Copernicron

> Not have 4 seats AND having a lower range makes it a niche vehicle from a consumer sales perspective.

The base model only has two seats. The article explicitly states there will be an SUV conversion kit that you can purchase and install at home. There will also be an extended battery available. It's a very customizable vehicle.

Only answering for myself here, but when I already have 10+ lbs of camera gear in my backpack, a huge gaming laptop makes a big difference compared to an ultrabook. And I'm not talking about an excessive amount of gear either. One body plus one lens plus a couple extra batteries, etc, easily gets me to 10 lbs. And then I still have to get on a plane with it.

Conversely, there are way too many Apple haters who don't know or care why someone might make the choice to use a Macbook.

Speak for yourself. In Canada the cheapest threadripper I can find is $2k just for the CPU. No way can I build an entire desktop for that price.

Where are you that it's only $15? It's $60 around here.

> you have 7 figures in stocks and 6 figures in savings anyway

I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious here. I’ve been in tech for almost twenty years and the only way I could have 7 figures in stocks is if I still lived at home and didn’t contribute anything to the budget. There is a whole world of people working in tech outside of Silicon Valley’s ridiculous compensation. Money is still a concern for the vast majority of us.

No one in my company has equity except the founder. On the off chance we actually get far enough for me to get equity I’ll be lucky to get $100k out of it.

Good one. Next you’ll tell me that I’m horribly under compensated for not getting huge amounts of equity when no one in my company gets equity.

>The issue is that Epic doesn’t want to be Apple’s customer in the first place. They want to publish iOS apps. The fact that this requires them to be an Apple customer is the core problem.

The issue is that General Mills doesn't want to be Costco's customer in the first place. They want to sell to Costco shoppers. The fact that this requires them to be a Costco customer is the core problem.

Citation needed.

Apple is not a monopolist. The judge in the Epic Games suit even said so[0]. It also isn't a public service. It's a private service operated by a private company where you have to pay to play. And part of paying means agreeing to certain terms and conditions before you're allowed access. Violating that agreement is grounds for termination of your access.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036043886/apple-fortnite-epi...

> I handle a lot of fairly huge RAW files in Adobe Lightroom.

Define “huge”.

I edit 45 megapixel RAW files on a m2 MacBook Air all the time and the only way that makes any sense is if you cheaped out and bought the base model. 16 GB of ram is still plenty for Lightroom and 32 GB is more than enough. The battery life is also amazing unless I’m dumb enough to do something like generate 1:1 previews for thousands of photos all at once. Yeah, you can’t upgrade it later but that’s why you need to make sure to buy enough hardware when you’re getting it in the first place.

I realize this is generally an unpopular opinion around these parts but the way I see it we need more government intervention. The government needs to get back into the business of building affordable housing and needs to fund more needs based housing to help those who can’t afford market rates. They’re the only ones big enough to make a difference and without a profit movtive they’re the only ones who can reasonably make it happen. Private corporations aren’t going to do it because they won’t make enough or any money.

I only use prime for the expedited shipping. I've tried finding something to watch but it's nothing but endless garbage.

I find live sports are the one thing actually worth subscribing to myself. But then again I enjoy a good hockey, football, or baseball game. I know there are alternative streams but the quality is always poor and they're iffy at best. Any conventional show I can find in other ways.

At least one telecom provider in Canada has already started doing that [0]. I expect it won't be long before others join in.

[0] https://www.telus.com/en/streamplus

My “genetic material” is a fucking dumpster fire. I struggle daily with incurable mental illness and I’m also a carrier for several debilitating diseases. I have chosen not to have children and nothing of value will be lost.

Bullshit. There is no guarantee your kids will be there for you in your old age. Just look at all the seniors living in care homes that have no one visiting or sending them presents for Christmas. Perfectly normal parents can raise selfish little shits who abandon them in their old age. And some parents are downright awful to their kids and deserve to be alone.

Anecdotally speaking, my grandfather was an abusive old bastard who drove away his children. He died alone. My own father is selfish, negligent, and arguably emotionally abusive. I’m the only one of his children who talks to him and I only do it a few times per year. I know for a fact none of us are going to take him in when he can’t live on his own anymore.

How is it a privilege when something like 10% or more of all people to have ever been born never reproduced? Not everyone who doesn’t have kids chose that. Some die before they can. Some are sterile. And some simply never get the chance for one reason or another.

I agree that we all have a duty to society but I disagree that I should have to pay absurd sums of money simply because you say so. I meet my duty how I choose and I already pay for your kids education through my taxes. Comments like that come across as envy that people without kids frequently have more disposable income than those with kids.

Unless the state you're living in has made it illegal to transport someone across state lines for the purposes of getting an abortion. It has been done in a few places.

I know things are tough right now but it will get better. Prices won't stay this high forever. They always come down eventually. Be patient and save your money. You'll find something when the time is right. I gave up on a house years ago and set my sights on a condo. Those are relatively affordable in comparison.

You realize those areas are nowhere close to the jobs? If you're looking for a job in Toronto, the closest place with an actual house under $450k is likely Windsor, which is around five hours away. Across southern Ontario right now the average price of a house is roughly a million dollars. Five hours is much too far to commute for work on a regular basis and a lot of jobs still require you to be there in person. Some things simply can't be done remotely.

Spoken like someone who doesn't have the first clue what things are like elsewhere. Housing in Canada is horrendously expensive and prices are going up far faster than anyone could possibly save money. The median house price is now something like ten times the median household income. On top of that, rents have gone up just as quickly and people are left with no additional income once their basic expenses are paid for.

What if you want to live in an area with employment opportunities? I grew up in a small town in British Columbia. You can't even get a bachelor condo for $50-$80k there. There is nothing available for that price. There's also no industry at all outside of mining. You have to go where the jobs are and for a lot of people that means larger centres.

Doubled if you're lucky. I checked the price history on the condo I bought last year. It has doubled in price since the pandemic started and more like tripled since 2014. Of course I'm living in a booming area but my salary sure hasn't increased that quickly.

It's flat out impossible to buy a house or even condo on that kind of salary in southern Ontario without significant outside financial assistance. I bought my condo in Oct 2021. Six months later it has appreciated in value by $200,000 judging by what other units in this building are going for. You simply can't save money fast enough. Housing prices in general have more than doubled around here.

You got lucky and bought when it was cheap. Don't act like anyone can do what you did.

> I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.

This has been one of my main complaints about the full time WFH during covid. If we were all in the office I could turn around in my chair and ask whoever I needed to a question. With WFH I have had to sometimes wait 24 hours or more for a response. So I was stuck spinning my wheels for hours because I was blocked without knowing which esoterically name database table to query.

Failing any interview is a real kick in the balls, particularly if you happen to be out of work at the time. But somewhere down the road you're going to laugh at the fact that you failed telling them about yourself. Like they would know.

Didn't Meta just claim that they were all in favour of government regulations? Now they're whining and crying they have to follow the law. Good riddance to bad rubbish if they go through with it. Now if only we could get them to leave Canada.

Does anyone know what's going on with iOS 14? I didn't upgrade because Apple said it would still be supported but there hasn't been any news in quite a while.

I haven't done much one bag travel myself, just a couple weekend or five day long trips, but one important thing is that it's a whole lot easier when you're not obese. I've lost nearly 200 lbs and it has become so much easier to fit everything into a single bag because my clothes are just so much smaller. The bag weighs less too. Or I can fit an extra camera lens in there since that's the primary reason I travel these days. A lot of the one bag travel advice I've encountered assumes that you're in relatively good shape.

So Reddit is going to get even worse than it already is? Ugh, no thanks.