for otherwise law-abiding people, would probably be a fine and probation, which seems completely reasonable. If my grandmother murdered an ICU nurse, even while completely loopy, I would still think that justice would demand punishment. I'm pretty sure that if I murdered someone during a psychotic break, I would not contest the charge and leave it to the judge to determine what punishment is appropriate for those circumstances.
I agree with the other poster that I strongly dislike the insanity defense in any form, and would much rather rely on the discretion of prosecution, the conscience of juries, and the reasoning of the sentencing judges to administer justice.
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27d ago
Alcohol is usually the go-to for this kind of thing, I think. Beer is easiest to maintain a functional but mood-elevated state, cocktails work the quickest, or wine to stimulate an appetite.
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30d ago
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1mo ago
At least Rogue One bucked that trend in the Star Wars films. Spoiler:
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1mo ago
I'm also reminded of the golf course scene from Falling Down, though D-FENS isn't exactly a hero. https://youtube.com/watch?v=x1-axqBZdNk
I installed Omarchy on a spare laptop the other day after hearing some chatter about it and watching the producer DHH's intro on Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=F7fe9pa8OeE&t=1025s
I can say it's definitely one of the most compelling Linux distros I've installed as a daily driver for some time, mostly because of how different but also how well-thought-out it is. It's designed to be used almost entirely with the keyboard, with a minimalist but very good-looking CLI-inspired interface. It's the first time I've been inspired to really made a solid effort of becoming proficient with using a tiling window interface, and while it's still not entirely intuitive, there's something about it that seems so much less...stressful, or distracting maybe, compared to having a huge stack of floating windows laying around. It more-or-less forces you to do keep things tidy as you work, which adds a little bit of friction but feels really satisfying to work in.
It's also completely unapologetic about being AI-forward, being developed with AI assistance and having a ton of AI tools built-in. The OS itself is designed to be easy to modify by AI agents, so that if you do want to make changes to the system, you don't need to be a hacker to do so. As a result I have finally broken down and opened my wallet for a Supergrok subscription, which has been another interesting experience.
ETA: The community is interesting as well - it seems disproportionately filled with people who are just generally interested in new software possibilities and less interested in politics or bureaucracy.
ETA: The flat design and tiling system make me recall Windows 8 with a little more sympathy for its design decisions, but this may not be a paradigm that would ever be popular with the masses.
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