benj111

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by benj111 3y ago
Yes. I was thinking more, chimney sweeping and factory work. My point was we were poor then and had different standards. They probably have those same standards as we had for the same reasons. We have different standards now, so it's o
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by benj111 3y ago
No, we have standard signs so that everyone knows what it means, they aren't opportunities to display how progressive you are. As a simple example, could a cyclist use this crossing? If someone comes to that conclusion and gets tickete
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by benj111 3y ago
150 years ago child labour in the West was common. If you can barely afford food then everyone needs to work to earn money. I'm kind of in two minds, from their point of view there's probably nothing wrong, but that's incomp
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by benj111 3y ago
Brake lines are a solved problem. Water lines wouldn't be any more difficult. If air cooled it could be a sealed unit.
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by benj111 3y ago
Are people going to be using the front camera whilst driving and is that even a good idea?
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by benj111 3y ago
That's ok, you misused the word 'word' to apply to 'finite' and 'state' :-P.
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by benj111 3y ago
Why only high performance though. A motor per wheel simplifies everything. No diff, no CV joints, you don't need this, just a simple planetary gearbox. You gain space, lower manufacturing costs (theoretically, assuming multiple motors
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by benj111 3y ago
Cars already have traction control, and there's probably a thermal cutout already in the motor.
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by benj111 3y ago
Yes my point is, why have the complication of this set up at all.
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by benj111 3y ago
It isn't rotational mass though, just unsprung.
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by benj111 3y ago
I can sort of buy this at the upper end. But a small car with 4 relatively small motors with normal tyres v a range rover with run flat tyres and massive disc brakes?
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by benj111 3y ago
Ok. I googled and it said ~1.9. I seem to remember it being the late 90s so that's my bad memory. Funny, we also call it t'euro in Yorkshire too!
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by benj111 3y ago
>modern Unicode font That isn't unicode though. That's a font. You can have bitmap unicode fonts if you want. Let's put it this way. Say you have a unicode aware library and only ever use the ASCII compatible codes. You ar
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by benj111 3y ago
If you use an emoji load it into ram then. You aren't (generally) going to be using Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, ancient Egyptian and emoji all in one document on one screen. If you're using Japanese load the Japanese font
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by benj111 3y ago
Unicode support is cheap memory wise. The expensive thing if having the fonts. The fonts can live on the hard drive until actually needed. I suspect the issue is more of the runtime overhead of supporting it over the entire stack. That&#x27
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by benj111 3y ago
Its about 2 marks to the euro apparently. For anyone not up to date with ~30 year old exchange rates.
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by benj111 3y ago
Have you got a source. Everyone mentions this, but I've never come across anyone trying and failing. Motor scooters have unsprung motors, the motor is a significant proportion of the mass.
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by benj111 3y ago
It's trying to compete against a CV joint and gear box. That seems like an easier sell. I'm not sure if we're talking past each other but you wouldn't need an axle to deflect. The motor drive could attach directly to the
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by benj111 3y ago
Why not? You'd have an added complication of making the shock absorber the pivot point, and attaching the motor to the top point. Or having a separate pivot point where the motor or wheel can slide up and down. This does raise the ques
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by benj111 3y ago
>that as late as 1570, the number of four-wheeled carriages in Britain “could be counted on one hand,” This sounds at best misleading. 2 wheeled carts must have been more common, they're still transport, supplying the same need as a
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by benj111 3y ago
Well 8mb ram and fits on a floppy disc suggests to me old computers. Or as an exercise in minimalism. Why does there have to be a point? Can't it just be art for its own sake?
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by benj111 3y ago
I don't think it was a metaphor, I grew up with it so I always imagined a bag being zipped up. That deemphasises the compression aspect though. I wonder if this influenced 'tarball', or maybe it's just human nature to th
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by benj111 3y ago
In the days that these metaphors were designed, you would literally cut and paste documents to lay them out. So the metaphor is lost in the specific document creation sense. For early school projects I did the text in a word processor leavi
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by benj111 3y ago
Interleave(). Or if that's too long, int(), or leave()
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by benj111 3y ago
It does in the context of a border guard saying "continue", rather than taking you to a back room with a rubber glove.
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by benj111 3y ago
Of course.
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by benj111 3y ago
I feel Dibley should have a pudding bowl hair cut and goofy teeth. Am I just of a slightly young generation?
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by benj111 3y ago
>the post office has banned scheduled sick days for the rest of the year This sounds like an oxymoron. Is this a union thing, or does one have to know when they will be ill is the US/working for the post office?
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by benj111 3y ago
Don't all cars in the us have the steering wheel on the left?? Why would you need to modify the route for that???
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by benj111 3y ago
We get this in the UK with other parcel carriers. My regular delivery man used to have some kei sized thing with a roof box filled to the gunnels with boxes. He has now invested in a larger car.

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