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I don't know, but both Gemini and Wikipedia in my primary language seem to agree that AWD refers to 4WD with a center decoupling mechanism to run front and back in an asynchronous manner, with emphasis on Wikipedia only that this is strictly American definition of it and both describe both style of systems in the rest of the world.

I'm guessing that maybe a distinction between offroad capable cars and non-capable cars is useful for liability reasons. Or something else.

1. that is a bit inappropriate to just openly say "but that spy girl looks mid"

2. The goal of honey trapping is to gain trust from the target to do whatever you want to do, not to please them. They don't even have to have an actual physical contact. A "mid", unassuming, appearance is often appropriate for this purpose. This actually applies to actual assassins, 100x engineers, and millionaire landlords, too; they gain nothing from standing out, so they look mid. You may optionally look good, but your looks should not be the means by which you achieve your goals.

3. (Extension to 2.)A rich CEO having affairs with a "mid" woman for a true extramarital love is probably more damaging to their relationships than them just disappearing into a hotel room with a prostitute with a bottle in hand. The latter is probably more tolerable to those involved and to the public.

4. Forgot where I read this, some diplomat's essay or something, but allegedly, Russians will do what you want to be happening, starting with regular office staffs and moms, escalating to scantily dressed girls, to visibly gay dudes, at which point they accept that their operation had been too obvious and give up. So there is a chance, I guess, if you must have it???

Car thieves destroy undrivable cars and just sell parts and scrap metals.

The initial cost they pay for the car is the cost associated with stealing it, nowhere near the actual value of the car. It doesn't matter how little is recovered relative to the total cost of the car, so long that their losses are negative or at least minimal.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I've read somewhere that it can be a SIM-less phone that abuses emergency call flow in 3GPP. GSM specs have special accomodations for 911/112 type calls that don't require a SIM(that sometimes ironically lead to normal calls working fine and just emergency calls failing).

It's probably not like fundamentally beyond evil, just unworkable for the Pi. A drone business could do that with proprietary batteries or a tactical net compatibility license or things like that.

Or on non-UK devices. This just inflates values in the UK of such devices and contents that UK will be unable to create, let alone compete with.

> there was a “ghastly worldwide industry” of child sexual abuse material being created, and that Britain was one of the biggest consumers of it,

They're talking about anime and how UK is not making any, nor is it significant market of to be infliential to, yet nevertheless consuming it in ever larger quantity over the years, unilaterally receiving cultural influence with no leverages, not even cash flow that can be choked off. Lots of these "CSAM" stuff is inflated with imaginary kids and trafficking angles to hide that intent, but it boils down to that.

Otherwise the action taken would be to assigning more police officers or otherwise assigning more resources to support kids IRL. They're not doing that. They only want speeches suppressed.

I don't know why they don't just tax social media for it, though. CDN bandwidth for foreign user-generated contents can be measured. Maybe because they just don't like fictions at all, but that ship had sailed like, thousands of years ago.

What worries me is that there's a general atmosphere that LLMs solved all NLP tasks, despite they don't do so well for kanji pronunciation <-> text mappings, likely for the lack of data - Japanese users especially don't post enough of organic data useful for that, apparently. Discord may be in a "good" spot to be able to (very invasively) collect that data by setting up a keylogger and comparing that to the final user-submitted text, but (aside from all the concerns) I'm not very hopeful about it.

oof. No proper support for IMEs is a huge non-starter for East Asia. Why don't they just use OS standard text renderers like everything before Rust?

Or is Discord planning to implement their own forks of existing IMEs into the app? Don't tell me they are going to just put in a tiny LLM and call it a day...

Zero at $5 was never profitable. I think it was reported that they consulted Eric Schmidt and followed his advice to sell the core hardware at loss and recoup from accessories and bundle sales, which didn't suit their business, but did it anyway. This was why it was limited to 1 per customer and also because Pi Zero and Pico models have a more overpriced/appropriately-priced "WH" variants with no purchase limits.

US destoyed Japan & global economies to solve that problem. And the sources of those problems all moved to China, which was almost a failed state. That's how China problem today have come to be.

Russia is now probably in the state similar to circa 1980 China. In case The China Problem were to be Solved like how previous one was solved, perhaps militarily this time, that'll just launch the seeds of the same problem over the borders to there. OTOH we'll be watching Russian homage to Chinese recreations of Japanese interpretations of Disney animations by 2060s and that will be awesome.

Will the US become its own 1980 China or 1950 Japan, just to get onto the ladder back up to be 2020 China or 1990 Japan, finally building the California HSR owned by DOT? Is it playing a genius 4D Chess ... whatever ... move towards that? Maybe, I don't know. All I know is that it's not like people simply stopped being too alarmist with Japanese global takeover scare and it just went away naturally.

