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Mostly to prevent damage and minimize maintenance + cleanup. Dirty shoes can mess with the oiling and rocks lodged in soles can gouge the floor.

> it's like how so many buy and tune WRXs, but don't actually take it to gravel roads.

For good reason, they're not built for it. A relatively stock WRX is going to be destroyed after a few outings of hard driving on rough terrain[1]. The WRC winning Subarus[2] were fully built racecars from top to bottom and share only styling with the ones sold at dealerships. They're very fun and capable on solid pavement for a cheap car, but the rally pedigree is all marketing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-o8vuhRok

[2] https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/27996/lot/87/1999-subaru-im...

> 20-inch wheels aren't capable of cool stuff. It's all peacocking.

You should let Porsche and Chevy know that all the lap records they set with the GT3 RS and ZR1 could be even faster with some proper wheels ;)

> HEB operates a similar model to Costco in being more expensive to the customer in a subtle way, through desirability. Their products are so interesting and appetizing that I go in with the intention of buying $30 of groceries and leave with a $100 load.

Costco groceries are expensive because you're forced to buy in bulk. You can leave HEB with 1 tube of toothpaste or a single potato. You can't leave Costco with fewer than 5 tubes of toothpaste or several pounds of potatoes. I love Costco and imo they win in a few areas like the butcher, but HEB crushes them in the variety of desirable groceries hands down.

>If you wanted to offer a more convincing doubt about the method, I suggest complaining about their treatment of mix shift.

I'm not trying to convince anyone who will agree on a data-driven premise without actually seeing the data. The article states that a record number of cities have $1m+ starter homes, but there's no easily accessible list of those cities. I couldn't find it, where did you see it? I gave up after clicking about 10 different links and only landing on another vague article or advertiser's product.

> Does the US have the same distinction we have here in Australia where there will be a small local government area in the centre of a city named that?

It varies, but mostly yes. I think they're limiting the definition of a "city" to as small as possible to inflate the prices for a scary headline. Austin is the most expensive metropolitan area in TX. Fire up zillow if you can access it, search for Austin, TX with a $600k limit and it'll automatically put the city boundary on the results. You'll find plenty of listings, over 1900 standalone homes for me as of right now. Including townhomes and condos it's over 2800.

I used Austin as an example because it's the most expensive metropolitan area in Texas, which supposedly has 7 of these $1m+ starter home cities. It doesn't hold true there and it's even less true for the larger cities like Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Anyway, my point is that it comes across as deceptive by providing ambiguous information with no easily accessible data to reference and loading the article with as many advertising links as possible.

> they don't need to nudge you into a particular position.

That's exactly what they're doing and I even put a snippet from the article in my comment. Here it is again

> For buyers navigating today's market, Zillow Home Loans' BuyAbility℠ tool provides a personalized, real-time estimate of the home price and monthly payment that fit within their budget. Home listings on Zillow also include a down payment assistance module to help shoppers identify local programs that may be available to them.

It's fear driven advertising with no meaningful information. They don't mention the cities and I wasn't able to find them. The article is chock full of links other zillow articles, their own products and 3rd party advertisers.

> The number of cities where a typical starter home is worth $1 million or more has nearly tripled since before the pandemic, rising from 80 in February 2020 to a record 242 today.

Doubt. They don't define what constitutes a city and seem to be purposely be hiding the data. There's only a count of the cities per state with no mention their names. I followed link after link and couldn't find them and gave up. Texas supposedly has 7 of these $1m+ starter home cities. Austin is the most expensive metropolitan area, and there are plenty of < $600k homes in centrally located areas. Venture out to the suburbs like Pflugerville, Cedar Park or Buda and you'll have plenty of options with $400k to spend. There are only a handful of small pockets around the city where $1m won't buy you a starter home like Zilker and Tarrytown.

> For buyers navigating today's market, Zillow Home Loans' BuyAbility℠ tool provides a personalized, real-time estimate of the home price and monthly payment that fit within their budget. Home listings on Zillow also include a down payment assistance module to help shoppers identify local programs that may be available to them.

