CandleTiger

Well, yes. Same as a real manual transmission in this day and age.

If all you want is the most efficient transportation then it’s better to take the train.

No impact on the driving at all? That seems pointless and also not worth a patent. I confess I didn’t read the article; I was thinking of this older article about a Lexus prototype

It’s fun to drive a manual. It’s very engaging in the literal sense of the word; in order to do it well you have to stay constantly involved and pay attention.

It used to be that there were other benefit to manual transmissions — you could get your fun engagement and also say you were getting better performance or saving gas or saving money. In these modern days though if you still buy a manual you’re pretty much only doing it for the fun factor.

I guess putting a manual imitation mode on an EV is just the same — fun factor only for nerds who like that. Though how they can take themselves seriously with no clutch pedal to botch the shift I don’t know.

Me personally I want to see them take that all the way — give me a Ford Model A mode with manual choke, and carb adjustments on the steering wheel! Give me a manual timing advance! Let me know how my forefathers felt while driving!

I started this post as a mockery but now I actually want that hm..

I feel like this would not stop him from threatening Sweden, though.

If it cost more than half, get rid of it at the first opportunity.

I don’t think this part is really right. Buy a newer car because you want a newer car (and can afford it) or because your old car can’t do the job you need anymore. Newer car is almost never going to save you money.

If you have an old paid-off car that is worth basically nothing on paper but in good shape and runs well for you, and it needs a repair, it’s almost always going to be cheaper to do the repair.

If you get a more expensive car from a dealer (new or used) the car payments and interest are so much higher than even ongoing frequent repair costs it’s just crazy.

Even in OPs story replacing the engine — I don’t know what else was wrong with it — but if they put $6K into a new engine and next year $1K into brakes and next year $1K into tires that’s still way less money than just three years of interest payments on a nice new CRV. That’s not even counting the down payment and the principal!!

You might have lots of reasons besides money to replace a car, but that’s a question whether the cost is worth it, not a question of whether it’s cheaper

The place in my mind when the old car is no longer economical to repair is when:

• The repair can’t really fix it eg the body is rusting away etc. Car is done unless you rebuild the whole thing, too bad time to say goodbye

• frequent breakdowns, even small cheap easily fixed breakdowns, mean you can’t get to work and lose money or risk your job (consider if the breakdowns are related cause though — maybe you need to replace all old rotted rubber hoses and exposed gaskets in the car all at once and it will be reliable again? Making an unreliable car become reliable again requires you or somebody you trust knows something about cars to decide; most people can’t do this)

• the repair (including rental car or lost work due to downtime, which can be more than the actual mechanic cost but totally counts just the same as a cost to you) is more than the cost of whatever vehicle you’re going to replace it with — this.. mostly doesn’t happen. putting $6K repair plus $800 for two weeks’ car rental into replacing the engine on a otherwise-$10K old Versa is still cheaper even than buying somebody else’s $10K old Versa in running condition (by $2200 + tax + registration) — let alone a newer car.

I’m glad they’re still going but..

closed out 70% of the in-flight anomalies from the CFT mission

maan, if you can have enough anomalies in a single flight that closing out 70% of them is a thing, that was not a good flight.

Any test flight, he said, would be in the “post-certification” phase of Boeing’s current contract

Excuse me what?

Not at all close to death because I had a partner to help me out and was close to a shore near a road, but I think this is the closest I’ve come:

Capsized my touring kayak in glacial lake water without a wetsuit when a sudden gust of storm wind blew me over. Climbed back in to the kayak just fine but my cold cold arms couldn’t operate the bilge pump to empty out the water from the boat, so it was unsteady and I just blew over again.

The shore was not far but when I got there I found my insulated pants I chose for just this just-in-case were not at all the right gear; not warm at all when wet and the strong storm winds kept freezing me. (No rain — just big giant wind gusts out of nowhere)

Lesson learned: when you’re kayaking dress for the water temperature as if you’re planning to fall in because you might. Even if it’s sunny out.

I thought Finland and Nordic countries were notoriously depressed all winter??

No, can’t blame the app dev at all but we can blame Apple for making open source and other free software so difficult on their phones

No. Very irritatingly, iOS won’t let you install fonts normally.

In order for you to install a font, someone else needs to make an app for that font, and once you download and run the app that installs the font, that font becomes available anywhere.

This seems profoundly stupid to me and I do not get it.

There actually is an app for the older font, which you can find if you search the App Store for “hyperlegible”, where some guy is charging $2 to package up this free font for you.

Thanks, Apple. As usual you’ve done a great job ensuring that nobody gives away anything for free on iPhones

I think this font is meant for people with bad eyesight. The website doesn’t make any claims about trouble reading for other reasons.

I’ve always read very fast with no problems but now I’m old and can’t see small print as easily. This font actually was much more comfortable for me to read without my glasses, which I guess is nice for me but no use at all for you.

How do you feel about comic sans and the open dyslexia font some other comments on this page are talking about with positive and negative comments? Do those make any difference at all to you?

Man, the way they describe the fountain area below millennial park sounds like a great scene, I’m here for it. Kayaks in that spot would be great