Or her job!

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

Nonetheless, I agree with the sentiment.

That leopard print raised my eyebrow slightly. Although it does perfectly match the shoes, so I can look past it.

They have some very premium brands as well, that definitely deserve praise: hardin’s creek, little book especially.

Anything labeled Jim beam is swill to meh (except Lineage, but you’ll never see that on a shelf). The old grandad (bonded or 114) line is bang/buck.

Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

That’s the nirvana fallacy in action. Yes there are tradeoffs. And I get that it isn’t for everyone. I also have a lot of privilege to make this a reasonable purchase financially.

The nearest non-uhaul day rental is a 90min round trip without traffic, which would be rare on a weekend or even weekday afternoon. So I was paying 80-150 for delivery, which really sucks when you realize you’re one sheet short on a project because you forgot to account for something. But it isn’t a super regular usecase.

And while I appreciate the concern for my suspension, I’m definitely not using this as a work truck. For sheet goods, I’m talking about a few sheets of plywood occasionally for personal cabinetry projects, not a house worth of drywall 4x a week. And I can run all my shop tools off the truck’s battery instead of loading up the one 15amp circuit in the garage and running 80feet of extension cords for more. For landscaping, it’s a yard of mulch or a few bags of soil amendment and fertilizer (my wife has a very green thumb and we live in clay country).

Regarding vans: if the id buzz could actually fit a sheet, I would probably have gone that route. But short of an Econoline or Sprinter (which afaik don’t come BEV), you definitely don’t have 8 feet of depth, and I can’t thing of a smaller van with 4ft between the wheels inside, so now you’re driving with the giant liftgate bouncing on your goods and you still need straps and a flag.

For charging yes, it’s silly to think I’m purely solar charging. But I have 26 410W panels and we’re at 400kwh this month so far (Winter solstice soon too). And the truck only has 2k miles on it in the 6 months I’ve had it, so yeah we’re definitely net negative on the meter.

For house battery: I valued the truck as 20k worth of battery backup in my math. We live in wildfire country and there are safety shutoffs and outages from storms somewhat regularly. Knowing I don’t need a generator to recharge batteries for an extended outage is more value.

Really dumb systemic problem bonus: my car insurance went down when I replaced a 10year old base model 5speed hatchback with this truck. I got a $50 rebate check.

So yeah, it’s not a panacea and I don’t think we’re trying to say it is. But it made enough sense for me.

Fellow lightning owner with solar here:

Yeah, the whole house battery plus vehicle is what made this decision. Bonus points that I don’t need to rewire the garage for tools and I don’t need to pay for delivery of sheet goods or landscaping stuff. I also just put 4 adults and an infant in the truck for a comfortable day trip. My meter is still net backwards after 6 months of charging exclusively at home.

Love when the light comes on and I have an excuse to give it extra attention.

Hey, you forgot his most important qualification: children’s book author.

There were decorations for sale at Costco in California in late August. Decorative gourd season decorations hadn’t even shown up yet.

Tiling WM and Gruvbox. Doesn’t get any better!

Yeah, it is pretty great!

I’m building software to bridge an in house legacy system and a CLI program. It has 1 partial restful API endpoint (no delete, no patch/put). But it does have 3 cyber security suites including one that wraps the runtime. It is not a public API.

I have 4 meetings a week.

Did I mention I work from home?

Going on 22 days waiting for a firewall rule change so I can pull containers from the enterprise GitHub enlistment.

I’ve had discussions with 4 different OUs. Not one of them has been able to tell me why the firewall is different for this VM. There is no way for me to see the state of each and compare.

Honestly, a real plumbing store.

Brands we considered/bought during our remodel that I can also remember:

• Brizo (Delta’s “luxury brand”)
• Artos
• California Faucets
• Hansgrohe

All of them are way, way nicer than the best thing you can find at a box store.

We spent a ridiculous amount on plumbing fixtures though (kitchen and 2 bathrooms), so be prepared for sticker shock. BIFL is the tune I kept whistling though.

It seems like the only time I encounter this oddness is when some upstream docker image maintainer has done a weird with users (I once went 3 image levels up to figure out what happened).

Or if I borrow a dockerfile and don’t strip out the “nonroot” user hacks that got popularized years ago.

Next, he’ll be going around trying to get kicked out:

“Bun cha fools around here, I dare you to banh mi”.

Yes, the bubble is a pure speculation (growth) game. As long as the new shiny makes more people want in on the stock (public or private) continually, share prices grow and the company has continued runway.

Eventually, private equity exits with an IPO and the public gets a chance to be left holding the bag too.

AI product pushing, absolutely. I actually fairly shocked there isn’t more. Probably because they can’t actually predict the output.

“You can do get the most efficient results at the lowest TCO with [insert vendor’s product]!”

But you get ai answers with Google now so… It’s basically the same.