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Image recognition will be able to figure out the obvious items, and hopefully the expiration dates, too, but it’s not going to be able to figure out that opaque containers are nearly empty or identify leftovers in tupperware. It’s also probably going to be unable to identify when loose produce is past its best unless it’s extremely rotten.

Some things off the top of my head are:

• you could set the temperature to a number of degrees via a numerical display, which would be much harder to implement without a microcontroller.
• maybe you could have PID control over the compressor rather than bang-bang control, so the temperature would be more stable.
• these days, a bimetallic strip costs more than a microcontroller and a chip thermometer, despite the chip being much more accurate.

All of this only requires a really dumb microcontroller, though, not one with networking. I don’t see how that could be useful until your fridge could magically track what it contains so you could ask it if you needed to buy stuff while you were shopping. I don’t think we have the technology for that yet.

Yes, it’s really easy to look up because you already learned the song’s title.

If, as the article says, he was planning to drive to Scotland, he might just have decided he’d need fuel for the long journey and filled up without knowing whether the car was nearly full or nearly empty already.

It sounds like they missed some civilians and accidentally hit an unfortunately-located legitimate military target instead.

He was murdered by a second, much larger, knife, which wasn’t covered by the allowance for ceremonial knives for religious reasons, so the killer was already breaking existing knife laws. It’s not like Steven Yaxley ‘Tommy Robinson’ Lenon and his supporters will ever care about this, though.

The attorney general has referred the case to the court of appeals for resentencing, so the politicians seem to think that there’s been some kind of fuckup applying the sentencing guidelines that politicians set. It’s news because this isn’t normal, and the mechanisms to resolve it are in motion. They’ll probably take years to sort it out, as the justice system is incredibly slow and wildly overwhelmed after over a decade of funding cuts and policy decisions that force people to resort to crime, but in 2040 or whenever they get around to it, the decision is almost certainly going to be that the judge made a mistake.

He was governor of the Bank of England for a while, so he’s not totally unrelated to the UK.

Isn’t an adult pretending to be a child in porn already illegal? That seems like something that would always have been illegal.

The article is a bit untrustworthy as it keeps switching between Hornet and Super Hornet, even though they’re different planes, and an expert would know that.

You’ve linked an article about a tank with an anti-drone cage being defeated, so even if it does point out that there are situations where a shaped charge can be made to work on a drone, it doesn’t support the original claim that shaped charges can be protected against by a small anti-drone cage.

Armour piercing shaped charges are more sensitive to the direction they hit at than to the distance, so they’re unsuitable for use on drones because you’re rarely, if ever, going to line them up just right, and armour piercing squash head munitions need to be going fast enough that they squash against the armour they’re trying to pierce before detonation, so need to be carried by something much faster than a drone. Suicide drones just have a lump of explosive as heavy as they can carry, and being 30cm further away from a simple explosion rarely stops it ruining your day.

That was mainly when Russian equipment was getting mesh fitted directly to its outside instead of cheap netting being placed over roads. If you fit an anti-drone cage to something, it only moves the explosion about a foot further away, which often isn’t enough to make a meaningful difference to survivability. If you make the cage bigger, your vehicle stops fitting though gaps, so that’s not practical. Covering a road can keep the explosion metres away, though, and protects everything using the road rather than just the one vehicle.

They still need making and putting up, and they’re more obtrusive than a swift brick as they stick out instead of being embedded in the wall itself.

There’s kind of need for them everywhere and this is a pretty practical way to ensure they end up everywhere and will stay there.

It might also be completely unusable if it’s going to be touched by human hands, as hands get sweaty, and sweat is salty water.

Drax often bids more for waste wood than the lumber industry would get for selling timber, so there’s already an incentive to declare any wood they can unsuitable. As long as there’s a way to get wood to Drax, the industry will find and exploit it.

Magnets from Temu were probably just loose in a bag or some bubble wrap with no warning label. People should know they’re not food anyway, but defying a warning label wasn’t the particular flavour of dumbness exhibited here.

I don’t know if this is the same loophole used in NZ as in the UK and EU, but in the UK and EU, lots of things are banned from retail rather than completely illegal. If they’re imported and the importer sells them without demonstrating that they’re safe, the importer has committed a crime. If the importer keeps them for personal use, that’s fine, though. In theory, people ordering things from outside the EU and importing them are supposed to be aware that they’re importing things and that the stores aren’t necessarily only selling CE-marked goods, so they’re responsible for checking that they’re safe themselves, but in practice, people just see an online shop and don’t make a distinction from a domestic online shop except the price and delivery time. The EU is working on a law to close this loophole in some way.

Planking was just lying down on things, so hardly an instance of teenagers endangering themselves.

The tide pod thing wasn’t exactly what it seemed to be. Some children with learning disabilities and some people with dementia had died from mistaking laundry pods for food. At some point, some media outlets decided to sensationalise it by leaving out the bit about learning disabilities. That meant that there were teenagers who thought other teenagers had died from eating them, so they could make videos pretending they’d done that, just like teenagers have staged videos to make it look like they’re doing dangerous things that they aren’t really doing ever since people have let them have cameras. Some of them decided that the easiest way to pretend was to put a real laundry pod in their mouth, pretend to chew it and swallow, pretend to die, and then cut the video and spit it out. If they checked the relevant warnings on the packet, they just said not to eat them and to rinse their eyes if they got any there, so this plan might seem safe. However, laundry pods are so corrosive against mucous membranes that putting one in your mouth and spitting it out immediately because it starts to burn immediately can still be fatal or cause permanent injury. The media reported the deaths and injuries as if teenagers were intentionally eating laundry pods, rather than pretending in a way the packet implied might be safe, so most people weren’t learning that pretending was also deadly and that the warnings on the packet weren’t exhaustive, so it just made fake tide pod challenge videos even more tempting. If the reporting had been more responsible, then most people would have first heard even pretending to eat laundry pods can kill rather than teenagers are eating laundry pods.