I want to give you mod points, but instead I want to acknowledge your post. I had no idea there was a Lumon website. Now I pine for season 2.

I like that I can easily exchange money electronically. It's a great advance over the past decade over fiddling with cash and checks.

That said, the problem is solved and works just fine with -- Venmo (but turn that stupid sharing feed off), Cash App, Apple Cash, Paypal, Bill.com.

It's now just a thing that facilitates the movement to the other person. I don't need another. Elon, come with something more creative than this.

... and probably other EVs. Park, drive, reverse and neutral are different. Their proprietary display is different. Aggressive regenerative braking is different. Finding the superchargers takes some understanding, all easy to learn, but I do wonder if the customer agents are trained and if they know what questions to ask for a renter.

If a renter already knows the Tesla gig, all good, move on. Otherwise, I'd show a paper map of where the superchargers are. Walk to the car and show how to use the navigation to find the superchargers. Explain how regen braking works and feels. How do you know when the car is locked. It's not rocket science but it is still different from a typical car.

I've been with Cricket for at least 10 years. Still paying the same $100 for 4 lines with features upgraded along the way but same price. And that's the price $100 exactly. Nothing tacked on. Why can't the big carrier plans do this? (Yes, they can. In fact AT&T has owned Cricket for many years.)

I have the most basic offered Tesla, the Model 3. It has rear drive only. Other than that, it has heating steering and seats, remote climate control, 270 miles (stated) range, yeah they all seem to do that. It's still plenty powerful to effortless climb the LA grapevine at 75mph passing powerful ICE cars that are constantly gear selecting (like my well powered SUV does).

The only subscription offered is $99/yr that gets you some of the streaming add-ons on the display, traffic info and remote access to the cameras. I did without for a few months and then decided to buy for those conveniences, not a huge additional expense. So far I don't feel the least bit fleeced by Tesla.

Oh yeah, the car was 37k USD before rebates and tax credits. I have 12,500 in rebates that will reduce that cost to a typical car price for its size. ($7500 federal, $2000 state, $3000 air pollution control district which has paid me.)

Some movies off the top of my head that I have seen multiple times and would watch some or all tonight if it were my program grid:
- Airplane! (multiple in the theater)
- Blazing Saddles
- Life of Brian
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Goodwill Hunting
- The Departed
- Pulp Fiction
- Dr. Strangelove
- Deliverance
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Martian

It reminds me of a radio show that stopped about 10 years ago, Dr. Dean Edell. He did general health stuff and took phone calls. His family was in the vitamin industry and even with that, he would read study after study showing that multivitamins and most supplements were useless.

On the flip side, Joe Rogan is so into supplements of so many types. I'd like him to have a serious discussion with a scientist about whether they do anything.

I used to follow and sometimes participate in a few ba.* "bay area" groups. One was ba.broadcast about over the air radio. Of course it went all over the place, got political and sometimes people were mean to each other but would get over it. However, there was that one nut. Blocking rules would work for awhile and the regular conversations would commence.

Eventually it got so bad that a moderated version was provisioned where permission was required. But no one went there. The public one was sticky. That psychotic wouldn't give up. Eventually people dropped off and it quietly ended from a functional standpoint.

Once in awhile I still check that group and it is that one mental case posting to no one. It's almost performance art at this point. Check it out if you still have access.

It's too bad, Usenet was a little clunky to set up and get news server access, but from there it worked. Messages propagated fast. Read/unread was easy to maintain. No ads assuming you blocked spam as needed. Life goes on.

It isn't the fetus' choice. Mother's choice. It's not baby, not a person. Right?

That's why I like the balance of a Tesla M3 and a Honda Pilot in the garage. They cover 98% of the car use cases. The Pilot gets filled up about once a month and the Tesla is the golf cart charged at home for practically everything around town, trips on the major highways and simply having 2 cars to share as needed.

I've been on Cricket for around 8 years. 4 phones for $100/mo unlimited and that includes taxes, etc. They've never raised prices includes 5G+ on my iPhone 14.

Count me as the other side. I never even heard of a cicada, not a thing in my part of California. Until I visited Tokyo this summer. That fingernails on chalkboard sound (to me) is everywhere. Gives me chills thinking about it though I did find myself able to filter out the noise later in the trip. Ugly AF too.

Or Amazon Corretto. We have a heavy monolith and dozens of microservices using their distributions. No fuss no muss.

My first job that required some level of programming was based on BASIC in 1991. It was BASIC but didn't require line numbers and was compiled. There were extensions meant for writing Pick database reports that was all written on a mainframe made by ... Sanyo.

Drives me crazy to see that. scaffold the project (e.g., gradle init) if necessary, create gitignore and ignore the junk and push.

Clone the project on another folder or ask a colleague to do it and double-check it's not keeping stuff that's automatically generated.

Create a fixed filename for secrets and gitignore that. Only read from that filename until your project matures to more sophisticated scenarios.

Takes a few minutes.