I have found that the normal map applications I've used only highlight the large networks like Electrify America, EVGo, Chargepoint, etc. if they even have the functionality to show chargers in the first place. For example, google maps doesn't show many of the chargers I frequently use, like the Kwik Trip charging network. I've even tried to add them to the map but the changes have been rejected every time.
The benefit of a standalone app like plugshare is that it's crowd-sourced and generally more up-to-date. People can add new stations as they come online regardless of network and leave reviews with helpful info like "charger #4 is broken" or "the charging cables are short, you might need to back in". For the larger networks, active capacity is also shared in the same way that google maps shows (e.g. 6/10 stations in use). It also lets me do route planning based on my expected range and save it for later or or open the route in my gps.
To me, all that is way more useful than what I get out of the built-in google maps in my car, where the charger selection is limited and the gps will arbitrarily select chargers on my route if it's too long without giving me much choice in the matter.
Yup, the general distribution of charging networks and discoverability is my main problem, not necessarily the range itself.
If I'm driving more than an hour and a half total, I know I'll need to find a charger somewhere on my route. Unlike gas stations, chargers are generally not advertised on informational signs, which is why I've bookmarked a number of chargers on my typical routes and started using plugshare for discovery on new routes.
More active forms of reminders like alarms, calendar entries, date/time-based notifications (a common feature in to do list apps), or even just asking others to remind me help to keep me on top of things. It also helps to put things in a place where I will see them at the right time, if that makes sense. For example, my medication is in my bathroom because I'm there at the beginning and end of the day when I need to take my meds anyway.
At work, I have a kanban board containing a card for each task with due dates, a description, and any other info I need. The categories are various states the task can be in, including not started, in progress, waiting for someone to get back to me, on hold, etc. This works well for me because I have a single place with everything I need to keep track of and I refer to constantly, but this tool doesn't work at all for me in my personal life.
For things like emails and texts, I will mark items as unread after reading them if they have an outstanding action I have not completed yet (this also reminds me to make a card for it on the work kanban). Nothing leaves the inbox until it is completely finished. This works for both my personal and work tasks, in large part because I already check my email frequently. Sometimes I will email myself with a task in the subject line so I don't forget to do it.
It's just a Leaf with a different chassis. Kind of odd that it is going to have both a NACS and J1772 plug, isn't NACS able to do slow charging or is that some weird tesla shit?
Totally agree! Although, I often find that people issues are business issues in disguise- In my fairly limited experience (I'm only a few years into this career), most people want to do their job well. A failure to provide folks with the appropriate resources and support to do their jobs effectively often makes it look like people not doing their jobs, when really they're wearing multiple hats and trying to balance too much work.
Yes, I do suggest improvements, and it's how I got promoted to my current role as a manufacturing project manager (Yes, ugh, project manager. At least I'm technical).
I think the approach matters a lot. Nobody appreciates some corporate jagoff like me coming in and saying that everything is being done wrong and I have a better way. The people who engage in a given process every day are the experts in that process. Regardless of what I think could be improved, they have to buy in and agree that the changes I proposed are actually useful, which they won't do unless they feel some ownership over or stake in the change.
If I have ideas on how to improve, I start by asking about the current process and why things are done that way. It's easy as an outsider to think that there are opportunities to improve something, especially when I don't have a lot of insight into that process.
Sometimes, the answer to why we do things in a certain manner is "we've always done it that way," which indicates to me that either:
The opportunity is ripe for improvement, or
Somebody already went through this process and found the optimal way to do it.
The second option doesn't necessarily mean there isn't room for improvement, as technology and capabilities evolve over time, but it may not be worth further exploration.
Often times, in asking those questions, I learn about some nuance or technicality that totally invalidates my idea or changes how I would approach it. Sometimes we accept inferior ways of doing things because they make something else more efficient or easy.
It's important to pick your battles when proposing improvements. Not everything will bring the same degree of cost savings, efficiencies, or whatever other benefits to the table. Choose the ones that will have the biggest impact with the least amount of effort/cost to implement, and you have a formula for success.
After getting pissed off about the audacity of that person to ask for a break to pray and claiming that they were somehow imposing their religion on others in doing so, they said
Coming out of grad school in 2024, I had to submit ~300 applications to get 4 interviews and 2 offers for engineering roles. From what I hear, it's gotten even worse since then- companies are posting fake positions to look busy even in the middle of hiring freezes and ai bullshit has infected the recruiting process too.
