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Why not give the user a choice? The last 3 games I’ve played all let me create my character. And now I think about it, I played as a girl in all 3.

I see more ads on Lemmy than I saw in Apollo.

Helium is a crypto based on LoRaWAN, which is essentially a wireless long-range low-bandwidth network designed for IoT devices. The idea is that helium coins/tokens are awarded to users based on how much traffic their node carries.

I have a ratio of >100 on one of my trackers. 10GbE Seedbox, lots of freeleach, a little cross-seeding, that’s all it takes.

Disney making it harder to buy their content.

I feel the high seas calling to me…

Saving this to use in the company WhatsApp.

I guess their love of punishing women for having sex is greater than their love of killing people who don’t have the exact same beliefs as them.

Then they shouldn’t have bid on it in the first place. Once you’ve been awarded something like this, it’s an embarrassing dick-move to back out.

The APS pay scale defines the salary of everyone working for the federal government. Your pay is determined by your level. Your level is (mostly) determined by how senior your are in the Organisational Chart, and the OrgChart basically shows how many people work under you. So the only way to earn more is to manage more people. This results in people who are highly skilled in a subject matter doing middle-management instead, because that’s what happens when you get promoted. It simply reinforces the Peter Principle, resulting in a hierarchy where no one is doing the job they are best suited to. In the APS, you can’t get to $100k without becoming a manager.

https://www.apsc.gov.au/remuneration-reports/australian-public-service-remuneration-report-2021/chapter-3-base-salary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Private companies don’t do that. If you’re very good at something, they can pay you well for it, they won’t force you to take on management just to get a raise. It means people can do what they’re best at, and you can attract and retain the best people to fill the roles you need.

I’ve worked with engineers on $200k+ working under a supervisor on $110k, because the engineer is highly skilled in a particular technology, while the supervisor was a graduate who got their MBA a couple of years after graduating and are working their way up the corporate ladder.

Government departments could build up internal teams of experts. (They already have this in technical fields where then Big 4 don’t have expertise.) But government pay is crap compared to these giant corporations, so the best will be scooped up by the private sector while the less impressive employees stay employed for life in government.

To make it work would require a different system to what the government has now. A system with merit-based remuneration and much simpler hiring-and-firing.

(I say this as someone who originally worked for the government, then moved to the private sector.)

Link?

TACC, AEB, FCW, LA and a bunch of other aspects of Autopilot are all tested, and have done extremely well.

IIHS have probably the most stringent testing in the world, and they ranked the Model 3 the safest car ever tested. The Model Y was the second safest car ever tested.

Business Insider is notoriously anti-Tesla. The German company who owns BI is a large stakeholder in Porsche’s EV division. And their articles on German luxury vehicles are basically adverts. They literally have articles criticising Tesla for having video games in the car, then have articles talking about how innovative BMW is for putting video games in their cars.

This article went on for about 20 paragraphs just casting aspersions, and never once compared the numbers to any other manufacturer - making it all meaningless.

There's also the fact the batteries they use can spontaneously catch fire (properly known as thermal runaway).

Thermal runaway is not spontaneous. It requires sustained heating, which is typically caused by serious damage. So yes, lithium batteries can catch fire after a crash. But do you know what else catches first after a crash - ICE powered cars (at a rate 10x higher than EVs). And ICE cars are FAR more dangerous, because unlike an EV that burns slowly for hours, an exploding gas tank releases its energy in an instant. Ask a firefighter what’s more dangerous.

There is a Li-Ion battery technology much less prone to thermal runaway (LiFePO4) and some cars use it. It's greatly safer and has about five times greater battery longevity, but it's also about twenty percent heavier. I think it's a fair trade-off to avoid a fiery death.

Most Teslas use LiFePO4 (commonly called LFP) batteries. Most other manufactures still use NMC barriers. Both are far safer than the explosive dinosaur juice that ICE vehicles run on.

The systems running your power grid, your water mains and your local trains are all XP or older.

Where does Elon Musk admit it? All I could see was a mastodon post to an editorial…

I am at a loss for words. Brilliant.

Damn, doesn’t seem to work for me. Might be a wefwef thing?

If you knew about this square before seeing the film TENET, :::the twist would have been far less surprising.:::

Edit: how do we do spoiler tags on Lemmy?

The buffer is flushed every 6 seconds. OP was pulling down 44GB/7200sec = 6MB/s. OP would have only lost 36MB to disk caching.

If it was a single 44GB file and OP turned off less than 6 seconds after it finished, then it could have been caching. But that’s very unlikely.