You can start descending by the time you've got wooden stuff, but you're better off at least making some stone stuff before you dig at all unless it's night. Then you should dig as soon as you have enough wood (I forget how much you need) and bury yourself.

I wonder if the software has that part figured out. It's probably better at the early game combat than I am, I never did get good reflexes for that game at all.

IME, Excel is easier to get good results in. On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of the modern interface, and I have also found it to be crashy and unreliable these days. It was never immune from explosion, but you used to have to lean on it. Calc has come a long way, and while its interface still isn't great, I mostly prefer it to Excel. I only really wish it had live pivot tables.

Though nobody asked, Writer is much better than Word.

DEI hiring policies are anti-racist and anti-sexist. Done and done! What else?

Oh look, you're back on that junior high school understanding of biology bullshit again. Most losers at least peak in high school.

Most drill packs don't have a charging circuit in them. They have some cells and a thermistor, and that's it. I've been into several of them. This is the reason why they are usable in so many different contexts without modifications, which has made them enormously popular. Portable winch rigs, children's plastic ride-on car toys, they are usable everywhere specifically because it's just a pack of cells.

Right, we don't use BTUs, we use "tons" of refrigeration! er...

US horses run on a wider track, so they're bigger, and have more power ;)

Horsepower was based on a calculation of the work which could be done for hours on end, by a supposedly representative horse walking in a circle and pushing an arm. This was considered a useful standard at the time because it was a system actually in use to do work. I presume it persists to this day because the name is cool.

No, that's not true at all. That's not how computers work, and that's not how batteries work. Battery capacity is not like a spring, where force in and force out are equal. The amount of power that it takes to charge a battery differs depending on how you do it, and the amount of power that you get out also depends on how you draw it.

In general, the slower you discharge a chemical storage battery, the more power you can get out. (The same is mostly true of charging them, but there is more nuance.) The computer does not draw the same amount of power all the time. Exactly what consumption will be differs based on what you run on it, and how you configure the settings.

The sensible thing to do is to expect battery life ratings in best, worst, and typical scenarios. I'd also like to know how long a device will idle and sleep, if it does those things.

Actually way more impressed with Gemma 3, which is from the same people and downloadable. They have versions that will run on your home PC. But honestly, all of them spew bullshit.

Don't worry, they are not sitting on any secrets that give Gemini a competitive edge, because it suuuuuuuucks.

I share the assessment contained in your comment, but isn't this in fact a reasonable prediction? They're definitely not going to want to admit fault, as they want to sell these systems. The corporation also has a history of blaming users.

Spending all that money on advertising surely does something, and they track where the applications come from pretty closely so they do know when and where it's working, but they also send just a total shitstorm of ads to the same people which is surely unnnecessary. I applied for a Capital One Visa because there was a referral deal, but I didn't qualify and didn't want their consolation deal. They then sent me an expensive glossy ad packet about every week for two months, and followed that up with another couple monthly ads after that. I've already been turned down for the deal they're "offering" me with their ads, and repeated applications would affect my credit rating, so there's no fucking way I'm going to apply again. That advertising money spent was obviously wasted, and the customers have to pay for it somehow.

I have a CC from my CU, and even there the rate is vaguely starting to approach something reasonable only after my first limit increase.

One answer to this is that the AEB system should be a separate system from the self-driving system, and it should win. And if someone stacks you from behind because they were following too closely, that's why you have rear crumple zones.

We have to get to the point where we no longer expect to drive unsafely because our transportation systems are bullshit and we otherwise won't all fit on the road, because that's what's causing the accidents which aren't caused by serious drug use or medical emergency. (The former problem is hard to solve, the latter could be solved with more sensors.)

Practically never. Also, the exams are pathetic, and so are the driving tests. Only commercial drivers have anything like a reasonable requirement. In fact there are parts of it which are excessive, like having to pass a drug test including cannabis. By all means, test drivers while they are driving, but not permitting them weed practically guarantees they'll be using something that leaves the system quicker and is also more dangerous.

Anyway here in the USA you can drive most vehicles you'll be interested in on your basic license, which is easy to get and easier to keep, and the results aren't great.

The whole point of having a car "drive itself" is that you aren't doing it.

Expecting someone to go from not doing it at all to doing it at full highway speed immediately is bananas.

The correct action is usually lean back and nail the brakes, and let ABS and crumple zones do what they will. In "a few seconds" the vehicle could ostensibly have done that for them and the outcome would have been better. The vehicle could have reduced speed more than that in three seconds, if it chose to do that instead of shutting off and leaving the human in charge.

The majority of US households are not making ends meet, and you want them to make them meet by even less?