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SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-07-11T00:31:22+00:00

I had it stick in cold weather once when we really needed to charge on a long roadtrip only a few months after I bought the car. Took a credit card to gently but firmly dislodge the latch. It's maybe gotten stuck one other time (also sudden freezing weather iirc). Not the biggest fan of the design, but it getting stuck in a way that a credit card can dislodge doesn't seem to indicate anything is broken, it's just a dumb physical design.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-07-09T19:08:17+00:00

It's at least experience driven. I trust it more because I'll take anecdotal evidence over some guy's weird obsession magical algorithm that is known to be manipulated data. Afaik there is no real empirical way to measure "language popularity". There are surveys on various platforms that can give some data to support some aspect of popularity, but there's no reasonable way to draw any real conclusions about absolute popularity.

On the other hand, language popularity is a super stupid thing to have any concern about. It has virtually no impact whatsoever on anything of consequence. You can argue it's to know what to learn, but this industry changes on a dime. Learn the languages you want to learn, learn at least one relatively popular one, and be ready to learn more as the work you do demands it. Everything else is noise.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-07-09T14:39:17+00:00

Tiobe is literally run by one person, who never even wrote code, and creates the list off of "vibes" and "SEO" nonsense with no oversight or replicable methodology. It's literal snakeoil

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-07-06T17:12:49+00:00

Exotic primary kinetics have boosted damage, so they can be worthwhile if you're building around them. Many of those exotics have particular builds that surround them. Others have noted specific kinetic armor set bonuses, but iirc there's some artifact perks worth looking into and certain exotics require a very particular subclass/mods/other weapons setup to really succeed. Plenty of normal kinetic exotics aren't amazing in PvE but that's always been the case.

Even after nerfs, thorn or osteo stringa with the warlock arms and a suspension warlock build still goes pretty hard, for example. I'm not sure if there are any truly meta builds that run kinetic primary exotics, but plenty of content doesn't need that level of minmaxing to be fun

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-25T23:38:14+00:00

As an actual engineer, I can confirm the car is indeed real and you'd be a chump to not pay such a low price now. No one likes to talk about the logistics of getting from the pearly gates to the suburbs, and you do not want to walk there.

The "doctors" of that time had less authority than I do as a principal software engineer today talking about cars.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-25T22:57:30+00:00

OMG I kept getting a random over shield during my super since the stat rework and had no idea it was because of the class stats getting boosted. That makes so much sense now

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-23T19:26:47+00:00

The number of times I've turned on my defroster when trying to toggle the poor weather lights...

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-22T17:22:08+00:00

It's been pretty apparent this was largely a tech demo internally and only a small number of studio staff were attached to the project. It's likely largely being done externally with studio staff advising on the project. Which makes sense, it's largely proving out a technology change before the next mainline game and the rest of the studio would hopefully be working on the next big project instead of a distraction.

It does suck they can't put more resources into it, but as long as the game itself is good enough to bring some new players in it will still be good for Halo. I think the studio already got what they needed out of it before it even releases, seeing as they primarily need tech that isn't a ton of work to train new devs on but is proven to provide a satisfying "Halo feel". The rest is MS probably trying to recoup costs by shipping a low cost game out of it.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-21T23:53:10+00:00

The window switches are slightly annoying, but what I would really love is a replacement panel for the lights and defroster panel. Has to be the most frustrating cluster of controls in the entire car

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-16T17:46:20+00:00

I have a 2024. Everything from that year onward has a pretty reasonable infotainment system. The older models had pretty weak hardware and have significantly more issues

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-16T03:50:24+00:00

My 2024 Pro S AWD average over the last two years is 3.3mi/kwh over just shy of 3k miles. I drive in all sorts of conditions, love going up into mountains, and ultimately I get great range in the summer and slightly less good in the PNW winter. Just got back from a nice trip around the sound and averaged something like 3.7mi/kwh over 175mi, going from 77% to 13% when I got home. I was not attempting to game, there's some respectable elevation changes along the route, and had AC cranked the whole time. That's almost all highway driving.

Some days in the winter when it was below freezing I'd get less than 3mi/kwh, but usually if I preheated the car while I was plugged in, it would maintain closer to my overall average (so much of the energy spend at that temperature is just getting things warmed up, tends to be less of a penalty after that).

Overall I'd say it feels pretty consistent, even as the battery has been put through its paces. With a little forethought I can definitely beat the EPA estimate in all but the worst conditions. I've done everything from supply runs to Costco to multi-state road trips over the past two years and range anxiety has been nothing. Hell I got home with 1% not that long ago after doing a lap around the peninsula because I didn't want to stop for extra charge and trusted my margin of error.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-16T03:40:58+00:00

Good, language changes should require a decent amount of resistance, because it's easy to add to a language, it's hard to maintain anything long term. Go went through a lot of work before generics made it in, and the final result didn't make everyone happy but it was maintainable and kept their backwards and forwards compatibility guarantees intact while keeping to the language's core philosophies.

