Decades of cheap construction and half-assed fixes finally coming home to roost. I almost wish that giant gas tax had gone through so we could actually fund real, sustainable road construction.
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
“As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. … I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contributed much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. … it is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy, and that the confusion of their several functions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled. … If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”
So few people learn the soulful art of the organ ever since the damn pianoforte came along! And the guitar is so easy that art will die, because anyone can learn to strum chords!
Yeah, I like the Keys. It’s a weird vibe there, but Marathon and Key West are worth keeping. Especially the turtle hospital in Marathon. You can see turtles get surgery! And until a couple years ago they had a turtle named Bubble Butt, for whom “Bubble Butt Syndrome” was named! Sadly Bubble Butt passed away in April of 2022.
Edit: Also, when my wife and I toured the hospital, they had a whole bunch of juvenile turtles who had been shocked by rapid temperature changes and then rescued and sent to a whole bunch of turtle hospitals around the world for rehabilitation. This rehabilitation essentially consisted of slowly changing the temperature of the water they were in until it matched the temperature outside so they could be released.
Since they had a lot of these, they didn’t bother to name them but instead numbered them. One of them was numbered “404,” and the tour guide was thrilled when my wife said, “I couldn’t find the turtle in this tub.” She (the tour guide) said she had made that joke a few times but no one had gotten it. 😂
The title really. I tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome, they all behave the same way: I have to re-enter my credentials almost every time I refresh the page or navigate to a new link within Lemmy. Especially on iPhone this is very annoying (since accessing your saved passwords requires entering a code). Is there a way to extend...
Voyager is really nice. Definitely modeled after Apollo. You can find it in the App Store, or you can use the web app version at https://vger.app if you prefer.
In college I was playing a lot of Crackdown. At a certain point I remember instinctively knowing which level of a dorm tower I could jump to, grab onto a window, and then how many more jumps it would take to reach the top.
Similarly, more recently, I was playing Resident Evil 4 on the Oculus. After a good two hour session when I took the headset off I found myself trying to move around my house by using my thumb to jump to a new spot.
Yep, I do remember this with AC. I posted about the one that hit me harder, which was Crackdown.
If I spent a lot of time training I could theoretically move similarly to the characters in AC. No matter how much training I do I’ll never be able to leap multiple stories in one jump up.
I have an (untested) hypothesis that people who get the “soapy” taste of cilantro also smell stinkbugs. When I squish a stinkbug it reeks of cilantro’s “soapy” taste. I remember reading somewhere that they’re the same type of chemicals.
Gods I love Going Postal. I remember reading it when I was much younger (almost two decades ago) and loving it, but had forgotten enough of it that it almost felt new during my current reread of the Discworld series. Now I’m on Making Money and it’s just as good.
The LiDAR you have on your vacuum isn’t going to cut it as a safety relevant component onboard your car. Automotive-grade LiDAR are on another price range. Development for such sensors is quoted separately from the part price, and it costs millions of $.
Obviously, but my Ford Escape PHEV also has LiDAR and, despite being the highest trim level, cost FAR less than a Tesla. It doesn’t do FSD, obviously, but it still has LiDAR. And radar. And will do level 2 self driving enough that if I’m driving in traffic I’m more managing the car than driving it.
There is zero good excuse for not including LiDAR in Teslas.
Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
There are more than you might think, just not the loud ones that give everyone else a bad name.
Edit: Note that this is true for almost every group. The stereotypes from people outside the group will almost always represent the worst of that group, because humans have a tendency to overemphasize and overrepresent negativity.
A completely benign example: convincing my friend to watch Doctor Who was difficult because his perception of the fan base was that they were obnoxious and obsessed with how hot David Tennant is. Which…I mean, look at the man. But also, no, the loudest part of the fan base isn’t representative of the show.
Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)
‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’
What's something you've been called in life that isn't generally something bad, but made you feel awful
For me, growing up, I was around people who saw games as useless and a waste of time, but I loved them...
Michigan roads are deteriorating faster than they’re being fixed (www.mlive.com)
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The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Florida sticks by social studies standard teaching ‘benefit’ of slavery (www.politico.com)
I keep having to login to Lemmy on any iPhone browser every time I navigate to a new page. Is there a way to keep me logged in?
The title really. I tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome, they all behave the same way: I have to re-enter my credentials almost every time I refresh the page or navigate to a new link within Lemmy. Especially on iPhone this is very annoying (since accessing your saved passwords requires entering a code). Is there a way to extend...
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Trump Legal Team Pins Hopes on Hung Jury (www.thebulwark.com)
When did you get hit by "the tetris effect" AKA playing a video game so much that you get the urge to do moves/actions from the video game in real life?
When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school....
Judge Cannon rejects request for gag order against Donald Trump in classified docs case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
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Trump Just Sold His $10M Jet to One of His Megadonors (www.thedailybeast.com)
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On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (arstechnica.com)
Apple Patent Hints At Foldable iPhone With Self-healing Screen (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Apple’s long-rumoured foldable iPhone could finally become a reality if a recently awarded patent is any indication. This patent hints at a revolutionary self-healing screen.
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach (techcrunch.com)
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Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco
Just realize: They call coffee, but unless I order black coffee, anything else feel like milkshake....