Depends on what you mean by “commercialized.”

My neighborhood has Waymo cars driving around all day every day. I can even pay them money to book a ride in one, like a Lyft or Uber. So in that sense, full self driving is commercialized.

Will consumers be able to buy a level 4 car in the next 1-2 years? No. While governments have given limited approvals for large-scale testing of self driving cars, the hurdles to selling anything like that to your average moron is far in the future. Governments will have to legislate all kinds of shit, including who is at fault in accidents and where they are allowed to drive. Insurance companies will have to figure out how to write contracts and how much to charge. And all of that ignores the technical challenges of getting it working properly and consistently in consumer vehicles.

The headline says dying, not dead. And the article is about new methods of ID verification, some of which are already in place. I fly for work a lot, and I rarely have to show any ID nowadays. Clear gets my ID from an eye scan and gives that to TSA. Delta and Air France use my face scan at the gate instead of checking my passport when I fly internationally. The only check for my passport now is when I drop off my bags.

It’s the hardest thing about traveling to Europe for me. I love being in Europe, but after living in a part of the US with almost no smokers it is jarring to smell cigarette smoke everywhere on the streets there.

I remember when I left Indiana 25 years ago that it was the highest per capita state for smoking, with Kentucky being number 2.

I’m guessing it was a different brand if you remember the details that clearly. The fake vent texture is making me think Magnavox for some reason.

https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony

Doesn’t look like Sony made a 42". They did make a 43", which is what this story is about, but it was only 480p not 1080i. The largest 1080i CRT they made was the 34".

European bison were called bison a thousand years before America was discovered by Europeans and is a very close relative (different species). Buffalo is the name of the African animal that is only distantly related (different genus) and has been called bufalus by Europeans since before America was discovered by those same Europeans.

If you are going to die on a hill, might as well call them by the names given to them by people who lived with them for thousands of years before Europeans came here:

in Arapaho: bii (bison cow), henéécee (bison bull)

in Lakota: pté (bison cow), tȟatȟáŋka (bison bull) - we all know how to pronounce that one, thanks to Dances with Wolves.

If you are on a hill with either a Bison or a Buffalo, the odds of you dying are high.

You do realize, don’t you, that the majority of Taiwanese do not want reunification? Well, I mean, they want reunification with their party in power and don’t want CCP-controlled reunification.

In one poll, 63% said they would personally fight if China tried to force reunification. In another poll, the VAST majority wanted to maintain the status quo. Some of those want to keep the status quo and decide later, some want to keep it forever, some want to keep it but start moving toward independence. In that poll, only around 2% want reunification now, and only 5% want full independence now. In another poll, 49% wanted full independence and 27% wanted status quo, while only 12% wanted reunification.

His friends know him as Tim.

Some credit should go to the person who actually wrote that song, Mac Davis.

Phil?! Phil Conners?!

“We cant promise you much other than, if you visit us, we can guarantee you’ll come back again !”

That’s a really hard guarantee to live up to. It almost sounds like an ominous threat.

As much as I hate using cash, I understand that the credit card companies charge ridiculous fees to businesses and also that people with very low income don’t always have access to digital forms of payment. Maybe Sweden does better with equipping their entire society with digital tools, but in the US I don’t think we are ready for a fully digital payment society.

It’s both, really. The wakes can be a significant problem in marinas, especially from bigger boats. Think of all those smaller sailboats and ski boats bobbing around at the dock when a large cruiser comes around throwing up a 5ft tall wake. Or even the people walking on the floating docks when a large wake comes across. Some of the gas stations are also floating on a dock.

Speed is also an issue in smaller marinas, but less so in large ports where a ferry like this probably operates.

What EV trucks are out there? The F150 (can totally do truck things), the Silverado (can totally do truck things), the Rivian (can do some truck things), and the Cyber Truck (the less said the better). What other EV trucks are out there that can’t do truck things.

My only issue with the EV truck scene right now is the issue I have with the truck scene in general. They are all too fucking big. I have a hybrid Maverick that is the perfect size for me and long term averages 40mpg. I would freaking love a full EV of it. The F150 and Silverado don’t even fit in my driveway, let alone my tiny garage. They don’t fit in parking spaces at work.

My memory is hazy, but I’m pretty sure Mozilla was a package and most people just didn’t install the rest of the package. Everyone called the browser Mozilla because they didn’t use the other parts. I could definitely be wrong, though.

Trillian was definitely part of that war. I remember the daily patches to get things working again.

Trillian was not Mac only. I’ve never owned a Mac and used Trillian almost exclusively from 2002 until roughly 2009?? I can’t remember when the transition from IM to texting happened for me, but it was around then. When I was running Linux at home I would use Gaim, which was developed by a friend of the main Trillian guy.

For more fiscally conservative people, it’s generally a worse financial decision. This is especially true if you just return your lease at the end without doing the leg work to leverage any equity your car might have (or might not have).

In the EV realm, though, the decision is less clear. Banks are still figuring out how to quantify depreciation, so sometimes lease rates are ridiculously low or ridiculously high (I leased a $40k Bolt for $284/mo for 36 months and 10k miles per year). Also, the tech is both newer and changing faster than normal cars, so people are more hesitant to sink that much money into owning something that may or may not be worth it in the end.