No, it’s not. Most people, even in the US, can easily use the range. You don’t go to a cross country roadtrip every day.

You drive to work, go grocery shopping, drive home and that’s usually it. A range of 400km+ with new EVs is easily enough. Or do you drive to the gas station every 2 days with your current car?

And even if you go on a roadtrip, after driving for 4 hours you might want to take a break anyway.

You do realize there is no data available for the future? We aren’t there yet.

You do realize most people charge at home? It doesn’t matter how long it takes when the car is just sitting there (you’ll even save time compared to driving to the gas station).

Manufacturers also give 7+ years warranty on batteries by now, but even after 10 years a battery doesn’t just break, you only lose a few percent of range (if this wasn’t already calculated into the buffer, depends on the car).

You do know EV sales stall because of that, right?

In what fantasy world are you living? EVs just hit an all-times sales record last year. This is for the US, but it’s similar all over the world:

Right now I could buy an EV with 520km range for 36k€. It’s rapidly getting better.

Are we? There’s still plenty of space for solar and wind. Including large battery installations for cities. It doesn’t really feel like we’re hitting a limit there anytime soon.

Yep, even “efficiency” cores are a scam. They were forced to go that way because their current process simply can’t support all full cores without drawing 300W+ and taking too much space.

Cut down E-Cores aren’t even efficient power wise, just space efficient so they could fit them on the die.

Besides power consumption my trust for Intel is down the gutter with half a dozen security issues. Which were patched with performance degradation. So they fucked up, patched it in software, now your hardware runs slower than when you bought it.

Well, my new workplace selected it and paid for it, I just have to use it.

Personally I’d have gone with the AMD CPU, at home I rock a 5800X3D :)

Intel’s power consumption is off the charts unfortunately. Those e-cores didn’t help at all.

Absolutely not. I finally got a 4K 120hz OLED TV which needs a HDMI 2.1 cable. Ordered a certified one and I couldn’t get 120hz to run whatever way I tried. I managed to force it one time and the TV screen black screened every two seconds. After doing everything else (reinstall GPU drivers, messing with settings) I finally ordered a different HDMI cable.

Plugged it in, set 120hz, it worked. Both cables are certified, but one was trash.

Even with the new cable I sometimes get a short black screen now, but I have no clue if it’s the cable’s fault or the TV. HDMI cables are a total mess when you actually want to use the full bandwidth :-/

I switched to 4K 60hz for now as I don’t really game on the TV anyway, it also allows me to use TrueMotion again (which seemingly doesn’t run at 120hz). Either way I get anxious about HDMI cables now, lol.

ThinkPad for laptop (user repairability, third party parts, open schematics)

My fully decked out ThinkPad T16 Gen 1 I got for work last year is a piece of shit. Lenovo keeps messing up the BIOS (sometimes it took up to 2 minutes to reach the Windows loading screen), it sometimes has trouble with the Lenovo Monitor (which has a docking station with USB-C), or a colleague who had the same model it refused to charge.

Don’t get me started on thermals, that thing either sounds like a jet engine or throttles down to 1.4 GHz on a damn 6 core CPU. That’s partly Intel’s fault too of course (The AMD counterpart would likely run cooler/faster).

I always thought ThinkPads are awesome, now that I actually use a $3000 one I’d never buy one myself.

No, I’m not stupid. Also technically everything you create on company time and/or company resources no longer belongs to you.

I did have a boss once (software development) who hosted his own website on the company servers. Not 100% sure if that was ever green lit by the CEO (maybe, maybe not). But I was really annoyed when the server had issues due to that private site, when I didn’t have access to the code to fix them.

20 lbs is 9.7% of your body weight. If you read the scale like you do math then I highly doubt you lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks.

Hell, I lost 20 lbs in 2 1/2 months (doing Keto, so still eating plenty of protein) and I still lost some hair as it was too quick. 20 lbs in 2 weeks is unbelievable, that would be 70,000 kcal of fat. While an average male uses around 2000 kcal a day, so that’s around 28,000 kcal in 2 weeks. It’s literally impossible, even if we say a handful of your pounds were water weight.

Stop caring? It’s just your job, there’s also doctors and lawyers and architects and …

You reply you’re a software developer. Either the topic ends there or how it often happens you get follow up questions like “What do you work on?” or “How to learn programming?”.

People are usually curious instead of jealous or annoyed. It’s just a conversation.

Yeah… except for that tiny detail:

There are three conditions that must be satisfied for the defence to be applicable:

• You employer has made a statement of fact which made you believe that the money was your own;
• You acted in good faith and without knowledge of any claim for recovery from your employer and as a result, changed your position in terms of the money; and
• You were not involved in the cause of the overpayment.

