I don’t think this is about numbers going down. Tesla stock has gone down before, without him having this reaction. I think his real problems are more personal:

• He’s stretched himself too thin, and the stress is getting to him
• Related to the above, his drug abuse is getting out of hand
• He is deeply insecure, and more than anything, he wants people to think he is cool. People have made it abundantly clear that they do not think he is cool.

So it’s not really about number going down, it’s about people explaining number going down with “everyone hates Elon Musk”.

About a decade ago my employer had an intern present their findings from analyzing some survey data. One of the findings was this:

“People who answer surveys are really old. Like really old. Like thirty.”

High school level would probably suffice, honestly. Still not happening, though.

There was definitely some fuckery behind the scenes in 2020 also. Everyone pulled out and endorsed Biden at the same time.

It’s not just about finding the best candidate, it’s also about not disillusioning the voters by very obviously ratfucking the primary. Don’t piss off your voters right before a general election! Why do we even have to say this?

They didn’t even have a good reason to do so, because Bernie would have lost anyway. Just let him lose fair and square without pissing anyone off! And I say this as a Bernie voter. He was a good influence on the candidates, but he didn’t even win Washington State last time. No way would he have won a fair primary. The protest votes would have tapered off as soon as he looked like a real contender.

Not sure what phone you have, but on Android you just hit power and volume down at the same time.

Pedestrians would probably learn more from the experience if they don’t die.

It’s barely sold outside the US because other places (like the EU) also care about the safety of people outside the vehicle. That’s why European and Asian cars (except the models explicitly for the US market like the Tacoma) are designed for pedestrians to be deflected, while US cars are a moving brick wall which will squish them like a bug.

Also, I suspect you’d need commercial plates and a special license to drive it most other places, due to the weight.

Was the Pinto really that bad, though, or did Mother Jones do them dirty?

In the numbers above, the Pinto is hardly a standout deathtrap; I mean, by modern standards, sure, everything on that list is a horrible deathtrap, but the Pinto was safer than the Toyota Corolla or the Beetle or the Datsun 210, and none of those cars are as burdened with the oppressive fiery deathtrap narrative as the Pinto is. In fact, the Pinto’s overall deaths per million vehicles is better than the average!

https://www.theautopian.com/its-long-past-time-to-stop-making-fun-of-the-ford-pinto/

There’s not much point in optimizing completely for price per inch, but when I bought my TV in 2013 I plotted this, and discovered a pretty sharp hockey stick in the graph at 70" and above. So I got a 65" TV. If my graph had looked pretty straight like yours I’d probably just get the biggest that is practical for the space.

Mine supports none, so I also don’t have to worry about it.

To be fair, any modern truck built for the US market will kill you on the spot, usually by squishing you like a bug against the grill. A Cybertruck is low enough that it will probably just chop off your legs, so you probably still die, but you can have a half open casket! 🎉

Fair, I was thinking in the context of Stack Overflow.

Why not skip the middle man and ask ChatGPT directly?

You probably mean Comic Chat. It was actually just an IRC client, and I think it’s still usable (but frustratingly ineffective) today. But there is a website where you can convert IRC logs to it, I think.

Russians kept using it, just like Brazilians kept Orkut alive for years.

They were acquired recently.

Mirabilis created ICQ. AOL bought Mirabilis in 1998. Russian investor DST (which soon became Mail.ru and later VK) bought ICQ from AOL in 2010, probably because Russians were among the few nationalities still using it. Russians were over 25% of the hits, and it was the biggest instant messenger in Russia at the time. They also own VKontakte, hence why they’re directing people there.

Yeah, that was my assumption as well. I wonder how they’re going to work around that SO is getting spammed with AI-generated answers, though. You really don’t want your LLM cannibalizing itself.

Eh, tech companies also push out shitty stuff, and sometimes the shitty stuff is hardware.

Did you reboot as part of updating? If so, the reboot could have fixed it.

Also, how often do you check for updates when you’re not having problems? How long have the updates been out before you have performance issues and look for them?

Yeah, and their latest release was 5 months ago, so they’re probably still a thing.