I think of some of the trades, HVAC or maybe electrical. I think they have decent pay once you get going, and still provide a certain amount of room for doing things the way you see best fit.

Also, they’re more resistant to AI/automation. Like many, I’m not sure if I’ll want to stick around and manage a bunch of AI agents, that’s not really what interests me in the software world.

This reminds me of the whole Apple/Android rivalry. Apple does something, an Android company runs ads making fun of it, but then copy it themselves shortly after.

Yep; it is just a matter of time before that is thrown back in their face when they add the ads. No way shareholders will let a revenue stream go unutilized particularly if a competitor proofs the market for them.

I see this happen to semi trucks on the highway. People interpret big open space as a place to merge. As you say, people have no consideration for why there might be a large space in front of a semi. A 50k lb+ truck hitting the back of a ~4k lb vehicle is not pretty.

See for a truck it could say "DEATH ZONE KEEP CLEAR" which would be accurate. Given that it's projected it could rotate through various languages too.

I was recently driving a friend and hit a mile-long backup at a freeway exit. At some point in the lineup, a car abruptly cut in front of me to merge into the line. The friend asked "why'd you let them in" - but I didn't let them in on purpose, I was just maintaining a reasonable following distance which people seem to interpret as "hey cut in here for free"

The balance between safe following distance and letting people cut in varies a lot by city. Maybe he learnt to drive elsewhere?

I remember being too aggressive when I got to the Bay Area, and learning how nice it was to be let into the lane I needed to avoid being forced on a 5mi U-turn. When visiting back home I was too nice and people told me so.

I've reached a balance. Aggressive enough not to be taken advantage of, but being nice to drivers in need, specially when it doesn't really change things for me, like when letting a driver in costs me nothing because of how bad traffic is.

It is called the zipper merge. You were in the wrong for waiting in the stophed lane and the other person right for passing all you thinking you are better.

I'm pretty sure the other person is not talking about a 2-to-1 lane merge.

Calling that person an idiot for your misunderstanding is not cool.

A 10 foot USB C cable. It reaches anywhere in the room. I can charge my phone in any position in bed. I only recently 'splurged' on this $10 item and it is the best thing ever.

I like a 10 foot USB C extension cable; that way I can turn any shorter adapter cable (USB C to micro, A, lightning, magsafe) into a longer cable.

Seconding this. Dumbest, most obviously useful thing, yet we never think to buy one. My wife and I have our own now.

You can have great espresso for cheap(er) but $100 seems suspiciously low. Manual espresso is about the best bang for you buck possible, but that stretches to $200 or more depending on how fancy you want to get.

I have the thing and it works great.

By far the largest impact I’ve observed on my CO2 levels are from the hvac. When the fan is on the levels go down and tend to stay down, so I usually leave it on circulate which runs every ~15 mins (based on the graph structure). I use an SCD30 in the corner opposite to where I sit.

Also important is using a direct CO2 sensor (NDIR or photo acoustic) and not eco2 which can give false positives from other things in the air.

I dove into a new area recently: hardware. I have a bit of a sim racing hobby, but I only have a Bluetooth game controller. I found a project to make your own force feedback wheel base, called FFbeast. But before that, I've taken up designing and building my own shifter and (3) pedals.

I printed the main pedal frame and base with PETG, and I found some M5 hardware on amazon for pretty cheap. The pedals use a hall effect sensor to measure the proximity of the pedal to the frame base. They're wired to an esp32 ADC ports and I wrote a simple USB HID device with tinyusb and esp-idf which mounts as a generic game controller - good enough for my case. I saw some designs for a load cell brake pedal, but I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible first, so I found a stiff spring. Big inspiration was cncdan's design.

They feel great - I borrowed some old logitech pedals to compare the feel and these are much better! I think all in I spent ~$40 USD for the raw materials (spring, hardware, filament, hall sensors + wire, esp32) and a weekend of time.

I wanted badly to keep my 12, but it was too slow. I missed many things because the camera wouldn’t open most of the time. I changed the battery but it didn’t help. I had plenty of free storage. I almost wonder if it was a dud, I never observed the same on other of the same phone. I got the 17 and it’s been a great upgrade.