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  • Oh absolutely, and at PayPal he had multiple cofounders to do all of the hard work for him

  • Elon Musk clearly has enourmous skillset at managing startups from their early stages though their explosive growth stages. He's successfully done so both with Tesla and SpaceX. Unfortunately his management skills are clearly incompatible with running a large company that makes up a notable portion of a market. He should have stepped away from Tesla about a decade ago (possibly as much as 15 years ago). He should have stepped away from SpaceX about 5 years ago. He should be known for growing a promising disruptive startup into a true market player then immediately handing the reigns away and moving onto the next startup, but his ego is simply too big for that, and he doesn't seem to have the introspection to see the damage he's doing to the companies he built up

  • Honestly, while not a scientifically rigerous test, it does demonstrate through absurdity the real risks of computer vision only for driver assist features.

    Real world examples including of course the Tesla that plowed into a white truck on a foggy day because it mistook the truck for absolutely nothing among too many others

  • Seriously what is it with the Archer writers having far more subject matter expertise (and creating jokes by depicting accurate reactions to action movie tropes) than almost any other show?

  • My base model 2019 Sonata has pretty decent blind spot monitoring too. A couple of days after I got the car it's blind spot monitoring saw a speeding vehicle going too fast for me to see it coming (they turned off of another street a handful of houses up then must've floored the gas) as I was backing out and went flying past. It literally saw the speeding car through another vehicle and gave me enough warning to stop safely.

    Sometimes it does yell at me that a fence is present at the edge of the lane I'm merging into, but it's just alerting beeping that can be disabled with 1 physical button press so it's very useful for rush hour beltline driving, even if I have yet to have it spot a vehicle I haven't in any other situations

  • Honestly the best response to that kind of thing is just "lol based" completely short-circuits them

  • When I was buying my last car I overheard a couple huffing and making a big show of walking out over the trade-in offer they were given for their vehicle. The sales person responded they could have offered a lot more if the oil had ever been changed in the vehicle

  • Personally, I think setting up a reverse proxy for accessing Jellyfin would be fine, just make sure you've got your firewall setup accordingly to limit exposure should someone gain access to the container/VM running Jellyfin

  • Building off of this, the PDF standard supports all sorts of craziness. It can have embedded math and logic similar to excel files, to the point there's templates available for banks which will automatically calculate entire loans (including weird ones like balloon mortgages and variable interest rate stuff) without leaving Adobe Reader, and the recent Doom PDF and Linux PDF projects exploit the fact that pdfs support embedded javascript.

    There's also an actual market for enterprise PDF templates like the banking ones I described with automatic calculations and whatnot. So some people literally make their living selling PDFs to businesses that businesses actually use

  • I used it briefly in a class around 2015ish. It worked about as well as any Adobe software does, but honestly it was really difficult to use and quite frankly it probably would take just as long to learn the HTML and CSS skills necessary to make a decent website as it would to learn how to make one in Dreamweaver

  • Randall's done several about climate change, more back when climate change denial was more widespread

    https://xkcd.com/1321/ Cold https://xkcd.com/1379/ 4.5 Degrees https://xkcd.com/1732/ Earth Temperature Timeline https://xkcd.com/2500/ Global Temperature Over My Lifetime

    Or just check the tag for "politics" on explainXKCD. Randall's endorsed political candidates before as well as generally shown a general libertarian and later left-leaning bent

    Oh also this one relatively recently was pretty fun

    https://xkcd.com/2515/ Vaccine Research

  • My wife had a doctor literally walk out of the room when she mentioned in addition to the abdominal pain she was having post-c-section she also had had a period non stop for 3 months straight. Y'know because she mentioned her period

  • Truth is, he wasn't trying to. Vance wanted to show off his zombie Jesus costume, but it turned out to be a killer costume!

    (I just wanted to throw something in that isn't the same jokes everyone else is making)

  • Unfortunately this seems to be exactly the case for learning all of the weird quirks is that you just have to experience them as they happen. Fortunately most windows admin career paths include a period in an MSP where you'll see lots of cursed configs exposing lots of edgecases, but basically keep your eyes and ears open and try to learn on your feet

  • The worst part is it's inconsistent! Sometimes it likes / sometimes it needs to be \ and every once in a while it needs to be /

  • Wait THAT'S the trans episode that everyone says is super-transphobic? In the context of being released in 2008 it's perfectly fine. There's probably be a few things that should be different if it were made today (and honestly, its been a few years since I've seen it so I might be not remembering some important yikes moment or something) but my takeaway was always that Douglas is still an asshole and April is an amazing woman who can do so much better than him

    Edit to add: Honestly far worse is the Aunt Irma plotline. Most of the jokes are that "haha these guys are acting like girls" and that plot honestly kinda fell flat because of it

  • I mean, the IT Crowd ran for 5 seasons while actually being funny to people working in the field it portrays, unlike Big Bang Theory which many nerds (not just physicists) find un-funny

  • Pretty sure there's an xkcd comic joking about the backup speech in case they returned with more astronauts than they left with

  • In case you don't know, it's from the film Oh Brother Where Art Thou. The film is an absolute trip, and it's a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey but set in depression era US South. Great music and honestly just a completely hard to predict movie at every twist and turn