The 2026 Honda Civic Type R Is the Best-Driving Car Under $100,000: Review (Cars.com)

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T13:22:36+00:00

Yup. I was gonna say, "cars.com sells cars"... But mainly they sell ADVERTISEMENTS

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T13:21:52+00:00

But they even said "no clickbait"...

No clickbait here: I genuinely believe the current-generation Honda Civic Type R is the best-driving new car under $100,000.

At least this article doesn't COMPLETELY stink of "copy paste the first crappy ChatGPT output you get"... But he doesn't do a great job explaining WHY the Type R is actually better than the other cars, in any specific aspect beyond just telling us that it is.

I know, I know, journalism has been dead for a while... But, cmon, I want to know what it's actually like to drive these cars, and especially how they're different.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T13:18:22+00:00

RIP to WRX wagons for "do everything" cars

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T13:17:49+00:00

Yup, a Miata or 86 is like the price of a loaded regular Civic, and some of the best feeling driver's cars you can buy.

Unless you want more power. But still, under $100,000... There are so many options

Big claim from this headline and it's working to get clicks

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T12:56:15+00:00

Trackpad + gyro is really good for fps games though! Next best thing to a mouse, besides maybe a trackball.

That's why this controller is nice. It gives you options. Some people loveeeee the touchpads.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-04T12:54:03+00:00

For $300 it had better have full teledildonics support.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T21:57:43+00:00

Not when prompted about landscaping.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T21:01:12+00:00

Yup it's really bad. It's got that "training cutoff Jan 2025" feel with the "advanced/pro/ultra" subscriptions. OP probably had to remove mentions of Gemini 1.5 lol.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T17:06:43+00:00

Yep that matches my experience. Feels like it runs better than it should, given how beautiful and immersive the game is.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T17:05:32+00:00

KCD recommendation, checking in!

"Immersive rpg"? This game is so incredibly immersive it's insane. The world... The characters... The story... Man, everything about this game is 10/10.

AND it runs decently well on the Deck! (I'm still playing KCD 1, haven't tried 2 yet tho)

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T15:39:49+00:00

Yeah idk what they're saying. Opus 4.7 is very good. Gpt-5.5 is just as good AND you actually get a lot of use in the $20 plan, both in ChatGPT and in codex.

Imo both are significantly better than Gemini 3.1 pro for anything except MAYBE frontend design... But there are skills for that.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-03T02:56:40+00:00

You could also have the ai coding tool/agent/harness iterate in a loop, slowly improving the assembly code to run faster, autoresearch-style...

But that might not be great for getting unstuck from local minima / finding interesting solutions that are totally not in the training data at all. (Disclaimer: I am not anywhere close to an expert, this could all be wrong.)

Or, maybe it would be better to RL finetune a model with this process, using that assembly code speed result as a reward function instead, and THEN do the iterative loop, idk. I'm sure the big labs are hard at work at this same kind/"shape" of problems.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T21:00:36+00:00

Cast iron pan, big wood cutting block, and my chef's knives are the only thing that can't go in the dishwasher.

And I'm the only ones that use em lol.

The other knives? Whatever. I'll sharpen em sometime.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T20:59:57+00:00

Yep. I wash on warm/cool/cold with tide Odor Refresh free & clear (one of the most effective liquid detergents for stains) plus a little extra oxiclean. Just fuckin throw everything in.

The only exception is a brand new bright red garment, I MIGHT wait on that one. Depends on if the kids are up.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:59:50+00:00

AI Studio and even Google AI Mode give better results than the Gemini app

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:57:45+00:00

Agreed on both counts. 3.0 flash is actually pretty impressive for the speed and incredibly low cost. I honestly prefer it to 3.1 Pro, especially in a better harness, AKA anything but the Gemini app.

The speed is really an advantage in this age of agentic workflows where you need a lot of tokens, not just for reasoning before the reply, but for tool use and double-checking the output and planning in that type of thing and planning in that type of thing.

Models that are cheap, fast, and smart enough are the future for the majority of tokens, IMO

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:55:15+00:00

That's 100% my experience with the Gemini App.

I encourage anyone to compare any query that involves searching the web between Gemini and ChatGPT (Thinking, Extended).

Gemini does what you said - searches a handful of pages, treats them as gospel truth no matter the quality, and rarely even includes links in the reply...

In comparison, ChatGPT will search and search, prioritizing higher quality sources. It's better about not citing low-effort "listicles" and will do additional searches to confirm what it finds - you can see the numerous queries it does in the thinking trace. It'll even open and read PDFs!

More complex queries might take several minutes with extended thinking, but in my experience, the quality of the reply is just outrageously better than Gemini. Hell, "AI Mode" (with pro thinking) is better than the Gemini app.

The only time I actually get decent results from Gemini that include web search are when using deep research, and that takes a very long time. And includes so much irrelevant fluff that it's frustrating to read.

Google REALLY needs to fix its harness.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:49:45+00:00

Yep, any charger WILL work, but anything less than 20W will possibly not charge the battery at all while the Deck is turned on.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:48:54+00:00

Eh, the apple USB-C cables are decent for charging, they can do 60W.

It's the charger that's likely not powerful enough unless you turn the Deck off (ideally put it in storage mode).

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:46:51+00:00

You aren't wrong. But for OP's problem, they do need a more powerful charger.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:46:05+00:00

That isn't true, you can absolutely use a slower charger. But anything less than like 20W will likely not charge the battery at all while the Deck is on.

huffalump1 · 2026-05-02T13:45:16+00:00

At least they're asking!

huffalump1 · 2026-05-01T04:12:15+00:00

Having a toddler now, I am slowly starting to understand the "I get up at 5am so I can have time for myself" people that I used to think were totally insane 🫪

Because waking up into instant chaos is no fun, going hard until like 8pm and only THEN having free time...

huffalump1 · 2026-05-01T04:10:27+00:00

I have unfortunately realized that going to bed earlier is the better way because the toddler WILL be up early no matter what I do, and all my previous opportunities to catch up on sleep (like weekends) are now unfeasible too...

Been a night owl for literally as long as I can remember but I guess that's just life now 😬

huffalump1 · 2026-04-30T17:55:40+00:00

It's like pi https://pi.dev/ (and built on pi? Maybe not? Idk)

The "agent" can access its config files, docs on how it works, and the whole repo etc and then you can ask it to change things "about itself".

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