So if you signed a contract for a sum of x and the employer never said they are going to pay you more, you’re already acting in bad faith based on the first point. The second point is tough to argue, literally the only way to win this is if you have a verbal “contract” only and claim you never watched your bank account and just didn’t notice the extra money (but then if your employer tells you about the wrong payments you have an issue again…).

In the real world you’ll probably pay the money back 99% of the time, except if you want to burn bridges and leave (going after you for smaller amounts is not worth the time in court). Your professional relationship will be ruined though, which you may or may not care about.

That’s not how it works in both Germany and Austria. If you have a contract you get paid based on it, if there is a bookkeeping error you have to pay the money back if the company accidentally gives you too much.

The only contracts that are invalid are when the number is very obviously wrong in the context. For example the contract says instead of $50k a year you get paid $500k a year or $5k a year, then the entire thing is void as it’s an obvious error.

If the contract says $55k and the company wanted to pay you $45k… their problem, contract counts. Your boss might be pissed if you keep insisting on the $55k and might fire you, especially if you verbally agreed on $45k. But oh well, that’s another topic.

Oh and in the UK? The employer is even allowed to deduct that money from your future wages. So much about knowing the law :)

That’s not how it works in both Germany and Austria. If you have a contract you get paid based on it, if there is a bookkeeping error you have to pay the money back if the company accidentally gives you too much.

The only contracts that are invalid are when the number is very obviously wrong in the context. For example the contract says instead of $50k a year you get paid $500k a year or $5k a year, then the entire thing is void as it’s an obvious error.

If the contract says $55k and the company wanted to pay you $45k… their problem, contract counts. Your boss might be pissed if you keep insisting on the $55k and might fire you, especially if you verbally agreed on $45k. But oh well, that’s another topic.

Oh and in the UK? The employer is even allowed to deduct that money from your future wages. So much about knowing the law :)

Depends on what’s in the contract, black on white. If the contract says x amount and they pay you y (and you don’t speak up), they can get that money back as it was a bookkeeping error.

If the contract says the higher amount then they can’t take it back, written contract always wins over verbal.

Yeah, it was definitely a little too fast, had a tiny bit of hair loss going (but that can always happen when you lose weight). But I just wasn’t hungry in that time. When you only eat meat and veggies with a side of greek yogurt and berries the volume you can eat calorie wise is huge.

But Keto has other issues unfortunately (like possible diarrhea) so it’s iffy. Also really tough to stick with it because you get carbs everywhere.

For overall health? Working out and healthier eating is best.

Just losing weight? You can do that with only eating less and zero moving around (I did before with Keto, lost 14 kg in under 3 months. Now I was finally skinny, but skinny doesn’t look great on a guy either).

Sick people receive vaccines for free or very cheap

Awesome, most vaccines last years or even decades, Covid is an outlier because it mutates so rapidly. But “sick people” makes zero sense, you usually get the vaccine before you get sick. That’s the entire point (except for rabies, where you straight up die if you don’t get the vaccine quick enough).

Sick people gets hope of survival to disease, hope which wasn’t previously available.

Also great, they get a chance, instead of lifelong suffering or death.

Sick people ask their governments to continue receiving vaccines.

Why would they be sick if they got the vaccine? Makes zero sense. The ones asking at this point would be the unvaccinated. Like a mom wanting to vaccinate her kids, so they don’t get a crippling disease later in life.

People providing vacciones now are charging a lot more to said governments.

And then the poor countries simply won’t buy them. Because they straight up can’t afford them. There is a reason they aren’t buying vaccines right now: No money. So if they try to charge a lot of money no one will buy and we’ll end up with the current state (just with thousands more who are immune against the disease, which is still an upside).

Profit (which was the whole point, and not any “humanitarian” notions.)

You can’t suck blood from a stone, there is no money, so no profit.

Every single vaccine dose that goes to poor countries is awesome. That’s it. The alternative to getting the vaccine is to catch the disease unprepared and suffer lifelong complications (or straight up die). There is no upside to not delivering vaccines.

Are you confusing vaccines with medication? For example the Polio vaccine lasts for 10+ years, “sick people” are not repeat customers for vaccines. The only time you have repeat customers is when you are still applying the vaccine (for example Polio needs 5 doses, but then you’re good).

That’s not how vaccines work. The illness is already there, it’s not like people get sick after you introduce a vaccine into the system. So the “market” has always been there and every dose administered is great.

Mandatory webcam on calls/meetings. I get that it works for team building when half the developers are at home at any given time, but it exhausts me in meetings.

You sit there with nothing to say/do while you listen, constantly having to look forward and pay attention. Then your jaw starts to feel tense, but you can’t just open your mouth or move around too much.

Total torture for 60+ minute meetings. In my previous company we had the webcams always off, so I could relax or if it was only talking with no presentation even sit on my couch away from the PC.