potatochup

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by potatochup 2y ago
My situation is already a little different because prior to my L1 I was already working in the USA on a different visa. So I worked in the USA, then outside the USA, then returned to the USA (upon which I picked the L1 over the H1B for my s
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by potatochup 2y ago
I voluntarily went on an L1 so my spouse could work. H1b spouses cannot work.
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by potatochup 2y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, you can transfer employers on an H1-B, and you have 90 days to find a new job if you get laid off. On an L1 you are immediately out of status when your employment is terminated, with no option of transfer
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by potatochup 2y ago
You think H1-Bs are bad? Trying being on an L1 :)
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by potatochup 2y ago
Eh. I'm in a large US metro area and one of our local dances recently had to put a cap on class sizes because it was getting too crowded. The local university club recently started back up after a post-pandemic hiatus. I'm conside
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by potatochup 2y ago
My Oma went through Alzheimer's. Sbe went from being a functional adult, to forgetting how to speak English, to mistaking family members, to recognizing no one, to being unable to feed herself over the course of 10 years. But she seeme
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by potatochup 2y ago
I think the bolt looks fine? Especially the 2022+ versions. Biggest issue is the 50kw max charging rate imo.
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by potatochup 2y ago
Just do it! Most venues have a beginner class that is specifically designed for people who have never danced (there will likely be others in the same boat as you). I started a few years ago, now I teach it and it's all I do in my spare
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by potatochup 2y ago
I dunno. A Toyota RAV4 hybrid gets 41/38 city/highway mpg, but a Prius gets 57/56. That's 46% more efficient. Gas is just so cheap in the USA it barely matters.
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by potatochup 2y ago
Agreed. My 1972 MGB got 28mpg. I realize cars have improved in many ways since then (crash safety, NOx emissions, comfort) but I feel like in 50 years we stopped caring about efficiency as much.
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by potatochup 2y ago
Rust has lints for unused result types, but I've still seen new coders unintentionally write let _ = failable_call(); Which suppresses the error entirely. I wouldn't say it's "easy", and it hasn't really
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by potatochup 2y ago
Definitely not true. Source: I worked at Tesla at the time of the Snake robot.
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by potatochup 2y ago
I'll do it if it's convenient and has a fixed end time. So, <10 min walk from either my house or my work, 45min max duration. I often find people who want stuff for free expect me to drive across the entire city to meet them.
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by potatochup 3y ago
the USA has a murder rate of ~6 per 100k people and Tesla has 140k employees, so I don't think one murder is statistically meaningful.
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by potatochup 3y ago
This is generally true, but afaik there are still some (fairly complex) ways to write memory unsafe code in safe rust https://faultlore.com/blah/everyone-poops/
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by potatochup 3y ago
Do flat panels need regular cleaning though? I'm in a rainy location and was told to always have at least some tilt so that you don't have to clean them as frequently
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by potatochup 3y ago
Fine if you can assume honest users... But otherwise people would just keep the app around to not pay despite finding someone.
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by potatochup 3y ago
The new scheme is significantly worse for PHEVs. They have to pay road user charges (a per mile cost, usually limited to vehicles like EVs that don't pay gasoline tax) but they also have to pay the gasoline tax.
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by potatochup 3y ago
What's wrong with hot summers? Energy available in the battery in reases with temperature.
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by potatochup 3y ago
When I lived in SF proper I would take BART to/from SFO. Now I live mid peninsula and then Caltrain/Bart transfer timing is often terrible. That trip can vary from 30 to 60 minutes of transit + 10 min walking. So depending on how
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by potatochup 3y ago
Oh man, what a nostalgia trip. I spent a lot of nights as a teenager playing Savage, S2 and then HoN. Thanks for the link. I have a fond memory of Marc kicking me off a pub S2 game because I slow debuffed him as the commander.
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by potatochup 3y ago
Shiv doesn't pack a python interpreter, it looks like this does
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by potatochup 3y ago
> The LA to Las Vegas high speed line seems like an obvious mistake, though I'm curious as to why you think this? LA<->Vegas on I15 gets supremely busy during the weekends. I dunno how much regular commuter traffic there would
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by potatochup 3y ago
The traction control is also significantly better on EVs because you have much quicker response times. I've made it up to ski fields in a RWD Tesla Model 3 with summer tires easily.
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by potatochup 3y ago
I mean, GM came kinda close with the EV1. It was essentially as good as a Nissan Leaf was, in the 90s! It was more of an organizational failure than a technical one that killed it.
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by potatochup 3y ago
That's true for implementations like python async, but rust operates a bit differently (mostly to avoid allocations across await points). The author of this article has some other very good posts about it.
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by potatochup 3y ago
I rented an EV at hertz in Nashville recently. I ended up with a Model Y, but they had hyundai, Kias, Polestars, some Chevy Bolts all available for renting.
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by potatochup 3y ago
- At 400Kw, you're using DC, not AC anyway (whether three or single phase). Three phase is useful for faster (and more efficient) L2 charging (e.g. in the 10-50Kw range) - CCS type 3 is compatible with existing Tesla vehicles (it'
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by potatochup 3y ago
Side note: I thought no one (except tourists) used "San Fran"? I certainly cringe when I hear it.
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by potatochup 3y ago
I'm reading "The Geography of Nowhere" right now, it covers much of this in a reasonably entertaining fashion, although its not chocka-block with references. It does make some predictions that haven't dated well though (

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