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by drbawb 13y ago
FYI I've got a pull request pending[0] that fixes the `rust-sdl2` breakage :) [0]: https://github.com/AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2/pull/46
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>... and boilerplate to satisfy the interfaces. Go actually provides facilities for embedding types which helps remove some of the unnecessary boilerplate from satisfying an interface.[1] Through embedding you can leverage the implementa
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by drbawb 13y ago
They're not arguing that the length [of the bytestream] is what the user cares most about. I thought they covered this quite well in the "Myths" section on "counting coded characters or codepoints is important."[0]
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On most new cars: the transmission is entirely computer controlled. This is the case for "semi-automated manuals" like DCTs as well as automatics. For e.g: to shift to neutral or disable a Prius at speed you have to "hold&quo
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by drbawb 13y ago
What's with the aversion to thickness? It allows for bigger batteries, hardware keyboards, additional connectors & storage, etc. --- I can't speak for everyone: but the pockets in my wardrobe had no problem accommodating featu
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by drbawb 13y ago
> transmission control chip had fried > $15 before insurance Was this outside of warranty? Because I've paid _hundreds_ for transmission control modules of all sorts: Dodge, FORD, Honda. The "chips" they would be refere
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by drbawb 13y ago
Oh wow, good point, I hadn't thought of that. "High revs" = "motor going fast" to me, not "wheels going fast." But I had not considered that this correlation is only intuitive to me because I own a car wit
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by drbawb 13y ago
I had my old Caravan chew threw a serpentine belt once... Getting that boat of a minivan around the next corner in traffic was both entertaining, dangerous, and probably the best upper-body workout I got that year.
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>zero labor cost means I can buy the most ridiculous . . . Amen! I spend $50 an oil change. Not because I take it to a shop, but because my cars only get the best of the best. You bet I've tried running royal purple in my Mustang fo
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by drbawb 13y ago
I've had a similar "total clutch failure" before. 1993 Mustang's have a plastic ratcheting mechanism that picks up slack on their [very heavy] clutch cables. The teeth on the plastic ratchets eventually wear out (duh....
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by drbawb 13y ago
Thanks for sharing! I have to admit though I'm surprised that some of those accessories even require a bus as they're typically operated by simple switches. I guess door locks, wipers, etc. make some sense: with the prevalence of
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by drbawb 13y ago
The throttle control on an early 90s, or early 2000 FORD is also a lever and rod [or braided steel cable] attached to a couple springs... Unless you had cruise control [remember when that was an _option_?]... then there's a servo or eq
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by drbawb 13y ago
> That's why you buy a car with a clutch pedal. There exist "manual transmission" that lack an operator controlled clutch. DCTs are very much manual transmissions, but many of them rely on a TCM to disengage the clutches.
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by drbawb 13y ago
The list is only growing longer . . . If you have computer-assisted hill starts, collision avoidance, or computer assisted braking [through ABS, certain traction & stability control systems, etc] your computer has control of your brakes
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by drbawb 13y ago
> phones aren't expensive A new smartphone in the US is $600-800 off contract. In my own experience: that puts it in line with (A) my car which I purchased and titled for $500 last year, and (B) my workstation which cost $1200 witho
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by drbawb 13y ago
As far as maintaing cars on a budget goes, I feel I could offer some pointers. Going by the "$5000" figure I guess I spent about "$2/day per car." (My yearly maintenance costs are about $1,000 on years when I'm
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by drbawb 13y ago
I really need to switch to a bank that offers temporary cards. My card was also stolen recently, a European company that sells VoIP gear (webcams, USB phones, etc.) tried to charge my card for $25 four times in a row, with the transactions
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by drbawb 13y ago
>AMD E1-1500 >Bought a computer _and monitor_ Did he buy a notebook? I've never even heard of the AMD E1-1500 before today. Everything I see says that its a notebook processor, and a pretty terrible one at that. (2cores/2thr
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by drbawb 13y ago
Your bank could issue "virtual credit cards" [or debit cards] that provide you with the cleartext card number and verification code. Some banks already provide this service.[0] The other alternative would be to buy a compatible sm
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by drbawb 13y ago
Haven't gotten this to run yet because my copy of Python does not meet the criteria he listed in the Readme (`Python 3 must be compiled without sigaltstack enabled.`) However I got it to build on Arch Linux. First of all: modifying `cg
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by drbawb 13y ago
Please check out my comment in another thread with my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601763 As a self-proclaimed gopher: this build has taken me far more than 15 minutes, and I'm still struggling wit
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I'm still in the process of building it. (Need to get my C deps straightened out for the python integration.) The main problem here is that several of these packages (`lime` included) are not "go gettable." --- Completion: If
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True, though it does look like this is using `cgo` though (for the Qt support?) Do those dependencies end up statically linked as well? Otherwise you'll need Qt installed. I don't happen to have it on my system, but I'd imagi
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by drbawb 13y ago
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/go/ You can click the "View the file list for `go`" link at the bottom of the page to see what it's pulling in. Looks like, regardless o
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>isn't even a warning This is actually enforced [in some cases] as a compile-time error. (BTW the `gc` family of Go compilers don't have warnings.) The two errors in particular that help trap this are: 1. All declared variables
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by drbawb 13y ago
Possibly worth pointing out to non-gophers: in `Go` it is illegal to declare an unused variable. So if you write `f, err := os.Create("/bad/path");`, and that is the first time `err` has been declared & used in that
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by drbawb 13y ago
I was a little hesitant to use hstore in my latest project, but it ended up being really cool. I'm basically storing a trees of metadata that catalogs, in this case, a "season" of television as a root and then each individual
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by drbawb 13y ago
Yeah by GPs logic I suppose I am also a "paid shill." You know why I'm not on Reddit supporting Windows 8 any more? Windows 8 works for me -- it works _fantastically._ I'm a little preoccupied with enjoying my computer;
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by drbawb 13y ago
I actually butted heads with this part of the AUP when I was a teenager. I was young, naive, and trying to set up my own mail server. Ended up creating an open SMTP relay instead. Received a phone call within 15 minutes of successfully test
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by drbawb 13y ago
That's the thing: we still haven't replaced our CO alarm. Given how integrated it is into the BRINKs panel: it's doubtful the CO alarms would've even worked while the BRINKs panel was powered but unactivated. Now we are

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