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With the additional detail and the numbers you provided, that seems reasonable. Steepness of hills is definitely relevant, haha.

Minor nitpick with your first sentence: I do not believe "anyone with a bit of training" is an accurate way to describe what is required for pedaling a bicycle at 20 mph for 5 soli…

This is the part of the thread I was looking for. Obviously the whole question is how a robot cleaner compares to a human. As you point out, the potential for robots far outperform…

> the poweruser toolbar style These can be great for discovery. But one must-have for me is a unique keyboard shortcut assigned to each button on the toolbar. Because if I use a fe…

I also wanted to see more about the temperature control aspect and was scanning the article for it. Some quick additional searching elsewhere turned up possible effects such as ref…

It seems to me it's more about Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Project and Teams now. With Entra and Intune, of course. All kinds of 'control and monitor your employees' stuff has b…

Indeed. It already has. In particular I remember several extremely offensive slop pictures and videos being posted by someone in the White House. And I'm certain that's just the ti…

I have no idea what to do about the government interference. There's probably not a lot anyone can do. However, your last point is quite a strong one. Corpos aren't just going to s…

Yep. I initially looked into it as a potential avenue for sustainably producing some of my own food, but the math absolutely did not make sense. Growing a bunch of potatoes in a ba…

The LTO-10 can hold 30 TB of highly compressed data on one cassette, and will last at least 30 years without degradation (probably longer under optimal conditions). This is still u…

> I don’t have XM radio Well, that's where a lot of this type of content is (seemingly, at least) alive and well right now. Satellite appears to be here to stay, and can provide tr…

Look into the Adbusters organization. I'm not sure I agree with them on everything, but they have created some excellent satire over the years and been involved in prominent protes…

> Can we expect that level of commitments from our governments or corporations? Clearly, right now we cannot. This is one of the worst obstacles to progress in these areas that I s…

> nor did the calculator play with our emotions It seems to me this here is the dangerous 'force multiplier' for destructive outcomes. It's one thing for a kid to become obsessed w…

The C64 was very similar in performance capabilities to the NES, and they share some chipset lineage. It really was a time of a step change for multimedia software. The C64 was the…

Offtopic, but if by "Dragon Wing series" you are referring to the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman, it has been beloved to me since I read it as a teen in the 90s. I have gone th…

I kept trying to find 'the people who have it all figured out' for way too long. I was in my mid-20s before I able to start letting go of it. I'm still angry and upset that there a…

If you know what you're doing, you put anything important on an M-disc. Everything else is prone to random flaking. Some discs last much longer than others, but there is not always…

Let's also not forget that humans are more than capable of creating tons of 'slop' far worse than any current SOTA model would create, and I would argue the majority of what people…

> blandly plausible filler material The real salient point, in my opinion, is whether we can get generative AI to create game content which is not this, but rather novel, engaging …

> I love the feeling of uncovering the little pieces of story and wondering if I've got it all and how much more there is To me, this is great too, and it's why I still enjoy readi…

I see someone else recently read Children of Strife . Damn, I really enjoyed that book. Best of the series so far, in my opinion.

Not only this, but another perverse incentive is hereby introduced: Where published statements are carefully crafted to seem like LLM generated hallucinations, but are written in a…

I forgot that I once had (and frequently wore) one of those long ago. Pleasant reminder.

"The market can remain irrational..." I called bubble on Tesla and Bitcoin both over 10 years ago. Still going strong. It's a whole lotta chaos, fueling some pretty messed up stuff…