jreese

Sometimes the person driving the car does not (want to?) pay attention or has "ceded responsibility" for car maintenance, and it's nice to get these reports without needing to periodically remember to check the car manually.

I had a friend in high school who literally drove his (used) Civic every day for five years and never once changed the oil. You'd be amazed how well synthetic oil holds up in an engine designed for long term reliability.

... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...

And yet it can also be haphazard and misguided too. My experience has mostly been that the general comp level is high enough across the board, but discretionary/additional equity is almost exclusively thrown at high visibility/pet projects of the moment rather than the most important/impactful work that supports all of those fancy projects. Ie, working on infra has some of largest/widest impact in the company, but rarely merits AE/DE because everything is too incremental, difficult to explain the benefits to non-technical partners, or otherwise invisible to leadership at the levels necessary to grant equity. Losing a core, senior engineer from the database or network team can have a much larger technical impact than a random frontend engineer, and yet the bulk of AE/DE goes to flashy frontend product launches.

Fantastical is the Apple Calendar replacement that should have been mentioned.

I sincerely doubt anyone whose primary income is working as a retail employee is getting taxed anywhere near a 50% marginal tax rate, even if you include city/county/state taxes.

Firefox with the built-in "Enhanced Tracking Protection" gets you about 70-80% of the blocking that a dedicated adblock system can, depending on the site, and at least saves you from some of the worst behaviors. Between that and network-level ad blocking (Eero+), I really only see first-party ads like FB/IG. When I'm not at home, the chances are pretty low that I'm just casually browsing the web rather than using a dedicated app (where I probably bought or subscribed to avoid ads).

Edit: and if you're willing to use Safari on iOS, there are dozens of Safari plugins on the app store that provide good-enough adblocking.

I'm sure they would love one, but it's probably not that easy/cheap to find one that can handle that much torque with such heavy loads. The biggest/heaviest trucks just end up using electric/traction motors running from diesel generators, so they don't need a transmission at all.

Trucks don't have 18 gears for efficiency. They have 18 gears because low-revving diesel engines have small power bands; mix that with heavy loads, and it pretty much necessitates having a lot of short, closely-spaced gear ratios, so that maximum torque can be achieved consistently, no matter what speed you're at.

Also, FWIW, they don't just pick between 18 gears with a single shifter. They have multiple inputs that allow shifting between multiple combinations of gears, some requiring clutch to change and some not, as they gain speed. Most trucks still only have 6-ish positions for the main gear shifter to slot in to.

I literally let my server sit without upgrades for almost three years before realizing my autoupdater script had been failing me. The biggest issue was needing to manually download a statically linked version of pacman (found on the arch forums) to support the new mirror/signing features. Once the system pacman was upgraded, I just ran `pacman -Syu`, let it spin for a while, and rebooted, and it just worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How do folks actually watch Formula E races, without a cable subscription? The Formula E Youtube channel only ever posts "highlights" through the season, and then waits to the end of the season to post full races to their channel.

I'm a happy F1TV subscriber, and really enjoyed watching some FE races here and there in the past, but it feels like they're going out of their way to make it difficult or pointless to actively watch full races during the season. Is there an "FETV" type of deal similar to F1TV, or do I just have to give up hope of seeing them before the end of the season?

Having your money "work for you" requires discipline, awareness, and trust in economic stewards far beyond what the average lottery player is capable of managing. The annuities still offer life-changing sums of wealth, but also guaranteed to give you 30 years to learn how to handle that much rather than accidentally spending it all in 3 years.

> banking on your incapacity to calculate for inflation

$43M / year for 30 years sounds like a pretty good retirement in any sort of inflation short of catastrophic economic collapse.

Make a ZIP file containing the blob, and catenate it to the end of the executable binary. The ZIP format specifically puts all of the key metadata at the back of the file, so pretty much any ZIP tool can correctly read/list/extract data from the ZIP portion of the file. Anything that needs to be linked at runtime can just be extracted to a temp dir, and then cleaned up on exit. Bonus points for getting "free" compression on text data blobs.

We do this for Python applications, by combining a ZIP containing the "link tree" of sources/packages/modules, with a shell bootstrap script that automatically sets up the environment, import path, etc, and Python itself has built in support for importing pure-python modules from a ZIP file. All that's needed for native modules is a simple import hook that extracts the native objects into temp space and then loads them appropriately.