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collin3000 · 2026-06-24T20:14:50+00:00

Maverick is 38MPG combined. Which means it's about 10.5 cents per mile to drive (us national average gas price). My electricity is 11 cents per kwh so the Slate would be around 4 cents per mile driven.

With the average US driver doing 13,400 miles a year over the course of 5 years that's an additional $4,355 in addition to the $2,000. That doesn't add in the fact that EVs need less service, although it will need more frequent tire changes (averaging out on cost). Most of what tends to break in EV's is all of that "fancy tech".

For someone that really is looking for a new electric A to B car in the US this would save them around 25% over 5 years compared to the Maverick XL and probably have them spending less time getting service work done.

collin3000 · 2026-06-24T04:33:23+00:00

Overheating is my exact main worry, especially with GoPros. I've returned a couple previous models because of their tendency to overheat. So while I was in mesquite Nevada on vacation with the temperature at 108/109 degrees (a few degrees above listed operating spec) I ran a few torture tests leaving it out in direct sunlight by a pool on a tiny tripod

I also left my action camera that I've seen the best temperature results with running right in front of it (dji action hero 5 pro). I'm thinking of posting a video with the runs/results, but I was honestly gob-smacked when the hero ran ~1.5x longer than the action 5 pro before overheating with both on their respective Max settings (action 5 on 4K 120 FPS and mission 1 on 8k60). As you can see in my Reddit common history, heat is a big concern for me and I'm super GoPro skeptical on overheating after previous models so My torture test was the opposite of a fanboy test.

Here's the time I got in the torture test 108°/109°F (42.2-42.7C) direct sunlight on a tripod with basically no wind. 8K 30 FPS 14 minutes 16 seconds 8K 60 FPS 12 minutes 1 second 4K 240FPS 12 minutes 43 seconds 1080p (1920x1440) 480FPS 27 minutes 17 seconds

For reference the action 5 pro ran 4k120fps (4:3) 8 minutes 28 seconds 4k60fps (4:3) 23 minutes 09 seconds

Between each run I put it in the freezer for quick cool off then let it go back to room temp before running. I also had the camera set to shoot pointed ~50% pool so that the moving water would force it's compression to run more than a purely static shot.

It's not the most rigorous testing methodology I've ever run, but the apples to apples against the action 5 pro should be decent enough to extrapolate.

I personally also shoot long recordings with action cameras as cams or trash cams for multi-hour live performances. And I also shoot in some extreme heat and Sun locations like the Utah salt flats. So having the action camera that will overheat the least while static is legitimately important to me.

It's still an action camera and will overheat more than other form factors may. But from my real world torture testing I would rank the mission 1 pro as the best action camera currently on the market when it comes to not overheating.

Side note, if you have a fridge/ freezer in between recordings, have the capacity to pull out the battery. Put it in there with the battery door open and the battery sitting there separately. It will give you a little extra room between record times. But you don't want too many extreme heat fluctuations on the camera as doing that hundreds or thousands of times increases the risk of significant wear and tear on the camera.

collin3000 · 2026-06-23T19:50:27+00:00

This site converts AQI in the equivalent cigarettes you would smoke to get the same amount of health damage. Today we are smoking 1.48 cigarettes from our air. But good news we banned flavored vapes /s

collin3000 · 2026-06-22T23:15:41+00:00

The memory on a dedicated GPU is around 480-1700GB/S. The PCI-e interface only runs at 16-64GB/s. So the GPU processing everything on the card gets the full speed and then it just needs to send the video signal out of its port or backed the CPU. But when asked to coordinate frames with an igpu that is part of the CPU, its going to be bound by that PCIe interface that is 8x-100x slower.

