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811.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Depending on age, it’s more likely that the physical switch drives an electric relay and the relay switches the actual fog lamp current which could be 3-5amps per lamp, letting the manufacturer use a small gauge trigger wire to run to/
812.
by sokoloff 1y ago
You think you’re being ripped off for a £10 fog light switch on a ~30 year old car? That sounds like an incredible bargain to me. Why do you think you should pay near cost? What’s the incentive for all the people who had to make, test,
813.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Many of the low-speed switches are connected to a single controller that then interfaces over LIN or CAN to the car. Reducing the copper content of cars and reducing the size of the wiring bundles that have to pass through grommets to doors
814.
by sokoloff 1y ago
At an average 14K miles per year and a guessed 25 mpg, that’s 560 gallons/year. At $4/gallon (guessed and well over the US average), that’s $2240/yr. If you exclusively charged with completely free electricity and still manag
815.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Is clothing really that big of a risk?
816.
by sokoloff 1y ago
That makes sense. It’s also step 1 in your journey. Maybe taking the AI code as input and refactoring it heavily will result in a better step 2 than your previous step 0 was.
817.
by sokoloff 1y ago
To me, the more interesting question is whether you without AI can outperform you using AI, not whether you can outperform someone else who is using AI. I think AI has already gotten to a point to where it can help skilled devs be more prod
818.
by sokoloff 1y ago
There are many events where dancing is not the main point of being there. Wedding receptions being an obvious one, but there are others as well.
819.
by sokoloff 1y ago
A large wallet that’s been dormant for years suddenly becoming active will tend to pressure the price lower from the implied increase in liquid supply and fear that the wallet will continue to distribute coins. It’s not just the printing of
820.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Now I see the disconnect on the code of ethics. In my view, pg, dang, tomhow, rtm, Jessica, Garry, et al are members of the YC community within the meaning of the code and I think they think they are members of the community and bound by th
821.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I don’t believe I misunderstood these words of yours, and provided you a ready reference to check for yourself whether YC had a code of ethics and whether that code contained the elements you were hand-wringing about. > If YC has no ethi
822.
by sokoloff 1y ago
GGP was clearly in the context of “how would YC evaluate this pre-funding?” rather than “how would outsiders evaluate YC?” but 15 seconds of search turned up: https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics
823.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Fair Q. It was a multi-week process where the doc was published/open for written comment and then we had a series of meetings for live discussion as well. The engineer in question just completely mis-read where we were in the process a
824.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I have seen the revolving cast of characters bit play out several times. It’s as if they hire 1 or 2 competent people and rotate them to face the client that is currently screaming the loudest. To be fair though, in your case it aounds like
825.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I interned at Daimler-Benz and assembly line workers had company-employed drink trolleys which would take your order early in the shift for what partially subsidized drinks/snacks you wanted delivered for your breaks during your shift.
826.
by sokoloff 1y ago
When a consumer is buying labor embodied in a product, they don’t care whether that labor are unionized or what their wage per hour/day is. They do care what the wage per unit produced is, which is why we see a lot of US manufacturing
827.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Getting kids aware of and interested in a topic is an important step. I mentor a high school robotics team, not because I have an illusion that those students could skip college and walk into a robotics design job, but because it gets them
828.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Frequency matters. A few dollars extra / 100% extra on some small thing you buy a handful of times per year? Sure. If it’s a small ticket item you buy every day, most people aren’t going to be able to spend an extra thousand dollars pe
829.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Board members are also significant shareholders, so they’d be tanking their own position (and would be hard to argue if they sold out shortly before distancing him that they had no insider knowledge of it).
830.
by sokoloff 1y ago
For Q1, Tesla installs were down 5.5% quarter-on-quarter but up 156% (to 2.56x) versus the same quarter a year prior.
831.
by sokoloff 1y ago
The way I read that paragraph is that Q1 (the prior quarter) set a record overall, but it’s not clear whether tariffs hurt others in Q2 as it was in Q2 when Tesla’s installs fell 7.7% QoQ despite having slight growth YoY in Q2.
832.
by sokoloff 1y ago
With all the noise and uncertainty around tariffs and resulting supply chain disruptions, I’m surprised it’s only down 0.8GWh (7.7%) Maybe they’re running installs months behind sales and worse quarters are ahead.
833.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Just tell ‘em that! We had an internal RFC comment/discussion meeting on a proposed engineering standard. In that exact meeting, a dev flipped out and expressed exasperation that they weren’t asked to comment on the proposal. In the e
834.
by sokoloff 1y ago
> Young people aren't going to get more conservative because IOW, “ this time is different!” Maybe that will be true this time, but it’s far from a given.
835.
by sokoloff 1y ago
It’ll interesting to see if GenZ support changes as they become GenX’s age.
836.
by sokoloff 1y ago
If someone wants to work in a union shop, they can choose a job that is unionized or try to unionize their current/next workplace. People who don’t want to work for a union shop should have the same amount of voice as people who do (1
837.
by sokoloff 1y ago
So, 43 years ago?
838.
by sokoloff 1y ago
10 unions was evidently not enough to avoid this outcome. Perhaps if it went to 11, it would be “unions good”?
839.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Precious metals under the mattress is probably a better idea than cash against these risks.
840.
by sokoloff 1y ago
Plenty of people would buy domestic goods if they were “a bit more expensive”. I’d say 5% on a large ticket item or 15-20% on a small item would be “a bit”. Rarely is “made in the USA” just a bit more expensive in my experience.

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