Good point and stats as a reference. Now consider that in much of California, gas is mid $3 range and if you need to charge on the road, it's running around $.47/kwh. I just did a road trip this weekend. Tesla superchargers can be $.35 if you fill up off peak. And, if you put gas in the car off the freeway, it's more like $4+ range, but that's the beauty of gas cars, a 250 mile road trip is easy on a single tank of gas so you fill up where it's cheaper in the home neighborhoods.

And I drive a Model Y. It's a great car, but not getting much savings from the energy cost. PG&E rates are nuts. I do save dollars on maintenance though tires are wearing fast (and I'm a mellow driver). I like how it drives for sure. The Model 3 is even better from a driving experience having owned one before the Y.

Coffee certainly does have nutritional value

I wish I could explain my moderation. I'm pretty light usually using about 5 of 15 allocated. But if I comment and moderate, you know the rules.

I'm sure I moderate rsilvergun the most and have probably used all the categories, occasionally even ones that begin with the letter "i".

By the way, when I have mod points, if someone starts their post with "mod me flamebait" or similar, I don't even read the rest of the post. I simply grant their wish and move on.

Carly has a BA in Medieval History. So what? You've never met someone with an unusual arts degree who went on to better things?

Her executive career wasn't stellar, but she did ascend somehow unrelated to her BA at age 22 in 1976.

She also has 2 post-graduate business degrees including MIT Sloan. Are those relevant? Has anyone else risen to the C-Suite from that little niche program?

Horseshit. I have never been a book reader, my wife a light reader. My kids never saw me reading novels growing up. They went to a 5-8 public middle school that emphasized reading, and they ate it up. I'm doubt I'm that different. I suppose it can help, but who knows. Be a good parent and learn about what works for your kids. As adults they've followed some of my good habits and some of my bad ones and have many of their own unique traits.

Nietzsche says: "out of chaos comes order."

Does the Pelco brand still exist?

Plato, they say, could stick it away -- half a crate of whisky every day.

My work has been open to using AI for coding and deeper use cases. We have CoPilot and a limited Gemini. Q (now Kiro) was quietly introduced a few months ago. If you are a Saas on AWS, it's really helpful for contextual cases involving the cloud service stack because it can utilize whatever permissions are available. Example: evaluate my cold starts for lambda fancy-service-abc in region us-west-2. It's much faster than slogging through the online console or if you remember all the CLI for aws -- cheers! -- I don't because it's not an everyday thing for me.

Now I'm using it for code scenarios but needs good agentic design. That's the thing, all this AI isn't worthless and it's not yet going to replace experienced developers. I can scaffold code so much faster with my self designed agent which takes time to sort out but has been paying off.

AI - any of it - is just a another tool to build software, and create things.

The doors have mechanical handles in case of emergency. I had to learn to tell passengers to use "the button" when getting out because the handle gets pulled - understandably. It's technically not good to use for non-emergency because the window doesn't drop and could crack on closing the door.

You never cease to entertain. Your posts are on the level of performance art. You do you rsilvergun.

LLMs are good at using third-person possessives—correctly placing an apostrophe (or omitting one when appropriate), smart little devils.

I'm sure you could. You seem quite high maintenance. Over 20 years at a few companies, HR has been mostly inconsequential for me except for occasional transactional questions.

Really? Which ones? This is newsworthy specifically because they all do, but when negotiations happen, it gets attention. This has happened with other providers. It is expected that a standard tier cable/streaming includes ABC, ESPN, Fox, NBC, etc.

I was team Replay TV too. Loved it back in the day. Digital cable and Comcast DVR finally did it in though. It was a good product at the time though, kind of the Betamax of DVRs against Tivo.