Tesla allow you to opt out of all connectivity
It means you would have no maps, no driver assist, no Internet radio
Anyway if you buy a car it is yours. The worst you can do is break the contact for whatever services are provided by the connectivity. You are allowed to modify a car however you like
Tesla don’t support CD. You’d need to rip those to mp3 and keep them on your phone to play over Bluetooth
If they’re embedded in a combat group they take their chances.
When I was a primary school kid we didn’t have gifted and talented classes. Kids who were ahead of the class could continue doing more and more advanced maths, move onto the next year’s work, though in 6th grade the problems only went up to advanced 6th grade. I don’t know what you would do if you were smart but unsatisfied with maths, I guess you’d be disruptive.
there’s no such thing as two standard deviations
The reason for testing is that people on either end of the bell curve need to be educated differently to the people in the middle and to each other
Yeah, in the '80s we called them “special”
Can’t you set their phones to not change MAC address on the home wifi? I know it’s a setting on Android (I have it turned off at home for myself)
The article describes a tool that grabs the data without admin privileges, but yes, there are methods used by current malware to escalate privileges.
Search: block app from internet [my operating system]
When I was a kid I was threatened: if you don’t eat it, we’ll put it in the fridge and you can have it for breakfast
Me today cooked a 900 gram steak for dinner, ate half of it and the rest is in the fridge, I’ll have it for breakfast
Mum never actually followed through with the threat, I guess when I also refused dessert she worked out I wasn’t hungry (as opposed to just not wanting that food)
The trouble is there are dangerous or even lethal amounts of practically every vegetable, but it’s nearly impossible to find the numbers.
The only advice is to have great variety, and don’t eat stuff with an ingredients list, but that’s also hard to do
I went a tad extreme since I’m allergic to several of the staple plant foods (notably all the grasses, wheat in my food makes me sick, bamboo in my clothes makes me itch) so I quit all plants (and I haven’t died of scurvy even once!). I still wonder what is the LD50 for cabbage.
All plants make toxins, they don’t want to be eaten (ripe fruit aside), most of us are pretty good at detoxifying the plants we consider food, but still some people overdose on vegetables. That kale guy who ate kale smoothies, kale salads, charred kale, and nearly nothing else wound up in hospital having exceeded the dangerous dose
It’s a shame that safe limits are not commonly available for everyday plant based food - two bags of vege chips is enough to make many people quite sick, but it won’t tell you on the package.
We cannot eat the things that most of the animals we eat eat.
No animal but us eats stinging nettles. There are all sorts of plants that need serious processing to be good to eat, even then many “safe” plants have almost enough of whatever poison they make to do is damage, but in the normal way we eat them they’re safe
Did you know kale has a safe dose which shouldn’t be exceeded?
1995 calling would be telling you you need to roll your own kernel to be efficient on your 486
It was ok. I and it went through about four iterations going from “that’s a sun tracker, I asked for a heliostat” through undeclared variables, global variables that should have been local until it was a fine program with just the fault that there was no such library as solar::heliostat [azimuth, altitude]
I have read that people have run into that sort of problem and have written the library the AI called for, but I looked up a real astronomy library
Yeah. I asked GPT3 for some heliostat code, to keep reflected sunlight stationary. It was wrong, it hallucinated libraries that didn’t exist, but it roughed out a program that was easier to fix than it would have been to start from scratch.
Maybe its superpower is beating inertia, getting you started
Long rural trips for cars are fine on electric, as long as there is fast charging on the way. The car takes as long to top up as the human takes to take a break from driving
Trucks, ships, aeroplanes, off roading will need dense fuel. Trains might need fuel, but most of those should be electric
But it’s an electric car with a much lower efficiency than one that uses batteries
If your modification makes it unroadworthy, you might not be allowed to drive it on public roads
If your modification changes its structure you may need certification that it is still roadworthy
I’m not seeing a case where you’re restricted by law from modifying the car
Software has special legal protections. You can stop it working with impunity, you can break it with impunity, you cannot legally defeat security on the software. Corey Doctorow calls the software protections “felony contempt of business model”