Thank you.

Agree 100% Sharknado managed a cult following despite it being terribly campy. I lasted about 15 minutes on this pile of burning garbage before turning it off. It was just the worst.

Same. I'm a Gen-X C++ developer (and have a 4-digit slashdot ID) and I have it integrated into both VS Code AND neovim.

I don't use prompts to write huge swaths of code. 99.99% of the time, I just let it help me auto-complete a few lines of code at a time. It can keep my mind moving along at a higher pace than normal.

I totally agree that EV charging at home has been solved. Where I live (SE Michigan), our local utility company (DTE) will even come out and install a separate meter for your EV charger in case your existing panel doesn't have the ampacity to accommodate 1 or 2 additional 220V circuits for charging.

I think broad charging on the road still has some ways to go. Yes, there may be fast charging infrastructure along major interstate routes between cities. But as an outdoorsy person, I find myself driving to a lot of rural areas like Munising, Michigan and Slade, KY. These places do not have fast charging infrastructure or potentially ANY charging infrastructure whatsoever. Munising has one 40A Level 2 charger, meaning it will take approximately 6 hours to charge your typical EV. Most of the other "chargers" listed in the Munising area are actually campgrounds, casinos, or RV parks with 220V NEMA outlets, and many of the comments on these slow chargers are, "I called recently and they no longer offer EV charging."

I'm not a EV hater. I think especially for city driving EVs are awesome, but there are still gaps that can't be filled by them, leaving a place for traditional fossil fuel cars or hybrids.

That actually sounds like a reasonable idea.

We sure as hell aren't going to reverse global warming, especially here in the USA where our Admin is intent on accelerating it with the dramatic change in energy policy.

Could a heater be built that uses hydrogen as the fuel rather than gasoline or diesel? Assuming the electrical grid had enough excess capacity (and this may be an erroneous assumption), electrolysis could be used to generate the hydrogen, so it would be a net-zero solution, wouldn't it?

There's a rock climbing series I can only purchase and view on Vimeo.
So I can't figure out how to watch it on my Amazon FireStick.
Not surprisingly, Chromecast only seems to work with Youtube. I can't find a way to ChromeCast from Vimeo app. Despite their web support saying I should be able to do that, no ChromeCast icon appears in the lower right corner of the video.

We definitely need a standard for this with solid support. I can't believe in this day and age there are "dead ends" like this that just don't seem to work.

Indeed. Perfect is the enemy of good.

For a good exception to this go see Godzilla Minus One

I enjoyed it a ton and the Godzilla franchise has been around forever.

This 100%. My brother, wife & daughter use iPhones but I'm on Android. They've tried to send me photos and family videos over SMS/MMS and it's horrible. And they hate it when I say, "Send those to me over FB Messenger" or whatever. They just don't want to be bothered to have to think about it and take alternative actions accordingly.

Back in the late 80's we played AD&D but also Middle Earth Role Playing. I also had copies of MERP's "big brother", RoleMaster. Both were published by Iron Crown Enterprises, and MERP was essentially a pared down version of RoleMaster rules.

one of the best things about MERP/Rolemaster were critical hits as well as fumbles. Roll high enough and your attack does critical damage, and the crit tables were pretty fun. It was pretty cool to sometimes see a lowly hobbit take out an Uruk Hai with an arrow straight to the eye, or have a well cast lightning bolt spell completely fry the opponent's nervous system.

That seemed so much more enjoyable and realistic than just pummeling your enemy until they reach 0 HP.

And yet I can find nothing via Google about hidden surveillance.

Let's turn it around. How many Tesla batteries could be made from 5.3 billion cell phone batteries.
A quick Google search suggests there are 2-3 grams of Lithium in a cell phone battery, and 63kg of Lithium in a Tesla battery.

So doing the math:
(2 * 5.3billion) / 64000

= 168,254 Tesla batteries worth of Lithium in those 5.3 billion phones, just going by Lithium used, and being conservative about the amount in a cell battery.

You can't just wave a magic wand and say, "Let's use natural fibers!". What natural fibers, exactly? Cotton? Bamboo? Rayon? Merino Wool? These all have different characteristics than nylon, polyester, or polypropylene that make them less suitable for use in outdoor clothing and gear. I've seen absolutely zero natural fibers than can compare to 15 denier coated polyester for making ultralight tarps, or to ECOPAK UltraWeave for making lightweight backpacks.

The same goes for synthetic insulation (Primaloft, Climashield Apex, Polartec PowerFill, Thinsulate) vs the natural stuff (i.e. down). They've tried to make down perform better in challenging, damp conditions by spraying a bunch of DWR chemicals on it. It only works to a point, and then the DWR gives up and the down will still collapse and clump.

I was coming here to post the same thing. I remember seeing the episode. It was titled, "Nosedive".

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