The little electric forklifts that run round inside Sam's Club weigh 8100 pounds, so significantly heavier than a full size SUV.
Leverage to lift the weight would make them heavy, but to be stable enough to accelerate, decelerate, and turn with a load at the top of the mast they need to be really heavy.

Having experience with driving indoor warehouse electric forklifts I find this a bit scary. A warehouse forklift has long poky things out the front, and weighs twice as much as the average car, and is working in much closer quarters.
My experience was mostly wooden pallets, which are not necessarily straight and have quite a bit of variance when it comes to picking them out of pallet racks, so it often involves a bit of "feel" to successfully get the forks under the pallet without pushing it off the back of the rack or pushing on the rack itself.
I hope they are using some sort of molded pallet, or at least pallets made of plywood and laminated supports so they don't warp and twist like boards, and they have some method of keying them in the pallet racks so they are consistently placed.
This is the kind of automation that will become commonplace and unnoticed , but the people that take the plunge to get it there do so with significant risk.

The report is not about global carbon dioxide production, it is a report of a fixed number of entities in the fossil fuel and cement industries. 80% of these entities emissions /= 80% of global emissions.
I am not saying the entities pointed out are not major polluters, I am just saying that if reasonable people want useful discourse about these issues we really need to avoid hyperbolic summaries and talking points.
Just because the world is driven by click bait does not mean that thoughtful people also have to disseminate click bait.

The elimination of "shifting" gears? Yet there are lots of cars out there right now with CVTs in them that have fake shift points, even changing the shift points to different RPMs in "sport" mode, and some of them even have "manual" modes with paddle shifters. All of this goes against the claim that a CVT lets the engine run at the most efficient RPM for the power required and using the CVT to control RPM/speed automatically providing the best of all ICE worlds.
People as a group tend to want the familiar, and cars that don't have hiccups in their power application are unfamiliar.

From a few years back:
https://science.slashdot.org/s...

I thought Chrome was supposed to isolate every tab from the others and not leak data. How can another program access the data from Chrome without permission from inside Chrome? This sounds like Microsoft being Microsoft, but a real bug in Chrome.
If Edge can access the browsing data in Chrome so could any other malicious code on the computer.

This phrase is so fundamentally bad. My dad's lifetime? (He is 84 this year) My kid's lifetime? The only way this could be valid is if it happened today.

âoeThe Hitch Hikerâ(TM)s Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert-goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet â" or more frequently around a completely different planet."

It appears to me from this guys point of view that a sufficiently detailed model could provide us with the science of psychohistory. Obviously for certainty it would require a model incorporating every particle in the universe, which is impossible because a container can't contain itself, but psychohistory wasn't certain, it was a statistical science all about probabilities at the scale of civilizations.
Just a thought, but apparently I had no choice but to think it.

Just because he is deceased does not make him useless, He can be used to make Soylent Green.

Support your local AI, DYSTOPIA FOR ALL!!!

I also came from Slackware primarily because of apt. I have examined other options since, but never seriously. Then I got old and lazy, now my desktops run on Linux Mint Debian Edition, while other machines still run pure Debian.

I can say that time definitely goes quicker now than when I was young, and while that is anecdotal, it does appear to be pretty much universal among human observers.

Sounds like they are going to be generating even more heat, with denser boards and denser racks. They still need to remove all that heat and it all has to go somewhere. Unless I am misunderstanding some basic physics, they still need heat exchangers and chillers, whether they are cyclical compression chillers or evaporative swamp coolers, they somehow have to get the heat out of the servers and into the external environment somehow.
I can believe better efficiency with full immersion heat transfer, but getting the heat out of the immersion fluid is going to be good old fashioned heat exchangers, and I would expect in most cases it will just be blown out into the air, since environmental activists are pretty quick to complain when you start heating lakes and rivers.
Maybe they can jump on the geothermal bandwagon and pump the heat down into the ground so our grandkids can learn how bad it is to heat the ground.
The only way to actually reap a benefit from this is by finding ways to actually use the heat, which then means we can preserve resources and not have to generate that amount of heat for another process.
I suppose I could be wrong and heatsink in air stream cooling is just so inefficient that there will be significant reductions in money and resources just from efficiency, but in the end 5000 watts of server power generates 5000 watts of heat that has to go somewhere.

If I had read TFA a couple years ago I would have assumed based on word usage and paragraph structure that it had been translated from another language by a non native English speaking translator. Now I assume that this was actually written by an AI text generator. This feels like a 3rd grade book report, which would be commendable if it were done by a third grader as a journalism project.
At least no human has claimed credit for generating this, or at least there is no authorship information on TFA.
Maybe /. should get their own AI to filter out AI generated pablum like this.

The PAN protocol, that was inherently "more secure" because it only reached a few meters? Then, oops, a dude with a yagi could lift stuff from your phone a block away?
OK, it is a small area network, really convenient, and we can make it really low power. Security because of short range is a bad idea anyway.
OOOH! Apple can make it a total coverage network, because every Apple device is a translation node. I can know my ex is in a coffee shop on the other side of the country because I stuck a tag in her glove compartment.
Wait, I can stalk from SPACE!?!?!!?

Of course that really does raise a question, sure, a satellite can send a signal to a Bluetooth device by ignoring the Bluetooth transmit power limits, but I am having a little trouble with an existing Bluetooth device getting a signal back to a satellite, and if you do change the firmware to somehow make a more powerful signal out of hardware that wasn't designed to do that, now you have to plug it into power because the battery lasts half an hour.
And that doesn't even consider the government approval of using that spectrum for a new purpose at a new power level. Sure, it is unlicensed spectrum, but it is still strictly use limited.
Making a few assumptions here, these are going to be LEO devices, yet another constellation to compete with the umpteen other companies that are going to save the future with thousands of flying toasters, and clutter up the view for ground based astronomers?
wow.