I have a nephew that worked at Tesla as a software engineer for a couple years (he left about a year ago). I gave him the VIN to my Tesla and the amount of data he shared with me was crazy. He warned me that one of my brake lights was regularly logging errors. If their telemetry includes that sort of information then clearly they are logging a LOT of data.

#1 is a terrible idea if you ever need to hire an electrician in the future, plan on selling your house, etc. The National Electric Code prohibits using white, green, or grey wire for a hot/load connection. The 120V cable will contain a black wire for the hot connection, white for neutral, and green for ground. To properly convert it to 240V you would need a cable that consists of black & red wires for the two 120V legs.

If your home ever suffered an electrical fire then this sort of jury rigging is precisely the sort of thing any competent insurance inspector would spot, and insurance carriers would deny coverage for since it clearly isn’t code compliant, which means a licensed electrician didn’t install it and it wasn’t properly inspected.

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First it was murder hornets, now regular bees are after us as well…

We’ve seen him a few times now and the breadth of his work absolutely amazes me. We’ve seen his well known show where he reprises his music videos twice. A few years ago we saw him when he toured with a full orchestra, and most recently we saw him do an “unplugged” concert which was just him and his band playing acoustically and only doing his original songs, no parodies. I’d honestly forgotten how many original songs he’s written.

I would have loved to have seen Rush in concert. My wife and I did see a Rush tribute/cover band last year called Lotus Land that was pretty darned good.

Not a data target, but my wife was pick pocketed in Paris a few months ago. We were boarding a train to the airport and somebody yanked it from her pocket as she boarded with her hands full.

We both have iPhones. Within five minutes while sitting on the train I remotely locked her phone then wiped it. Never saw any fallout that could be attributed to somebody having access to it.

If the same geopolitical environment still led to World War II but with a different German leader then the outcome of the war could very well have ended differently.

Leading up to major invasions like D-Day in Normandy and the invasion of Sicily the allies implemented major deceptions to confuse the Germans. Despite some senior leadership recognizing at least some aspects of those deceptions, Hitler himself fell for them pretty thoroughly and ordered troop movements that reduced German defenses where the attacks took place, and delayed moving them back because he still believed the deceptions were real. There are other examples of poor decisions by Hitler throughout the course of the war that proved helpful for the allies as well.

If Germany had a more qualified military leader running things then events like the Normandy D-Day invasion could have had a very different outcome. If the Germans had the Normandy beaches better defended then that invasion could very well have failed. And if that happened then there’s a good chance Germany could have won the war.

Got pulled over in an EV. Not so much as an on/off switch. Cop didn’t ask me to do anything.

No. THX-1138 would have been filmed decades before these tunnels existed. I think that was filmed in San Francisco subway tunnels that were still under construction in the early 70’s.

These are the Boston tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

I know a guy who spent 40+ years in special effects. He now goes around giving talks/demonstrations about it all. He has a series of photos showing how a typical car is rigged to explode into a fireball.

Depending on what the director is looking for, steel horns are welded to the car frame inside each door, the hood, trunk, windshield, etc. The horns will direct the fireball out the car when ignited. Each horn holds an explosive similar to gasoline connected to a detonator.

After that, each window is wired with a squib, a small explosive smaller than a coin that will shatter the window about 1/10th of a second before the fireballs are ignited.

If necessary the hood, trunk, and/or doors are also wired with smaller explosives to pop them open immediately before the fireball as well.

All those smaller explosives are needed to get the doors/windows out of the way for the main fireball explosives. The fireball doesn’t have enough punch to push the doors open on its own, and it also provides significantly more control of the whole explosion. (You’re not guessing where the windshield might get blown to, etc).

Part of the Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day was filmed in Boston. There’s a car chase scene through the underground highway tunnels at one point. Anybody that’s driven here for more than a few days would recognize that there’s no way the chase could play out the way it did. The tunnels don’t interconnect the way the movie shows it.

Dating myself… This brings back bad memories…

In the 70’s in elementary school I had a classmate who had a brother about two years younger than we were. In 1978 when the brother was only 8 years old he was killed in a freak accident. The family had moved to a new house whose previous owner collected war memorabilia. The brother found a hand grenade that had somehow been left behind. It was live and blew up in his hands.

Ten years later my former classmate was killed on board the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Archived New York Times article that is mostly about my classmate but mentions the death of the younger brother as well: https://archive.is/ykLi0

Those were the only two children in that family. I still think about them all from time to time to this very day…

Building on this, see if you can collect pricing over time where Comcast is the only option vs. places where Comcast faces competition from other providers. I’ve lived in Comcast-only markets and where they compete with Verizon FiOS. Their pricing when forced to compete is often more reasonable.

Passwords in movies NEVER adhere to best practices. They’re virtually always a word or phrase that’s all lowercase, has no numbers, no punctuation, etc.

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Going way back before high school here…

In the 70’s in elementary school I had a classmate who had a brother about two years younger than we were. In 1978 when the brother was only 8 years old he was killed in a freak accident. The family had moved to a new house whose previous owner collected war memorabilia. The brother found a hand grenade that had somehow been left behind. It was live and blew up in his hands.

Ten years later my former classmate was killed on board the Pan Am 103 bombing.

Archived New York Times article that is mostly about my classmate but mentions the death of the younger brother as well: https://archive.is/ykLi0

Those were the only two children in that family. I still think about them all from time to time to this very day…

Well it is a day ending in “y”.

What ever happened to Cloudflares wall of lava lamps?

We have a handful of Python tools that we require to adhere to PEP8 formatting, and have Jenkins pipeline jobs to validate it and block merge requests if any of the code isn’t properly formatted. I haven’t personally tried it yet, but I wonder if these AI’s might be good for fixing up this sort of formatting lint.