The problem with Chinese EVs is that they show it’s possible to innovate, keep prices down, and mass produce.

Ford, GM, even Tesla, are spending all their time whining about how it’s just not possible to compete. They point the finger at worker wages, instead of improving engineering and design, materials, manufacturing processes, and not chasing stock-market gains.

Stop making $70K SUVs and start making $20K Taurus and Escort EVs. You did it once. You can do it again.

RemindMe! 3y “reply to this thread”.

Tweezers.

When you realize how many wars were averted because of them.

• Catch 22
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)

I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.

Security theater: Shoes and belts off.

Security circus: Pilot Captain Bobby Tables.

TLDR: People need to go touch grass.

Cleaning up the kitchen every night.

Used to leave dishes in the sink during college, then do them when it got full. Got a side job as a bartender, where you had to clean up every surface after the last shift, ready for people the next day. Applied it to home. Has stuck ever since.

Fortunately, married a woman who had the same habits. We’ve never gone to bed with a dirty kitchen, even after a group gathering.

Tried bash, Make, and awk/sed. All hit brick walls. Finally landed on pyinvoke. Two dependencies to install on any new machine. Never had problems. Also, easy to debug and modify as projects evolve.

So close. All they need is to add this: https://lastminuteengineers.com/sim800l-gsm-module-arduino-tutorial/

I just spent the weekend installing 24.04 on a Lenovo laptop as a self-hosted server. The only thing that didn’t work was the fingerprint scanner. No big deal, but it seems peripheral device driver support is still a bit janky.

Running the self-hosted apps under Docker, though, worked without a hitch. chef’s kiss

We were waving iPhones feet away from the tag. It didn’t get picked up so we wandered out to the neighborhood.

My guess is, to preserve battery, iPhones wake up and scan for nearby AirTags only X seconds at a time (don’t have actual numbers, but guessing somewhere between 30-120 seconds). Whatever AirTag ID they pick up, they send anonymously to the cloud along with location. If the owner has the tag in lost mode and the ID matches, they get notified.

This means if you’re walking around with your phone and it hasn’t hit the scan window, you could miss the tag. This works in a high-density area like a city center with lots of phones waking up and scanning at different times, but not so much in low density places.

In that case, a GPS tag with cell modem might work better, but it’s a lot pricier and requires regular charging.

An AirTag for my wife’s cat, along with a collar holder. She’s an indoor cat but REALLY wants to get out. We got it after reports of coyotes roaming around and attacking small pets.

One time she darted out a sliding door window, we tried to track her down. Went all over the house, then outside. Ended up driving all over the neighborhood. Nothing. Turned out the whole time she was hiding under a car, 20ft from where she got out.

Confidence in the tech is low.

Wait till the CFOs start tallying up the GenAI bills…

First and last snowboard lesson. Long time ago. Never again.

Now imagine how big the crowd would be for Harris!

Or don’t.

Because until 2017, nobody gave a crap about the size of the crowd. Normal Presidents have had more important things to think about in their first 100 days in office.

A friend gave me the best career advice years ago: make a personal portfolio site.

He said nobody really reads through resumes anymore. A portfolio with lots of screenshots or photos, and a very short paragraph works best. Also tack on a resume for those who ask for it.

Organized by category, date, or whatever makes sense. You can use a blogging engine like Wordpress, or a static hosting platform like Jeckyll or Hugo. Assign it a simple domain (like .work or .portfolio). Keep it updated with latest clippings.

Then whenver someone asks, just point them at the site. Print it on a biz card, make custom stickers, etc.

If you want free hosting, check out Github Pages.

AOL.

If only for their resilience.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/11/29

I intentionally kept historical imports out, since Reddit is blocking APIs under the guise of limiting AI scraping.

My main point was setting up an easier way for low-tech mods to set up a parallel community, then nudge users to move over.