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by kenhwang 8y ago
Lamborghini makes a family friendly Urus; guess it's just a quick family car brand too. And the Urus manages to be even more flagrant brand engineering since it's an Lamborghini version of a Porsche Cayenne, which is just an Audi
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Rust makes hard problems easier, but easy problems harder. BTrees are a great example of that sentiment.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Makes sense, Porsche's diesel engines were badge engineered from VW, while their hybrid tech is widely considered to be the best in the "money is no object" hypercar class. Hybrid also plays better with their electric car amb
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Last I heard, Github also runs it's own build of ruby and much of the complexity stemmed from incompatibilities with that.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
It's probably safe to assume Google reads all your emails and can probably target advertising off it one way or another. We can probably thank GDPR for forcing companies to disclose what they know about you.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Looks like they already have Rust/C++/obj-c in use, which all fill that purpose a bit better than Go would.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
At a speed that's faster than the expected sunset speed of the product without significant impact to your business is a bit of a mouthful.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
In my opinion, a year is not a lot of time for any complex integration with a service. Compare that to AWS which still support effectively-retired products indefinitely.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I guess the nuance of my statement would be, trivially replaceable doesn't mean build a better product. Good examples of what I consider trivially replaceable would be services like Pingdom, DNS, S3, Cloud SQL since you can either easi
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Just a reminder that, if you critically depend on a IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, you should be able to trivially replace it, sometimes as quickly as overnight. Having the service be completely open source so you can self-host generally helps,
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by kenhwang 8y ago
It could very well be the other way around too: product is getting too popular and doesn't have ads, but directly competes with our product that does have ads. Reader/iGoogle didn't have ads, but stopped you from visiting pla
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Google's ADHD with products strikes again. It's really hard to get excited over new Google offerings because they just go away when Google gets bored of them, time and time again.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Google's sure looking more and more like the Oracle of this generation.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Sure, it stuns, but it was often stacked with other stuns. I don't remember it ever being used on a low health target. So I'm drawing the conclusion that the bot only understands that the skill stuns, but doesn't understand t
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Off the top of my head: - using skills against targets where the skill would have no effect - using skills on nothing with all plausible targets not remotely nearby - using items to turn invisible and then immediately taking an action to re
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by kenhwang 8y ago
An automatic transmission and manual transmission actually have very different physical designs. Manual transmissions typically consist mainly of a locking mechanism that is physically moved with the shifter for gear selection and a clutch
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Not even lategame, they overcommitted at all points in the game. Those tower dives for trades early game rarely lead to an objective or advantage. They were able to trade early because superior mechanical advantage matters more early game.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Going to echo what I said last time before everyone falls for the propaganda. The bots did not play at a top tier level, the bots didn't even play at a level that could be considered median level. They did not discover new mechanics. T
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Tell that to Porsche who thinks 85mph is a reasonable top end for 2nd gear. Even a Miata will hit ~60 in 2nd. Given the low end for 6th is around 35mph, 2-6 is plenty doable without going anywhere near redline.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
See below link for references to relevant regulation. https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/traffic/rules-of-the-r...
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Federal regulation requires brake lights to be on if deceleration from regenerative braking to be over specified thresholds. edit: apparently, it's UN regulation, not federal.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I can still skip from 2-6 on a freeway onramp or 6-4 for passing faster than 8/10 speeds can go 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10. There's no point revving out all my gears in real world driving, I just want to reach the speed limit as fast as p
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The biggest disadvantage autos still have versus manuals is their larger size and higher parasitic power loss. Americans tend to drive both larger and more powerful cars where the drawbacks of the auto over the manual are pretty much insign
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by kenhwang 8y ago
But you can't skip gears like you can in a manual, which matters more when you have 10 speeds reaching mass market. I hate using manual mode in an automatic. I love driving stick. The fun in driving stick isn't from being able to
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Supposedly, it's newsworthy because Audi was going to discontinue manuals much sooner, but one of their execs pushed for continued offering because of "demand in the US". Porsche got a lot of backlash in the US when they disc
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Most modern DCTs are wet clutch which should last more or less forever. Ford/Volvo's dry clutch DCTs probably still require regular clutch plate replacements. Torque converters pretty much last forever on infrequent fluid changes
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Yup, this is more or less the reason. I have what's regarded as the best manual transmission in production on my Porsche, but in traffic, the automatic transmission on my econobox Mazda3 still does a better job moving the car from a st
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by kenhwang 8y ago
FF grays out everything that's not the domain name, not just `www` and more importantly, not because it's `www`.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Might be region locked, but it shows for me (North America).
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by kenhwang 8y ago
It's definitely noticeable on the Google/Facebook/Twitter properties, which is unfortunate because they're the ones behind a lot of the tech (and ads) commonly used across the web. I wonder how much of the bloat comes fr

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