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by jjav 2y ago
> I think the sweet spot is living 20-40 minutes of such places Well it's more than that (where is it cheap 20 minutes from Manhattan?), but in general you're right. Move out to the suburbs, far enough that it's cheap(ish)
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by jjav 2y ago
> There are lots of ICE vehicles that have enough power to overcome their brakes My diesel pickup could easily rip the brakes to shreds under acceleration. I'll dispute that. Have you actually tried that? If so, your brakes are defe
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by jjav 2y ago
> The tweeter is a two-pedal driver who leaned on the accelerator by accident, didn't realize it, That could be. > and stomped on the brakes to stop the car So, why didn't the car stop? Why did it keep driving forward with o
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by jjav 2y ago
> The point being that there is a extremely simple explanation for this accident Can you share that extremely simple explanation, if you know it?
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by jjav 2y ago
I don't think Airbus makes cars? This thread is about cars. Planes don't have brakes (while flying) anyway.
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by jjav 2y ago
I know it's not what seems like the most fun solution but there is merit in this. For anyone in their 20s or 30s.. you only have so many years even if it seems life is long. If your current city makes it impossible to have the housing
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by jjav 2y ago
> corporate executives are the kind of people who could have a lot of money invested in commercial real estate Sure, many of them do. But there's something else they are far more invested in: their company (through huge pay and even
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by jjav 2y ago
Sure, but the driver doesn't have separate pedals for front and rear brakes. GP was claiming it might be a driver error, but in the absence of separate brake pedals for front and rear, it is not an error the driver can make.
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by jjav 2y ago
> IIRC the way it's tested is they engage the brake and then put the car in drive. If it moves under . . . I think it was something like 3k rpm, the car fails the safety check. This test won't work at all for a FWD car. The par
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by jjav 2y ago
> Drive by wire throttle is in the vast majority of cars made in the last twenty years because emissions and fuel efficiency require it. Electronic throttle controls is still safe because if the code hits a bug and the throttle becomes u
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by jjav 2y ago
> Which is surely an innovation in drive-by-wire implementations. I wish it was illegal to have drive by wire in brakes or steering. These are the two most vital systems in a car that I absolutely need to retain control of in order to st
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by jjav 2y ago
> Let’s wait until we know more details of what happened. Yes, there are some unknowns here, would be great to find out all the details. > This could’ve been the trucks fault, or it could’ve been the driver falling asleep and blamin
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by jjav 2y ago
Jalopnik is a well-known automotive news site. They might not take all Tesla press releases as gospel, that does not make it a FUD site.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Drivers hit the wrong pedal all the time when they get surprised. Article says rear wheels were locked up, which implies heavy brake pressure. Why the fronts weren't also locked up is an open question, but in any properly engineer
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Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked(jalopnik.com)
81 points by jjav 2y ago|123 comments
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by jjav 2y ago
fvwm, customized to be basically a kiosk-like desktop with a few large buttons for different use cases (each one a virtual screen). Currently on debian, don't remember which distros I used initially. Probably started on slackware. For
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by jjav 2y ago
The files from the 80s floppies have timestamps in 1999, so they were only a bit over ten years old back when I copied them off the floppies. I did test some of the floppies in later years and still seemed to work. I still have the floppies
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by jjav 2y ago
Fun question.. I have files copied off floppy disks from the late 80s, so those would be the oldest, but they have newer timstamps. In terms of actual timestamp, the oldest I found was "Aug 18 1994", a text file with some notes f
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by jjav 2y ago
> It gets taxed as personal income so where is the problem? The thread was about non-profits. So it's a way to run a non-profit that meets the letter of the law but keeps raking in enourmous profits by shifting them elsewhere. There
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by jjav 2y ago
> You just use Mac or Linux without changing anything? Mac, no. It's almost as bad as windows in terms of having to chase perpetual change for no reason. Linux though? Absolutely. Nothing changes unless I want it to change. Here&#x2
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by jjav 2y ago
The typical response from companies is indeed to hide behind their TOS. You can read the public complaint data: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-compl... But if they show a pattern of misleading c
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by jjav 2y ago
In the case of CFPB, while individual complaints aren't necessarily resolved (not sure what percentage might get solved, I guess it is low), they keep stats on the quantity and kind of complaints they're getting for a given compan
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by jjav 2y ago
> Imagine you're an experienced user of AWS Ok you picked the one example where companies probably know where they're going already, mostly based on what the CTO liked in the past. For the 99% other vendor procurements, one doe
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by jjav 2y ago
> "Profit" means income in excess of expenses Problem with this (in all kinds of contexts) is that it is trivially easy for any company to have zero profit. Just give out all the profit as bonuses to execs and done, zero profit
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by jjav 2y ago
> 90% of the time, they already know what they're going to use That seems exceedingly unlikely. When I'm shopping for a new vendor I have no idea who I'll use until I talk to a few to see how the offerings vary and which o
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by jjav 2y ago
> Small claims court does get a company's attention. Different topic, but I find not enough people are aware of the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) complaint process. If some financial-related company wrongs you and you
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by jjav 2y ago
> I don't think it's really true that they've outsourced the costs. Sure they have because only 1 in N (for some very large N) of facebook users who have been wronged by facebook are going to have the time and knowledge to
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by jjav 2y ago
> No, I'm saying that we don't need rich people to help our cause, because non-rich people are the super majority. So, we agree on that. We just have different perceptions of who "the rich" are. A software engineer ma
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by jjav 2y ago
What kind of derailleur can one get for $10? Looking at jensonusa, the cheapest rear derailleur is a Shimano Altus 7/8 speed for $22.
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by jjav 2y ago
This is one area where I've found that paying for quality up front can be a cost saving and certainly a time saver. We have lots of bikes and have gone through even more (bought & sold). The most reliable drivetrain on any of them

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