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  • YSK: If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first.

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  • Here in Canada, I recently took a big stumble while snowboarding, and my ankle hurt a lot. I went to the emergency room at the nearest hospital, got X-rays, and they confirmed I had broken my left inner malleolus. They referred me to the specialist clinic, and sent me home with a boot and crutches.

    Next Monday, the specialist clinic tell me to show up the next morning (so on Tuesday). I waited pretty much the whole morning for the specialist to see me, he confirmed he needed to operate and put 2 screws in my ankle. The surgery happened later that evening.

    Got a follow up 2 weeks later to remove the cast / surgery bandages, more X-rays and they put me back in the boot until the next follow-up a month later, after which I'll probably start physiotherapy.

    All of this cost me about 4$ in EV charging while I was at the ER, and maybe 20$ in medication (painkillers and Tylenol)? And I don't think it could've been any faster. People love to shit on our healthcare system here, but in my experience it's been amazing.

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • Honest question: were the other events filmed like Rene's killing was? My hypothesis is that's it's more about the available footage of the incident than the victim's demographics... But the USA is racist as fuck so I could be wrong.

  • AI "educator" is mad at people for stealing prompts

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  • "Do not hallucinate", lol... The best way to get a model to not hallucinate is to include the factual data in the prompt. But for that, you have to know the data in question...

  • This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

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  • Yeah, my boss told he's under pressure from upper management and customers to add AI in our app. His answer is always "to do what?". So far, nobody has provided an answer, but whenever we get one we'll be happy to implement it.

  • The power, the absolute power!

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  • These are still right-handed. The blades need to be crossed the other way for left-handed scissors. Making an ambidextrous scissor is physically impossible.

  • The power, the absolute power!

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  • They're crossed the other way around. Ambidextrous scissors do not exist

  • In 'Unhinged' Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources

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  • Maduro was wanted in the US for a host of alleged crimes

    IN THE US. Not in Venezuela. Why do USians think their laws apply outside the country?

  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • I don't sit down on short (round) toilets because there is no room for my "equipment", but otherwise I agree.

  • Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI

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  • I bought one the other day that wasn't even that, it was literally translated by Google translate. It was so bad, I had to translate the French text word-for-word into English before it made sense.

  • car producers

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  • At least they still make minivans, everybody else stopped making them in favour of these ugly-ass "SUV" which are worse in every aspect except towing... There are only 4 options on that market now (well, five if you count the Pacifica separately from the Voyager/Grand Caravan, but it's more of a trim difference, so let's say 4.5)

  • Object Notation

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  • As a JS dev, I approve of this meme.

  • Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster? - Inside Climate News

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  • Tesla getting the majority of subsidies is a sad state of affairs, that's true. But I think it's more due to the rest of the market being exceedingly slow to react than anything Tesla specifically did. Elon back then was overly optimistic in his timelines, but I don't think it rose to the level of being a con man (now with Twitter / X and DOGE it's a different story, I won't argue with you on that!)

    I wasn't born in the 1970s so I don't remember what the public opinion on EVs were at that time.

    I won't argue that Big Oil has always been up to nefarious things, but "creating Tesla" isn't one of them.

  • Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster? - Inside Climate News

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  • This is a pretty revisionist & cynical take. From what I remember, before Tesla EVs used to be seen as glorified golf carts, only meant for inner-city driving that only hard-core environmentalists would even want.

    Tesla flipped that on its head and showed the world that EVs could be cool. As a new car company, it also makes sense to start with the high-margins, low-volumes of luxury cars.

    What's sad is that the rest of the car industry, who already had low-margins high-volumes manufacturing up & running, didn't pick up the pace and only chased the "luxury" segment. Also, Tesla majorly dropped the ball with the Cybertruck. Model 3 is a good mid-range sedan but they should've continued their efforts towards a good entry-level option.

  • My Apologies

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  • You're absolutely right!

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • Costco is especially infuriating because they do not tolerate anything on the platform before you can start. You also cannot remove anything from the platform before you've paid and everything... So you can't pack as you go, making everything slower and more stressful for everyone. If you even attempt to, the goddamn thing locks up and the clerk has to unlock it for you.

  • Using LLMs

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  • Journalists using LLMs to turn bullet points into a full article

     Readers using LLMs to summarize a full article into a series of bullet points

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]

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  • Maybe, I know Teslas are a bit power-hungry when parked.

  • The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]

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  • My wife had to try charging on a 120V outlet last winter. The plug couldn't even keep up with the battery heating requirements to actually start charging; the battery percentage was going DOWN while plugged in. It was -25°C outside though, so it's a specific situation, but it's actually why she had to try to charge; it's a trip we can easily do without charging in the summer.

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • other people's Java

    I'm gonna have to disagree here, it's always a guessing game of how many layers of abstraction they've used to seemingly avoid writing any implementation code... Can't put the code related to "bicycles" in the Bicycle class, no, that obviously goes in WheeledDeviceServiceFactoryBeanImpl that's in the 'utils' package.

  • [Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net) @lemmy.world
    ebc @lemmy.ca

    Juicebox North America shuts down

    www.juiceboxnorthamerica.com