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by abawany 7y ago
This announcement eclipsed the previously-announced Bollinger Motors products ( https://bollingermotors.com/ ). These were intriguing but the price ($125k) is a bit eye popping.
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by abawany 7y ago
I used to, until my MR2 was run off a road by a careless truck driver. I was fine but the trauma persists - the sickening sound of running into hard items at 70+ mph is hard to forget.
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by abawany 7y ago
You also forget that gas is super cheap in the US so buying a truck with its sub 20mpg fuel consumption is a no-brainer.
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by abawany 7y ago
From my anecdotal experience, here are the main purposes: * Hauling stuff from the home improvement and warehouse stores. Single family houses are a bit of work depending on age and when they are not, HGTV is the devil's workshop that
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by abawany 7y ago
Just $100 to pre-order it :) .
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by abawany 7y ago
I disagree respectfully. I had sat through and watched the Ford Mach-E reveal but this Tesla has practically made me forget that altogether.
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by abawany 7y ago
I am surprised to hear this because I OTOH thought Google's attempts to corral people into Inbox when it came out were obnoxious. The app notifications, the Play Store nudges, etc. I tried it since I got the impression from the nudges
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by abawany 7y ago
How can you say that when the 16" MBP brought back the 'Escape' key? Why would you minimize your (our?) voice in this manner? To what end?
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by abawany 7y ago
I presume you mean in Crostini? Sure, that works but there are limitations: 1) the use of the on-screen keyboard in tablet mode is iffy with Crostini apps: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id
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by abawany 7y ago
With Chromebooks becoming more than a fringe platform, it will be harder to escape the well of Chrome's gravity; the Android support on Chromebooks still leaves a lot to be desired IME making the use of Firefox/Android on such a d
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by abawany 7y ago
At the first concert I ever attended (Trans Siberian Orchestra), the check-in staff handed out earplugs to anyone who wanted. My hearing was already gone by that point for other reasons but I appreciated having those plugs given that the se
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by abawany 7y ago
I had to do this with a Quantum drive in an old 90s Mac - my approach was to hold it horizontally and rotate the drive aggressively to try to unstick the platters. Worked well but we also copied stuff off of it asap after that.
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by abawany 7y ago
Another one here - it feels like a violation when some random stranger asks where I work during a casual/one-time business transaction.
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by abawany 7y ago
I have learnt while trying out the iphone that its notification management is byzantine and confusing, leading most people to give up and just deal with the embarrassing noisiness [1]. Of course they could flip the switch to turn off all so
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by abawany 7y ago
Tesla still has some advantages afaict: on the Mach-E pre-order page, it seems that once you pick a trim, it's final; on a Tesla, it seems that things such as 'Autopilot' are available for purchase later on at a higher cost w
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by abawany 7y ago
I was reminded of a 'shooting brake' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting-brake ), which added to the appeal for me personally.
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by abawany 7y ago
I agree but this was the sort of thing that I recall them doing in the 70s, which albeit were not the best years of the Mustang (Mustang II - I can't believe they mentioned that one in their livestream early on.) I have to say the car
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by abawany 7y ago
My take was that this allowed people with conventional Mustangs to be able to go to a single family car without giving up too many of their sporting pretensions.
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by abawany 7y ago
This Top Gear short-take on the car was interesting for the details it covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-qgSB076c . I watched the livestream - it was no Apple event but had some nice moments. I noticed the resembl
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by abawany 7y ago
At one point about 16 years ago, I was prescribed hard contacts that dealt with astigmatism. They seemed fine but the irritation, the pain of daily installation, plus the warnings about never falling asleep with them on made me pass on thes
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by abawany 7y ago
In fact one of the easiest way to get disinvited from such meetings and get a less-good performance review next time around is to make a bit of noise about the utility of such meetings (edit: from my personal/anecdotal experience). Ser
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by abawany 7y ago
David Marcus (FB, previously PayPal) had (has?) a similar stated policy regarding meetings.
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by abawany 7y ago
I tried a switch and the experience mostly went ok, for some funny reasons: * Google apps (Calendar, Tasks, GBoard) really helped with the transition and were imo superior to the corresponding native apps * Used Outlook for mail to ensure t
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by abawany 7y ago
More details at https://www.ford.com/powertrains/battery-electric-vehicles/ with a live reveal on Nov-17 at 6pm PST.
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by abawany 7y ago
The pixel 3a has been a pretty nice device at a good price (299 with Google Fi - you can cancel the latter after one day and still keep the discount according to their reps). It is a mid-range device though.
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by abawany 7y ago
I use a session restore add-on to ensure that I have a alternative location for my tabs. Works nice with its periodic backups of session state. Edit: I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-se
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by abawany 7y ago
I was stunned that Seznam offered that and tried it as well - it works very well indeed. I wish it had SPIF/DKIM support though.
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by abawany 7y ago
I liked the access controls at PayPal. Access to data was a function of insider status with real financial consequences (ability to sell stock was restricted much more for higher level insiders), subject to strict controls and auditing, and
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by abawany 7y ago
This crazy requirement for ID upload was the reason why I never completed my AirBnB profile. I wish I had thought of what you did. Instead, I use HomeAway, which didn't have such a nasty scheme for validation. It too has similar proble
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by abawany 7y ago
Direct link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/business/airbnb-verify-li... .

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