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by alamortsubite 3mo ago
Despite the fantasy manufacturers are selling, large pickups and SUV are terrible off-roaders. Visibility, weight, and approach, break-over, and departure angles are almost universally atrocious. Most don't even have live front axles,
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by alamortsubite 3mo ago
You're either grossly misinformed or you're being disingenuous; try installing 40" mud tires and a 6" lift kit on your truck in Australia and see what happens. In the U.S. it's just another brodozer and no cop will
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by alamortsubite 3mo ago
"Not as popular" or "nowhere near as popular?" Also, our absurd pickups effectively don't exist in those markets. Occasionally you'll see one and it stands out like a sore thumb.
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by alamortsubite 3mo ago
Yep. Automotive grille design became sharply more aggressive over the last 20 years (not just in terms of hood height). It says a lot about the psychology of consumers.
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by alamortsubite 3mo ago
It's perfect because the kind of people who will enjoy it shouldn't be allowed near an axe, anyway. As someone with a wood stove, for my first few chops I rotated the log to orient the checking. Then it dawned on me that the simul
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
The next step is virtualization, which will save everyone a lot of time and money.
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
I think the problem is even worse because the mentality quickly extends from "more bright = more safe" to "drive faster."
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
If most people are right-handed, and right-handed people tend to have larger left feet, then couldn't the difference in foot mass account for the tendency to turn left? The article says the researchers considered biomechanics, but didn
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
There's an easy fix for that if you use a player like VLC that has an audio compressor: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-qui...
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
Termux on Android is truly phenomenal in its capabilities. Unfortunately, nothing even close to it exists on iOS. Termux from the App store is completely unrelated, and essentially a scam.
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
You're probably thinking of VeraCrypt, which is a fork of TrueCrypt. I don't think BitLocker is related.
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by alamortsubite 4mo ago
Definitely, but the hantavirus incubation period ranges from 1-8 weeks after exposure.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
I once came across a buck lying in the middle of my driveway. It was curled up in a weird way with one of its legs wrapped behind the back of its neck. Since it was only a few meters off the road, I assumed it had been hit by a car, and I g
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
It usually only takes a few minutes to pull the bezel and remove the magnet that interrupts the hall sensor. To all the clever "AI" engineers reading this: don't ever leave a laptop running in your bag (or anywhere without ad
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Even within the U.S., there's a correlation between obesity and climate control preferences. Spain's obesity rate is half ours.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
In case anyone has trouble visualizing that, try picturing this many cars moving so quickly and efficiently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpjPRs4Iio Also, the woman with the roller bag.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
If this were true, car-centrism would not be the dominant kool-aid.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Your car also has a safety feature that the others upstream lack: a curb weight of only 2400 lbs. Which is already an order of magnitude more mass than necessary to move a few human beings around. Also, by having some skin in the game, my g
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
The easy way to accomplish that would be to go after the businesses that employ them. At this point, however, I think it's safe to assume it's not the real objective, and the economy would crash into a ditch if policy was anything
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I use Android and iOS regularly and while Android's ugly, it's slightly less ugly.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Porsche killed the 944S Turbo because it was accidentally faster than the Carrera and 930, and that was taboo. Its successor, the 968, was the awkward compromise.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Dell took a stab at colors with the Mini netbooks circa 2008.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
The G3s were cool when they came out but they didn't have swappable case covers, nor were there as many colors as you remember.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
I don't think many people blindly hate Apple, but it's fair to point out your Catalina install is obsolete. If I could install Linux on the Neo, I'd probably buy one. My daily-driver is also from 2012 (XPS L321X). It's n
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
There are also plenty of 20" folders out there for rambling nerds who are slightly less masochistic.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
You can push folders that lack the Brompton's rack-rollers design with a little practice. If you watch the Bike Friday video you'll see the guy do it, though it looks like that bike's folding seat post makes it a bit more dif
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Red-light cameras reduce t-bone type collisions, which are highly lethal. The scenarios you list are fantasies. The true problem, which you omit, is drivers recklessly blowing red lights because they're impatient.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
Definitely reduce injury and deaths due to car crashes.
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by alamortsubite 5mo ago
This seems to say the opposite, which is that the benefits of reducing right-angle crashes (getting t-boned) outweighs the increase in rear-end crashes.
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by alamortsubite 6mo ago
You're not from Argentina. Though I read even there they're switching to the grass/grain model.

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