Autopilot is the most un-predictable at 5MPH or less. I have had mine suddenly steer one way or the other for no reason if we're just creeping forward. And motherfucker, you should NOT be splitting lanes when traffic is rolling at 30MPH! Psycho.
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Autopilot is the most un-predictable at 5MPH or less. I have had mine suddenly steer one way or the other for no reason if we're just creeping forward. And motherfucker, you should NOT be splitting lanes when traffic is rolling at 30MPH! Psycho.
PSA for motorcyclists: don't split lanes to pass a Tesla. With a lot of cars, you can get past before they know you are there, but the Tesla cameras will spot you as you pass and may or may not react depending on what Elon's smoking this week.
This does not mean they can't just install a charger and run on grid, this is easily done. Might need upgrade from the electric co., but easy. Heck, the general store in Detroit Oregon has a 6-pack of Tesla chargers next door as a "destination charger", so no reason it can't be done everywhere.
Fun fact: there are a ton of slightly older PCs out there that don't qualify for Windows 11. Companies are replacing them, but they are still decent for basic use. A quick refresh with some extra RAM and maybe a new SSD, and they will happily run Linux for another 5-10 years.
Sadly, this is still "fancy". I remember places that had one wall covered in tile that formed a trough at the bottom about 2" below floor level. 7 or 8 guys just shoulder-to-shoulder peeing against the tiles.
Umm, heck no?
A lil' palette cleanser for all
I finished my first run through Sable not 5 minutes ago, a very restful and recharging sort of game. Exploration with no combat.
Can't disappoint the public, I suppose! youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...
Lego Star Wars Original Trilogy holds a dear place in my heart for just messing around.
Can't...stop...watching...
Do not mock the Oregonian Whale Disassembly and Distribution System!
"Peak 80's" he says. Well, he's not wrong, but I can top it. Guitarist wearing leopard spandex and top hat - check! Singer mugging at the camera because why not? - check! Random gorram kilted school band?! - check and mate! youtu.be/gMxcGaAwy-Q?...
oh very much not. Definite rent-a-car trip, or coerce a friend.
My Plans for the weekend...
17Kg? That's awesome!
Oh man, the terrible effects in this thing. They did such a terrible job in post-production of editing out the wires.
Back before I discovered the wonders of the windshield, I was heading North at about 45mph and ran into a South-bound bee. It was a warm day and I had unzipped my jacket, the little bugger slammed right into my sternum. Thought I had been hit by a rock until I looked down and saw her in my shirt.
Aww
Universal Truth: the fastest way to find a missing thing is to order the replacement. Right up there with summoning the bus by lighting a cigarette.
Another Friend of Samwise!
My Razer does that shit - letters and numbers show, but none of the SHIFT-ed symbols. You know, the ones I can never remember where the heck they are?
For a city that has totally banned fireworks, it sure sounds like a fucking war zone around my place. At least three groups firing multi-burst mortars at low altitudes.
Nice to know Sailor Bacon is in our corner :)
I am alive today because my mom argued for 2 hours with my dad to put my nearly-dead ass in the car and drive the hour to the city hospital. I was 7 and suffering internal bleeding from a bike accident. Wouldn't have been more than 10 minutes if in ambulance range.
"Cutthroat Island" or "Long Kiss Goodnight"? She had better stunts as a pirate, but the Kiss was a better movie.
Is it just me, or is that Geena Davis' smile?
Quick, someone send them pics of a 45-era Air Force One flight pitching contrails 🤣
Perfect!
*is mildly smug too*
I have to disagree with you on whether the word is an abreviation, I know too many people with that word in their official title on their business cards - and they're the sort of folks that know where the bodies are buried, so I'll accept it.
Hell yeah! Go, Lady, GO!
Hey, waitaminute - what happened to Apple's rule about the bad guys can't use Apple devices?
Excellent use of the lined medium to maintain letter formation in an elusive medium
'The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.' - Adam Savage
Mailed mine in Saturday. Which is weird for me, but the Wife no longer works at a location with a drop box for ballots.
