Right? I remember going online for the first time as a 13 year old and writing the most dumb immature things because that’s what a 13 year old is. Thankfully it was long enough ago that when those sites shut down the data was gone for good and not in some permanent cloud archive. As a society, we gotta evolve the…

I love this picture. The Leica with inexplicable Nikon D-something strap and of course, a Mighty Ducks hockey shirt.

Hot take because I didn’t watch the entire video... This is likely a related effect to the one that allows sailboats to move faster than the wind in the sails- it’s gathering energy in multiple ways. Unlike a sailboat though the airfoils are moving so it can work going straight in the wind

We spent months looking for a sectional to fit our weird sized room and ended up with a custom one from build-a-sofa. Despite the kinda cheesy name they were great and surprisingly affordable for a custom sectional. Built in California and shipped wherever. Great service too.

The divide by 2 plus 7 rule to age differences really does apply to keeping things not creepy.

Dude’s gonna get slapped with contempt of court and sit in timeout for awhile. No money will get him out either

Saturn wasn’t adequately updated. The first gens were somewhat popular but GM never invested enough again to truly update the product and the tooling because the sales numbers weren’t high enough to justify it. It was a time when badge engineering came into full force and GM’s other brands just sold slightly different…

Or this 2016 Sentra vs 1994 Sentra (was still made in Mexico as a 2015 model)

To be fair, this is very hard to predict if the re-entry is uncontrolled. “Where” depends on a highly precise when - because of the velocity involved, a moment’s difference changes the impact point by thousands of miles. And when its uncontrolled, the timing fluctuates considerably based on atmospheric conditions.

I wonder how bad the sales figures on the previous generation had to be to do this complete 180 on the styling.

The window thing may be because of building code that requires a bedroom have access to “natural” light. In theory the light from the living room with real windows could come through it.

I had a previous-gen Mazda 3 with a dipstick stamped “FoMoCo”. A few other FoMoCo parts could be found in the suspension too.

I’m assuming you mean cruise control or automatic braking. That’s a very simple form of it that doesn’t have to work at long range, in 3 dimensions or with significant resolution. This is about mapping, object recognition and localization within a live environment - something an autonomous vehicle must have. While it…

What will happen? They will learn an important lesson about doing their due diligence before giving someone money. Even a “big company” with a well known owner.

A long time ago, IBM sold (or leased) their computers and gave away the software for free as bonus to the customer. Eventually as the technology and the market for it matured and they realized the value in the software this practice went away. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day updating to next year’s model’s software…

This is what I mean by it is “available technology” It’s already on the market. You can get something done with it. You can do some research - build a vehicle, experiment with mapping and identify other issues to be tackled. You can scan a scene and get some depth information... unless it is raining/foggy/overly…

I worked on autonomous driving robots in a well known university lab. I worked on the mapping software that used LIDAR. It’s very unreliable. LIDAR has no future - it simply doesn’t have and can never have the depth of information required. Not enough range, not enough resolution, the fact it requires emitting a…

When I was in college 20 years ago the racist frats were well known and the sentiment was you avoided attending their parties unless you too wanted to be seen as a racist / sympathizer. Exception could be made for clueless freshmen ending up at one, once.

I had one as a rental a few years back. Design wise much better than typical anonymous rentals like the Focus were. You almost forgot it was a cheap car. But then you were reminded of it as soon as you started to move - the drivetrain was a noisy, shaky mess that you had to gun to get moving.