On one hand, you’re lazy and throw out the coffee pods. Awesome, you used a bit more plastic and took up a bit more space in a landfill (though not nearly as much as say throwing out a cheap vacuum cleaner that broke after a year of sucking up your bastard cat’s fur).

You know what happened the last time an engineer took over as CEO of a car company? They went from making boring, dull, cheapened, unreliable cars to exciting, forward-looking, profitable, and decently reliable cars.

Just curious, is it illegal to put some RGB LED strips along your helmet and turn them on at night for visibility?

Agreed, here it’s been nothing remotely crazy. At the rate we’re going we’ll have a very mediocre snowpack by April 1st. And with the latest forecasts, I don’t think we’ll get much precipitation in the next couple months, so we will likely be around 60-70% normal snowpack.

Apple already has twice the number of engineers in the Bay Area to fill their new campus.

I’m always super-duper cautious about fluid viscosity in low temps.

Well Jesus, if you want your Corinthian leather and mahogany side panel accents, then go and spend more money on a different car. But I guarantee you it will be less exciting and less livable. And totally not worth the money.

I live in an HOA like that, purely because we had to find a place to rent in 30 days and this was the least worst place in the area ($3k per month for “1100 sq ft” which must have included the garage in that square footage).

This is a fabulously information-packed article. Ever since moving here at the end of 2013 I’ve been unreasonably obscessed with California’s water system and look at reservoir and snowpack levels every day (I told you I was obsessed).

Here’s hoping El Niño continues for quite a while longer. While we are slightly above average snowpack for the Northern Sierras, we’re still just slightly below normal snowpack for the Souther Sierras. Our reservoirs are filling pretty decently, but are still far below normal. Lake Isabella, Bakersfield’s main…

It’s a pretty solid idea, assuming we actually have the water to send down to the southern Central Valley. Our reservoirs up North are still far from full:

Agreed. Batteries burn, but hydrogen explodes. Especially hydrogen at 6500+ PSI.

I can understand Ford’s approach to this. People really want CarPlay/Android Auto for robust, reliable smartphone linkage, and they have fortunately built that in.

Typical Chinese startup nonsense that everyone believes at first and is excited like crazy, then just hopes that they can actually deliver on their promises mostly, then completely forgets about it once they actually launch with a shoddily-built product that may have impressive numbers all around, but doesn’t actually…

Not to mention, there are plenty of clubs that do track days with instructor sessions for under $200. You can use your boring econobox or really anything but an SUV or truck and put it on the track. If you feel like you’re pushing the car too hard, just pull back the throttle and it’ll be fine.

3. CUVs will fade in popularity as everyone finally wises up and realizes they just want a nice wagon, instead.

Because now drones are very easy to operate and are sold in pretty much every electronics store now. RC aircraft has always been a small niche of generally very responsible operators. Now that anyone can go to Fry’s and buy a drone with a camera and autopilot function and start to violate FAA rules with ease, the FAA…

Man, that is a fantastic summary of silicon fabs! I work with a lot of custom silicon, and it’s interesting to see where everyone builds their parts. TSMC does indeed have some really good mixed-signal process nodes.

Still waiting for that endless stream of torrential rainfall here in California. Everyone keeps saying it’s going to happen, but when? It’s November, our reservoirs are mostly empty, and there’s very little forecast for rain in the near future. Anything that does pop up in the 4-5 day forecast just disappears.

I only realized how terrible this drought was when I drove through Sequoia National Forest from San Jose. I’ve been through the Central Valley before back in 2008, and it was all lush, green, full of orchards. The San Luis reservoir was pretty full, and everything looked normal.