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No normal person can repair a Tesla, it’s basically a trade secret. My brother is a mechanic and servicing Teslas are a non starter due to the complexity. The notion that I can just download a manual, buy some parts and DIY my own repairs is absolutey ludicrous.

The only reason for Tesla to support right to repair is to increase regulatory burden on competitors, stunt innovation and raise costs for their competition. Shame on this anticompetitive behaviour.

UTM is great for basic stuff but performance has been abysmal so not really viable as a workhorse in my day to day.

Nothing beats Parallels on Mac, worth every penny.

It appears to be that paper straws have more PFAS than plastic. Seems no matter what we do we are boned.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/28/paper-...

How can you work on side projects while playing with your kids? My kids get 100% of my attention because otherwise it ends up more like being 0%. I can’t learn the next whiz-bang framework while inventing storylines for plying with Batman figures or playing hide and seek.

Get up at 6am. Get kids ready for school. Help my wife with any chores around the house for a bit. Start working. Lift on my lunch break in my home gym. Back to work. Kids come home. Feed them. Help with homework. Do something with them outside weather permitting. Put them to bed, read to/with them. Get lunches ready for tomorrow. Load the dishwasher. Load the laundry. My turn to walk the dog. Be mentally and physically drained. Hopefully this all gets down by 9:30 so I can get to bed before 10 and get enough sleep to start it all over again.

Thank God I don’t commute.

If you want to work after work - don’t have kids.

Why bother saving for a home when buying one is now out of reach for most people in their lifetimes? Why bother having children when climate change is going to boil everyone alive? Why bother getting a good job when even good ones barely pays enough to live outside of living to work while I’m stuck with tens of if not hundred of thousands of dollars of student debt? Why look forward to a comfortable retirement when inflation is making my savings worth less and less and social security will be insolvent in 10 years, or I’ll just die or be bankrupt from healthcare before that?

F*ck it let’s just wasted and high.

America has failed to keep up housing construction with population growth for a long time now so if your “guardrails” requires places for people to live you’ve already lost.

Well at least you admit that the pretence of the Department of Justice being non-partisan/independent is just a facade.

The analogy is nonsense.

I'm all for large infrastructure investments in clean energy. Unfortunately the people in power where I live (Northern Ontario in Canada) only seem interested in inneffective taxes and crony capitalism.

Any so-called attempt to "redistribute wealth" has led to massive inflation and a borderline humanitarian crisis in our cities with people losing their homes and becoming addicted to deadly drugs on the streets.

If I create a new kind of tool based on the beak of an emperor penguin, that tool doesn't suddenly vanish if emperor penguins go extinct.

This fails to take into account the reduced quality of life from implementing things like carbon taxes and other regulations that increase the costs of everyday goods and services, ultimately increasing the cost of living. Essentially making everyone poorer. Poverty increases your risk of mortality quite substantially.

Canada implemented carbon taxes to reduce emissions. Emissions still rose and everything just became more expensive.

"The Earth is dying, lets make everyone's life miserable anyway" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Fanatics still seem to be stuck in the "bargaining" phase, I feel ahead of the curve to be honest.

And thousands of animals also die due to industrial agriculture.

There's no such thing as genocide in the (non-human) animal kingdom. There is only natural selection.

I don't deny climate change. Quite the opposite. I just don't believe there's anything we can actually do about it. Seems a lot of the climate fanatics also agree with me, because we've passed many of their so-called "points of no return" and failed to achieve anything that would have averted them.

Seems to me that we should be trying to make people's lives easier in the meantime, rather than making them miserable and poor with bonkers legislation, regulation and taxes.

99.9% species to ever exist have gone extinct. Just because we see one happening in front of us with expensive measuring equipment doesn't mean much.

This has big "the polar bears are starving" because of climate change vibes.

I suppose a “long time” is relative. I don’t have a Twitter account and haven’t cared much about what he does for about…3 months or so? with a 24 hour news cycle that fees like an eternity.

I thought gp was alluding to something within the last few days.

I went and clicked on a random job posting for SpaceX and there are references to refugees and asylees being allowed to apply now.

Seems like it’s going to boil down to “we interpreted the regulation wrong, oopsies”.

and I’m still using regular postgres just fine for over a decade and no plans to stop any time soon

serverless has mostly been hype and snake oil for me

Nothing beats a beefy box of metal

I haven’t been following bird man’s (X man?) shenanigans for a long time, what happened?

I thought that SpaceX, due to the nature of their work (rockets) were specifically prohibited from hiring non-citizens?

Edit: seems like the DOJ is claiming that that is not the case. Weird…so this is basically going to boil down to each side arguing their interpretation of a regulation.

Can’t say this doesn’t smell just a little political.

The reason client-side rendering is so popular (IME) is that it creates a clear separation between frontend and backend devs. You can use separate repositories, languages, deployment flows/cadences, code review, etc, with an API as your connection point.

You say this as if it is necessarily good, but I disagree and would even say it's actually a hindrance for many teams. It often adds inefficiences, increases costs and makes planning and collaboration more difficult.

the fact that you get an API by default with CSR is also nice

The vast majority of applications don't need an API.

No. Neither should be allowed, and there is way too much apologism for domestic mass surveillance when you are more likely to be unjustifiably screwed 8 ways from Sunday from your own law enforcement agencies than from the Chinese ones. And America should ABSOLUTELY not be asking the CCP to do surveillance on their behalf, as if this point even needs to be said.

The government asking someone else outside of the jurisdiction of the Fourth Amendment to violate American citizens rights on their behalf is still a violation even if the government technically doesn't directly do it.

The US intelligence community is responsible for more terrorism within America than any it may have prevented.

You can't get rid of them through voting, the next president will just install another stooge and the cycle will continue.

The FBI spied on Trump's campaign, he "cleaned house", Christopher Wray is just as bad as James Comey. It can't be fixed. Merrick Garland is just as bad as Bill Barr. It needs to be abolished.

Of course, spying on Americans is only bad when the scary CCP does it.

Hard pass. I don't want my browser doing anything except displaying webpages.

Because Skip has shifts and he is expected to deliver to a certain standard during that shift. The “should be an employee” people seem to want their cake (be classified as an employee) and eat it too (not get punished for not doing acceptable workloads as an employee). Smh

I’ve know since I was 8 years old (at least) that Black/Brown/Any Face is wrong. Trudeau was 30 doing blackface when I was that age. He has no excuse.

Facebook posts their content, and in return the agencies can run ads and beg for subscriptions from the traffic that Facebook drives to them. They both benefit.

Now nobody benefits.