Unlike the other guy, I did get that it was just an intro thing and appreciate the paper airplane suggestions underneath, but thought I’d throw out that correction because people don’t read too good nowadays and I thought making that statement without the explicit correction would reinforce that pervasive misconception…

Just like many other things “everyone knows” it’s wrong that we don’t know how bees fly. We do know, and have known for a while-

I don’t look for a very good reason- if I do I’m more likely to flinch/have involuntary muscle twitches around the needle while it’s in. Makes it much more painful.

3D printed a batman mask for my mutt off Thingiverse (I had to massively upscale it for her huge block head). She didn’t wear it for long, but way longer than I got the cat to wear his plate mail armor.

3D printed a batman mask for my mutt off Thingiverse (I had to massively upscale it for her huge block head). She…

This is overcomplicating something that is incredibly simple to do:

That’s already kind of happened in at least one place. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me couldn’t handle the sheer number of ridiculous Trump-related headlines and stories, so they created a speed round of them and are calling it “The Trump Dump”.

I made this mistake in a recent comment too- you might expect these errors with lidar (which other autonomous vehicle control systems use) but Tesla’s system only uses radar that is not subject to optical reflection artifacts.

Good catch- I was thinking about the sensor packages used in other autonomous vehicle systems and not about Tesla’s specifically.

Maybe wavelength has something to do with it- this was a red laser in a scanner intended to capture the shape of a residual limb for fabricating prosthetic sockets. But I would guess that it might have something to do with how much better the performance of the tape is than the runway paint. I think the paint is just…

As someone who has used laser scanners on things with retroreflective tape on them (it’s difficult and requires very different settings than nonreflective surfaces), the first thing I thought was that the retroreflective graphics on the fire truck confused the lidar and autopilot system. But yeah, those highway signs…

I’m with you on the research and most of your points, except for the “ONLY reason” line. It’s the primary reason, but there are definitely sociopaths out there where their primary reason for doing it is that they enjoy abusing people - that they they need to do it / it works is just their excuse.

Two or three years after moving to our new house the old owners shipped three automatic watering timers ($20 each) to their old (and our current) house . I called Amazon & they said to keep them. Awesome timing, because I was actually going to order one for myself soon, so this saved me the trouble and the money, gave…

I’ve done both and mostly agree, but don’t discount 3 minutes of punching and kicking if the instructor is sufficiently sadistic. I’ve almost passed out a few times trying to keep up with round kick pyramid drills.

Top pic is a sea otter. This is a river otter. Smaller, less mustachioed, less rapey, but still mean and vicious.

I think we agree entirely. Writing should be made as simple and clear as possible given the specific topic and audience. It was the “whatever you are writing” part that was my main complaint. What you are writing and who you are writing it for matters a great deal.

Exactly. There are lots of problem with science journalism and using big words is probably one of the smaller ones. 100% agree with attempting to make things as clear as possible and not needlessly complicate things, but the “whatever you are writing” part was my main complain. What you are writing and who you are…

I don’t see how “Whatever you’re writing, you should probably try to reach a lower reading level.” can be drawn from that data. It’s generally good advice when you’re writing for a lay audience, but it’s horrible advice if you are writing for technical journals or for a scientific audience. Your audience very much…

Imagine raquetball, but played without the right side wall (that’s how the audience watches) using hand baskets that fling giant golf balls fast enough to kill people (upwards of 150mph). Hell yeah you can gamble on it. I’m surprised that it isn’t more popular. I bet it would be if the injuries and fatalities were…

Noscript works for me.

I wanted to give you a star for this, but you’re at 666 right now and I don’t want to take that away from you.