I think you are thinking of the Slate truck. They were the ones with two proposed ranges that consolidated to one.

I suspect this is not for people like us (most of us anyway). This is for younger people - people who grew up with iPads and smart phones. I've never wanted a touchscreen laptop, but I have seen lots of young people who don't use computers much try to touch the screen on a computer. It isn't particularly efficient, but it is what a lot of young people expect... not having it introduces a point of friction.

An undocumented register ... provides a backdoor ...
Hmkay!

Well,
you did not get the joke.

Anyway: Vi/m and EMACS are: Text Editors.

On an android phone/tablet you can download any app, and install it with the File Explorer.

No appstore needed.

Yield is harvest per acre.

This is most certainly not going up.

Of course we have at the moment no problem with starvation ... but that is mostly a distribution problem and might become again one, if gasoline prices spike faster than EV trucks get available.

It probably works with a simple touch pen?
I bought one for 50 cents in Thailand.
Rarely use it on my phone, but might be useful on such a touch screen.

There is only one way to ESC.

Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

I am pretty sure there is a vim plugin for that!

Funny :D

I want to ride in my dwarf boat an a dwarf river collecting dwarf bones from crocodiles, unfortunately they are bigger than my boat :(

Despite the fact that the current Republican majorities in both houses have abdicated their responsibilities - Congress has the "power of the purse". When Trump's sycophants say "we're not spending this money Congress has allocated", Congress doesn't have to just sit back and say "darn, they've thwarted us again".

Fixing some of the funding shenanigans Trump and his Muppets have been pulling can indeed make things at least somewhat better.

A cheap $500 generator isn't going to fully power most houses and requires storing gasoline and manual startup. You'll also need a generator interlock installed if you want it to actually power the house instead of running extension cords to a few appliances. They are super noisy- nobody wants you running that through the night. An automatic whole-house generator runs about $15-20k installed. Many (if not most) families who are in the EV market have more than one vehicle, so you simply take the other vehicle if you need to leave. Or you simply unplug it- not that big a deal for the house to be without power for a couple hours if nobody is there.

Where are you getting 200 miles of range? While the official range hasn't been announced, the rumors are 300 miles. But even at 200 miles you are talking a 60kwh batter at least. That will power your house for a couple days.

You missed the point.

A friend of mine made a tea-timer app for the iPhone. Where you enter what tea you are making and it sets the correct number of minutes. Today, people would ask ChatGPT before they go on the App Store to search for something like that. That's the point. Not what YOU would do, but what the general public does. And for Jane Doe, ChatGPT has replaced a lot of these specialty apps.

Skills are great until they aren't. The problem is exactly what you say: You can literally create a skill by telling the LLM to create a skill. Which is... why the f do I need to make a skill if the AI already knows how to do it?

Properly created skills, that include reference material, specific instructions, and expert knowledge the LLM doesn't have or that's buried somewhere under 10 layers of reddit posts is genuinely useful. But most skills aren't. I'm constantly underwhelmed by hyped-up skills that, when I look at them, turn out to be bland, basic instructions.

Reading the tea leaves, it sounded like the market for a full-size electric pickup is comprised of individuals who seemingly suffer from terminal range anxiety. So Ford is rumored to be relaunching the F-150, except on the new universal platform and also as an EREV - it's supposedly gonna have a generator on board.

I'm actually curious to see the Fathom when it comes out. I don't really need a full-size pickup, but owning a pickup would come in handy a few times a year (if you have to rent one and drive it more than 20-30 miles, you end up paying through the nose). I was originally thinking about the Lighning, but got a bit spooked by all the crap Trump's started pulling to attempt killing the EV market outright. Of course he shot himself in the foot with Iran not too long after, which seems to have changed some of these companies' minds again.