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It sounds a lot like a farmer's almanac... Which are reasonably accurate (ignoring chaos) and practically free (passion work)

My original clutch is at 197k miles, and I downshift to decelerate until i use the brakes the last 10-20'.

The clutch is much more difficult to replace on my car; (i've done the brake discs 2x -- track days),

If you're relatively smooth on your downshifts, each downshift should be much shorter than your average braking duration.

More generally speaking, if you're in a gear that slows you down, or downshift to it, you're more likely to avoid a full stop and start, which puts much more wear on the clutch than a series of downshifts.

... I also downshift when I drive automatics ... when I can... there are large downhills near my neighborhood (in a school zone) coming from a stop, if I switch to manual mode or short/sport mode, I can be in 3rd, at a controlled speed, and barely touch the brakes (versus others ride their brakes all down the hill)

To bring up AI, and the eventual un-subsidizing of costs; if $9 a year is too much for docker... Then even the $20/mo (June) price tag is too high for AI, much less $200 (August), or $2000? (post subsidizing)

I disagree with the article substantially; the truth is that Dodge is a dying brand, and the charger and challenger were never practical muscle cars - mostly because Dodge is less part of any racing series. The Ford Mustang is having a resurgence in actually being a sports car, because Ford is investing in Lemans and Imsa.

Honda, Toyota, Cadillac, Ford are the major performance cars these days... And Hyundai has a much bigger investment than Dodge. The consolidation of Mercedes, VW, Porsche, and Audi is an interesting challenge to the segment; Bmw and Mazda are also in the game.

The i3 certainly had some us regulatory difficulties, they had to change the battery and fuel tank sizes.

There are still suspension tuning parts for major ev brands like Tesla.

I was at a track day last year in my bmw 3 series and there was a Tesla 3 in my run group in front of me, "lowered" slightly with Eibach springs.

Re: 1, ignoring the complexities, is really interesting but depending on the effort to change our battery banks quickly makes renting a car more feasible.

And this highlights American traffic and sparseness.

- plug-in hybrids have 10-13 mile range which is great for running a few errands (this is only slightly more feasible than in a golf cart or ebikes) - also great for last mile connectivity for mass transit n users;

- the Nissan leaf 2012 had an 80 mile range - perfect for most daily commutes in a metro area

- modern electric vehicles have 200-300+ mile range, good for weekend getaways; esp with a charge at the destination

It originally did a substantial number of things to limit cost increases

- the individual mandate - % required spending on actual Medicare care by health insurers (limiting administrative and marketing expenses)

But each of those elements were later removed either legislatively or judicially.

This particular ice cream had 17g of sugar, but the sweetened Greek yogurt (Greek gods vanilla) had 23g!

Both for ⅔ cup

Other factors, 7g protein in yogurt (4g in ice cream), 2g dietary fiber in ice cream (cookie crumble) 0g in yogurt, 3.5g fat in ice cream 0g in yogurt

"Ice cream is still ice cream, and soda is still soda"

Is a hefty dig on ice cream ... Which I compared nutritionally to a "Greek yogurt" last week... And the ice cream won, dietary fiber, lower carbs.. and only slightly higher saturated fat, and slightly lower in protein (but by fewer grams than the sugar)

Many foods have lost their fiber and protein, where they are practically less healthy than ice cream.

And then Sodas, some are getting dietary fiber, flavored sparkling water is a thing you could count in the category... So now it's healthier than many only complex carb foods.

5% of a massive user base could also be huge if 50% of users are on an enterprise plan and barely using it.

Waymos, or Uber blacks...

have a lot going for them.

Initially, the 2008 cut off for Ubers, and the related on site inspections led to high quality; but over time, I've been in more vehicles with check engine and other lights on -- and heard more failed shocks (and mounts) than I would like to ride in; though the suspension is more sketch in a cab.

Google Wave is tangential to slack, discord, Facebook groups, and Whatsapp communities, arguably reddit communities...

So they may have been on to something

Solar or battery (to load shift for nights and weekend pricing)

HVAC being so much of a load is tricky for smaller battery systems.

