That’s a good idea. I was just talking with someone the other day about the idea of issuing “cognitive tests” to the grid from time to time.

I am pleased that other manufacturers have figured out that not having to look at what you are trying to press while driving is a good thing. Hell my GTI had a slightly angled center console so the driver had better haptics for the radio FFS.

Rivian went with the shifter on the stalk approach like a Crown Vic. “Park” is a button. Works well for me, but I did indeed drive an ‘84 Crown Vic (velour bench front seat!) so YMMV.

Also, uh, FIRST LIGHT

Alright y’all have convinced me. I gotta wrap up the hack by end of week anyway. 🙂

See now I’m motivated. It’s got everything. Suffering, new tools, “look away children,” ancient techniques from Sys V, Gibbs Samplers. Nobody calls me a coward and gets away with it but I guess thanks Steve for kicking me in the ass.

I went Full Yegge at the beginning of the year. I am about to see first light on a pretty serious piece of infra work that six months ago I would have SWAGed at somewhere around 8 SWE Year of effort to get to this point. I started a week ago. I might write it up, working title “Two Yaks One Hack.”

Sure and people still drive stick, but it’s a recreational activity. On the professional side writing code isn’t the job. Making computers do what you want is the job.

I think there’s also a lot of anxiety for more senior folks. It’s like being a London cabbie with the Knowledge and GPS just got good. That said I finally bit the bullet and I’m having a ton of fun.

Clearly the number of “a”s in waaagh when you launch the app determines the size of the agent cluster here.

Yegge apparently already came to a similar conclusion which he is calling Gastown but somehow is not making a Mad Max reference. Which would also be an appropriate analogy I think.

We called the car Pommes Fritz

We had an ‘83 300TD station wagon in dijon yellow we got when we were stationed in Germany. That thing was a tank with a rear facing seat. As I recall it chewed through transmissions at a prodigious rate and did not like going to Tahoe at all.

Ah, yes. I have “fond” memories of running coax through the drop ceiling of my parents’ dental office. Twice! Once with thinnet and the second time with a thicknet trunk and vampire taps!

I had an Ethernet PCMCIA card… for my Apple Newton 110.

They’re gonna be really excited by our sophomore album Tightly Covered, the follow up to Coming Out Clean.

I personally haven’t had the courage to try it yet. 🙂 but there are plenty of the folks on the Discord to help out. There’s also a community firmware and controller that is much more tricked out (z axis sag compensation etc)

It requires a little patience but people tool steel, including stainless, with both flavors of Carvera on the regular.

Now all you need is a Carvera 🙂