I worked on self driving robots years ago, writing mapping software for the lidar units we used. It’s true that lidar is a dead end tech for generalized “self driving” - it has too many limitations and edge cases that cannot be reasonably worked around. It works ok for some things though, like detecting that something …

EPA mileage enhancer. Many people take them off and they are usually pretty easy to remove.

Possibly, but those edicts are always ruled to be impossible to enforce because the dead can’t tell the living what to do with their money. Real life ain’t like a sitcom.

Yeah. My takeaway from Isaacson’s biography is there is a shitload of trauma there. His childhood was horrible. His father is a villainous character. He was heavily bullied and is possibly (probably) neurodivergent and bipolar. A common way to deal with those things is to become a workaholic as an escape. A child also…

I felt this way about the GoT books - too many character names to keep track of (“which one was this again?”). Putting a face to them helped a lot.

This right here. It’s part of it. Subways are the Kia of restaurant franchises. It’s a lot cheaper to open one than the others but you know, maintenance needs to happen, and you get franchisees that aren’t prepared to spend what it takes to stay the long run - which is that you need to update your space every few…

Came here to say my favorite Sriracha is Yellowbird’s Blue Agave Sriracha. Huy Fong has a weird preservative flavor to it.

The last time I bought Tate’s (sometime in the fall) I was disappointed. Something changed when they became available all over the place and now they have some of that odd flavor that most of the shelf stable cookies have.

Yup. As I get to thinking how complex incidents often have blame assigned in percentages, certainly this young armorer takes a great deal of blame. But the production also has quite a bit too. She shouldn’t have taken the job but I could see how an eager 24 year old would be willing to do it, and then proceeds to get…

Barbie was fun. The Oscars don’t like fun movies.

CX-5 is probably on its way out. Older vehicle, older name style. Where does it fit in with the future plans? Probably does not. Perhaps this is the intended replacement - though the larger size could give people pause if they’re looking for a typical 2-row sized vehicle. But perhaps they’ve done their diligence and…

IMO this is recall worthy. My CX5 was recalled because lift gate struts could fail and cause it to come down on someone. This is just as bad if not worse

Probably the same thing sticky jellied children’s fingers do to stainless appliances: leaves a rust spot

Shocked and disappointed at its own existence. Reminds me of this

I’ve always felt there should be a spinoff with Pam and Cheryl called Poovey and Tunt

It’s all right there. He was busy and doesn’t care all that much about Frasier. It’s really that easy.

That is pretty amazing pricing. Around here, in Texas, a McDonalds egg mcmuffin combo is over $8 now and a basic #1 chick-fila is now just under $10. These are both over $2 higher than a few months ago.

If you read Isaacson’s biography of Musk you learn his dad didn’t really have that much money. Upper middle class. The vaunted “emerald mine” stock was worthless. And he was stingy - for a time, Elon, his siblings and his mother lived together in a one bedroom apartment.

Modest mid-level daycare runs about $1200 / month per child for 1 year olds here in Austin.

IIRC the most recent two with Grimes were both in vitro (his sperm, her egg) and a surrogate carried the children and gave birth to them.