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by luca_ing 10y ago
> (gravity is turning the wheels which are turning the engine). ... which brakes the car, so you still lose energy. Can't find literature at the moment, but ISTR that the valve train can take several kW to operate.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Sure, but it will cause increased wear on the clutch plates. Only if your clutch is so badly broken as to make the car undriveable. It shouldn't slip if it's fully closed.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Wow, I really struck a nerve here, eh? I suppose you did, yes :-) Homebrewer here. > Alright, beer is great, we must all do our part! ;-) That's the spirit ;-) > I've drunk plenty of beer and it all tastes bad. Fair eno
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Can you imagine a BMW owner complaining that his 2015 model does not have stuff that new 2017 models will get?? I am complaining, at least inwardly :-)
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> but Docker glued it all together in a way that was approachable by any developer, not just Linux geeks. > I remember briefly looking into LXC ~6 years ago and being totally lost. Then Docker came along with a simple command line int
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Just like people don't really consume beer for the flavour, Oh but I assure you they do. In fact everybody I know drinks beer exclusively for the flavour. Why else would they? Even my 93-year-old grandmother drinks it, but she can
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> I'm not sure why people go for the heat. > I wish the flavor component had some kind of a quantifiable unit instead of the scoville units that has fueled this craze of feeling the burn. > Don't fall for this tongue numb
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Does anyone else find it hilarious that this site doesn't work without Javascript?
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> The transition on attitude towards skiing helmets (at least in European resorts) has been really interesting to watch. I agree. Ten years ago, only racers wore helmets. Five years ago, some people did. Now, I suspect it's the majo
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Currently doing that. Retch indeed.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Most of Tesla's issues are with the name. Drivers assume this is a fully autonomous driving system. You are jumping too short. In my first year studying engineering, a professor told us "Expect misuse. If you're designin
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Man, this project really grinds my gears. You know why? Because I'd really like to like it. But I can't. Why? Because it took them until release 3.0 to include any support for testing at all. This is not acceptable in this day a
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Yep, that's the one. She's very happy with it.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
They needed to capture attention first, and also make sure they don't damage their brand if they mess up their first generation e-vehicle. I think this strategy makes sense. I know what you mean though :-)
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by luca_ing 10y ago
My sister tried one a year or two ago, and loved it. She ended up not ordering it because the delivery time was too long (6 months maybe? can't remember) So it appears to me the i3 sells really well - BMW just can't (or doesn&#x27
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> You do. But keep in mind they have way less parts, moving or otherwise. Spark plugs, cables, the entire engine cooling system, fuel pumps, all of that is missing. My hybrid actually has two independent liquid cooling circuits: one fo
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Some climber dude (I forget who) said, paraphrased: "Only chalkless barefoot free soloing[1] is proper free climbing[2], all the rest is just disguised aid climbing [3]" If you've ever gone climbing, and compared your experie
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> But the 1m rule sounds draconian to me. Germany has even stricter rules in practice: courts have regularly decided that a minimum of 1.5m ... 2m is necessary, depending on the situation. In special cases, even up to 2.8m have been deem
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> I was riding downhill once when someone opened their door in front of me without looking -- luckily I managed to get past, but had they opened it a few moments earlier I would've slammed into it and possibly fallen into traffic. A
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by luca_ing 10y ago
West Germany had the official stance that only one Germany existed, and it was them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_mandate This resulted in all kinds of awkwardness, because of course both German states had t
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> So, instead of putting the motorcycle engine in as an afterthought take a 1.5l turbo as the primary source of electricity generation. This is kinda what they did on my new 225xe. 7(?)kWh battery, decent electrical drive, and said 1.5l
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Well, he wrote that he would account for extenuating circumstances like dyslexia, so if he actually does as he says you'd be fine (for a non-writer position). But I'm inclined to agree with him. Getting the itses right is triviall
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Fire manual QA team Terrible idea. > and hire people to write automated integration tests. Excellent idea. I've been a part of many software projects, and unfortunately almost none of them took testing seriously enough. No, act
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Just as a counterpoint: while I like his stuff in general, I disliked the baroque cycle (but still read the whole thing). My recommendation: Anathem. If anyone should ask I will explain my opinion on the baroque cycle.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I've worked on highly safety related (classification ASIL D) automotive systems. There are rules about how to think about the driver. The driver is not considered a reliable component of such a system, and must not be used to guide dec