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by creeble 9y ago
Just re-commenting from above: my Mazda Protege (with the same engine shown in the video) has 233k and is still going strong, doesn't burn barely a drop of oil. Pretty amazing for a 20-year old car.
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by creeble 9y ago
It's so true, isn't it? But we've got a pretty long way to go. Mazda, whose Z5 engine is being disassembled in the video is introducing a compression ignition gasoline engine in 2019 with claimed 20-30% efficiency benefits!
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by creeble 9y ago
Fantastic video, and timely -- just spent a few days cursing at a Mazda Z5 engine (in a 97 Protege) myself! Really, it's a pretty great engine, but with 233k miles a little grumpy.
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by creeble 9y ago
A quick comment from a 30+-year boat owner: you always overpay. You may think you're getting a deal, but it's never actually true.
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by creeble 9y ago
Wired Magazine.
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by creeble 9y ago
Wired'd print magazine is easily the least-readable mag on the planet. Among other poor style choices, they abandoned text borders some years back - text blocks are within tiny fractions of character width from high-contrast (often j
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by creeble 9y ago
I also think that, even if all the information is efficiently baked into price, price isn't the predictor - the information doing the baking is. If you use the "predictant" as the predictor, you won't get very good resul
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by creeble 9y ago
The joke is "There are only two hard problems in software: Naming things, counting, and naming things."
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by creeble 9y ago
Maybe they just know way more about software development than the engineering manager if said engineering manager has never done actual software development. Of course both viewpoints are valid, I'm just really feeling the commenter&#x
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by creeble 9y ago
Man does that ring true on this Friday morning. I'm working with an intern who's implementing a "proof-of-concept" for voice control using both Alexa and API.AI (Google). He's a CS freshman. It's amazing what
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by creeble 9y ago
>The author assumes that because he's able to register a domain name that matches several of the authoritative name server names for the .io TLD that it is "likely that clients will randomly select our hijacked nameservers over
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by creeble 9y ago
I don't think they are technically pyramid schemes either, as pyramid schemes require multiple levels. I think it's just fraud: taking people's money with no intent or ability to return anything.
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by creeble 9y ago
Technically, I don't think you can call it a Ponzi scheme unless you're paying existing ICO owners with new, incoming ICO buyers' money. Coins sort of prevent that? I think it's technically just fraud: they take your mo
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by creeble 9y ago
> Each of the players in the structure needs to get paid. No, they don't. They exist merely as a means for insurance companies to extract more profit out of their customers because they believe they are "overexposed" to c
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by creeble 9y ago
And yes, I tried going back to the old driver used in 14.04 (psmouse!) on 16.04 to try and get it to work, and I can't seem to make that work either. Hardware and Linux. Ugh.
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by creeble 9y ago
My experience was that my trackpads worked perfectly with 12.04 and 14.04, but in 16.04 they changed the driver to... something that uses 'synclient' to adjust parameters. And this was a disaster; there are some 60 params that
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by creeble 9y ago
Anyone have RSI problems with mice? I switched to a touchpad over 10 years ago, and my right hand RSI problems went away. But with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade, the touchpad driver went to hell (don't get me started...) and I've been u
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by creeble 9y ago
Thanks so much for that! I've been wondering for years what that unique smell (from various clear-handled Newtonian tools) was. I guess it's used where clear or somewhat- clear plastic is used. But does BPA have the same smell ove
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by creeble 9y ago
Yeah, click bait title. Last time I counted, an inductor and a uP comes out to two .
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by creeble 9y ago
If only that were true for electricity. Nobody needs it at night, despite it being cheap then.
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by creeble 9y ago
Point still stands. Had they bought sawhorses instaed of 4x4s, they would be done in minutes. Execution, yeah.
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by creeble 9y ago
Curious about people's experience w/Turo. Seems like a good way to enhance a new car-buying experience. Other than that, it seems weird from the car owner's perspective.
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by creeble 9y ago
Interesting to note that this[0] article from Magnetics Magazine in 2016 has exactly zero mention of FeN magnets. Vapor? [0] http://www.magneticsmagazine.com/main/articles/permanent-mag...
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by creeble 9y ago
Title has apparently been changed to 2014. Has anything come of this revolutionary creation since? I.e., any actual magnets in production?
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by creeble 9y ago
Uh, isn't "the market" just the ultimate crowd-sourced fund?
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by creeble 9y ago
Depends on where, but it would mostly make for three national carriers: Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T.
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by creeble 9y ago
Indeed, one surprise here is that Cyrus is still around. Sad that gmail now owns ~50% of all email now though. (I made that number up. Anyone have any idea how close it may be?)
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by creeble 9y ago
IoT software developer here. I just came out of a meeting regarding future cloud infrastructure for our devices (we have a simple poll-and-pull setup for updates now, but want do address devices from outside the home network). I have no clu
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by creeble 9y ago
Wow. Am I the only one here that remembers that feeling of 1999, when all stocks were going up, and one could do no wrong with leverage and a Quick and Reilly account? Good idea for Robinhood to target millennials, who definitely aren&#x27
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by creeble 10y ago
I think, sadly, that this is the essence of the "problem". That is, few people outside of those who know about consumer data collection actually care about it. And it is one reason why we are hurtling inexorably to Idiocracy...

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