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901.
by bluGill 4mo ago
They can do it better than your phone but only if you are a professional driver in your car for at least four hours a day. The typical person spending half an hour going to work or going to get groceries has everything on their phone and th
902.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Be sure to let them know at the rental corner if you are dissatisfied because it doesn't work with your phone. Run car companies buy a lot of cars and in turn actually have input to how a car is made and they also have reason to care a
903.
by bluGill 4mo ago
The power here is on the rental car companies. They buy the most cars by far. And so when they say that customers won't accept a rental car without a CarPlay, the car makers will listen.
904.
by bluGill 4mo ago
They want everyone to, but they also know that the cost of cars, it's not realistic for that to happen. The only way even people on the upper middle class can afford to be buying or leasing cars every three years is because at the end
905.
by bluGill 4mo ago
There is no useful way to complain to GM. However making sure everyone knows on various forums is a much more powerful way in the long run. It will take more time, but I'm not alone.
906.
by bluGill 4mo ago
They want my money. After the car payment I don't have money leftover for another subscription. Use my phone subscription, that is what I'm paying for for.
907.
by bluGill 4mo ago
I thought I would be okay and bought a GM. I regret it because of the lack of android auto.
908.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Rentals it is more important. Your own car doing the one time setup every few years is no problem but when it is a rental you don't want to take that time.
909.
by bluGill 4mo ago
As a owner of a GM without android auto, never again. Everything is on my phone but I can't safely access it while driving. Also can't legally because my state makes using the phone while driving illegal (for good reason. I suspe
910.
by bluGill 4mo ago
They will likely take a decade, but only because this isn't top priority. They could be out in a month if it was important to them. The alternatives exist, there is just a lot of pain in switching that they can avoid by doing this over
911.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Certainly that's the consensus view. However, I have yet to see any evidence that people within the consensus actually have done any analysis to find the truth. They just have sort of feeling which is driven by the press which presents
912.
by bluGill 4mo ago
There are about as many gender study majors in the U.S. per year as there are aviation engineering majors. That is one small niche of engineering majors that includes all of gender study.
913.
by bluGill 4mo ago
> A program must be maintenable, efficient, observable, testable, scalable, performant, readable, secured. This is the key that most people miss. The second thing most people miss is most of the time efficient, scalable, and performant a
914.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Bob can learn and change. Good for him. Can you? (you the reader, not the person I'm responding to - except when they by reading this comment are the same person)
915.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Humans like acronyms. You see them all over. If it seems like programmers like them more than others it is only because you are in that field and don't think about other fields. (did you know that Radar, and Scuba are acronyms? proba
916.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Problem is those are books. They are written by great programmers, but the problems are mostly toys - useful elegant examples, but the longest in SICP is still only a couple pages long. Sure it is cool they implemented SCHEME in a couple
917.
by bluGill 4mo ago
If single responsibility is so well known, when did I just this week see some code that violated that from a senior engineer? That code past review by a couple other programmers, without me looking at it and pointing out how horrible it wa
918.
by bluGill 4mo ago
What matters is the final result not the parts.
919.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Before AI a large pull request was enough effort to make that you could assume good faith work on the part of everyone. Likely even if it is bad for architectural reasons it is solving an itch other users have and it is reasonable for them
920.
by bluGill 4mo ago
2023 was 3 years ago, so if raises were 3% under inflation they are due for another 10% increase again. I would expect raises were more like 1-2% under inflation and so they won't be due for a couple more years.
921.
by bluGill 4mo ago
One other point: tastes expand to fit your income. You learn how much many you get every month and then how to spend that much. My local Mercedes dealer will lease me a car for $4000/month (+ insurance) - somebody must have enough mon
922.
by bluGill 4mo ago
You need some expertise, but electric and pumbing are not hard to do yourself. If you don't know what you are doing a bad install can kill you (or your family/friends), so you want to do this right. However it isn't hard. I
923.
by bluGill 4mo ago
That is false for reasons that have nothing to do with analog vs digital. Analog doesn't allow all the tricks the loudness wars required to win, so often analog really was better than digital. That is garbage in garbage out, and analo
924.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Maybe not anymore, but that used to be a thing. I suspect some are still left, but I stay away from the places where audiophiles hang out.
925.
by bluGill 4mo ago
> What I like about Pine64 is that they go for low price points. Sometimes I wish they would charge a little more and use that extra $$$ to pay someone to make the things work. there are too many rough edges that a full time developer w
926.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Every few years I get a 10% raise when they realize those less than inflation raises are enough that they are losing people who places that pay better. (sometime it was me who left, but the cycle repeats at the new place)
927.
by bluGill 4mo ago
The high end is large race tuned engines. Smaller engines are much cheaper and all you need. That is also brand new. Rebuilt engines are much cheaper and good enough
928.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Crate engines sell for between $3000 and $12000 for cars. Transmissions $2000 to $5000. (Prices from the first source I found, a reasonable sample range but I suspect you can find things outside the range) In stock and ready to pick-up toda
929.
by bluGill 4mo ago
Script kiddies didn't look at the .bat files. They ran them without a clue how they worked. There was some respect for the people who wrote those scripts but none for users who couldn't write them
930.
by bluGill 4mo ago
I think everybody knows at least of 'friend of a friend' who has started the project at some point. Maybe one in 500. Started is different from finished.

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