Thanks for sharing! Those seem valuable resources to prepare for CS interviews, you can probably suggest them as answers to a question in !cs_career_questions
I bought a hybrid honda civic last year which only has one gear, so no point in having manual transmission. Don't really miss it, although I always liked the extra control stick gives.
Only if its a hybrid that uses capacitors and a high output engine that only charges the capacitors.
So you get like 30-60 seconds of continuous insane power that you can put to the wheels, but after that the engine has to recharge the capacitors and provide enough to barely accelerate at the speed of like a a big semi without a hefty engine.
The trick is since you're not always doing WOT, you can effectively get ridiculous performance and really good MPG so long as you treat your capacitors like a boost meter that recharges.
Regular hybrids already do this, but they use normal Li batteries which usually requires that the engine also be able to directly power the wheels which adds complexity and cost.
It's kind of like how the ships works in Elite Dangerous lol.
I had a manual for about 75k miles, mostly liked it, but have had an automatic since then (inheritence coming into play, free car = free car). I had a little Chevy Spark EV for about a year that was a joy. Honestly, not having to change gears at all is AWESOME. You don't think about the motion caused by even the best of manual shifts (let alone terrible CVT shifts) until it's not there. It's so much smoother to get up to speed and I loved it.
Waiting for battery tech to get a little better and running out my current car (Shoutouts to Toyota), then will be going back to an electric car.
I absolutely don’t socialize that much. My job doesn’t have traditional weekends, though, so it helps. My “weekend” would be the equivalent of the weekend you just described (maybe one event). I found that I did more things when I was younger, but now I just don’t do something social unless I really think it’s going to bring me joy.
A few years ago, when I was finishing up my degree in college. It was evening school, so I had a few dinners that were soda (usually cherry coke) and some random salty or sweet snack. I had a nutty buddy for the first time since childhood. Tasted like nostalgia.
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