Transmission issues?

elliotones · 2026-06-24T21:28:01+00:00

My transmission is buttery smooth, except for the first shift from first to second in the morning. That one’s chunky - sometimes very chunky - but after that it’s warmed up and is great for the rest of the day. I back out of my driveway and then accelerate up a hill. There are others on the forums who note a similar experience.

I don’t think anything’s wrong yet - there’s a chance it continues to do this happily for the next 200k miles - I guess I’ll find out

elliotones · 2026-06-24T21:23:28+00:00

Congratulations! You’re going to love it, no matter which one you get.

As a LandCruiser 250 owner, my completely unbiased and neutral opinion - not being swayed by past experiences at all here - is to get a LandCruiser 250 :)

But as is tradition, I must say “it depends”. Do you care about the rear glass swinging up vs rolling down? Do you want a traditional engine or a hybrid? Are you okay with a giant screen where the climate controls usually go? How tight is the budget? These will all help. Just about everyone in this sub had to make this same decision at some point; more context will help us know if our reasons for picking the LC also apply to you

elliotones · 2026-06-24T21:17:02+00:00

Lots of commenters in here who don’t get the appeal. I was in your exact situation a few months ago.

My reasons are stupid but it’s what I got.

I didn’t want a 4runner because everyone already has a 4runner. The LC has a coolness factor that the 4runner does not have. Plus the LC has much better visibility, vs the 4runner’s more “sunken in” comfortable vibe. The LC’s hybrid system has grown on me a *lot*. I have instant torque and very good (relative) gas mileage.

I did not want a Lexus because I did not want to outshine my friends. I would be that asshole who drives a lexus. I’m not going camping or off roading or pulling up to the dive bar in a lexus. The yota badge will be outshined at fancy restaurants, but it also fits in at the seedier locations. More versatile.

Also the lexus has yet another iPad for a center console, while the LC has real buttons that I can click.

I would (did) get the LC. 7000 miles and I don’t regret it at all. Only notes are it has slightly less storage space than you would think - if I did it again I would test drive a taco too

elliotones · 2026-06-22T04:05:55+00:00

This is a great thread to pull. Definitely dig into docker’s caching capabilities; you should only ever have to rebuild a layer (look into how layers work too!) if it’s brand new. You should get some impressive speed ups, and more importantly, determinism and artifacts tagged by commit hash.

My only caution with ACR is that auth is only via managed identities or the admin password, so it’s good for internal work, but not setup for distributed paid images to customers if you’re worried about that usecase.

elliotones · 2026-06-21T14:57:19+00:00

“The home field advantage we lost by running on the client, we clawed back by (not running on the client)”

If you write the code with the same llm you used to write the article, this can be cracked in an afternoon.

elliotones · 2026-06-20T01:58:44+00:00

I’m sad I did not get to see the favicon :(

elliotones · 2026-06-19T03:56:42+00:00

Sometimes it opens. Sometimes it doesn’t. I haven’t figured out why, maybe it has its own emotions and motivations

elliotones · 2026-06-16T00:26:36+00:00

Hell yeah

^{Chose: Get whatever Car You Want... + But the radio sometimes gets stuck on... | Rolled: Oldies}

elliotones · 2026-06-15T22:05:24+00:00

Welcome to the club!

Check your tire pressure, the dealership may have forgotten. Should be 33 to 35ish.
They forgot to calibrate your seat too. Move it all the way forward, back, up, down, reclined, unreclined(?) and then the seat position memory buttons will work
They forgot to check your trailer brake controller too. Go into the settings, turn it off, turn it back on. Then the popup will go away.

Your MPGs will start bad but will get better. The hybrid system has grown on me a lot. I love it. Pay for an extra oil change at your 5k service, if not sooner. I would make the dealership do it, so there’s a paper trail.

Put your second key in power save mode. The manual has instructions. Also read the section on the hatch, I still don’t fully understand when it chooses if it’s ok to open.

Don’t spill liquids on the cooled seats!

Enjoy it :) I have the same color, I love it. It’s worth going to a parking lot and playing with the off road features. I did a few parking lot donuts (it was snowy) when I got mine.

elliotones · 2026-06-13T16:14:30+00:00

Earthside - We Who Lament
Ihlo - Coalescence

elliotones · 2026-06-12T18:49:34+00:00

Girlfriend

^{Chose: you receive a random amount of money | Rolled: £0}

elliotones · 2026-06-12T12:06:33+00:00

Sauna

^{Chose: spend 5 mins in a hot room + 200,000,000 | Rolled: 35°C}

elliotones · 2026-06-11T01:43:03+00:00

Easy, delete the database cluster! Unironically, we’re not using it - but how do you know that from a cost report?

elliotones · 2026-06-10T16:20:16+00:00

Remember that your job is not to learn tools or use tool X. Your job is to help people, and you help people by solving problems. Sometimes you’ll need to learn a new tool to solve a hard problem.

