What about people who are just shopping for their next car? I bought one because I like the electric drive feel - torque, 1 pedal driving, minimal maintenance. I bought a Tesla Model Y because I like it and the deals at the time were good for my budget. That's literally it. I've never bought a car from a political lense. I do believe some do this, but I haven't met anyone who has disclosed this. At this time, I only know one EV owner who isn't Tesla - Bolt owner. I thought about buying a used one for my kid. I still might do so. I don't care about the companies.

I have been with Cricket for well over 10 years. Back then I did the 4 lines for $100. Exactly $100, no additional fees added. It started with 3G, then LTE, now 5G+. Still $100 for the 4 lines on AT&T network. I know there is competition in that zone, but it has been a simple never changing, never increasing bill and mostly reliable. I don't use data heavily off wifi but don't shy away from it, never throttled.

I remember flying on one of those in the mid 90's, just a short hop from Atlanta to Orlando, but had never heard of it. If I recall, it's close to the DC-10. I remember it had a large screen on the front of the coach seating area that showed the plane's flight path, so unusual and modern for the time.

Boeing and Airbus are the big dogs, but about 1/3 of my flights are on Embraer narrow body jets that seem good enough for a 2 hour or less flight.

I can only think of a few uses either for a purpose or random fun. I used to have an app from early iPhone days called AirChat that was bluetooth chat. I only used it once when the family was split up on an airplane. This was before all the airlines opened up basic messaging apps. It worked pretty well, but that was it. I think it's gone now.

I could see random chats from fun to weird to creepy -- mostly the latter when solo in a bar.

What else given that we're all on wifi and pretty solid cell networks. Heck even basic satellite messaging works now too.

yet he never clarifies if the average follows a classic bell curve, otherwise, wouldn't it be "think how stupid the median person is ..."

Meanwhile in Niger ...

Yep. Today I was troubleshooting a library called Mapstruct where the deep mappings are complicated. My boss with his MS in CSci just loves to adhere to these things. It is a good library, but like anything falls apart in messy situations.

I've solved these issues through painstaking debugging in the past. Now, I use AI Tool (TM) and give a clear instruction of what I'm trying to solve. 80-90% chance it figures it out. Today, Friday, it did. I reviewed the changes, submitted the PR and called it a weekend. I'm over 50. I will shortcut the shit out of these library/framework sinkholes as long as I understand what's proposed and tidy up to my liking.

No it's not. Lighten up Francis.

Looks like I have to figure out what that even means in a communist country

You are my spirit animal. On the other hand, the whole post was a satirical blast. Lower case "i" is a code smell.

Really? I just searched "Sig Sauer SP2022 cleaning" and got pages of hits with very clear instructions for disassembly and cleaning.

Preach it. I've been bugging my younger coworkers about how to navigate IntelliJ when I watch them show me their coding problems. Ugh! Stop doing a Find. Stop looking at your tabs. Command F12, Command E, Command O, etc. Not to mention they don't map the F keys as default.

I would like to see some group inspect those cookies and domains to see which ones aren't using the feature properly through encryption, timeouts, etc. Nothing wrong with cookies and sessions. Who would want to login constantly, but there's a right way and wrong way. If any financial institutions aren't managing sessions properly, we should know who they are.

The Dr. Jerry P. from Byte magazine?

But they do require a shit ton of water, thirsty bastards. Also we have hit peak almond with some orchards being cut down.