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by Tiksi 11y ago
A 96 626 is on the older side as far as steering goes, and from what I recall driving that generation 626 it has a lower/looser steering ratio than most cars these days, though I can't seem to find any numbers with a quick search.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Newer cars generally have a much lower steering ratio (forgot the actual term for it) so steering without the power assist is a lot more difficult since turning the wheel fully in one direction might be only 1 full rotation of the wheel on
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Depending on how much reach this gets, it may have been a brilliant career move for her, though I don't think it was intentional really. (Edit: That is, I think she was being genuine when writing this and I don't think this was a
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Probably not the kind of customization most people are looking for, but you can do all that with urxvt extensions: http://jbl.web.cern.ch/jbl/doc/urxvt/ A lot more of a pain in the ass to write extensions fro
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by Tiksi 11y ago
* Tiksi slaps bdreadz around a bit with a large trout. I remember reading a study that people laugh more around other people. Anecdotally, I can definitely see this in myself. If I find something funny that isn't shared with ot
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by Tiksi 11y ago
>"at least half of all people are at or below median" Take the median of 1 2 5 5 5 5 8 9 11 23 58 46 48 37 28 67 39 Much less than half of the numbers are at or below the the median of 5. (also median would be a bad way
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Nah, the median person has 2 legs, the mean person has less than 2 legs.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Three flash drives I have on hand: 64 GB: Disk /dev/sdi: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 125829120 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 32 GB: Disk /dev/sdi: 28.9 GiB, 31037849600 bytes, 60620800 secto
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by Tiksi 11y ago
I don't think the argument is that they shouldn't be prosecuted for hacking the CIA, as much as that the CIA should also be prosecuted for having such shit security on important data. Personally I don't think drafting a new
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Yeah, under that definition everything that supports FFI has merged into a massive unholy mess with C. I guess if it can't be "natively" compiled/interpreted as the same language without inlining or including, I'd s
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by Tiksi 11y ago
For youtube on FiOS specifically, you can change your dns servers away from verizon's and it'll start going a lot faster. I can't find the link right now, but using their dns servers points you to cdn/caching nodes hoste
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by Tiksi 11y ago
> Show HN: webapp that does something desktop programs did in 1996 while turning your laptop fan into a jet engine. Only works in Chrome nightly. > We left X framework and rewrote our app on Y and saw a 0.0005% increase in performa
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by Tiksi 11y ago
I feel like the best tech analogy would be ADHD is like a GPU, great with lots of independent parallel tasks, but not as good as a CPU for tasks that have many interdependent steps.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Well to be fair, having parents be "warmer" to their children and engage with them more probably also has positive results, regardless of the flawed reasoning for it. And yes, young scientific fields quickly disprove themselves, t
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by Tiksi 11y ago
We frequently don't know how the treatments to many ailments work either, especially when it comes to anything related to the brain. There's a lot of "X seems it might make Y better, let's test and see if it does, repeat
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Another major factor for 9to5 is probably having a common time that businesses are open. Many businesses need to interact with a multitude of other companies during their working hours. Having the same working hours as every other company y
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Plugins can get you a very compact ui: http://paste.click/XfPZOR I'm also a fan of minimal as possible.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Yup, even run my own irc server. Don't plan on moving away from irc any time soon.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Yeah, as an android user with a high end phone, I have no problem paying for apps, even (relatively) more costly ones. Offhand I can think of torque pro and tasker that I've purchased, and a bunch more that I can't think of. The r
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by Tiksi 11y ago
On top of that, you can always use a separate user for the tunnel that doesn't have a login shell. Obviously still a problem if someone gets the private keys but not nearly as much so, as they'll basically be limited to tunneling&
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by Tiksi 11y ago
If it runs fine in open loop mode, it sounds likely to be a bad knock sensor causing the ecu to think there's detonation and retard the timing to the point it doesn't fire at all. As far as getting it into open loop mode, unpluggi
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by Tiksi 11y ago
I've always taken darknet to mean a network physically separate from the Internet, like a wireless mesh or something along those lines. However it's definitely changed in usage to mean any network that's not part of the publ
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Try awesomeWM, the multi monitor support is great, it works with pretty much every setup I've tried from xinerama to multiple xorg servers/screens. The config is all lua and can be a bit annoying but overall I've found it to
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Ah, I see what you mean, I was thinking in terms of images/files. As an arguement it gives % of the input (64GB usb drive, 8GB image): > pv /mnt/str/Downloads/stick-8g.img > /dev/sdi 916MiB 0:0
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Moore's law is about transistor count/size/density, which ssds benefit from as well.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
The first part of that is more or less the slashdot system, which I think worked pretty well. However the recommended friends / advocated devils seems like it would encourage groupthink / witchhunts / voting rings, etc. Perso
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by Tiksi 11y ago
You can also drop the `<` in that example, pv takes a file to read from as an argument: pv --buffer-size 1m /dev/sda > sda.file Will do the same thing, and give an accurate % complete progress bar.
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by Tiksi 11y ago
> Windows is a primitive development platform out of the box I think it'd be hard to argue that a fresh, clean install of windows isn't an absolutely primitive development platform. Not that I think it's too relevant of
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by Tiksi 11y ago
While that is pretty awesome, and I've played with Android tweaks to get better battery life in the past, the software doesn't seem like the biggest consumer of power. These days I generally I see >80% of battery power being us
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by Tiksi 11y ago
Wanted to you let know that the pricing table on the comparison page cuts off: http://paste.click/AJrEyb And unfortunately it's your price that gets cut off. Seems pretty interesting though, signed up for Early Access.

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