Usually sensors stop working. I had a Kensington slimblade whose tracking light just stopped turning on, for example. No amount of cleaning will bring it back.
Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla is not the only player. All brands now have EVs, there are both cheaper and more luxurious Chinese EVs, that's some massive competition.
The only reasons Tesla could be valued differently are FSD and Robotics, which Musk and Tesla-friendly analysts are heavily pushing. Since Musk has made massive loans against his Tesla stake you can expect that he will keep highlighting those narratives as well. A revaluation of the stock to sane levels would certainly cause him some financial difficulties.
To be fair I believe we all have this basic bias. For example, when I have a streak of failures, I approach another task with caution, even though it may be simple and normally I'd do it easily. And when I have several successes, I get overconfident and commit to hard tasks (and sometimes even complete them, by a combination of experience, luck, and other factors). Musk had some great successes and believes it is his inherent feature. (Or, at least, this is how he appears.)
The good thing is that we, as humanity, benefit from his successes, but have also deal with his unfulfillable promises, not to mention occasional fits.
Several decades of published research that hint at correlations between EM exposure and health issues coupled with military grade cynicism about the likelihood that industry players had a hand in late breaking claims that said research was inconclusive.
Talking about phone charging in this context is like discussing airsoft pellets in a conversation about war munitions. It's patently absurd. Please do not perpetuate the idea that a low current air core transformer charging a phone is in any way invisibly harmful. It's not.
If this claim was trivially provable it would have been conclusively proven by now and yet there persists hints that chronic EM exposure, even at relatively low power, may cause problems. I vividly recall a cluster of research that blipped into the media landscape for a couple hours a few decades ago that suggested long-term exposure to cellphone broadcast antennas might be problematic and cell chargers necessarily push a hell of a lot more power. To be absolutely clear I'm not claiming to have any answers here, my areas of expertise don't cover this. I would expect any research that comprehensively dispels concerns about EM exposure to make a shitload of noise in the media landscape and to the best of my knowledge that hasn't happened.
You are exposed to greater than 1000W/m^2 of broadband EM every time you go outside; the sun shines WAY outside the visible spectrum, you know. Have you ever ridden in an electric or hybrid electric vehicle? Have you been on a train or ship? Have you walked near a power transformer or driven past a substation? These all produce field effect many many orders of magnitude stronger than we are discussing here.
You are pulling out every logical fallacy in the book in your approach to this question. EM exposure is rigorously studied and safety standards have existed almost as long as we have known about electromagnetism! About the only time that a normal person even comes close to needing to worry about them is when getting an MRI or climbing a radio tower.
Johnny Mnemonic was a work of fiction, not a documentary.
Careful there. In your haste to make your point you're dragging in proven causes of various health issues. The fields coming off of high voltage transmission equipment have been comprehensively proven to cause negative health effects. As to safety standards, MSDS standards have been around since 1983 and somehow they didn't prevent literally the entire surface of the planet from being contaminated with PFAS. You're not going to make a lot of headway here if your chosen tack is to advance coy notions that industry safety standards are rigorous.
To be absolutely clear, I'm not convinced low power EM causes problems. I'm also not convinced it doesn't. What I am absolutely certain of is that given the global scope of the industries that are implicated here, there isn't a legislative body on the planet that would so much as inconvenience them if there was a problem and it was know.
So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adjust the metric to filter out getter/setter)
Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but after a couple months I received an email from the registry regarding one domain telling me to prove I was an US citizen. I couldn't, Namecheap support told me they couldn't help either. So the domain was suspended. A few days later they suspended the other domains which they found since they belonged to the same contact. Partly my fault for not reading the registry rules I guess but definitely a bad experience.
What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years.
Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.
Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome.
That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pdfs is that they contain highlights/notes, so you can directly import them into Zotero and all your annotations are there. For epub, you have to hope there is a way to export the annotations that are stored by the reader app, and then you have to process them further. Readera is a great reader for mobile that makes this possible. I'm currently working on a script that will convert an epub to pdf, extract the annotations from Readera, and mark them in the pdf. Then I can import the pdf into Zotero, while still retaining the great reading experience of epubs.
I had a similar problem loading the page on Firefox for desktop with private browsing. It turns out service workers don't work in private browsing, which it seems Bene (the software rendering the page) requires. Switching to a normal Firefox window solved the problem.
One of the nice benefits I can already experience in his document it the working TOC sidebar which allow navigation in the document. (Compared to classical HTML not PDF)
If you are spending more than two hours per day at your desk, it is worth it. There are some cheap ones out there that are OK (200€) but even a sturdy one is not that expensive, when you consider the time you spend there and the benefits to your health.
