Plenty (maybe even most) of 1st level manages will see and understand, but are still unable or unwilling to push back on unrealistic expectations coming from outside

My manager directly told me after a “meets expectations” annual review that he had originally put “exceeds expectations” but was overridden by someone above him and told he could not give me that evaluation. I then got a less-than-inflation “raise”.

I have adjusted my efforts accordingly.

The lack of exposure for this particular feature of EVs and PHEVs is kind of baffling to me. The ability to use your vehicle essentially as a UPS for your home is huge. My Outlander PHEV is capable of V2H through its CHAdeMO port but finding the equipment to actually use it seems just about impossible.

Even without special equipment though it has two 120V AC outlets and is rated for a combined output of 1500W through them. Definitely nice to have in a pinch. With a fully charged battery and full tank of gas it could run those outlets at maximum load for about a week.

I don’t understand your question. Why not that number?

That tracks with my experience as well. Literally every single Seagate drive I’ve owned has died, while I have decade old WDs that are still trucking along with zero errors. I decided a while back that I was never touching Seagate again.

So teaching it alongside things like the quadratic equation makes perfect sense then.

Understandable. Just for the sake of comparison to a smartphone 120W fast charger, level 1 EV chargers (which can still take days to fully charge a completely drained EV) will generally deliver between 1000 and 1500W. Level 2 (the fastest you’ll typically see installed in people’s homes) range from about 7kW to 19kW. Level 3 fast chargers typically operate from about 60 to 250kW and unlike level 1 and 2 which deliver AC to the car to be handled by the vehicles internal rectifier/charger, level 3 delivers DC.

Where did you pull that 1440Wh number from? The battery in my plug-in hybrid is 20kWh, and that’s still small compared to a full EV.

You’ll probably never test every possible way that a user might interact with a given piece of software, but for embedded control software, like what’s responsible for managing charging and starting the car, it literally is quite feasible to test every possible input and use case.

If you’re doing something with the output of the engine then it’s not idling, strictly speaking.

Both can be true.

When you’re cultivating a relationship with a real person their wants and desires also factor into your choices, assuming you aren’t a psychopath. They will want different things from you, and keeping that to themselves and never pushing back just makes them miserable and builds resentment. Similarly, you don’t want to impose unreasonable expectations on them. Whether that’s related to their behaviour or their appearance, no one can reasonably expect to get exactly what they want 100% of the time, and that’s part of a healthy relationship.

…but if you’re constructing an artificial partner from a blank slate that’s completely bespoke to you, to choose anything other than an idealized match for all your desires is frankly insane, and to pretend otherwise is simply disingenuous.

Definitely a timesaver. Much faster to get incorrect email validation that way then to try building it yourself.

…and do you think spiders wouldn’t like that?

Yes, and so many of them do it wrong, it’s crazy.

Don’t know how many times I’m after seeing “bye” instead of “b’y”. Stunned.

Even if absolutely everything is documented there is still the loss of familiarity and comfort working with a given system.

Having perfectly documented processes still might mean that a new engineer could take multiple hours following instructions to do what the person who originally built the system managed off the top of their head in fifteen minutes.

Where did I say it did? The fact that it’s not a net neutrality issue doesn’t mean it’s not an issue. Net neutrality is just a specific thing that isn’t this.

Right, but your service provider has nothing to do with that difference. The fact that the entity you’re contacting on the other end of the connection is providing a degraded experience isn’t an internet service delivery problem.

Your internet service, which is what net neutrality is concerned with, is distinct from services on the internet. In the same way that your phone service has nothing to do with the quality of service you get from HP’s telephone support line.

Right. I’m saying both / and ÷ are ambiguous in that context. WA interprets both symbols as having equivalent meaning.

What’s especially wild to me is that even the position of “it’s ambiguous” gets almost as much pushback as trying to argue that one of them is universally correct.

Last time this came up it was my position that it was ambiguous and needed clarification and had someone accuse me of taking a prescriptive stance and imposing rules contrary to how things were actually being done. How asking a person what they mean or seeking clarification could possibly be prescriptive is beyond me.

Bonus points, the guy telling me I was being prescriptive was arguing vehemently that implicit multiplication having precedence was correct and to do otherwise was wrong, full stop.

…he literally used the ÷ operator in the top screenshot. WolframAlpha interprets it as synonymous with /.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season one, episode eight, “Justice”.