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by Zak 2y ago
I have experienced a spurious ABS activation while braking from highway speed on an offramp. It was terrifying, and would have led to a crash had there been any traffic when I rolled through the stop sign at the bottom with the ABS still ch
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by Zak 2y ago
What distinguishes these from profanity is that the use of the words or phrases themselves are not taboo; promoting the ideas they represent may upset people, but neutral uses of the phrases do not. As other commenters note, words like &quo
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by Zak 2y ago
Modern torque converter automatics have lockup clutches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_converter#Lock-up_torqu...
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by Zak 2y ago
> It feels like it incentivizes the police to minimize their understanding of the law so that they can believe they are following it. It is not so lax as that. It's limited to situations where a reasonable person who knows exactly
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm reasonably certain Reddit's decision to ban /r/jailbait and the like was driven by business/reputation. It was widely discussed for some time before it was banned and, IIRC given a "worst of" award by
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by Zak 2y ago
Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi are all corporate, for-profit browsers with adblockers built in.
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by Zak 2y ago
Coasting with no gear engaged consumes some fuel to keep the engine idling; coasting in gear consumes no fuel at all.
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by Zak 2y ago
Very unlikely. The default gear selection algorithm is optimized for efficiency in most cars.
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by Zak 2y ago
> Are there any dual transmission vehicles which manual and automatic transmissions??? Yes, but Koenigsegg is not a brand that's in budget for most of us.
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by Zak 2y ago
They're more fun. You're actively operating the machinery instead of it operating itself. That probably doesn't sound fun to you, but it is to me, and I'm not alone. Until recently, manuals were also more efficient than
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by Zak 2y ago
One thing I would like to see is an algorithm based on expressed rather than revealed preferences. De-jargoned, that means clicking the like button means I want to see more things like that, and the dislike button means I don't want to
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by Zak 2y ago
What the hacker community should be lobbying for, everywhere is the complete repeal of these anticircumvention laws. DRM does not meaningfully protect against piracy, and most of the things it does protect against are otherwise-legal
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by Zak 2y ago
If you control the link text and destination, you probably want the user to trust it. If you're designing software that displays links provided by untrusted third parties, that's beyond the scope of what this article is addressing
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by Zak 2y ago
Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
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by Zak 2y ago
I think it's important to draw a distinction between OS providers and app store providers here. The fact that they're the same entity in most cases is or should be largely irrelevant. OS vendors shouldn't make it impossible t
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by Zak 2y ago
Moderators can reduce the position of a post on the front page.
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by Zak 2y ago
A factual, but entirely unhelpful response to a customer service query is very German.
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by Zak 2y ago
I can take this question. They removed webRequestBlocking, used mainly by adblockers, but left webRequest. The security implications are the same for both, but only the former is optimized for content blocking.
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by Zak 2y ago
Yes. Thanks adblock!
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by Zak 2y ago
The nice thing is it's GPL, so the founder/owner can't just take his ball and go home. It's also widely-used/important enough that it will get forked if leadership problems start to make it unusable for too many peo
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by Zak 2y ago
> Neither Google nor Bing indexes PeerTube sites, so there's no discovery. That's not search engines discriminating against it in this case. https://share.tube/robots.txt
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by Zak 2y ago
We're talking about signing by Mozilla to indicate the extension has passed some sort of review process, not signing by the author. It isn't a low bar because it gives Mozilla veto power over what extensions users can install.
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by Zak 2y ago
I see. The extension I installed to test that actually is signed, though it's not in AMO. I don't like this. I know there have been issues with malicious extensions, so it makes sense to me that installing unsigned extensions is
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by Zak 2y ago
On desktop Firefox, you can download an extension from anywhere and install it. All they're gatekeeping is their own repository, which I think most of us would like them to do. I think mobile requires using a nightly build to install e
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by Zak 2y ago
I did not say anything about economics; I wrote only about environmental impact. It's hard to compare different kinds of environmental impact, but building a new car involves several, often with effects far away from the place where th
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by Zak 2y ago
I wonder how many years a car eligible for that program would need to be driven to equal the environmental impact of building a new car and driving it for the same number of years. I lack the expertise to offer a useful estimate, but I&#x27
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by Zak 2y ago
Ask Epic Games. The short answer is that you will not make very much money from your Android app if it isn't in Google's store.
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by Zak 2y ago
It seems like the entire fight is over Google Drive, which is not a hard requirement for pretty much any Android app. While Google's behavior here strikes me as ridiculous, dropping Drive support seems much more rational than dropping
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by Zak 2y ago
Few dispute that, though it's fair to point out the hypocrisy of its owner who loudly champions free speech on social media platforms when it suits him to do so.
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by Zak 2y ago
People really seem to like building goose habitats, i.e. small bodies of water surrounded by short grass. Many of them get upset when geese show up to those habitats though.

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