They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors… Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!

Nailed it right here. West was a perfectly good Batman for his time, but Keaton is fantastic and aged well. No one else comes close.

The cat physics are also outstanding. You can tell there were animators just sitting there studying how cats move for many, many hours.

So, the biggest tech of 2023 is a bunch of promises of things coming soon?

Doomerism is very in right now, but lots of things are getting better. It’s hard to see through all the social media, but if you curate your feeds to things like science and educational information, you can see all the wonderful things people are learning and making.

Sure, there are a lot of selfish, shitty people out there making a lot of noise, but in the background, there’s the same great people just chugging along making things better.

Just chug along with them and vote for the people that align with your values, and do the best you can.

Like Mr. Rogers used to say, when you see bad things happen, just look for the helpers. The first thing that always happens after a tragedy, is people line up to help. It’s our natural instinct.

I wonder if a 6.5mm would be within tolerance to be compatible with 1/4" plugs.

Just about any dog can do it, as long as you can find a good reward system for the dog. Mine loves playing fetch, so once we find the person we’re looking for, that person gives her lots of attention and fetch play.

It took a lot of work, and a lot of help from other people, but she’s really good at it now.

Tracking lost humans

Taught my dog to smell a clothing item, and she can distinguish the right person and follow the footfalls that person walked. She is pretty reliable up to about 18-36 hours old depending on weather conditions.

Maybe add “that can be understood by most experts in the relevant field of study living today” to those questions, cause you might get something incomprehensible in the response.

Any current smartphone would be the best digital camera that exists by a mile, even if they didn’t have Internet access.

Possums don’t live exclusively on ticks, they don’t even particularly have a penchant for eating ticks. There was just one study that showed they could eat ticks and potentially have a resistance to some diseases.

Edit: sauce - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34298355/

Ramanujan reborn - the main protagonist from the Wheel of Maths books.

That’s actually not true, and framework has similar issues. There was vampire power drains from certain mix and match options with HDMI and USB-C ports.

https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-high-battery-drain-during-suspend/3736

On the AMD framework, the upper right and left USB-C ports are slightly different from the lower ports

https://community.frame.work/t/usb4-and-thunderbolt-on-amd/30771

I love my framework laptop, but we shouldn’t pretend that they are free from quirks that plague other brands.

bonus: if their parents are attractive, you have a potential thruple opportunity to fall back on if the relationship sours.

You can probably slap something together with a Raspberry Pi and connect it to a low-ish power TV

Chromecast has a digital picture frame built in that uses Google Photos, if you trust that to stick around. You can plug it into any HDMI display.

I’m guessing something like Roku, Amazon, or Apple has a similar feature.

Because in the most efficient systems, you aren’t creating heat, you’re moving heat.

https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto

Just as a made up example - with a space heater, you could get 1000 watts of heat from 1000 watts of electricity, or you can move 1500 watts of heat with 1000 watts of electricity with a heat pump.

It’s pretty neat.

As many people said, it depends on your system. Some highly efficient central heating can have greater than 100% efficiency, so a space heater MIGHT be more expensive than the central heating unit.

Typically a better way to keep the cost lower is to set your home’s thermostat to a lower, but still home safe number, like ~55 degrees F (~15 degrees C) and then use a smaller space heater in the room you are using, or just bundle up with hot tea/blankets/sweaters, but allowing your house to get much colder than that might not be good for your appliances, furniture, pipes, etc.

Depending on how much you want to invest, you can upgrade to a mini-split HVAC system and keep each zone of your home at a different temperature based on needs, and it can be far more efficient (and safer) than managing space heaters.

https://youtu.be/qBE9TZP26FI

Legally, if I ask if you’re a cop, you have to answer truthfully.

They’ve kept up for three generations, I don’t see why they’d stop now.

Even if you just got one upgrade out of it, it’s probably worth the cost of entry.