Well I mean actuaries are like savants. Years ago in uni my calc III college prof was one. Amazingly sharp dude. Do I think insurance companies over-generalize their risk assessments? Yupp. Do insurance companies likely ignore their actuaries and set premiums to make outrageous profit? Probably.

Disclosure: I hate insurance companies. Also that professor was super weird

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's funny that even though theft rates have plummeted since the mass software upgrade, premiums have stayed high. They have savant-level mathematicians (actuaries) evaluating risk and even with compelling data showing otherwise, they choose to keep labeling these cars high risk and continue to charge exorbitant premiums.

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I work in the plastics industry. TiO2 is definitely our pigment of choice for white colorant

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

"I'm vegan! I don't need to shower! I don't produce mucus or smell because of my superior diet. Brb I'm gonna go wash my feet in the toilet!" -Steve Jobs

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Ram trucks also are the #1 vehicle for DUIs in the US.

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

So there's no way for Linux cups drivers to run these printers. Another reason to pass on them!

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

That sucks. The controller that came with my Xbox S randomly developed stick drift so bad it was trashed. I got maybe 10 hours of use out of it.

I bought a third party controller with digital stick encoders to prevent the problem because Microsoft refuses to fix their controller design.

Oh well guess I'm disabling console updates now

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I imagine these are elements that are so short-lived they decay into known daughter particles in fractions of a second

Interesting! Is this the only one in Wyoming or are there other geological features like this with a similar origin?

I noticed that too and I dumped Chrome for FF on every machine I use as soon as I read about this

Why not? Is this not an appropriate place to park?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world to c/justrolledin@lemmy.world

The chain sprocket here is supposed to rotate the keyed shaft below. At some point the 1/4" sq key came out. Instead of replacing the key, someone decided to try to just tighten the tiny set screw in the sprocket until it bottomed out on the keyway floor. It didn't end well and the keyway got trashed.

I cleaned up the keyway and installed a new key.

Then I milled a 1/4" slot into one half of a split shaft collar, and installed the collar over the part of the exposed key where the keyway in the shaft was damaged. Finally I installed a regular split shaft collar to butt against the end of the new key to keep it from backing out again. Final pic

[-] WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they could fix these issues via OTA then they wouldn't be forced to do physical recalls. They've had windshields fly out of their frames at highway speed, steering wheels come off, catastrophic lower ball joint separation, vehicles leaving their factory with missing brake pads...software updates only take you so far

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