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  • It wasn't a fine, it was compensation to the victim for the pain and medical costs she was caused, which don't exactly change depending on how rich the perpetrator is. If Elon Musk kicks you in the shin and breaks it, it hurts and costs just as much as if it was done by a homeless person.

    He should have also gotten a hefty fine and jail time as a punishment for the crime he committed though, but this was a civil case, not a criminal one for some - probably Irish - reason.

  • Prius. Teslas are way too large and heavy for my tastes.
    Though preferably I'd swap my VW Up to an electric one, they were too expensive back when I got mine.

    As for the acceleration figure, I took it from this review:

    We haven’t tested a standard Tesla Model S for some time, but a 2020 model that we ran through our instrumented test regimen reached 60 mph in a blistering 2.4 seconds. You can expect roughly similar performance from the current standard Model S today. The gonzo Plaid version, which boasts a third electric motor and 1020 horsepower, reached 60 mph in just 2.1 seconds in our testing.

  • The systemic reason might just simply be "They were the kind of a person that would buy a Tesla".
    If I wanted to buy a safe car to drive responsibly while respecting all the traffic rules, an EV with almost a thousand horses with a 0-60 time of 2.1-2.4 seconds wouldn't exactly be my first choice.

  • The data is by "Fatal Accident Rate (Cars per Billion Vehicle Miles)", Model Y having 10.6, Model S having 5.8. Ignoring Model 3, the average would be 8.2. Back in 2023 Tesla tweeted "Total miles driven by the Tesla fleet has exceeded 100 billion miles globally—equal to 532 round trips to the sun!"
    So that math says 820 fatal accidents, Tesladeaths reports 614. I'd say the numbers seem close enough?

  • great for watching videos

    ...how, exactly? Other than the models that fold like an old clamshell, none of the phones I've seen make the screen wider, they just make it square. But in either case, you would have the exact same screen size with a normal phone, it would just the half the thickness and wouldn't have a seam down the middle. I guess if you a connoisseur of old 4:3 TV shows it could be nice.

  • "discard changes" button - the 5000 "new file created" changes, specifically.

  • Niiden pitää laittaa fediverse sharing päälle (jos se edes on Suomessa mahdollista, jossain vaiheessa oli US/UK only), ja sinun Mastodon instanssin pitää ylipäätään olla yhteydessä Threadsiin, aika moni on sen blokannut.

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  • Well, no faults that would be dangerous.
    Olkiluoto 3 specifically though is basically a glorified prototype and has had many issues with the massive turbines. Last time they said they've installed the last spare and had no timeline when the next would arrive, as it's a unique part for this reactor only with leadtimes in months. If it breaks again, who knows when it will be able to start back up.

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  • It was built by Areva and Siemens. Reactor itself was built by Japan Steelworks and Mitsubishi.

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  • Anything you can find on Temu you could get from Ali, and usually even a bit cheaper, Temu just adds a predatory interface and false marketing on top of it, and people who have no experience with what Chinese manufacturing actually costs think it's miraculous.

    It isn't, I've been buying this same stuff for almost two decades from sites like DealExpess, BangGood, Gearbest and then just straight from AliExpress. Temu is just the first to properly break through with the advertising. Because it's mostly just bullshit.

  • Even without machine translation, stuff like that has been the bane of translating software for ages as they are almost always done with absolutely zero context whatsoever, just a list of words and strings.

    Can't see any reasons why that might be difficult.

  • For the consumer, obviously.
    Patents exist to protect the profit of the inventor, specifically because once you have spent the RnD money to make something, someone else can take your finished idea and create your thing without having to cover those costs. Their entire point is to make sure stuff stays more expensive and exclusive for longer.

    But the issue isn't that patents or even software patents exist as a thing, they are important to protect against copying, it's that seemingly almost anything no matter how simple, vague or universal it is can apply and get patented, and whoever owns those patents then doesn't have to use or license them, instead they just sit on them waiting to strike with a lawsuit.

    Like one of the Nintendo ones which is the genius and detailed idea of "you can capture objects and ride them in a virtual world using the controller input in a vidya gaym!" - a concept entire unique and one that hasn't been ever used before in a game, now prohibited to be done by anyone else until 2041.

  • Ah, now when South Korea attacks the peaceful North, they can rest easy as the military might of Russia, the world's strongest and most advanced military, swiftly rushes to the aid of the poor and ill-equipped North with countless troops, modern weapons, equipment and endless supply of ammo, and saves the day!

    ...what do you mean Russia is currently using North Korean equipment and troops as reinforcements after running low of their own...?

  • PLA is considered non-toxic by itself already.

    And while the biodegradability/compostability is indeed rather circumstantial, the much more important part is that it's a renewable, plant based plastic. Currently the most useful way to get rid of it is to incinerate it for energy, which ends up being rather carbon neutral as it just releases the carbon the plant material used for growing itself.

  • Exactly. You'd need 28.9km/s of Delta V to get something from the earth to the sun, because your starting velocity is the 107000km/h of the earth and you have to slow down that much.
    Instead it takes only 2.9km/s to send Musk to mars and make him fullfil his promise of humans on mars by 2024 (well, he won't arrive this year as the trip takes 8 months, but we could forgive him that)

  • You are correct in the proper extension support part. Until recently FF Android only supported a handful of selected addons made specifically for it.
    uBlock Origin however has been one of those for almost a decade now.
    I'm sorry you have been suffering ads all this time.

  • What type of a spool holder you have in the dryer? It might be a good idea to get some bearings in there to help the spool spin as freely as possible.