> For those who decide renting is the right call, Zillow Rentals® lists options across every price point and property type — including single-family homes, apartments and individual room listings. Renters can also use CreditClimb to report on-time rent payments to the major credit bureaus, building the credit history that will put them in a stronger position when they're ready to buy.

This is just fear driven advertising. BUY NOW OR YOU'LL NEVER OWN A HOME!!

> Devils advocate take: I think the quality of the ShowHN projects are in fact getting higher, at least the ones that land in the front page.

I haven't seen so many low effort and obvious astroturfing posts linger on the front page than in recent months. They never mention what they're doing and have no proof of their work. There was a post the other day titled "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"[1] that had tons of traction with no substance. It was posted by an account created that day and the comments were filled with bots responding about how productive they are, but no mention of what they're actually doing.

It's annoying seeing these obvious spam/astroturfing posts take attention away from interesting content that's worth reading.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777

pypy has been around for almost 20 years. It's listed in the alternate implementations on the official python.org site where you can download releases[1] and it's mentioned dozens of times across multiple sections of python's wikipedia page[2]. There's nothing secret or nefarious about it. Some of the core devs are even in the comments here.

[1] https://downloads.python.org/pypy/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#...

> Like you said, the fundamental idea behind the book was that consciously naming, cataloging, and studying design patterns would improve communication among programmers.

> The younger programmers I work with who had no exposure to the GoF book.....and they communicate amongst themselves just as efficiently as my generation

> The generation that learned to program after design patterns had faded as an idea learned just as quickly and communicates just as well as the generation that studied them assiduously as junior programmers like I did.

I've never read GOF so I don't know if they emphasize communication, but I have read and studied many other programming pattern books and communication is low on the list of reasons to learn them in my opinion. Their only purpose for me is to organize code in a way that has been proven to "scale" along with a codebase so that you don't end up with a plate of spaghetti.

Yep, that's why I said "behaves like".

> There's no type casting in Python. int(), float() and bool() just create objects of their respective types, passing the arguments to the initializer

int() and float() behave like type casting, bool() does not. It's a truthiness check that would be more aptly named istruthy(). In python non-empty strings are truthy, so providing any string except for "" to bool() will return True, including "False".

> Right, the bug is in the inconsistent naming.

The comment I responded to didn't seem to realize that because they asked why it behaves the way it does, so I explained.

> If casting from a string to a type works with ints and floats, why not with bools? What possible justification is there?

> I'd honestly much prefer bool() threw an exception on receiving a string, rather than act the way it does now.

They serve fundamentally different purposes. bool() is a truthiness check and not a type cast like int() and float(). It seems like a lot of people take issue with the name, because it was called something like istruthy() the discussion about it wouldn't be happening.

> How does this work, though? Every company I've worked for has an HR system, and resumes flow through it, and there's a set process. If I have worked with a candidate in the past and highly recommend them, all I can do is submit their resume into the great void and check a box "Recommend

I haven't worked for any massive companies with thousands of employees where there might be a lot of bureaucracy, but the few I've worked for ranged from ~100-700 and it was pretty easy to get interviews for referrals. One of my employers encouraged referrals and offered bonuses if it led to a hire.

> You wouldn’t necessarily want a mechanic or engineer to drive a race car, for example.

GM does. Their engineers have set multiple track records[1] and vehicle-specific lap records[2].

[1] https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/02/c8-corvette-zr1-sets-fi...

[2] https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a10206481/the-chevrole...

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. PHP is inherently less complex than languages like JS and python for the backend and results in fewer dependencies because that's what it was designed to do. Quite literally no features required to build even a very basic dynamic website come with JS out of the box: sessions, password hashing, database connectors, input sanitizing, cookies, html templating, etc... It all needs to be either written by you or installed as a dependency. They're all standard features in PHP.

