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New comment by trentgreene in "A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven"

trentgreene — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 22:11:06 +0000

Heh, thanks for the info, I have a bit of a gap of knowledge about that era of vehicles outside of a type II fun experience with an older Ranchero.

I see VW advertising a car with an ECU in 1968, but likely just transistors.

New comment by trentgreene in "A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven"

trentgreene — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 21:59:52 +0000

I’ll add a small point to this. The computers my old cars do have, I’m quite thankful for. Being able to purchase a ~100-200 buck code reader and easily plug it in and figure out what my warning lights are trying to tell me has been a great educational tool and saved me a ton in maintenance.

New comment by trentgreene in "A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven"

trentgreene — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 21:43:03 +0000

As a fellow “analog” automotive enthusiast, I’m curious how she defines computer in this situation?

Given that ECUs / microprocessors have been standard on cars since the late 60s / early 70s.

For me it’s the network connections and updates that scare me. The software on my ‘99 Benz hasn’t changed in 24 years, and I don’t need it too.

New comment by trentgreene in "Fewer university students are studying Mandarin"

trentgreene — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 03:37:40 +0000

I don’t have a dog in this thread’s particular fight and am basically just doomscrolling on a Friday night.

But I don’t think English is a nominally supported language in Quebec. IIRC all of Canada outside of Quebec requires dual signage in english + French, but Quebec only requires French. I’d guess Gare bonaventure is an artifact of that law rather than a translation strategy.

New comment by trentgreene in "She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter"

trentgreene — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:55:13 +0000

Unfortunately there’s no great answer — any mammal that bites could carry rabies even if not obviously rabid, and there’s no way to test for that when the animal’s alive. Running the prophylactic for rabies also ain’t cheap and runs the risk of human noncompliance, meaning someone ends up rabid (and eventually, dead).

New comment by trentgreene in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)"

trentgreene — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:32:21 +0000

While I can appreciate the simplicity of the older version, the lack of padding around text + monochrome made this a sea of black marks to me. Basically illegible. 2013 was much easier to read

New comment by trentgreene in "Juice"

trentgreene — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:42:16 +0000

All that juice on the delete button really plays poorly with iOS text selection. While I agree with the article in spirit, I’ll take this delete button dry (just rinse the glass please!)

New comment by trentgreene in "My thoughts on “bad code”"

trentgreene — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:44:30 +0000

Some of the most impactful code I've written has been absolutely trash. Like, really, really bad. By almost all objective measures, terrible. Except for the results it helped bring about. By that one measure, it was excellent, damn near perfect code

New comment by trentgreene in "Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do"

trentgreene — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 03:42:43 +0000

Competitively, sure. Casually, no.

New comment by trentgreene in "Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do"

trentgreene — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 03:31:04 +0000

Heh, ‘drop’ is an overloaded term. I don’t mean you need to release the bar from your hands or not follow through on the eccentric. By ‘drop the bar’, I mean you shouldn’t resist during the eccentric portion in the same way you might during a pull up or curl. Said another way, on heavy deads, your eccentric should be noticeably quicker than the concentric. The bar falls to the floor with you attached.

The other commenters explain why — you’re building up fatigue during the concentric, easier to over round on the eccentric if you resist.

It’s worth caveating to that there are many ways to pull, and I could imagine someone lightening the weight to resist and control the eccentric. But in the the style of pulling I grew up with, a set of 5 reps functioned more like 5 heavy singles in a row, with some seconds of rest and resetting form between pulls. I’ve never seen controlled and resisted eccentrics with that style, and the thought of it lit scares me.

PS. Pulling 455 means that you almost certainly have some expertise in this matter ;). That’s not an untrained pull

New comment by trentgreene in "Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do"

trentgreene — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 02:04:10 +0000

Hi, worth mentioning that you should explicitly ignore this advice if you’re lifting heavy deadlifts. Eventually you will get to a point on that exercise where your concentric pull can put up vastly more weight than you can safely lower to the ground in a slow manner. Above 3-4 plates and you probably should be dropping the weight. Maybe even less. Your lumbar will thank you.

New comment by trentgreene in "Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service"

trentgreene — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:40:41 +0000

The irony is that chatbots and automated phone support dont function like this — instead, they amplify anger. By the time you actually get to a human, you’re not just frustrated with the original issue, but the massive (and often bigger) pain of dealing with the terrible automated support system.

New comment by trentgreene in "Tesla’s 2022 Collapse Hits 69% After Deepest Selloff Since April"

trentgreene — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:21:13 +0000

I mean, I’m a Mercedes fanboy, and I don’t. I don’t need to. I don’t care who’s running the show — the cars deliver on the brands reputation and that’s all I care about.

New comment by trentgreene in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

trentgreene — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:55:37 +0000

To be double fair, it sometimes felt that the Presidio was only technically part of SF. We used to joke that it was really Marin's foothold on the peninsula.

New comment by trentgreene in "Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)"

trentgreene — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 06:24:10 +0000

Warren Buffet is pretty diversified, owning stakes across many different sectors. He’s also advocated investing in index funds with the old ‘time in market’ line

New comment by trentgreene in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

trentgreene — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:46:45 +0000

The Caddos were living in east Texas pre-Spanish contact! The Spanish word Tejas comes from a Caddo word.

There is a gap in the literature though as to whether the Caddos had central air. We can only speculate.

New comment by trentgreene in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

trentgreene — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:36:05 +0000

Lived in the Presidio, all my neighbors plus our house has a pretty big mold problem, likely from the humidity. When we called maintenance, the answer was to manage airflow and yeah, it’s the presidio, stuffs gonna mold.

New comment by trentgreene in "California’s population shrinks for third straight year"

trentgreene — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:29:34 +0000

Idk if the second part is really fair - as a Texan turned SF resident, I can understand how the Texas heat can be alarming at first. But if definitely didn’t stop us from going outside, doing things, holding sports practices (outside the rare 115 degree day), etc.

The AC is appreciated, but you get acclimated to the heat. And anecdata of one, but I really miss the heat / humidity.

Texas civilization does predate AC after all for at least a couple centuries ;)

New comment by trentgreene in "What color is it?"

trentgreene — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 23:41:46 +0000

FWIW, we did get Halo 1, and I think the Mac version was the first to let you fly a banshee and shoot a fuel rod cannon. Maybe PC came out first with, but these didn’t make it into the Xbox version. Mac might have been the first online halo play as well

New comment by trentgreene in "The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter"

trentgreene — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 23:29:13 +0000

Because it’s much more efficient to heat up a modern car by driving it than it is to let it idle.