This is very interesting, especially the info on agreeableness. Do you have any reference articles that talk about this?

And if I were interviewing you, you'd pass that section of my programming test. It's a great answer. But then I would want to make sure to can compose that with another data structure to solve a problem, so I'd ask that.

Ugh, my newlines didn't come through and there's no preview on mobile. Sorry about that!

Air crash deaths... Since I don't have a Twitter account on my phone, I wasn't able to read beyond his first post. Maybe he explains it in a later post, but I don't understand how he can draw any conclusions based on airplane deaths, unless he's talking about private pilots. Major commercial airlines in the United States have had one? passenger death in the last 20 years. A few additional maintenance workers or bystanders have died, and if you include charter airlines, the number rises to about 100. That's a really low number to come up with a statistically significant sample, especially given a majority of the deaths come from just 3-4 fatal events. Furthermore, many of the accidents have nothing to do with the pilots at all-- theyre maintenance issues. If we're talking about foreign airlines, that introduces many additional issues. Foreign airlines, especially in third world countries, often do not maintain their aircraft or train their pilots to the same standards, and foreign airlines often higher, many less white pilots as a percentage. But in this case, it has nothing to do with the socioeconomic backgrounds of the pilots and has everything to do with the circumstances of the airlines. In any case, I suspect analyzing airline fatalities as a function of race to be roughly as useful as a dice roll. Certainly, it has very little mapping to hiring Americans from diverse backgrounds into organizations. If he's talking about private pilots, maybe there's something there, but again, it would be really hard to draw conclusions. A much simpler thing to look at is this. If you agree that there are still a significant number of racist people in the United States, or you agree that people of darker skin tones are more likely to be impoverished as a percentage of their income, then you must admit that for jobs that require significant education, people of those backgrounds are less likely to have that education. If you also assume that there are some talents, skills, or discipline that allow people to exceed in those jobs ( such as self-control, intelligence, etc), then that means that there are likely a large number of "diamonds in the rough" who simply haven't gotten a chance to shine. Recruiting into that talent pool, which has much lower competition from your competitors, is a competitive advantage compared to recruiting from a highly competed for, educated talent pool-- provided you are willing to pay the up front training costs associated with a less educated pool of recruits. It's not political. It's not rocket science. It's smart business.

Pretty well for 462, I'd say...

I had an identical experience.

Glad you haven't gotten sick. Maybe you have natural immunity, or maybe you've just somehow not gotten it. My friend didn't get covid for 3 years despite being exposed many many times. Then got it later. Was mild.

I got it and it was pretty mild. Sick for a week, back hurt pretty bad for 3 days

My other friend died at 35 from it.

Everyone's experience is different.

There are certainly many like this, but there is a second category in the middle. These are people like my Dad who usually drive a truck solo with an empty bed, but at least once or twice a month are hauling, carrying large items, and using it like a work truck. If you saw his truck in a parking lot on any given day, you'd see an empty truck, but it's not like he's going to go rent a u-haul twice a month.

Yes, in America, leather seats are considered the premium product. I think it's mostly culture and not practical benefits, but it is easier to clean leather (less likely to absorb sweat and stain). Other than that, I agree with your downsides... But if you buy a high end car or SUV in America, cloth is often not even an option.

Glad you're happy with the bolt. It's an awesome low price ev! If you have a place to charge at home and a second ICE, an EV is an excellent commuter car. We have a 2011 Leaf (roughly 60 mile range--30 each way), and while the range is annoying, it still does 90% of our driving. We almost never use the ICE except when we both need a car or we're going on a long road trip. I agree with you, though. I don't recommend EVs for people with only one car and they still have major limitations. The EPA ranges also seem to be quite inflated, especially if you're like everyone around here that drives 70-80 mph on the highways.

I don't know what you mean.

A few did this, but over the long haul, it looks like most did not. https://www.statista.com/stati...

I frequently helped people on r/leaf with problems with their cars, but I no longer do. Now I'm only active on mynissanleaf.com. I just decided not to keep helping a company that responded so poorly to the mods. The actual API issue I didn't have a concern with, but their response to it was far worse.

We'll see what the long term impact is. If the most active and helpful mods and posters (content creators) left, it will create a lasting impact on the quality of the site. That effect will occur over time. If not, it'll be business as usual.

Distributed forums, you say as you post to Slashdot... #IronyDetector

I use an HP 4650n for this reason. So old, HP can't enable "dynamic security", laser (so the toner never runs out) and color (because I like printing non-black & white).

Sure, the thing's the size of a minifridge and it weighs 100 pounds, but pound for dollar ($1), it's the best printer purchase I've ever made!

Solar panels basically always produce more or less power than needed. Without something to pull shortages or dump excess to, you would have unacceptable voltage spikes and brownouts. That's why batteries are often sold with solar solutions--because without them, you need to be connected to the grid to pull shortages or dump excess.

Approximately 80% of the power made by a solar system is between 10am and 2pm. That means that you need to store that energy to be used for the rest of the day and night. Unfortunately, batteries are expensive--for instance, my solar system installed was $20k after rebates, but the batteries alone would have been $30k and taken years to arrive (backordered). There are only a few companies selling batteries. Batteries are crazy expensive right now--it's actually cheaper to buy an EV than it is to buy stationary batteries. For instance, you can get a 40 kWh battery in a Nissan Leaf for $25k (with a car attached!), but a Powerwall is $10k ($17k installed) for 13 kWh. It's much cheaper for him to just run an inverter off his 12V system in the EV than it is to fully wire up the house.

So, for all these reasons, people who just want to save money opt for "grid tie" systems, where they only function when the grid is up. Those systems won't produce any power if the grid is down, and thus, don't help you during an outage, but they do save a lot of money (and carbon emissions). My break-even point on my solar system is around 8 years, and I won't have a bill after. I'd say that's useful!