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My situation is already a little different because prior to my L1 I was already working in the USA on a different visa. So I worked in the USA, then outside the USA, then returned …

I voluntarily went on an L1 so my spouse could work. H1b spouses cannot work.

Unless I'm mistaken, you can transfer employers on an H1-B, and you have 90 days to find a new job if you get laid off. On an L1 you are immediately out of status when your employm…

You think H1-Bs are bad? Trying being on an L1 :)

Eh. I'm in a large US metro area and one of our local dances recently had to put a cap on class sizes because it was getting too crowded. The local university club recently started…

My Oma went through Alzheimer's. Sbe went from being a functional adult, to forgetting how to speak English, to mistaking family members, to recognizing no one, to being unable to …

I think the bolt looks fine? Especially the 2022+ versions. Biggest issue is the 50kw max charging rate imo.

Just do it! Most venues have a beginner class that is specifically designed for people who have never danced (there will likely be others in the same boat as you). I started a few …

I dunno. A Toyota RAV4 hybrid gets 41/38 city/highway mpg, but a Prius gets 57/56. That's 46% more efficient. Gas is just so cheap in the USA it barely matters.

Agreed. My 1972 MGB got 28mpg. I realize cars have improved in many ways since then (crash safety, NOx emissions, comfort) but I feel like in 50 years we stopped caring about effic…

Rust has lints for unused result types, but I've still seen new coders unintentionally write let _ = failable_call(); Which suppresses the error entirely. I wouldn't say it's "easy…

Definitely not true. Source: I worked at Tesla at the time of the Snake robot.

I'll do it if it's convenient and has a fixed end time. So, <10 min walk from either my house or my work, 45min max duration. I often find people who want stuff for free expect me …

the USA has a murder rate of ~6 per 100k people and Tesla has 140k employees, so I don't think one murder is statistically meaningful.

This is generally true, but afaik there are still some (fairly complex) ways to write memory unsafe code in safe rust https://faultlore.com/blah/everyone-poops/

Do flat panels need regular cleaning though? I'm in a rainy location and was told to always have at least some tilt so that you don't have to clean them as frequently

Fine if you can assume honest users... But otherwise people would just keep the app around to not pay despite finding someone.

The new scheme is significantly worse for PHEVs. They have to pay road user charges (a per mile cost, usually limited to vehicles like EVs that don't pay gasoline tax) but they als…

What's wrong with hot summers? Energy available in the battery in reases with temperature.

When I lived in SF proper I would take BART to/from SFO. Now I live mid peninsula and then Caltrain/Bart transfer timing is often terrible. That trip can vary from 30 to 60 minutes…

Oh man, what a nostalgia trip. I spent a lot of nights as a teenager playing Savage, S2 and then HoN. Thanks for the link. I have a fond memory of Marc kicking me off a pub S2 game…

Shiv doesn't pack a python interpreter, it looks like this does

> The LA to Las Vegas high speed line seems like an obvious mistake, though I'm curious as to why you think this? LA Vegas on I15 gets supremely busy during the weekends. I dunno h…

The traction control is also significantly better on EVs because you have much quicker response times. I've made it up to ski fields in a RWD Tesla Model 3 with summer tires easily…

I mean, GM came kinda close with the EV1. It was essentially as good as a Nissan Leaf was, in the 90s! It was more of an organizational failure than a technical one that killed it.…