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by bityard 2y ago
Ford and a few other makers have been using oil-immersed timing belts lately. They quite reliably fail after the car's warranty is up but well before the rest of the car is junk.
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by bityard 2y ago
It seems like you might not understand that a person can read a book without necessarily agreeing with everything the author writes about.
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by bityard 2y ago
I temporarily forgot that the iPod came out way before the iPhone. So yes, I guess they were called that then. But in my defense, I listened to MP3 files of radio shows that I downloaded manually, so I guess I wasn't quite using them a
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by bityard 2y ago
What, was goat farming too pedestrian for you?? (Just a little joke, based the meme of developers quitting their jobs to start a goat farm.) Also, I'm allergic to bees.
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by bityard 2y ago
Here in the salt belt, our cars rust to the point of being unsafe after about a decade, maybe 15 years if you treat them right. You can't really buy a car much older than that in good shape even if you wanted to. We are soon hitting th
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by bityard 2y ago
It will probably continue to send location information, vehicle speeds, and telemetry data back to Mazda even after you let the subscription lapse. We know GM and other car makers do this, so it's safest to assume they all do.
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by bityard 2y ago
It's a pun. As in, "parks a car."
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by bityard 2y ago
I had one of those. It was interesting in that it ran Linux and you could (at the time) browse most web sites with it. Otherwise, it was slow, bulky, and had a pretty terrible resistive touch screen. (The stylus was NOT optional.) And you s
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by bityard 2y ago
I don't mind when language changes for a good reason. Maybe we're doing (or have) a new kind of thing and the old description of it was awkward. But changing the meaning or context of an existing word for the sake of _style_ is an
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by bityard 2y ago
"Surface" has been a verb for a long time, particularly relevant to marine biologists and submariners, although obviously it's just a metaphor in an office setting, like "bubble up" would be. The others are on firme
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by bityard 2y ago
The problem with that premise is that almost every substance has a remote chance of causing cancer in some way or another. Just ask the state of California. So you would have to ban everything if that is really your stance. The correct (and
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by bityard 2y ago
It's the old "better safe than sorry" routine. Very popular with politicians and managers, who are incentivized to take action on extremely minor issues and hold them up as heroic accomplishments while avoiding all the work a
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by bityard 2y ago
Sometimes I'm pretty sure people upvote stories just to see what happens in the comments.
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by bityard 2y ago
Do LLMs have knowledge of current events?
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by bityard 2y ago
There is wider variability in hotel quality than you know... I live near a decent-sized college town and there is a hotel right off the interstate. It's a well-known hotel name in a decent (even semi-posh) location, so you'd think
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by bityard 2y ago
Yes, here's the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20141113121420/https://www.washi... It would be an amazing miracle if sites weren't still doing this.
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by bityard 2y ago
Sure you can. At very low speeds, yes, the bike will fall over. But a bike with some minimum amount of speed can roll upright on its own just fine. You can try it yourself with your least favorite bike and an empty parking lot. All it takes
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by bityard 2y ago
I have seen kids learn to ride with training wheels. Basically the training wheels are raised relative to the rear wheel and the child learns to balance the bike on the tires, with the training wheels only touching when the bike leans over.
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by bityard 2y ago
Training wheels are terrible. Both of my kids learned how to ride on balance bikes, basically in under a day. When switching to pedal power, there IS a transition period where learning how to pedal AND balance at the same time is challenge.
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by bityard 2y ago
DNS blacklists work fine for blocking access to sites or certain known-sketchy FQDNs/domains but do nothing to hide low-quality search engine results, which is what this is all about.
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by bityard 2y ago
Google used to do this years ago but clawed it back around the time they started removing _all_ customizations under the premise of, "we know how to customize your results better than you do." DuckDuckGo has site blocking. The pro
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by bityard 2y ago
I gave up asking questions on Stack Overflow at least a decade ago. Questions get closed as dupes, even when you mention them right there in the original question. Answerers want to believe that every non-trivial question is an X/Y pro
953.
by bityard 2y ago
Nah, try living in the midwest suburbs. Comcast charges me $70 for 75 Mbps. I would gladly pay a lower price for less speed by they don't offer anything lower.
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by bityard 2y ago
Concur. I have seen issues with suspend on Linux in the past, but my last three Dell laptops suspend just fine. Usually the only weirdness is with laptops that don't have an S3 state anymore, or when you add/remove hardware in bet
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by bityard 2y ago
But PSF doesn't distribute binary builds, so what's the alternative?
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by bityard 2y ago
The first thing Broadcom did after acquiring the company was announce that they were going to offload their small customers and increase revenue by raising prices on their big customers. There was lots of warning.
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by bityard 2y ago
I usually stay away far FAR from shiny new tools but I've been experimenting with uv and I really like it. I'm a bit bummed that it's not written in Python but other than that, it does what it says on the tin. I never liked p
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by bityard 2y ago
Oof. If I never have to endure another hard-selling enterprise vendor salescritter, it'll be too soon. Mat has really nailed the agony of the experience here.
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by bityard 2y ago
This says it's inspired by molly-guard (which I love and install everywhere and has saved my bacon countless times) but I don't see what's different about it? Molly-guard is a single `apt install` away with no further config
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by bityard 2y ago
Gzipped PostScript documents were fairly popular during the 90's and are functionally identical to PDFs for 99% of use cases. (PDF is essentially PostScript, but with more features.)

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