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I used EMACS pretty consistently until about 10 years ago (So... 1992 to about 2025 thereabouts) until the repo with all the configs I had got nuked by atlassian. Last time I tried to use Emacs I discovered to my horror I had forgotten almost all the chords I used to know so intuitively.

Emacs was the one text mode IDE that can hold its own with the visual studios, eclipses and jetbrains of the world. Its a *full* IDE. Whereas vim can hold its own handily against the VS-Codes of the world, Emacs is more aligned with the full Vis Studios or Jetbrains IDEAs.

The problem for me is, its just easier to use Jetbrains now. The computers are fast enough to handle that tiny bit of extra load. And going from zero to hero on a new machine is as quick as downloading the ide and starting it.

There will always be a space in my heart for emacs, but I just dont know if I have the patience for it anymore.

But hey, the old girl is the same age as me. I should ask if she's single.

Not that filthy EMACS users are any better. Both should be purged. Nano master race raise up!

Theres an editor I'm somewhat fond of thats replaced Nano for me called, conveniently enough, Micro. Its basically a Nano style no-nonsense basic editor. More for modifying config files than as an IDE, but its got mouse support that just works like its supposed to (Assuming your term config + ssh has mouse setup right, these days thats true mot of the time) , uses wordstar keys (ctrl-c/v/x , ctrl-s to save, ctrl-q to quit etc) and has a nice plugin system and lua scripting for adding in missing features and so on.

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That article is in production for next week, I'm sure.

As someone with two EVs in our household, I think I might be qualified to answer this.

1. As the other poster already said, the cars need to be usable as cars. Having one tethered to the house means still letting the food in the fridge spoil while one of us is at work. That's no bueno.

2. It's not expensive to have a portable generator. Yeah, the big monsters that the richer folks have on the side of their houses can run you a pretty penny, but something you keep in your shed for an emergency isn't going to break the bank to buy and maintain. As for the gas, presumably you've been saving a bunch of money not buying gas because you drive an EV, so having to buy some gas once in a blue moon to run a generator is no big deal.

3. You stock up on fuel before a storm. Yes, it feels very silly to take an EV to a gas pump.

4. The generator gives you another option for "fueling" your EV. We haven't needed to do it, but in a pinch the cars can be L1 charged from the generator. This essentially turns the EVs into extremely inefficient gas cars (somebody on YouTube did the math on MPG charging EVs from a typical portable generator and it's pretty bad), but it means not having to wait in some long ass queue at the nearest DCFC station that has power restored.

Maybe if it's a secondary car. Can't very well power your house if your car is parked at work.

I've got a Bolt and saw on the Bolt subreddit that some crazy people have rigged up 12V inverters to theirs, which provides roughly 1kW for powering some essentials during an outage. I didn't see the point. I've got a 5.5kW portable generator in my shed, and if there is an outage I'm going to need what juice remains in my car for using it as a car (and to go to gas stations to get fuel for the generator, which always feels a bit silly in an EV).

I suppose it makes sense to have an EV that can provide backup power if you live somewhere with a particularly flakey electrical grid. Where I live, it only really goes out after a major hurricane and then it'll be out for several days. That's a use case more suited to a backup generator rather than tethering your car to your house for up to a week.

The problem is that the typical type of old guys you're referring to also tend to want the old school pricing, and those days ain't coming back. I know someone like this - they'd love a basic body-on-frame pickup truck from back in the day, but they're not paying $30k+ for it.

Yeah, we had it pretty good when you could get a base model Tacoma with a standard tranny and a four banger that couldn't get out of its own way, but damn if it wasn't cheap.

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And? As I said, the problem is not the language, C / C++, the problem is who wrote it: humans. If the C code is well written, the compiler makes a safe binary code.

well, their chips are coming out of a foundry after all...

Not sure about the assembly of small electronics. It looks like that's still a fairly hands-on, manual process.

One of the barriers to automating the assembly of commodity microelectronics is that the revisions iterate fairly quickly. It's difficult to build an automated assembly line that can handle those changes. It usually just ends up being easier to have a person do that assembly work if the product is going to change in a few months and it would take a couple of months to retool for the change.

A broken clock might be right a couple of times a day.

Unless of course someone rips the hands off. Or if it's a digital clock that simply doesn't display anything. Or probably for a bunch of other possible reasons.

MTBF calculations are a bit of a scam in of themselves.

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