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Judging by /r/CombatFootage/ you can't really do anything against them unless you wear a full EOD suit. Once you hear it you are already dead.

There is a classic Dave Chapelle bit where his friend gets pulled over for driving recklessly. After being confronted he says to the cop, "I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that." The officer, to Dave's shock, replies, "Well now you know! Get outta here!". Then Dave's friend turns to him and says, "That was good, wasn't it? Because I did know I couldn't do that!"

This is how QI works.

I got into cooking via Youtube. Youtube cooks became a thing about fifteen years ago. People like Jamie Oliver started promoting first themselves and then others on Youtube and I sort of started watching that stuff to relax. The genius of this was that Jamie Oliver was of course famous but the people he promoted weren't. They were just ordinary people that pointed a camera at themselves while they were cooking stuff. Quite a few of them are still on Youtube and have successful channels now. And of course others have come along. There are many thousands of people regularly uploading stuff. These days if I want to learn how to make something, Youtube is the first place to look.

It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that I could do some cooking myself. If you are a programmer (like me), my realization was that if I can follow instructions and implement some complex algorithm, cooking is a lot easier. And even the failures can be tasty.

Julia Childs was basically doing the same thing as these Youtube chefs but about half a century earlier. You can find quite a bit of her shows on Youtube. But it's got a similar vibe to it: shot at home, very passionate about what she did, very relatable, etc. And it necessarily follows a similar format. She was funny, and no-nonsense. Very unglamorous too. And obviously very skilled. She was a middle aged woman by the time she got on TV. It was all about the food and her character.

I can't say she was a huge influence for me because I never knew she existed until some Youtube chefs kept referring to her and I checked out some of her stuff.

Anyway, I loved the bit of information about her WW II career as a high level intelligence officer. Only makes her more awesome.

They haven't lost yet. Alexa is still the top conversational system appliance for most households right now. A smart speaker is almost an essential device among my group of friends. Siri on HomePod is still subpar for basic kitchen tasks like setting timers, adding items to shopping lists, and creating reminders. I don't even think Google has a current device that competes in this space.

I really want HomePod to be better at household tasks such as managing shopping lists, timers, and reminders, but it's not there yet. As soon as the HomePod can replace my Alexa devices, I'll be all in. I have a HomePod right next to every Alexa device in my house, and I'm just waiting for Apple to turn on their "Apple intelligence."

I hope Benn Jordan makes a video on this subject (no sarcasm, he would do an excellent job of it).

This is a well known tactic to do to Chinese scammers or any person you don't want to talk to that is in China or has to go back to China.

That's why many hackathons are hosted in universities, schools or other facilities like that. It's quite easy to get hold of someone like minded there and get a set of rooms over the weekend.