Wired up my Claude Code via A2A with my OpenClaw agent. They share a memory via Honcho, so at all times both agents have the same understanding of my home lab. Cool đ
Hypercritical
Hypercritical: EV Stupidity Checklist
Spot on checklist for car makers from John Siracusa, who always has a knack for this sort of thing.
In 2026, weâre well past the time when EVs need to compromise safety and functionality in order to appear futuristic. As for the cost savings, well, thatâll be harder to shake. Once automakers got a taste for cheap touchscreens, they spread to all cars, not just EVs.
To help the industry get back on the right track, Iâve created a checklist for car designers. Make sure your new carâEV or otherwiseâchecks all these boxes to avoid making the same stupid mistakes that have plagued modern cars for years.
Itâs no accident that we are in the midst of selling our Rivian R1S, which fails to check quite a few boxes:
- Physical charge-port door mechanism: this one actually bit us in the ass recently. Our R1S has been sitting in the driveway while we wait for parts from Rivian (it was in an accident and itâs been over a month waiting for parts). The battery died and we couldnât open the charge port to plug it in. They had to send people to our house to fix it. So dumb.
- Physical controls for temperature and fan speed
- Physical controls for air flow and direction
- Physical glove box opening mechanism: This one is a double fail â the R1S doesnât even have a glove box. So dumb.
Not on the checklist, but relevant, is that Rivian doesnât support Apple CarPlay.
Meanwhile, my BMW i4 suffers from none of these problems, which is why we decided to get a used iX for my wife. Physical charge port doors, real door handles, âstalksâ to adjust the direction of airflow, and native support for CarPlay. They arenât perfect, but they give the same great BMW experience that exists in the rest of their ICE cars without compromise.
Gierratio
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun
Launching your enemies into the sun is simple with the one easy trick rocket scientists don't want you to know about!
When snark and nerdiness collide, the results are often delightful, and this post is no exception.
Calculating the delta-v needed to launch someone into the sun is easier mathematically but tougher conceptually because it actually requires the counterintuitive approach of firing your rockets retrograde until your orbital velocity becomes zero. Since your velocity is now zero, the sun is going to pull you straight down until you become a toasty, concerningly fleshy [sic] marshmellow.
In the last 20 years of my life, Iâve slowly devolved into a concerningly fleshy marshmallow with very little aid from gravity.
What a fun post.
These Steam Deck price hikes are making me worried that the Steam Frame is going to cost a hojillion dollars.
