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> back seats included I ended up buying loose seat belt buckles for my wife's car from a pull and pay to stop this. Evidently nobody at Toyota has a dog.

The irony there being the "cars are evil" politicians are typically the strongest advocates for EVs, but EVs (being new) are the cars most likely to be affected by these annoyances…

Are you young enough to have grown up in a house without a land line by chance? I think land lines are where many current adults (who grew up before cell phones were ubiquitous) le…

> Machine tools are not designed by extremely skilled machinists But they're built by extremely skilled machinists. I've practiced engineering for decades but I wouldn't even want …

I wear my seat belt anytime I leave the driveway but I still want one of these things. My car can't tell the difference between a person and my backpack on the passenger seat, but …

> actually do more harm than good I've wondered about this too. I have a common enough name that about 2/3 of the info data brokers have on me is garbage. If every data broker coul…

> Therefore the difference between the horn being readily accessible and being hidden away could be the difference between life and death. Being readily accessible is a must. The p…

It's weird that Tesla is being called out over the horn. In driver's ed they tell you to not to use your horn when you're annoyed at other drivers - only use it if there's an immin…

Operational Technology. It's basically IT but for industrial operations instead of commercial. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/internet-of-things/w...

Devs who haven't worked in industrial controls won't believe it, but the overwhelming majority of critical OT software still doesn't.

Visual Basic as a language is just C# for people who want to type more to do the same thing. Visual Basic as a tool for building Windows programs with GUIs was pretty hard to beat …

> solar electricity is already cheaper than natural gas Does that include transmission? Most population centers already have the pipeline network needed to bring them gas but the g…

Depends where you are. In the US natural gas is a byproduct of shale oil extraction and we have a limited capacity to move or export it so it's almost priced as a waste product. It…

I managed to collect a rather massive digital music collection when p2p was en vogue. I still listen to it every day because it's highly curated and has tracks unavailable on any s…

They're allowed to have limits like "local driverless taxis don't operate outside SF city limits or below 35 degrees with precip in the forecast" etc. at level 4, but to meet level…

Modern Google is an embodiment of many of the flaws which allowed them to crush Lycos 20 years ago.

Non-software engineering has needed a git-like version control system for decades now but there are two giant hurdles: - Designing a UI for resolving merge conflicts is non-trivial…

It will be like salvaging pre-1945 shipwrecks for their non-irradiated metal.

This phenomenon was really useful for sneaking booze into football games as undergrads. Two airplane bottles in your pocket, belt loop, etc. - somewhere obvious but not too obvious…

It's hard to know how much time has to elapse before all the problems have been teased out though. Anyone who thought the DC-10 was in the clear after its cargo door problems were …

I wish they'd be a little less one-size-fits-all. Nixing parking minimums for businesses in already-walkable, transit-connected downtown cores is overdue, and areas close to that d…

My situation is basically the other side of the same coin: I built out my network 7 years ago using Edge gear instead of UniFi. The hardware is solid and the software isn't flashy …

> we had to be constantly thinking about failure modes This to me is the biggest difference between writing code for the software industry vs. an industrial industry. Software is a…

Ironically back in the answering machine era you could screen your calls as they were coming in, short-circuiting this entire loop.

Especially all of those "atoms for peace" projects that had nothing to do with nuclear power. Widening the Panama Canal with nuclear bombs, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/196…