It depends on the type of smart glass.

• Electrochromic: stays whatever it was
• Polymer dispersed liquid crystals: goes opaque
• Suspended particles: half way opaque
• Micro-blinds: transparent

For this application polymer dispersed liquid crystals seems wise, lol.

I hadn’t heard of that, looks really good!

Like every other Ferrari? The only bit that looks like a Ferrari is the badge!

Yeah, I got a pair that claimed bone conduction, but just has little speakers that play into the air. Can hear them just as well holding them next to your head as wearing them. Didn’t try them under water, they have little speaker holes. They work as emergency backups.

Some of the cheap ones aren’t real bone conduction. After a fake pair I bought a pair of Shokz, wear them in the shower all the time, usually after getting them (and myself) sweaty.

Electric is obviously a better way to go, but he used effort and things he already had because he couldn’t he couldn’t afford to fill up his minivan. I recently was shopping for an EV, looked for used ones online and sorted by price, the cheapest one within 100 miles was over $12k. Even an electric bicycle is a few hundred dollars minimum, and it won’t have any more utility than what he built for free. He might be wishing to get away from gas, but just not have a real option.

It said he started with a go-kart frame, looks like it has rubber wheels on a steel rim. He just put the toy body on the go kart for fun. Well, and to have a roof rack, haha.

I reserved one a minute before the posted go live time, got to order it Monday and it is arriving tomorrow.

I saw someone suggest taxing tires instead of gas, which does seem more equitable, but it would be a big hit on an already expensive purchase.

That’s true too, but the impact will be very very local. Really, we just need to have fewer data centers, but at least by putting them in the ocean we are only impactfully warming probably less than 300 cubic meters of water instead of an entire neighborhood, or depleting groundwater to cool the damn things. Seems like the least harmful way to cool them, if we’re going to have them.

That’s true, but water is so much more effective at absorbing heat than air, the effect will be negligible. It takes about 4.2 megajoules to raise one cubic meter of water 1 degree C. That energy would raise over 3 cubic KILOMETERS of air 1 degree C.

Even putting data centers at the bottom of large lakes would be unlikely to have an effect. It will not be percetable in the ocean. Regarding temperature anyway, other factors are worth considering.

Do this if you have LiFePO4 batteries, definitely. But for regular lithium ion, it’s best not to let it get below around 40% and to pull it off at around 85% or so. It won’t be a huge difference if you discharge it deeper because you need the range, but most damage happens when the battery is charging when mostly empty or almost full. As opposed to LiFeP04 batteries that do prefer being fully charged and nearly fully discharged, to the point that you should be careful to put them on the charger periodically (but don’t leave them plugged in) over winter if you live somewhere the weather prohibits bike use then. Sitting empty for long periods is significantly harmful to them.

Back when my wife and i were dating I kept talking about wanting a skeleton watch, but I never thought to communicate what that was, and didn’t know why she was always so profoundly unenthused by something I was showing interest in, it was unlike her. She was much happier about it when my folks got me one for x-mas and she found out it it was not, in fact, a watch decorated with skeletons, lmao.

There is such a disconnect with people not being able to understand/remember this inherit limitation. LLMs talk like a thinking entity, so even if they have been told it is not one and believe it, they revert back to thinking of it as one.

Developers could do an update that makes their app unusable and explains why.

By corporate searches, I think they mean searches for work.

I don’t spend much discretionary income on stuff I search, that amount of advertising/SEO would be almost entirely wasted on my personal life. But my work related searches are very different, products and services I use for work projects add up to much more than I make in a year. I mostly use DDG though, fuck Google.

And it will always, always, be abused by every group with access.

I mean, what car would that be? I saw a report last year, all 25 manufacturers they looked at were doing this shit. It’s not a US only problem.

I used to bartend and had to clean bathrooms after close. Can confirm, the women’s bathroom took longer to clean.

The fact they made the whole thing flesh colored and not just the head makes it so much worse somehow…