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cdot2··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
In both cases it's a cost/finance reason. "Smart" TVs can profit from selling customer data and touch screen cars save some cost over tactile interfaces.
cdot2··on A mutual aid auto shop in Alabama
I assume any claim made by someone who says they have an "off the charts IQ" is dubious.
cdot2··on A mutual aid auto shop in Alabama
Wikipedia's citation from 1893 says the term comes from sunburns on farmer's necks which would predate any supposed communist symbolism.

"poorer inhabitants of the rural districts ... men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks"

Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English VOL.IV (2002) p. 531. ISBN 978-0674008847

cdot2··on System D
Even more fun fact. "Thermidor" as well as the other months on the Republican Calendar don't have any root word. They were made up whole cloth and intended to sound like Greek or Latin.
cdot2··on Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
More like millions of years
cdot2··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
What would a software developer do that isn't research or development? Maybe my understanding of "research and development" is wrong. Is there a formal definition that I can go by?
cdot2··on Load Balancing
Some requests may require utilizing different services than others.
cdot2··on Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico
Humans do a lot of stuff for ritual purposes
cdot2··on Why Do We Even Need Private Banks?
Most people would never be able to buy a house without credit. Along with many other reasons why credit is necessary.
cdot2··on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
Resourse abundance? I would recommend Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" as a good book on this question
cdot2··on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
The enlightenment, the scientific method, and capitalist societies that fund research and development
cdot2··on UK sets up fake booter sites to muddy DDoS market
Your sentence is confusing because of the unclear use of "they". It sounds like in this case an undercover cop would come to someone asking for their controlled drugs and you're arguing that it should be entrapment.
cdot2··on EU was set to ban internal combustion engine cars, then Germany changed its mind
People have been saying we're within a decade of running out of oil for about sixty years now
cdot2··on UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
Along with making fancy cars, Rolls Royce is a significant aerospace engineering company well known for their jet engines. https://www.rolls-royce.com/
cdot2··on France’s President Macron overrides parliament to pass retirement age bill
Except that the President (at least in theory) cannot simply pass a law without Congress.
cdot2··on Non-occupational physical activity and risk of CV disease, cancer and mortality
So would that imply that the causes of disease and mortality also cause sedentary HN reading?
cdot2··on Bing threatens to dox a student in revenge for prompt hacking
Thats definitely the difference between chatgpt and bing's model. Chatgpt was trained mostly on articles and blog posts where bing was trained on personal messages and it shows.
cdot2··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
We're already using them for customer support where I work. In extremely limited cases they work great.
cdot2··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
Also the source was anonymous "a senior U.S. defense official" while ranking members of the previous administration publicly denied that any such incident occurred.
cdot2··on US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada
Ranking members of the previous administration have publicly denied that there were any previous balloons and no evidence has been presented that there were previous similar incidents.
cdot2··on US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
Especially because the high altitude stuff are generally zero pressure balloons
cdot2··on The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)
Median per capita inflation adjusted income has steadily risen since WW2 https://united-states.reaproject.org/analysis/comparative-tr...
cdot2··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
It sounds like it wasnt detected until after it was already over the US and they shot it down over ~47ft deep water so it can be recovered pretty easily
cdot2··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
How do you go about collect it from 65,000 feet?
cdot2··on Critique of the mind/body problem
I actually really like the font.
cdot2··on Cargo airships could be big
I suspect that the materials and engineering required to maintain a vaccum would be so much heavier than the engineering required to hold hydrogen that it would literally outweight the benefit.
cdot2··on Where our gasoline comes from
And gasoline has such a high energy density that even at 25% efficiency it's more effective at storing and transporting energy than batteries.
cdot2··on Stelfie the Time Traveller
I'm not sure there needs to be a goal. I will say that this guy looks a lot like bezos. Also did Darwin ever meet a chimp? https://www.stelfiett.com/stelfies-gallery?lightbox=dataItem...
cdot2··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
I've run into some obscure email servers which reject any mail which includes URLs above a certain length limit and only throw vague "Mail rejected" errors.
cdot2··on ‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022)
I don't think he was making that argument. Someone who climbs mountains every week is less likely to be hurt in a given mountain climb than someone who doesn't but that doesn't mean that the best idea for safety is to climb mountains often.
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