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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This is the actual problem with these types of retirement plans, though. People are expected to know a lot about managing the investments themselves. There's a whole industry whose job it is to give you bad advice. The real advice is "drop it in a mix of an sp500 index fund it and bonds according to your risk level" and the rest is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It was a bad take. Intel has not been using TSMC long.

That said, it's pretty broadly agreed that Intel needs to toss its manufacturing arm into a subsidiary, and then possibly make that subsidiary completely independent. That's what AMD did with Global Foundries, and it worked very well for them. This process seems to have already started at Intel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's funny to see Godzilla in weird contexts.

No, I don't think that's a particularly good reason for it all, either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't be my first choice, but it'll probably do the job. Depends on what you want to do with it. There's fewer people choosing this path, which means that when things go wrong, you'll have fewer sources of information to help.

Some old Dell office PC with a good amount of RAM and an SSD would be just as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The cameras alone should be able to see IR. There's filters over most digital cameras to prevent that, but no reason to do it here.

Tesla is just advertising technology that isn't ready, and people are dying as a result.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You must have been working with the Redditors who told me that avoiding the use of JavaScript's eval() to parse JSON was a false sense of security.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're aware Linux basically runs the Internet, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Did I fall into a 1999 Slashdot comment section somehow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[citation needed]^/s^

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

When drinking with Zefram Cochrane, Deanna Troi had no idea what tequila was. She went to Star Fleet Academy in San Fransisco, and even without warp drive and transporters, that's not far from the major agave growing regions on Earth. Cadets gonna drink whenever they have the chance, and they'll seek out non-synthehol stuff if they can.

Agave isn't being farmed sustainably right now. It could also have been hit hard by Star Trek's WWIII. It's possible agave didn't survive into the 22nd century. Zef may have even been going through the last bottles of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, that's correct. Fuel cell efficiency is over 60%. The best gasoline ICE is around 50%, and hydrogen isn't going to be much better.

The problem becomes especially apparent when you stack the end to end efficiency together. Grid -> battery for battery EVs, and grid -> electrolysis -> fuel cell for hydrogen. There's a couple of different ways to run these numbers (are you using 120VAC or 240VAC or DC, for example), but when using like-for-like comparisons as much as you can, batteries tend to win at efficiency by a lot. Running hydrogen through an ICE is only going to make its biggest flaw even worse.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f0d42f16639a745affd633e/t/613226c869673e5e75509ffb/1630676682830/Why-Battery-Electric-Vehicles-Beat-Hydrogen-Electric-Vehicles.jpeg

Edit: there is a recent breakthrough in fuel cell efficiency that might put it on par with batteries. Note that even if it works in production cars, a fuel cell would be turning an electric motor, not an ICE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISuUlc8widc

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I put a bike on a trunk rack on the back of our Toyota. It thought a bike was behind the car and kept slamming on the brakes while trying to back out of the driveway.

Then there's the lane assist that jerks the wheel while going through construction zones, because the lines on the road don't match up with where you need to be.

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