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by leetcrew 4y ago
yes and no. I do suspect that limits are often adjusted for reasons that have more to do with revenue than safety. but at the same time, the designed speed of a road isn't always appropriate for the surroundings. 55 could be an reason
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by leetcrew 4y ago
meh. after the last couple years, I'd rather have something expensive on the shelf than something "reasonably priced" but perpetually unavailable.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
yes, there are limits to how much heat can be removed by a dual-slot blower without making it extremely loud. open coolers can do a bit better, with the trade-off that they dump most of the heat inside your chassis rather than out the back.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
imo people get a bit too worked up over the peak power draw of parts that are going to be fully loaded only a couple hours per day. the bigger issue is where all that additional heat is going and how. I'll be paying close attention to
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by leetcrew 4y ago
you might find this video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgSFglbl5g
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's a weird market segment. the inside of a computer is not a great place to put a DAC, due to the EMI from all the other components. an audio enthusiast is going to strongly prefer running optical or USB to an external DAC/amp.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> In case there's a major accident, the driver at presumed fault will have their license temporarily revoked right away. > Of course the driver is innocent until proven/found[1] guilty. those two statements read as incompati
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by leetcrew 4y ago
this isn't quite right either. most modern cars have brakes that far exceed the limits of grip for the tires. the brakes themselves should only be the limiting factor if you are riding them down a very long hill or performing multiple
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Turns out the momentum from higher mass and the increased friction from higher mass balance exactly. yes, in the spherical cow sense, but this isn't at all true for real life vehicles and tires. the weight of the vehicle does have
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by leetcrew 4y ago
tax land and nonrenewable resources, not wealth.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Or you could drop your mouse DPI and raise its sensitivity in Windows. the kind of person who buys a hi dpi mouse is not going to want to do this. there are precision issues with windows mouse sensitivity settings other than 6/11.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
"crossed the six figure threshold" likely refers to salary. this is pretty easy to estimate based on title if the person works at a large, well-known company. but otherwise, you're right. you can't possibly estimate an o
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by leetcrew 4y ago
this may have been true at some point in the past, but it certainly isn't now. most of the engineers I work with have degrees from schools I had never heard of before meeting them. my team just hired a new grad that didn't even ha
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it gets the point across, but it raises other interesting questions. sure, most customers at an interstate gas station will only visit once or twice, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are less important to the business than the tr
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I doubt a modern engine has ever failed due to a single instance of lugging. they are pretty robust. but it does put unnecessary stress on the engine. it's similar to cruising on the highway in a low gear. the engine is designed not to
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I really don't see how it makes much difference from the employee's perspective. you get paid x to do y over the course of a year. as long as x is reasonable compensation for y, why would you care exactly how it's calculated?
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's an apples to oranges comparison. not many jobs that pay time and a half for overtime have mid-level ICs making $250k+ before overtime.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
disagree. I need to get paged a lot before it becomes more impactful than planning an entire week around an engagement SLA.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
plenty of "real life" places also fail this test though. most work/school relationships don't "go anywhere" outside of that bubble. what fraction of people you hung out with in school or ate lunch with at previ
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by leetcrew 4y ago
$20/hr is increasingly difficult to live on in higher COL areas of the US, but annualized at 40 hours per week, it's pretty close to the US median individual income. a household with two adults making that much would be well above
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I'm thinking there is a lot of context here I am missing as a layman. you can shift all the zones (including comfort zone) up and down the chart by adjusting the "mean outdoor temp" slider. people don't really work that
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by leetcrew 4y ago
mcdonalds in particular seems to have deliberate price discrimination. if you go in and buy one of the prominently featured combos, you could end up spending over $10. on the other hand, ordering from the dollar menu and using discounts thr
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's not that rare. a pretty common one (in my area, anyway) is someone starts merging into you from the side while someone is riding your bumper. if you slammed on the brakes, it wouldn't be "your fault", but it would b
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> When a plane or train crashes, we stop everything and redesign the entire network to prevent this from happening again. But each individual death from car accidents is not enough to trigger the same response in cities, planners, and ci
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by leetcrew 4y ago
you're missing the point of the rule. the issue with smoking weed isn't really about having impaired judgement, it's that weed is still illegal at the federal level. there are all kinds of low-level crimes that can put your c
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by leetcrew 4y ago
nothing really, but for some reason I trust an army of unpaid pedantic nerds over editors at actual newspapers. you still see some heavily slanted articles on wikipedia from time to time, but rarely do they trip my bias meter as hard as you
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by leetcrew 4y ago
serious answer: you can probably see the issue yourself if you play around with a payment calculator that allows arbitrary terms: https://www.dallasfed.org/educate/calculators/closed-calc.as... in reality, lenders
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> For the lender the benefit is a much larger total amount of interest paid by the borrower over the life of the mortgage. I'm just a layperson, but I don't think this is how lenders typically look at ROI on deployed capital.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's probably a bad idea for most people, but not for the reason you gave. one way of looking at very long term mortgages is that they are a bet on how long you will actually own the property. keep in mind that, historically, the value
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> But isn't it strange that every patrol cop in the neighborhood never fails to make sure to check that the corner sausage cart vendor and ice cream van have every single permit in order? And how there's always time to stop som

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