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by mark-r 5y ago
The problem is that today's cobblestones are pale imitations of the old ones, and won't last nearly as long. There's a parking lot near me built about 5 years ago, and they tried to be decorative with part of it and made it
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by mark-r 5y ago
At least the Uber-style infrastructure doesn't require oversizing everything. Even if my car is used 90% of the time for commuting by myself, it has to be big enough for the other 10% of the time when I'm taking the family and ou
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that if a bridge collapses underneath you, you're just as likely to die in a SUV as in a sedan.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Does Tesla have a big problem with Not-Invented-Here syndrome? They seem like the kind of place that would.
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by mark-r 5y ago
These cars are new enough that they haven't likely needed new brake pads. With regenerative braking, the pads don't get much use and they last a lot longer than you're used to. That would explain why the pads aren't an
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by mark-r 5y ago
It's the chip shortage. The demand for new cars is greater than the supply because of supply constraints, so it spills over to the used car market. Prices in the used market go up until supply and demand are balanced again.
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by mark-r 5y ago
This is why Toyota's Five Whys is so genius. Not only do you find out why there's an extra brake pad at the end of the shift, but you discover why you didn't catch it during the manufacturing process, and how it happened in
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by mark-r 5y ago
Here's a discussion about it in HN from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193657
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by mark-r 5y ago
LAB is good but not great. If you do a gradient from pure green to pure blue, you'll see some purples and other color oddities in the mix.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I drive a 2021 Toyota. When you go to the Clock setup it has an interesting feature - the first setting is for daylight saving. Turn it on, the clock goes an hour ahead, turn it off and it goes an hour back. No more fumbling with the clo
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by mark-r 5y ago
DST has long overstayed its usefulness. I wonder why it's so hard to get rid of?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Instead of switching to unsigned 32 bit int to buy another 21 years, they should switch to 64 bit ints. Or even 64 bit double - inside every double is a 53 bit int hiding in plain sight! That would buy them another 90073970 years.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've gone back to the original just to double check. It's very consistent about having only 2 zeros before the last digit, not 3.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think the point is that a 3 digit serial wouldn't be enough to cause overflow, it would need to be 4 digits. But who makes a post like that without using copy/paste to get it exactly right?
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by mark-r 5y ago
They probably figure it will be no problem, who will still be using Exchange in 2100? Same thinking as the guys who set up all those databases in 1975. And at least once it overflows (again) it will be somebody else's problem to fix.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I have a superb collection of MP3s on my phone, but Google in their wisdom decided to erase Play Music. Of course there are no shortage of players for Android, but I've fallen victim to the paralysis of choice; Play Music was perfect,
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by mark-r 5y ago
In the story I remember, the parallel universe is discovered when they agree to meet at an important landmark building in New York - but they never meet, because in her universe the original building was destroyed by a bomb that hit New Yor
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by mark-r 5y ago
It's even worse with Harley-Davidson motorcycles. They're not just going for low and loud, they have a specific profile that they tune their engines for. It will be interesting to see what they do if they ever make an electric.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The stareater feature was just noise reduction taken too far. A star looks just like a noisy pixel.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I worked on Paint Shop Pro a long time ago, when they first added red eye correction. It did it not by manipulating the image, but by painting an artificial eye over the original. The dialog was hellishly complex since you had to specify
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by mark-r 5y ago
The leaf over the face is much larger than the leaves in the background. That leads me to believe it was an actual leaf in the foreground hanging in an inconvenient place.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Yes it was truncated, because HN has a title length limit. The policy is to keep the original title as closely as possible, so that's what I did.
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Cigarette butts are poisoning shoreline animals. This beach rover(news.microsoft.com)
8 points by mark-r 5y ago|2 comments
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by mark-r 5y ago
I dimly remember a story about a wrong number phone call connecting a man with a woman in an alternate universe where the Japanese won WWII. Unfortunately both my memory and my Google-fu are failing me on identifying the source.
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by mark-r 5y ago
How do you get the 3 year trial subscription? My Camry is barely a year old, and I've used up my trial. They spammed me relentlessly trying to get me to sign up for the subscription, for a service I never actually used.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Python just makes it too easy. from math import * and you have everything you need.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I do not envy you your experience.
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by mark-r 5y ago
When I first started using Unix in the late 1980's, there was no sudo. If I needed privileges I used su and got out of it as soon as I was able.
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by mark-r 5y ago
That was surprisingly subtle. I had to look at it about 3 times before I saw the problem.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The story about deleting bzero reminds me of Chesterton's Fence. If you don't know why something's there, you have no business deleting it.

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