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There's a finite amount of validation effort available and presumably in the early days there was a focus on highlighting the games that best demonstrated the Deck's selling points. It stands to reason that as time goes by and the
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Automotive engineers view it as a problem but most drivers probably are unaffected by it in their lifetime. A passenger car's automatic transmission is generally just a bad choice of a device to immobilize a car's wheels. It is di
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I've done this by accident a few times in my life - smell is usually the first indicator as the rubber components near the brakes start to suffer.
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Yes, that handbrake. You can likely still find the hydraulic or cable operated ones on low-cost automobiles, but new cars (at least in USA) almost universally have a little button to electrically enable the parking brake. In more advanced c
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Related reading - "Vigor's Black Box Theory" [1] [1]: https://www.usps.org/durham/Bullhorns/vigor.htm
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> As in Mac OS 9, it is possible to play DVD movies "on the desktop" by setting the desktop pattern to be a particular color. The DVD player uses this color as a mask for its video display, allowing the movie to appear on the d
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The difference lies largely in public transit. NYC had strong transit bones despite a few decades of wayward highway prioritization. Transit enables higher urban densities which (can) carry more revenue per square foot.
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Different commenter but one such example is how for years they were pushing the limit on how many holes could be drilled into a brake disc: https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/20-years-f1-brake-dis...
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One explanation for this phenomenon is that the initial rapid proliferation of 'modern' radiators in NYC happened around the same time as the 1918 influenza pandemic. It was understood that fresh air was something of an antidote.
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I've not used the little green bird, but quoting the French Together website: [1] > Your French learning journey starts by listening to a fun and realistic conversation between Jérome, Elodie, Stéphane and the other professional voi
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In my experience they tend to flee upwards - in the extremely unfortunate event you get one of these on you, (I've walked into their webs several times) I recommend raising your arms near a tree, it will probably scamper up and away.
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ISBN: 0394503686 Digital copy available for borrowing from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/miragesmit00smit Physical copies available from the Chicago Public Library: https://chipublib.bibliocommons
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For what it's worth I tried it with wine and faced endless crashing.
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For an old version of photoshop you won't get sued for using[1] - it's vintage software these days but CS2 is available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Adobe-CS2 [1]: probably
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> not exactly sure what a micro car is though... A popular modern example is the Citroen Ami: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Ami_(electric_vehicle) Vintage, the Isetta: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Counterpoint: cars are unpleasant. They're expensive, complicated, require constant maintenance and consumable wear items and a lot of space to store, they pose a substantial personal liability risk, incur significant taxation and insu
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Depends where and when you are. The current mayor of Paris has found substantial political support for her urbanist post-car policies including a commitment to remove 72% of on-street parking spaces: https://www.distilled.earth&#
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Donald Shoup, as featured in this article, wrote 'the book' on this, if you're interested in a deep dive on the topic I recommend it: > The High Cost of Free Parking > Publication date: March 1, 2005; 2011 (Revised Edit
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> 1,976,006 In Stock Wow!
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The very first warehouse building that Amazon leased [1] in Seattle (549 South Dawson) was built in 1972 with a rail line running directly into it, this can be seen on satellite maps--the building is U shaped, for access to both sides of th
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Diesel won't be completely eliminated in USA for a long time but I think this 2036 California policy has huge implications to reduce the 'last mile' share of such trucks dramatically via rail. With the initially high cost of
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"Misattribute" does not feel like the right word here. Unless I'm missing something, the lawyer is attributing Swift to asking the question in the podcast quoted in article, which is what the article's headline and bod
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Don't need an outright ban - just negative incentives. It should cost an astronomical amount to drive a huge vehicle in a dense urban environment and dramatically less in a rural environment. Today, in USA, that cost difference is gene
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I think it goes a lot further back, one semi-serious data point: the "Chamber of commerce runs Atlanta" meme was satirized by the TV show Futurama in the year 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_South
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Just geofence it to the land that was water before about the 1800s and it'll work it fine ;)
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I believe it is connected to the requirement that mail carriers regularly lift things of 70 pounds maximum weight. A parcel heavier would therefore be a two-person lift and not conducive to the lone mail carrier model generally used for USP
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I've been struggling with jet lag, the other day I surprised myself by getting up at 6am and being very productive, enjoying the sunrise and my morning coffee until I looked at a clock and it said something like "O8:X4f" and
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If by 'mess with' you mean 'regulate', is a kinetic energy based approach to safety a good enough of a reason? My worldview: The average truck in America is perhaps 32 times as heavy as the average automobile. That means
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FTA, although grain of salt: > In a follow-up video, Machado told her followers that she was fired in spring 2022 by the company because an earlier video in which she touts the benefits package she received went viral. > Machado said
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This reminds me of one of my favorite Reddit comments: > I met a woman one evening at a dive bar in Fells Point years ago when I was playing the National Theatre with a broadway show. She enquired about getting a couple tickets to see th

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