@LSLguy
Little bit harsh.
Paris was born into wealth and she could trade off her family name.
But the same is true of lots of people. She has been very smart in the investments she’s made and how she has handled (perhaps played) the media.
Yes, quite possibly. The car I drove had a somewhat stiff brake pedal and would immediately start moving if your foot started to lift. Having rarely driven automatics I didn’t know if this was normal but from some of the comments, perhaps it is not.
But, incidentally, I was in another automatic yesterday, this time as a passenger. I mentioned about the brake pedal thing, and the driver told me he does usually just hold the brake, but that for longer waits, his car has an “auto hold” button. This, once pressed, will keep the car stationary (but I think still idling) until the next tap of either pedal.
Interesting. I’ve never seen such a thing.
I do kinda miss my plug in electric. On that car, once the car was fully at rest, it was effectively in “auto hold”, and wouldn’t move until you tapped the gas pedal. (It also turned itself off at long stop lights.) Driving that that car, i didn’t need to leave my foot on the brake at all. And i did miss that when i returned to a regular ice car.
Still, the pressure on the gas required to maintain highway speed is comparable to the pressure on the brake required to hold still. Once, when my foot was very sore, i found both troublesome. The gas more than the brake, honestly. So it seems odd to hear a question just about the brake.
I knew a guy with multiple handicaps whose legs were extremely short. He drove a car with hand controls for the gas and brakes. One night he was very drunk and I drove him home in his car. It was actually pretty cool.
Just add the word “hotel.” It’s really not hard at all.
Same with “The Who.” Even not searching in quote all the results that come up are about the band, though I don’t know why you wouldn’t search in quotes.
It seems like so many answers in this thread are actually really easy to Google.
Results vary from computer to computer as well as search engine… “the who” returns pages about the band for me, but if I leave out the quotation marks I get a mix, including World Health Organization stuff.
My rather fancy rather new ICE car has the same behaviors but fully automatic, no button pushing required.
When I brake to a stop and take my foot off the brake, the car will automatically continue to gently hold the brakes to prevent the traditional automatic transmission creep. A quick tap on the gas pedal releases the autobrakes and the car will begin creeping like a traditional automatic.
Its touch on the brakes is very light, and the car will creep forward or roll backwards on any appreciable slope. Which surprised me the first time it happened. Here in South Florida we don’t have many any appreciable slopes other than roadway over/underpasses.
There is also engine auto-shut-off while stopped but thank goodness that’s programmable and I have it switched off permanently. I really don’t like the auto start/stop behavior at all, despite how very seamlessly and responsively it works. I think it’s a matter of the vibration. I’ve liked the smooth vibrationless ride of an EV when I’ve rented them, but I don’t like switching back and forth from vibration to not to vibration to not more or less at random. Give me one or the other, not both.
On the subject of stuff that’s hard to google…
I’ve been trying to find for a while now if there is any way to extend or modify the autoplay function in youtube.
Basically, I’m happy with the servings of youtube’s autoplay, except that I don’t want to see any videos that are longer than 1 hour. You’d think this would be trivial, as the vanilla youtube app on my phone already gives you the option to only view videos < 20 mins long. I just want finer control than that, because many of the channels I like produce great videos that are 15-60 mins long, but I don’t like their longer videos (which tend to be recordings of live streams).
But, on googling, you get mountains of pages about just turning autoplay on or off. Diagnosing why it won’t turn on or off. If you google for autoplay extensions, they are all just for the purpose of enabling or disabling autoplay outright.
If you search for, e.g. youtube autoplay extension -on -off -stop -remove -disable you basically get no results…
Nobody worldwide has ever tried to improve autoplay?
You (any developer really) can only improve what YouTube’s programming interface (API in the lingo) gives the developers the raw ability to do. If they left that feature out, developers are sorta screwed.
Now one could certainly make a dedicated viewing app that had that feature. And which ran on desktops, not phones where we normally think of using apps as website replacements. Even if the playlist API lacked the length-limiting feature as such they could synthesize it by simply reading the duration of the very next vid in queue just before playing it and if too long vs. the user’s stated desire, skip past it to the next one. The user would notice a slight half-second hiccup and that’s about it.
But given the nature of ordinary web pages as YouTube uses them, an outside developer is not going to be able to graft that “intelligence” onto the web pages you see at youtube.com. And for security reasons, should not be able to.
So until YouTube itself adds that feature to its website playlist feature, there’s no semi-secret recipe anyone can publicize in a how-to article.
FYI, essentially zero of the how-to articles on any computer topic are written from painstaking original hi-tech hackerish research. Most come from an author with some programming skilled simply reading the online manuals targeted at nerds like them, then dumbing down the explanation for a specific narrow task so mere mortals can “click this, then click that” and get the targeted result they desire.
Well I was mostly just talking about how difficult it is to even find discussion about autoplay beyond just turning it off or on.
But, if we’re talking about the API, I don’t think it directly provides functionality for blocking ads either, because different ad blockers seem to work in different ways and periodically ad blockers fail to work as youtube updates their system.
It’s pretty clear they are using various workarounds and tricks to figure out when ads are being shown and interrupt that process in some way.
Similar workarounds would be possible for autoplay. If nothing else you could check the duration of the current video and just skip to the next one if it’s too long (but of course you could get stuck if the algorithm keeps picking long videos).
I guess I could have a stab at implementing something like this myself…I’m just surprised it doesn’t already exist.