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Maybe because it sells better online?

You could maybe say that German cars are are built taking the German inspections into account, I doubt it's high on Tesla's list of concerns (both in terms of being a US company and market size, for now).

The inspection is very rigorous, btw.

I don't think it's a power to make a difference thing. I think it's just individualism and self-centeredness, as in "it's not my backyard and I won't see it so whatever, someone else's problem".

Ukraine was to a degree also about oil/gas and cutting off a rising competitor with their new capabilities gearing up.

I always wondered how "self-fulfilling" that is with Toyotas/Lexus. If you buy a Toyota for reliability, and intend to keep it, you're probably taking better care of it (both in terms of service and driving habits) than if you were to lease a "fun vehicle" for 3 years.

That said, Toyota does often decide to go for reliability over other measures like fuel economy or power in eg their engines. Some of the older Toyota engines used twice as many bearings as other engines for example, downside being extra drag and lower fuel economy.

Problem with any non-mass-produced camera seems currently the availability of image sensors. It seems that the only small-batch available sensors are for machine-vision and accordingly priced :/ The CMV12000 used here costs $2000-$2200 per sensor - more than many full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Another problem is that there are no development boards as far as I'm aware. That's why this imo could be huge for anyone else interested in making an open camera, the apertus project seems to have a modular architecture and breakout board for components!

That said, the sensor does have a globoal shutter which would be huge for cinema but not sure at what tradeoffs in dynamic range or color-depth eg.

Too lazy/tired to work it out in detail but afair IQ is normally distributed so I don't think this linear weighting would bring high IQ much if any advantage vs the average person when weighted by sample count (because there's so many more average people). But the low IQ population would be seriously at a disadvantage vs the average and high IQ populations.

This reminds me of the self-driving car hype where we -- the public, not waymo/cruise -- didn't actually get fully self-driving cars ushering in an "end of driving" (or had to reimagine our cities and lives) but instead got very good lane-keeping assistants that work 99% of the time.

Has a Teenage Engineering vibe imo, which is a fan-favorite here.

https://teenage.engineering/

I don't think most meat eaters these days have seen a pig that you had around slaughtered and butchered? A chicken? Eaten most of either, including brain, liver, marrow? It's been 35 years and I still remember.

It's an entirely different experience than buying that juicy, red, CO packed cut at the supermarket.

It's ok to not care but I wouldn't call this piece slander pushing an agenda, it's what it means to eat meat but most have forgotten because it's so removed.

But maybe it's some food for thought, I think that's the point of the article.

See above, 95% of parents could use an on-body carrier. Baby in the carrier and older kids walk, they'll drag your speed down a bit but you'd probably not stroller for hours on end.

Plus you don't need that huge SUV to fit that stroller and awkwardly park it in the entrance of restaurants and so on.

Babybjörn or similar carrier and a backpack for accoutrements is imo often superior to a stroller once your young one can sit up.

Ok, I guess the crypto-grifters have moved on to AI...

https://coingeek.com/all-aboard-ms-satoshi-cryptocurrency-ut...

If you want to serve different ads dynamically you'd have to reencode every stream on the fly or find a way to dynamically insert segments into the existing encoded stream. Not sure the second is feasible with current codecs.

Problem with onshape is that most computation is done in the cloud and the free has been throttled a lot the last year or so imo, so you just constantly wait for sketches or extrusions to open or changes to apply. A minute or more sometimes.

Probably had to stoke that VC-fire once growth leveled off and add new "billion dollar ideas".

For most people EVs will work better for 95+% of car use. Dealers and other forces may want to stop the ride but I think EV proliferation is mostly self-reinforcing.

Once an acquaintance has one, many others in the social circle will follow.

That said, EVs are not for everyone. But also about 40% of US households have a second car and I bet 50% of households rarely drive long distances making EVs viable when people come around to them.

