[-] apemint@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There's always money in the banana stand.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 136 points 2 days ago

Well, not really. The cosmic microwave background radiation was a tiny fraction of that noise. What everyone saw was mostly thermal noise generated by the amplifier circuit inside the TV.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago

We're in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I have a UFO Civic and, out of all the cars I've been in, it has hands down the best dashboard. Everything is tactile and arranged in a way that I don't have to look away from the road to adjust anything.

Beyond tactile vs. touchscreen, I wish more manufacturers payed attention to ergonomics so I wouldn't have to reach into my ass to find the AC or the defogging button.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

No, most people just give up after seeing the price.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun little piece of trivia: Originally, nimrod used to mean "skillful hunter" (after Nimrod, the biblical figure) but then in 1940 Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd a “poor little nimrod", and kids of the time not knowing the reference, simply assumed it was an insult on Elmer's character.

And that's how a cartoon rabbit single handedly changed the meaning of a word.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

It never went away.
I can still hear incoming calls, texts, and tower pings with my headphones.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was walking alone in an empty street during NYE when a random girl, who happened to come by, spread her arms and blocked my way in a playful manner.

She only let me pass once I cracked a smile.
It's been well over a decade, but I still remember her face.

It was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

Besides, what the guy is yapping about it is 80% a robotics problem not an AI problem. It's apples and oranges.

He's essentially saying why can Will Smith finally eat pasta normally while we still don't have the robotic workforce from the 2001 Will Smith movie "I, Robot".

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

It started as a joke but nowadays more and more old memes and screenshots can only be found in conditions like the last panel.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

That's irrelevant here because what they're describing is happening in every market, not just their niche.

[-] apemint@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

There's nothing reasonable about these assumptions.

There's no way the VisionPro gets even close to 100W. Why? Because heat dissipation. The vast majority of power drawn by semiconductors is dissipated as heat and, in a device that's strapped to someone's face, there's simply no way to dissipate hundreds of watts.

Also, knowing the battery pack size and battery life, it's easy to guesstimate the power consumption.

“The Apple Vision Pro provides approximately 2 hours of battery life. Based on its size, the internal battery capacity is estimated to be within 20,000mAh (74Wh), resulting in an overall power consumption of around 30W.”

Even if we assume the double of that 30W, it's well within USB-C standards.

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