My best small step is dehumidifying with battery

But antibiotics in the US are still over prescribed by doctors. There really are few cases for them for the mostly healthy adult; and they wreak havoc on your microbiome for what we're finding out is years. I know many people who will get antibiotics prescribed when they have a common cold (mostly a virus).

They're also under prescribed for things like appendicitis.

Especially when nextdns has a free tier.

The crazier thing would be if they were only expendable over 4 years like r&d

For the opposite FYI; some aren't trying to either target or not target pregnancy, they want to have a forecast for the next 3 days so they can pack their purse.

When people think of burning, they think of a trash / leaf pile in a yard, not an arc reactor or modern turbinrengine; but that doesn't mean we don't fly jet engines or run power plants

$60 is ~14% of the monthly budget, so yeah, I think that would make an impact.

And yeah, a truck costs money, whether for maintenance and gas, or bare bones insurance.

.. a cargo bike might be a better choice

I think you missed my "also".

Anecdotally, I lived in a condo in Atlanta (not traditionally known for its car independence) for 10 years, extremely convenient to the metro or walking a mile to work; it was often that I didn't drive my car for 1-2 weeks at a time and a concern that gas in my vehicle was 2 months old.

In that, very real scenario, I would have required a 200 mile range car to be charged about once a month - or prior to and after a major trip - something that off site handles well + super chargers, and to your and my points, readily available central charging at gas stations.

You can give every parking spot a 15 amp 120v and it would fit more ~95% of driving use cases. Even more likely in urban areas. Average daily round trip commutes are 52 minutes (approx < 30 miles)

You also don't need to have every parking spot to have an outlet, that is not the status quo; if 50% of vehicles charge at single/multi-family homes and 50% charge 2-3x a week at a fast charger for 15 minutes; then that's the best chance for local gas stations to stay in business (local stations are going to struggle if the 20% rate of EV purchases and everybody has a non gas station outlet continues)

Your anecdote is a great example of how inequality leads to crime. And the systems that are in place to "punish" the "unequal"/"un-privileged", results in high effort ways that punish the "privileged".

If we extend your anecdote to normalizing petty crime, and the likelihood to extend to adulthood -- not paying for school lunches now may be a great way to increase paying for school lunches when a person is sent to prison for vagrancy / petty crimes (repeatedly, and will never be able to dig out of the prison/debt hole)

When I read the first paragraph, my immediate question is, is the PB&J alternative meal actually healthier and more reflective of the nutritional needs (and desires ) of a student than the more expensive normal meals (my thoughts turn to chicken tenders, pizza, corn dogs)

I personally reflect back to realize that I started requesting parents / personally making sandwiches ~3rd grade because I was tired of flavorless and relatively unhealthy and repeated cafeteria style food at high price. (and also coming to a similar conclusion regarding the Cafeteria when at University).

This reminds me of a recent power outage with children never who had experienced one before, and they have no idea what to do; we can read / game by lantern, go to sleep early.

Distractions aren't new; but they are more 24/7

24 hour "news" is a great example; we leave it on in the background, as Radio or TV, but we're not listening to gain information, we're listening to be entertained - amygdala activated.

With AM radio and broadcast TV, low efforts were mostly limited to 2 hour segments from the 80s-90s; then in the late 90s, cable tv became standard, then in the 2000s the internet (chats, reddit, hacker news), and then the smartphone...

If my phone gets dirty watered, i ensure I rinse it with fresh water; really confuses the onlooker.

Shoutout to Samsung Ultra Power Saving Mode (and other modes)

You can get ~4 day battery life if you limit your apps to phone, text, music, email, wallet (with no lasting background activities*)

The title holds for much more specific and thinner stacks, along with support, QA, and sales - especially even simple web apps.

Onboarding is important Training is important Retaining is important

Maybe your system is 100% documented, conventional (looking at you Rails, Angular), debt free, tested, instrumented - but more than likely it's not.

But if you get down to staff who can't teach a a system, including product teams that don't respect feature overload, value, or internal feature training. If you prioritize new features over team development and training (aka a team that doesn't know the system), you're likely to get muddy with existing features both technically and use facing.