LED headlights can be many times brighter than incandescent bulbs with no significant impact to life expectancy. Physically, incandescent bulbs produce light by heating up an element which decays relatively quickly. LEDs directly convert electricity to light.

In the US, there ARE regulations limiting how bright headlights can be, but aftermarket LEDs can be bought which exceed the limit. I’ve heard the EU and Asia already widely use adaptive headlight technology so it’s a uniquely american car problem

they use proprietary file formats (MOV and HEIC) that need to be converted to a universal format like jpg or MP4 to be viewed on android (I think this can be changed in iPhone settings), and the conversion looks like shit

it’s so good, only 3/4 of the way through but it should be taught in schools

As of now the law seems to be that you’d still need to show a physical ID to police, this wouldn’t be seen as valid. Tbh this doesn’t seem useful

When I say something is silly, I mean it is deeply unserious and I want to kill it. When I say someone is silly, I mean they are silly and nothing more

been seeing someone from hinge for a few weeks, and now we’ve got 2 more dates lined up for next week

after barely dating for half a year, it feels SO weird to be seeing someone who seems genuinely interested in me, and is excited to be around me. Inshallah I will uninstall the apps soon

there is an element of haptic feedback with these surgery robotics so you can ‘feel’ what you are doing and how much resistance there is to your actions, imagine trying to cut next to an artery without being able to feel when you are about to cut into it until 100ms late for example

Exactly this. Only in the last few months haptic feedback is beginning to roll out on some instruments for the latest da vinci system, which is the most popular surgical robot of this kind (they did surgery on a grape). No other robots that I’m aware of have haptic feedback yet, and visual ‘haptics’ are all robotic surgeons traditionally have.

Minimal feedback is the main drawback of robots vs any other type of surgery, and increasing latency increases the risk of accidentally harming the patient. I’m sure 5G doesn’t necessarily have big spikes in ping which could be disastrous, but it’s riskier than the traditional cable directly connecting the surgeon to the robot in the same room

That’s a lot of latency with regards to surgery. The robots themselves are designed to have almost none to keep it as safe as a similar laparoscopic procedure. The tech is good but there needs to be less latency before any regulator would approve this

Historically, surgical robots were funded by the pentagon as a project to perform remote surgeries in a battlefield. Latency made that project fail, but refined the tech used in modern surgical robotics

I thought it was common knowledge that the dams deliberately destroyed their way of life, every museum with exhibits on pre-columbian cultures I’ve been to in the PNW acknowledged this

If they weren’t libs they’d do reparations

the cold war turned every civil war into a proxy war with at least one large power (the US) prolonging conflicts and fuelling large death tolls by supplying weapons to the right-wing, if not directly intervening

vietnam/cambodia/laos, both afghanistan wars, angola/namibia, liberia, sierra leone, syria, ukraine, both congo wars, occupation of lebanon, libya, yemen, and the years of lead are some examples of this

less nations legally declare war on each other now because declaring war requires UN backing, but the cold war was a violent extension of imperialism that never ended and a lot of people have been killed

so many people are saying this

what lmao he would have bombed iran

He pointed to recent comments from World Food Programme Director Cindy McCain that a famine is imminent.

the fucking mccains are more humane than biden

Epoxy holds well if the surface you’re sticking it to is rough. It wouldn’t adhere to polished steel very well

Polished stainless steel doesn’t take clear coat well without a primer, which would ruin the aesthetic of the car because primers aren’t clear. Even worse, Tesla is using a proprietary steel that is particularly bad at adhering a clear coat. Clear coat would flake easily. Increased surface area from flaking results in faster rusting

The problem is the type of stainless steel they’re using would rust even faster with a normal clear coat. Elon mentioned maybe offering a tungsten carbide coating option which should be rust-resistant, but it would likely be VERY expensive and prone to cracking

oh they mention it

Almost all children’ need mental health support Crickx also said the mental health of children in Gaza was being severely affected by the offensive, and that a million children in the Gaza Strip require mental health support.

Children in Gaza “present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite, they can’t sleep, they have emotional outbursts or panic every time they hear the bombings,” he explained.

Before the assault erupted, UNICEF estimated that more than 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental health and psycho-social support.

More than one million children in the besieged Gaza Strip now require mental health support

that’s the entire child population of Gaza

I feel like a reasonable but controversial answer to this is cows

harm reduction