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I bought a Model 3 in 2018, a Y in 2020, and another 3 in 2024. The end user design has only continued to get worse on various aspects of the car. Regarding non-safety issues, livi…

> Generally speaking, for most people, bills go up as they age (kids, health, yada-yada). To a point yes. There was a time when you could realistically pay off your mortgage before…

From AWS pricing: > Per 10,000 API calls > $0.05 per 10,000 API calls. So imagine you have some number of cron jobs which require a bunch of secrets and these things fire every min…

Okay I guess I've just had a different experience entirely. Maybe I'm jaded by hallucinations. The code ChatGPT generates is often bad in ways that are hard to detect. If you are n…

Tesla uses independent body shops they certify, I know this because I've used one as a result of a deer accident. The service centers do not handle beyond some level of damage.

My personal experience so far with Tesla specifically - and this is not to say they are doing the right thing in regards to parts or anything - was when my wife hit a deer and a bu…

If its tech and they want a 30-45 minute interview with live coding on something like hackerrank - especially if whatever brain teaser they've chosen has absolutely nothing to do w…

> I don't see how AI, quantum and block chain are at all equivalent. It's not that there is any claim to equivalency, its that these are the technology trends that are most useful …

For all these "it is better" points, it still doesn't even begin to outweigh the "you get to spend time with your children" point. This is the most important part of child rearing …

> browser search bar and get perfectly good answers That depends. If your search engine is Google, you'd get things like "The best 17 AAA games by budget to buy in 2024" or "22 tri…

> Alexa is about as useful as a toaster The toaster at least makes toast. Alexa can only prompt me about adding toast to my shopping list.

In the early 90s I ended up taking a Pascal course in high school for a math credit. Afterwards I joined the military in a computer software MOS and was trained in Ada. Of course..…

We pour concrete to make Atlas stones for specific weights knowing that these artificial stones will eventually be ruined by accident by the people who have a new interest in stone…

3 billion devices run Java! ;)

I had a Sears Admiral refrigerator that was built in the 90s which recently (three months ago) had the compressor go out. I've had the refrigerator since I purchased the house in 2…

It's not problematic, its just plain wrong. Also, the phone number is right there on the flier so its not like the fliers owner can't be contacted after seeing a flier to see if th…

Corruption is everywhere, not just in big cities. The more rural the county in US, the greater the chance that "stuff like this only happened in 3rd world countries" is necessary t…

Haha yes, similar for me. It was word scramblers as games in AOL chat rooms that lead me to my love of programming... and of course Visual Basic 3.0. What an amazing product back t…

> Why would anyone think a two-hour buffer for something so critical would be appropriate? This sort of negligence is intentional. My guess would be it started as a requirement for…

I have fixed numerous home appliances over the past two decades almost entirely thanks to YouTube and eBay, and a willingness to apply myself. If the YouTube video has no intro and…

From experience in the 3D printing space, it's too early to say Bambu out-Prusa'd Prusa, because there hasn't been enough time to know whether the Bambu printers will outlast a Pru…

> it will be just in maintenance alone Can confirm; >5 years on a Model 3 and other than tires $0 in maintenance so far. >3 years on a Model Y and other than tires, $0 in maintenan…

I have that problem but it probably some something to do with some combination of browser addons I have installed. When I launch the link in a Private Firefox window they seem to w…

I've owned a Model 3 for over five years (~100K miles) and a Model Y for over 3 years (~45K miles). $0 maintenance excluding replacing the tires. This has been a game changer for m…

From what I gather from Oblomovka[1] [and based on my own memory of this period]: It was a place where the primary early users of the Internet did not frequent, but could be someth…