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Comment Android Auto doesnt work for me (Score 1) 209

It at some point worked briefly, but for the vast majority of the time ive had my car, it either gets stuck in the car telling me to do something in the phone at the same time the phone says to do something in the car, or the phone just isnt recognized at all. I gave up trying some time ago.

At least the phone still charges from the car usb...

Comment Re:The BBC (Score 1) 54

It has changed notably in the last decade or so.

At this point, it's basically nearly completely corporately a tory mouthpiece.

There are individual presenters who have a different view, but this doens't help that much when (for example) the chairman of the BBC gave the PM a very large loan shortly before being appointed.

Comment This kinda misses the point. (Score 1) 2

If I do not understand at all what a bear or a stick is, and read enough fiction (for example) describing bears and sticks interacting with the universe, I can come to understand what a bear and a stick is.

There are many things in the world that I have a somewhat working familiarity with that I have only interacted with through third party descriptions of them in textual form.

This neglects the intersection also of labelled image interpretation by stable diffusion and descendants and its impact on image recognition.

Comment Well, yes, but also (Score 4, Interesting) 41

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25592-emit-spots-methane-hotspots states the hotspots found are emitting in the range of 50 tons/hr in turkmenistan.

Emissions from farming are in the range of 145Tg (teragrams/year). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.0451

This is 145 million tons/year, or 400000 tons per day. Or 16000 tons/hour.

50 tons an hour for the worst global hotspot is not nothing, but it is about a part in 300. Fixing these point emitter sources is important, but not remotely going to fix anything.

Comment Re:Patent troll (Score 1) 36

The problem is the patent system was intended originally not to be a way to get people rich, by being first to happen to think of something, but to protect truly innovative designs that took a significant amount of effort to do.

At the moment, nearly all patents are obvious in how to make them faced with the problem statement.

That is - a skilled person in the field can concieve the patented solution to the patent problems statement in considerably less time than it takes to do a full patent search to find this solution.

Comment Re:Yes, stupid. (Score 1) 147

Automation is capital expensive is somewhat capped out as a possibility by the existance of Teslas more automated lines and their volumes.

In that if you're doing 1.5* production a year, and do not have a massive debt burden, ...

I note https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWYk4DdT_E This is a teardown of the Tesla 3/y and looking at the changes over 5 years.

120 parts to one.

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