That would require plugging into the wiring. At that point you no longer need a battery and can just use the car's power.
I'd be wary of draining the battery while the car is off. You don't want to prevent the car from starting
Readit NewsTheSoftwareGuy commented on Detection of hidden cellular GPS vehicle trackers researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/gnabgib
TheSoftwareGuy commented on DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo cnbc.com/2025/05/06/doord... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I never understood why these delivery services are popular.
Yes people are lazy. But lazy to the point of paying an additionnal fee to be waiting twice the time it gets to fetch the same food yourself and receive dishes that are cold instead of hot? What is the incentive really? If only those delivery services would use devices that keep food warm and deliver from somewhere far from home, I would maybe understand, but they aren't even available in a wider than a small radius around your house, so it is always more convenient to walk/cycle/drive to wherever you would order that food anyway.
The only ones that do it relatively well are pizza joints and they usually have their own delivery service so you don't even have to use these apps.
Your lack of empathy is obvious when you say the benefit of these services is that "people are lazy". Many many people simply don't have extra time, and taking one thing off of their plate makes life easier. For many decades, pizza was one of the only meals you could get delivered, these services just expand that to more restaurants.
TheSoftwareGuy commented on Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers punchbowl.news/article/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
This was just someone showing you what the "Amazon programmer" was doing, and hence a deep cut reference to the likelihood of it being poor quality code :)
If you really wanted to look like Amazon codex you would write Java :)
Is this meant to be used in production systems, or is it just a learning exercise?
no plotting library available in python even comes close to ggplot2. just to give one major example. another would be the vast amount of statistics solutions. but ... python is good enough for everything and more - so, it doesn't really feel worth maintaining two separate code bases and R is lacking in too many areas for it to compete with python for most applications.
Plotting is one task I find such huge benefits to AI coding assistants. I can ask "make a plot with such and such data, one line per <blank>" etc. Since its so east to validate the code (just run the program and look at the plots) iterations are super easy
TheSoftwareGuy commented on Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology maksimizmaylov.com/writin... · Posted by u/Kvakes
a chair is a form of technology?
Technology: Noun
1. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
TheSoftwareGuy commented on Eco Cycles or How I Feel About Technology maksimizmaylov.com/writin... · Posted by u/Kvakes
I'm deeply jealous of the few US states that have banned billboard advertising -- it really feels like pervasive advertising is outright caustic to my brain.
On the other hand, I can imagine that banning that banning one form of advertising drives those would-be advertisers to other mediums, such as the ones that drive addictive apps and such. This would in turn increase the revenue of those apps, and make that business model more attractive, compared to e.g. apps that are a one-time purchase
TheSoftwareGuy commented on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/jonbaer
I like how this "freedom to learn" should apply to models, but not real people..
It already applies to real people, doesn't it? I.e. if you read a book, you're not allowed to start printing and selling copies of that book without permission of the copyright owner, but if you learn something from that book you can use that knowledge, just like a model could.
Huh. How long until GenAi Can create 3D printable files?
TheSoftwareGuy commented on Unit tests as documentation thecoder.cafe/p/unit-test... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I share this ideal, but also have to gripe that "descriptive test name" is where this falls apart, every single time.
Getting all your teammates to quit giving all their tests names like "testTheThing" is darn near impossible. It's socially painful to be the one constantly nagging people about names, but it really does take constant nagging to keep the quality high. As soon as the nagging stops, someone invariably starts cutting corners on the test names, and after that everyone who isn't a pedantic weenie about these things will start to follow suit.
Which is honestly the sensible, well-adjusted decision. I'm the pedantic weenie on my team, and even I have to agree that I'd rather my team have a frustrating test suite than frustrating social dynamics.
Personally - and this absolutely echoes the article's last point - I've been increasingly moving toward Donald Knuth's literate style of programming. It helps me organize my thoughts even better than TDD does, and it's earned me far more compliments about the readability of my code than a squeaky-clean test suite ever does. So much so that I'm beginning to hold hope that if you can build enough team mass around working that way it might even develop into a stable equilibrium point as people start to see how it really does make the job more enjoyable.
This is one area where a BDD style framework like catch2[0] really shines, IMO. The way tests are written in this style naturally lends itself to self-documenting each branch