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MS90 | 6 years ago | on: MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)

Maybe they're making the assumption that people doing super heavy load stuff like that would more more likely be using a dedicated desktop workstation rather than a laptop.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)

I've never had an NVIDIA driver with it on by default. I've run two different computers with NVIDIA GPU's through a TV and had to manually scale the picture on both of them when I couldn't get the TV's auto scaling to work properly.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: What Is the Future of Podcasting?

It is interesting (I don't know if that's the right word, but I can't think of another) to see how podcasts have become such a target for advertising. I remember when I first listened to podcasts in like 2008 I'd pretty rarely hear an ad, and when I did it was usually some gimmicky product from a company no one had ever heard of. But nowadays I can't think of any podcasts that I listen to that don't have ads, save for Hardcore History, and it's frequently an ad for a big company or service like Door Dash, Turbo Tax, etc.

I know he's an outlier due to the enormity of his podcast, but it's been said[1] that Joe Rogan now makes $75,000 per episode

That's a long way from his early days of being sponsored by the Fleshlight.

[1] https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/joe-rogan-how-much-...

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: Anatomy of a Scam

I'm not sure if I'd be able to resist asking the presenter how they got data from 4000 years before the beginning of recorded history if I was presented with a slide like that.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples

I do not. I've been emailing back and forth with the USDA folks and none of us have been able to find any reference to the seeds outside of the Atlas Obscura article. The only special thing I can find information on Bean taking up was a camera timer.

They said they'll keep looking to see if they can find anything. I'm curious to know where the author of the book got this information.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples

One correction, Al Bean took the seeds to the moon, not around them.

I can forgive Atlas Obscura for it, however, since the USDA page(1) has it wrong as well...which severely irks me as it's a government website. It says "carried around the moon in the early 1970's by Astronaut Bean on Apollo 13 Flight."

Al bean was on Apollo 12, which was in the 1960's, and he walked on the surface. I submitted a ticket to the site linked in (1) to correct it.

1: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail.aspx...

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue

That, and also the fact that services like Spotify/Netflix/Amazon/etc. allow you to access everything for a flat monthly fee.

Back in the day you had to buy each album individually for $10-$15 (or more) each, same with movies. Nowadays I can go on Netflix and watch what would've been hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of DVDs for 13 bucks a month.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be

That's not the technology failing, that's the users failing. Technological failure would imply that manually turning your lights on and off somehow breaks them or renders them otherwise nonfunctional, or the lever/switch itself breaks.

If someone got in a car and tried to put it in drive without starting it, would that be a technological failure of ignition switches?

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be

Or, say you come up on the scene of an accident where a car has gone off the road at night. You pull your car off the road to illuminate the scene of the accident with your headlights but they stubbornly refuse, turning all the way to max deflection one way or another in an attempt to point at the road.

About a month ago I came upon this exact scenario and had to use my headlights to light up the wreck. Wouldn't have been great if they weren't cooperating.

Though I'm sure (I hope) there'd be a way to disable the GPS tracking.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be

That would certainly be something, especially if we can see car pricing become something like this:

Boring sedan, MSRP $25,000, Boring sedan (with AI headlight option), MSRP $1,750,000

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be

Yeah, they definitely have with the newer LED light bars compared to the old ones with bulbs. Police in my area usually turn half of them off (to where only the very edges of the light bar are flashing, the middle lights are off) once they pull someone over or stop at an accident scene. I feel like otherwise they'd just cause more wrecks due to blindness.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant

Do it wrong and the life support systems for you and your friends up there go out and you all die. Also, this entire $150,000,000,000 international investment may lose guidance and altitude control and burn up in the atmosphere, or maybe even rain down debris on some unlucky city.

No pressure!

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits

It does. My understanding is that THC inhibits REM sleep, and as a result the chemicals that are usually released during the REM phase that cause you to dream do not get released. Once you quit and start having REM sleep again, there's a "backlog" so to speak of the chemicals and more than usual are released, thus causing the extremely vivid dreams.

MS90 | 6 years ago | on: Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits

Each time I've quit for an extended period of time it's taken me about three weeks to feel normal. During those weeks I definitely feel more grumpy and irritable. I'm also curious as to whether THC or other chemicals in the smoke have any effect on the body's thermoregulation, because each time I've quit I've also woken up drenched in sweat every night for about the first week or so. Crazy dreams as well.

These have all been me going cold turkey after heavy daily use for extended periods of time.

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