I don't know - I have a bunch of the "prosumer" Sony full-frame cameras (A9, A7RIV) and I usually take all my family and vacation photos with the phone camera. I only pull out the full-frame when the conditions are right or I make a dedicated effort to take "good photos".

Smaller cameras are imo better tweaked for immediate output, pro/sumer cameras are tweaked for "more options in processing". Sure, some point and shoot cams had AF issues or you might not like their color presets but imo they often take better shots in general (when you don't want to post-processing time into them!).

Imo, photos taken with proper camera take work to make the images really look good. The end-result can be a lot better but straight-out-of-camera a phone is better tweaked for "good enough", even though the "full potential" output does not compare at all to a full-frame cameras full potential.

Germany has very strict laws against hate-speech and incitement of hatred ("Volkzverhetzung"), that would probably be the reason for people being arrested. For historic reasons.

... when you buy in quantities of 1,000s is my point.

I'd like to echo that Micro 4/3 sensor just makes this really not that useful imo unless it's for toying around, but then you might as well get an older M43 or Fuji digital camera.

M43's crop factor changes the field of view and thus the lenses character. Which imo is the main reason to shoot older cameras - the lenses. Along with the qualities of the film itself. It undoes both imo.

The only full-frame image sensor I'm aware of that you can buy in small quantities off Mouser and the likes are the CMV20000 CMV50000 (20 and 47.5 mpix) costing $2000-$4500 per sensor. Last I checked APS-C and especially M43 sensors were 1/4 to 1/10 the price.

So imo it boils down to price.

If I had $1M to burn, I'd love to make the same product in full-frame - with Leica-style microprisms so that it would work well with range-finders. Maybe now that film is getting really pricey, maybe there's more of a niche to use old cameras with digital sensors.

Maybe the point is the reach - this lists dozens of school districts receiving bomb threats.

Maybe that's normal, but without knowledge of other cyberbullying campaigns that seems pretty remarkable.

My novice understanding of prompt-engineering is that it "guides" the LLM to certain parts of the output space. It has all this information related to a topic from a variety of sources, by creating some context (i.e. prompting) one can increase the likelihood of the LLM outputting text that's more related to that part of the training data that you'd want.

For example, let's say the LLM learnt about color theory from: 1. academic articles, 2. artistic discussion forums, 3. reddit ( :) ).

If you wanted to steer the output from a certain "niche" you could create context in the prompt that makes the LLM more likely to create output (ie a continuation of the prompt, sort of). Tricks I've seen is stuff like "You're a super-smart, best in your field XYZ, tell me something about...". But I bet you could similar good output by using lingo and vocab specific to either niche to "prime" the LLM.

Take with lots of salt-grains, just my pet-theory.

"Despite this, MG has managed to deliver a pure electric SUV at a decent price which is ultimately its main weapon in attracting buyers – in fact, we named the ZS EV our 2022 Affordable Electric Car of the Year." [1]

Probably not representative of more mainstream EVs from established manufacturers. MG Motor is a new and entirely different company since collapse of MG Rover in 2005.

[1] https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mg/zs/ev

I read that as age-difference which is also false. It is genetic "difference", e.g. one paragraph from the abstract

"In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months’ less education"

I think society ends up judging new technology by the worst-case failures, and as far as that goes this isn't too good.

I think that's just how our brains work for the most part, black and white, at least in areas that the general public is not overly familiar with yet.

Also that pound of oil gets shipped around the world (or pipelined across half the continent), refined, and then trucked some more.

I could never get the exact numbers but wouldn't be surprised if takes 3+ pounds of oil to get that 1 lb into the car's tank.

I guess it depends on the niche.

3D printer parts do often pop up on Amazon 1-2 months after Ali for 5-10% extra. I think many sellers on Aliexpress are aware of the true price people are willing to pay and charge close to that. And then someone does the arbitrage on Amazon close to that.

Now if you want to see a "real" good price, go to Taobao and cough up for the MOQ of 1000, that's 1/10th in my niche.