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by masklinn 1y ago
> well-designed human-oriented city like Houston Said no urban planner in the history of urban planning. Or NJB ( https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54 ) > FASTER commutes than ANY similar-sized city in Europe. Houston ranks 7th
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by masklinn 1y ago
This demonstrating the average person is an idiot who never needed a truck because their “hauling” can be done with a sedan or even a compact car. Which is rather the point.
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by masklinn 1y ago
Of course it would, but mention that and America loses its mind.
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by masklinn 1y ago
It’s pretty complicated. The issue with hauling is that it craters your aerodynamics and explodes your rolling resistance, so you need massive battery capacity. Or to slow down, but most people don’t want to do that. Aging wheels has a rece
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by masklinn 1y ago
… and that’s why I bought a Marauder MPV to go get groceries.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> I can't see any way this could be sold in Europe It's 3860 x 1854mm, there are vehicles smaller than that being sold in europe right now (in the A segment, not quadricycles): the fiat 500e is 3632x1683, the suzuki ignis is 37
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by masklinn 1y ago
I've been looking at the GTK Boxer since it was first announced. The modularity means you can bring the kids to school then swap the rear module for one more suited to transporting raw materials, you just need a garage equipped with a
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by masklinn 1y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s just that 16:9 are so ubiquitous they’re by far the cheapest option. Hell, Apple shipping millions of 4:3 should keep them reasonable affordable. Same with 16:10 back when those were still a thing (because of the notch
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by masklinn 1y ago
Julian Baumgartner is a professional fine art conservator with a fairly popular youtube channel. Duct tape shows up from time to time in the pieces he's tasked with conserving, and it's always a terrible thing. In fact it's a
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by masklinn 1y ago
scoped threads as well, though at a lower level of semantics (and probably less efficiently due to not being on top of a thread pool).
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by masklinn 1y ago
I’ve seen Julian when he gets pieces which have been duct taped. He’s not a happy camper.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> OK, but you're not in "Go"-specific problems any more, that's just concurrency issues. It’s absolutely a go-specific problem from defer being function scoped. Which could be ignored if Unlock was idempotent but it’s
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by masklinn 1y ago
> if the default value is expensive to construct and rarely needed: I'd say "or" rather than "and": defaultdict has higher overhead to initialise the default (especially if you don't need a function call in
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by masklinn 1y ago
Pratt parsers are really fun if slightly mind-bending, their ability to handle odd associativities, precedences, and arities is basically unmatched making them really useful to embed inside recursive descent for when you reach expressions.
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by masklinn 1y ago
> Just don’t implement your own like Discourse and Tea.app. FWIW discord did not implement their own (sensibly), but since the british government does not provide this service it basically mandates possibly dodgy middlemen. My understand
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by masklinn 1y ago
> I'm not so sure someone who's good with Scheme will be bad with Python or Java. The problem likely has always been the companies / HR rather than the students. > I also suspect that Python is not a particularly good f
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by masklinn 1y ago
Ah yes, arbitrary and capricious goalposts moved randomly as you get unhappy with where your decisions lead. Truly a hallmark of solid thinking.
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by masklinn 1y ago
What car brand is it? I've read that Audi and Porsche do that. Also is it only pedal braking? Or does it "fake" things out if you use one-pedal driving?
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by masklinn 1y ago
Also forget about that bit: > They should add some “brake cleaning” mode to temporarily disable regenerative braking. Some manufacturers do that (iirc tesla calls it burninshing, others will switch regen off completely if you switch to n
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by masklinn 1y ago
> that makes the brake dust residue comparable to ICE if not worst based on the approximately 30% extra vehicle weight for the battery. Did you miss pretty much all data on EV brakes, notably that they get used so little they’ll rust to
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by masklinn 1y ago
There’s been a few suggestions that drum brakes should make a come back, for EVs. They’re enclosed so they don’t get dirty, the inner face of drum will rust less than discs, fade is not an issue thanks to regen braking, and before they get
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by masklinn 1y ago
Modern EVs tend to do blended braking (at least by default) in which case pressing the brake pedal gently will likely just do more regen braking. It’s only when you request more than regen braking can provide that physical brakes engage.
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by masklinn 1y ago
I think their point is that you eat clutch when you slip it e.g. when you’re getting in and out if parking on hills, or in city stop and go traffic. When the clutch is fully engaged there’s little wear even hard-driving, and doing a straigh
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by masklinn 1y ago
Afaik that’s pure series hybrid and that’s almost non-existent in cars (outside of range extenders, not that there are that many of those). There are a handful but most hybrids are either parallel or series-parallel. I assume because the po
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by masklinn 1y ago
No reason for it not to work, even more so if you think to downshift. It’s more common with manual as downshifting is a lot more natural but not fundamentally different. It’s just trivially easy with electric thanks to regen braking. Though
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by masklinn 1y ago
Because nothing can exist in America if middlemen don’t make money out of it, the more the better. You can see a literal example of that thinking in the comments of _heimdall for whom valuable commons are unexploited business cases.
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by masklinn 1y ago
The goal is to DOS the abuser, so the cost to the server needs to be much lower than to the client. /dev/urandom is not at all that.
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by masklinn 1y ago
Most things are trivial to prevent if you know of and think to check for them.
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by masklinn 1y ago
Deflate allows a maximum compression ratio of 1000:1 or thereabouts. Considering I’ve seen real world JPEGs above 300:1 ( https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/73000/739... ) I would not be surpris
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by masklinn 1y ago
A few years ago David Fitfield invented a technique which provides a million-to-one non-recursive expansion, by overlapping the file streams: https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/

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