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alphaxion t1_j6uwzdh wrote
Reply to comment by machstem in Planting more trees could axe summer deaths by a third. Modelling of 93 European cities finds that increasing tree cover up to 30% can help lower the temperature of urban environments by an average of 0.4°C and prevent one in three heat deaths as a result. by MistWeaver80
The other great aspect is if you have your tree aligned to provide shade for your windows during the hottest part of the day, it massively cuts down on the amount of heat getting into your home. This reduces the need for active cooling and makes getting to sleep at night far easier and more comfortable.
alphaxion t1_j5qae2q wrote
Reply to comment by knighthawk0811 in Benefits - The Intimate Lives of Friends [OC] by Crash_Recovery
With that logic then Joey has a connection to Phoebe, since he dated her twin.
alphaxion t1_ivhm5md wrote
Reply to comment by Slightlydifficult in Humanoid robots could generate $154 billion in revenue over next 15 years, Goldman Sachs reports by Gari_305
You're making a hell of a lot of assumptions, there. No-one has mass-produced any humanoid robot in decades of developing them.
There's also the major hurdle of how to power them. How long would a humanoid robot last on a charge? Will they be able to accomplish their tasks in the physical space they're looking to be operated within on that charge? Will the environment even be able to support something with the inevitably high weight they'll have?
The world we operate within is immensely complex, complete with people in it who are adversarial rather than compliant. The software for roads is proving a massive stumbling block already and that's semi-controlled. Hell, people have been discovering all sorts of issues with how those systems are sensing the world when they are adversarial to it, such as projecting different speed limits onto signs to trick the AI.
Free roaming in areas with squishy humans that don't have any of the safety features that modern cars have? I worry about our seeing the elderly crushed to death as someone with dementia freaks out in its company for the first time and knocks it over. Or where it cannot react in a quick enough time to the changing landscape of an industrial workplace and results in injury for the people still working there.
You're talking about this robot as if they've already got the solutions to fundamental aspects of both its design and its manufacturing sorted. It's not even a functioning prototype - it can't even walk unassisted. I'd also be extremely wary of claims made by Musk, the man who faked solar roof tiles for a demonstration.
I doubt a generalised (in function, that doesn't mean you can bolt together off the shelf components to manufacture it) humanoid robot will even be on the market by 2030. It's such a massively difficult task to accomplish, it takes humans near enough two decades before we consider them to be adults, and that's with millions of years of evolution behind us.
2050? That might be closer to the real timeframe when we can trust allowing these robots to walk amongst us.
alphaxion t1_ivh5fst wrote
Reply to comment by Slightlydifficult in Humanoid robots could generate $154 billion in revenue over next 15 years, Goldman Sachs reports by Gari_305
The robot they showcased was worse than tech from 15 years ago. Asimo was worlds ahead of what they had people awkwardly and manually walk onto the stage. It looked less advanced than an A100 audio-animatronic found in Disney rides (the model that was running the Wicked Witch in the Great Movie Ride), never mind the latest A1000 model seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qteMlMAaNM
A generalised robot will be even more expensive than a specialised one, because it is orders of magnitude more complex to do the things you're talking about.
Without putting huge amounts of R&D money into the product and a team of hundreds of engineers, I fully doubt they'll have anything by 2030 that is close to what Boston Dynamics have today.
alphaxion t1_iuulaoi wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Audio-Technica resurrects its Sound Burger portable turntable from the '80s by thebelsnickle1991
He goes a bit into the history and talks about the form of the player a bit. It's likely a review of this device will be very similar to the one he did in the video I linked. As in, it wouldn't really be worth his time to make another video on the same subject.
alphaxion t1_iuptdbo wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Audio-Technica resurrects its Sound Burger portable turntable from the '80s by thebelsnickle1991
Last year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZF9TdLsjt8
alphaxion t1_j6uxw6b wrote
Reply to comment by lionhart280 in Planting more trees could axe summer deaths by a third. Modelling of 93 European cities finds that increasing tree cover up to 30% can help lower the temperature of urban environments by an average of 0.4°C and prevent one in three heat deaths as a result. by MistWeaver80
Air conditioning in homes is virtually unheard of in the UK, ensuring more places have tree cover will help with dealing with a future where 40C becomes the norm, rather than record breaking.
Not everywhere is like the US.