And probably stiffness. Aluminum would both scratch more easily than glass and bend/dent more easily

This is a feature, not a bug. The rest of us don’t want crap being sent to admin email addresses, so fix your damn email and try again.

Personally I use generated email addresses to most places, but my personal address is <FIRST>@<LAST>.us

Less plastics on your streets, in your yards, and fields, is also an important goal

That’s interesting. I haven’t paid attention to caps in litter.

Here they ask that you separate caps and throw them out, to make recycling the bottle easier. Even if you do a bottle return, haven’t done that in years since we have recycling, but the machine shreds the bottle and pops the top off into a separate bin, I always assumed trash

Read the news sometime. A memorable recent one I read included the history of a barrier island town, the nearby ones already abandoned, and whether they need to abandon it yet or if it was still livable. The root cause was sea level rise caused by global warming

Sure, we have standards to demonstrate that. We know that global warming is taking that livable environment away. We have established goals per country, and strategies to meet them. Those strategies map out limits for how much your vehicle can pollute, without being detrimental to everyone’s livable environment. Given the impact on people, we’ve made the compromise to phase those in over more than a decade, but after 2035 (in my state), the compromise is over. New cars for sale can no longer emit carbon dioxide as part of their operation.

Your existing vehicle is grandfathered since we hadn’t established those limits when it was manufactured, and it was the purchased with the expectation of being suitable for purpose

Yeah, that seems like more than enough activity to scale up to something that can handle more.

Unfortunately trams can have similar shortcomings all too easily, but I guess it’s the next step

Around here, they’re trying the approach of dedicated bus lanes. The claim is that a lot of the time it only takes one bus stuck in traffic to get behind and stuck in that problem. With a dedicated lane, the bus scales a little better, goes a little faster, is a little more likely to be on time.

Right, but the technology is there. The obstruction is legal/policy/who pays, so older technology shouldn’t have to be the answer.

I’m frustrated with this same issue at my ex’s condo. The entire complex is townhouses with assigned parking in front. It also has the service entrance in front, so a charger is a short cable under the side walk from a unit’s service entrance to a pedestal at their parking spot. Cheap and easy, and everyone pays their own electric bill. So why won’t they do it? Oh well, if my ex doesn’t want that fight, it’s not my problem

The only problem with this idea is plugin hybrids should have been an important step. Why haven’t we already phased out pure gasoline vehicles for hybrid and plugin hybrid? We could have and should have done this when pure EVs were not yet practical.

But that time has passed. EVs are or could be practical for most uses, with current technology. Manufacturers don’t get to just build overpriced luxury vehicles and say “see, no one wants them: let’s go back to gasoline”. Not enough cheap EVs? We could if manufacturers would scale up, or if we allowed imports from China. Not enough charging stations? That’s just time and investment, and was rapidly changing at least up to Tesla’s layoffs. You don’t get to delay the build out and say “see, there’s not enough chargers”. Not enough raw materials? Huge discoveries in the last couple of years, and recycling ready to scale up as soon as enough vehicles are there. Not enough power in the grid? They only respond to steady growth in demand, and need that growth maintained over years. I suppose plug-in hybrid is better than gasoline but we’re really at the stage where EV technology is practical for most and the biggest impediment is just doing it

Why Tram? While I prefer them as well and my area has some, this is the same scenario a bus can handle, and a bus is arguably better since it can go more places and be more flexible without infrastructure costs. For most places, we need to electrify buses and figure out how to make them a more appealing choice

Trains and trains are better at scaling for more populated areas but buses need to be part of that continuum

Not sure how to react with this one. On the one hand, we need a bigger and better used EV market, but on the other hand, this shouldn’t have been a surprise. It’s sort of like buying a 20 yr old Corolla, then complaining it can’t haul gravel

More importantly, people should give more priority to more common needs. I plug my car in when I get home, like my phone, and just always have a charge. It is so much more convenient to never have to go to a local gas station again. Much better than older cars where it seemed like I had to go every couple of weeks.

Yes, recharging my EV is less convenient on road trips, but it’s more convenient 95+% of the time

Freedom of choice is certainly important but we do all have to work together for the sake of our future and our children’s future. It is certainly a good idea to set efficiency and emissions standards, including up to a controlled transition to zero emissions.

It’s not even close to a situation of forcing any customers: we’re at a stage of forcing manufacturers to improve their products and work toward a transition in 11 years, and help encourage a growing market for them to profit by it.

This is back to old arguments like:

• free speech but you can’t yell “FIRE” in a coowded theater
• freedom to swing your arms, that stops before you hit my face

And connected to Tragedy of the Commons.

• breathable air and livable environments are something we all need in common. You have no right to take that from the rest of us

They may not even have thought of it. If you’re a customer of such a place, you could suggest to them that there are people who drive EVs and a similar benefit for charging would attract those customers.

Of course it probably comes down to someone would need to decide it’s worth the investment of setting up a charging station, so it’s not going to be cheap or fast

Maybe. I do more DevOps these days, so tend to have many small changes that can’t even be tested without checking them in and running in CI. I’d have hundreds of “fix unit tests” commits alone

For some definition of interesting …. The quashed commit whose message is a Jira ticket number and title?

Hah, I had an app that lets me get appointments and prescription renewals …. The app would send an effing fax to the doctors office where it would sit in a pile until I called to ask the same thing

But you probably signed that you are liable for all bills regardless of insurance, and before you got any treatment. Read through all the paperwork sometime: it may not be reasonable or fair and you don’t have a choice but somehow it’s legal

Wow, the 5g had me excited there for a moment

Yeah, I struggle with that.

• I’m not allowed to be called an Architect because the Lead Architect only allows product people in the role, however I’m equivalent rank.
• I spend way too much time doing project management, but I despise that
• I don’t lead a specific team or have people but I set requirements for engineering and sometime borrow people from teams
• I’m in the Quality Engineering organization but don’t do QA
• some people think I’m a Build Engineer, and I do set some of their requirements
• some think I’m AppSec, and I do try to fill their gaps and apply their work to the organization.

Recently, maybe DevSecOps sounds most accurate, and I avoid talking rank so I don’t piss off that Prima Donna