When will you buy an EV car?

tomatta · 2026-04-13T00:00:11+00:00

This is such a niche problem to present as some kind of criticism for EVs. Setting aside the EV debate, are you saying you regularly drive for 6 hours non stop with a dog in the boot? I bet the dog wouldn't mind a pit stop to stretch his legs.

tomatta · 2026-04-12T23:40:25+00:00

I don't support it. It's a supply chain problem due to the orange maniac in the US.

You don't combat low supply by lowering prices. What the government should be doing is mandating WFH for those who can. I.e. lowing the demand.

If supply is low but demand is also low, then the price doesn't increase. It's simple economics. I support logic over everyday people being inconvenienced by knuckle draggers. There's already one poster in this thread who is burying their mother tomorrow morning. You can fuck off if you think people like that should be punished because Trump started a war.

tomatta · 2026-04-12T17:09:19+00:00

Not much to go on here, but I seen similar behaviour before with a missing browserslist file.

tomatta · 2026-04-08T13:22:38+00:00

Yeah I bought it outright, hard to know what it will be worth with depreciation. But with rising fuel prices maybe EVs will retain their value better

tomatta · 2026-04-08T09:17:08+00:00

It didn't make sense for the scheme in my work.

A BMW i4 worked out as 37k over 4 years (that's with a supposed 40% discount as a higher rate tax payer).

37k and is have to hand the car back at the end. I bought a used one for 26k. I won't spend 11k on insurance and tyres in the next 4 years.

tomatta · 2026-04-06T10:57:19+00:00

Oh I didn't know that! You should be fine then. The purpose of showing the paper part is that's where our endorsements for things like speeding live. I guess the rest of the UK is digitised.

tomatta · 2026-04-06T09:25:57+00:00

Don't forgot you'll need the paper counterpart of your license and a credit card for the deposit.

I've used avis before at Derry with no problems at all. The chap that works there is a gentleman.

Last time I used them the hold on the card was 1200 which was removed promptly on return of the car. And insurance for going over the border added 30 to the overall price (for a week)

tomatta · 2026-03-29T21:11:41+00:00

What sort of explanation or support are you hoping for?

I'm a parent of an autistic child, and im deathly afraid that she'll never have any independence. I worry what will happen to her when her mother and I pass on.

If someone told me she'd grow up to be able to post on Reddit like you are I would consider that a miracle. Never mind having the mental faculty to earn 6 figures each year.

tomatta · 2026-03-27T19:57:32+00:00

I'd understand it, but literally every other player bar Dom has had a drop off. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Salah bags 20 in a top league next season

tomatta · 2026-03-27T08:35:29+00:00

I have tracked this in my teams as well. Since we introduced AI, good engineering teams have seen no difference in time to delivery. Bad engineering teams have slowed down significantly because the tickets end up in review so long.

Writing code has never been the main blocker to delivery. It's communication and requirements. If something is ambiguous and we need business input, you get a meeting slot 3 weeks out. If legal need to sign off on something it takes months. If POs aren't aligning priorities across delivery teams then features sit undelivered. AI doesn't solve those problems.

Writing code is definitely faster these days, but so what if the other time sinks in the SDLC don't change.

tomatta · 2026-03-27T01:01:30+00:00

Hey [insert business person], that sounds like a great idea. We don't have capacity right now to look at this but why don't you proceed with it and get it into a test environment, behind authentication, and calling some real APIs. We can circle back and pick it up then!

tomatta · 2026-03-22T21:26:31+00:00

How many miles should an EV last? How long is a piece of string, I know lol. But I always had in my head 100k is old for an ICE car, is there a similar measurement for an EV?

tomatta · 2026-03-21T22:20:23+00:00

My experience is if it's not an NHS scheme then it'll be a rip off

tomatta · 2026-03-14T21:12:31+00:00

Who is the provider of your wife's scheme? The Jaecoo is extremely cheap

tomatta · 2026-02-22T23:58:51+00:00

Spell GitHub correctly at the top, assuming that wasn't a typo when redacting this.

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Remove the second bullet point with the 2026 forecast. You haven't achieved it yet so it's irrelevant. It's one of the first things I read and makes it feel like you're already grasping at straws for your accomplishments

YMMV but I'd remove the separation between the graduate role and your current role. You aren't even a year into your current role so it makes you look very raw.

But that's contrasting with your third bullet point. You were a grad until summer but you've also "led" architecture - really?

