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Not necessarily a shitty dealership, just one with low margins.

Cars are generally sold by sellers with incredibly low margins (talking like a few hundred dollars, max). They make their money through the financing. They probably didn't want to sell the car in cash, because some other chud will come along and buy it on credit and get them a higher margin.

Pro tip - always get your own financing when purchasing a car, don't get it through the dealer. But don't let them know that, look over their finance package when signing the paperwork, try to negotiate out any origination charges, etc. then simply pay the loan off immediately with your private financing.

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But the productivity and quality debates are absolutely ridiculous

Which is a general statement and not dealing with your specific circumstance. If a tool works for you, by all means keep using it.

However, broadly across software that is not the case. So the "productivity and quality debates" are not ridiculous .. the data supports the sceptics.

Consider: the facts

People are very bad at judging their own productivity, and AI consistently makes devs feel like they are working faster, while in fact slowing them down.

I've experienced it myself - it feels fucking great to prompt a skeleton and have something brand new up and running in under an hour. The good chemicals come flooding in because I'm doing something new and interesting.

Then I need to take a scalpel to a hundred scattered lines to get CI to pass. Then I need to write tests that actually test functionality. Then I start extending things and realize the implementation is too rigid and I need to change the architecture.

It is as this point that I admit to myself that going in intentionally with a plan and building it myself the slow way would have saved all that pain and probably got the final product shipped sooner, even if the prototype was shipped later.

Vast majority of sea life lives near coastlines - because that is precisely where current disruptions create easily accessible nutrients.

Out in the middle of the ocean there is really very little. Migratory animals moving between destinations mostly.

Cook bacon once and all that is now covered in grease

I've had good luck with their mid-high end kitchen appliances and washer/dryer.

Not impressed with the TV and the AI update made the UI very slow and unresponsive. Next one will not be LG.

Anything with -chen/-klein (a diminutive) is neuter.

E.g. in addition to Mädchen there is Jungchen (~"youngster") that is also neuter rather than masculine.

The problem is Japanese has so many characters - typically a font would need 5-6000 glyphs to be usably complete - that it isn't easy to create new fonts.

English ASCII is 96 characters, for reference. A designer can crank out a new thematically-appropriate font in a week.

Well.. Earth's rotation would mean that the top of the lorry would be moving at 3.3 million light years per second ... Or you know, about 100 trillion times the speed of light.

That might break some things.

To put some math around CO2 usage:

The entire structure of plants is built primarily from CO2. A tomato plant and fruit grows from seeding to maturity in about 60 days, and will yield about a kilogram of dry plant mass.

That mass will be about 20% carbon, meaning each plant would need to uptake a net 3.3 grams of carbon - 12.3 grams of CO2 per day. A person exhales around 1Kg of CO2 per day, or about as much as would be needed to supply 81 tomato plants.

In the article, the kid himself explains that he is doing all this because he wants to create support humans who are biologically immortal