I'm not OK with non-mechanical door handles full stop. You should be able to actuate the mechanism and unlock the car without power for either the outside or inside.

Recessed handles are just annoying because they are often done badlywith no mechanical backup and they cope with snow/ice poorly.

My car happens to have mechanical recessed handles which is sub optimal but not a deal breaker. You can manually actuate them if the motor which presents the handle isn't working or doesn't have power. I also have a keyhole hidden behind the recessed handle, so in the event of a power failure I can still get into the car.

He traded a worthless stake in xAI for additional stake in SpaceX, which has significantly more earning potential.

The article you linked proves the opposite of your point:

So yes, while frontal area is the primary contributor to drag, door handle loss is so small that it is basically a rounding error. Certainly not worth designing a handle that gets people killed.

My Hyundai does this. It's got a lever handle that sits flush when closed and pops out when unlocked, but you can still manually pull it open and it is a mechanical actuator. I still don't like it them, for one they advertise to the world when I've left my car unlocked. For the second, if I ever forget to lock them when cleaning my car off after a snow storm, or heaven forbid, leave the car unlocked during a snow storm, they get hopelessly crudded up with snow and/or ice and don't retract all the way.

It's not about zones - it's about toggling the defroster, or outside air circulation to control humidity. Sometimes you need to toggle the temperature up to an uncomfortably warm level to keep the windshield from icing up, but once it's deiced, or if the precipitation lets up or conditions otherwise change, you'd like to turn it back down to 68.

We are making the batteries out of one of the most reactive elements on the planet. Making them totally fire proof is almost impossible. Yeah, we could encase them in tungsten or something, but we don't for the same reason we don't make fuel tanks out of a honeycomb of depleted uranium - it's an unacceptable tradeoff of weight for safety. If we wanted to be absolutely safe we'd all drive around in tanks, or better yet take a bus or train.

Some risks you just have to accept as part of the design tradeoffs. However, those risks should be mitigated in other areas, including being able to exit the vehicle when it loses power. That's just fucking idiocy on Tesla's part.

If your car crashes and catches on fire and you lose 12V power, your "bigger problems" include dying horribly in a lithium fire. Also, your "bigger problems" could include getting inside the car to pop the hood so you can change the dead battery. I'd rather not have to jimmy the lock or smash the window to do that.

They also suck in places with cold weather. Water gets behind them and they freeze, getting stuck. If you don't lock your car when brushing snow off off the roof, then you gotta try to pick compacted snow out from behind them. They are just a needless frivolity to save like .02% on aero efficiency.

Fortunately while my car has the idiotic things, they still mechanically operate the door latch when you pull on them, both inside and out, so I don't have to worry about getting trapped inside. There's also a mechanical lock hidden behind the handle, so if the battery is dead I can still unlock the car.

Streaming has pitiable bandwidth compared to the bitrate of UHD Blu Ray at 100Mbps. Streaming typically peaks at around 25Mbps for marque titles, with most "4k" streams averaging around 8-10.

We've just decided to accept lower quality for convenience.

Pure nitrogen is how they store apples and other fresh foodstuffs over the winter so they are still fresh almost a year later. If farmers can figure it out, I'm sure a bunch of Phd curators can do it.

Put ports on the lexan case to periodically flush the atmosphere with fresh nitrogen.

Every speed has a minimum stopping distance where, even assuming a reaction time of 0 (impossible), if something appears in that zone without warning, you will hit it no matter what. That's just physics. You can't bring a vehicle to a halt in an arbitrarily short distance.

Somebody stepping out from behind a tall obstacle with no warning right in front of you is one such case. All you can to is try to stop as quickly as possible and hit them with as little force as you can.

The only absolutely safe speed is 0, with the parking brake engaged, and chocks under the wheels.

That ruling applied narrowly to digital copies of AUDIO recordings that were format shifted from an AUDIO medium to a DATA medium. I.e. from a CD to a hard drive. This is why data CD-Rs were cheaper than "audio" CD-Rs. Even though the difference was mainly in marketing, the audio formats had to pay a "piracy" tax to the RIAA. The case was mainly about whether Diamond had to pay that sin tax to the recording industry not about whether you as a consumer had the right to copy CDs.

The tax is recognition that although it is per se illegal, it happens all the time and we can't stop it without outright banning the recording media, so we make the manufacturers of blank media pay for the "harm" they do to the recording industry.

Again, I don't agree with any of these assholes, but it is bullshit that consumers have been hit over the head with fines and jail time for commercial piracy for decades now and the AI bros get away with a slap on the wrist.

If I create the correct series of prompts, I can reproduce the book in its entirety, 50 words at a time. How is that different, practically, than cycling through a bunch of REST requests to reproduce an MP3 30s at a time?

Exactly, books aren't licensed. You own the physical copy of the book which you can do pretty much whatever you want with as a physical object, but your rights to reproduce the words depicted in the book in the order they appear in the book are circumscribed by copyright law.

Absent a license, you have no right to copy the whole damn thing and make a profit off of processing and transforming that copy.

No you can't. You can't do any of those things. People do them, and there is rarely any prosecution if it is done for non-commercial personal use, but it's all in violation of copyright law.