David Ozenne

@iamthejosh @WilliamShatner Hmmm. At low speed would reduce rolling resistance in the tires. That part is good. At higher speed the lower normal force on the tires is bad because it reduces traction and control, and the main resistance is air drag anyway. There are plenty of other practical problems, too.

@WilliamShatner what about opposite polarity magnets on the road and under the car? The idea is the car will float. Less drag, less energy...maybe? I always thought about that as a kid and wondered the possibilities.

If they built highways with magnetic strips in the concrete that allowed you to charge on the go; that would be a game changer. Aren’t the new taxis able to charge magnetically‽

@FredLambert The video starts just 4 seconds before impact, so it shows only the manual driving. It's not fsd failing to brake here. It's the driver.

Tesla fans using the “4-second disengagement” as a gotcha are missing the forest for the trees. Yes, the driver was technically in control of the vehicle at the moment of impact. But she was in control because FSD was already failing by driving too fast ahead of this sharp turn — it was heading straight into a concrete barrier at highway speed with no sign of correcting. Everyone who has frequently used FSD or Autopilot and paints this 4-second disengagement as a “gotcha” moment is being disengenous, and that includes Elon Musk. I have tens of thousands of miles on FSD, and I’ve experienced the system coming too fast into a turn at least half a dozen times. We’ve said this before and we’ll keep saying it: the problem with FSD isn’t what happens when the driver is paying attention and the system works. The problem is what happens when the system gives you every reason to trust it, and then suddenly doesn’t work. The driver has to recognize the failure, assess the situation, decide on a correction, and physically execute it, all in less time than the system needs to create the danger. Musk and Tesla’s propagandists can point to the logs all they want. The video shows what actually matters: FSD approaching a standard highway curve at full speed with zero indication it was going to navigate it. That’s the failure. Everything that happened after, including the panicked disengagement, is a consequence of that failure. The framing that this was “manual driving, not FSD” is technically true for the final 4 seconds and deeply dishonest about the full sequence of events. It’s exactly the kind of liability shell game that courts are increasingly rejecting, as that $243 million verdict makes clear. Tesla created the system, sold it as “Full Self-Driving,” and profits from the ambiguity. At some point, it has to own the consequences.

@CookieBinary @fasanenkahn You can tear out to the edge somewhere in hole 4, making it not a hole. At least 4.

@fasanenkahn At least 5..

@DaveShapi There is not a single entity "we" for which this is the most rational policy.

We have one Earth and no viable alternatives, nor any way to get to them. The most rational policy, then, would be to halt all wars and dismantle all nuclear weapons. Why don't we do this?

@RockChartrand Not true about cars, though. Or at least, not if you want to drive it on streets. You can do some things but not others. Kind of like your house. You can do some things but not others.

You can buy a car and modify it, repair it, repaint it, or tear it apart without asking permission from anyone. But buy land or a house and suddenly you need permits to build, renovate, cut trees, or change how it’s used. If you constantly need permission to use something you supposedly own, do you really own it, or are you just renting it from the government with paperwork? That also exposes the illusion of “public ownership.” When something belongs to “everyone,” no individual actually controls it. Control simply shifts to politicians and bureaucrats. Which is why the claim about the “theft of the commons” doesn’t make sense. If something belongs to everyone, no one has the authority to decide how it’s used. In practice the state just declares it the commons and then monopolizes control over it.

@DBolelli When I was in high school I took a knee to the balls, and not even very hard. I can assure you that they may in fact lose consciousness. I did crumple forward and the resulting forehead injury was minor.

On the other hand, a knee to the balls will keep them conscious and just fold them forward. In this way, you eliminate the chances you'll kill them by accident. This PSA is brought to you by #Ispendtoomuchtimethinkingabouthittingpeopleintheballs 2/2

I don't know who needs to hear it, but if you punch someone in a street altercation, there's always the chance you'll KO them, they'll fall backward and crack their skulls. And now you have to start praying you didn't kill them. 1/2

@Zevk_Sahibi @BlanchardPhD "Student" doesn't fit this list, at least in my American accent.