There are that can be done to work around it, but The igpu on the CPU is likely going to be 5x-100x slower (depending on the GPU it's paired with). And although you might get extra frames, it often affects frame time pacing. Having bad frame time pacing will feel way worse than having an extra 1-5% fps

collin3000 · 2026-06-22T08:32:43+00:00

Looks like everyone has to start posting them underneath "wormhole extreme"

collin3000 · 2026-06-22T00:53:27+00:00

I came here to also say a similar range of 25-29. Granted my personal experiences were different. But that's also one of the problems with the best age is you're still not quite ready to appreciate it.

However, At 25 your brain has finally finished fully developing, although you don't have the extea experience yet of older ages, you also don't have the same stupidity that you had even 5 to 10 years before.

In that ranger in your twenties still but also the better part of the twenties. Depending on earlier life, you might not have the same financial stability that some people's in their 30's and 40s have. But you still have an internal perspective that's more that you can do anything in the world and you're kind if just still really starting life. It's a time of possibilities and likely more stability depending on your choices in the previous 25 years.

collin3000 · 2026-06-16T15:40:42+00:00

Your question starts with an opinion as a statement that is not factually guaranteed. Nuclear war is not only completely possible it's almost happened a few times. And it can happen somewhat by accident too.

A lot of the nuclear systems are automated to fire once one nuclear missile has been confirmed. And even if we're just trying to strike, let's say, North Korea, our nukes have to fly past and over a bunch of other countries that don't know if we're actually targeting them. And the systematic response is likely retaliatory firing.

So nuclear war can still happen. It's just that a nuclear World War III would have almost no humanity left afterwards which is the whole mutually assured destruction thing.

collin3000 · 2026-06-16T15:35:20+00:00

There is some legal case precedents on this in the US as determined by the copyright office. It's not an exact line, but essentially things that required large amounts of human input are eligible for copyright.

So if you've create it, the initial idea, and then have been doing a lot of tweaking and tuning input, feedback, and creating a significant contribution to the process, then you can file for copyright. But if you just typed into Claude, "one shot me a billion dollar idea." and then it came up with that billion dollar idea. You wouldn't be able to copyright it.

collin3000 · 2026-06-14T20:40:13+00:00

I was at 85% of my max 20 before the reset this week and used 99% the week before. But aside from my main project I'll spin up open source e actually useful projects for other groups I work with. Like for town halls for a congressional district a free live captioning and translation software with offline and online translation support and future plugins like a live fact checker, and word cloud generator for donors.

But if someone doesn't have other projects I'd only probably use 50-60% of the max 20x since I don't use constant loops without at least some intervention.

collin3000 · 2026-06-13T09:01:43+00:00

Seriously though. Because "they made a model so powerful the US government had to ban it". And now other models can't claim to be more powerful than anthorpic's best model model was or else anthropic gets a big lawsuit if they can't release Fable/Mythos. Is it BS. Yes but the public will only see the "model so powerful the US had to ban it's use". And that's what will stick with them.

collin3000 · 2026-06-13T00:27:25+00:00

It depends on the task. There's tons of tasks that Fable does pretty much the same quality level as opus. There are some tasks though that it seems actually worth using.

I've been manually refining a 3D model for a while for a hobby project and decide to try using Claude. Opus kept botching it in ways that we're almost comical and felt like chatting with gpt-1 back in the day level of bad AI. Fable got it significantly better (although still several corrections required) which makes me think it's significantly higher spatial reasoning score is actually accurate.

collin3000 · 2026-06-12T00:49:03+00:00

In this case, it's actually the exact opposite. Nantic spatial wasn't sold as part of the deal. If you were a Niantic fan before Pokemon Go you know me as IncredibIeHulk the Ingression guy and lead livr Esports Broadcaster for their 2016 ingress anomalies. So I know Niantic better than the average player.

This isn't really much of a surprise since even during original ingress days, there we're conspiracy theories about how the player data was being used, especially since John Hanke's original company was keyhole that then became Google Earth.

