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rattus_rattus commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150   wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat
hshdhdhj4444 · 3 months ago
Let’s assume that this is the correct decision in terms of the viability of the electric F-150 (I have no reason to believe Ford is wrong here).

The real problem with this decision is that the F-150 is pretty much Ford’s only foray into EVs.

It raises the question of how Ford expects to compete in the EV market, which is a bigger concern given that the world market is showing a clear preference for EVs, especially once they allow the world EV leaders from China to enter their markets.

This further reinforces the Galapagosification of the American auto makers who are getting wiped out pretty much everywhere outside the US where they are competitive thanks to government protectionism.

rattus_rattus · 3 months ago
The Ford Mach-e would like to have a word - it was the first Ford EV. It was available for the first year as a 2021 model, while the Lightning was available as a ‘22. The Mach-e is still available and I think the ‘26 models are already out there.

According to Car and Driver the Mach-e was the 4th most popular EV so far this year (around 42k sold) and the Lightning was the 7th (23k units sold.)

Anecdotally I see a ton of Mach-e on the road where I live, and Lightning too. We got a Mach-e this summer and it has been excellent.

rattus_rattus commented on A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk   nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us... · Posted by u/jonas21
h4kunamata · 8 months ago
I read a news some time ago where a guy was organ donor and the docs wanted to literally kill the guy to take his organs lmao He stopped being organ donor the same day.
rattus_rattus · 8 months ago
Could you please provide a link to your source? This is a very extreme claim to make without a single citation.
rattus_rattus commented on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail   the418.substack.com/p/a-b... · Posted by u/shayneo
encom · 8 months ago
What's the point of a service that emails you pictures of your snail mail? You'll know about it anyway when it's delivered, and unlike a parcel, no action is required to receive it. Not snark, I'm legitimately asking - I'm probably missing something.

I legitimately can't remember the last time I received actual mail in my mailbox. Everything goes to e-boks.dk.

rattus_rattus · 8 months ago
I find it super helpful! I get the emails for both my personal mail box on my street (nice to know if I should check it today or if it’s just junk and I can check it tomorrow or the next day) and for a PO Box.

I am the treasurer for an organization related to my job. We don’t usually get mail and the PO Box is located a few towns over. I rely on the emails to know when I need to visit the PO Box. It saves me gas and time, so I love it. Even if the PO Box was nearby, the emails would still save me time and hassle.

rattus_rattus commented on The fascinating and complicated sex lives of white-throated sparrows   audubon.org/news/the-fasc... · Posted by u/laurex
downboots · 2 years ago
I see a scientist using a red band tag first and later in the video a silver-blue one for a different bird. Do they control for tag color when banding birds? https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)... some birds are known for their color/visual preferences and the measurement could ostensibly be a cause for the results: a confounding variable like in those mice studies where male or female scent inadvertently affected rat behaviour.
rattus_rattus · 2 years ago
I suspect that it would be quite difficult to control for that, since my understanding is that they specifically use different color combos on each bird in a specific area. This lets the scientists easily ID the bird by sight or in a photo, vs. all silver bands with a stamped code. The latter would require them to re-catch the bird to ID it, defeating the purpose of observing behavior and IDing individuals as it happens. I would also guess that it isn’t really a factor in the birds’ behavior, though.
rattus_rattus commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly   nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei
promiseofbeans · 2 years ago
Also I don't believe you can control music
rattus_rattus · 2 years ago
You can! I use my garmin a lot to switch songs on my iPhone, change volume, etc.

But like the other commenter said, you can’t reply to notifications or calls when the watch is paired to an iPhone, but you could when paired to an Android, which is a feature I definitely miss from when I had a Pixel.

rattus_rattus commented on iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail   twitter.com/SeanSafyre/st... · Posted by u/wannacboatmovie
irrational · 2 years ago
It is strange two phones have been found, but not the door. Most of the Cedar Hills/Beaverton area is houses and shops with sporadic green spaces that aren’t that large in comparison. It is possible the door fell into a green space, but the odds are it did not. I imagine it is in someone’s backyard, but it is January in rainy Oregon. People aren’t doing yard work right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t found until Spring when someone goes out to their backyard and discovers it.

