My understanding is that the initial Mini models were made with Peugeot engines, which were underpowered and pretty unreliable. At some point BMW switched Minis over to use a Beemer engine, at which point quality improved dramatically. Mini has been on an upward trend since (as has BMW).

Anecdotally, someone in my family has a Mini with the BMW engine, and it’s been ticking along just fine. Maintenance is expensive though.

I do not think that Subaru models outside of the BRZ or Solterra have Toyota parts.

There is also the Crosstrek and there are talks to intensify the collaboration even further. The obvious difference in size is possibly going to cause some problems, and Daihatsu, another one of those collaborations is a guide to how that could play out.

Subaru has a ton of engine and 4WD knowledge that would benefit Toyota, the other way around, Toyota has economies of scale and hybrid knowledge that Subaru will likely never have so both come out ahead of a partnership like this and the signs are that they are drawing closer to each other. Toyota has steadily expanded their stake in Subaru which today stands at 20%, and Subaru is now officially a part of the Toyota group.

https://www.torquenews.com/1084/subaru-officially-joins-toyo...

It’s to distract from the government’s unwillingness to hold a public inquiry into China’s election meddling.

Yes, I'm sure that's why the European commission did the same [1] a few days ago, why the US House is debating it now [2], and a number of other govt's have been considering it in the last month or two..

[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/23/european-commi...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3876321-tiktok-ban-mak...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3845729-texas-governor... https://statescoop.com/florida-tiktok-ban-desantis-digital-r...

Interesting how they all realized this thread at more or less the same time considering how long TikTok been out. "Influencing our democracy" has also been trending heavily.

It's all rather hilarious. The tiktok story is the 2nd headline on Google news for me. The first being something insane about a CCP official, CSIS, and a fat donation the PM's charity fund??

“The rules on making multinationals pay taxes where they operate - known as "pillar one" of the agreement - would apply to global companies with at least a 10% profit margin. Twenty percent of any profit above that would be reallocated and taxed in the countries where they operate, according to the G7 communiqué.”

How will taxing authorities determine which companies meet the 10% profit margin threshold? Which jurisdiction is this threshold calculated in for multinationals?

These are details that inevitably will be hammered out in the following months.

In the end, most of these companies are public, their profit margins are already disclosed.

I went through the same flow and was convinced it was expressly designed to make setting one’s preferences impossible.

I also wanted to know which UX/UI designers put together the password reset process, which was pretty infuriating.

It’s mind-blowing to me that a 3-year car is considered aging.

Anecdote time: my parents bought a secondhand 93 Toyota Corolla that I inherited and drove until 2011. They continued using it until 2018, and got rid of it. It was still running. A few plastic internals had failed and the engine was rough, but still going. It easily had another 5ish years on it.

I have a 2004 Land Rover Discovery 3 with 220k miles on it, all of the systems in that car still work, even the ancient screen with all of its functions is still absolutely fine.

Teslas seem to be on the same path as smartphones - even if the original hardware doesn't get any slower as such, the experience gets worse and worse and worse with updates, to a point where a car that's less than 10 years old is now uncomfortable to use. It's a tragedy.

Maybe it just feels that way. I've looked at the old tesla interfaces and the current software updates look modern and have new features.

That's the problem though: car interfaces shouldn't "look modern", they should provide access to features in a maximally safe and ergonomic way. Tesla seems to be going in the exact opposite direction, mirroring the trend of web and mobile technologies.

They should also work predictably and consistently. When I’m in an emergency going 70 miles per hour or stranded by the side of the road at 3AM, I don’t want to have to worry about whether I’m running Car2.0 or Car2.1 where they changed where the hazard light button was.

I owned a FIAT Punto for 13 years, did 250-300k kilometers with it and only replaced it because I had two kids and baby seats were a pain in the ass on a 3 doors model.

Still worked like a charm, and it wasn't a particularly fancy model or brand.

I hope GP just used "aging" meaning "not brand new", it would scare me deeply if we started replacing cars the way we do smartphones.

I thought the same thing. The average car here (New Zealand, so not some third world country) is 14 years old.

Average age of a car in the US is at least over 10 years I think. And probably 15 years before it's scrapped. Most wouldn't be with their original owner though.

My 2014 Tesla has 345k miles on it. The battery still gets 210 miles. Everything still works - but the eMMC chip is failing.

That's about 49300 miles a year, or about 200 miles a day if you drive five days a week, 50 weeks out of the year. That's a lot of driving. What has pushed you to be driving so much?

They aren't my miles but for ~5k; I bought it used. It was a "perq car" for a wine tour company.

How hard is the eMMC to replace?

let's see.. toyota has been around 83 years, tesla 17

27/83 = .33

3/17 = .18

Yes, the math checks out. The 2017 model is only 18% of the age of tesla motors, while the corolla was 33% of the age of Toyota.

I once read (or heard?) that the reason why Twitter has such outsize importance is because a lot of journalists use it. They’re on it a lot, follow a lot of people, use it to discover what issues are blowing up...

I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I thought it an interesting idea.

“The study still does not address a worrisome mutation in the South African variant, called the E484K mutation.”

Exactly! We already were 90% certain that it worked for the UK mutation.

Yes, we have. Specifically:

1. LIST 2. PUT 3. LIST

would trigger situations where (3) wouldn't include the object inserted in (2). This is well-known however.

Also:

  1. HEAD key -> 404
  2. PUT key  -> 200
  3. GET key  -> 404 (what? But I just put it!)

This is commonly used for "upload file if it doesn't exist"

Even more confusing, the 404 on GET is caused by doing the HEAD when the object doesn't exist. Without the previous HEAD, the GET would usually succeed.

Hmm. I use 1Password with a vault we both share. Works great.