Edit: reading this back, I feel like it reads as if I'm trying to one-up your job search struggle, which was not my intent. I was just confirming that it has continued to get worse
In what way is asking for a place where they can pray imposing their religion on others? It's a reasonable accommodation in the same way that not working on the sabbath would be.
Fuck muslims with a necrotic pork penis.
Frankly, it sounds like you've got your own issues with bigotry to get over. Maybe look in the mirror before projecting your problems onto others.
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As someone who's had similar issues, I've previously wondered if it would be possible to 'simulate' a prescription lens and have the headset just add a distortion to the video feed that approximates what your lenses do.
I have two primary playlists, a metal playlist that spans a plurality of subgenres and an instrumental Mick Gordon Doom soundtrack-esque playlist, and then a bunch of different smaller ones (punk, rock, alt indie, norwegian space disco, etc.) for when I'm looking to change it up a bit.
I primarily listen through spotify (it's a family plan and I'm working on getting the person who manages it to switch, it's an uphill battle), which has halfway decent discovery through other people's public playlists and the new shuffle feature that weaves similar songs in.
Sirius XM is also a discovery and listening source for me, I like the hosts on channel 40 Liquid Metal and like how they promote new and small bands.
Yup, this is what did it for me as well. I was in high school at the time and Musk had done a decent job until that point of making himself out to be a real-life Tony Stark, so I thought he seemed pretty cool. That incident really exposed how he just wanted to be the most important person in the room and have the world fawn over his shitty ideas.
It amazes me when people claim they bought their car before he 'went crazy'. He has been obviously evil since at least 2018 when that happened, and the average length of car ownership in the US is around 6 years, so it's likely that the vehicle was purchased after he went mask off.
Maybe a hot take, but I do think that this is correct for trackpads. Not for mice though.
Let's start with some conversions:
The average hamburger bun in the US is 4 inches, from what I can find online. Thus,
So, to answer your question, it's about 10,827,273.6 hamburgers.
I have found that the normal map applications I've used only highlight the large networks like Electrify America, EVGo, Chargepoint, etc. if they even have the functionality to show chargers in the first place. For example, google maps doesn't show many of the chargers I frequently use, like the Kwik Trip charging network. I've even tried to add them to the map but the changes have been rejected every time.
The benefit of a standalone app like plugshare is that it's crowd-sourced and generally more up-to-date. People can add new stations as they come online regardless of network and leave reviews with helpful info like "charger #4 is broken" or "the charging cables are short, you might need to back in". For the larger networks, active capacity is also shared in the same way that google maps shows (e.g. 6/10 stations in use). It also lets me do route planning based on my expected range and save it for later or or open the route in my gps.
To me, all that is way more useful than what I get out of the built-in google maps in my car, where the charger selection is limited and the gps will arbitrarily select chargers on my route if it's too long without giving me much choice in the matter.
Yup, the general distribution of charging networks and discoverability is my main problem, not necessarily the range itself.
If I'm driving more than an hour and a half total, I know I'll need to find a charger somewhere on my route. Unlike gas stations, chargers are generally not advertised on informational signs, which is why I've bookmarked a number of chargers on my typical routes and started using plugshare for discovery on new routes.
More active forms of reminders like alarms, calendar entries, date/time-based notifications (a common feature in to do list apps), or even just asking others to remind me help to keep me on top of things. It also helps to put things in a place where I will see them at the right time, if that makes sense. For example, my medication is in my bathroom because I'm there at the beginning and end of the day when I need to take my meds anyway.
At work, I have a kanban board containing a card for each task with due dates, a description, and any other info I need. The categories are various states the task can be in, including not started, in progress, waiting for someone to get back to me, on hold, etc. This works well for me because I have a single place with everything I need to keep track of and I refer to constantly, but this tool doesn't work at all for me in my personal life.
For things like emails and texts, I will mark items as unread after reading them if they have an outstanding action I have not completed yet (this also reminds me to make a card for it on the work kanban). Nothing leaves the inbox until it is completely finished. This works for both my personal and work tasks, in large part because I already check my email frequently. Sometimes I will email myself with a task in the subject line so I don't forget to do it.
It's just a Leaf with a different chassis. Kind of odd that it is going to have both a NACS and J1772 plug, isn't NACS able to do slow charging or is that some weird tesla shit?
