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by ben7799 2y ago
My brother worked at Nissan back when the R35 was new and exciting. It sounded like the ownership experience (at least in the US) was not good. Reliability and maintenance were bad. Word got out that it wasn't a fun car to own and
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by ben7799 2y ago
There was already relatively deep penetration of this stuff in the corporate world and universities way back in the early 1990s. Where I want to school we had AFS. You could sit down at any Unix workstation and login and it looked like you
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by ben7799 2y ago
You're right.. guess I always thought Magic Eye was converged. Once I look at the ones at the bottom and just zoom in/out in the browser I can see them perfectly. I have a 33" monitor and seeing them means sitting much closer
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by ben7799 2y ago
I can generally see the Magic Eye pictures very well.. these are way harder. The tiny thumbnails at the bottom of the page work, but the larger images I can't cross my eyes enough. I think it depends greatly on getting the screen/
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by ben7799 2y ago
I should not have said "missile base". I just meant any kind of forward base outside the US. The B-52, etc.. is just different. It's not as high value of an asset as the B-2 or the B-21 will be and gets treated differently
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by ben7799 2y ago
This seems unlikely just because the SR-71 never got hit with a missile. They might have been afraid of the XB-70 getting hit but it likely never would have just because it turned out to be so hard to hit things at 70,000+ feet traveling at
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by ben7799 2y ago
It's hard to believe the B-21 would ever be stored at a forward missile base. They'd likely take off from the US, fly wherever they need to go for their mission without landing, and then fly all the way back to the US. Same as t
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by ben7799 2y ago
I have a love/hate relationship with this plane. In 2014 I got to visit the AF Museum in Dayton, OH. With all the exceptional exhibits there it is completely obvious the XB-70 is THE crown jewel in that museum. And it snowed while we
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by ben7799 2y ago
I visited HP at Apollo drive in Chelmsford as an intern in college. Then I later worked in the building when Cisco took over that building/park.
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by ben7799 2y ago
I'm in my late 40s and have been a software engineer in New England since graduating college. We moved to Massachusetts in 1986, my father went to work at a startup company that was across the street from a DEC building and was in the
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by ben7799 2y ago
This guy gets it! And even that 386 was hot stuff in 1992. I was in high school then and stuck with a 286 with 16-color graphics and like a 40mb hard drive or something. We got a 486 right around Christmas 1993 I think, which was a mind
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by ben7799 2y ago
If any of this is true that's like ~$50M per charging station. I would be really curious how much commercial ones cost. Likely the government figures are inflated by lots of waste and consultants making huge money.
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by ben7799 2y ago
Well said and good institutions have been teaching both for decades.
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by ben7799 2y ago
I've pretty much been stuck on java since 1995, I started right around 1.0. There have been some stints of Python or we have some glue code in C/C++ or whatever but we're talking 95% java. Some of these things are mildly an
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by ben7799 2y ago
This is not really true since RCS launched. It does most of what people care about. Everyone sees Emojis and a few other special Fx and videos and pictures now look good for everyone and don't get nerfed as soon as one user is on A
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by ben7799 2y ago
If it's already going to be expensive and exclusive they can easily design a program where all the passengers have to be some kind of TSA++ pre-approved ahead of time and perhaps have a special terminal and/or security screening l
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by ben7799 2y ago
A lot of those are distant memories of old designs. Head gaskets have been a non-issue for a decade or more now and timing chains replaced belts a similarly long time ago. Many of those issues were relevant to the EJ series of engines, wh
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by ben7799 2y ago
I'm curious which exact model/year you had and how you got stuck. I've never even gotten anywhere near close to getting stuck in 12 years. But I'm not a Subaru offroad enthusiast. It seems like lots of people really wan
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by ben7799 2y ago
The 2024/2025 Ascent is what I had as a loaner that had the skeumorphic UI on the screen that looked exactly like an older Subaru's physical climate control layout. It was a major WTF when I first saw it.
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by ben7799 2y ago
They have different AWD systems in different vehicles and for some vehicles there is more than one system depending on which transmission you purchased. (At least when there was a choice) Mine is electrically controlled (and many Subarus
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by ben7799 2y ago
I have a 2013 Outback Limited that is basically right before all this stuff got really stupid and weird. It's a great car other than it's not very fast and it gets really bad gas mileage. Amazing in the snow. I have had it
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by ben7799 2y ago
The resurgence of the Mac was already well under way at that point as well. Intel Macs had launched before the iPhone. Developer buy in to the Mac was pretty big by then. But aside from that everyone was carrying around an iPod everywher
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by ben7799 2y ago
We have a switch and an XBox and after liking the 360 back in the day the newer XBoxes just make me want to tear my hair out. They sold us all on bigger and bigger hardware to get rid of load times and they ended up with the system with t
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by ben7799 2y ago
One aspect to this IMO is the difference in maturity between pencils and paper + books and chromebooks/ipads with software. Pencil/Paper/Book is extremely mature and the teaching system knows how to use it extremely well. T
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by ben7799 2y ago
I'm fairly excited about this. I took the FAA training courses and only fly a < 250g DJI drone but the current geofencing restrictions end up being far stricter than the FAA rules and greatly restrict or almost eliminate being able
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by ben7799 2y ago
Not sure how old you are but this is all exactly how it was in 2002-2003 for the .com crash, only the # of people who had been laid off was massively larger. We have HN threads about company "X laid off Y%". Back then it was &quo
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by ben7799 2y ago
This is really interesting to read the comments here and they are so pro-HFCS that you'd think the corn lobby was here in force. And yet if you regularly read HN you get the impression the mean BMI of commenters is in the obese range a
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by ben7799 2y ago
If the US didn't have tariffs on sugar we would not have HFCS in all of our food because it would be less expensive to go back to using cane sugar. The price of HFCS is cheaper than US-produced sugar, but is more expensive than the int
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by ben7799 2y ago
Types of automata and computability Algorithm proofs around complexity, efficiency, etc.. At least an introduction to the design of languages, parsers, and grammars Algorithms and concepts in the design of different database designs (not ho
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by ben7799 2y ago
The new curriculum might be worse but I'm not sure how a 4th year undergraduate should be too sure of themselves when second guessing the department. My undergraduate degree is from RPI, I have worked with many NU grads, they are often

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