I remember getting a hint guide book. It’s have the particular issue in red letters and a white background. Under it was a red box with the answer obscured by the red box. You’d use a red filmed decoder to hover over the red box and then read the answer.

Then at one point game companies had a 900 hint line. I finally used it once. I kept on dying and seeing the death cut scene. So I’d pause and reload. And die again. I swore I had the right answer. Finally, I gave in and called the hint line. First and only time. Turned out when you solved the puzzle, it started the same as the death cut scene and then something happened and you make it through alive.

Then explain “X, a Jesus”. He did some cool miracles and shit.

When most people talk about involvement, I understand it to be in designing and engineering of the product. Management of personelle, budgets, and securing funding is important, but the core of the product, while contingent on that, isnt the same as that.

I’ll let an except from this article sum up the essence of his contribution, but he isn’t an innovator, he’s an investor and manager. I know this is a highly polarized topic, but understanding the actuality and the mythology of the man is important.

With that said, we need to give credit where credit is due. He recognized it as a good idea and put more money into making it happen than any was willing to do at the time.

Therefore, you could make the argument that Tesla wouldn’t have happened without Musk – making the founder argument moot.

After that, you also have to give some credit to Musk for Tesla’s success. He has been the CEO since 2008 and the company accomplished incredible things under his leadership. They succeeded in making EVs mainstream and pushed the industry to transition to battery-electric vehicles.

To this day, it is Musk’s original ‘Tesla Secret Master Plan’ in 2006 that convinced me Tesla would be the company to bring EVs into the mainstream. The plan made sense, and it was executed under his leadership. He took the original idea, fleshed it out, financed it, and then led the team that made it happen.

The last point is important because that’s where I start to agree with Musk’s naysayers again. Musk’s fans like to claim that he is some sort of engineering genius. Jamie Dimon just called him “our Einstein”. While I can admit that Elon is smart and has an above-average understanding of many physics and engineering principles, comparing him to one of the most impactful theoretical physicists of all time is pure madness.

While Musk has made technical contributions to Tesla, I think they are often overblown by his fanbase and Tesla’s team doesn’t get enough credit. JB Straubel, Tesla’s longtime Chief Technology Officer until 2019, and his teams should get the vast majority of the credit for the technical contributions and advancements to battery technology and power electronics that made Tesla successful.

There are too many to name them all, but I have been reporting on Tesla for more than a decade. Through my reporting, sources have praised people like Straubel, Drew Baglino, Kurt Kelty, Colin Campbell, Peter Rawlinson, Charles Kuehmann, Alan Clarke, Dan Priestley, Lars Moravy, David Zhang, Evan Small, and Franz von Holzhausen for their contributions to Tesla.

100% this. I can’t tell you how only now, as a middle aged man, do I qualitative understand concepts like continuity and conventions like the complex number plane. No one thought it was important to explain, took the time to do so, or helped me develop the clarity of thought to really understand it.

Getting the right answers is radically different from understanding a concept.

It was so freeing when I escaped that at 35.

Wait, so if I were to import a csv with data that would normally be interpreted as a date by excel, but preceded that data with an apostrophe, it would still recognize that as a date? I’ve never tested this, so I’m not sure.

Relatedly, I know someone who was working some ssn data. Unfortunately, if an SSN started with a 0, it would drop that 0. It was a mess for them. I think there was a recent release that allowed you to not ignore leading 0’s.

Like a high school freshman party, that’s a weak punch.

If you precede all your data with an ', then excel won’t auto convert it total a date. Seems silly to do this for all the data though.

I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this comment section is too narrow to contain.

A lot of things he says, he’s incapable of either doing or has the follow through of doing it. What a gross misreading of what I wrote. Your alarmism is a weak coping mechanism. Grow up.

I don’t remember where I heard this, but it’s stuck with me “Liberals take Trump literally and have never taken him seriously.”

Cheers! I like this idea. Thanks.

Cheers! Robolox is a no go for now. Minecraft is okay, but only for friends that he knows in real life.

But I agree, discussions and trust are the most important. I monitor so he doesn’t stumble upon anything and if he does, we can have a discussion.

Yeah. There was a sliver of hope that he wouldn’t get caught in the enshttification of chrome and maybe escape it early with Firefox. But it sounds like it will be tough to get the monitoring I need.

I hear that! I’ll take the DIY temp when he’s a teen and see if Linux is a fit. But that’s a whole 'nother bag

Excellent! Thanks!

9. First computer.

Reminds me of my college days.

Getting blasted in the face full force?

I also think the computer is playing the long con. It tsunts, “It worked this time, but one day ,not tomorrow, not next week, but one day, you’ll have do a fresh install.”