Toutouxc

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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Fun thing about the sodium filled valves — these are also used in cars. The engine in my previous econobox, a 3-cylinder 1.0 TSI (EA211) uses them in the 81 kW variant.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s pretty well established, there are cars that will happily stop and start the engine multiple times per minute, e.g. Toyota hybrids with their “HSD” drivetrain. It just requires some engineering.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
You’re replying to a post that says that “explosion” doesn’t imply “detonation”.
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Not exactly. You do want a deflagration and not a detonation, but "explosion" is more loosely defined and, depending on who you're talking to, a self-sustaining subsonic flame front and a sharp pressure spike are a perfectly
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
Note that that sentence is talking about the crankshaft bearings and their hydrodynamic lubrication, which is, well, elsewhere and separate from any cam rattle issues (including the cam phaser oil starvation that you might be referring to).
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by Toutouxc 3mo ago
You might be misreading the animation. It's a direct injection engine, the thing that happens during the compression stroke is fuel injection. Ignition happens a few degrees before TDC, which is realistic.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
Claude does that too. “That always confuses me” or “I usually realize”. Not only do these imply that the thing has a personality and preference, but also continuity and a life outside the chat window. I had to add an explicit instruction no
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
That’s not what they said. The game does work without mods, but the economy is weirdly nonsensical (AFAIK you can push unnecessary amounts of cargo over long distances, and the game rewards you anyway) and I personally find it kind of point
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
If anyone else is disappointed by the terrible AI slop article: It's about a fully liquid cooled data center design. The usual way to cool servers is with air and heatsinks attached to the hot hardware, similar to how your desktop comp
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
Rivian barely exists. Their market share is a rounding error. Škoda Enyaq (yes, the one model) is outselling Rivian, the entire company, by a factor of two.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
> I get it, Tesla has a bad omen for some who mingle deep in far left That doesn’t sound like you get it at all.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
It took me quite a while to figure out what the article is about. These don’t seem to exist over here.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
I own a 3D pen and I use it to repair and tweak prints. Sometimes I use it to fill small cavities with material. The surrounding area usually doesn’t enjoy the heat, but PLA definitely can be injected to a degree. Maybe not to fill thin cha
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
It doesn’t have to be a large cavity in order to be useful. Imagine being able to reliably fill a hole that’s 5mm deep. Not amazing, but that could mean 25 layers. That’s 24 layers more than what we can fuse together now.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
> z-direction does not need to be more stable than the other directions so there is no need for long continuous strands anyway I’m not sure I understand. In FDM printing, Z is the only direction where you currently CANNOT have long conti
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
Do we have any numbers for this? Are those people “falling” for it or are they just choosing to buy the upgrades? I’ve paid for good (window!) seats on Ryanair flights, I’ve paid for luggage, I’ve bought a snack from the trolley. It would m
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
I consider myself kind of sensitive to being forced to do stuff, but Ryanair just doesn't seem that bad. Of course, you get a million offers for things you probably don't need, but I genuinely don't feel like they're try
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
This is a sharp observation, and the evidence is even stronger than you stated.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
Citation needed.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
To like, talk to Siri through Claude?
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
> Let's not even talk EVs. Europeans exited the market before it even began. European brands only start to show up at around what, the 70-100K dollar bracket? The ID.3 starts at like 35k USD here in Europe. Škoda Elroq and Enyaq, bo
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
My oh shit moment was when I realized that powerful people are willing to bet the entire civilization based on 95% lies and 5% vague preliminary data.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
Then we’re good, I only hate people who suggest it seriously. I know some IRL.
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
What the hell are you talking about? Why are you lying? ID.3 is a MEB car, its production started in Zwickau (Germany) in November 2019, two years before it even arrived to China, and one year before the SOP of ANY MEB car (ID.4 was the fir
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
The point is that you can't tell anymore just by looking underneath and counting the wtfs. I have a friend who's a big Honda fan, amateur racer, a true "petrolhead" but with an intact brain. Runs his own shop. Naturally
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
I have a Chinese EV too, an MG4 built by SAIC. It’s a really cheap car, significantly cheaper than its non-Chinese counterparts like the VW ID.3 or (roughly) a Hyundai Kona. The factory rust protection was maybe a bit on the lighter side, b
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
> turned up the music till the noise went away I viscerally hate people who do or seriously suggest this. First, ignoring any strange noise in a car almost always leads to more expensive and stressful repairs down the road. Second, how t
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by Toutouxc 4mo ago
> Ethernet over HDMI Okay, today I learnt.
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
It feels like without a bit of true Scotsmanship, the term “domain expert” doesn’t really mean anything.
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
I think this might be one of the worse examples of the dynamic, for the reasons already mentioned by others (programming a chess bot is really more of a programming exercise than a chess exercise), but it’s food for thought, so thanks for p

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