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by fnj 10y ago
For many years I had a 70 minute commute, too, and it was a breeze in a 5-speed, even though it entailed a lot of through-town and traffic lights. On the whole I enjoyed it very much. What wasn't any fun at all were all the 10-20 min
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by fnj 10y ago
"Accelerate gently" Nope. Absolutely incorrect. Best fuel economy is to accelerate rather strongly to cruising speed, getting into top gear quickly. BMW studied this when they brought out the 528e, and found something like 70% thr
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by fnj 10y ago
Ah yes, 1997. I was a mere lad of 50, driving a 5-speed sports coupe. Funny how at 69 my idea of driving is now a diesel econocar with an automatic transmission.
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by fnj 10y ago
The difference is that you can get an honest 3.5% fixed APR on a 30 year mortgage, but nothing close to that for a car loan, unless it is a subsidized scam.
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by fnj 10y ago
Correct. It is very possible to burn out a clutch in less than 3000 miles if you are clueless, but if you are a good driver, 300,000+ miles is not unusual.
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by fnj 10y ago
Then you have been "told" by clueless people.
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by fnj 10y ago
Obviously you don't drive VWs!
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by fnj 10y ago
ATF change - 30,000 miles. Clutch service - maybe 300,000 miles if your car body lasts that long before rusting to hell. That's if you know how to drive.
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by fnj 10y ago
Correct. A good driver knows how to maximize the efficiency of an automatic, and minimize the wear on it.
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by fnj 10y ago
You already have one of those. If you are driving a 4-speed automatic, you can see that you are in 3rd and sense that it might be about to upshift and a turn is coming up, you can whip it from D to 3 to hold it in 3rd for the duration.
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by fnj 10y ago
I learned to tease my 4-speed automatic TDI into shifting from 2nd directly into 4th, by accelerating strongly to 40-50 and then abruptly lifting throttle.
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by fnj 10y ago
What is your point? Lots of automatics are 6-8 speeds now.
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by fnj 10y ago
It's not that simple, since everybody has had lockup torque converters (based on a computer-controlled clutch) for a long time now. As long as the TC is locked up, you have full engine braking. As you slow, it eventually drops out of l
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by fnj 10y ago
But hard pressed to argue that waging war against innocent civilians was against accepted ethics? I hardly think so. It was considered unacceptable by the civilized world in the 1930s[1]. WW II rapidly saw it become the norm, as tit-for-tat
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by fnj 10y ago
Every LXC/LXD container can have its own PID 0 init process, and none of them even have visibility of the others. That's what I am not seeing in jails. Root on the host cannot even see any of the LXC/LXD PIDs. Am I not seeing
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by fnj 10y ago
Perhaps you have the knowledge to inform me on a question to which I have never been able to find a plain answer. Do FreeBSD jails have anything like UID/GID virtualization and namespace isolation and resource quotas that LXC/LXD
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by fnj 10y ago
Hallelujah!
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by fnj 10y ago
And so can a barge in principle.
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by fnj 10y ago
Time is not a count. Time is a linear displacement, just like distance. As such, it only makes sense to start with 0. Did you ever see a ruler that starts with "1" at the very end? Of course not. It starts with "0", but
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by fnj 10y ago
A brand new 64-bit clean-slate board that has only USB2 and no USB3? Brain dead. A big yawn.
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by fnj 10y ago
For brain dead sites with rules like "min 6 chars, max 8, mandatory change every 60 days", that won't take you very far.
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by fnj 10y ago
When I find stuff like this that uses SHA256, I instantly just tune out. SHA256 is stupid. Use SHA512 or find another line of work. SHA512 is astronomically more secure. Anyone who is using anything less than SHA512 for hashing is an idiot.
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by fnj 10y ago
I learned to hunt and peck at a very young age in the 1950s on a mechanical portable typewriter, and have always felt more comfortable with keyboards which have good travel, positive feedback, and loud audible clicking. To this day I never
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by fnj 10y ago
Jobs' reality distortion field has outlived him!
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by fnj 10y ago
Destroying a keyboard is actually pretty hard - something like physically cracking a CD. I have accomplished it however. I am notorious for keyboard rage, and have hurt the heel of my right hand pretty badly on multiple occasions pounding m
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by fnj 10y ago
No, both they and their competitors are equally advantaged once the invention has been made. What paents give them is not freedom from disadvantage; it is an artificial advantage to justify making the investment. Society/the governme
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by fnj 10y ago
You mean increasing L/D?
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by fnj 10y ago
If MacOS doesn't have certain linux kernel features, neither does FreeBSD. How can Docker run on FreeBSD when FreeBSD has no cgroups? I think you misread/misinterpreted your reference.
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by fnj 10y ago
Used it grammatically wrongly.
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by fnj 10y ago
"if you write code that even an idiot can understand, only idiots will want to work on it." To me, that makes about as much sense as when Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights says "If you ain't first, you're last.&qu

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