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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:11PM (#41650852)
This particular LED not only emits light but works in reverse as well: it functions as an ambient light sensor. Recording is paused if the LED and camera inputs have a significant difference in detected light levels.
Re:Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse on Saturday August 31, 2024 @04:48PM (#41411833)
Perhaps they will come around occasionally and collect some of your grown food at gunpoint as a tax. What are you going to do, starve yourself to spite them?
Because NZ is a vassal state.
I don't understand this advice. Are you suggesting that if you make it easier for thieves to break into your car, they are less likely to damage it?
Re:Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:49PM (#39555650)
Money is __a__ objective not __the__ objective.
This is silly. No one can "make chips on their own" except for China/Taiwan. Even the US would be limited to manufacturing small quantities for military/research purposes that are several generations behind the state of the art. Consumer electronics would become a scarce commodity very quickly.
Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You Think on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:52PM (#39125301)
Goodest gentlesir, perhaps doth canst divine the answer from thine electronic oracle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

> are protected from the moment they leave your device

Eh plenty of wiggle room here

Re:Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:07PM (#38489150)
> whataboutism

Oooh, call him a conspiracy theorist next!

Looking at the first result (https://www.celebritynetworth.com/about-us/), they claim to:

> take into account known salaries, real estate holdings, divorce records, royalties, lawsuits, and endorsements. Our estimates incorporate a proprietary formula that removes estimated taxes, manager's fees, agent fees, and lifestyle expenses. The results are fact checked and confirmed by a team of editors and industry insiders.

No idea how truthful or accurate this is, but $20M does not seem unreasonable. Are there any better sources you know of?

Re:Cybertruck Launch on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:47AM (#38475702)
Cars that remain broken are safest of all!
The r*dditor trips over his shoelaces in excitement at an opportunity to "ACKshually"-post.
He seems to have a net worth of ~$20M.
Traditional fuels would also benefit from the cost savings of cheap renewable energy.
A 2024 toyota corolla is ~$22k.
Re:Show HN: GPT4 Vision for the Meta Glasses on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:05AM (#38460216)
These look like ordinary sunglasses while google glasses were akin to a dragonball z accessory.
Re:Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:17PM (#38441489)
If no law __enforcement__ occurs then yes, there are no repercussions.

How are laws enforced internationally?

What is missing?
Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:11PM (#38383695)
Sounds like you were rejected due to your snippy attitude.
Its almost certainly some RTOS like QNX.
Re:Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:24PM (#38194660)
The parent comment only claimed that the ads were deceptive (which they are), not that they are deceptive __like Google's__. That is entirely a straw man which you added to conveniently knock down.

Wikipedia ads are frequently phrased in a way to suggest that the funds are vital for keeping the site up when in reality, the majority of the funding goes to various social "justice" orgs.

https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633

I had not heard of this and was curious as to the context.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-organiza...

According to the NPR article, the SS has a $200 per-diem limit for hotel expenses and by staying with Trump at his hotel (where rooms run about $1k/night), exceeded this limit.

This raises the question: how do accommodations work for president's entourages when traveling? I have a hard time believing that they restrict themselves to Holiday Inn tier establishments. Hotel rooms in larger cities can easily run $500/night, especially on a short notice.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:03AM (#38129861)
Facilitation
Re:Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:44PM (#38076361)
You know what, maybe I did judge a book by its cover. Let's take a look a the next several sequential usages of "climate", no cherry picking!

> This is something the average climate activist doesn’t seem to understand. Even if we could stop climate change, our civilization would still have the problem of dwindling resources.

> To accomplish that, the damage we’ll do to the environment could potentially outweigh the damage done by climate change.

> If you don’t believe me, I’m going to quote a letter written by experts in Earth science and delivered to the United Kingdom’s Committee on Climate Change a few years ago.

> And unfortunately, climate change is making it harder to grow these trees. Droughts and floods are making them struggle to survive, and tapping too much of the sap (which is used to make rubber) can kill them. Plus, they are very vulnerable to white root disease, and climate change is making leaf blights like that more common.

...and its exactly what you would expect from the title.

Re:Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:53PM (#38073052)
tl;dr: ctrl+f "climate" => 67 results
Re:Ask HN: How hackable are the Meta smart glasses? on Saturday October 28, 2023 @04:46PM (#38053216)
No developer support at the moment.
Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:33PM (#37972338)
Sounds like the succinct answer here is "at gunpoint". Has this been tried before?
Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale on Friday October 20, 2023 @10:47AM (#37956851)
How do you imagine the "forcing" would happen, hypothetically speaking?
Ah, I see you're quoting the "every seat occupied, full load, with a trailer attached" weight. To be clear, the trucks you referenced weigh only ~7000 pounds.

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