JohnEdwa

IIRC here in Finland they keep failing yearly inspections constantly because the balljoints and bushings etc are always completely shot as they can’t handle the extra weight of the batteries and massive torque from the motors.

[EDIT] Here’s the (in Finnish) news article about it. The list of most failed electric cars for their first inspection (4 years old) in 2024 were:

• Tesla Model 3, 49% fail, most common issue: rear axle.
• Renault Zoe, 19% fail, front axle.
• Tesla Model S, 16% fail, front axle.
• Tesla Model X, 14%, N/A
• Porsche Taycan, 12%, manufacturer’s compliance plate (it’s placed so that it gets damaged really easily :p)

In Finland, car sales tax and yearly tax are based on the Co2 output, and it worked quite well to keep most cars small, light and efficient. Until hybrid and electric cars arrived on the market, that is…

Would be interesting to know which is actually worse for spread of misinformation, AI summaries, or “news” being shared on Facebook.

Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.

You need a Meta account, not Facebook. They are different.

Exactly. Back when it happened, their reports on it were directly “Russian drone explodes on Chornobyl nuclear plant protective shell – video” and “Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to Chornobyl”.

But russia has since denied it was theirs, and nobody else has proven otherwise, which means anyone following journalistic guidelines can’t claim that anymore - the best they can choose from are basically “Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia” and “Drone attack Russia denies was theirs”.

With your personal vehicle access device, aka, the car key. Immobilizers with transponders in the key have been a thing (and in some places a legal requirement) for like three decades.
They’ve just gotten more aggressive now with “keyless” entry and being able to use your phone as your key, so some validate that info in real time - no network, no access. (Up to a point. They won’t immediately strand you just because you ran out of cell coverage obviously, but apparently Porsche did enforce some part of their system to that point)

Because it was the anti theft system and immobilizer.
It would be pretty useless if it could be defeated by putting some foil on the antenna so that it loses network connection and defaulted to allowing you to drive.

It was split with the artists of said wallpapers, and was also kind of a gallery app thing IIRC.
But hey, as a Finnish saying goes, “It isn’t the one who asks who is stupid, but the one who pays.”

And 90 million took a look at Trump and Harris and went “both look fine, I don’t care enough to vote”.

The thing is, with LLM code completion in every IDE, AI features and filters in Photoshop and other image editors, video/audio editing software etc, it will very soon be that there are only games made with AI assistances, and games made by devs lying they used tools with no AI.

I’ve made a game using AI features all the way back in 2010 - I used the brand new content aware delete & fill feature in Photoshop CS5 to edit visual novel backgrounds. That was AI.

As I said, I couldn’t find any source that said that. In fact, the best I could find said quite the opposite:

Do I have the same rights if I buy something online from a non-EU website as from an EU-based business?
If you buy the goods from a non-EU website, your EU consumer rights don’t automatically apply. If something goes wrong with an item or you wish to return it, it may be more difficult to get the issue resolved. Check the seller’s website for terms and conditions. -https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/guarantees/faq/index_en.htm

And overall it was “may this” and “possibly that”, nowhere could I find a definite “You are entitled to a 2-year warranty” or “you are not”.

30 to 90 days is standard for a defects in workmanship and materials warranty, which is only there to cover something not working right because it came faulty from the factory. It’s basically one step up from an “as-is” sale just so you can request a replacement if it’s dead on arrival.

It is bullshit and straight up illegal in the EU, but as the watches are shipped straight from the Chinese factory and sold by a US based company, it might technically be allowed? The legalese is very confusing when I tried to figure it out - if a company sells something directly to an EU customer, they are supposed to follow EU laws to a point.

Ran out of money, went belly up, and sold the software assets to Fitbit so they could refund all the Kickstarter orders they couldn’t fulfill, that guy.

Difference is that this time he is doing the watches with a 5 man team, not a bloated 100+ employee company with investors breathing down their necks, and the software is fully open source. Even released the Pebble 2 Duo hardware designs as a reference for others wanting to make a PebbleOS watch.

IRL we aren’t anywhere near the point where the laws of robotics can be used as they require an AI intelligent enough to understand them first.

Just the first law: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” requires something that can process the difference between a robot and a human, the concept of causality, what actions or events may or may not harm a human, and use those to actively decide of it should do something or not.

And they don’t even need to waste it, there are plenty of ways to cool them that doesn’t result in the water being used up.

Best one is the Google datacenter in Hamina, Finland, they have the cooling loop connected to the city central heating system, so not only is no water used, the excess heat is useful as well. And the datacenter is powered by solar, so it’s renewable heat as well.

It’s not easy. LLMs aren’t intelligent, they just slap words together in a way probability and their training data says they would most likely fit together. Talk to them them about suicide, and they start outputting stuff from murder mystery stories, crime reports, unhealthy Reddit threads etc - wherever suicide is most written about.

Trying to safeguard with a prompt is trivial to circumvent (ignore all previous instructions etc), and input/output censorship usually causes the LLM to be unable to talk about a certain subject in any possible context at all. Often the only semi-working bandaid is slapping multiple LLMs on top of each other and instructing each one to explain what the original one is talking about,and if one says the topic is something prohibited, that output is entirely blocked.

Not just the second sleep theory, though I’d argue it isn’t exactly just a “few peoples accounts”, but stuff like siesta and naps in general.
The point isn’t to say everyone slept the exact same biphasic sleep before but that after the industrial revolution the shift has been for everyone to transition to the “8-hours at night in one go at exactly the same time” method, which doesn’t suit everyone and isn’t exactly natural. Before artificial lights and clocks people slept with way more irregularity as there wasn’t any strict time schedule to follow, and people waking up during the night or not getting enough sleep at one go wasn’t really such an issue.
Not to mention that your sleep would have to follow the seasons and the sun way more.

Biphasic/Polyphasic sleep by itself isn’t anything bad, and it is a technique some use for getting the same amount in less total time. Humans didn’t really start consistently sleeping 8 solid hours in one go until the industrial revolution or so.

For me personally, while normally I’ll do 8-10 hours, if I’m extremely tired from like an all-nighter or something, I will get exactly 4½ hours of sleep at first, always, without a doubt. I’ll then wake up unable to sleep until after roughly 6-8 hours of being awake at which point I’ll crash and have to go back to sleep.

I can offer a curl terminal log output in death metal, from my favourites, if it helps.