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The temperature has never gone above zero in Belarus.

Is that in Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine, Rømer, Réaumur, Delisle, Leiden, or Wedgwood?

Have you tried asking Copilot what it is?

I’m so happy that they put the 1507 borders on. Someone spent some real effort and thought on this completely pointless thing.

Fortunately not likely to be something you’d need to do in an emergency on a roadside. Changing a tire shouldn’t require going underneath the vehicle.

A scissor jack isn’t necessarily any more stable, the “footprint” where it’s in contact with the ground isn’t necessarily very wide.

Make sure to chock the wheels of the car as thoroughly as possible before jacking it up. Ideally you could stash some cheap plastic chocks in the car, but failing that just anything you can firmly wedge in there will do in a pinch.

Especially if the tire is deflated, that’ll bring the car even lower. A good thing to check on.

I got one specifically intended for use in various orientations, the box calls it a “multi-positional” bottle jack. It’s been handy in unusual situations now and then - I used it to push my concrete porch back into position, for example. Drove a 2x4 into the ground next to it to act as a bracing point and then used the jack sideways to apply pressure to slide the porch.

A bottle jack is a hydraulic jack. Do you mean a trolley jack, perhaps? Those are rather big to fit in a car, a bottle jack is nice and compact.

I got a combination jump-starter battery pack and air pump, and I’ve actually used it a few times. I much prefer it to jumper cables. It’s easier to connect up (just two clips) and there’s no need for a second car. Just pop the hood, click click, and voom. Very much appreciated when the temperature is -30 and it’s pitch black outside. It’s got a built in light source and USB charger, too.

Just make sure to check its charge every once in a while, and top it up if it’s low.

So?

The black hole’s visual depiction was fine in that movie, sure. But the way the characters interacted with it still made no sense.

Whenever something on my computer tries to tell me I can’t do something with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzfkErkWDM

There are better cryptocurrency options to Bitcoin now, including stabletokens that are specifically designed for this purpose. Hopefully they go to one of those instead.

Long ago, I used to work for a small business that did most of its sales through eBay using PayPal. They were the single biggest impediment to our business, yoinking money away at the slightest excuse. It seemed like they just lived to screw us over.

It’s not the difference you think it is. Lots of people who use AI art generators don’t call themselves artists either. I certainly don’t, because I don’t care whether I’m called an artist. I just want the art.

I think you may be generalizing a stereotype.

This community where we’re discussing this right now is literally intended for following tech news. It is for people who follow tech news.

You are mistaking a specific kind of AI for all AI. That’s like saying a tulip isn’t a flower because you believe flowers are roses.

Jarvis is a fictional example of a kind of AI known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

Technology that allows us to do something we could not do before - such as create nuclear explosions, or propel metal slugs at extreme velocities, or design new viruses - unquestionably offer a benefit and don’t require discipline to integrate into our lives in a balanced manner?

The people who commission artists have no interest in being an artist; they simply want the product. Are people who commission artists also “slowly committing suicide?”