@BlanchardPhD If you can pronounce ‘pure’ or ‘few’ or ‘student’ or university… you can pronounce Türkiye :)

I’m an old man and only recently realized that Turkey is now routinely called Türkiye. There is no ‘ü’ in English. Has everybody but me already looked up the pronunciation and memorized it?

@DoeJumars @JJWatt There isn't a person at McDonalds doing that. It's just a kiosk.

@JJWatt OTHER- 0. Why should I tip them and not the person at McDonalds doing the same thing? I didn't force them to take that job, spare me the "they live in poverty" shit. Tell the CEO to make up the difference, not me. Tipping culture has gotten insane.

Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?

@ArthurMacwaters That chart shows the murder rate declining precipitously after 2015, and the incarceration rate kicking upward in 2021 while the murder rate basically continued to follow the same trend line. Not sure what it is a great example of.

Crime is not random Only 0.2% of people ever commit murder, yet **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests When the crime-inclined people are stopped, the crime stops. You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society. El Salvador is a great example of this

@BriannaWu Is this an attempt at humor? If so I'm missing the joke. Is it serious? If so I'm missing the point.

Incredibly disturbing results from my DNA test in my search for my biological family. Couldn’t sleep last night, trying to grapple with the implications. My ancestors on my dad’s side are from the UK. Must my backstory be any more tragic?

@waterspeck1 @packarmz @idkwahatimdoing I've been paid semimonthly in every salaried position I've held. Usually 15th and last. When I was a contractor I invoiced monthly or at the end of a job, and got paid approximately monthly by most clients.

@packarmz @idkwahatimdoing Wait, do people not get paid monthly in america?

Genuinely why do Americans either say “oh i make 20$ an hour” or “i make 70$k a year” BITCH HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE IN A NORMAL HUMAN PAY PERIOD DPMO

@Math_files If they said 6 I'd have respect.

@fchollet Do you have the same objection to 0.111... = 1/9? Can you think of some clearer way to express 1/9 as a decimal?

"0.999..." is bad notation. It's deliberately made to look like a decimal number, when in fact the "..." expresses the limit of a series. It should simply be noted as the limit of a series, in which case no one would question it's equal to 1. The nature of the trick is, "can you see through my misleading notation?" -- not particularly profound IMO

@elonmusk The Hindenburg was twice as long with 4x the diameter.

Starship is the largest flying object ever made and it will continue to grow

@paulhudson26 @PontistGirl Using "mathematic" as an adjective doesn't imply the existence of a singular noun "mathematic".

@dmozenne @PontistGirl But there are mathematic principles and mathematic rules, and mathematic functions, and together, they make up the study of mathematics. So really it should be one math, many maths.

Why do Americans say "math" and not maths. It's not mathematic. It's mathematics.

@zazi0901 @AlpacaLaser4ce @PontistGirl I'm from the California branch of the Ozenne tribe, so we say it like O'zeen. Genuinely took me several seconds to figure out what Ozenne-pic was about.

@dmozenne @AlpacaLaser4ce @PontistGirl Chill out Ozenne-pic, you missed the point. You're american so it's to be expected.

@iky_fwjett GET A PRINTER

STOP SENDING PEOPLE UNDER 35 THINGS TO PRINT AT HOME. WE DO NOT HAVE PRINTERS.

@zazi0901 @AlpacaLaser4ce @PontistGirl Good point! When I was in college here in America we frequently referred to econ or phys, as in "I'm totally stuck on the Phys 98 homework." Would you shorten them to econs and physs (physses?), or just never shorten them, or what?

@AlpacaLaser4ce @PontistGirl The american education is so woefully bad that you think the “s” in mathematics is a pluralisation in the English language. It is not. The same way physics and economics are singular nouns that end in “s” on account of their etymology. “nAmE eAcH mAtHeMaTiC”:

@MichaelVGCollin @KolozsyShawn @PontistGirl Horseback is one word, not two. Nobody says "horse back riding".

@KolozsyShawn @PontistGirl We don't say "in class" except for those kids who watch too much American TV. We would probably say " I solved equations in maths today". We wouldn't say "maths equations" any more than we would say "horse back riding".