AlternateRoute @ AlternateRoute @lemmy.ca

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I like self checkout as an option, almost everywhere.

I DON'T like REQUIRED self checkout.

Skydiving / wing suits look cool but I don’t see myself willingly jumping from a plane in real life.

I use the default app or the Environment Canada app, which is specific to Canada.

Among other features it can be a good discord alternative

QuantumScape has been expected to produce something for a long time now, it isn't new, the article didn't mention timelines or production.

They where supposed to go intro production mid this year / next

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/09/quantumscape-plans-1-gigawatt-hour-battery-plant-in-2024.html

Till we see them rolling off the factory line it is just vapor .

The new hub requirement seems very odd, the newer hub I believe supports thread so maybe these are not zigbee devices but thread devices.

Wait list for the EV9 is already over a year and it just became “available” in Canada.

2010 investigating solid state

2013 mentions working on solid state

2017 ETA commercialize by Early 2020s

2019 Will establish a joint venture with Panasonic by 2020 no ETA on batteries

2023 June commercialization in 2027-2028

2023 Oct ETA still 2027-28

Note that further interviews state: limited production starts in 2027 The 745 and 10 min charging are worded as "could enable" IE will NOT be in the 2027-28 initial release.

They also plan to introduce it in hybrids first.

Save you a click, the company they purchased them from went bankrupt.

Proterra, the American company the city purchased the electric buses from between 2019-2022, is in Chapter 11 filing for bankruptcy protection. Edmonton’s on a list of creditors, seeking $1.3 million and fulfillment of service and warrantie

TIL Flipboard still exists.. I stopped using it many years ago.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus_(1985_film)

• Classic Rankin/Bass's stop motion like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Santa
• Elves
• Toys
• Flying reindeer

also

• Immortals
• Wood Nymph's
• Evil invisible creatures called the Awgwas

X claimed Media Matters “manipulated” the social media platform by using accounts that exclusively followed accounts for major brands or users known to produce fringe content and “resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing” the feed until it found ads next to extremist posts.

Media Matters’ report misrepresented the typical experience on X “with the intention of harming X and its business”, the company said in the lawsuit.

The alleged manipulation involved creating an account that exclusively followed a combination of major brands and extremist content, then “endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed” until it saw a confluence of the two.

That policy would impact lawyers, doctors and movie/music stars mostly... Musk, Bezos don't get paid that much, they get paid in stock. When they borrow billions against that stock it counts as debt and don't get taxed.

If I hand someone a set of bullet notes and ask them to send out a notice in writing to the company. They are going to convert those notes into paragraphs and sentences.. Not just send out the notes.

Also MS already has a module for teams that will take the conversation transcript, and output action items based on the conversation.. It is like having a note taker during the meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1gpkk-MwpY

Idk why the clickbait-y title

It is a direct jab at all of the , exploded, failure, etc headlines that made it sound like this test wasn't highly successful.

This was one of the expected results, SpaceX doesn't try to get it perfect, they test for failures till it works rapidly.

Just like the executives assist that was tasked with scanning documents. And LLM can likely safely and quickly do many people tasks:

• summarize meeting transcripts
• highlight nest steps
• take an auto line and some data and turn it into words

There are a lot of human language job tasks that have zero imagination required just the ability to read summarize and write some proper English.

Robots / automation have replaced so many human physical labor jobs, even large dumb heavy machinery.

Language models replacing mundane human language tasks is hardly surprising.

I have replaced entire employee jobs with scrips / code, there are a lot of very basic jobs out there.

Ya we need to ask it to make something NEW, not something that probably is in every language programing book of examples that the model was trained on.

• Housing affordability is BAD, but if you avoid the major cities (Vancouver/Montreal/Toronto) it is not as bad
• Many will point out our health care systems is all backed up especially after covid, but if you need urgent care it is there and will not bankrupt you like in the US.
• Most of Canada is COLD in the winter, doing some googling the ONLY place in Canada as MILD as your weather is the west coast near Vancouver (expensive cost of living).
• Canada is MASSIVE https://www.thetruesize.com/ All of Ukraine is about the size of one of our Provinces.
• Canada has a lot of diversity, each Province has a bit of a different personality and mix of cultures.
• Lots of open beautiful places to explore if you venture out.
• Flying domestically across canada is quite expensive, again it is huge.
• Population density is actually quite low over all, we have lots of open space.