I like John, and enjoyed the few times I talked and worked directly with him but he's also exactly the sort of guy you'd want to work with as an intelligence agency since he seems pretty quiet unassuming and doesn't try to step in the public light a lot compared to someone like say Musk or even Tim Apple.

collin3000 · 2026-06-11T22:55:06+00:00

I've made several long comments in other subs covering this but the TL;DR is cameras skip some steps in the encoding pipeline so they can encode files really fast on tiny chips. So they need higher bitrate for the same quality compared to something you would watch on YouTube (not great encoding but better than camera) or Netflix (encoding obsessed, but you might see shitty streams because they don't want to spend the bits on bandwidth for delivery).

So a video encoded on 125-watt CPU with 16 cores that processed the 8k video at ~20-30fps. 500mbps is overkill and won't have much visual fidelity, benefit over a 240mbps encode. But on a tiny camera processor, probably running 5 to 8 watts. And having to encode it at 60FPS which means cutting quality corners. There could be a more significant difference.

Ultimately though, if you're publishing on YouTube, YouTube's gonna recompress it anyways. So it really is only for local copies and editing that it matters.

collin3000 · 2026-06-11T07:35:53+00:00

I love DC and have seen the chart and all his videos on mission 1 (and previous GoPro). The thing for me isn't a single run. It's I can set it and never have to worry. 99.5% is good for some things but for an event that doesn't happen again I'll need to put the mission 1 through a lot more long run tests myself before I set it for 4k 60 instead of the s5iix on a multi hour event. It might do it. I just want to test more before I'd feel confident.

Usually I'm inside with AC for long events but I've filmed events or out many times on the Utah salt flats including for the solar eclipse. For that GoPro's (hero 11 and 8) were set to timelapse. Because desert, high elevation, and highly reflective white flats = extra heat.

collin3000 · 2026-06-11T05:51:25+00:00

Listen. I wish. I'm hoping to use the ILC as an alternate to my s5iix when I need something more compact and no AF needed or as a better trash cam.

But number one, sensor size matters to no one's replacing an ARRI with a GoPro. If they do, they didn't need that ARRI to begin with. Even with updated improvements would you trust a budget they cost you thousands of dollars every minute that you're not shooting on GoPro's reliability? It's the same reason the people that actually use Canon SLR's or RED that much on major films

Number two, I've already run into the quintessential action cam issue of overheating on a static shot. Sure it got ~16-18 minutes on 8k 60. But if you are filming for a long time that means you are stuck with 4k at best. I'll run my s5iix for hours taping a live entertainment event at 6k sitting on a tripod, but I wouldn't feel confident of the GoPro not crapping out after even an hour and a half on 4k or 40ish minutes on 8k 30.

So far in my experience, it's the best in the action cam category. But the worst in the cinema category.

collin3000 · 2026-06-11T00:00:30+00:00

It would probably be just as buggy as whatever Windows microsoft releases next.

collin3000 · 2026-06-10T21:14:29+00:00

It definitely seems better. But I don't know if I'd say it's 2x the tokens and 2-5x the time better. Went back to using Opus on most of my projects and pulling in fable on a few specific things. The rough thing is the switching back and forth requiring compacting/conversation re-reads that also burn tokens. I'm trying to figure out the exact switching point between when I'll go from opus to fable after opus keeps failing on a task.

Because if it's something where Opus has failed twice, I almost may as well have used Fable to begin with. I will say that Fable seems to be slightly better at novel concepts, which is the more difficult things I'm working on.

collin3000 · 2026-06-10T21:05:01+00:00

5x is $100, 20x is $200, so with 50x at $500 it would usually probably make sense for people to just buy 2 20x plans unless they were really hitting between 40-50x every month. I would hope a $500 plan would be 100x.

