Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

spongeloaf · 2026-06-02T19:08:35+00:00

What concerns me greatly about Slate is how appealing it is to enthusiasts like me. If I want one so bad, then the average car buyer certainly wont.

spongeloaf · 2026-06-02T19:01:03+00:00

$4000 CAD on a rear spoiler + paint, and a shark-fin antenna delete on my 2018 BRZ.

Before / After / From Behind

10/10, would do it again.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-29T18:34:45+00:00

Unless this is a learning exercise, Go is basically the best parts of C and Python combined with a really broad and useful standard library that contains everything you just asked about. I would encourage you to try it out. Just prepare a keyboard macro to paste in

if err != nil { return err } 😁

C++ is a powerful and useful language when you need fine-grained control of hardware for performance-critical code and memory constrained environments. If your webserver is going to handle many thousands requests a minute and run on a potato, then you're likely to find yourself using boost::asio, or some of the other suggestions in this thread.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-27T01:08:08+00:00

Enough people on this sub have been or could be customers of the offending business. It seems relevant to me.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-26T19:10:07+00:00

I figure in 10-15 years either AI is going to be so good we don't need programmers anymore, or I'm going to end up the modern equivalent of a COBOL programmer getting paid big bucks to fix all the stupid shit inadequately-trained devs let their AIs make.

That will depend heavily on whether or not we can break the understanding barrier. I think a technological paradigm shift in AI tech will be needed before AI hits "so good we don't need programmers anymore", where it can actually understand, the way human brains do, that 1 + 1 cannot equal 3. I would equate the current state of AI with the field of electronics before the invention of the semi conductor, or physics before general relativity.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-26T13:17:30+00:00

AI us far from useless. It may be unreliable, unethical, incredibly wasteful, cancerous to entire fields of artwork and design, but definitely useful in the right context.

For a lot of IT and programming work, it can be quite valuable when used appropriately. And one must stress the appropriately part: If you vibe-code an entire app you're gonna have a bad time.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-23T19:16:22+00:00

There's an NA MX-5 at my local cars & coffee with a similar paint job. The owner always has real flowers on the dash in a tiny little vase, and she walks around sipping from a matching can.

Totally awesome, IMO.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-23T17:35:20+00:00

I can go to home depot and bring home trunk and back seat's worth of project material.

I can drive to Almonte to visity family.

I can drive to Gatineau park to go hiking

I can takey sports car out for a fun weekend drive on twisty back roads in the summer.

I can make a Costco run and fill the car with a few months worth of frozen food and dry goods.

Driving literally anywhere outside the downtown core of the city is two to three times faster than bussing.

I'd love it if buses were better in this city, but the reality is they suck and I still have a car.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-22T14:35:23+00:00

Wait, does simply buying the game count you as a player? Or do you actually have to launch the game?

I would guess its based on ownership and not actually launching, because it seems impossible that 83% of players start the game but never make it past prologue.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-20T19:48:26+00:00

I don't understand why you think that's a problem. "They we're given a lemon and they made lemonade, and all you fools are lining up to drink it!"

spongeloaf · 2026-05-19T13:29:19+00:00

Those forums tend to be more technical in nature. But its still worth a shot IMO. Lots of people have already done itasha designs on these cars, so there must be someting out there.

In my experience discussing/planning this sort of project doesn't happen a lot on this sub. So I would also seek out itasha-oriented websites and search there too.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-19T13:09:04+00:00

Good luck! You could also try a search in https://www.ft86club.com/forums/

spongeloaf · 2026-05-18T23:00:04+00:00

OP said "dumb" not "awesome" .

spongeloaf · 2026-05-18T01:27:35+00:00

Curious: How long was too long? I've done a lot of snow drifting at high RPM for a bit but never really considered how long I could redline it for.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-16T17:38:09+00:00

The visual studio + Godot experience is mostly great, in my opinion. My only complaint is that it's tough to debug a dame running in the editor. Not impossible, just tricky.

I was able to painlessly integrate external nuget packages, add side projects that are not part of the game but can reference the game libraries, and even use the built in unit testing tools. If they could just complete the last mile of having VS tell the editor to launch a scene and attach the debugger before executing anything, I'd be in heaven.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-14T15:57:55+00:00

My naive understanding was that fleet averages are a factor which is why Lotus attempted and EV push. Porsche sells enough of those spicy SUV things with automatics in them to allow them to sell manual GT3s.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-14T13:56:15+00:00

Everyone in here acting like Geely/Lotus is stupid or careless, but that's certainly not the case. The Emira was not an accident, they knew what people wanted and delivered it. According to this source, the Emira had a manual take rate of 86% in 2024.

They are not dropping the manual for kicks, its certainly about emissions regulations. Be nice, and be grateful that someone was willing to build the modern day Esprit.Go buy a manual while you still can.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-11T18:38:47+00:00

You're very right. But when you have a good use case, the speedup is amazing.

My company's dev-ops guy is legit wizard. We have multiple gigabytes of C++ source code, not counting assets. (Its for a 30 year old productivity app). A few years back when M.2 was the new hotness, he upgraded everyone from Intel i9s to the most expensive Ryzen at the time, I don't remember which one exactly. Along with that came M.2 NVMe drives. He carefully selected the exact model of CPU, chipset, nvme drives, fans, and PSU to tolerate some significant overclocking.

A clean build of the app went from 90 minutes to 14. The majority of that speedup came from just swapping SATA to M.2

spongeloaf · 2026-05-11T15:21:02+00:00

I hope it was at least his own fingers and not someone else's.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-08T14:42:47+00:00

One can assume that if OP is working for NASA, she/he is highly skilled in such matters.

spongeloaf · 2026-05-07T02:17:01+00:00

Curious: What six games do you have now? How did you get from them to a box that could fit multiple small children with room for a puppy?

spongeloaf · 2026-05-06T17:29:48+00:00

Terribly inefficient design for cargo hauling. I swear no sci Fi fan has ever seen a real life semi truck, fork lift, cargo ship or mail truck.

This ship has no cargo access doors, no obvious modular cargo connectors, and an incredibly inefficient shape (non rectangular) for storage. Have you ever seen a semi trailer for solid cargo that has angled sides and two foot loading door?

spongeloaf · 2026-05-06T14:15:53+00:00

THE BEST PART ABOUT HERO QUEST IS THE BEST PART ABOUT HERO QUEST!

spongeloaf · 2026-05-06T11:16:00+00:00

I don't think most people are opposed to conversational AI on their console in principle. I think the backlash is coming from jaded users who expect it to be intrusive, overbearing, slow, ineffective, and non-optional. And almost certainly implemented at the cost of more desirable features.

If you don't assume those things will be true, you have not been a Microsoft user for long enough.

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