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by ilovecars2 8y ago
I have a Dell XPS 15 at work and it's so difficult to install and setup Linux between the M2 SSD drive and the Nvidia Optimus GPU. Would not recommend.
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by ilovecars2 8y ago
I understand what you're saying but I'm just not sure I'm prepared to wait at a service station for an hour or more to recharge my car. Today I drove from the south east to the Lake District - a distance of about 400 miles. I
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by ilovecars2 8y ago
Having spoken to a number of friends and people I haven’t met on the Facebook groups I was in (theme was all car enthusiasts) - not one of them cared. Their arguments were that Facebook knows everything about them anyway. My flatmate also g
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I just bought an A6000 mirrorless camera and love it! I’ve had it for a couple of weeks and so far it’s been great. Low light shooting is excellent and 1080p 60FPS video is nice. I don’t care for the integrated WiFi so don’t use it.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I’m not sure I’d agree. The Model S is quite prone to understeer, and it’s not just slight understeer but real unrelenting understeer. I’m not sure how though because there isn’t a lot of weight over the front axle that would cause the nose
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
> I turned left on to the main road, and began to move up through the gears. That’s when a car coming towards me flashed its lights. This used to happen to me a lot in the Mini. So much that a couple of years earlier I’d taken it back to
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
While Coinbase might have scaled their support, it’s also important to highlight than the number of tickets received in the first 3 months of 2018 is nothing compared to that of the end of 2017 (the Bitcoin network fee crisis). Given the si
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
What is the catchment range for new (inexperienced) drivers? 18-25? There are a lot of people who have been driving for a long time who are not good at driving at all and lack all kind of self awareness. For example, following the car in fr
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Could one look at it more like viewstamped replication rather than traditional consensus?
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Sure, he is making 3x now, but there are a lot of people in the U.S who do not have healthcare or fall into real debt financing it. On a side note, the NHS crisis worries me a lot, but I’m thinking it must be better than no public health ca
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Does a P100D have a gearbox? I thought it was single speed. It also has a mountain of torque and power.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
What I find odd is how does a car with 400PS and almost 700NM of torque max out at 124mph? In comparison a Jaguar F-Pace 3.0, which has 375PS and 430NM torque will max out at (limited) top speed of 155MPH. The iPace weights just 300KG more
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
The weight is substantial. The Lithium-ion packs in the Model S, for example, weighs over 500KG. One of the largest engines in a current production car, the Dodge 8.4L V10, is 42% lighter. Smaller turbo petrols weigh just a fraction of that
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I saw a horrific case the other week where an internal recruiter cut and paste the feedback from an engineer verbatim. The candidate received feedback which said and I quote “You’d have to be a madman to have used X in 2017”.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
We use a monorepo at our place of work and it’s great, so far. We also use govendor to manage external dependencies in the monorepo. We are rigorous about keeping packages up to date so have never had to run v1 and v2 of a package at the sa
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I have a hard time with using Java to write micro-services. Even though lots of packages, such as Undertow, support non blocking I/O, a lot of the rest of the stack and the programmers that use it don’t know how to do NIO. What happens
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
We also pay for Internet service, yet a lot of ISPs collect and extract browsing behaviour about their customers.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Sure, but what heuristic are Google going to use to detect encrypted files? What if that heuristic matches files which aren’t encrypted and starts deleting those? We’d start to see cases of “Google deleted all of my RAW photos”, or whatever
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
It doesn’t, but why would they delete it? Google don’t have a policy to delete data they can’t read, as far as I know anyway.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I was thinking about treating Google Drive as a dumb storage service and storing AES-256 files on it. It can’t figure out what’s in the files so it can’t delete it nor can Google read the files to serve targeted ads.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Sure, a Golf GTI and Leon Cupra has different suspension set up, but the cars more or less drive the same and feel the same, at least on track. I love the EA888, but it’s ubiquitous in the VAG range. I’m super pleased that the hot hatch mar
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I’d be a little cautious about going 150,000 miles without changing brake fluid. It does break down due over time and of course due to heating and cooling which can lead to sudden brake failure. Brake lines are also made of rubber in all bu
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Is there no maintenance requirements on electric power trains at all?
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
Do those come strict conditions though? For example: don’t launch the car, don’t use ludicrous mode more than X times over the lifetime of the drivetrain, etc.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
VW has been moving almost all transverse front-wheel drive/all wheel drive cars to the MQB platform for a while now. This includes sub-brands such as Audi, Seat and Skoda. The benefit is that all cars based on this platform become much
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
In Europe a lot of these non competes are unenforceable. I work for a U.S startup in the U.K. (British citizen) some of the clauses in our contract are just flat out illegal. It’s also 26 pages long, which is almost unheard of in the U.K.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
How much coffee did you used to drink per day? 2-3 cups in the morning does sound a little excessive.
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I have a similar cause-effect with caffeine. I can drink a coffee in the morning before 10am and feel great because I’m still somewhat asleep - but an afternoon coffee is too much and overstimulates me. I find that alcohol can have a simila
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
I’m not sure who is downvoting this, but there are 1.74 people killed per billion KM on the Autobahn. This compares with 1.16 in the U.K. and 3.38 in the U.S. Having driven about 2000KM on the Autobahn as a tourist the lane etiquette on the
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by ilovecars2 9y ago
A lot of ICE train routes run alongside the Autobahn. The beautiful thing about the Autobahn it’s that it’s legal to match the speed of the train. That said, it’s bad for the environment and cruising at 140mph where it’s safe to do so drink

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