waiseristy

Break the cycle how? Every time one of these threads come up I suggest buying a domestic full size 90’s truck instead and nobody gives a shit. The only things that gain traction in these threads is people shitting on their cultural enemies. Because Truck People bad!!

Maybe you can help break the cycle by looking at the huge used truck market we already have

These HN threads about trucks are amazing. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again

* Kei trucks are the coolest. Big gubment is making it so we can’t register them due to protectionism!

* Chicken tax chicken tax chicken tax

* Big trucks cause more crashes because reasons!

* Trucks are just lifestyle vehicles and nobody actually needs or uses them

Over and over and over again

They already have the form factor, it’s called a Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger. They are bigger than Kei trucks because they have actual safety features.

> You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic

No you can’t

The author mentions not wanting a Ranger or Tacoma, but I still think those are better options especially considering the drivers position…

Even better is a 80’s/90’s full size 2 door pickup. Same size as a modern Tacoma/Ranger, but with payloads comparable to todays F250’s. Throw in working AC, airbags, and a wealth of cheap replacement parts and it’s a no-brainer

Threads was on the front page for an entire day or two. A sizable percentage of the entire lifetime of the App.

Twitter and Musks other ill-adventures will continue to dominate HN though. Zuckerberg is not part of the HN in-crowd and will draw about as much water as his other services.

Had this same thought. Our own eyeballs distort how we see the world.

Lemme modify the writers words for you to more accurately describe the phenomena : “I suspect it’s easier to teach a good waitress to be a writer than an intellectual to be a good waiter.”

Being excellent at balancing a stressful, fast paced, work environment applies to many jobs. But being excellent at being an “intellectual” whatever the hell that even means (writers? Programmers?), does not really apply to very many jobs.

You could also replace the phrase “hold accountable” with “micromanage” and be just as accurate.

If you hire slackers, be prepared to be amazed at how much work they’ll do to bypass your micromanaging. It’s a race to the bottom

By entire industry I mean web developers, which is a cohort that usually has more non-traditional educations and tends to think in a async mental model.

What you explained happens in Germany is pretty par for the course in the US as well for CS degrees. But even then, why the hell are we throwing a book of data structures at students? You don’t give an apprentice framer a nail gun and say “go at it!”. They’ll destroy everything. You give them a hammer and educate them when they start to complain of smashed thumbs

Great for solving the typical problems encountered in a web browser.

But a real fucked up mental model to bake into an entire industry’s worth of developers

C++, OOP, and whatever crazy async shit is going on in JS ruined the conceptual model of “code” for going on 2 generations of programmers.

We do students a disservice teaching them how to “code” first. And not instead how to solve problems with code

Otherwise known as “your CS degree has shockingly little to do with this god forsaken login page we’re designing”

I’ve had so many long conversations with early-mid career developers that the stupid code being written will have a shelf life about as long as a head of lettuce. And that the “best” solution is typically the simplest, shortest, and can be written the quickest.

> For wheat and soybean crops, in terms of yield the median negative impacts are fully compensated, and rice crops recoup up to 90 percent and maize up to 60 percent of their losses.

That’s quite a buried lede. At best it evens out all the bad effects

I honestly don’t know how to reconcile our worldviews here, and I envy your optimism. But “just wingin it” isn’t what brings about good change. Those with curious and analytical eyes should see that our actions vis a vis climate change and other things have consequences. Good or bad, who really knows. But why are we committing ourselves before knowing?

Seems pretty dumb

Of course the globe warming 3 degrees isn’t going to cause human extinction. But it will kill hundreds of millions due to inevitable war and genocide over the changing landscape.

Thinking that mass famine/flooding/heat events in Africa, India, or South America isn’t going to affect you is incredibly naive. Instability ain’t good, and we can’t just welcome it with open arms. Shit that happens in Wuhan, Donetsk and elsewhere do affect you

What kind of sea states can you fly in? Any regions in particular that are more cost effective regarding weather?

Other than Lake Washington, the sound is stereotypically windy. Ground effect vehicles don’t work real well in windy / choppy conditions

Though it seems like they have some special sauce which makes their aircraft behave better in these conditions

I would posit the woo woo just changes flavor outside core hours

Is the CEO some sacred object that should be treated differently than any other part of the org? Just because there are a handful of C-level execs, they deserve 20,000% bonuses while the rest of the org skimps?

It’s about equality, attributing it to ‘envy’ reeks of entitlement.

Hmmmm

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-autopilot-steered-driv...

The thing city denizens seem to not understand is that this fair-weather truck user is exactly who the F-150 was designed for. It was designed to be unladen 95% of the time. All the werk-truck wonk is just marketing to make sales. Ford knows who buys their products

Hauling equipment. Hauling water. Hauling any sort of aggregate. The payload of an f150 is ~2500 lbs. you’ll exceed that with four 230lb iron workers and a toolbox or two in the back.

The only people driving F-150s around job sites are management with a stipend. Half ton trucks are a lot less capable then most people think, and are primarily targeted to the former of the two groups you mention

You’re better off with pepper spray

Being able to write 30 lines of semi syntactically correct code isn’t enough to offshore nearly anyone

"heavily scrubbing its content" does not mean "The syrian rebels gassed themselves". You described an unbased conspiracy theory, and then tossed a page full of unrelated emails up as "evidence".

@Dang, you see what I'm talking about? You think this type of content is aligned with HN's guidelines? This is what you get when you allow completely unbased conspiracy theory to go unchecked

I'm not going to participate in the informational equivalent of a cargo cult. Sorry. I require evidence

Uh, yes. I'm pretty damn certain that the Syrian rebels did not gas themselves. The OPCW just came out with a massive report on the matter this week. Which, unlike this dudes claim, was extremely well sourced.

I'm not even going to continue down this "argument from authority" path. Completely baffling conspiracy drivel

Seymour Hersh, also a advocate of the Syrian rebel chemical weapon conspiracy and is a Osama Bin Laden death truther. Maybe we should also include his later work as well?