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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
And I can't imagine this isn't going to make the order book look worse. I'm currently cross shopping Tesla with other EV's and plug-in hybrids and this announcement has me pretty much dropping the idea of getting a Tesla
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
Douglas Adams got it at least partly right" "FORD: They make a big thing of the ship’s cybernetics. “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics robots and computers, with the new G.P.P. feature.” ARTHUR: ”G.P.P.”? What’s that? FORD: E
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by twoWhlsGud 2y ago
And I don't understand why this isn't expressed a simple quid pro quo - China has banned US services (FB etc) for years - turnabout is fair play. Or in other words, you can make money by making our people crazy and stupid when w
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Indeed. Would you rather have somebody in charge of your main competitor who makes aggressive sounding noises while steadily destroying its core capabilities or someone who speaks quietly and actually does stuff to make it stronger? https:
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Done properly (I know…) autonomous vehicles could be a godsend for cycling in the US. If vehicles behaved properly you wouldn't theoretically need cycling infrastructure at all – the dream of vehicular cycling would actually start work
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Looks like it's out of stock, though
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
And I think that extends out further to a lot of little micro strategies. Like I know for myself that I have a lot more control in the supermarket to avoid something like corn chips than I have at home once said corn chips are in the pantry
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I lived in Menlo Park for a number of years in the late 80s and early 90s - in group house a few blocks away from the border with East Palo Alto. At the time, East PA was poor and had a massively underfunded police department. This resulted
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I was fond of that car largely because it enabled me to make the following bad pun: Hyundai and Yugo we're going to merge, but decided not to when they realized the most logical name for the merged company would be: Yodai
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
It also depends on how old you are and how bad your presbyopia is (the condition where it's hard to flex your lenses and so change focus from near to far). Progressives are great if you do have this condition - I have a Costco membersh
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Figure out how to stop the social media robots from monetizing the destruction of civil society and you might be able to keep something resembling free speech. Otherwise, the future looks like China or Russia (massive kleptostates using the
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Agree - nice interview with him on the NYT book review podcast https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/books/review/how-to-tell-... The fact that they managed to get everyone out of the path of the fire
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I don't know where you're from, but where I live (the US) public ground transit plays a very small and steadily decreasing role in total mode share: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_S
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Intriguing story of how one driven individual can have such impact. Reminded a bit of the story of Poilane - the Parisian baking family that has connections (e.g. founders having worked there) to most of the bread in the US I most enjoy eat
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Not to forget the ubiquitous small delivery vans all over Europe that seem to work fine for craft folk. Not everything that's been turned into a culture war by those who are up for profiting needs be.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I rented a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid on my last business trip. No snow (SW) but a mix of suburban and rural roads and I was surprised at how much more fun it was to drive than the RAV4 I had on my last business trip (not to mention the giaga
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Keith Bradsher's High and Mighty is a somewhat old but masterful book on the subject of how the SUV was put on the road to dominance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Mighty_(book) well worth reading if yo
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Note that Subaru raised the Outback up higher some years ago specifically so it would qualify as a light truck some years ago. So while I agree that it's more station wagonny than most light trucks it actually legally qualifies as one.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Decent points, but it's good to remember that all cars have AWS (all wheel stop) - if you're not careful have AWD can make it easier to miss the transition to where AWS is no longer sufficient. In the NW the main attraction of AWD
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Consumers prefer a vehicle that looks like it'll keep them and their family alive on the streets as given - if some other persons kid ends up dead as a result of their choice - well "whateves". Make the streets less dangerous
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
This. I was recently in Phoenix for a meeting and was struck by the state of the roads there. Lots of paint on the roads bike lines on 4 or 6 lane 45 mph streets where lots of folks were doing 55+. I class myself as someone who will bike a
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I live in Seattle, and I can tell you with some certainty that most Seattle drivers are incapable of driving in all Seattle weather conditions...
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I think you underestimate how bad the competition has usually been. Apple is bad but the competition is usually terrible. Tech stuff has always had a pretty low bar, especially for actually working without a huge amount of sysadmin.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
My favorite near disaster story was due to my 100 year old house having come with 50 year old electric cooktop that sat over the (slightly younger dishwasher). I destroyed the dishwasher right after moving in (by running it with the new wat
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I'm still using the Miele vac that I bought new in 1989 (from the Whole Earth store in Oakland or Berkeley - that was a weird spin off). I brought it in for its first cleaning this year to the local vac repair store (I got a free clean
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
So I think some sort of hybrid between object recognition (like being discussed here as part of the workflow) and standard image processing stuff could be helpful there. E.g. it's not absolute sharpness that you're looking for it&
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Well the plural of anecdote may not be data, but I've really liked my Bosch dishwasher that I've had for the last 5 years or so. Cleans really well, reasonably quiet, and the UI works fine. I'm redoing the kitchen and conside
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Obligatory reference to Lotus Agenda which arguably was inspired by Notes and arguably (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_Code ) inspired Chandler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Yes, I tell my driving friends who complain about some nut they saw cycling - "Well, would you be happier if he did that in a Chevy Suburban?" :)
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
This observation holds a lesson for cycling advocates in other countries, I think. My happy experiences of cycling in Copenhagen are only partially due to the reasonably good infrastructure. The care that drivers take (thus producing the st

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