Bananasonfire t1_j8w399j wrote on February 17, 2023 at 10:52 AM

Reply to comment by wicklowdave in Compared to wolf pups and kittens, dog puppies tend to spontaneously match actions demonstrated by a human — even in the absence of food rewards by marketrent

Why? Dogs are living the life of luxury compared to wolves! There's a reason wolves were domesticated in the first place.

Bananasonfire t1_iy0az5q wrote on November 27, 2022 at 7:56 PM

Reply to Renault's heavy electric trucks are now available to order by Sorin61

Like the cybertruck, unless they're using something other than lithium ion batteries, it's probably not going to work.

Bananasonfire t1_is4qt8d wrote on October 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM

Reply to comment by shamblingman in Pensioner with broken hip left lying on cold street for nine hours due to no ambulances by turbo_chuffa

Okay, think of it this way:

Say you're a widget maker. It costs you $500 to run all the machines you need to make 100 widgets. Next year, due to new widget requirements such as higher complexity or some other factor, the costs to make the same widgets has increased to $700. Your boss, instead of increasing your maintenance budget to $700 to cover the increased cost, only increases your budget to $550, which isn't enough to keep the machines running, and so you can only make, say... 75 widgets.

This happens year on year for over a decade, until the costs for running the machines are actually $2000, but your budget is only $1000, so you can only make 50 widgets. Yes, your budget has gone up every year, but not inline with costs, and as a result, you've actually received a 50% cut in your maintenance budget.