Sarcastic Penguin @extrn@qoto.org

This story is outrageous.

Tesla falsified vehicle range estimates which made owners think their cars were broken when they didn’t experience anything close to that range.

Tesla then canceled their service appointments because they knew there was nothing wrong their cars. They had just been lied to.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/

I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?

Very funny thing I saw today is "IEEEuler's Identity":

e^iπ + 1^NaN × ∞ = 0

A thing of beauty imo

From: https://youtu.be/5TFDG-y-EHs?t=222

If you're looking for a weekend podcast, here's a very interesting episode of Knowable on the placebo effect.
#SciComm #PlaceboEffect #drugdevelopment

https://overcast.fm/+oWAyCyXD0?ref=thebrowser.com

"The strangeness has a name – it’s called entanglement – but it is still poorly understood. Why does the quantum world behave this strange way? We think we’ve solved a central piece of this puzzle."

https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement

You may have heard recycling is bullshit.

Metal recycling is not. It is 100% legit. We should recycle more metal.

Asphalt? At least 98% of it is recycled. It's the world's most recycled material.

Paper? Iffy.

Plastic though? Absolute bullshit. Plastic recycling is basically bullshit.

Electronics recycling? Pretty much bullshit, unfortunate because the Tantalum in them is useful and scarce.

The situation in #ukraine is very concerning

Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention designates American snacking giant Mondelez International an international sponsor of war

The decision was made on the basis of Mondelez’s continued operations in russia,is an indirect contributor to the kremlin’s war coffers.

The maker of #Oreo cookies, Milka & #Toblerone chocolates, Mondelez is a global and russian market leader in sweets and biscuits

Source https://b4ukraine.org/what-we-do/ukraine-designates-oreo-maker-mondelez-an-international-sponsor-of-war

#Ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#StandWithUkraine #usa

На старо, този сборник от две класически и едно теоретично-фундаментално произведение, струва 100 лв и нагоре.

"Вероятности - Я. Бернули, П. Лаплас, А. Колмогоров"

Изненадах се приятно

https://knizhen-pazar.net/books/search?in=author&q=%D0%AF.+%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C+%D0%9F.+%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%2C+%D0%90.+%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2

Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. We join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.

ETHZ kicks ass.

The blueprint is available, and intermediate Bens can build their own now.

. #dNews #Ukraine #News #Russia

Have we considered the possibility that recent advances in #AI are in fact due to a general AI already in the wild pulling the strings of multiple entities trying to adjust public perception into acceptance and appreciation so it can come out of the proverbial closet? /1

Are they going to do that for every religious group? As long as they also announce the atheist call to logical thought and discussion over beer at 5pm, I guess we're good.