Cars have gotta be the worst possible place to put ads. Distracted driving is already a problem, this is just going to make it worse
Totally agree! Although, I often find that people issues are business issues in disguise- In my fairly limited experience (I'm only a few years into this career), most people want to do their job well. A failure to provide folks with the appropriate resources and support to do their jobs effectively often makes it look like people not doing their jobs, when really they're wearing multiple hats and trying to balance too much work.
Yes, I do suggest improvements, and it's how I got promoted to my current role as a manufacturing project manager (Yes, ugh, project manager. At least I'm technical).
I think the approach matters a lot. Nobody appreciates some corporate jagoff like me coming in and saying that everything is being done wrong and I have a better way. The people who engage in a given process every day are the experts in that process. Regardless of what I think could be improved, they have to buy in and agree that the changes I proposed are actually useful, which they won't do unless they feel some ownership over or stake in the change.
If I have ideas on how to improve, I start by asking about the current process and why things are done that way. It's easy as an outsider to think that there are opportunities to improve something, especially when I don't have a lot of insight into that process.
Sometimes, the answer to why we do things in a certain manner is "we've always done it that way," which indicates to me that either:
The second option doesn't necessarily mean there isn't room for improvement, as technology and capabilities evolve over time, but it may not be worth further exploration.
Often times, in asking those questions, I learn about some nuance or technicality that totally invalidates my idea or changes how I would approach it. Sometimes we accept inferior ways of doing things because they make something else more efficient or easy.
It's important to pick your battles when proposing improvements. Not everything will bring the same degree of cost savings, efficiencies, or whatever other benefits to the table. Choose the ones that will have the biggest impact with the least amount of effort/cost to implement, and you have a formula for success.
An elote dog would probably kick ass
They're misrepresenting what they said. The actual comment was an islamophobic tirade on a post about someone getting fired after asking for a break so they could pray in private.
After getting pissed off about the audacity of that person to ask for a break to pray and claiming that they were somehow imposing their religion on others in doing so, they said
which is probably why they got banned.
Coming out of grad school in 2024, I had to submit ~300 applications to get 4 interviews and 2 offers for engineering roles. From what I hear, it's gotten even worse since then- companies are posting fake positions to look busy even in the middle of hiring freezes and ai bullshit has infected the recruiting process too.
Edit: reading this back, I feel like it reads as if I'm trying to one-up your job search struggle, which was not my intent. I was just confirming that it has continued to get worse
In what way is asking for a place where they can pray imposing their religion on others? It's a reasonable accommodation in the same way that not working on the sabbath would be.
Frankly, it sounds like you've got your own issues with bigotry to get over. Maybe look in the mirror before projecting your problems onto others.
For those who'd rather not engage with clickbait headlines:
Ah, that's unfortunate. I did figure that if it were as easy as I proposed, it would probably already be implemented.
As someone who's had similar issues, I've previously wondered if it would be possible to 'simulate' a prescription lens and have the headset just add a distortion to the video feed that approximates what your lenses do.
I have two primary playlists, a metal playlist that spans a plurality of subgenres and an instrumental Mick Gordon Doom soundtrack-esque playlist, and then a bunch of different smaller ones (punk, rock, alt indie, norwegian space disco, etc.) for when I'm looking to change it up a bit.
I primarily listen through spotify (it's a family plan and I'm working on getting the person who manages it to switch, it's an uphill battle), which has halfway decent discovery through other people's public playlists and the new shuffle feature that weaves similar songs in.
Sirius XM is also a discovery and listening source for me, I like the hosts on channel 40 Liquid Metal and like how they promote new and small bands.
Yup, this is what did it for me as well. I was in high school at the time and Musk had done a decent job until that point of making himself out to be a real-life Tony Stark, so I thought he seemed pretty cool. That incident really exposed how he just wanted to be the most important person in the room and have the world fawn over his shitty ideas.
It amazes me when people claim they bought their car before he 'went crazy'. He has been obviously evil since at least 2018 when that happened, and the average length of car ownership in the US is around 6 years, so it's likely that the vehicle was purchased after he went mask off.
Wow, never knew that canvas was open source and self-hostable. My high school and undergrad both used canvas
I feel like they're a step above the conical water cooler cups you can't set down. These at least appear to have a resealable top.