denimnerd42

I've put tens of thousands of miles on a comma.ai. it's just hands free lane keep assist. it solves my hand/shoulder fatigue issues over long drives. it's not autonomous driving and doesn't pretend to be.

if you want to drive across the ultra straight highway flyover states it's game changing. if you don't do that, it's not that useful.

I think that's up for debate depending on application.. the longer wheelbase gives much more stability and comfort which is important on long drives. Vs a cabover might be a better design for a tight city.

was just thinking the other day due to the latest iPad release.. I dont know how people stand to use an iPad when you can get a 13" Macbook air or in your case the 12" and just use that. Just the fact that the screen is held to the correct angle for 90% of use cases is huge. Sitting.. lounging.. I can't even really think of a regular use case I have where the iPad ergonomics are better.

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seems very very hard to get right. non primary residences (and all other property) are already taxed at higher rate in Texas w/ our homestead exemptions.

It's hard to say how discouraging capital from entering the market will decrease prices. If companies are willing to put up capital to rent homes that should theoretically increase the supply of residences available for rent. You could argue price fixing or other issues are at stake but it seems more complicated than a single line issue.

Typically single family homes aren't good targets for rental so we may see this whole experiment fail naturally. Many areas the math just doesn't work. The target price when this idea started was like a $200-250,000 home. There aren't many ways to get one of those right now. As you go up in price it's harder and harder to find a tenant that would prefer to rent.

I think Abbott is just trying to blow the wind in a different direction as one of the causes of real estate price explosion in big cities in Texas is due to migration of people due to corporate tax incentives he is behind which is a good thing for those that already own but bad for those that don't.

A shopping center nearby uses flock to "ticket" and fine employees that park in residential streets (which creates bad relations with neighbors) instead of the designated remote parking. I guess part of the lease/employment agreement states the proper directions or fine will be incurred. An employee drives around in a golf cart with an app/website/scanner/not sure. I know they use Flock though because it's been mentioned in community zoning meetings w/ regards to their expansion efforts.

Kind of interesting you can pay for a private service which will uncloak license plates. I wonder how much it is as I'd love to uncloak neighborhood speeders too.

fair. its not hard to get a warrant. but your info in the database could still make you a target

oh fair enough about the "user" vs possession. but my point was they could possible use this info to get a warrant to surveil you to catch you using it.

sure they do. for example it's illegal to be in possession of marijuana and a firearm. the purchase of said MJ would be pretty good evidence that could lead to other warrants. That's the Hunter Biden gun charge.

tranq is an adulterant added to fentanyl. I don't think that is apples to apples here. The entire opiate ecosystem is honestly insane at the moment. The only street drug available is fentanyl and it's often mixed with the vet drug tranq which is horrible for humans. It prevents wound healing. I would say there needs to be some kind of harm reduction done in this space too because apparently fentanyl cannot be stopped.

my work id has a 0 and a O in it and it drives me crazy. i only remember it due to muscle memory on the keyboard

I mean technically loss prevention is to the benefit of the customer.

Remember before self checkout when you had to wait in line while 1 or 2 people on duty checked you out? Hope we aren't going back to that.

I refuse to let them check my receipt other than Costco/Sam's where apparently you can lose your membership. Even there if the line is too long I walk out with my stuff.

I'm not a thief and won't be treated like one.

Yeah the balance bike was a present at 1 year old to gauge interest as he grew. Definitely not necessary. We went all out with a Strider 12 pro though. He was able to walk with it very early on but the 2 front wheel scooter captured his attention more. He loved riding on the Shotgun Pro seat though on our bikes.

The gliding is definitely the skill needed. It helps to have somewhere with a slight incline like a driveway apron too. At least it made it less boring for my son. The problem I see with the gliding is that it wasn't all that interesting to my son. So it really took him to get old enough to realize it would be a step towards riding a real bike.

What I can't believe is that the high end companies like Specialized, Trek, etc hadn't figure this out years ago. I can't believe they even still allow themselves to sell bikes with training wheels. I get that it's a short term sale for parents who don't know any better but you'd think they'd be better off if the kids actually learned to ride quickly and graduated to bigger bikes instead of maybe never learning to ride until much older.

They should sell the bikes with the crank arms that can pop on and off with a quick release and without actually taking off the front sprocket. Even taking the pedals off the crank arms are still in the way.

did the balance bike thing. my kid just yesterday is riding a real bike at 3 years old. just told him to get going and put his feet on the pedals and he was riding his bike in less than 5 minutes.

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and when you do get a security issue and you're using a 10 year old version the upgrade is going to be really really difficult vs incremental upgrades when they are available. or are you going to fork and assume responsibility for that library code too?

Unfortunately we already had to retire the iPhone 7 in our family. It was used as a byob device for corporate email to keep separate from actual personal device. No longer supported by those apps.

mine is an iphone. multiple generations of them

i just have rotten luck with BT in general. mine seemingly connects to whatever other phone is in my house except mine. go into menu on phone to connect, takes a minute to time out. go into menu on car to connect, doesn't connect (or vice versa/phone/car) connect from phone again, finally works. i was listening to music last. ok now open podcast app. oh house wifi is too far but its still connected. disable wifi manually to get cell signal.

then i'm listening to something on my BT headphones in my house. car pulls up - now the car has stolen my signal and the occupants get whatever inane shit i'm listening to.

i only wish it was as easy as 1 button press like FM radio.

it's too bad FM radio is dying. my car trips are usually 10-20 minutes. that's not long enough to faff with my phone or carplay. I greatly prefer to have preset radio stations. luckily i'm in a big metro area but I've lost a few over the years and the quality of the others has declined in line with revenue.

1600*5 is 8000. we drive 12-15,000 miles per year on that vehicle. i drive 8000 per year on my other which is a tiny commuter car. we don't drive more miles than average.

Is it really aspirational if you do it? We take 4-5 1600 mile round trip road trips per year. It's 14hrs door to door and completable in 1 day. SUV makes it possible comfortably in a way a model 3 would not.

5 might be a lot but I think a lot of families take at least 1/1.5 full day trip in the car. go to the beach, etc.

surely they are still e-coating these vehicles

yeah I wonder how the costs compare at current day prices. they aren't going to run methanol if its more expensive.

so is this methanol in harbor / emissions zones and fuel oil at sea? Does it run on diesel too?

but hey the GDP is going up!

Yup.. I'd love to start a general contracting business but I don't want to in an environment I have to compete with people that are hiring illegal immigrants and children. Not because of any moral reasons but I'd like to pay a fair wage and provide benefits. I can't compete with under the table pay and I'm not breaking the law.

think this says it all:

The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California.

Must be immigration..

In fact. I had a really shocking encounter at my house with some young men (maybe as young as 16, hard to tell) who were digging a ditch for my sewer line as subcontractors to my plumber. I was trying to communicate with them in Spanish but I was having a hard time so I pulled out google translate. I realized they couldn't read Spanish. I used the text to speech in the app but that was quite a sobering realization just how little education they had experienced.