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by metaphor 7y ago
Grain of salt indeed. I thought it was funny how the author decides to "settle" on some arbitary 2-sig-fig number. It's worth noting that in the US, the SUV/crossover is king of sales. As a quick basis of comparison, Acu
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by metaphor 7y ago
I did but nothing really jumped out as evident. However, the post-mortem analysis was indeed revealing. TL;DR the Model 3 didn't perform as well with respect to driver-side door hinge pillar intrusion and door sill buckling, contributi
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by metaphor 7y ago
> But the Tesla model 3 has the highest saftey rating of any car. Confirmation bias. The overall rating is also held by BMW 3 Series, Lexus ES 350, and Mercedes-Benz C-Class (which all rated better in child seat anchors ease of use)...
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by metaphor 7y ago
Sure enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14348085 Posted by John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare CTO.
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by metaphor 7y ago
This short essay[1] (with links to 26 translations now...wow!) by CS Prof. Douglas Comer of Purdue helped me find solace when I was struggling with a comparable dilemma. [1] https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essa
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by metaphor 7y ago
I find it humorous that the comments on that post so ardently defend Apple's disclosure fail by citing disjoint Verizon policy and/or brushing off as obscure operator switchology.
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by metaphor 7y ago
This revision was released circa July 2013. According to Wiki[1]: On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii... Perhaps this older revision[2] may be more relevant for the time; wasn&#x27
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by metaphor 7y ago
No one likes a quitter. ;-) They'll have to pry the QWERTY keypad and headphone jack[1] from my cold, dead hands...or stop Android security updates. [1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2&
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by metaphor 7y ago
It's ironic how the author chose to omit one of the last viable smartphones with both a headphone jack and QWERTY keypad that still receives regular security updates[1], yet includes one whose headphone pinout deviates from the rest
820.
by metaphor 7y ago
From the image titled The Moons of Saturn (annotated) [1], what relevance do the arrows denoting "North" and "East" have? I'm genuinely dumbfounded by the concept of cardinal directions in space. [1] https:/&
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by metaphor 7y ago
Thanks for the reference. I'm not Canadian, but it was very enlightening to browse through and surprisingly well organized.
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by metaphor 7y ago
> If anything he Club number is suspiciously low On a relatively short test course in the hands of legendary racer Keiichi Tsuchiya, the ND[1] was 1.431 seconds slower than the Abarth[2] in best lap time comparison...seems about right
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by metaphor 7y ago
The article noted the following: > But it is the third site, which seems to have transitioned from a logging camp to a thriving village, that fascinates [the archaeology professor] the most. Must be a real privilege for your grandfathe
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by metaphor 7y ago
To be sure, the C&D reference cites the following: RANK CAR (MODEL YEAR) TIME 136 Mazda MX-5 Cup Car (2016) 3:06.4 209 Fiat 124 Spyder Abarth (2017) 3:16.9 211 Tesla Model S P85D (2015) 3:17.4 227
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by metaphor 7y ago
They're called berms and yes that's normal. Race cars will have properly tuned dampers and suspension to handle the high frequency oscillations generated when rolling over them. Drivers use the stripes to gauge corner entry, apex,
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by metaphor 7y ago
Jump to 30:00[1] for a summary of results. Leaf edged out the Model S by 7.441 seconds. Fastest lap was 1:52.271 by the Leaf; for comparison to more traditional cars[2]. What's strange is all this Model S thermal issue talk, yet the dr
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by metaphor 7y ago
> Actually I'm not sure, I don't know much about the spec... See the USB 2.0 Cables and Connectors Class Document[1], in particular, 4.10.7 Test Group '6'. Why speculate when the USB-IF has made their standards both
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by metaphor 7y ago
Z73 appears to be "Problems related to life management difficulty". I presume they meant something more explicit like coding under Z56, "Problems related to employment and unemployment".
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by metaphor 7y ago
> She did notice, however, that the European kids would experience red eyes, irritated by the salt in the water, whereas the Moken children appeared to have no such problem.
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by metaphor 7y ago
> La Crépissage is the one day of the year that women are allowed to enter the mosque... Is this practice generally considered normative in the Muslim community? For 5 years, I lived within walking distance of the largest mosque in my
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by metaphor 7y ago
@walterbell submitted this, so intuition tells me I should be paying attention, but all I read is someone struggling with single-link digital video implementation on a FPGA and a sponsored advertisement for a tool that doesn't quite ma
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by metaphor 7y ago
> That the higher up the org chart someone is the busier they are. So what you spend 40 hours a week thinking about they might not spend 45 minutes thinking about. Respectfully, that's a proverbial crock of trite bullshit perpetua
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by metaphor 7y ago
How would you differentiate content from code when the thing in question is as meta as SVG?
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2020 Corvette(chevrolet.com)
2 points by metaphor 7y ago|0 comments
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by metaphor 7y ago
> Why does Amazon not put more bathrooms in the warehouses, so it doesnt take 10 minutes just to walk there and back? Not my industry, but I wonder if building code requirements for contracted facilities construction has anything to do
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From Vacuum Tubes to Nanotubes: An Amazing Half Century (2007) [pdf](ipc.org)
1 points by metaphor 7y ago|0 comments
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by metaphor 7y ago
> GovCloud is AWS and Azure right? Nope[1]. [1] https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/product/aws-govcloud/versu...
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by metaphor 7y ago
Not defending Oracle, but in government contracting, it's par for the course and happens a lot more than you might expect. Given the magnitude of this contract and its single award nature, I would be even more surprised if no one prote
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by metaphor 7y ago
This article sure did a shitty, non-existent attempt at citing its references. From the cow's mouth, here's the original JEDI Cloud solicitation[1]--which includes the latest amended SOO[2] and Oracle's pre-award protest[3]--
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by metaphor 7y ago
> In any case, this is commercial litigation. Not protesting per se. By this , what were you referring to?

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