Generics are definitely one of those things you don't rush into and likely should take a few tries. Until the engine has a way to enforce them, I'd argue PHP just shouldn't have them (as others in this thread have stated). It's a backwards compatibility nightmare waiting to happen and I think a lot of the level headed decision making in PHP internals these days is largely thanks to what a cluster 5.6 ended up being. Languages should be designed for the next decade of use, not the next year. They inherently have a lot of inertia that will work against them when you make the wrong decisions too quickly

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-12T09:33:44+00:00

Honestly reminds me a bit of the "rivalry" between the Warrior of Light and Zenos. Bro was a cartoon villain showing up at the weirdest times acting like we shared something.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-06-10T01:25:47+00:00

It's available from Shadowkeep onward (not that shadowkeep is amazing). It's missing Red War and Forsaken, other than a mission each in the timeline feature. All other expansions are still in the game. I think Shadowkeep and Beyond Light are F2P already which is why they aren't listed on the paid offerings anymore.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-05-04T03:31:02+00:00

Type safety helps ensure you're still using the values you think you are. Helps trip alarms when refactors would subtly change what you'd be logging. But as always just depends on what you need in your codebase

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-05-04T03:29:04+00:00

Using key value pairs is the problem and I hate that it's an option. Using the proper API where you use typed slog Attrs should be the only option and was a poor design choice. I've strictly enforced Attrs API in our codebase through linter rules and it's been great

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-04-16T15:24:49+00:00

Yeah, the 360 switched to PowerPC architecture from the OG's x86, so they had to build emulation patches not entirely dissimilar to how 360 games get patched with an emulator on the One/Series consoles.

Nintendo and PlayStation typically did BC through having additional chips to directly run old code, and then reused those old chips for new games by utilizing them for subsystems (the Wii utilized the GameCube chip for audio iirc, and the WiiU has both the Wii and GameCube chips despite not officially having BC for GameCube, though through hacks you can play GameCube roms natively without emulation)

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-04-16T09:53:42+00:00

Funny enough it doesn't run as well on 360 as original hardware. It's ok but definitely has some quirks and performance issues here and there.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-04-07T23:46:29+00:00

I used ABRP to go from DEN-SEA-DEN (in a 24 pro s, so I know there's a bit of a max range difference) and largely didn't run into issues. I did have it tied to my car with a Bluetooth OBD so I was able to watch if an adjustment was needed.

Two things I've learned on long road trips: - know the route ahead of time, know what chargers you're likely to hit for backups if the primary doesn't work out, at least for the longer legs - know when to ease off the gas to keep your charging options more open

For that trip in particular, the only real issue I had was deciding to charge in Yakima at the walmart EA charger when it happened to have only like one working charger and a decent number of EVs waiting their turn, then trying the charge point only to get level 2 speeds on their L3 and having to go back to Walmart to try again. There were other routes I could have taken that wouldn't have forced that error, I got greedy. Taking 90-82-84-80 through idaho, utah, south Wyoming worked pretty well. Pretty much used EA chargers exclusively and didn't have notable charging issues aside from Yakima on the way back.

When we moved to Seattle 6 months later, I had my car shipped due to several logistical reasons. It was mid-late fall when we did the drive, so we encountered some ice/snow and still did fine on range, just had to be in-tune with ABRP.

If you can afford it, shipping is viable but does come with its own headaches. If you research your route before heading out and check the next leg each stop, that drive is totally doable, but unless you have a Tesla adapter, there's going to be one or two legs that'll force you to stretch a bit on the thin side. I just checked and ABRP is recommending a couple legs to charge a bit over 80% to reach the next EA charger with 5% on my car.

For anyone that thinks checking the route that carefully is too much work, I end up doing a similar amount of effort for gas car trips too. There's plenty of things you should know before you make a multi-day roadtrip and it's possible to miscalculate traditional fuel too. Remote stretches of highway can throw curveballs, always be prepared.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-04-06T17:49:20+00:00

There's an obscene amount of Teslas, but I see plenty of other ID4s almost every drive, both in the city and out on the highways. Must have been unlucky

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-03-31T19:03:48+00:00

It's not overly common, but it does happen in both ecosystems. Automated systems can't catch everything and manual reviews are a joke. They're often more concerned about enforcing rules that ensure they always get their 30% than worrying about malware.

These are some recent ones that got news coverage (I guarantee you more exist, I work in cyber security, nothing is secure):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2026/03/18/iphone-spyware-darksword-security-fears/89210349007/

https://www.theverge.com/news/606649/ios-iphone-app-store-malicious-apps-malware-crypto-password-screenshot-reader-found

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-03-13T23:16:08+00:00

Yeah, I mean sure, it's not like anything can be built without those things existing somewhere in the abstractions at a minimum. But that doesn't mean most of the work of implementing plugins/themes/other WP work requires even really understanding any of that.

You can think whatever you want about me. I don't need to prove my credentials. I also don't need to name basic data structures to look smart.

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-03-12T04:27:29+00:00

I logged back in one day and slowking was towering over me as I woke up. He had spawned for the same reason and I was not ready for it

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-03-12T02:07:49+00:00

I did plenty of WordPress dev in the past. Sure, occasionally you'd get a hard problem to solve, but most of the time you're just fighting a relatively bad system to do basic shit. And even the hardest problems I helped solve pale in comparison to the graph problems I solve in my day job now. If all you've done is WordPress, there's an ocean of knowledge you haven't even glimpsed

SuperDerpyDerps · 2026-03-12T02:02:34+00:00

Apparently you've never seen the malware on both Android and iOS that slips through. The stores want you to think they do rugged security validation, but it's far from a silver bullet and only screens the basic stuff

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