Even now, I could design spray and wipers for glasses like a car windshield. It would look awful and spray stuff in your eye sometimes but it would do its purpose!

A rare opportunity for a scientific story to have a proper beginning middle and end. I liked it even if it's too bad LK-99 isn't a superconductor, I was hopeful because of the relative ease of synthesis the result could be better checked.

I'd bet there still be people who be asking for a "kinda bulge". (and others of course wanting B U L G E).

I bet mods for this game and other games where it matters could take care of this issue and give what people want.

In the wise words of Todd Howard: It just works

Beyond All Reason is really cool! Had a lot of fun with it wrestling with the AI and teaming up with my friends.

It's scratching that Starcraft itch while I tap my fingers waiting for Microsoft to kick Bobby Kotick out of Activision-Blizzard lol.

Teams x Gamerz 😎😎😎

My friends all use Teams (but only to talk within each of their companies)

If someone is accused of "inciting insurrectionist followers", and certain followers display insurrectionist behaviour... 🤔

Half joking half not but we all have attention gobbled up by our own matters and mobile phone games to care about what's happening at LMG.

Public safety budget of 375k sounds like 50k per officer and 75k for the chief in 2022.

What I understand this originates from is "not based on anything", so essentially bucking the trend or the norm. Doing things not because something or someone told them.

It's 4chan type of language, itself an alt-right cesspool.

You found a real-life mimic in the form of a trash can!

Sorry to hear that happened to you. Glad to have you back, and remember to keep going at a pace that's comfortable for you!

I use her current preferred pronouns, there are multiple Emilys at the LMG team and for people that might not recognize who I'm talking about if they haven't watched LTT for a while (since 3 months ago). I figured by adding "formerly", I was clear that it's a name she no longer goes by and doesn't feel represented herself well.

Edit note: The recent Twitter thread from the former employee eclipses either of the situations in this comment in terms of needing response/corroboration. I think it largely stems from the same problem: overwork and mismanagement.

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The Billet situation appears to be a genuine fuckup that LMG has to make right with them, but outside of that I don't care tbh.

The data integrity situation is the one that needs to be properly addressed for the sake of their channel.

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Sorry Linus, I'm not buying the "you should have told us" line. The fact that you and your staff were well aware of the problems of rushing to release content (to the point of releasing public video on it), means it's not that people weren't telling you.

You have two basic options to fix it.

Option A: You need more staff to vet the accuracy and more hosts to have time to cut/re-shoot parts that were incorrect. Clearly you and your staff each have too much on your plate.

Option B: You need to slow the rate of your content releasing right down, to ensure you can double and triple check benchmarks, staff that bring up concerns aren't brushed off or put in a footnote/comment.

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GN or anyone could tell LMG this, but especially option B isn't something a company with a "growth-mindset" would want to hear.

I watched the occasional LTT video, they are entertaining and helpful at a general understanding but I've often taken their data with a grain of salt.

Emily (formerly Anthony) Young was the one writer at LTT who stood out as really knowing their stuff. She also was their in-house expert with Linux! (*Note: nothing happened to her at LMG, I'm using past tense because I'm not up to date with the latest roles she might be in)

Linus has been way more focused on running the business than the tech, especially compared to his days at NCIX and some years after.

The Billet situation sounds like a fuckup. So long as they make it right with them I don't care tbh.

The data integrity issues and way too frequent post-edit corrections is imperative for LMG to fix, if they want their media to be trustworthy (like if they're hyping up their labs)

Luckily, they've said what the fix is themselves and it's relatively simple. All it really takes is them to either slow down with the rate of content to be able to carefully review it, or bring on more hosts and editors so that mistakes and errors can be caught and re-shot before publishing, and that due diligence is applied when preparing a product review.

Linus' response is just meh, not good nor bad. The one thing is I don't buy is Linus' line of "just talk to us". The community told them plenty of times, the writers and Linus themselves were very well aware of the problems of rushing and releasing half-baked content. Even if GN told them, the direction they were going with Linus Media Group and the new CEO and the buyout offer and all of that suggests where LMG's wouldn't be concerned with it as much as making sure the timing of their content maximizes revenue. Data issues brought to them by GN and the community would be cast to the wayside with just a footnote and silent correction, maybe with a couple empty words sprinkled on top.

So I'll say it again to Linus from a fellow Canadian, whether he'll listen or not: "Slow down, bud!"

I swung a hammer at a wall! Damn it, there's a hole in the wall. Why doesn't the hammer have any safeguards against ruining my walls?

It doesn't necessarily have to be a get-free-car feature. It could be limited to 20km/h or something if operated in control mode.

It doesn't have a crazy amount of features, but I use Odessey music player app.

It's free, open source GPLv3. Does what I need, looks fine.

Just have them be overridden with a key like Elevators. Let policemen and other responders be able to drive, stop or direct them by inserting the fireman's key.

Or alternatively, just take full liberty and bash the autonomous vehicle out of the way. No key required.