You seem to be emphasizing syntax rather than features of the languages and the stack itself. PHP was designed from the ground up for the backend side of web. Python, JS and Java were not. Many fundamental web development features are built into PHP like sessions, cookies, HTTP request variables, while a language interface server like Gunicorn or runtime like node is required to generate much of that from the incoming request and forward it to your application. Once it gets to your application either you or a library then needs to track those cookies, sessions, etc.. That's all built into PHP. So instead of a call sequence for a python/node app being request -> nginx -> Gunicorn -> python app, with PHP it's just request -> nginx/apache -> php app. There are plenty of other web-specific features that are dead simple in PHP like header redirects and HTML templating, whereas with python/node/java they have to be implemented by you, your framework or a language interface server.

Thanks for sharing. This looks like another fun project to work through over a weekend.

> So where are they, all these quiet, beautifully aurally tuned cars (emphasis on quiet)?

You won't notice them if you're not interested in cars, but there are tons of them and Lexus/Toyota are responsible for quite a few. The RC-F, IS500 and LC500 sound amazing, as did the GS-F and IS-F. Toyota also made some iconic engines such as the 2JZ-GTE in the MKIV Supra and the 2GR engine that Lotus used in the Evora.

> And, as anyone who ever had to drive a car with a broken exhaust muffler can say, it's also nothing special...

Loud isn't the goal, the tone is. The Lexus LFA is a perfect example of this[1]. It's not extremely loud for a car of that caliber, but it's lauded as one of the best sounding cars ever made. Poorly designed exhaust (or no exhaust in the case of your broken muffler) on an otherwise great sounding engine almost always ruins the tone and makes it unbearable to listen to. Bad exhaust on a bad sounding engine is just miserable.

[1] https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-the-lexus-lfas-screaming-v...

These are 2 separate issues you're discussing.

> remember the time when GM said it’s not going to include CarPlay in its vehicles? And how most of hn was in revolt?

Most OEM's made terrible infotainment software that is outdated, lacking features and often extremely sluggish and clunky to use. CarPlay and Android Auto are able to bring modern features OEM's can't seem to figure out, like Google Maps integration instead of some terrible maps implementation that is outdated, as in not having addresses added in the last few years, not just "old" and cumbersome to use. I can just open up google maps on my phone, type an address and directions appear on my screen. Same with music streaming apps like Spotify.

> here comes News that says we should get rid of touchscreens, why is hn supporting this?

Not eliminate touchscreens entirely, but rather stop putting every single control they possibly can into them making vehicles dangerous to operate. Putting climate, radio, lighting, etc... into a touch screen, especially when buried in sub-menus, is just lazy cost cutting. The other big complaint are touch capacitive "buttons" and sliders. They're distracting and difficult to use, especially on anything but perfectly smooth roads. For example, the Cayenne's interior is basically just a wall of touch capacitive "buttons"[1] that you can't easily reach down to press with your eyes on the road, you have to look down at it. The other issue is feedback from it. Constant beeping from input on menus, like Toyota, just becomes obnoxious. Buttons provide instant mechanical feedback that does't lave you guessing if you pressed on the right spot. Here's a clip discussing some complaints about VW doing all of this to the Golf [2] and how frustrating it is to use.

[1] https://cdn.carbuzz.com/gallery-images/2022-porsche-cayenne-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU92h1hez_8&t=159s

> If you have to tell a middleware what order it's supposed to run in with relation to other known middlewares, chances are the middleware system itself is a poor design.

That's just the chain of responsibility pattern [1] and I've only seen middleware operate that way. Why wouldn't you want control over the order?

[1] https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/chain-of-responsibi...

+1 for Anthony's content. He even has a repository on github [1] with links to all of his videos for easier searching, and they're all labeled with a difficulty level. It's currently up to 520 videos!

[1] https://github.com/anthonywritescode/explains

Their writing style reminds of the youtuber Regular Car Reviews, and after reading their profile "about" section I'm now wondering if that's a possibility.

I would assume that someone who chooses to do that but can afford a hotel with little to no impact on their finances has a tenuous grasp on "value" and is overly frugal to the point of being stubborn.