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  • The Trick To Stop Speeding Drivers Is Actually More Green Lights

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  • engineers who set up the timing cycles

    The engineers who set up the timing cycles in my DOT planning department set the cycles to run over the speed limit intentionally to get more cars per hour through the same roadway compared with moving them slower. Accident statistics were equivocal - similar accident rates at or +10 above the speed limit, but that is a politically charged statement, so you don't say it loudly.

  • LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

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  • I've been pretty shocked at the "non technical people" who just walk up to our Linux box TV setup, fire up Kodi, navigate the menus and start movies. 10 years ago that NEVER happened, today it's not unusual. Even 15 years ago it was also common that all kinds of TV setups, including "normal" consumer gear, needed a one page "user's guide" that a lot of people still couldn't manage to make work.

  • LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

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  • AppleTV really is the best option.

    Best for who? There are all kinds of options starting from a physical DVD player...

  • LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

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  • Scanning for phones sounds a bit like the old-school Nielsen viewing statistics collection - who's in the room, what are they watching?

  • The Trick To Stop Speeding Drivers Is Actually More Green Lights

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  • The DOT planning department I worked for (in the 80s) had studies showing that synchronizing the lights 10-15mph ABOVE the speed limit kept traffic flowing "optimally" to minimize congestion without having to expand the infrastructure (mostly: lanes). Even today I see city traffic lights synchronized mostly +10mph over the posted limit in the direction of highest flow on major arteries - you can tell when you "make" one yellow light, then lock in cruise control at limit+10 and "make" the next 3+ lights at exactly the same flash of yellow as you approach.

    They do this to delay improvement projects like additional lanes, straightening curves, etc. by showing a higher "level of service" for the roadway than they would have with the lights synchronized at, say: speed limit -10mph. If you're talking about a 45mph roadway, moving the cars at 55mph instead of 35mph means 157% as many vehicles per hour at the same spacing, and we all know that people don't actually increase following distances at higher speeds, so... it's a real, and significant difference. Not as significant as getting people to carpool, or take public transit, but that's about as likely to happen as increasing following distances.

  • I refused to train the AI that could replace me

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  • The reactors have all kinds of uses... at one point I worked for a company that wanted to manufacture Co60 for medical purposes (radiotherapy for cancer treatment) - and you use the exact same reactors, just load them with different reaction material to get your desired isotopes produced.

  • US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

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  • The difference between those concrete facts they're openly concerned about and the between-the-lines concerns they are not stating is: those other concerns are a matter of observation, recollection, testimony in court - and they can't have objective evidence disagreeing with their own testimony as to what may or may not have transpired within their "controlled areas."

  • US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

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  • proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released

    All semi-valid concerns. Is anybody else smothering from the overwhelming mass of concerns between-the-lines here?

  • US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

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  • IDK, about 5% of my nerdy co-workers wear them, and even though heavy-rimmed glasses look kinda-normal on them, it wasn't 90 seconds before I noticed all the new lenses peeking out of the frames - and once you see that it's impossible to un-see that, find yourself "flagging" everyone who is wearing them.

  • US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

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  • Unfortunately, the open source alternatives will only be permitted to reach market at prices of $1000 and up.

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  • I was going to say: the Chi of the cat overpowers the Chi of the toast. While buttered toast may be strong enough to influence its own destiny during a fall (and I would suspect it's the butter on the toast doing that...), the cat is an altogether much stronger master of its destiny during the fall and whatever weak influence the butter on the toast has would be overpowered by the life-force of the cat.

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  • Like a cell phone in a shirt pocket?

  • I refused to train the AI that could replace me

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  • I did "recon drones" back in 2010... of course they lept at the opportunity to demonstrate kamakazi delivery of explosives with the platform to the Army too...

  • I refused to train the AI that could replace me

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  • One facility publicly stated they're making "submarine fuel" - but that's pretty thin... same facility can easily make all kinds of fissile material as well.

  • The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says

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  • Not everywhere yet, but there are growing regulations and outright bans of e-bikes across US municipalities.

  • The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says

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  • How long without dialysis before you don't use any gasoline at all?

    Remember the anti-COVID vaccination push?

  • The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says

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  • Poverty solved! Just don't be poor.

  • The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says

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  • And, let's all return to the office while we're driving less, right?

  • I refused to train the AI that could replace me

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  • I don't know - in my field there's a lot of "knowledge work" to be done, and if AI helps get it done faster...

    Think of the ditch digging crews with shovels, do you think any of the ex-shovel jockeys feel bad that they've been mostly "replaced" with backhoes and tracked excavators?