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  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • Bonus: you can always circle back and pick up the recharge pack, and if you put solar cells on top it can trickle in a (tiny) extra charge when you're away. More practical: plug it into the grid for slow charging of your big batteries while you zip around town in your lightweight configuration.

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  • . I just don’t understand why they need all that.

    Power sells, they can give that insane 0-60 sprint for very low cost, so it gets people to buy their product instead of a 6 liter V8.

  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • Put the big battery pack (and maybe an ICE powered generator + fuel) on a trailer for cruising, then have a "ditch trailer and escape" button for that 20 mile sprint at the end of the trip.

  • Microsoft development strategy

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  • Our IT department and leadership are more schizophrenic than usual around AI. Top leadership wants it bad, pushing big initiatives. Risk management layer, predictably, is more cautious - requiring analysis and approvals and so forth - this is driven into IT with things like redirects from open internet AI services to internally hosted alternatives (sensible), but the internal services aren't completely up-to-speed with tools like Cursor. So, I have approval for Cursor, and IT is helping me make it work around their filters, but then again - once in a while the Cursor software magically uninstalls itself overnight. Luckily, the work in progress is still there and when I re-install Cursor it picks up where it left off.

    We clearly have conflicting interests at work behind our company computers.

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  • If you ask an AI agent (like the one on Google search) how to disable the prompt dialogue it will usually tell you something that works. This is actually nothing new, back in Windows ME days I spent 8 hours with search engines figuring out how to de-feature Windows ME until it worked like Windows 98SE, that was actually a pretty good computer/OS for the day - after I turned off all the ME garbage.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • Back in the days before dash cams I got let off with warnings a few times. Once in a while they actually are human beings, but that's rare when they're on a month end quota filling mission.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • This is exactly the tactic the officer was employing here (for a sub $25 theft), not showing the accused the evidence so they don't know what the police might or might not know.

    At some point in the process, there is "discovery" where both sides share their evidence before trial to avoid going to trial for stupid stuff (like this.) But you usually have to engage thousands of dollars of legal services before discovery is available, again over a sub $25 theft allegation.

    The officer sweating her for driving through his town on the day somebody porch pirated somebody else is really ridiculous.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • That's how they're running it, and there are a whole lot of people who would prefer it to run that way in the future.

    What should be happening is: when falsely accused and exonerated in court, you get a judgement against the LEA for treble damages for your costs to rebut their false claims.

    False claims are going to happen, but if they're costing the police thousands of dollars per instance, that should slow them down. I'm more than happy to pay increased taxes to put that deterrent on the agencies.

  • ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • using your own fucking servers

    And/or peer to peer mesh. Personally, I WANT a system that has peak performance AND multiple fallbacks to prevent blackout single point of failure situations.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • The closest thing to "Smart TVs" in our home are Blu-Ray players, and they've never been network connected.

    I like the ViewSonics we have, and we've had a series of NUCs over the years, but lately I'm finding that the N100/N150 fanless PCs like this are perfectly capable of HTPC duty: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWV439YW

  • Lab-grown leather from a living cow could change the fashion industry

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  • Sounds good to me.

    I'd rather wear Fleather than eat feat.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Yeah... we have a 55" 4K tv, and from across the room you sort of have to squint to tell the difference between 4K and 1080p, up close sure, but I don't watch screens that big from that close.

  • Lab-grown leather from a living cow could change the fashion industry

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  • I like the idea of lab grown leather that's tweaked for desirable properties, thickness, toughness, suppleness...

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • Instead of calling it chaos, call it losing their jobs - being forced to move hundreds of miles if they want to earn decent money again...

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Can you see the difference without your glasses?

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • The real thing most people are trying to hold onto is stability, because chaos benefits the powerful. AI is just the latest agent of chaos, from their perspectives.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • 640K of RAM is all anybody will ever need.

    1920x1080 is plenty, if the screen is under 50" and the viewer is more than 10' away and they have 20/20 vision.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • I used to have 20/10 vision, this 20/20 BS my cataract surgeon says I have now sucks.

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • If you're sitting 3' from the screen, sure. Even 8K is better, if your hardware can drive it.