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On the upside Tesla is at least putting back the horn in the middle of steering wheel, so there could be a glimmer of hope.

Ah the dominoes start to fall yet again. I wonder how many between this and the CEO this time?

Pilot to co-pilot, "What's that goat doing up here in this cloud bank?"

It's as if every second person on earth became a Scientologist spouting correct sounding but flawed ideas and conjectures ultimately aiming for your pocket book. But every once in a long time it discovers a useful and important new protein so you can't discount it entirely.

In about 2004 Business Week had an article that said 'the value of an MBA is simply the salary of the job that your school gets for you on graduation'. No job, no value. Some schools have much better placement departments than others.

It's your conductive nervous system (including your brain) that is acting as a directional antenna.

Yes, the canary in the coal mine technique. As far as I know it's not illegal, but you only get a count of '1'.

That might be an interesting way to 'wire' things indoor using plugged in ultraviolet lights that send energy by wireless to other receiving devices like cameras, motion detectors, wall clocks etc.

So that should be enough motivation for business to gently encourage the Houthis to reconsider this kind of livelihood.

The risks of space flight are just so much actuarial work until real humans become involved. At that point three nine's is no longer acceptable and everything takes way longer and is way more expensive.

University, where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

"In the late 1700s, the air contained about 280 parts per million (ppm) of CO2. We are now up to 420 ppm, an increase of about 50%..."

Yikes! We're like that cartoon character that was speeding off the top of the cliff and now he's hanging suspended in mid air just before dropping to his death.

Fifty percent increase in three hundred years seems like a lot; particularly considering that its all likely to hang around for a thousand years or more. I don't think I can wait that long.

Once small nuclear becomes viable all these guys will be on their huge yachts so they won't have to be stuck in one place.

Yes, and CNN wasted tons of ink printing that headline.

Must have been fun while it lasted.

It's disingenuous to purport to analyze Musk's financial position without mentioning his investment in SpaceX regardless of how Tesla may or may not be doing this quarter.

No GPT-4 doesn't not pass. In particular it's obvious when it's asked a question that it doesn't know the answer too it then spews out volumes of almost tangential statements rather than doing what (most) humans would do and say "I don't know". That's the tell.

Two 'nother explosions to be clear. On the other hand 90% of the launch goals were achieved.

Ideally they wanted the booster to touch down on the ocean.

That might be true but e-bikes won't really take off until there's a reliable and safe way to lock them up while you go about your business on foot.

True enough, nuclear has niche applications in nuclear submarines, nuclear aircraft carries and the like. Possible in Antarctica where wind and sun are problematic. Possibly on the moon in the near future and few others.

Otherwise though, the log log curves of solar, wind and HVDC transmission lines make it a near certainty that any nuclear plant that was just getting started today would be no where near economic by the time they spin up. Even now gas turbine plants are being shut down because they can't compete economically with renewables just because of the cost of the fuel never mind the cost of turbine plant itself.

We're at the inflection point right now and it's going to get much worse for fossil fuel and nuclear as electricity generators from here on out.

Oh oh, just about had a heart attack there that Linux Mint is shutting down :O

But it's not. The Mint app is shutting down and I'm breathing easier.

To my knowledge EV chargers are close to 90% efficient from wall to tire. So about 5% loss going to the battery and 5% loss going from battery to drive the tires. This should get a little bit better as higher voltage harnesses appear in EV's.

I've used earlier versons of this kind of thing from Zotac that were not bad but the Asus PN 5X series (entirely passively cooled) is enough better that I wouldn't go back. This new line would have to be somewhere south of $200 to make me think of using it in future builds.

This will be interesting. AI's excellent grammar disarms people into believing the AI has common sense in novel situations when, in fact, it doesn't. Think of it like this: a photo of a scene can fool people into thinking it's an actual scene up until the actual scene rotates a bit but the picture doesn't follow. Interesting times for the Turing Test.

Don't be surprised if your latest 'update' is a 'downdate' in disguise. IE it's purposely designed to go slower when the maker has decided that it's time for you to upgrade your device.

Yes and they are wonderful. I hope Asus doesn't drop the PN line because of this.

The advent of LED lights being so cheap to keep on I imagine some places just decide to leave them in all night. As for the astronomers my view is they miss the convenience of having a telescope close to their homes and universities whereas the best terrestrial telescopes have been on desert mountains.

These days they can probably log into those remotely.

Wow $93m for each of us! I can hardly wait to open my mailbox.

I'm just in the middle of installing Linux Mint on my 2017 Asus c202 because the updates stopped this summer. The c202 is still a fine machine for my uses. I've take taken the screw out of the mother board now and just reading up on how to install Linux but now ... maybe I'll wait and see if fresh updates restart coming my way.