Don’t get me wrong, they’re currently still huge. But I saw a 2024 or 2025 Tacoma a few weeks ago that looked a fair bit smaller than the previous year models. I’m hoping we’re on the rebound and that they’re going to continue to decrease in size. Guess we’ll see but I’m hoping so too.

I will say that I love a (tiny) extended cab - Toyota calls/called them the “access cab” and on the old (early to mid-90s) S10’s I had I think they called them a “king cab”. Having space in the cab to store tools, camping/emergency gear, etc is really nice. There are ““seats”” there in the Tacoma, presumably to get around the chicken tax, but they are horrible to use as such. The ones in the old S10 folded up into the side walls which was awesome. They were out of the way but available for the 0.0001% of the time you needed them and those actually weren’t too horribly uncomfortable since they faced the center of the vehicle instead of forward.

Cars keep on getting bigger,

(US) I’ve noticed over the past couple of years that “small” trucks are starting to shrink again. Seems they finally hit critical mass.

I remember when the Toyota Tacoma was a truly small truck (up through the late 1990s, maybe early 2000s?). If I’m not mistaken, the 2015-2020ish Tacoma is the size of the 90s Toyota Tundra which was a “big” truck at the time. It’s stupid. I need a truck but I don’t need a $100,000 tank with a quad cab and a useless fucking tiny bed. About 75% of the people I know that buy those huge quad cab trucks actually need a minivan because all they use it for is shuttling their kids around but, of course, minivans aren’t “cool”.

… now I’m getting off topic but minivans are freaking awesome. Assuming the seats are stowable or removable, you get a ton of (enclosed) cargo space (more than those stupid quad cab trucks with tiny beds) and can optionally move a lot of people or a lot of cargo. They are fantastic for road trips if you need more space than a typical sedan.

This is one of the things in life that makes me irrationally angry. Give us small trucks that are actually small.

tldr: Failed to mention that was total price for two lines. I added an EDIT to the original post, more info below.

Unfortunately no, and that’s with a 20% discount from my previous employer. Although I should have specified that that price is for two lines with the 6GB shared between them with rollover. I look at different plans at my current carrier every now and then but they’re the same or more expensive for ““unlimited”” data (typically throttled at around 3GB).

I really need to find the motivation to switch to a prepaid plan because those can be had much cheaper. Plus my current carrier is a shitass and I really shouldn’t be giving them money. I’ve been eyeing https://www.phreeli.com/ lately…

$110/month for 6GB data but this is the US where mobile data is expensive as shit.

I usually use around 300MB

EDIT: $110 for two lines with data shared between them. The other person on the account uses more like 3GB/month and I find it funny to compare our data usage.

One example I like to use is to ask it for the lyrics of an extremely well known song. It just makes shit up based on the title you give it.

The online ones (Claude, chatgpt, copilot, etc) now refuse to do it for ““copyright reasons”” but the offline ones still happily oblige. I assume the online ones added that block because it was such an obvious way to prove they don’t “know” shit.

I’d agree with this. I’m a dev, I can make things work, I can’t do art/graphics/assets/etc for shit. Give me 5 or 6 hours and I might be able to get you one image that is semi passable if the intended artistic style is “3 year old with crayons”

There have recently been attempts to ban fluoride in some municipalities. I wonder what they’d do if it was in an area where it’s naturally occurring…

Glad to see this comment on the chain. I haven’t tried it myself (yet) but I’ve got a friend that does and says it works great.

It’s on my list. Unfortunately, it’s a really long list.

My problem with this, if I understand correctly, is I can usually do all of this faster without having to lead a LLM around by the nose and try to coerce it into being helpful.

That said, search engines do suck ass these days (thanks LLMs)

Without the payoff of the next generation of developers learning.

Management: “Treat it like a junior dev”

… So where are we going to get senior devs if we’re not training juniors?

Welcome to the future! … Or the past, not sure, but welcome.

Good for you Nvidia. I just switched from Nvidia to AMD during that minor price dip. Been wanting to for years but couldn’t afford it.

… Not going back : D

I’m not sure if “abcess” was intentional (“abscess”) or a typo (“absence”) but either way… it works.

Hey, me too!

It’s 25C here currently… So denial, I guess?

O! My apologies! I thought you were a farrier FOR centipedes.

I never considered that you were a centipede that was a farrier… Does that make me racist? Maybe.

Or links if you’re all fancy like.

If you know anyone who works in nursing or similar, you can some times get medical grade staplers (and other semi specialty things) for free when they “expire” and need to be thrown out.

I’ve still got two staplers in my medical kit that expired in 2010. I assume it’s the sterile rating that is no longer valid since it’s a stapler. Haven’t needed them yet…

Did you inherit the farrier tools? How often do you need to change the shoes on a centipede? I know the shoes are small, but there are a lot of them… Seems expensive depending on how many centipedes you have.

O, unless you’re a centipede farrier by trade and that’s how you make money. Seems like a potentially lucrative business since I’ve never met another centipede farrier.

(Also, nice work, that’s impressive)

As a tall thin person, I’ve always worn “Large” sized shirts (tshirts, button ups, jackets, etc). Over the last two years I noticed that the button up long sleeve shirts that I like have almost exactly the same overall length, sleeve length, and collar. The only obvious difference is that they’re much larger around in the stomach area.

About a year ago I picked up a size L insulated flannel shirt and thought “sleeves/length is perfect, this’ll do” and the person with me told me I had a carnival tent in the back that I probably wouldn’t have realized until later. So I picked up the M size, sleeves/length were the same, but still a lot of extra fabric around midsection. Picked up a S size… perfect.

That blew my mind a little bit that the overall length and sleeve length of the Small to Large were almost identical, they just tailored in a lot more fabric to account for big bellies. Makes me think that probably sucks for people who are not tall and wear a Small…