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1. those charges were dismissed 2. the article address that specifically: > The case is an example of Flock cameras being used to arrest a wanted alleged criminal suspected of comm…

dendrites are not really a significant problem in popular batteries. It's associated with lithium metal, vs lithium in normal batteries is in the form of salts. Solid state lets yo…

The energy "stored" in the light oil electrolyte of a battery is >10x more than the electrical energy or the energy released by reacting lithium alone. An 18650 battery weighs ~50g…

The time between gpt 2 and 3 was 15 months. The time between gemini robotics 1 and 2 was also 15 months: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/h... The differe…

Scale obviously does not make this more okay; watching many intersections or cell towers is obviously less reasonable than a single intersection or tower. > In comparison: license …

"some caching gains" is a pretty huge understatement- snipping something out of the middle of the window requires rebuilding the entire context. Thats a shitload of tokens. Afaik m…

browsers aren't common either. Standards, formats, and interfaces are, which is exactly what WASM is and what this demonstrates. Native apps don't need a common operating system or…

for me the eyes are also showing the unwrapped texture of character's own heads, which is extremely unnerving lol

Totally missing my point. Say you have bladder pain and chatgpt tells you that is a common indicator of appendicitis. If you go to the doctor and tell them you think you have appen…

We have standards of care for a reason. They are the most basic requirements of testing. Ignoring them is not just being a bad doctor, its unethical treatment. Its the absolute bar…

> I do feel I actually biased the first doctors opinion with my "research." It may feel easy to say doctors should just consider all the options. But telling them an option is wors…

not to mention turning off FSD milliseconds before impact

> An earth-like planet orbiting a different star would likely have evolved photoreceptor arrangements which match that star instead. No, not really- the limitation is chemical, not…

> From what I've heard from auto engineers I know, using the battery as part of the structure is not really done. Transfering mechanical stresses to the battery is something you ju…

Molicel's P60 (INR-21700-P60C) weighs 75 grams and can produce almost a horsepower. A 500 horsepower battery weighs less than 42 kg. It stores 12 kWh. Batteries are not heavy, rang…

The earth is actually a pretty big heat source in space. Solar radiation is a point source, so you can orient parallel to the rays and avoid it. The earth takes up about half the s…

> They don't send repair people into space. There were five separate flights to service the Hubble telescope. It was designed from the beginning to be repaired and upgraded. https:…

The people of Minneapolis are defending their right to accept foreigners into their community. Do you genuinely think those people are being paid? That all those protestors don't g…

> skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor. I don't really have respect for this i…

Idk that there's much of a privacy sell vs. messages being encrypted. In the end users are just trusting Apple to actually be securing messages; they aren't going to love that they…

Axial flux motors are difficult and expensive to make. Motors need to be made of laminated steel sheets to reduce parasitic eddy currents. The laminations need to be thin in the di…

Its freshwater and has to be freshwater because it goes through pipes and/or is evaporated. Corrosion, scaling and fouling are all issues. Even if seawater was easy to use and data…

Any discussion of aurora which do not mention space tornados: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tornado Is inherently incomplete. Not necessarily because they're needed to explai…

Pretty unlikely. Solar is built on cheap land with low demand, and if the land isn't sold then the power is free so why wouldn't you sell it? No matter how high the taxes are, free…

That's what claude.md etc are for. If you want it to follow your norms then you have to document them.