Recommendation from a friend, both as an author and a funny Internet Guy to follow, back when Old Man's War came out. I deliberately sought you out when I moved to Mastodon and then here. I figure if Scalzi's here, it can't be bad. Plus, you know, Scamperbeasts.
We get a daily report from USPS, and we get that "label created, waiting on shipper" email for days before it actually hits a truck. Such a tease.
First time I saw one in person, the driver was over 6 ft tall and folded himself out like a spider. Knees up by his shoulders when door was closed. One got donated to my H.S. Shop class. Year 1 cars you had to drop the engine to change the plugs. Year 2 had an access portal in the firewall.
Waaaay too true for tonight's game! Even at 3rd level it seems I step into a fight, smack something once or twice and then take one hit that drops me to 1 or 2 HP, then a second one that drops me in the dirt. Gotta boost my DEX for AC bonus...
I somehow only knew of Thundercats.
Summer of '83, my fam moved to Klamath Falls Oregon, a shit town on the wrong side of the mountains. We, knowing no one, managed to find (be found by?) the only Punk in the County, and he adopted us. I was 11 and trying to build a personality; his contributions like this played a heavy role.
Sweet Hoolies, that would have been such an awesome casting!
Because this needs the widest possible circulation www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
I have been known to lean out the window and bellow "Nice signal, Bitch!" at the top of my lungs on occasion...
Alas, I am too late, they are now sold out. I shall have to make do with my digital copies.
I love wind in my hair, but not a fan of bugs in my teeth. Full-face for the win.
THIS is the reason to create AI. A machine smart enough to figure out optimal dishwasher loading and just handle it for us while WE make the art.
The #1 reason I put the car into adaptive cruise is to change the music without plowing into a bus.
Wheat thins are the best charcuterie delivery vehicle!
To truly experience the Uncanny Valley in a safe way, get a loaner car same model as daily driver. Everything is just subtly... wrong. Truly crappy audio out of same hardware. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was so bad unless someone had blown out a speaker partially.
Results of vehicle-repair shenanigans: Car: faulty trailer wiring harness fixed under warranty Motorcycle: tires need to be replaced, leaky thermostat housing, and general tune-up: $1350 Daaaaaang
Remember the first time Dolt45 was in office and there was a hubbub about abuse of the White House pharmacy? I'm pretty sure that was his first stop when he moved back in.
How do I click the heart counter about 50 more times? Excellent song!
We played a ton of CP 2020 in the 90's/00's. I got the Roll20 bundle for RED but haven't done anything with it because I don't currently have a crew.
Welcome to Downtown Portland, OR - 19 Churches/Cathedral/Temples, and a full-on Cult: They don't get quite this dense on the East side, but there are plenty, including something called "Skatechurch" that just popped up in an empty sporting goods store near me.
Luckily the area I grew up in had a couple of Granges - buildings that are used for community things with no religious affiliation, so you can throw a big community bash without having to go to a church. You'll probably still run into the Pastor, but he has less oomph without a pulpit to stand in.
Yeah, the ritual is the part a lot of people overlook. I don't do the insane espresso builds you see lately, but I do enjoy the process of grinding the beans myself.
At this point I don't care how many "seasons" a project says it is, I'm looking for a minimum of about 15 hours of programming before I even start watching unless it is specifically a miniseries. Currently watching "CSI:NY" in it's glorious 22-ep seasons.
Good point! Maybe not on Twitch then.
More specifically, /heavy/ body armor, because your average vest ain't gonna cut it...
Don't forget Twitch!
This isn't a fucking debate, Ron, it's a damn battle!! Democracy is fighting for it's life and I want to see bruised knuckles on every Democrat! Grind the whole thing to a complete stop, shut everything down. No concessions, no progress, don't let them move a single damn vote.
