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tmmx commented on 2024 Nissan Kicks Is the Kind of Car We Need More Of: Affordable thedrive.com/news/2024-ni... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

PaulHoule · 2 years ago

I'm on my second Honda Fit. I can't say it it's the most exciting car to drive but both have had zero trouble with the CVT at 110,000+ miles. The first one died a violent death (totaled twice in a year) and the second is going strong. All the major systems performed flawlessly, though there were some struggles with the hatchback handle and the tire pressure monitoring system.

I do remember renting a Dodge Caliber year back when the CVT performed terribly going up hills as automatic but it wasn't bad at all if you used the paddle shifters. I did read reviews of people who bought the things, drove 20,000 miles and complained bitterly about performance and never figured out about the paddle shifters though.

tmmx · 2 years ago

> totaled twice in a year

How did it happen twice?

tmmx commented on Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jagdish123 · 3 years ago

As an Indian, coming from a lower caste family, this makes me happy. India already banned caste discrimination years ago and it had a positive impact on marginalized communities. The next step might be to follow something akin to caste-reservations that we have in India, to level the playing field for communities that have been marginalized for centuries. Advocating for more lower-caste Indian representation in private companies can be a good start. It can be a part of DEI initiatives that we have seen so many companies embrace.

Overall, this is a positive development. But we still have a long way to go!

tmmx · 3 years ago

That caste reservation system you mentioned is fundementally flawed. For example, it will favor children of low caste individual who already benefitted from the system and is at economically very priviledged position over children of a high caste individual who are economically disadvantaged.

tmmx commented on The state finally letting teens sleep in theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/gadflyinyoureye

scottLobster · 4 years ago

You'd be surprised. Note that Sioux Falls, the capital of South Dakota, has substantially lower average lows in Winter than Helsinki.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/finland/helsinki/climate https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/sioux-falls/climate

Yes our car-dependent infrastructure is an issue, but it's infrastructure we've built up for the better part of a century. Changing it will be slow and gradual, and in the meantime cold weather and darkness are issues in much of the country. Also hot weather in other parts of the country (heat stroke can be a serious concern in the Southwest)

tmmx · 4 years ago

Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota, not the capital city. The capital city is Pierre, SD.

tmmx commented on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days status.atlassian.com... · Posted by u/Corrado

tmmx · 4 years ago

I had pleasure of using HipChat some times ago. That was probably the worst Atlassian product I have ever used. You want to edit the message you just send, you have to type 's/string/replacement' within 60s.

tmmx commented on Poll: Do you prefer the office or work from home? · Posted by u/alfiedotwtf

PragmaticPulp · 4 years ago

> It also means that I get to choose when I will allow myself to be interrupted, rather than sitting in an open concept office and being _continually_ interrupted.

This is extremely situational. When I was in a larger house and had no kids, WFH was an easy way to avoid interruptions.

Moving to a smaller house (more expensive city) and having kids flipped the situation around. Avoiding interruptions at home was extremely difficult because I was always only a door away from someone asking a “quick favor”.

It’s not just me: As a remote manger I can almost always tell when summer break starts for everyone’s area because there’s a stepwise decline in productive when people’s kids aren’t in school.

Likewise, the office environment makes all the difference. I’ve worked in open-office spaces where everybody respected each other and concentration was the default. I’ve also worked in private-office spaces where I could expect knocks on my door every 15 minutes or less because the culture was so bad that interrupting the engineers was the default practice.

Lately, I’ve felt that fully remote has been the worst of all worlds. Once Slack becomes the default I’m pinged from every angle all day long. It’s hard to push back against people who want answers now now now and know they can get your attention by typing the right few characters into Slack. Comes down to culture, but Slack makes it easy for people to quietly interrupt people directly whereas it was much easier to police the interruptions (as a manager) when I could literally see the offenders bothering the engineers.

tmmx · 4 years ago

When I want to focus, I pause slack notifications. Slack provide a way to still send it, but in my workplace people tend to respect that setting unless it is a real emergency.

tmmx commented on Tesla Ordered to Pay Worker $137M for Racism at Plant bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp

ChainOfFools · 4 years ago

how lucky we are as a civilization that technology has not yet made a similar punitive equation feasible for time as it is for money.

i.e., imagine if it worked this way for penalty of incarceration, where your mugger forfeits 10 years of their life, and transfers them to you, extending your own by the same amount - less attorneys' fees, of course.

tmmx · 4 years ago

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

tmmx commented on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC github.com/ruby/ruby-lang... · Posted by u/morpunkee

simonsarris · 4 years ago

Almost more surprising is that this was removed:

> When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions.

In favor of this:

> Participants should speak and act with good intentions, but understand that intent and impact are not equivalent.

Also changed yesterday:

> Behaviour which can be reasonably considered harassment will not be tolerated.

became:

> Behaviour which can be considered harassment against protected classes will not be tolerated.

The updated CoC is here: https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/blob/master/en/con...

This is very weird because fundamentally it stems from a failure of the moderators. If someone makes a sexist joke you don't just let them because you're "assuming good intentions", that clause means that you tell them it's not appropriate here, and if they apologize you assume they are sincere, and if they don't you swiftly boot them. But there is no substitute for good moderation, shifting words around won't help much.

Aside: Open source discussion opening with "My rationale for these changes are documented on Twitter: [link]" also seems somewhat crazy. And I love Twitter, it just seems very odd to link to a thread of tweets instead of restating your case in the proper medium.

tmmx · 4 years ago

Also, now mods don't have to tolerate opposing views. :)