Hey, I pay for those pixels along the sides, so I expect them to get used once in a while 😆

Are you being sarcastic? That looks terrible. I hate when websites go for the CVS receipt layout.

Or did you just zoom way, way out for the screenshot? I’m on mobile so it already looks CVS-receipty.

Edit: Oh, you did just zoom way out, so I take a lot of that back. Still don’t think it looks great though. Cluttered and just “too much”.

Wish I could take credit for the term, lol, but I heard it elsewhere.

Yeah, I took it to a few local places, and none of them would do anything like that. I lived in the boonies at the time and didn’t want to tow it all around everywhere. I’d already driven it like that for 4-5 weeks, and the left spring was pressing against the underside of the bed. One good pothole and it would have likely punched through lol. Figured I’d pressed my luck long enough. I had a welder and could have probably fixed it up good enough for farm use, but no way would it have passed inspection.

Just parted it out since everything else was in great shape (especially the transmission that had been rebuilt not 4 months prior 😢)

Ended up just buying the hybrid I drive now since its main use was for my 110 mile daily commute.

Yeah, my 2004 not-quite beater truck came to its end that way. The frame rusted out where the leaf spring shackle attached, and there’s no real way to fix that. Surprised I was able to drive it as long as I did with it like that (it was my daily driver at the time lol).

For my OG beater truck, I got a lot of its body parts from a local salvage yard. Some of the parts I got were rusted in the same spots as mine, just less so (e.g. the quarter panels on S10s were notorious for rusting out).

Replacing the bed isn’t too bad if you have someone to help you lift it on/off and you can find a donor in good shape. I had to pull the bed off my old beater truck to replace the fuel pump, and did the work myself (plus an extra set of hands to lift the bed on/off, naturally) On that one, it was only like 6 bolts holding it down. Hardest part was that two were seized up and had to drill them out (and replace the bolts afterward).

Unless there’s major pushback from car buyers in the next 10 years, I’m going to be holding on to my 2017 hybrid for as long as possible. May even look into doing an EV conversion on it or possibly some aftermarket way to make it a plug-in hybrid (there is a plug-in hybrid version of my car, and I’ve been looking to trade-in for that, but I cannot find any within 250 miles of me).

Yep!

I’ve seen enough EV conversions to know it’s not rocket science. The instrument cluster just displays the values relayed to it over CAN bus, most of the sensors are the same as they are on a conventional ICE vehicle, and the only real difference is the powertrain. There’s some consideration for the battery placement and management, but that’s pretty much it. Leave the touchscreens in the backseat for the kids, and give me physical buttons to operate the vehicle.

Maybe if they’d focus more on making them functional vehicles instead of smartphones on wheels, it would simplify that problem.

No they didn’t.

In a strictly technical / laboratory sense, maybe not. But in practice, they stopped just the same. I also slow down to a stop (regen braking is amazing) and don’t slam on my brakes at a stop light (like some drivers I routinely scowl at). And driving through the country and having to slam on the brakes when a deer jumps out (which was common where I lived), I noticed no appreciable difference in stopping distance between the two tire types.

…huh? ABS has nothing to do with rolling resistance…

ABS prevents the tires from locking up and skidding (anti-lock braking system, hence the name). Under normal driving conditions, it merely helps you maintain control, but on slick roads, locking up the wheels can skid you further than without it. So, no, ABS doesn’t directly relate to rolling resistance, but it’s part of a system along with the tires that contribute to stopping distance…which is what I was talking about.

I wouldn’t think stopping distance would be noticeably impacted by less rolling resistance. My original “eco” tires stopped the same as the standard ones. They’re “eco” because they have less rolling resistance and are slightly lighter.

Plus, with ABS, you’re not likely to lock the wheels up such that the decreased resistance would be significant.

On slick roads would be my only concern, but a good and season appropriate tread should mitigate that.

It’s going to be all about the price.

My hybrid recommends “eco” style tires to get the best gas mileage. Those were $100 more, per tire, than the standard low-profiles. At the time, I commuted about 110 miles/day, so tires typically only lasted me about a year before they were either officially worn out or too worn to be safe to drive in winter.

I only noticed about a 1-2 MPG loss with the “standard” tires versus the “eco” ones that came with it. Over the course of a year, I doubt that 1-2 MPG added up to the $400 difference.

So, these cleaner tires are a good thing, assuming they’re not more expensive than current-style tires. Depending on use-case, 35% longer life (if that holds true) may be able to tempt price-conscious buyers.

All that said, I could definitely see these becoming the “factory” tires for new EVs, though.

If only we had the technology to open doors without power. One day, perhaps.

Good to know! Will keep an eye out for sure.

Literally what I was wondering, lol. My first thought was “how well does it run Debian?”

OTOH, I really don’t want to contribute to a sale that may make MS or the hardware manufacturers think people want this AI crap. I just want a beefy ARM laptop that runs Linux lol.

When clicking to load more, I use a maxDepth of 5 to fetch the comment’s children (the depth is based on the parent comment ID passed to the API call, so it’s 5 more layers from there rather than from the root). I haven’t had any complains, but it would also be easy to make those additional fetches configurable. If I do get complaints, that’s probably going to be the way I change it.

Yeah, it’s a trade off. I tried setting maxDepth much higher on the initial fetch, but it takes a lot longer to load the comments when there are 100 or more or if there are deep, nested threads. I’m also not sure how maxDepth and limit interact when used at the same time. I want to say depth takes precedence, but I’m not 100% sure.

The only complication with using that method is when direct-linking to a very deep comment. If the post page is called with a comment thread param, I set maxDepth to 15 which works for most cases. Very rarely is that not deep enough, but when that happens, the linked comment doesn’t show until you “show more” to its level. It’s a known edge case I haven’t fully addressed yet.

I use maxDepth rather than limit.

That gets all the top-level comments and only the child comments maxDepth deep. If a comment has children that aren’t shown, there will be a “load more” button below to fetch and render them.

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True. That’s definitely a fact / good thing that’s getting overlooked.

Hmm. Like a Word doc? Maybe it’s just embeds (with timestamps) on other websites that are broken?

I tried using the embed URLs directly in a browser tab, and those refuse to play at all (they still work embedded, though).

Definitely something that changed in the last few weeks. The test posts I had are from months ago and worked then.