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by Tanoc 3y ago
The Ford Mach-E does the same thing. There's thin box frame rails as part of the traditional ladder frame, and the battery pack actually forms the floorpan and stressed crossmembers. Without the battery pack the frame will deform becau
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Honestly I could probably fit into that group you're describing on technicality. I usually do informal contract or commission work that I have to self report come tax season. When things slow down in the fall or right around New Year&#
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It's not just that people are going for "better" jobs to avoid the lowest of low tier schlock jobs. It's that a dedicated chunk of those jobs refuse to hire because the employers are trying to downsize that part of their
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Hilariously batteries, even being as expensive as they are, cost less per produced vehicle than an ICE drivetrain thanks to emissions and crash regulations. In the U.S. very single engine and transmission combination for a given vehicle has
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by Tanoc 3y ago
That's a minor reason. The major reason is profit margins. It costs a lot less to make an electric vehicle than an internal combustion vehicle because the drivetrain and control systems are so much simpler. Since Tesla made electric ve
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Brutalism was designed to expose the functionality of the way everything was built. We'd been using Portland cement for a few decades at that point, but we always hid it behind facades meant to harken back to traditional architectural
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I believe a lot of the hatred of 5-over-1s is because in a lot of American towns and cities, that 20th century architecture they would've contrasted against is just gone. When everything is surrounded by post-1970s functional modernist
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by Tanoc 3y ago
I'm not against bicycles and electric bikes. I'm against "not" electric motorcycles. If your e-bike goes beyond 20MPH under power and goes beyond twenty miles in range then the primary mode of locomotion isn't suppo
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There's a subset of the anti-EV crowd that's against EVs not because they're brodozer drivers, but because they realize individual vehicle ownership is the other half of the problem. EVs still cost resources that are harmful
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Volvo's been owned by Geely for a few years now, so any weird issues are inherited from them using Geely's home market technology. A lot of Chinese luxury automotive stuff seems to be looks first function second and it's been
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The safety features like forward emergency braking are relatively new and were forced to market quickly because of regulation. Between 1946 and 2016 the interface for a car was mostly the same, save for Citroen being weird until they were b
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by Tanoc 3y ago
>Tesla’s ability to cancel indicators once it’s seen you’ve completed a lane change operation seems to be a step forward That already exists. It's called "tap to pass." Tap down the left stalk but don't let it indent,
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Yep. Or just use bootable media and install to an external drive, wipe, restart computer, repeat.
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Nope. The way we build things from the ground up has to change. Literally build things. Flat topped buildings made out of steel and concrete surrounded by pavement generate tons of heat that doesn't get dissipated, which cascades into
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Old stationary. The bonding they used for cardboard binders and the coating they put on folders was different, and pulling that out of a drawer or a bag had a very unique smell to it that hasn't been around for at least a decade. It wa
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by Tanoc 3y ago
As far as I know there's an even shorter shelf life beyond the software Chromebooks run. Which is their flash memory and RAM. Those components are almost always soldered to the board as part of the Chromebook specifications, meaning if
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Out of my international circle of friends between twenty five and forty, only one outright owns their own house. And they have a high paying internal software development job for a big European company. The rest of us either split rent or l
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And that message is actually pretty recent. Before the 20th century you could just go off into the wilderness, build your own house, catch or grow your own food, and then just do whatever you wanted without ever needing money once all of th
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Which was useful. If Bob was the subject of a targeted attack by Larry that unjustly sullied his reputation or opportunities, moving from Aton to Ceeton and changing his name to Rick means that Larry's erasure of Bob's standing is
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Is it not already bad enough that it's actually mentally exhausting walking through a Wal-Mart already with all the visual stimulus competing for your attention? If we add sound and even more moving visuals to that it's going to b
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I tend to have pretty good impulse control, aside from reading and wanting to eat certain foods. And being aware of that makes it frustrating when I see people engage in harmful or negative behaviours such as ordering from Doordash and payi
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I've been running like this ever since Javascript started to take over from Flash, circa 2010 or so. RAM usage is decreased, CPU usage is decreased, UI spam is basically gone, it often disables hostile page formatting, it lets me see w
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That's impossible. We'd have to reduce to about half of where we are now just for the fauna to stabilize. We've just taken too much too quickly. In the oceans for example there's population collapse of entire genera in d
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A right of center stone dais. The majority in the Democrats don't actually want progress, they just want to maintain the previous "normal." That is despite their opposition pushing further and further right and making parts o
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A defeatist attitude like this certainly predicts the future... If you're playing by the rules. And the rules were set by Google, so it's in your best interest to break them by actively harming Google. Restrictions in choice happe
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I thought reforming the bonds of microfractures was already well known as a differentiator between metalloids and true metals? So does this mean that metalloids just shouldn't be a group anymore, or that they instead have to be expande
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The "flapping fins" and "two great mugs thrust out from each side" certainly seem like ailerons and ballast. And the mentions of it going at "a great rate of speed" sound like what happens to dirigibles when th
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Not for very much longer outside of insulated markets like Japan and central Italy where big cars physically will not fit the streets. In the UK for example nearly half of all cars on the road now are SUVs or CUVs which are inherently large
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There has been a smaller advance in actual crash safety since 2000 than there was between 1980 and 2000. The only big leap forward since then was rollover standards where vehicles above a certain weight must be able to support their entire
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No, not necessarily. Starting in 1996 there was an update to CAFE regulations (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) that set tighter restrictions to start 2005 which only got tighter year over year from there. Conveniently thanks to the Jeep Che

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