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The increased weight due to the battery is the bigger issue for wear on tires. A lot of EVs weigh a good 500kg more than their ICE counterparts.

I think bigger issue is torque. EVs have lot more torque and it is easier to use, so they can slip more often which then leads to wear.

My understanding is that the torque control speed is much faster though, so it's actually difficult to get the tires to slip. I can't screech my tires in my EV, but it'll do 0-60 ridiculously fast.

If charging at home.

Bring in fast chargers or a lot of the commercial offerings into the mix and you're looking at .6 per kWh. Never mind the subscription/account bullshit a lot of companies are doing.

Regardless of that, I would still only ever buy an EV when I get a new car.


I generally disagree with your stance (though I respect it as your opinion) and would like to offer you a different view on this. It might take a bit to explain my point so please bear with me.

Using AI for creative purposes, specifically ones where the creative input is the goal, is one usage of AI that I strongly dislike. Art has always been seen and used to express something. It could be emotions, it could be a perspective, it could be a political opinion, or something entirely different. Every person doing art has an intention behind their performance. The intent may not even always be obvious to the artist, and sometimes the intent is money, but its there nonetheless. The end result of that intent can also be good or bad art.

For me it doesn't really matter what the thought behind a specific piece of art is, as long as there was one. I may not like a specific piece of art or even the intention behind it, but I also don't have to. I may not even understand a specific piece but that's also fine.

With AI, there is no intent. The AI isn't thinking. It doesn't know why a pixel was placed where it was placed, its just going off an algorithm and data that it was trained on. There was no idea, no thought, behind it.

The person prompting the AI is not the artist. They are not the creator and no matter how much work they put into the prompt, the result is not their creation. AI is not a tool in the traditional sense of how we might view a hammer or a camera, its an executor. If I were to go to Fiverr and tell a person to create an image for me, would you consider me the creator of that image? I wouldn't and I think most other people wouldn't either. The process of commissioning an image on the platform might even be exactly the same. You form a prompt, send a message to an artist, get a result, ask for refinement until you're satisfied with the result.


> The person prompting the AI is not the artist.

I don't think that the parent comment argued that they are, but okay.

> If I were to go to Fiverr and tell a person to create an image for me, would you consider me the creator of that image?

Can you consider a movie director to be the creator of a movie? They are just telling other people what to do.


> I don't think that the parent comment argued that they are, but okay.

I think they did. They specifically said how a new tool is available and putting things into reach for people that previously wasn't. In the context about creating art, that reads to me like they do mean that prompters are considered the creators.

> Can you consider a movie director to be the creator of a movie? They are just telling other people what to do.

If the "only" thing the director is doing, in the most literal sense, is directing then no, I don't.

I'm not an expert in media production though but from the sparse amount of interviews I have seen a lot also write the scripts and are involved in a lot more than just directing.

I think ultimately this is just something we disagree on :)


Do you consider a director of a film a creator?

If the "only" thing the director is doing, in the most literal sense, is directing then no, I don't.

I'm not an expert in media production though but from the sparse amount of interviews I have seen a lot also write the scripts and are involved in a lot more than just directing.


I get 80mb for reddit on firefox.

That number can be down to any number of different factors on reddit itself. Having an autoplay video running, etc.


Firefox often groups tabs from the same site into one process. With large numbers of the same tabs open in both, check the total memory for all firefox processes and all firefox processes. You will likely find firefox actually uses less memory than chrome.


The endless excuses and lies.

It was the same page, both on old.


> whenever a team is trying "agile" in some way but hate it AND are given the choice, they drop it ASAP

Isnt that in itself "agile"? And I specifically dont mean following a religous ceremony plan etc but recognizing that a part of their process isnt working and then changing it. To me thats the entire point of actual agile. You try a process, it doesnt work, you analyze, and adapt.


> is it really that hard to just change the native alarm by a minute for someone that was interested in this?

Not OP. In theory? No. Takes a second to change it. To be quite honest, its yet another thing to keep track off and do. I know, for myself, I would remember to do it for a few days and then forget.

Its a tiny thing but the more I can outsource the better. My brain is occupied with enough other stuff.


Makes sense there is a divide in how people like to enact changes like this. For me, the mental shift of using yet another app would be more of a headache than just doing it manually in the native app. I've been using the native app for almost 2 decades, have some solid muscle memory through fumbling around with it late at night and early in morning during partial stages of sleep. Learning a new app, changing my muscle memory, honestly just opening it instead of the native app when thinking about alarm will be a big hurdle that I'm not taking on unless this app added more than a minor convenience.

Then there's the problem of discovery, if I wanted to do this, it's so easy I would just do it, manually, with native app. It's such a minor problem, I'd never even look for other solutions.


Most movies and tv shows are available for similar prices on blue rays, often in 4k versions.

While the resolution may be higher on streaming, the bitrate is often significantly worse. Beyond that Netflix has done upscaling in the past with middling success.

Nevermind the horrendous AI upscaling they tried last year. https://futurism.com/netflix-ai-upscaling-old-shows-horrific


I’ve noticed that a lot of newer releases, particularly TV shows, are not getting Blu-ray releases.


I loved the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 slide mechanism.

The front camera was hidden and you would slide the back up to expose it. Was not motorized and functioned using magnets. Very similar to what old dumb phones used. Super reliable and easy to use.


Why not purchase used then? 66% discount for a mint condition sounds like a steal.


That is what brought some interest, but at the same time there are no steals in farming. Although in the end it was largely technical. The M7 wasn't enough frame for my needs, but I didn't really need the HP of the M8 (which is actually a Versatile anyway). Other manufacturers offer models that more closely align with my requirements.


Fines like these are simply considered Cost of Doing Business. Part of the reason why I love the GDPR fine structure so much (percentage base).

It has to hurt.


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