This fucking gov… I mean, I’m not necessarily against having less religion in the public sphere, but they always pull shit like this when their poll numbers start to tank and people start protesting. There were 2 very big scandals recently, one about billions being spent on a failed software project on our DMV, and the other one about an awful law regarding doctors being passed in the middle of the night.

I guess they want us to talk about something else now…

At least they still make minivans, everybody else stopped making them in favour of these ugly-ass “SUV” which are worse in every aspect except towing… There are only 4 options on that market now (well, five if you count the Pacifica separately from the Voyager/Grand Caravan, but it’s more of a trim difference, so let’s say 4.5)

I’ve listed my pronouns under my name in my email signature, and that has cut down significantly on the number of people misgendering based on my first name. It’s not an obscure name at all, but the female version is way more popular and there only a very small letter separating the two versions, so a lot of people hallucinate it.

I recently built an app that uses a PouchDB (client-side CouchBD) database as the “project” unit, and where you can optionally set up a server-side CouchDB database for multi-user / multi-device collaboration. Works pretty well!

As a JS dev, I approve of this meme.

Tesla getting the majority of subsidies is a sad state of affairs, that’s true. But I think it’s more due to the rest of the market being exceedingly slow to react than anything Tesla specifically did. Elon back then was overly optimistic in his timelines, but I don’t think it rose to the level of being a con man (now with Twitter / X and DOGE it’s a different story, I won’t argue with you on that!)

I wasn’t born in the 1970s so I don’t remember what the public opinion on EVs were at that time.

I won’t argue that Big Oil has always been up to nefarious things, but “creating Tesla” isn’t one of them.

This is a pretty revisionist & cynical take. From what I remember, before Tesla EVs used to be seen as glorified golf carts, only meant for inner-city driving that only hard-core environmentalists would even want.

Tesla flipped that on its head and showed the world that EVs could be cool. As a new car company, it also makes sense to start with the high-margins, low-volumes of luxury cars.

What’s sad is that the rest of the car industry, who already had low-margins high-volumes manufacturing up & running, didn’t pick up the pace and only chased the “luxury” segment. Also, Tesla majorly dropped the ball with the Cybertruck. Model 3 is a good mid-range sedan but they should’ve continued their efforts towards a good entry-level option.

You’re absolutely right!

Costco is especially infuriating because they do not tolerate anything on the platform before you can start. You also cannot remove anything from the platform before you’ve paid and everything… So you can’t pack as you go, making everything slower and more stressful for everyone. If you even attempt to, the goddamn thing locks up and the clerk has to unlock it for you.

Journalists using LLMs to turn bullet points into a full article

Readers using LLMs to summarize a full article into a series of bullet points

Maybe, I know Teslas are a bit power-hungry when parked.

My wife had to try charging on a 120V outlet last winter. The plug couldn’t even keep up with the battery heating requirements to actually start charging; the battery percentage was going DOWN while plugged in. It was -25°C outside though, so it’s a specific situation, but it’s actually why she had to try to charge; it’s a trip we can easily do without charging in the summer.

other people’s Java

I’m gonna have to disagree here, it’s always a guessing game of how many layers of abstraction they’ve used to seemingly avoid writing any implementation code… Can’t put the code related to “bicycles” in the Bicycle class, no, that obviously goes in WheeledDeviceServiceFactoryBeanImpl that’s in the ‘utils’ package.

It’s also frozen at some point which does kill most of the bacteria

Then, nobody says “megagram” - it’s “ton”. So there are quirks to remember.

We absolutely should, though… That and megameters, for car mileage. We always round off to the nearest thousand kilometer anyway.

Well something about 200 kms away will take 2 hours to get there on the highway going 100 km/h…

It’s not as neat as 1 mile = 1 minute at 60mph, but it’s still pretty easy to do the mental math.

Like 115 grams. A pound is 454g, a quarter of that is 113.5g, which would probably be rounded up.

My old Odyssey had 18!

Yeah, it was funny teaching my grandmother to use a computer… She couldn’t use a mouse, but she typed really fast!

I’m 35 and my daughter is 15. When I’ll be 37, 16-year-olds will litterally be younger than my actual kid. This is all kinds of fucked up.