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New comment by nothercastle in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

nothercastle — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:03:56 +0000

The quality has taken a sharp decline in the last iteration

New comment by nothercastle in "Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years"

nothercastle — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:53:29 +0000

Seems like a good recipe for a long form post.

New comment by nothercastle in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

nothercastle — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:07:09 +0000

They extended a 10 year warranty on the iccu. Even though there is no fix that’s probably good enough

New comment by nothercastle in "Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire"

nothercastle — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0000

It’s true unused it wasted but unfortunately what it’s used for is decided by corporate flavor of the month so garbage one drive, teams and Gemini builds eat all the ram that would be better used by other applications people actually like

New comment by nothercastle in "The Decade of Decline in Seattle Public Schools"

nothercastle — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:17:53 +0000

In this case it’s just SPS. It became a massive school district with expected bloat. As a result lots of money went to waste programs like edutainment apps and social justice programs. Kids with wealth parents opted out and that made funding problems worse because without stable kids to average out the pool the student body became more resource intensive which drove the typical urban failing school cycle.

New comment by nothercastle in "Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models"

nothercastle — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:46:18 +0000

A modern vehicle overheating? Like did you need to limp it home or something

New comment by nothercastle in "Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models"

nothercastle — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:39:30 +0000

I don’t need anything else

New comment by nothercastle in "Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models"

nothercastle — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:38:25 +0000

Only if towing

New comment by nothercastle in "Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI"

nothercastle — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:59:00 +0000

Meta could reduce down to 30% like twitter and just sustain forever like twitter. None of the R&D ads value

New comment by nothercastle in "In panic over uncovered data center docs, Entergy seeks to restrain journalists"

nothercastle — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:50:06 +0000

The fact that it wasn’t immediately dismissed as a nuance complaint and covered under the first is already concerning

New comment by nothercastle in "Airbus bows to remote working demands after series of strikes"

nothercastle — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:06:06 +0000

Most of these people don’t need to be in office. Very few people actually touch or need to be near the product

New comment by nothercastle in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

nothercastle — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:30:52 +0000

I don’t understand why anyone wants tires rated for much more than 40k miles. Inevitably you will have to replace damaged tires from road hazard much earlier than their rated life

New comment by nothercastle in "Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates"

nothercastle — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:09:37 +0000

Flock is about surveillance for profit sometimes that also has positive results but often the costs are too high

New comment by nothercastle in "FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce"

nothercastle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:26:13 +0000

FDA has failed. We’re going to need you start to look up Costco and Walmart or local organic cart body’s to regulate because the FDA can’t.

New comment by nothercastle in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

nothercastle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:20:36 +0000

The app is a back door to your phone. It will vacuum all the data of it if allowed.

New comment by nothercastle in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:45:37 +0000

It feels like this kind of gameplay has come and gone and new games lack that depth

New comment by nothercastle in "Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:43:49 +0000

I wish I could easily search Shopify stores And ignore Google I think I’d find more deals that way

New comment by nothercastle in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:37:51 +0000

Personal assistants in the Philippines and hope they don’t scam you themselves

New comment by nothercastle in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:36:40 +0000

Legitimate actors perusing poor security policies is actually the biggest threat vector.

New comment by nothercastle in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

nothercastle — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:40:49 +0000

Is it even legal to call that “chocolate adjacent product” chocolate in Europe.