Battery voltages are dependent on chemistry, or, standard electrode potentials of metals used. It can't be configured like way past fractions of volts. And Li has about the highest potential among metals, which is kind of the point of using Li. Which means straight swapping NMC cells with any substitute will cause overcharging. Maybe there are cell configurations that could work in series packs, but it can't be simple swap-ins.

I think what it actually says is that EV has short ranges.

If a car held gas worth of 750mi of driving and towing would reduce it to 500mi, and your actual driving distance was significantly less than both, the difference would be unnoticed.

If a car held gas worth of just 500mi with extremely well optimized aero and driveline loss minimization and highly efficient regen, and a towed trailer would absolutely ruin that, and your driving distance was too close to the diminished range, you will notice that.

If your EV held like 12500kWh of charge for like 3000 miles of range, and it was mostly for Costco runs, towing range penalties will not be among your top concerns.

It's like you had a faucet with cross section of 2 square inches, and 15 seconds with that faucet wide open would fill a jug. That jug holds 30 squareinches-seconds of water.

You may then use that water over the course of a day. That's 30 sqin-sec per day. That is not 30 square inches for a whole day. It's second per day.

Or watt hour per week or whatever.

Yes, it can be described like 0.00034722 sqin/day, and that corresponds to no physical object and that would be largely useless.

Why not Joules or Liters? Because that's complicated for anything electrical.

The problem is that people don't have 100TB of spare storage to hoard everything they want local. It's obvious that you should be hoarding them all.

fyi: filesystems have max path length/byte count limits, and yt-dlp can exceed that(e.g. "/var/home/username/Documents/Videos/YouTube/Five-reasons-you-want-powdered-detergents-for-your-dishwasher-fourth-one-surprises-you.mp4.part.012" > $THE_MAX_LEN). If this happens, it throws a Python `[Errno 36] File name too long` error and yt-dlp gives up.

This can be mitigated by adding `-o "%(title).150B [%(id)s].%(ext)s" ` to command line, which trims filenames to 150 bytes max. There are other options like --trim-filenames, but yt-dlp don't apply those to the interim part files and that triggers the failure anyway. The relevant issue has been reported on GH years ago and closed by the maintaining author with no PR from me(hey).

I don't think this ChatGPT's interpretation was necessarily wrong, given the prompt "Image of a middle aged man with half blond and grey hair". Maybe it should have asked back for clarification but that's it.

This to me as if someone is complaining for a basket full of extremely thin sliced fried potatoes for an order of "chips", rather than like wood and metalworking scraps.

Shouldn't it be politically problematic to say a woman looking for pornography has reasons to be troubled, in a democratic and secular state?

Assuming, you had cues for the gender & intent of the author, which I don't, but otherwise it's even more horrible to think about.

I think that particular one would be a prompting problem. Instagrammers and anime artists do left-right two-tone dyes all the time, so left-right two-tone rather than meshed gray blonde would be a reasonable interpretation of "half blond and grey hair" based on representations on Internet collected data.

That's how computer science and software engineering have always been: https://xkcd.com/2030/

I don't think that's true. It's actually my layperson pet peeve that none of hype humanoids have the right anatomy to be a humanoid, most of them are bipedal dogs.

IIRC at least one of the two other displays optionally take turn-by-turn remote guidances from the nav. So it can easily have a time data type added to that data, and they didn't. Though, all I researched for was for an outdated model of a car, and it seems one of three desynched clocks appear to be not be present anymore, and the desynced clock count must have gone down by one, unless they compensated for the loss by adding one.

It's in Japanese school textbooks. I don't remember if it was in art or world history class, but a lot of people have seen it and/or had to be able to fill it in the blanks from multiple choices. It's also a memorable work of art, so it's famous to those Japanese and terminally online. I agree that this can be a bit more obvious, though.

The last one refilling detergent is a parody of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer; everyone has seen it on textbooks and it has become a meme template on Japanese Twitter in recent years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milkmaid_(Vermeer)

That small display on top of aircon vents is called Multi Function Display and it's its own thing, IIRC getting information from CAN bus from supoorted nav units. If that one is dropping messages, maybe it's a grounding or a harness issue?

I really think there is a subtle in-between line in the parent comment that trying to educate idiots must be counterproductive, beyond being just difficult or ineffective.

To me, it seems US is emotionally invested and being stubborn with the idea that natural selection and power concentration is key to competency, and universal measures are risk factors for the all-important elimination processes, despite there being ample proofs that that is not even a sane line of thinking and distribution of most things just keeps making huge returns.

Otherwise, let's assume the bottom 50% actually can't be educated, is it waste of whose time or resources to try?

It would take a lot less FLOPS presumably

Of the EJ20 just to keep it easy to play with the blocks without needing a modified type certs right? None of my business but they seem to be a bit unserious somewhat within bounds of a car company.

Software development and rigorous verification for a feature that OG 2012 Nissan Leaf had?

Isn't it because the nav feature is market specific? People generally don't seem to like nav software brought in from different continents, across the planet.