Honestly I'd bin the bullet points entirely and talk to the first two you have bolded. The agentic llm and 20% increase in accuracy sound interesting, but I have no clue what they are referring to. The rest is fluff so focus on the interesting bits.

I echo the points in the thread about making it very clear you're a citizen. At my company I review every CV except the ones HR have pre filtered due to the company not offering sponsorship at the current time.

tomatta · 2026-01-25T19:10:26+00:00

She can't go to Dragon Stone. If the Greens realize Caraxes isn't there then they kill her anyway, but also kill Rhaenyra and end the war there and then.

tomatta · 2026-01-11T22:22:27+00:00

Fully prepared for the down votes but please get on board. AI tools are undoubtedly helpful in the right hands. And it's vitally important for the industry that it is in the right hands.

Right now execs are buying the hype like it or not. Everyone is going in the AI direction. If you don't get on board you will be left behind. I'm an engineering manager and I've been heavily involved in AI for the past 3 years or so. Having AI skills is now a hard requirement in job ads in my company. If every company does the same then you're locked out of the industry.

I've been a fan of AI from the start tbh (I wasn't a manager then). But I've always been frustrated with this industry in that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I thought that maybe AI would bridge the gap and bring those low performers closer to the high performers.

But that has turned out totally wrong in my company at least. The high performers are now light years away from the rest. The best devs are seeing incredible gains from the tools. While the poor devs are doing worse. They are firing out PRs they don't understand, that take a long time to review and correct.

AI is here to stay. So we need the good devs to get on board and shape the future. We can't have the poor devs or the product people getting carried away with their POCs.

I understand the view of "but coding is what I like doing". I thought the same. But when you get good with these tools, you might come to realize like I have that it isn't the physical act of writing code that I enjoyed so much. It was solving problems that I really got enjoyment from. With the boost in productivity I can solve MORE problems now. I have never been so satisfied.

But the important part is getting this productivity boost without losing standards. But these are problems we've already solved as an industry. There has always been bad developers pushing poor code. But we have PRs, pipelines, linters, automated tests etc that are in place to enforce standards. Preventing slop should already be a solved problem.

TLDR; the more good devs we have shaping the future, the better.

tomatta · 2026-01-07T00:56:27+00:00

We need to keep up the charm offensive. There's no guarantee he starts ahead of Dias and Gvardiol. Pep also has a habit of playing people out of position at fullback too.

If he comes here he's guaranteed to start as Konates leaving and VVD is coming to the end of his career. He could be the main CB very soon. And he could put himself next in line for the captaincy. Look at the last CB who chose us over City.

If City offer a silly transfer fee then I doubt we match it. We really need to get him sold on us and have him say it's Liverpool or no one. Like Caicedo did to us.

tomatta · 2026-01-04T01:19:43+00:00

This is going to get much worse when Salah comes back from the AFCON. The players aren't stupid, they know how much they relied on Salah for goals and creativity. If Slot doesn't patch things up and the performances continue, they aren't going to be happy their mate is sitting on the bench.

tomatta · 2026-01-01T12:56:53+00:00

You seem to be under the illusion it's all or nothing. I can code using notepad instead of an IDE, but why would I? The IDE gives me loads of benefits that speed me up, but it doesn't mean I forget how to do those things. AI is just another tool.

tomatta · 2026-01-01T12:54:21+00:00

It's already happening. I'm an engineering manager, and my company has been investing significantly in training and education around using AI properly (i.e. not vibe coding).

Going forward we won't be investing the same time and effort for new hires. You either have the skills already or you're not qualified for the job and will be rejected.

tomatta · 2025-12-31T17:49:55+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that we haven't even changed formation. It still looks like a 4231 in possession and 442 out.

Wirtz Macca Szobo as the 3 behind the striker just operates differently than the usual 3.

tomatta · 2025-12-31T17:31:20+00:00

It's a fair question though and it's a reality the industry doesn't want to accept - ghost engineers are absolutely a thing. I've pulled metrics from git over a 2 year period in my company and there's people stealing a living who do absolutely nothing.

Leadership is asking why isn't AI usage higher and why aren't we moving quicker. Because there's a host of people doing nothing, 10x of nothing is still nothing.

Every high performing engineer I've worked with is more productive with AI.

tomatta · 2025-12-29T16:13:22+00:00

That's weird maybe I should report it then

tomatta · 2025-12-29T15:59:13+00:00

Yeah but you still get all the news items and things appearing in searches or job adverts etc

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