Mitchie151

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Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

Mitchie151,

Every other EV I know has instant boot up, Volvo/polestar, Hyundai, rivian etc. I was under the impression this was pretty Universal for EVs. A huge amount of current model year cars in a similar price range also have remote keyless control functionality, even ICE cars.

Mitchie151,

Often huge barriers to employment are owning a phone with a consistent number, and appearance/hygiene. For someone with nothing these two things can massively help.

People who generalize as if the US is one government instead of one big inept government and then 50+ governments that have districts and counties and cities are aggravatingly ignorant and smug.

“The US should do X and they suck because they don’t!” Each state has it’s own laws on education. Some places suck, some do not. It’s not a monolith....

Mitchie151,

I can appreciate that some states are better than others, in a similar manner to being able to appreciate that some EU countries are better than others. I’ve visited the USA and so I’ve seen first hand the good and the bad.

It doesn’t change the fact that globally, you are represented by your federal government and not your local state ones. As an Australian I might expect a foreigner to know our Prime Minister but never a state premier.

From overseas we just see a lot of the insane shit. Politically, the whole world is interested your federal elections because that is what has a chance to affect us. I don’t care who the governor of a state is really because they aren’t going to be able to declare some insane war or fuck over or save entire countries.

Even when we see state x legalizes y or outlaws z it just blurs together from out here. Much easier to see your own state doing good things when you’re inside it.

And yeah, USA doesn’t get enough credit for craft beer!

Mitchie151,

I have to disagree with the G502. I have the Lightspeed and had a serious double clicking issue within a year. I use an MX master at work and bought another for home and am very happy with that.

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Mitchie151,

Some locations in Australia already had controls in place, such as requiring integrated water delivery systems and on tool dust extraction. PPE was a legal requirement on top of that. With all that it must have been decided it was still too dangerous, so I support the decision.

Mitchie151,

Been playing The Decursio Project recently, it’s pretty brutal and I’ve played sevtech and project ozone Kappa modes. It’s kind of a harder sevtech.

Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice (lemmy.world)

luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as...

Mitchie151,

Centre stands need to be way more sturdy to hold it up. You can buy aftermarket VESA centre stands though if you can’t wall mount it.

Mitchie151,

It actually looks a lot like spinal halo-gravity traction which is a modern treatment for childhood scoliosis.

Mitchie151,

It’s actually 25, there was a typo in the article that they fixed.

Mitchie151,

Looks like pretty classic underextrusion. Have you measured the filament diameter to see if it’s exactly 1.75mm? Even 0.1mm is enough to start causing problems. It’s prusament so should be good but worth looking! I can see underextrusion problems in more than just the problematic pillar, so worth playing with retraction and perhaps increasing temperature.

Mitchie151,

Sounds like some dude came up with this ‘second law of infodynamics’ and then plucked out a bunch of examples that support his own law as if that somehow backed anything up at all. Didn’t read the paper itself but the article doesn’t do a very good job.

Mitchie151,

There’s a lot out there for Arduino which is a great platform for learning. Arduino is a microcontroller you can use to read button inputs and control LEDs, all the way up to controlling robots and all sorts of things. It’s pretty hands on compared to a lot of pure software stuff and is often sold in starter kits for kids learning. Worth looking into!

Mitchie151,

Yep, the manufacturers get massive tax breaks on this class of vehicle, which means they can make and sell them at the same or better price than a small, fuel efficient car. If a family with kids has to choose between a mid size crossover or an F150 at similar price points, why would you get the crossover? The USA needs to fix the way it taxes cars to disincentivise these fuel inefficient giant cars. No other country has these problems so it’s not a selfish person problem, it’s an entirely logical choice to make given the circumstances.

Mitchie151,

A huge chunk of it is because the USA has a huge tax incentive for car manufacturers to make bigger cars. When fuel efficiency standards started coming in, trucks were exempted because farmers needed their trucks for farm work, it’s a loophole that encourages the manufacturers to build bigger vehicles to avoid these taxes. These massive vehicles are unusually cheap in the USA. If these loopholes regarding fuel efficiency were closed out people would be financially incentivised to buy smaller cars. Unfortunately, money talks. People aren’t all selfish, they’re just doing what makes sense for them.

Mitchie151,

The battery was disconnected from the car, I wonder if that’s some naive attempt to preserve battery life while on holiday. Would have meant that the BMS couldn’t do it’s job.

Mitchie151,

Most of your other posts look sane so idk what to make of this. To be honest, this is complete nonsense scribbled on a wall. Nothing you have written is mathematical at all. I’m not at all qualified to make any kind of judgement on this but my first thought was schizophrenia. You should consider seeing a doctor.

Mitchie151,

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not. I’d love to see you take it to anywhere!

I assumed you were being serious about it, and if you are, you need to do a lot more work to prove any of your theorems. It might make sense in your mind but a lot of the effort in academia is translating it to paper for others to understand. You can invent new conventions for your equations but they need to explain what is going on.

Wrapping “1/x = x/1” in a drawing of a Möbius strip doesn’t make 1/x = x/1 unless you tell us what the Möbius strip means.

Mitchie151,

Meshmixer is good for exactly that but it’s been a long time since I’ve used the software.

Mitchie151,

This is the most cursed headline I have read in some time. uncharted’s Tom Holland? And using a picture from the lost frontier, ooft.

Why should sustainable investments make sense?

So let’s assume that there was an easy way to make a sustainable investment by investing into a great fond. So in this hypothetical fond only shares from truly great companies exist. Why should this make sense from a sustainability perspective? Unless the companies in that fond are selling their shares for the first time, the...

Mitchie151, (edited )

The value is implicit to the company, the shares don’t create any new wealth. They convert equity in the company into cash. It’s a way for the organisation to trade that equity for free cash. This is why companies with very high profits and thus cash flows buy back their shares.

When you buy shares you help move the market, driving the price of the shares up if there’s demand. Obviously this makes it harder for the company to buy shares back which might be a bad thing if the company is truly a great, sustainable business, but it also means that whatever percentage of the company they do still control can be sold for more cash when it’s needed.

There is a good reason to invest in sustainable companies. From a personally selfish perspective they typically perform very well, and from a more holistic perspective, as mentioned above trading shares raises their price and increases the value of the org.

From an organisations point of view, even entirely profit motivated companies that don’t have a shred of humanity in their management are incentivised to behave sustainability and ethically in the current environment. The only companies that can really get away with being unsustainable are business to business companies and those whose products are incredibly inelastic, i.e. big oil. For everyone else, the loss of goodwill for behaving unethically and unsustainably can be too big. If you cut off a big enough chunk of your market your profits are going to be impacted. Plus all the other elements of sustainability, like treating your employees half well leads to improved employee and talent retention, more productivity, better community engagement, free advertising from all the goodwill etc.

Edit: there are also other risk factors for unsustainable management. Many more organisation are looking at their environment and their exposure to disasters. Fires are becoming a much bigger risk factor, and dangerous weather also poses a threat. For this reason some orgs now consider it prudent to go for net zero emissions for purely selfish reasons, not because it benefits everyone but because a better environment literally lowers their risk. Poor working conditions can also impact bottom line, especially if lawsuits line up. Overall, plenty of financial incentive for companies to behave sustainably these days.

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