I’ve seen this kind of post a few times. If I survived a near-death experience, you bet I’d be glued to my phone telling everyone I was ok as soon as I could.

Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.

Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.

Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.

Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.

Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it’ll taste great in the morning.

It DOES NOT matter if it’s done with 3 feet to merge or 300 feet to merge. There’s no efficiency gain.

Merging early leaves unused road. Shoving the cars into fewer lanes makes the traffic jam longer and makes it impact more interesections far behind the actual hangup. If you can merge early without slowing down, sure go for it. I’m mostly talking about the scenarios where it’s already slowed to a crawl and people feel like they have to merge early to not be seen as “cutting in line.”

Edit, also to add, if everyone merges early even at speed, eventually, the car density in the reduced lanes will reach a point where people naturally slow down and you have bumper to bumper traffic.

I suggest Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt for more.

Zipper merging.

If your lane is closing ahead, it is better for everyone in traffic if you drive all the way to the end of the lane and cut in at the last moment.

Note that this does not apply to exit lanes. The basic rule is if late merging blocks someone from going somewhere, merge early. Otherwise, merge as late as you can.

I want everyone to realize that the only reason AI seems intelligent is because it speaks English.

It’s definitely the worst of all of them. Zero redeeming features.

My wife got me a bottle of Da Bomb as a joke for Valentine’s and I’ve been working through that for over a year.

It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

DVDs have copy protection.

It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.

You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.

However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit the restrictions allowed by the copyright owner’s reproduction right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.

Ripping a DVD I own to my hard drive for my personal use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression

For sure. Given that public roads are the most horrendously undertaxed public resources out there, it’s especially irritating when folks go out of their way to use them in the most self serving fashion imaginable.

Private tracks exist. They don’t mind engine noise.

Yet they always wear dark colors. Hmm…

I drive electric, so…yes?

There are ways to enjoy cars off public roads and away from private residences.

How well does that work? I ask because I’m using the medium model which eats up 5 gigs of VRAM.

One thing to note that I just learned!

If you rsync over a network, you need to be careful. While you might sude rsync -a to maintain file ownership on the sending side, the receiving side will not be a superuser and therefore will be unable to make files owned by other users.

If you add "–rsync-path “sudo rsync” in the ssh version of the command, it’ll tell the receiving side to use sudo which will allow it to maintain file ownership when storing the files.

Their first name is “Mr.”