FWIW, the javascript side of Rails is historically the least settled-upon part of the framework. I'm curious how many current Rails projects use React as an alternative over the current "convention" of Turbo. Or Hotwire. Or even UJS for legacy projects.

If an opinionated developer thinks a different configuration is better, then that helps form the conversation immediately. Everyone is already familiar with the convention, so the discussion only needs to inform everyone about the pros/cons of the alternative.

But it's not just the sensor, which would be inconvenient. The lack of control makes it *dangerous*. You have to push the button in _slightly_ on the left stalk, which makes the wipers go once. And then you have to push the left scrollwheel left or right (but not up or down!) to turn the setting up or down, while staring at the bottom left part of the screen to figure out what setting you're on. All of this takes your eyes much further away from the road, while driving in more dangerous conditions with reduced visibility.

If any hardware manufacturers are listening, I'd gladly pay $200 for an aftermarket part that lets me control my goddamn wipers.

> Just one year ago, Tim Cook had this to say about RCS: "I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point. […] Buy your mom an iPhone.”

> Long story short, I will believe it when I see it. Apple has a long history of claiming they will support an open standard, then failing to add support. In 2010, Steve Jobs promised that Apple ‘would make FaceTime an open industry standard’. That never happened. More recently, in 2021, Apple promised to open their Find My network to competitors like Tile. Instead, they’ve penalized Tile by additional warnings in front of their app.

I haven't thought twice about it. Frankly, I forgot that bun has been happily running behind the scenes for me. I highly recommend anyone using NodeJS to give it a go.

H + 1 = I

A + 1 = B

L + 1 = M

Man, BQN is a clever name. Because,

A + 1 = B

P + 1 = Q

L + 1 = M...

...well crap. That theory didn't pan out at all. Needlessly disappointed myself upon hearing that it's short for "Big Questions Notation".

...I'll show myself out.

BRB, installing tank wars again. What was the cheat code?

(Not all knockoffs are of dubious quality/legitimacy. I hear the people at Iconic Chair bought the rights to use the same molds from Herman Miller.)

I have an Ecobee thermostat with Alexa in my kitchen. The Ecobee has the location "kitchen". My kitchen has IoT-enabled lightbulbs.

I have a Google Nest Mini in my living room. That Nest Mini has the location "living room". I have a lamp in my living room with an IoT-enabled lightbulb.

I have a Google Nest Mini in my master bedroom. That Nest Mini has the location "master bedroom". The nightstands in the master bedroom each have a lamp with an IoT-enabled lightbulb.

If I ask any of these devices to "turn on the lights", they turn on every single light in the entire house. Me, my wife, and my children are all trained now to tell the devices exactly which room should have the light bulbs turned on, because even though I've told each device what room it's in, they're still completely context-unaware.

I've thought about trying out whatever home-mini-pot-hub thing Apple came out with most recently, to see if they're more context-aware. But this is still a far cry from the demo in the OP. I wouldn't dream of telling these devices to "turn on all light lights on the second floor", or "turn on the lights in the big room next to the kitchen", or "turn off the lights after we leave the house".

Forget security, competing standards, walled gardens, lack of visibility, etc. Until IoT devices are more aware of this kind of context, it will always be easier and more reliable to flip a lightswitch yourself than to ask another device or robot to do it for you.

It's stunning to watch videos of Britons confused about why they've lost certain privileges, only a short while after voting to leave the place that gave them those privileges. It's like canceling your gym membership because it's too expensive, then wanting to fight the manager because they won't let you work out there anymore. I have so much sympathy for those that knew what Brexit meant, tried to fight it, and lost the vote.

I've been mentally comparing this to the 2016 US election where an (electoral) majority got Trump elected as President. But we still have large swathes of the US population that were VERY happy with all 4 years of his presidency. I'm curious how many Britons in 2016 were similarly as vocal for their support of the referendum, and are still just as happy today with the results.