Someone forgot to set the brake in their car, rolled into the back of my dads 70ish pickup. It rolled the width of a parking row, on fairly flat surface. The car had no chance obviously, but it was pretty funny seeing the damage; bumper and fender, not just a minor one you could slap out with a good fist slam either. There was zero damage to the truck
Can you elaborate on this some? Afaik insurance is the only thing they would accept. I think insurance is generally a nasty scam so anything to get away from it would be pretty neat
You have to deposit $75,000 to the DMV and if you get in an accident where you're at fault you will also be on the hook for damages beyond that. You can also get a surety bond for that amount, instead of doing a cash deposit.
It used to be 35k but it was increased in late 2024 (which is good because it hadn't increased since the 70s).
But to do that you really have to hate insurers or be uninsurable. Because realistically putting that 75k in a basic HISA will yield enough interests to pay for regular car insurance and you get to keep your 75k.
Thats quite a lot more than i expected, i just have never had a good experience with insurance, everything is a long drawn fight. Probably not worth it unless under specific circumstances
Interesting, something that wasnt covered on your site, although the inverse is. I sometimes get the opposite of the troxler effect, the center of my vision goes "black" while the edges stay visible. The black center gets "worse" if my eyes stay still, and is usually accompanied by a halo of various colors. It goes away after a few minutes. Ive never found a consistent trigger for it, sometimes light changes will do it (going from outside to inside) but not consistently, it can also just seemingly randomly happen
Denvers original airport was built in the "middle of no where", for noise reasons. Continue on for 30 years and lots of housing built up around it. People start complaining about noise. City decides to move the airport. Moves it 30 miles away, in the middle of no where (now DIA). Yep, you guessed it. People start building close to the airport, and then complain about the noise. I fully expect it to move again in 15-20 years
Laguna Seca, a fairly famous California race track, was opened in 1957 built out in the middle of nowhere. In 2024, people that moved near the racetrack sued to get it shut down.
I know there's some level of caveat emptor when buying a house, and realtors are guaranteed to not have any showings when it's noisy, but maybe just spell it out and the purchaser needs to be made aware.
> Laguna Seca, a fairly famous California race track, was opened in 1957 built out in the middle of nowhere. In 2024, people that moved near the racetrack sued to get it shut down.
“I swear, the race track just materialized out of nowhere!” -A wealthy liar living in California
I assume it was dismissed immediately since Laguna Seca is almost 70 years old.
I have gotten my ai setup to learn quite a bit. As i work with it, if something was encountered that would be useful to remember, i literally just say "save this into your learnings/long term memory". It writes a markdown doc for itself and a note elsewhere for context. Between the memory and rules, its been pretty nice. I touch many things at work and i can pop open a new session and say "project x needs a b c" or "project y had this issue <issue>" and it knows where to go, what im referencing and things to fix. I dont even have to be precise or ultra descriptive.
with this ive been able to, with some minor adjustments and "oh that would be a good feature" additons, oneshot a flask app at work with everything ready for oidc, ldap lookups, bunch of other stuff - from a single 3 sentence paragraph.
With some rules in its configuration (more markdown its written by it for it, at my guidance of "always do x and remember this for all sessions"), it has a whole flow and i barely have to feed it anything to get out useful results quickly.
I will say though that the ai operates however the user says, so if you dont take steps to ensure survival of info at the start of using ai (or even from now on as a fresh session), youll get mixed results, but you can shape it and mold it into amazing flows that do remember
Most definitely ring. I used to park near one of their offices, for at least 3-5 months they had one of those podium pole camera systems, with a big ring logo on the side, and ring workers occasionally tinkering with it. You know, the kind you see in Home Depot lots.
The real question here is why youre freely running it on a system and dont have it sandboxed in some way. Literally the first thing i did the day i signed up for an ai subscription.
I have a base docker container and a shell script that "customizes" each instance for where its running (making sure user id matches for permissions, etc). Runs as non root in container, has minimal privileges, and only access to the repo or dir where the shell script was called
You definitely let the ai shoot your legs off all on your own.
All LEDs are like this. It's horrible. The only good thing about it is that every professional in the entire industry has come to expect that if it's an LED, something somewhere will be wrong with it.
By all LEDs do you mean addressable and other multipin LEDs? Never seen anything weird with classic 5mm/3mm. The flat side+leg length is quite reliable. 0805/1206 smd LEDs also seem mostly fine.
The cathode marks are basically randomly assigned. This is because each company more or less designs one leadframe/package structure per size or type of LED. Sounds reasonable, right? But LED dice aren't made of silicon. They're made of weirdo high-bandgap materials, and every color is different in its own way. From physics alone, some of the colors end up with cathodes on top of the dice and some of the colors end up with anodes on top. They all get bonded in to the package the same way. So... that marking built in to the package? That's always the "top of die" wire next to it. But "top of die" might be cathode, or it might be anode. Flip a freaking coin!
If you want to see this clearly, find a datasheet that covers an entire series of LEDs. Vishay often does this, here's one: https://www.vishay.com/docs/82437/vlmo1300.pdf . They'll tell you the marking locations for each color individually. Notice how they're all completely different? Yeah.
Could the manufacturers do better? Yes. Yes, they could. We all wish they would do better. But they do not. So LEDs are the stuff of nightmares for people who assemble boards.
Through-hole parts are somewhat better (but there are certainly rogues!), but this is 2026: the volume's in surface mount.
Multipin LEDs are no better. The SMD no-lead versions are again fairly randomly marked. The PLCC-4 types are usually "cutoff corner near pin 1", but I've seen it as pin 4... or pin 2... constant vigilance is the only solution. Constant vigilance!
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