I would suggest Loonshots - fascinating dive into both the technology and the conditions that allowed people to really make stuff happen (or not) https://www.bahcall.com/book/

I live in the Canadian Prairies, run outdoors year round. One thing I've experienced a few times is my contact lenses feeling much more rigid, which I've attributed to them starting to freeze up in extreme situations. Typically near the end of longer, 3+ hour runs where I'd be facing the wind and moving slower. Temps lower than -25 celsius and a 10 km/h wind cools things down fast.

While we're ranting about the 'infotainment' systems on cars, how about the apps? The Kia Connect enrages me every time I have to use it for my wife's car. It makes the in-car system seem snappy and awesome. The fact that they want to start charging for it after the 'trial' period is un-believable.

My nine year old has been using Minecraft education edition, Swift Playgrounds and Lego Boost to figure out programming. In Swift, he figures out structure and concepts, in Boost it is the interactions with the sensors and in Minecraft he puts it all together to make traps, contraptions and just experiment.

Awesome, I gotta check out Swift Playgrounds and Lego Boost.

My oldest is still 5, think those are out of reach?

Here's my realm: We have a react based "framework" that in the end is zipped up and delivered as a SCORM package to be embedded in a Learning Management System. We use React Router to manage navigation.

After a quick scan of the Next docs, all references to routing seem to tie back to server side which is a non starter, as the SCORM is standalone HTML/CSS/JS/Media - that we happen to embellish at run time with some api calls.

This is a case where the pure SPA with no server side is the only way to go; seems like a real pain to go against the default state of Next. Am I wrong and am just missing something? Again, been occasionally looking at next and the like over the past while, but never had time to really dig into into it.

Next doesn’t need a server, you can export to a fully static package. The dynamic server-side features obviously won’t apply, but it otherwise works great.

Do you have an example of the SCORM? I'd love to see how you've structured it? (What's your LMS that you use?)

These guys seem to have a niche: hauling logs off of mountains. Regenerative braking on the way down when heavy; using a Diesel engine as a generator in the truck's engine bay. https://www.edisonmotors.ca/trucks

First winter with a Kia Soul EV here - and at -20° C this past week, after about 10 minutes with just heated seats/steering wheel on and no fan/forced air heating, it starts fogging up and my feet (even in decent winter boots) start getting chilly.

Turn on the heater and crank the fan, and watch the range drop about 3-5km per increment on the fan dial.

Our other vehicle is an old Jeep Liberty with a V6; gas mileage drops on it as well in winter - combination of some pre-warming and using full time 4WD more. I've always planned for 20-40% less range since I started driving well over 30 years ago, it is just something you do living in a truly cold winter climate.

Or a standard feature if you're living on the Canadian prairies.

In the mid 70's my uncle left Edmonton to do his doctorate in the Bay Area, and had his classmates at Berkeley convinced that his big Dodge Charger was electric because of the block heater cord on the front of it :-)

As I am preparing to update a 10 year old project done in backbone/coffeescript this whole thread hits hard. Likewise a react prototype done in 2018 that is all class based that is going to be next to revive.

Maybe I should just write my own framework... quick, to the name generator sites!

As others have mentioned, the absolute nonsense of needing two or three streaming subscriptions to watch all 82 games of a team's season is infuriating. Particular with the garbage streams on TSN - some games were a full 20% of pixelated smear - on a wired connection getting well over 900 Mb/s, and surprise, never any dropped streams on other services.

The kicker of course, was the influx of gambling ads on TSN this season, thankfully, at least on the NHL app for the other games the ads are replaced by the gentle ice making video :-)

Yes, the VPN will work in some instances, but despite being savvy, my spouse will never fart around with the hoops to get the VPN on the Apple TV which is where most games get streamed.

The whole thing needs to burnt down and re-built with a model that doesn't suck so bad.