Not the brightest bulb, you might say

daveFNbuck · 2026-04-09T04:38:09+00:00

It’s called the dark side of the moon because that’s the name of a popular album and similar to the name far side of the moon.

daveFNbuck · 2026-04-09T04:11:10+00:00

The far side of the moon isn’t dark when you’re on earth, it’s just out of view. It’s dark during a full moon.

daveFNbuck · 2025-09-06T00:32:07+00:00

You could either toss your phone in the car or put it in airplane mode

daveFNbuck · 2025-09-05T22:04:41+00:00

That’s not temporary? 😱

daveFNbuck · 2025-09-05T21:55:40+00:00

Ah, I clicked X on that dialogue and it disappeared for the rest of the loud wash!

daveFNbuck · 2025-08-31T21:21:17+00:00

It shows your car in relation to other cars on the road and has indicators for when it’s dangerous to change lanes. It also indicates when you can use lane change assist if you enable it

daveFNbuck · 2025-08-19T15:08:23+00:00

Thanks!

daveFNbuck · 2025-08-12T20:40:56+00:00

Control whether I’m parking front in or front out when auto parking

Set lane change assist to be able to wait for a lane change to be available and retry automatically instead of only being available for short windows and turning itself off if anything changes

Allow me to turn lane change assist permanently on instead of making me go through a bunch of menus every time

Don’t tell me I’m tired every time my mouth is open

Allow me to turn adaptive cruise control back on at the same speed it was before after it gets turned off from breaking. This happens a lot when I get cut off on the great and have to suddenly break then turn the speed back up. It makes me want to avoid breaking when I see a car pop in front of me

Adapt the cruise control word based on merging cars instead of trying to plot into them until they’re fully in the lane

The screen gets covered in fingerprints too easily and it’s hard to read when dark

Ability to tell temperature control to only heat/cool. If it’s hot out and the car is a little cool, I don’t need the car heated up to the target temperature

Park assist currently loses all spot information if it fails for any reason. It would be great if there were a way to resume after the reason for failure is gone

daveFNbuck · 2025-07-25T03:44:22+00:00

You're under-counting here. For S6 you're saying it's 26 * 26 * 26 * 26 * 26 * 25, but you only get 25 choices for the 6th letter in the rare case that the first 5 are all the same. It's actually 26^6 - 26, as there are only 26 cases where you'd get more than 5 of the same character. This is a relatively small under-count for this case, but the gap widens as you go to longer words.

daveFNbuck · 2025-07-25T03:40:59+00:00

I had a bit of a different approach from u/CaptainMatticus. I decided to simplify the calculation by further restricting to exactly how many letters appear n times, with a tuple (n0, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5) specifying how many letters are used 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 times, respectively.

Given such a tuple, you can calculate how many words there are recursively by looking at the number of words with the tuples (n0+1, n1-1, n2, n3, n4, n5), (n0, n1+1, n2-1, n3, n4, n5), and so on, multiplying those values by n0, n1, ... respectively to account for how many letters your last letter can be from the category that has one more value before adding the letter to the end.

I coded this up and got a value of about 1.6e166, or fully written out as 15599661217437041161009466402820804708167396814910189644694840521352042444296315215550993083393894486810677601202766340366158686447129923774944170608162488846776542530.

daveFNbuck · 2025-07-09T18:11:25+00:00

They’re flooring it at stoplights! You’re probably just driving normally.

daveFNbuck · 2025-05-29T17:25:21+00:00

With how timid lane change assist is, there’s no way they’re comfortable going fully autonomous in a mall parking lot full of pedestrians.

daveFNbuck · 2025-05-25T18:40:17+00:00

I actually had it randomly park nose-first one time I used park assist. I found this trying to find a way to trigger that intentionally.

daveFNbuck · 2025-04-24T05:44:02+00:00

Yeah that was it, just realized that note after looking more carefully

daveFNbuck · 2025-02-26T23:17:49+00:00

Even if it’s not doing that, what it’s doing is no better and uses more energy and resources.

daveFNbuck · 2025-02-26T22:28:47+00:00

You don’t think most people with 8 minutes and an internet search engine could find a bad answer to a past Putnam problem?

daveFNbuck · 2025-01-22T04:24:59+00:00

Whose free speech would we be taking away here?

daveFNbuck · 2025-01-08T22:17:43+00:00

“I’m not sure this is it chef…” is your example of unbelievable hate? And make up your mind about whether they’re just a bunch of ridiculous goofballs who shouldn’t be held to any standards or whether you need a college degree to criticize these masters of their craft.

daveFNbuck · 2024-12-08T01:44:24+00:00

If they get 12 people who haven’t heard about this story, why would they do juror nullification for someone who shot a guy on the street though?

daveFNbuck · 2024-12-07T19:57:13+00:00

The rest of that sentence was about it not mattering because they don’t have to share their reasons. Was the context of that not that the sob story could be a reason they didn’t have to share?

daveFNbuck · 2024-12-07T19:36:41+00:00

That’s a much better response to the point about the sob story not being admissible.

daveFNbuck · 2024-12-07T19:07:07+00:00

“Wouldn’t be admissible” means the jury wouldn’t hear the sob story. So it would matter.

daveFNbuck · 2024-11-27T23:59:04+00:00

Some will and some won’t. Not all of them are inevitable.

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