Comment Re:Not only that (Score 1) 153
Fear not! If something goes wrong you can just drive it with a Logitech wireless gamepad!
Comment Re: They're obsolete. (Score 1) 238
First gen Honda Insight, first gen Civic Hybrid, and the CR-Z
Comment Re: Just as useful to ask: (Score 1) 244
Comment Re: I've seen this movie (Score 1) 163
Also features strongly in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga
Comment Re:Sam Altman's response (Score 1) 50
Easy: generate random noise in an 8k mpeg2 file.
Done in as much time as it takes to write
Comment Re:over-priced hot garbage (Score 1) 41
May his yacht be eaten by orcas as he tries to sail off into the sunset.
Comment Re: i want my tap to pay! (Score 2) 46
My daughter has an electric toothbrush. There's an app for it that supposedly makes brushing your teeth a fun game and she wanted to try it. So I grabbed an old OnePlus running LineageOS from the drawer and installed it for her.
On load "this device doesn't meet blah blah security standards..."
WTF
Comment Re: An old trick (Score 1) 80
1000-fold "100 times the brightness of the full moon" gets you to about 1/4 the brightness of the regular moon day sun. So... not much of a death ray, there.
Comment Re: Leave it to the humans to bang rocks together (Score 1) 54
The smallest fissile bomb weighed about 51lbs and yielded 20kt. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... (DART impact was about 3kt).
I expect you could find room in the weight budget in the 1340lb DART for that by cutting some of the secondary stuff (liciacube on its own was 31lbs).
Comment Re: Not the most compelling cars (Score 1) 74
I wish they would sell it in the US, but even a $38k base price car is too cheap for us, per the article
Comment Re: Clarity (Score 2) 47
Also, (58/1,300,000)*100 is 0.004%
Comment Re: Obvious merge with Tesla or SpaceX (Score 1) 29
But first he'll rename it "Xpay" or something with X in it because X is coolest letter.
Comment Re: Glad it's being recycled (Score 1) 32
Maybe knowledge of the motivation that got the right thing done here might be used in the future to ensure the right thing continues to be done?
Comment Re: all I want to know (Score 1) 42
Ugh. KDE 4.0. Don't remind me of that turd.