While they were not sold in America, you could theoretically import a first gen model under the older than 25 years rule without too much trouble. Thanks to the internet getting parts wouldn't be too hard, though you'd want some form of backup transportation as you may have to wait a bit for them to arrive.
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For a lot of this type of stuff, the "lifetime subscription" is applies to the owner, not the vehicle. So when the vehicle is resold, the subscription doesn't transfer and the new owner has to buy it again (or do without). At least Volkswagon claims that this will go with the vehicle unlike companies like Tesla, but we'll see.
Eventually, the manufacturer will stop supporting subscriptions on older cars. This could either because the money they bring in isn't worth the cost of continuing to support a dwindling number of older cars, some technical limitation, or an intentional decision to cut off older cars with the hope it will push people to buy a new car.
Considering cars are expected to last 15-20 years, I'm guessing that these vehicles will not age well.
Considering that the purpose of that 6th gear would be to lower the fuel consumption, that means we have a bunch of buses running around burning more fuel and polluting more all in the name of more profits.
At least school buses spend a lot of time driving around at relatively low speeds so the lack of the extra gear probably has little real-world effect for most of the time, but still...
You can certainly 3D print a building, but can you really 3D print a house? Can it 3d print doors and windows that can open and close and be locked? Can it 3D print the plumbing and wiring and have it be safe and functional? Can it 3D print the foundation? What about bathroom fixtures, kitchen cabinets, and things like carpet?
It's actually not a bad metaphor. You can use a 3D printer to help with building a house, and to 3D print some of fixtures and bits and pieces that go into the house. Using a 3D printer would automate a fair amount of the manual labor that goes into building a house today (at least how it is done in the US). But you're still going to need people who know what they are doing put it all together to transform the building to a functional home. We're still a fair ways away from just being able to 3D print a house, just like we're fair ways away from having a LLM write a large, complex piece of software.
Every salary job I've worked is 8 hours a day of work with a 1 hour unpaid lunch. So it's something like 08:00-17:00 or 09:00-18:00 as your work hours. That's what is called 40 hours a week around here. You could consider that 45 hours a week. As lunch is unpaid that's considered your time to do whatever you want including leaving the job site for that hour.
Some shift-work places will do something like 09:00 to 17:00 with a paid 30 minute lunch. Since lunch is paid time, they can require you stay on the job site. This is isn't as common now as it used to be, but some places like factories that run a 24 hours a day schedule still do things like that.
Depends on the setup. For a binary system, there's really only two setups. One with two stars close together, and the planet you're on orbiting the center of mass of the two stars. Tatooine from Star Wars is like this. So it would be mostly like Earth, just with two glowing orbs in the sky next to each other during the day instead of just one glowing orb.
The other configuration would be two stars further apart, and the planet orbiting one of them. For example if one of the gas giants in our solar system was heavy enough to start nuclear fusion. Such as what happened to Jupiter in the 2001 universe (Jupiter actually gets turned into a star in the sequel, 2010). Now, the outer star will revolve around the main star, but much slower than the inner planet revolves the main star. So like Jupiter it will rise and set at approximately the same time tomorrow as it does today. But at least as far as Earth and Jupiter goes, the outer star (Jupiter) will rise about 3-4 minutes earlier tomorrow, and then 3-4 minutes earlier the day after tomorrow, etc., which means over roughly a year it will drift from being in sync with the main star, to being completely out of sync with the main star, and everything in between in terms of outer star sunrise and outer star sunset. Since Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around the Sun, it will actually take about 13 months on Earth for the cycle to repeat.
And from Diablo II...
"Guess what! I've named a boil on my ass after you. It, too, bothers me every time I sit down." - Gheed
"He who controls the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past." - Kane, Command & Conquer
Kane of course was just paraphrasing 1984.
Whenever audio starts, there’s a couple second delay before I can hear it. Haven’t been able to solve that so I just live with it.
That can be because of a power saving feature - basically PulseAudio puts your sound card to sleep when nothing is playing, and then there's a bit of lag before it wakes up. In my case it was really annoying because I use the optical output, so when PulseAudio put the sound card to sleep, my receiver would also go to sleep after a bit, and resulted in quite a bit of a delay when it was time to get it come back up.
This fixed it for me (see part 4.8): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
That stuff doesn't even work right on Windows anymore.
It's kind of sad, 10-15 years ago I'd say everyone (both Linux and Windows) more or less had the whole sleep/hibernate thing figured out. But it's all gone to shit in the past few years.
Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
The client is still rather resource intensive, it's just that computers have gotten so much faster that you don't notice it.
Now, if Valve would ever deal with the download and sync issues, that would be nice.
Just because a hammer makes for a lousy screwdriver doesn't mean it's not a good hammer. To me, AI just another tool. Like any other tool, there's things it is good at and there are things it is bad at. I've also found it can be pretty good as a code completion engine. Not perfect, but there's plenty of boilerplate stuff and repetitive things where it can figure out the pattern and I can bang out the lines of code pretty quickly with the AI's help. On the other hand, there's times it's nearly useless and I switch back to the keyword completion engine as it's the better tool for those situations.
I'd say even go further and say they differentiate more than that. I remember seeing an adult house cat encounter sheep for the first time. He very clearly and obviously recognized that these were new creatures he'd never seen before. They weren't another cat, nor were they human. His reaction was very interesting to watch. He was extremely leery and cautious of the sheep - but at the same time also very curious about them. After a bit he figured out that the sheep weren't a threat, and that he could approach them and the sheep would more or less just ignore him.
She's actually too old to be a boomer. Pelosi is silent generation.
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I bought a mechanical keyboard back when this whole mechanical keyboard fad was in its infancy back in the mid-2000's. Honestly, the main reason I bought it was because I thought the key backlighting was cool. It's a nice keyboard, but I find a decent membrane keyboard (such as what I have at work) to work just as well for a fraction of the cost.
I suppose I can't complain about the durability though, as it's lasted nearly 20 years now.
Not too long ago I checked out the current state of what is out there, and it's just nuts with all the choices. Not to mention all the fanatics that seem to like to build dozens of keyboards.
Interestingly, despite all the heavy customization of things like switches and keycaps, there seems to be very little ability to customize the layout. Many of the various compact keyboards out there make some interesting design choices (IMHO) about what keys they leave off, and where they distribute the keys that they decide to still include. I wouldn't mind taking a short at creating my own compact layout, but that doesn't seem to be what the hobby is about.
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I don't think there were SSDs that large when they first came out in the late 2000's. I saved up for an 80GB one back around 2009, and it was an absolute piece of trash. It was fast when it wanted to be, but most of the time it would randomly stutter and just go unresponsive for several seconds causing the rest of the PC to hang up until it decided to start responding again. After fighting with it for too long, I replaced it with a traditional harddrive which at least behaved as it was supposed to.
It was several years later before I tried another SSD, buying a relatively inexpensive 120GB drive that actually did live up to the hype.
While your average early/mid 2000's CRT TV is certainly not stylish, I do appreciate the buttons and convenient access to a set of inputs and the headphone jack. Today's TVs are all form over function, which is especially annoying since the form is just a black slab.
I'm sure Google is perfectly capable of auto-filtering crap like that if they wanted to. They just don't give a shit.
That's what I assumed was being referenced, or is there some other joke I'm missing?
In any case, for those that haven't seen that episode of TNG, don't watch it. It's terrible.