Being over the age of 50, it's my dream self running around in search of a restroom while trying to wake me up before I find one 🤣
I read something a while ago that said they base parking lot stripes on the size of the best-selling cars of the era, and in the U.S. that has often been the Ford F-150 pickup, which keeps getting bigger - but they don't repaint the stripes every year.
Reminds me of that clip of Hitler rocking to the beat of his amphetamines while watching the Olympics.
My Congress-critters had better have bloody knuckles soon, this is a fight, not a debate.
They've been sharing burrito recipes with Scalzi, bet
My favorite anecdotes ever told are in Stalking The Nightmare. A great read! "Oh no! The CARPET!!" 😆
Dude, this violates several articles of the Geneva Convention
In fairness, we've been working on Bohemian for 40-odd years now, Kendrick's work is like 5 minutes old in comparison. I needed subtitles and an after-action report, but dang that was a solid performance! Pulling the flag dancers out of a clown car was epic
Oooh, I would watch that. Someone call their agents!
"Breath from my lungs" as a guest-gift really brought home the character for me.
Fantastic flick!
I gotta be careful listening to "Tomorrow Wendy", that one can get me weepy.
I think I may have a score of 2 - I don't think we owned a dictionary, either. We went to the library often enough it wasn't an issue.
The thing to remember is that all Chinese companies are essentially co-owned by the Chinese Communist Party, and exist at the pleasure of same. Dis the Party, Bad Stuff Happens. So if the Party says "scrape user data and manipulate feeds to our plan", they do.
You left out part of the sentence - the full sentence is "you have to sell your company /if you want it to work in the USA/" We don't have the right to force sale, but we have the ability to pass legislation to block their access to USA consumers. Right or wrong, that's the gist of it.
Excellent!
That is just fantastic. I wonder if the artist is selling prints?
LibreOffice will happily save in a .docx format, I use it for home. FAIK, only thing that MS Office does for your average user that other office suites can't do is the Outlook app. Word, Excel, and Access have all been duplicated. What function isn't duplicated from Word into LibreOffice?
I'm surprised you don't remember when this idea was porn stars. I had to scrub those out of a few salesfeeb boxen back at Allwayz.
Fools that we are, we drew cards from the dreaded Deck of Many Things, and two of us in a row pulled the gorram PIT and nearly died.
Thus began a long life of being pissed at the auto industry for teasing us with fantastic concept cars and then building Tauruses and Camrys.
Well, they are both computer-based, and let's face it, Satisfactory is a never-ending string of projects...
Wife's Doc told her to go in for bloodwork and it came back on the high side of pre-diabetic. Mind you, she's been making cookies for a week so at this point everything in the house has high blood sugar.
There he goes again, saving me all the reading
The worst part of public indecency is the lack of quality control - it's never the tushie you wanted to look at!
Pfft... both children spent years rocking me out of bed before dawn, I never let 'em sleep as teenagers on Xmas
There's an outtake on the Avengers:Ultron gag reel where Hawkeye grabs a not-quite-dead-yet Pietro by the mouth and nose. "Shhh, just go to sleep, shhh..."
And with the FBI's recent advice that everyone should be using encrypted comms because Chinese hackers pwned USA telco infrastructure, if the effing "we need backdoors into your secure app" FED is telling us to be careful, well, I for one am paying attention.
Wifi at the concert / sports arena, or other large venue: generally trustworthy. Wifi at the indie coffee shop, or bakery, or other tiny venue where everything was set up by an amateur that probably never changed the default admin password on the router and used all the default settings? Maybe not
Ok, the theory of public wifi is that it is safe. As an IT guy that handles a lot of small businesses, I can tell you for a fact that before I took over managing their network, their public wifi was NOT safe. Your assumption is that it is being managed by trained ppl in good faith. It is not.
I feel that. The year I turned 29, I moved for the 29th time. I think the longest my parents ever lived in one spot was like 3 years. That 29th move? I lived there for 15 years.
Ditto!
One of my all-time favorite holiday tunes, but Sweet Hoolies, that video is a thing! I miss a lot of things from the 80's, but early music videos ain't one of 'em.