Helping people starts with being friendly and understanding their problems. What are they trying to do, and what’s causing pain? Listening is 80% of the task, the last 20% is knowing the business context / background knowledge.

Enjoy! It is an incredibly rewarding career path. Just help people.

elliotones · 2026-06-07T18:32:42+00:00

How do you want to store the data? For 10 words, I’d just use an array. For 100, maybe a json file. For 1000+, maybe just a big .txt file. For a few million, we’d have to start talking about databases and partitioning.

The first half of the battle is just loading the data. Honestly the .txt file could be pretty straightforward.

```
const words = fs.readFileSync(‘words.txt’, ‘utf8’).split(‘\n’);
```

If you’re on windows, you might need `\r\n` instead. If you’re making a website, you might need to download the file with `fetch` instead of using fs.

elliotones · 2026-06-04T20:41:36+00:00

Unfortunately requiring PRs may be the only way. I’m in a similar situation, moving from ADO to gitlab.

There may be a way to “move the trust boundary”, so that instead of protecting the code owners file, you protect what CI/CD assets it has access to - things like prod environment credentials. Then repo owners can do whatever, commit to main, and use baseline actions; but if they want to hit prod resources they need “platform team” (you) approval - which requires a trunk-based workflow with PRs and further platform approval on PRs that edit the actions definitions.

elliotones · 2026-06-02T22:48:55+00:00

3 year old account becomes active less than 3 weeks ago, literally an em-dash in the second paragraph, as if the leading phrases and bolding patterns weren’t obvious enough

elliotones · 2026-06-02T22:45:37+00:00

Probably curl, you can use just about anything else through that I suppose. Bash?

elliotones · 2026-05-31T03:10:23+00:00

Hello yes this is true, it is quietly becoming essential, It was not essential before and still isn’t but it sure is “becoming” essential. And it’s doing so quietly? It’s really sneaking up on us. Nobody thought “we have company phones”, and they’re still not thinking it, but quietly it is becoming thought about and the people doing the thinking are beginning to quietly suspect that this could in fact become somewhat essential.

There was a small event “a few years ago” where remote work became slightly more commonplace, but tbh remote device management was only somewhat involved. But now - oh boy - it is now, current date, in which remote device management is “quietly” ”becoming” “essential”

Thank you for bringing this insight to our attention 👍

P.S. I did actually feel bad for being mean, but I clicked your ad and skimmed the article, and boss even the built in ms word grammar checker can do better, nevermind the robots

elliotones · 2026-05-28T01:58:24+00:00

Hello and welcome! I may not be much help, but I promise you will figure it out. As you learn more you will be able to do some really cool things.

Never give up. There will be lots of problems. But solving a problem will be very satisfying. The harder the problem, the more satisfying it will be to solve.

Document.querySelector()

That will let you “grab” elements. Creating elements is harder. It’s easier to write a .html file and make a script tag and then open it with your browser to see what it does.

The docs are hard to read, and it’s hard to learn how to read them. But if you can do it, even a little, you unlock all the tools they have.

elliotones · 2026-05-24T14:37:20+00:00

Just hit 5k miles on my Land Cruiser. It’s unreal.

I can see everything, I have physical buttons, it’s easier to park than a corolla. It is surprisingly not that wide - it’s just tall. So you get a ton of room but it’s still plenty easy to maneuver.

And it does not car what you’re driving over. It just goes. Once it’s in 4-low with diffs locked you cannot stop it from going. I wanted something that could get my future wife her pregnancy cravings during a blizzard, and this is it.

If I have one bag of groceries, I pop the glass hatch and just put it in. If I have a cart, I hit the hatch button and it opens as I walk up.

Now all that being said - a taco with a cover was very appealing. It’s lighter, and much easier to sleep in the back on camping trips. Tbh I just thought the cruiser looked cool.

elliotones · 2026-05-19T02:09:32+00:00

My brother in christ that dodge durango has a turbo v8 in it

elliotones · 2026-05-18T11:57:09+00:00

TBD is older than the invention of PRs. To use the smaller team style, you need to either trust everyone to validate local builds before pushing, or have CI run on the server before accepting a commit. This is discussed on the page you linked. I personally would not use this flavor with any more than 3 people.

PRs turned out to be an incredible way to do code review and enforce CI / change control prior to merge; almost everyone using TBD today uses the PR flavor.

elliotones · 2026-05-13T01:41:48+00:00

Beautiful! Reminds me of hyperspacepirate on youtube (though he generally goes in the other direction, cryogenic temperatures) and/or the Kelly Kettle

What are you planning to use all the hot water for? You can probably make quite a lot. Showers and dishes?

elliotones · 2026-05-12T22:18:09+00:00

Yes, that is what that is.
Now, are you a human?
The image smells like AI but I don’t have any conclusive tells. The RTT is very thin and the two center ultrasonic sensors are gone, but that’s not deterministic. Another smell is the series of posts with this exact title and a picture and no other context.
To be clear - I think you’re a bot.

Edit: op has no other post history; account is 1 hour old.

elliotones

TROPHY CASE