AI is so productive, many programmers now are getting a 0-day work week!

HDMI has been doing a shit job of kicking the can which is why we have so many sub-versions. They absolutely should make a big jump forwards for a change, because they have been creating way too many versions of HDMI and that is already leading to customer confusion.

This becomes less true as unemployment goes up, because there are more applicants for each job, and the person reviewing the applications gets more desperate for a way to cut down the number they have to review.

Willfully not consuming low-effort AI bullshit

"Trump's nomination for Surgeon General, Casey Means (who RFK Jr. recommended), is the co-founder and owner of Levels, a company that makes wearable glucose monitors... Her Brother, Calley Means, is a top aid to RKF Jr. and runs True Med, a "wellness" startup which stands to make billions off (you guessed it) wearable technology being more accessible..."

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"Cars have never been built to last."

Not as a general rule no, but Mercedes cars of the seventies and eighties were. They stopped making them like that in the nineties, though.

Japanese cars of the nineties, with some notable exceptions which were in the minority, were designed to be easy to service. Alas, that also stopped.

You could probably get a custom aluminum radiator made for less than the typical stealership retail cost of the radiator still in production that the chucklefuck dealer tried to modify.

Not saying it isn't happening but I haven't seen this yet, but I do know for certain that a lot of homeless people have cash app, and a few have venmo. They certainly could have readers, as square still gives the first one free, but I doubt it would get them any significant amount more money than using payment apps.

I presume most free phones don't do NFC either, but I haven't tried to find out. Maybe next time I walk past a free phone ez-up I'll ask, but they probably won't know anyway.

You're less worried about the tracking than the tracking?

I don't see how they could not be vented, as they are not 100% full of stuff and that means the air inside of them is going to be expanding and contracting with thermal cycles. A quick glance around tells me that they both have pressure vents (in case of cell failure) and selective permeability vents (e.g. from ePTFE) which handle typical expansion and contraction venting, and try to keep moisture out.

Yeah, like needing to get the fuck out of Florida.

True, but nobody wants to ship lithium batteries at any lower a SoC than they need to, because being stored at low SoC damages them permanently. When I bought my LFPs the documentation said they were shipped at a nominal 50% SoC, which the documentation also explained actually meant they were shipped at 70% SoC. The premise is that they self-discharge, and you don't want them falling too low before they are used. What if batteries (or vehicles with batteries) wind up sitting around in a port somewhere for a while because of some SNAFU?

The electrolyte of NCM batteries releases oxygen when heated even below the point of actual combustion. This is part of why they have lower combustion temperatures than LFP, where this doesn't happen. NCM batteries should be outlawed because they are all of: 1) easier to cause to combust, 2) more difficult to extinguish, 3) far more toxic when burned because of the cobalt in particular, which LFPs don't use.

My neighbor has a Prius with a big Cummins sticker in the back window.

Their other vehicle? A Kia EV.

Some people think California doesn't have its own redneckistans...

Neither Ford nor Chevy have any trucks with aluminum frames.

Ford has fully aluminum pickup truck bodies now. Chevy uses some aluminum parts.

Some cars are starting to use aluminum subframes now instead of steel ones to reduce front weight. Model S, R1T, Camaro, Audi Poop (etron), Porsche Taycan, Jeep Cherokee...