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This is exactly the case. On my Canadian high street the redevelopments are either empty or exclusively high cost businesses. I looked at the rent arrears notice posted on one failed shop and the rate would exclude anything not a money mill. They'll be no lutiers or second hand bookstores in the shiny towers on my street.

I would love to read about how insurance premiums are driving technology changes, in general. How insurance companies are tabulating risk from AI hacking. Risk of noncompliance probably brought the store operators to networked fridges, how is the network risk evaluated in general?

Insurance risk and premiums might be the main drag on the AI future.

An interesting question is why aren't there companies in the same vein as AMG was for Mercedes, that buy the product, modify and resell them? In this case, buy the factory LG and using expertise, lobotomize it and resell it people here? If this post shows the demand the where is the supply?

It doesn't seem that it's a DCMA limitation, yet at least. Would it fall under "right to repair"?

I think aircraft are so safe in this regard because, essentially, they are required to use a single international collision avoidance system that is well defined. And modern cars have AEB systems built by vendors aiming for commonality to meet worldwide rules.

But train traffic systems seem to be a hodgepodge of different systems, perhaps locally grown and driven by the local vagaries of politics and rulemaking.

What a surprising inversion of expectations regarding safety.

The US doesn't even have public single-payer healthcare. Maybe revisit that priority list.

How come we have collision avoidance mandated and working in 3 and 2 dimensions (TCAS, AEB), but somehow do not have it in 1-dimensional motion?

No apology, analysis or introspection. Why would anyone trust the 99% of their other businesses?

That's both sad and hilarious thank you. I'm either expecting too much or people aren't being motivated (repeatedly trained by reward?) to turn in an earnest effort. Like the llms are trained that is.

Would any teacher of, say, grade 4 students, reading this ask them to draw the same prompt and let us know the result? It would be so interesting to see how we differ from the machines, if at all.

Of all the Dr Seuss read to my kids the one that stands out is hard to find now: "I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew".

Probably rare because the young protagonist who over-judges the severity of his minor problem, gulliblly starts on a quest where he increasingly suffers worse, finally concludes the actual solution is to confront his problems with swift and blinding violence. I read it so many times I can still recall a good portion from memory.

My personal favourite was "Stig of the Dump", which still holds up today, unlike many from my childhood.

Humans propose; AI will dispose.

It's not clear from this progress that AI can formulate conjectures despite this new ability to solve them. So mathematicians still look like they have a job. Though instead of spotting far-off landmarks it's sounds more like they'll be chasing waves on a beach.

AI won't kill people - people will just get new tools for the job.

It must be so frustrating to write science-fiction now with the future changing so fast.

It may soon seem not worth living forever with our limited monkey-brains, watching the horizon of thought recede ever-faster from us.

A little digging leads to https://www.newscientist.com/article/1855873-feedback-577/

4 October 1999 - 27 years ago. It seems my memory still works!

I've had to replace the pump on a cheap amana NFW7200TW. Being a cheaper model it does not have a coin trap and the thin plastic vanes shattered (the coin rested fully intact). The pump had two part numbers, one a Samsung and another a Whirlpool (?). The point that may be interesting here is that when I asked at the part store for the whirlpool p/n they brought me the box at one price, and when I asked for the Samsung one they brought me the exact same box at a price almost $30 less. I didnt know they did SKUs like that, nor do I know how they account for it.

I'm reading Dero Saunders penguin classic which I picked up from a used book store. It's fine, but I'm at the point where the last 6 books of the original should kick in and Saunders treats it as an epilogue. I didn't even realize there were multiple abridgements when I started, and reviews of the others seem to include more about that and retain more of that special "Gibbonness" that's been so much delightful effort to parse. It's been a slow and halting first read I'm looking forward to a more uninterrupted story the second run through. I'll probably go for the Wormesly one and try to spot the differences. You only really start to know a great book after the second reading anyway.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Recently passed the bit where Ammianus complained the rich had bought up much of the property in Rome and turned so many into renters and gave stats to show it. Amongst his many other complaints.

Sadly found I could have been reading a better abridgement, which I'll get for the 2nd reading now.

It seems to be an investment in underground distribution structures and advanced monitoring including predictive failure analysis.

However there's kind of a funny part to it that I read on the last page of New Scientist some years ago. According to that story, Singapore has by far the lowest rate of accidental line cuts - it's a step change to almost zero from the next best country. Apparently there's a worldwide organization that meets to discuss these things. At one meeting the Singaporean engineers presentation was eagerly anticipated but as he was going through his points the engineers from other countries were impatient - they know and do all this! Until he got to his final point: accidental line cuts in Singapore result in 10-year prison sentence. Hence the difference.

U-Haul seems to do very well under the same conditions though. Since the charging port is standard maybe the trailer would be too and U-Haul would be in that business as well. You would just need the car to accept power while in motion and that sounds like a software issue. The high speed charging port could be on the trailer and pass power through to the car, though that would require people to reverse the trailer into the charge station a little tiring after a long drive.

Perhaps it's the threat of theft of the expensive battery - though that should be solveable via tracking.

I don't know.

The Toyota hybrid system is a marvel of simplicity and efficiency. A small Atkinson-cycle ICE run at optimal efficiency paired with two electric motors via a planetary gear set simpler than a manual transmission. It's far more reliable than traditional ICE/gearbox.

Hybrid mileage is well known to be much better I fail to understand the origin of your comment.

Ive been using Costco headlamps as bike lights with the headstrap bracket ziptied to the handlebars. The usb-rechargeable light snaps into the bracket at whatever angle desired. When the 3-pack goes on sale they're $7 each, which is a small fraction of the equivalent made-for-bike lights I've seen around. Haven't found a use for all the headbands yet.

Range extender motors should have been easy to rent and much cheaper for long trips than a full car rental.

It would be very interesting to me to have a small sedan BEV with a rear charging port and an optional flat trailer with a large battery and room for luggage/furniture. The battery would be plugged into that car while driving. I'd want the trailer rentable from the dealer for occasional long trips. BEVs seem to have powerful motors, there must be something else with the economics why this isn't a thing.

I can agree: my parents bought a top loader and dryer in 1975 ('Made in Newton Iowa") which was used a few times a week for 30 years and now once a week for the last 21, as far as I know without repair. Now held by a family member they still look like the day they were delivered due to the porcelain enamel used instead of the painted metal that disintegrated on my second front loader. I've managed to repair my 3 front loaders through an average of about 8yrs each, so far. I've joked with my wife that if I see that washer by the side of the road I'll carry it home on my back.

Permanent cache for that one.

At this point OpenAI really ought to let us know when they're testing again.

The reduction in cable weight probably was a big part of the savings, next to the vfd. Normally counterweights hang from the same sheave as the elevator. Its not clear to me from the sketch, but with the counterweight in different shaft the cable may have run three times the height of the building (the excessive length was noted) and that's a lot of mass to accelerate and brake.

I don't know how this possibly worked for the northern mockingbird. One full moon I stood and listened to one call continuously for an hour and I couldn't remember hearing the same call twice. Every bird I'd ever heard in person and more mimicked...several car alarms..sirens... Do they even have their own distinctive call?

Despite four years of close observation and support of the war on Ukraine the message from the Iran conflict is that the US has not learned a thing about how to efficiently fight a war against drones.

Would this be able to boost Hubble or replace it's gyros? Does the satellite servicer need its targets to be constructed to some common standards, or is the new capability now leading to common standards? Was it built with a method for itself accepting refueling?

It seems to me this device would lead to a revision in satellite reliability design and life calculations.