> There is a headphone jack, but it's on the top of the phone.
They say that like it is a bad thing. I've always preferred the headset jack on the top because if I'm using the device while sitting and the jack is on the bottom it interferes with resting my phone holding hand the table if I'm at my desk or on my chest or leg if I'm the couch.
The main argument I've heard for jack on the bottom is that most people normally put their phone in their pocket with the top down, so if the jack is on top you have to flip it.
Google is telling me that jack on top was the norm in the early days of smartphones but gradually changed as the pocket argument won out.
Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down. Then everyone could have the headphone jack where they want.
I think it's about when you put your phone in your pocket, you have to have it top-up while most people put it top-down, shortening the lenght of the cable and pushing against the connector. In that optic top jack is worse, I believe
They went instead with "Assembled in the USA" printed on the box, which means that the phone was put in its box in Florida.
"Official" MAGA hats now say "Made in PRC" as if their wearers are too stupid to realize that means People's Republic of China, after the backlash against "Made in China". It's not a bad bet, actually: a media outlet back in the day polled a bunch of Republican voters and asked "If the government were to introduce, instead of Obamacare, some form of Affordable Care Act, would you be opposed?"
(And the number one Google query on the last election day? "Did Biden drop out?")
This 5 year old study suggests that some early reports (on early EVs) lead us to believe that it was a universal truth. After all, the early BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf only had ~50-75 mile range. But even as far back as 2019, that had changed, and electric cars were being driven as much, and often more, than their gasoline equivalents.
Average car gets 24.4 mpg, while federal gas tax is currently $0.183 / gallon.
US drivers average 13,476 miles (across gender / age groups).
So currently gas tax is ~$101.07 (for "cars", more for light trucks.)
As someone who drives 5000-6000 miles a year in an EV, I don't love $130 flat rate, but it's not far enough from the average gas tax to be wildly upsetting to me.
In my state, though, I'm already paying $250 / year, or about $0.04/mile. Gas tax here is $0.576/gallon which comes out to ~$318.12 annually, or $0.024 / mile for an "average" gas driver (using figures above). If I drove a more average amount, it would be inline.
As others have discussed, the trade-off of a flat fee is not having to devise ways to grant your exact miles driven data to the government, and the taxes are close enough to the gas taxes that I'm not going to be up in arms about it. I save way more than that having virtually no powertrain maintenance. (My state inspection was 15 minutes and $40. Basically they said, yup, it has tires.)
> What we're capable of delivering now is incredible and would have been unimaginable just a few years ago
What I mean is - are there concrete examples, real world "things" that came from AI programming, that are incredible, and someone can talk about and point to how AI led to the thing being possible?
One thing I will say has been a personal boon, is Claude picking up the slack for my personal (relative) weaknesses. My project frontends are prettier than before and my sysadmin tasks take much less research time. I don't think it makes my strengths that much stronger, but it raises the floor of everything.
But raising the floor or having some improved tools available to pad your skillset is neither incredible nor unimaginable. Could you elaborate how you feel it would have been unimaginable before you started using Claude?
I have to admit that these days, whenever I see a project site clearly built with Calude, I am overcome with a vague sense of nausea and head for the exit.
We've had large applications released by big companies before AI.
Windows 11 existed before Microsoft started relying on AI to contribute to the codebase. What incredible things have been added to Windows 11 now that Microsoft is using AI to write it?
They’ve said competent. Obviously you’re not competent enough to understand it. Try to feed their message into latest Opus and ask “explain like I’m five”. Good luck!
Autotrader says there are 246,000 used trucks for sale nationwide with AWD/4WD and 38,000 with rear wheel drive. For new it’s 429,000 AWD/4WD vs 51,000 for rear wheel.
Volume wise it’s of course Texas with Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota having the largest ownership share.
The majority in that statistic are selectable 4WD, which isn't the same as AWD. Pushing the two groups together skews the numbers a bit. Most trucks since the 1970s have been 4WD, ever since companies like Muncie and Borg-Warner started selling axles to Ford and their cohorts. AWD trucks are a relatively new phenomenon, with the first one I can think of being the limited production GMC Syclone in 1989, and it being a truck was an emissions loophole. I think the 2005 Honda Ridgeline was the first real mass produced AWD truck, or perhaps the Subaru Baja from 2003 if you consider that a truck rather than an open deck car. Right now I think only the Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and Ford Maverick are sold as AWD, whereas every other truck is selectable 4WD.
Push the goal posts of you want. OP specifically said rear wheel drive.
There’s a whole community that doesn’t consider anything without front and rear lockers, dana 44 axels, frame on body, and 37s with bead lock a real off road rig.
There is a difference between AWD and 4WD, because 4WD trucks are RWD until you manually change the mode. AWD is all on all the time and is FWD biased, usually something like 70:30 F:R. For most of their lives, even when towing, 4WD trucks are used as RWD only. As for specialized off-road vehicles that wasn't what we were talking about, but yes those people split hairs down to the micron for what constitutes what.
There are so many varieties of AWD. Most are wet-clutched (inside or outside of the main transmission), some are lockable or torsen center differentials, Prius adds electric power to the rear wheels to complement the FWD hybrid setup. Traditional 4WD with a transfer case using a manual shifter-actuated gear selector isn't very common any more. My 1999 Suburban had a wet clutch in a standard truck-shaped transfer case, one side of the front differential had a solenoid to lock/unlock one wheel to the side gear to keep the front drive shaft from spinning in RWD mode, and used a motor to mechanically engage or disengage the wet clutch (between the front and rear outputs) and to slide the engagement ring to offer AWD (rear-wheel biased, engaged when front and rear wheel speeds differed anywhere from 0 to 100% torque transfer) or 4WD (clutch fully engaged), and even 4WD-LOW by running the motor the other direction to engage the planetary gearing with the rear drive shaft.
In my mind, the biggest difference is whether front and rear drive shafts turn at exactly the same rate; if so it's "4WD". If clutch slippage or a differential allows different front and rear axle speeds then it's some form of AWD. But many AWD systems have clutches capable of effectively locking the front and rear driveshafts. E.g. the Suburban had tire-hop turning on pavement in 4WD mode which is about the most torque that drive-train would be expected to encounter.
It's counterintuitive because the prefix refers to the lines, but we're usually describing points along the lines. We know intuitively that "lateral" is side to side, and "long/length" we would expect to be vertical, but that describes where the lines sit, and the measurements are perpendicular to where the lines sit: you choose a horizontal line to describe a height(/length), and a vertical one to describe width.
So just remember that it's opposite to intuition, which will work until you've gotten comfortable enough that your intuition is correct and will then guide you exactly opposite.
I say longitude goes longways, which I know isn't accurate except fairly close to the poles, but I remembered it like that when I was a kid and it stuck.
I use Jimmy Buffet’s song “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude”, meaning head south to Key West to change your attitude. Ergo, latitude is north/south.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-phone-revi...
Title: Trump Mobile T1 phone test: device no longer ‘Made in the USA.’
Heading: We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late and no longer ‘Made in the USA.’
And then there's https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-t1-trump-phone-is-the-same... (linked in the sibling comment at The Verge)
"Trump Phones Are Finally Here—And People Aren’t Happy"
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