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Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

He/him. 🇺🇲

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Did Karma get a speed update? Lessgo!

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Long ago "drive" meant urging an animal to move forward. And "dialing" a phone number meant entering the "digits" by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

Words aren't as static as you seem to think.

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So use that vehicle in austere places, and don't park it in Paris (or any other city).

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BYD has a factory in California where they make electric buses and commercial trucks.

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I think ebike, scooter, etc. usage will increase even more if we mod infrastructure to be safer for everyone.

Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C) (www.okdoomer.io)

It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep....

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A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

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Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

What level is considered safe?

Asking for a friend.

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I didn't read it, but my first thought was they trained it to associate speech patterns with wealth and/or education, which correlates with diabetes for all the usually reasons in the US health non-care system.

Edit: I'm probably wrong:

The scientists analysed more than 18,000 recordings and 14 acoustic features for differences between those who had diabetes and those who did not.

They looked at a number of vocal features, like changes in pitch and intensity that cannot be perceived by the human ear.

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I'm going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak...

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I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I'm not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.

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Someone here is seeing this xkcd for the first time just now...

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Maybe make the fines scale with the mass instead of linear size.

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I want a city builder where you start with a super dense car-ridden city and you have the challenge to build in green spaces and public transit and stuff to increase the happiness of the residents.

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@rooster hard mode is called "NIMBY knightmare"

Suburbanites Baffled By Person Outdoors Who Isn’t Delivering Something (The Onion) (www.theonion.com)

SUGAR LAND, TX—Confused by the man outside who was not wearing a UPS uniform or carrying a package of any kind, local suburbanites expressed bafflement Thursday when they looked out their front windows and saw a person walk by who wasn’t delivering anything. “Huh, our Amazon orders already came today, so what’s this guy...

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"Hi!" the automation greeted the man on the sidewalk. "You are being recorded!"

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Please join the livestream comments for deep insights and civil discourse.

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Wait comma did you dictate this comment?

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If there was only some governing entity that would prioritize the good of the whole community instead of selfish interests.

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I'm sure some lawyers made/will make some serious money.

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It's probably 10 miles to Walmart, and many other daily or weekly destinations are spread out in your town.

If folks need a car for just a few basic things, then they are much more likely to use that car for all of the things.

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They probably get to save money because detention areas need not be air conditioned in Texas.

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Sorry, I tried! It took me several tries to find a way to download the vid, and when I tried posting I saw this:

We are working on resolving the issues

Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time.

Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones (www.vice.com)

“The group got the idea for the conings by chance. The person claims a few of them walking together one night saw a cone on the hood of an AV, which appeared disabled. They weren’t sure at the time which came first; perhaps someone had placed the cone on the AV’s hood to signify it was disabled rather than the other way...

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If you don't have a cone available, maybe a bit of tape on a sensor window?

I haven't tested this.

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Starfury has a special place in my heart.

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Sad that the rover hasn't woken up yet this season. I hope it does.

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No manufacturers can make a dishwasher that lasts 18 months anymore. And they don't make replacement parts. I'm not in any hurry to add another hunk of electronic junk to my home.

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Deep in both noseholes you say?

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Only two pieces?

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When I work at military facilities in the US, they use wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) which adds the heating effect of direct sunlight.

We use it to prevent heat stroke. DoD has a system of colored flags that index to the WBGT. Red and black flags indicate that folks working outside need to take breaks at some increased frequency.

WBGT

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Good news!

Thank you Brazil.

How many people here have actually used XMPP?

With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...

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I knew XMPP as Jabber, and I remember being delighted when I tested messages between my Jabber accounts and my Gmail account.

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I think it's a different thing. For me, my expectation is that Threads/Meta connecting to Fediverse is more like when AOL connected to IRC (specifically EFnet) in the 90s. I wasn't really into Usenet, but Eternal September was pretty much the same wave. AOL pushed hard in advertising and recruiting users, and IRC and Usenet were originally populated with people who got into it more organically.

I don't remember Jabber or XMPP having any kind of discovery system. I only ever talked to people who knew already. So when Google connected Talk, it was just added convenience. I wasn't bombarded with rude idiots like the AOL invasion of IRC. When Google ended XMPP support, I was disappointed, but I continued using XMPP with my friends.

I think Meta is spending a ton on promoting Threads, and it's going to bring in a lot of people with different values. It's going to be unpleasant for me, but I think that's just the self-similar fractal that is the Internet.

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VAX.

(pun for "facts")

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I'm curious who books the Coliseum and for what events. Is it available for weddings?

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This. I think every culture has beauty standards, and some of them inspire a lot of people to do pretty drastic procedures. It's pretty mainstream in America to covet straight, gleaming white teeth.

I'm guessing there's some long history of orthodontics in USA that intersects with phrenology, marketing to people's low self-esteem, and piggy-backing on government and orgs' campaigns for dental health (extrapolating from medical necessity to aesthetics.)

Also I think there's a weird thing where parents are paying for braces for their kids. Notionally parents want their kids to be confident, but I also sense an undercurrent of social signalling of wealth and status, along the lines of putting solar panels on the north roof of the house if that's where the neighbors will see them.

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Suddenly I'm recalling memories of AOL users showing up on EFnet IRC chats around 1996...

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Yeah, pics or it didn't happen!

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Are ants in Ukraine aware that Russia MOD is the second-best army in Russia?

I don't think humans can comprehend technology a billion years more advanced than ours.

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"I'll pick you up at 3:00 by the phonebooths at the mall."

You must be at least this old to appreciate this shower thought.

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I don't have an EV, and my experience trying to charge rentals has been miserable. There is a lot of room for improvement.

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Lol, 'exoticism'

I love using big words I don't understand in order to sound more photosynthesis.

Kbin doesn't respect my subscription feed anymore or I don't understand it. (kbin.social)

A few days ago when I was using /sub I only saw the magazines that I subscribed to. This seems like the intended behavior. But now I see threads from all kinds of magazines plus the ones subscribed under /sub. How can I hide the magazines I am not subscribed to from the subscribed threads view?...

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Glad you figured it out. I was seeing the same thing, but I realized I had followed the people posting the threads.

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In the area of stability and control, rockets are much simpler to understand than bikes.

Plenty of other challenges with rockets.

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