justin

Principal Engineer @Ford, previously @BMW. Opinions are unfortunately my own.

[justin @foooorsyth]

@reed Google Cloud was given its own line item when it was losing over $5B/yr with revenue under $9B

[justin @foooorsyth]

Begging engineers to spend just 15 minutes per quarter reading their company’s public filings

[reed @reed]

@AIDRIVR sorry we aren't selling our money printer

[justin @foooorsyth]

@reed Sure. Can you explain why your parent company considers your money printing division to be “not individually material” enough to justify its own line item on the income statement?

[justin @foooorsyth]

@theodorvaryag Because the ZR1X and the GT3 RS both did 6:49 on the Nordschleife. The ZR1X was driven by an engineer

[justin @foooorsyth]

@_baldtires Congrats. K swap when?

[justin @foooorsyth]

@Sheepinacart Those are dedicated climate control displays. They never display any value other than the desired HVAC temp. Outdoor temp is in the kombi and radio freq is in the CID on the F30

[justin @foooorsyth]

Fun fact: Lack of fidelity in Celsius has made certain cars more expensive. The F30 used dedicated seven-segment displays for temperature. Because half a degree of C is perceptible, the displays needed an extra digit after the decimal which impacted the BOM

[Dmitriy Kovalenko @neogoose_btw]

Today I realized that there is an actual benefit of Fahrenheit - you can store temperature as u8 instead of f32

[justin @foooorsyth]

@Sheepinacart Cheaper displays with only two seven-segment sections could’ve been procured if it weren’t for Celsius’ lack of fidelity

[justin @foooorsyth]

@oowgn This is a display for the (desired) climate control temp, not the actual interior thermometer. Typical range is 60-84F, though on the E46 it went all the way up to 90F on the heat. On most cars the only thermometer reading you’ll see displayed (in the kombi) is exterior temp

[justin @foooorsyth]

@AntiClanker1337 Germans tend to prefer specificity over ambiguity

[justin @foooorsyth]

Everyone’s piling on the Luce’s exterior, but the real tragedy for me is the existence of the B-pillar. If you go with rear suicide doors and you can’t delete the B-pillar, you have failed aesthetically, structurally, and practically

[justin @foooorsyth]

@wmorrill3 Legend. Thanks for your contribution to automotive history 🫡

[justin @foooorsyth]

@drsuffy

[justin @foooorsyth]

@BrenzGarage NVH in modern sports cars is often so refined that the experience feels muted. The *sensation* of speed at 70 mph is higher in my E46 330ci than in any slick top 992. Never do a sunroof delete — you WANT to hear more wind rush and engine noise

[justin @foooorsyth]

@_baldtires I wasn’t even hypermiling — just driving normally. The 2.7 is crazy

[justin @foooorsyth]

If you spec the 36 gallon fuel tank with the 2.7L EcoBoost you can super commute from the Carolinas without having to stop for gas

[justin @foooorsyth]

@defyus @thdxr Exactly how Go, Swift Package Manager, and Bazel work. Centralization was a mistake.

[justin @foooorsyth]

How has Uber not implemented a functioning “the driver is driving around in circles and is trying to get the rider to cancel” algorithm? Can see how they’d be incentivized to lie about pickup times but where is the business incentive to allow drivers to do this on airport rides?

[justin @foooorsyth]

I asked 4.6 Opus to vendor Mbed TLS and replace my bespoke HSM cryptographic exchange with SW-only TLS DHE PSK. It tried to globally install jsontools with pip. Is 4.6 just lobotomized since the 4.7 release or am I just cursed?