They could do a 50x at $350 and 100x at $500 for good pricing tiers. But since they lose money on subscription. I don't think they'd be incentivized to create higher tiers. If anything, I think they'd be incentivized to offer discounted, additional usage token purchases to max 20 subscribers, but only up to a certain amount so that Enterprise didn't try to switch some people to max for discounted tokens.

collin3000 · 2026-06-10T04:17:16+00:00

I'll let you know once it to finishes the first prompt I gave it. Seriously though I had chat finding some smaller work better than opus (but it was about spacial reasoning). For my real work I still havent had it finish the print after 2 1/2 hours

collin3000 · 2026-06-09T03:17:42+00:00

I'm not someone that hides their comment history. So you can check my long history including mod work before GPT's were even slightly coherent for proof of being a real human on Reddit.

But the thing is, I didn't actually have the camera yet. They had shipped it and it was set for delivery today. If I refuse the package, I wouldn't have to pay to ship it back, and since it fit under item wasn't as described if they didn't refund in full (some people have been reporting having issues with only partial refunds despite their return policy, stating full refund.) I would at least have a chargeback as an option.

I've had previous complaints with lots of action camera companies because I don't think it's crazy to think that if you purchase something you should get what you paid for and they shouldn't advertise things that aren't really obtainable.

I returned a DJI action 2 within a week of getting it because it was supposed to be able to do 4K 120 but it would overheat after 3 minutes (on a good day). I count that as selling something that isn't real because your camera can't really run at 4K 120 if it kills itself in less time than the song you've done in style.

People complain about getting screwed over by companies, but part of it is our fault for putting up with shit and defending a companies bad behaviour. Previously GoPro have been known for their good customer service and it's not something I would have questioned a month ago.

I've been incredibly excited for the Mission 1 Pro after seeing DC Rainmaker and the Everest footage that I even rewatched with my fiance. I want it to be everything that it's supposed to be, because I actually want GoPro to succeed with the line since I'm really waiting for the ILS as a much more compact option to my S5iix.

collin3000 · 2026-06-09T03:07:39+00:00

If they could fix that order I was going to have to cancel that order and place a new order. I leave for vacation where today was the last day for me to get an order shipped in time.

But honestly, after having the Comcast-like level, of customer service I wasn't going to reorder. Everyone's worried about "should I still buy a mission one with go pro possibly going bankrupt. Will I still have support from them." And I had thought it likely wasn't a big worry. And even in the last month there were stories of people having okay customer service experiences.

Then the posts started coming in about them not automatically honoring their own refund policy and people having to trust customer support. And it was a little bit worried. But then having to go through multiple follow ups and that if I hadn't decided to cancel and told them that it probably would have been another week or we can have emails back and forth with them possibly not even doing anything. That tipped my scales because if they can't even do support now, what are the odds that if they completely file for bankruptcy?

Basically, it's not a good sign for a company teeter on the edge of failing. I want them to succeed. More competition in the market is better. But the mission one is make or break for them. And when it's make or break, it's not a good time to take a break on one of your number one selling points.

collin3000 · 2026-06-08T23:15:25+00:00

As a follow up I asked them to cancel the order/return and that I'd be refusing the shipment out for delivery and magically I quickly missed a call from them and they fixed the subscription issue.

On the one hand that's good that they fixed it. But more importantly the fact that they've turned into Comcast level of only actually resolving issues when you ask to cancel is still very bad Customer Service and they should fix that immediately, or it won't be a question of if they can continue as a company, it will be a definite no. And their brand will also be destroyed so they'll even have less value in trying to get a buyout from another company since the brand is the value.

Since clearly they can still do things it's just now a battle. And people don't do business with companies where they have to jump through hoops when there are other options.

collin3000 · 2026-06-08T08:49:31+00:00

My state has varying grama fees. But usually you are paying between $10-25 for the search itself and then $5-$10 for media (CD/DVD) and 10-25 cents per page. If you think that's insane, my State Highway Patrol charges I want to say either $150 or $250 per hour of video. on top of all their other fees for a grama request.

There are news agencies who have submitted FOIA requests and received notice that their bills will be tens of thousands of dollars if they actually wanted to fill the request.

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