lttlrck

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by lttlrck 5y ago
It's doubtful the utilities are going to leave money on the table if there is a significant uptick in nighttime electricity usage due to to charging. I'm not sure I'd want the lifetime of the most expensive component in my ca
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Brake pads and discs last longer yes. But brake calipers can seize if left unmaintained, especially in northern states that use salt on the road (and this may be worsened if they are used less). Brake fluid is hygroscopic and should be rep
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by lttlrck 5y ago
I wonder if this could affect GPS satellite lock performance by causing incorrect almanac lookups...
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by lttlrck 5y ago
"It should be noted that Tesla delivered around 499k cars this year, so this isn’t exactly apples to apples. For context, Toyota sold almost 750k cars in August of 2021."
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by lttlrck 5y ago
But they will send collections after you long before that no? It happened to me (Scrips, CA), while we were trying to negotiate payment with the hospital and the bill was only $500 - I didn't want to pay it out of principal because w
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Smartbolts seem to be useful in applications where there is an expectation the bolts will loosen over time/the maintenance lifetime, reducing/easing inspection time. Similar to the tell-tales used on truck lug nuts: https:/&
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Haha. Similar for me. I spent months and month writing a 2D 360° scrolling game engine in x86 assembler, and a level builder. I drew all the sprites and tiles, labored over animation, parallax, collision detection, multichannel audio and op
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by lttlrck 5y ago
ESC/AWD has become an essential safety equipment given the amount of (arguably unnecessary) power even economy cars are kicking out now. It is also the enabler...
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Reasonable and logical: it's a similar idea to a locally hosted virus scanner scanning all your documents...
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by lttlrck 5y ago
SCTP runs over UDP too. The main reason for not picking it is likely the TLS handshake optimizations they wanted.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
It seems he's been around for a very long time... https://beautifulrus.com/ded-moroz-vs-santa-claus/ myths spread far and wide. Father Frost is a tradition in Mongolia.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Percentages are quite useless without the absolute numbers as a reference...
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by lttlrck 5y ago
isn't flashing red a fail-safe triggered when the light controls fail that should be treated as a stop sign? In practice that might work, but it's also a conflicting signal.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
There is a lot of wiggle room when there are no minimums.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
an electric motor, wiring harness and software to control vent direction versus a couple of injection molded pieces of plastic... which is less likely to fail and which is easier to repair/replace?
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by lttlrck 5y ago
I was a rear passenger in a model 3 on a hot day and the amount of fiddling the owner had to perform to actually get some cool air flow in the back was ludicrous. In my 2013 car with 20th century knobs and dials I could have done it myself
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Considering it's size and how heterogeneous it is compared to rest of the top 5 the US seems to be remarkable.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
I guess street chargers work great if you park on the street and can leave your EV in the same spot even after it is charged, like a regular parking spot. Otherwise it's just a chore to charge and move your EV to a non-charging spot wh
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by lttlrck 5y ago
My 2013 E350 MB monitors driver alertness through steering, brake and throttle input alone. And it's surprisingly good, facial recognition is not required. The only time it gets triggered is when I'm doing late night or very earl
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by lttlrck 5y ago
You could ask the same thing of ICEs though... it's not all about 0-60.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
This sentiment also maps onto BEV and ICE for me. I love the utility, performance and efficiency of newer tech, but mechanical machines are far more awe inspiring to me. They're more organic somehow, even though that's the defin
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by lttlrck 5y ago
2021 safety tech includes back-up camera and associated LCD display, auto braking, lane keeping, LED headlight advancements, blind spot monitoring and numerous air bags, auto wipers and lights etc etc. plus structural improvement. The car t
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by lttlrck 5y ago
My house has the "Are You Kidding Me" 11ft wide windows with 1ft wide shutters variety. It's stupid practically speaking, but they've been there for decades and they look nice. Rather than ranting about how terrible the
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by lttlrck 5y ago
California is looking at a road usage charge. Longer term, as gas tax revenue drops, it seems inevitable. And other jurisdictions will do the same. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Credit Karmas business is collecting fees when people sign up for credit cards and lines of credit they push... they are hardly neutral.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Yes for recurring subscriptions the control should be firmly under the consumers control. Perhaps there should be a special recurring transaction type on credit cards akin to those in PayPal.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
In this case, gas == petrol, not natural gas.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Perhaps there is a way to add a bitterant to the sheathing. Im sure this has been researched, maybe around the time they switched to tasty biodegradable soy-based harnesses.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
I use syncthing doing that across Linux, macOS and windows. It's fire and forget.
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by lttlrck 5y ago
Personally I find the Audi-style sequential lightshow signals far more stupid - and more distracting. These look odd in a static image where the reader has been primed by the title, but in real life they are flashing lights on the corner of

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