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by avar 3y ago
How are you making the leap from the check engine light being on to the car being junk? You can just ignore it and keep driving if you think you know better. In this case the customer was implicitly asking the mechanic to repair the car to
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by avar 3y ago
This is unintentionally a good example of someone who's aged out of his profession because he's not curious about how things really work anymore, despite the lengthy intro claiming the exact opposite. He was repairing a Nissan Max
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by avar 3y ago
The N53 is even better, BMW phased out the N52 in favor of it, except in developing economies with subpar fuel standards.
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by avar 3y ago
The implied context here is that you'd forgo the usual tests, because the alternative is to send nothing to Mars. According to Wikipedia they could have stretched those 2 weeks to around 3 weeks, but after that they'd have missed
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by avar 3y ago
Are the electronics in these rovers really so bespoke that they don't have multiple copies of each electronic component warehoused on-site? I'd expect that the rover body itself would be bespoke this late in the process, although
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by avar 3y ago
The Hue wall switch dongle creates a "fake" switch, the bulb is powered 100% of the time, the on/off on the wall switch just tells the hub to tell the bulb to switch on/off. You'll find that the failure mode is the
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by avar 3y ago
Hindsight is easy, but your first reaction to any sort of "water from the ceiling" issue that isn't 100% external should be to run to the main water shut-off valve.
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by avar 3y ago
> The people who say things like "crude" or "stupid" mistakes are literally making the implication that the decision-makers were idiots. No, it really is just stupid, and that's not a claim that any individual co
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by avar 3y ago
The only reason for that system to exist is because the 737 MAX is effectively a flying flight simulator for earlier versions of the 737, because Boeing and particularly Southwest didn't want to spend the money to recertify pilots on a
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by avar 3y ago
It's worth noting that you (re) invented what iodine does: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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by avar 3y ago
The company can go bankrupt without an interruption in service, it just means that as the company defaults its assets will be sold off, or perhaps nationalized as the state buys it for cheap. "Too big to fail" is just a euphemism
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by avar 3y ago
Well, you can find post-pandemic pictures of Gabe and his comically bad mask fit, given his full face beard. You can also find pictures of him in public without a mask post-pandemic. So I think this was pretty much a transparent "can&#
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by avar 3y ago
Yes it's a stunt, but c'mon, those "special tools" are something every manufacturer has, and they're usually not that special, and they're easily replaced. One of the Tesla ones is literally a storage cart. Ano
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by avar 3y ago
It's an interesting question in general, in particular since there's little distinction between an N95 and Gabe's beard in terms of how much of the underlying face you'd see. But you're leaving out this part, which
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by avar 3y ago
The 747 has around 6 million individual parts, 15 sheets of paper per part doesn't seem unreasonable. Just detailed schematics of a given plastic knob in the cockpit should take at least a few pages, nevermind something more complex or
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by avar 3y ago
We already have driving tests, have them pass those, and if those tests aren't stringent enough then the tests need fixing, for humans and robots alike.
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by avar 3y ago
Note that "trip" in transport lingo (I'm not sure if Australia has more nuance here) usually means goings from A to B, and disembarking from your vehicle. So if you drive 20km into town, stop to fuel up, then make quick stops
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by avar 3y ago
If you (or others) haven't seen it you owe it to yourself to see the "Larry Ellison lawnmower" talk: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?si=SMpYPck-EJqe1uEv&t=35m00s
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by avar 3y ago
Let's say your sister and her coworker form a union, and Subway fires them. Now they also won't have the legal ability to simply open a new sandwich shop right next to Subway. I.e. you're imagining that non-competes are there
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by avar 3y ago
Volvo's >80% privately owned by one Chinese guy (through a holding company). So yes, it's a Chinese company, as much as the ownership of any large modern conglomerate can be attributed to a given nation. If that one guy wants a
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by avar 3y ago
Volvo is a Chinese car company.
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by avar 3y ago
The original commercial has Van Damme using safety lines.
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by avar 3y ago
Winters tend to be colder the further inland you go, e.g. daytime temperatures in Germany in the coldest parts of winter are typically lower than in Iceland.
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by avar 3y ago
It's not because they love staining wood, it's because the predominant species of trees in those areas are those that take better to staining. In Scandinavia you'll get a lot of it pine, which is one of the types of wood wh
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by avar 3y ago
I'm speaking in terms of what we should do. I realize this isn't workable in practice for various reasons. The main reason is that we price pollution and radiation control into nuclear plants, but fossil fuel plants get a free p
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by avar 3y ago
You're just assigning magical value to "turn it off". That's only a big deal with fossil fuels due to the fuel cost, the fuel cost of nuclear is marginal. Yes, I agree that it's stupid to build a (big) nuclear power
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by avar 3y ago
If you're buying a truck as a fashion accessory you'll care about the look, for anyone else being able to weld or bolt stuff to a sturdy stainless steel frame is a feature.
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by avar 3y ago
In this scenario you could just run the nuclear plant all the time, but just direct its electric production to heating a giant pool of water or whatever. Then when the grid needs more power you do less of that, and instead send electricity
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by avar 3y ago
Speaking of crumples, it's interesting that the final design makes the apparent compromise of not folding the clothes down the middle, but slightly off to the side. But in the discarded invention pile we can see an older design that fo
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by avar 3y ago
You don't have to take the whole stock off the hook or rack, you just grab one of the hangers and move the item to the side. Or (in the case of that cheap AliExpress plastic dongle) pull the bottom part up and away from the wall, and d

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