At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow).
One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"
> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".
I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot
Just FYI, the check engine light (orange or yellow) is never an emergency. It's normally something emissions-related. Oil and temperature, yes those are much more critical but those are separate (red) indicators. You don't need to rely on color if you know this.
Yep my check engine light went straight to flashing when I was driving once. I drove to the nearest garage (about 2 miles away) to get it fixed. A spark plug had blown up/exploded and pieces of ceramic from the spark plug had completely scratched up the inside of my cylinder over those 2 miles rendering that engine unfixable.
They did I believe. I remember getting it fixed and it running for a couple of months after that and then at a certain point the new sleeve I forget what it was called like a Halberg screw or something that they put in also broke and then they weren’t able to do it again.
And yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from glancing through the page on my phone.
Maybe I'm too picky but it gives a sloppy, unpersonal feeling.
The fact that things like that get into a production app at all is the bigger point. AI slop doesn't even hit a base level of "it works on my machine". When some piece of an app just doesn't work, regardless of whether it was LLM-generated or not, it means there was no QA done on the app. Or at least, not enough.
That is why the term "AI slop" exists. Not because AI cannot produce working code - we all know it can - but because it breeds a low-effort process where people just slap code into production with no regard to quality.
More than once did my lane assistant try to run me into the barrier in a construction zone.
You can turn it off, however its on again after on the next start...
And all this comes with insanely high priced repairs that you cant really DIY anymore.
Once on a rental car brake assist decided I'm about to hit something on a kerb in a curve on a wet highway. I was using maybe 50% tire grip to corner and sudden braking took it over 100%. 1/10 would not recommend.
Sure this sort of systems might reduce overall death toll by addressing worst suspects like drunk or distracted drivers but I'm pretty sure they makes it worse for diligent ones.
It specifically makes it worse for high-skill drivers. If you were the sort of driver who never uses more than 10% of your tires' grip (even if it requires slowing to absurd speeds whenever there's a curve), you wouldn't see sudden braking.
Same, I have one bend near my home on which my car always pulls my steering wheel into a certain direction even though I'm perfectly driving in the middle. These "safety" systems are anything but safe, and very frustrating.
Germans tend to differentiate between getting takeout (something like kebab/pizza/asia box to go or delivered home) or eating out (going to a restaurant and eating there).
But I'd argue for most people getting into the car to get takeout is not very common.
Yeah and honestly, it shouldn't be. It was really strange going back to the U.S and having family members suggest we drive to get ice cream. It's incredibly wasteful.
That being said, I've noticed that these takeout meals tend to be pretty low quality and unhealthy and I miss this middle ground that I could lean on once or twice a week.
> Yeah and honestly, it shouldn't be. It was really strange going back to the U.S and having family members suggest we drive to get ice cream. It's incredibly wasteful.
Side remark: In Germany "drive" (in this case: to get ice cream) can often also mean "go by bike" (in Germany, the word "fahren" is both used for cars (Auto fahren) and bicycles (Rad/Fahrrad fahren), leaving it open which vehicle is meant, because both choices are plausible, even though I would claim that for getting ice cream, a bicycle is the more natural choice.
Thinking about my Swiss village, the only takeout worth thinking about is the delicious kebab downhill which doesn't do delivery. Otherwise it would be all eat.ch and similar. Why should I drive when I can get it delivered for no extra cost? I guess it's just a cultural difference, not a drawback (in either direction)
Maybe you need to live somewhere with more options to compare?
As one example, Tokyo has 160,000 restaurants. NYC has 21k. Divided by population that's 5x more in Tokyo.
Other example would be most major Asian cities. Taipei for example has 20-30 night markets each with 50 to 500 stalls. Kuala Lumpur has mamak food stand areas all over, often open till 4am.
Cool numbers, so are you making an argument for eating out, for getting take out, or for ordering delivery? Or for moving to Asia? Sorry I don't know what to do with all that information.
> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".
I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot
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