All that lithium sitting in storage lots, wasted. Tesla could save the CT with some sort of body kit conversion that tears it down to the frame and rebuilds it as a more traditional truck. It’ll still not be a great truck, but better than letting all those batteries rot.
Dude, the Edsel didn’t even have seatbelts.
But the Aztek was the first crossover. Part car, part SUV. The world didn’t know they wanted it yet. Now almost every vehicle is either a truck or a CUV. I can’t see what is going to be redeemable about the CT. Maybe electric pickups will take off among the Tradies, but CT wasn’t even first there.
Took me a few times
Cotton Lane: because this used to be cotton fields, one of the major agriculture crops of Arizona
Prison: because when this prison was built, it was like 25 miles west of town, now it’s continuous city well past this point
Surprise: a western suburb of Phoenix
Zoo: wildlife world zoo, a private zoo with too small cages and little in the way of habitat for the animals.
Trailers: because the Phoenix area is a trailer park that somehow grew up into a city.
First of all, lack of ORM isn’t bad. It’s not a good or bad thing to use them out not use them. What’s bad is not sanitizing your query inputs and you don’t need an ORM to do that.
I think the worst thing I’ve seen is previous devs not realize there’s a cost to opening a DB connection. Especially back when DBs were on spinning rust. So the report page that ran one query to get the all the items to report on, then for each row ran another individual query to get that row’s details was probably one of the slowest reports I’ve ever seen. Every DB round trip was at minimum 0.1 seconds just to open the connection, run the query, send back the data, then close the connection. So 10 rows per second could be returned. Thousands of rows per page has people waiting several minutes, and tying up our app server. A quick refactor to run 2 queries instead of hundreds to thousands and I was a hero for 10 min till everyone forgot how bad it was before I fixed it.
As a hiring manager, a candidate’s list of certificates has made very little impact in the process compared to experience. If there’s no experience, like for a junior role, then the certs will help against others with no experience. But so will a portfolio.
My best friend when I fuck a commit up: https://ohshitgit.com/
If it’s artistic, sure. Even if it said “penis man” in an artful way. But this is as close to art as a adult still drawing stick figures. It’s almost embarrassing we don’t have better vandals in the neighborhood.
The no child left behind policy was intended to ensure that kids got extra help when needed. In reality schools determined it was way easier to lower the bar than to get some kids to learn. Kids and shitty parents have figured this out and will game the system as much as possible. Clear on it being a baby bush policy. FWIW I think the intent was good, but making more demands of the education without providing additional resources and no way of enforcing quality has reached an inevitable point.
Grade school: teacher fired for passing failing students so he wouldn’t have to deal with them next year. This was before “no child left behind” existed. At the end of one of the school years a girl tripped and fell and somehow got a metal tent spike through her neck. She was ok, just had a wicked scar.
Middle school: someone did the old flush the fireworks thing and somehow revealed a major flaw in the plumbing that required demolishing a whole building. We didn’t have water on campus for the last month. This was in Phoenix and it was getting stupid hot, so that whole month was half days.
High school: At the end of the year before I started a bunch of students got arrested for using an empty science lab to make meth. In my junior year there was a party that got a couple kids killed in a drive by.
Want to expend energy and stay fit? Gymnastics and tumbling. Especially at 6. The martial arts are a good place to start a self defense track, but a 6 year old has a very hard time understanding the body kinetics they are trying to mimic.
Sometimes you gotta monkey patch that library because they won’t accept your pull requests to fix that bug.
Credit cards caught on to this around 2010 or so. That’s why balance transfers always have a fee now. You could do this with either balance transfers or cash advances, both of which have fees now. So you’ll end up increasing the balance by 3% each month.
By your content I’m going to discuss regional, not local service. For context I’m in one of the top 10 most populous cities in the country. There is no regional rail service. That’s how bad it is. In order to catch a train, it’s a 2 hour drive to a much smaller city.
But let’s look at a train trip I wanted to take. All west coast, Portland, OR to San Diego, CA. There is at least rail service that would do it. I think it took 48 ish hours with a middle of the night layover in Los Angeles. The drive is about 16 hours. The flight is about 2.
When it exists, it’s slow and super inconvenient.
If you don’t take AZ and NV with you, you will get your Colorado River water cut off and lose a lot of farming power. That might even require UT. Unless it’s only Northern California included, in which case you still lose that agriculture, and possible land based trade lines to Mexico. It’s not a clean and pretty separation.
Picard always spoke French, you hear the universally translated version. This theory is disproved in a couple ways, but it’s the best explanation.