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by bradfa 4y ago
Only enough for a very short amount of time, basically the water in the truck or fire engine lasts long enough for the firefighters to get connected to a hydrant and not much more.
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by bradfa 4y ago
My town has no interest in operating garbage service. A few of the area villages do have village-provided garbage service and often the quality and cost is less than the private companies, but it seems garbage service is not a big enough d
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by bradfa 4y ago
My neighborhood was built starting around 2005-2006. Then during 2008-ish building paused for a bit, then resumed around 2012, then paused again around 2014, then resumed around 2018. It's now complete. There's lots of new sing
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by bradfa 4y ago
I think the whole concept of having HOAs in many neighborhoods is a very regional thing. I live in upstate NY and pretty much every single-family homes neighborhood around me does not have an HOA. The only neighborhoods which have HOAs ar
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by bradfa 4y ago
Right, but even with a volunteer fire department, at least there's normally water that they can use to save the neighbor houses once they arrive on-scene. If there's no water then there's no way to save anything from a fire.
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by bradfa 4y ago
I can feel for the people who have been living there for a long time and now have to deal with the water situation. But I can't understand the attitudes of people who are choosing to move to such a place where access to water is such
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by bradfa 4y ago
Past few years? Maybe the past 18 months it's been slightly more difficult but even at the beginning of COVID it wasn't hard to source most anything. And even during these more recent supply-constrained times, you can still sour
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by bradfa 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the actual numbers on how much such a transition will cost. Can their existing mainframe software and databases simply migrate into a cloud offering? If not, then if their planned transition has delays or tec
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by bradfa 4y ago
But even if in "normal server workloads" it's comparable to older drive you still get the benefit during things like RAID recovery where it very much will be sequential operations dominating. So it's an improvement whic
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by bradfa 4y ago
My alternative is to present the data including how long before the crash the system deactivated and not just report all of the incidents into one category. This requires nuance and judgement in reporting. I'm not blaming Tesla or the
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by bradfa 4y ago
With level 2 autonomous driving systems the human is required to always be watching and ready to take over. 10 seconds is a reasonable amount of time for this transition according to Mercedes Drive Pilot system: https://www.road
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by bradfa 4y ago
And there's recent articles where almost exactly this has been found. Autopilot deactivating 1 second before impact. In these kinds of cases, then yes, Autopilot is definitely partly at fault, but also the human is because Autopilot i
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by bradfa 4y ago
The article states: "The NHTSA order required manufacturers to disclose crashes where the software was in use within 30 seconds of the crash, in part to mitigate the concern that manufacturers would hide crashes by claiming the softwar
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by bradfa 4y ago
A "crash" in this case is any crash where the automated driving aids were in use less than 30 seconds prior to the crash. So for example, if the car realized it couldn't deal with something 29 seconds up the road, gives a 10
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by bradfa 4y ago
Current job: Friend on IRC. Previous job: Friend in real life said they got contacted by a recruiter and that I'd be a good fit so referred me. Recruiter worked for the company directly, wasn't a 3rd party. Previous previous job:
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by bradfa 4y ago
Oh yes, definitely. I just wish that NY lawmakers would have more backbone than federal lawmakers. Getting elected to the state government costs significantly less money for a campaign than winning a federal position, state lawmakers shou
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by bradfa 4y ago
Exemptions for farm equipment, motor vehicles, medical devices, and household appliances with "a digital electronic product embedded within it". So... Basically laptops and phones are covered by this? Is a TV an appliance? My wa
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by bradfa 4y ago
I built a deck last summer, during the heightened wood prices. We had planned it out prior to the prices going dramatically up and it was slightly painful to my wallet, but not nearly as bad as everyone seemed to be making it out to be. Du
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by bradfa 4y ago
A paper checkbook for regular spending things, keeping the old ones filed away in order, and tracking of other accounts and balances on sheets of paper (one per month) in a folder.
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by bradfa 4y ago
I always have my battery powered lights on when I'm riding on the road, even in the middle of the day. I run a bright red rear light (not flashing 100-200 lumens depending on time of day) and a bright amber or white front light (120 l
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by bradfa 4y ago
It was kind of a brilliant move by Shimano, in retrospect. Since Shimano did share with them how to do everything, it makes it much harder to now go and implement those features after the contract has been invalidated. Seems like a good ti
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by bradfa 4y ago
Ah! Darn. You should definitely try it, though! :)
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by bradfa 4y ago
Are you suggesting a motorcycle course within the metaverse, preferably with swords? Your nick and bio are excellent for Snow Crash fans :)
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by bradfa 4y ago
A helicopter ride for you and him (and others if they'll fit) around where he lives or likes to camp. It's one thing to see your local places from an airplane, it was a completely different experience for me in a helicopter. If
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by bradfa 4y ago
To get 3500 lb towing in an Outback you have to get the turbo engine which is only available a few trim levels up from the base and the EPA says you'll average 26MPG combined. A Ford Ranger 4x4 gets an EPA combined estimate of 22MPG.
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by bradfa 4y ago
For me, a cargo trailer is something else I have to buy, register, fix, and store. A truck isn't really any more expensive than any other vehicle which can carry 5 people comfortably. A Ford Maverick is comparable in cost to a small
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by bradfa 4y ago
It depends on your use case. If your use case is emergency backup power, then yeah the truck is the hands down winner. But if your use case is to load shift to minimize costs then buying a slightly smaller fixed location (ie: powerwall) b
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by bradfa 4y ago
If the ID Buzz long wheelbase version is offered as a 5-seater (2 front seats, 3 bench 2nd row) then I would consider it once it comes out. The ID Buzz is significantly smaller than even the smallest Transit van, it sounds likely to be mor
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by bradfa 4y ago
Most consumer vehicles in the USA are already right around 2 tons unloaded. Even small pickup trucks have GVWR of 3 tons (my Chevrolet Colorado which is a mid-sized truck has a 6000 lb GVWR). A 3 ton vehicle is not THAT big, here. If you
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by bradfa 4y ago
2022 Transit order books closed months ago. The 2023 order book information and opening dates land tomorrow (so goes the rumor) in the USA. iirc deliveries of 2023 Transits are projected to start in the fall. The 130 mile range on the E-T

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