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Every coupe has had this feature for 40 years, before they had electric windows, even. You just dip the window as the door latch actuates, whether the window is electrically or mechanically hooked to the door handle.

I have one of those cars in my garage with a fully mechanical door handle, with a mechanical lock for the key and everything.

Well I'm not always looking at my phone when I've got headphones in.

Actually, I'm almost never looking at my phone when I've got Bluetooth headphones in.

I was pretty high up in Actuarial at a fortune 500 insurance company. At my old company, if you went to a competitor, your account was shut off that day and none of your unused time off was paid out.

You don't owe your company anything they won't reciprocate. The company will continue to operate no matter who leaves under whatever circumstances - don't fuck yourself for a faceless corporation.

If you know your manager is very employee-centric and you have a great relationship, maybe approach it with caution, but otherwise, your interests should always come first.

Hey I have a real easy solution to that.

I'm perma banned because I had the gall to play modded MCC from the steam workshop on the day it released, before the moderation team knew modding was legal. I can't even log into Halo waypoint to get help from the Halo team.

I now can't play any Microsoft game, own an Xbox, or use game pass and I refuse to make a new account on principle.

For sim, I utilize iRacing to practice and learn tracks before real life amateur endurance races in champcar and lemons as well as track days.

IMO iRacing physics are so good and the tracks are so well modeled that it's a very effective learning tool. It's the first sim since Live For Speed that really feels close enough to real life for me to forget I'm playing a sim.

Plus traffic management and race craft are so crucially important in wheel to wheel racing & I simply don't get any other opportunity to practice those.

Because there already are tracks without electricity where I live. When coming from a nearby major city by me, the train has to stop for 40 minutes while they switch from an electric to diesel power car. Same process while taking a train into the city, switching from diesel to electric.

Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn't powered.

Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.

Not sure what the problem is. Keep doing it.

This is how I operate in most traffic jams, since I only own manual cars & it's much easier on my leg.

I genuinely don't even remember any specific scenarios where somebody merging in caused me to have to come to a full stop (where I wouldn't have had to stop if they didn't merge). Not saying it never happened, but it was so rare and unnotable that I don't remember.

I do live in the northeast US, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I don't usually feel like I spend meaningfully more time in traffic because I let a few people in front of me.

Bonus benefit: my life is measurably better since I stopped getting pissed about people being in front of me. Road rage had such a broad impact on me, even after I got out of the car.

I think I'm confused on your point.

I interpreted your statement to mean "adding a requirement for certain types of characters will decrease the number of possible passwords compared to no requirements at all", which is false. Even in your example above, with only two letters, no numbers / special characters allowed, requiring a capital letter decreases the possibilities back to the original 676 possible passwords - not less.

Perhaps you're trying to say that passwords should all require certain complexity, but without broadcasting the password requirements publicly? I suppose that's a valid point, but I don't think the tradeoff of time required to make that secure is worth the literal .000001% (I think I did the math right) improvement in security.

At one point, Charles Schwab allowed a password of infinite length, but SILENTLY TRUNCATED ALL PASSWORDS TO 8 DIGITS.

This is something I sent a few angry emails about wherever I could find an opportunity.

Provably false. That's only true if the rules specify some really wacky requirements which I haven't seen anywhere except in that one game about making a password.

Think about it this way. If you have a password of maximum length two which only accepts lowercase letters, you have 26 choices for the first character & 26 for the next. Each of the 26 characters in the first spot can be combined with any of the 26 characters in the second spot, so 26 * 26 = 676 possible passwords.

By adding uppercase letters (for a total of 52 characters to choose from), you get 52 * 52 = 2704 possible passwords. It increases significantly if you increase the length beyond two or can have more than just upper & lowercase letters.

Computers have gotten so efficient at generating & validating passwords that you can try tens of thousands of passwords in a minute, exhausting every possible two-letter password in seconds starting with aa and ending with ZZ.

The only way you would decrease the number of possible passwords is if you specified that the character in a particular spot had to be uppercase, but I've never seen a password picker say "your fourth character must be a lowercase letter".

I agree - I do use passphrases in some critical cases which I don't want to store in a password manager.

However, I believe passphrases are theoretically more susceptible to sophisticated dictionary type attacks, but you can easily mitigate it by using some less-common 1337speak character replacements.

Highly recommend a password manager though - it's much easier to remember one or two complex master keyring passwords & the random generated passwords will easily satisfy any application's complexity requirements.