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Welcome to Carl Howe’s web site, home of my occasional musings on music, cats, amateur radio, electric cars, and anything else that comes to mind.

Why did Tesla cut prices? Because it can

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Tesla has cut prices on its cars by up to 20%. Some have attributed this to excess supply and weak demand. I think it is a play to use its profitability to squeeze its competitors.
Jan 14, 2023
Carl Howe

Twitter API is down

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Third-party Twitter apps are currently offline because the Twitter API is down. I suspect this is just an outage, not a new strategy, but I could be wrong.
Jan 13, 2023
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RSS feed images restored

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I think I fixed the problem I created with images not appearing in my RSS feed.
Dec 29, 2022
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No, Apple’s chip design team did not suffer an ‘unprecedented failure’

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Most Apple designs never see the light of day, which is why the so-called failure of the A16 chip design was actually just a part of its regular product development process.
Dec 29, 2022
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Missing images in RSS feed

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I apologize that the RSS feed doesn’t have preview images. I am trying to learn what Quarto feature I am not understanding to fix it.
Dec 23, 2022
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Great trip to Sugarloaf

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Sugarloaf: we had great skiing and an uneventful EV trip
Dec 23, 2022
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A quick Tesla trip to Sugarloaf Resort

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While cold weather will make our trip up to Sugarloaf ME about 30 minutes longer than if it were warm weather, driving our Teslas on long trips is not much different than driving a gas-powered car.
Dec 19, 2022
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A gorgeous First Noel

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Peter Gregson, Tenebrae, and a suite of other soloists have created a stunning new version of The First Noel.
Dec 18, 2022
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Back to the Blog

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Now that Twitter is losing its mind (or at least its popularity), I have decided that the best way to control what people read about me is to return to blogging on my own site.
Dec 18, 2022
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