It would be amusing if it fell into the lake on Nike Campus. It is fairly shallow, but if it was in the middle, it might not be noticed for a long time.

rattus_rattus · 2 years ago
Edit: it has been found! I’m on mobile and not able to find a better link right now, but here’s an NTSB spokesperson discussing it: https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064737668850&story...

Sounds like the thing in the woods mentioned below was not the real deal and just some other bit of garbage or something that was dumped in the brush.

Previous comment:

I live in this neighborhood and saw a post on Nextdoor a little bit ago that indicates the door/panel may have been found. The text of the post is as follows: “My husband and I were walking the trail behind the Renaissance Town-homes near Barnes and Valeira View and we saw a large white oval object with a teal stripe on it in the brambles between the creek and Barnes Road. Two others saw it too and they called non-emergency. WCSO and the NTSB showed up but they could not affirm that that is what is was. As my husband said, nobody will know until they walk over to it. Unfortunately the undergrowth prevented us from doing so. We'll see, or not.”

The description of it having a teal stripe could match up with the missing panel, although we obviously can’t be sure yet if it is actually the missing part. I also saw a post from one of the folks who found a phone, and they had included a photo of where they found it, which I recognized to be fairly close to the place where the door was potentially found.

Sometimes we hear stuff on our roof, but it’s always just pinecones falling or a squirrel running around… makes me grateful we haven’t had a Donnie Darko scene in our yard or on our roof!

rattus_rattus commented on The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display   shop.invisible-computers.... · Posted by u/spansoa
chomp · 2 years ago
I really want to do this with a pi zero w, but with a larger screen. 7.5” is barely larger than a door placard.
rattus_rattus · 2 years ago
I have a similar thing running using a Zero WH and Inkycal. The screen I have is the same size (7.5 inches) but you can use bigger ones too. I didn’t want to shell out more money initially for a larger screen, but I may upgrade it later.
rattus_rattus commented on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight   damninteresting.com/the-g... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
r00f · 3 years ago
There is one part in that article that I cant understand. It says:

> ...when flight attendants opened the rear emergency exits, they found that the tail was so high in the air that the slides didn’t touch the ground. Sliding down them was less like schoolyard fun and more like jumping off the second or third floor of a building

But then it proceeds showing a photo of deployed rear exit slides, and judging by human standing there they almost touched the ground, the difference is like half that human at most. Now, while I agree that jumping from 1 meter may be too much for some people, comparing it with 3rd floor jump is totally out of place. What am I missing here?

rattus_rattus · 3 years ago
I am guessing that the slides would swing backwards into a more vertical position if someone were to try to use it, because the bottom wasn’t touching the ground and thus preventing the swinging movement. This would then cause the slide to then be an essentially vertical drop instead.
rattus_rattus commented on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?    · Posted by u/puttycat
odysseus · 3 years ago
What does "raises the register" in this context mean?
rattus_rattus · 3 years ago
It means the formality level of text. I think that person was saying that within their family chats, they perceive that using capitals and punctuation makes the messages feel unnecessarily/inappropriately formal.
rattus_rattus commented on System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code   github.com/system76/launc... · Posted by u/nitinreddy88
timgilbert · 5 years ago
Wait - it looks like you have to use Fn-Q or Fn-` for ESC?
rattus_rattus · 5 years ago
That's the original key mapping, yeah, but it's very easy to change in the software it comes with. I immediately re-mapped it so that the escape key works by itself.

You can change literally any key mapping you like, and do some wild stuff with it. I've got shortcuts for taking different types of screenshots mapped to key combos that are easy to reach, for example, because I take tons of screenshots for work.

u/rattus_rattus

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