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jreese commented on Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved] twitter.com/samwcyo/statu... · Posted by u/zdw

reaperducer · 3 years ago

I also like notifications of low-tire pressure, engine-oil life, etc.

Both things that have been done with non-connected cars for decades.

jreese · 3 years ago

Sometimes the person driving the car does not (want to?) pay attention or has "ceded responsibility" for car maintenance, and it's nice to get these reports without needing to periodically remember to check the car manually.

jreese commented on The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers topgear.com/car-news/big-... · Posted by u/kposehn

akiselev · 3 years ago

They drove a car 160,000 miles without changing the oil?

jreese · 3 years ago

I had a friend in high school who literally drove his (used) Civic every day for five years and never once changed the oil. You'd be amazed how well synthetic oil holds up in an engine designed for long term reliability.

jreese commented on A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps macmenubar.com/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

gnicholas · 3 years ago

Does anyone have recommendations for a system monitor that works on Apple silicon? I just want to see ethernet activity, RAM usage, and processor usage.

jreese · 3 years ago

iStat Menus is the venerable favorite: https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

jreese commented on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

kleiba · 3 years ago

Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.

jreese · 3 years ago

... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...

jreese commented on Employers should prioritize retention over hiring, study suggests hrdive.com/news/employers... · Posted by u/tchalla

mindvirus · 3 years ago

When I was at a FAANG, it felt like they had this down to a science. Promotions every 2-3 years. Raises once a year, a few spot bonuses throughout the year, ad hoc equity grants. People still quit of course, but looking back it felt very retention focused and scientific.

jreese · 3 years ago

And yet it can also be haphazard and misguided too. My experience has mostly been that the general comp level is high enough across the board, but discretionary/additional equity is almost exclusively thrown at high visibility/pet projects of the moment rather than the most important/impactful work that supports all of those fancy projects. Ie, working on infra has some of largest/widest impact in the company, but rarely merits AE/DE because everything is too incremental, difficult to explain the benefits to non-technical partners, or otherwise invisible to leadership at the levels necessary to grant equity. Losing a core, senior engineer from the database or network team can have a much larger technical impact than a random frontend engineer, and yet the bulk of AE/DE goes to flashy frontend product launches.

jreese commented on My next Mac might be the last morrick.me/archives/9667... · Posted by u/pier25

zdw · 3 years ago

Outlook is the troll pick on this list.

Everything about it verifiably worse than the separate apps Apple ships with macOS, from data storage to integration.

That said, MacOS 10.6 was the pinnacle of Calendar, and it's been on the way down since...

jreese · 3 years ago

Fantastical is the Apple Calendar replacement that should have been mentioned.

jreese commented on Apple to withhold its latest employee perks from unionized store bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/alphabetting

kova12 · 3 years ago

To be fair, when benefits meet your goals, it could be very good deal. For example 401k matching is the same cash in your pocket, but without tax. Good health care plan, especially when you have family is worth much more than cash and also doesn't add to tax base. In some states you pay more than half off what you make in taxes, so making something a benefit is a convenient way of legally saving on said tax

jreese · 3 years ago

I sincerely doubt anyone whose primary income is working as a retail employee is getting taxed anywhere near a 50% marginal tax rate, even if you include city/county/state taxes.

amethyst commented on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone pipersandler.com/1col.asp... · Posted by u/nudpiedo

SergeAx · 3 years ago

Wait, they can't run uBlock Origin on iOS? But the web without it is just unusable.

amethyst · 3 years ago

Firefox with the built-in "Enhanced Tracking Protection" gets you about 70-80% of the blocking that a dedicated adblock system can, depending on the site, and at least saves you from some of the worst behaviors. Between that and network-level ad blocking (Eero+), I really only see first-party ads like FB/IG. When I'm not at home, the chances are pretty low that I'm just casually browsing the web rather than using a dedicated app (where I probably bought or subscribed to avoid ads).

Edit: and if you're willing to use Safari on iOS, there are dozens of Safari plugins on the app store that provide good-enough adblocking.

jreese commented on The end of the manual transmission is near? popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/Tozen

schuke · 3 years ago

Sounds like they could really use a CVT. ;)

jreese · 3 years ago

I'm sure they would love one, but it's probably not that easy/cheap to find one that can handle that much torque with such heavy loads. The biggest/heaviest trucks just end up using electric/traction motors running from diesel generators, so they don't need a transmission at all.

jreese commented on The end of the manual transmission is near? popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/Tozen

falcolas · 3 years ago

Truckers have entered the thread.

(I agree though, since I don’t drive a semi or dump truck.)

jreese · 3 years ago

Trucks don't have 18 gears for efficiency. They have 18 gears because low-revving diesel engines have small power bands; mix that with heavy loads, and it pretty much necessitates having a lot of short, closely-spaced gear ratios, so that maximum torque can be achieved consistently, no matter what speed you're at.

Also, FWIW, they don't just pick between 18 gears with a single shifter. They have multiple inputs that allow shifting between multiple combinations of gears, some requiring clutch to change and some not, as they gain speed. Most trucks still only have 6-ish positions for the main gear shifter to slot in to.