Animorphs was definitely in this category.

If that’s the case, then you’re using it wrong. It’s possible to use AI to cover most of the boring parts and leave you to do the fun parts.

I see the same thing in the software industry. Programming is something where it’s perfectly common to need to have cheat sheets at your desk and reference the documentation regularly. But freshly graduated students think that’s cheating. They’re convinced they need to memorise all aspects of a programming language and it’s standard library. The amount of new information I take in every day, it would be impossible to remember everything. The real skill is information retrieval, being able to look up what you need to know when you need it.

I’m not justifying any ICE actions. Why would you think that?

I agree. I didn’t say it does.

As an Australian, this is frightening to see.

I’m glad this is being covered by an Australian news agency, to bring visibility to it.

If it’s anything like the e-pedals used in Subaru and Honda vehicles, they should have two different independent position sensors in the pedal. The ecu monitors both, and the value from both must match. If there is a discrepancy, it uses the lower value or zero. So it’s extremely unlikely the pedal could malfunction in a way to show 100% pressed.

But I don’t know if Tesla does the same.

My mum would do the same thing with her dog, a big collie. Every two weeks she’d bring it a new big beef bone with meat still on it, and the dog would take a couple of weeks to eat it, and burying it between sessions.

Yeah that’s a good comparison.

The phrase “to crack the shits” means when someone gets pushed over the threshold to become angry. Like “I used all the milk and Dad cracked the shits”. Or “None of the students in the class completed their homework so the teacher cracked the shits”. Or “everyone’s going to crack the shits if we don’t get a pay raise this year”.

Not sure if it needs to be pointed out… to “nut it out” doesn’t mean what Americans think it means. It means to use your head to come up with a solution. The nut is your head.

I’m going to start referring to myself as neurotropical now.

There are some countries in Europe that have naturally occuring carbonated mineral water springs, they tap them and you can drink from them.

I’m not suggesting it can do those things. You said no known system or console can wake on a Bluetooth connection, I said PS4 can. I don’t have a PS5, but it probably does too.

My PS4 wakes up when the bluetooth controller connects to it.

I already built my own loungeroom PC 18 months ago with a used rx580, amd 5600X, and 32gb RAM. This was just before the RAM crisis, so 32gb DDR4 was relatively cheap. I run Bazzite on it, and get a very SteamOS-like experience. Whole thing cost me less than half what they are asking for a Steam Machine.

I see both perspectives.

Before I had kids of my own, I couldn’t stand their noise. I was irrationally angered by their behaviour.

But now being a father of 2, I’m totally the opposite. I can listen to kids shriek and screech all day and it doesn’t bother me at all. I think it’s a biological thing.

Reminds me of this

Thats right. The word “computer” in this article can mean anything with a microcontroller in it. Any car built after 1996 legally must have an OBD port, so it has a diagnostic computer at least. All cars with fuel injectors have an engine computer. All cars with air bags will have a computer that controls when they go off. Even some cars with cruise control in the 90s had a cruise computer that monitors and controls the speed.

I don’t know what my point is, just that I agree, having lots of microcontrollers in your car is not necessarily bad thing, they provide many facets of basic functionality and don’t collect your data. And journalists like sensational headlines and fear mongering.

Aziz Ansari