Technically GDP is just a measure of cash flow. So how much the government, private business and individuals spend all dumped together with all spending on imports subtracted. High GDP means lots of money changing hands but doesn’t necessarily care who’s hands, just that money is flowing.

That’s fair. Monty Python is a very specific type of humor, and while very popular amongst some, if you don’t get it, you don’t get it.

In case you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000, it’s actually a reference to the famous Monty Python Spanish Inquisition skit

Fetch…THE COMFY CHAIR!!

404media requires an account but gives you some number of articles per day for free. It’s annoying but they have super good reporting with more depth than many publications without being long winded like some

The big benefit is that much horsepower allows the phone to very very rapidly “race to sleep” in that the faster it can crunch the numbers then return to a much slower clock the less power it’ll consume overall

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

These new Semaglutide medications work by mucking with one’s appetite and slowing digestion. It’s actually mimicking a natural process that occurs in a species of desert lizard if I remember correctly.

So they work, and in trials they found people. lost at most about 30% of body fat, which is significantly more than any previous weight loss drug, but for folks who need to lose more than 30% they won’t reach their goal body weight. (But it does certainly make the Hollywood approach of taking semiglutides to rapidly lose a fairly small amount of weight make more sense)

I pulled an 11 hour workday recently between my main job and my side-gig. With my current insane commute I spent waking to going to sleep either working or commuting. The next day I crashed hard after work and went to bed with a massive migraine immediately after returning home from my full time job. My limit is clearly ~10 hours in a day even with a breaks peppered in

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

Yeah I’ve purposely broken some fiber just to learn what kind of stress it can handle. I had to literally fold it over on itself to snap it

And for unidirectional we’re rapidly approaching 1.2Tb at the top end. 400Gb and 800Gb are becoming pretty standard in the datacenter world. Fiber is wild!

I have a relative who developed a deadly allergy to dill suddenly, as in her throat starts closing if she’s in the same room as a pickle deadly. She has a lot of difficulty contacting companies to find out if dill is one of the “natural flavors” in their products, because many will simply stonewall any attempts to learn if she can safely consume their product