bluGill

I’m blind without my glasses. I’ve thought about surgery but I’m wear ansi safety glasses anyway - I know what it is like to go to the bathroom without my glasses - that is okay in the middle of the night - but I have no interest in my whole life being like that so I’m protecting my eyes as best I can.

You forgot inflation. If you are happy with 40k today that could be 80k by the time you retire and likely will be over 150k by the time you die.

You are not wrong - but the point is there is value here, are just not getting it to the right people.

All spying needs to be owned by the person who owns the car. GM or however might have data, but it needs to not be accessible by them except by my agreement. Do I want my dealer to know when I need an oil change - maybe (depends on if I trust my dealer), or maybe I want my independent mechanic to know this, or maybe I change my own oil and want only me to know.

There are useful things about internet connections and phone home. Maybe not for you, but for many.

For company vehicles when the car is due for an oil change the mechanics should be informed not the driver. Likewise the company should be able to track where their cars are and when they are driving (and restrict them from driving outside of their territory). For things like snow plows the company needs to track where they have plowed already.

When it is cold it is nice to tell the car to start warming up 5 minutes before you get into it. For electric cars that are currently plugged in this is important as it lets you spend grid energy to warm up the car instead of range.

It is also useful to have up to date maps on the car - there are things a built in system can do that android auto / apple carplay cannot do. Though you have to drive a lot for this to be worth it. (My car as GM’s onstar and no android auto - I don’t pay for it, but I could see in a 10 minute test drive how onstar is better if you are driving the car for hours every day - since I mostly work from home or bike it isn’t worth it, but I can see how it is better despite not being better)

But there needs to be a non-charge option for things like remote start.

Somewhat, but it also scares me.

I know that I’m very introverted. I like to go “heads down” writing code all day. However I’m also painfully aware from experience that not talking to others means I’m out of the loop and soon I’m developing great code for something the company doesn’t need. I need to spend time in the office listening to others talk - I get much less done, but at least what I get done are things the company cares about, and in turn I’m much more likely to keep my job (having to find a new job is one of the worst things that can happen to an introvert - I have to convince strangers to hire me)

Right now I go to the office about 16 hours a week, which seems to be enough. I also live close enough to work that I can ride my bike - in turn commute time is also exercise time, something I need to get more of anyway.

Onless you will die in a few years growth should be where most of your retire early money comes from. As you get older you need less growth though.

That depends - 3% is a safe withdrawal rate gowing your income with inflation and not running out. However you won’t live forever and so can touch some principal and so can go higher - how much is the question.

We can’t even make radio waves that travel that far. Our best radio telescopes focused on something near that we suspect might have life don’t have enough power for us to think they can be received by an arbitrarily advanced civilization on the other end (assuming there is that happens to be listening when the signals arrive). And that is stars in our own subarm of the milky way.

Space is just bigger than you can imagine.

Sort of - but there is no reason to think we will ever be able to make something that won’t break. Even intersellar is questionable just because the odds of the ship breaking in the time needed are too high.

ML is run by people who are not only communist, but also communists can do no wrong, capitalists can do no right. Just being communist most of us could live with, but the second is a problem. When someone cannot agree things like genocides that various communist governments are a bad it is really hard to have productive conversations.

Arms and legs allowed in are still really bad. You can’t run fast in snow, and you are more likely to trip.

In some cases. However most often when there is a stack trace it is because something I didn’t expect happened - I can’t tell you how we got there or how to correct it because if I knew I would have just had the code do that in the first place. If the error is something the user did though I’d expect a clean error message.

Yes. My town was 5k people in 2000, 20k in 2020, and expected to be over 100k in 2030. Everyone is trying to get into the grab. People who move in are more likely to find a new bank, so the banks want to be here early to get the customers.

Gas stations are not something people are loyal to, but they still need to go in to support all the people moving into a car centric environment.

Note that those are minimums. The pilots I know try to be well above the minimums as a personal rule. Landing without fuel is something they practice in the simulator, not something they ever want to try in real world conditions.

that depends on the pilot. it doesn’t apply to bold pilots. There are bold pilots and old pilots - but no old and bold pilots.

In practice that is zero - you are not allowed to take off unless you have enough fuel to fly for an hour after landing. flying is safe in large part because of hard learned rules like this.

Ask my wife. I’ve followed dozens of direction, none work for me - I get the peel and half the egg white off. She manages to get a nice peel every time.

i don’t think it is genetic, but whatever it is nothing works.

From looking at history this seems confined to one generation - in 1950 the “ideal family” was a man going to work 9-5, and the women staying home to cook/clean. For a while it even worked out that way for a lot of people, but over the 1960s there was a culture revolution and women started working, while men learned to help. This process is continuing on.

Look longer over history though you see that in almost all cultures men would regularly get into situations where there were no women around to cook. Hunting, or working in the field all day often meant men and women were separated and so men had to cook for themselves if they were to eat. (women between 15 and 40 were regularly pregnant or nursing a baby - men cannot do these things, and they limit what a woman can do so some activities become men’s work.) Not to mention war which typically was mostly men, though “camp followers” did cook for the army in some cases.

Which is to say, maybe your Grandpa didn’t cook. However that men in his generation didn’t cook was an outlier. Over history men and women both cooked.

Huh? Who doesn’t know how to cook? It is easy and very common in mowt circles. I think you need to readjust your life if you think that is rare. eating out is not only expensive it is also unhealy most of the time.