[karaterobot]

> It is interesting how fish-out-of-water the story is, given that the author covers that industry.

Yeah, though I bet a tech journalist who sat in on a software product being developed would also be surprised by a lot of things. There's just a big difference between writing about something and doing it.

(Also, that article would be much more boring than this one.)

And I got the sense from that article that truck driving in Alaska is very different than in the lower 48, even to the extent that the driving is different (that bit about shifting into higher gear to go down slopes)