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by mikestew 10d ago
Ran into that with an Oxo coffee grinder recently. Old one died, bought the exact same one again. And that motor sounds just a little more tinny than the old one, and the whole thing seems just a little more...rattly than the old one. I am
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by mikestew 11d ago
The reader functionality was not the point of TFA. If you want a product review, there are plenty, including the prior HN discussion linked in this thread. That said, I read enough in the HN thread to get the sense of not bothering with “ou
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by mikestew 12d ago
Add automatic high beams to the list. You mean to say "automatic high beams on Teslas ". The ones on our Hyundai Ioniq work just fine, and have never blinded anyone. But in Redmond, WA, Teslas are everywhere and 90% if you&#x27
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by mikestew 12d ago
It increases range by relying entirely on the regenerative braking and relegating the disc brakes to an "emergency" role. I'm not sure about the Bolt, but most EVs work that way, one-pedal or not. Even a hybrid Prius doesn&
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by mikestew 12d ago
For trucks, having a glass roof is almost essential for seeing if you will fit into a parking garage. If your truck is that tall, I suggest measuring it and recording the height. After that, you'll find that just about every low-hang
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by mikestew 12d ago
We've got one-pedal on the Ioniq. I've tried it, meh, I don't see the appeal. It's not horrible, but I'll probably never use it again for many of the same reasons you list. My dream set up would be the accelerator
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by mikestew 12d ago
Related to the Xteink X3 reader mentioned in TFA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596629
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by mikestew 12d ago
it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. You're thinking of 20-years-ago Microsoft. Microsoft famously got rid of their software test teams like ten years ago. As one who worked there 20-s
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by mikestew 12d ago
At the same time, Nike put out banners in Boston before the Boston Marathon that said "Runners welcome, walkers tolerated" and caught a rash of shit for it. Keeping in mind that runners have to qualify to run Boston (we'll
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by mikestew 12d ago
I’ve not looked it up, but I’d venture to guess that a ‘73 Fleetwood was one of the longest cars made. And, as you alluded to, absolutely bonkers length from wheel center to each bumper. Our Hyundai has the opposite problem. Because the fla
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by mikestew 12d ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I lightly read half-way, but it didn’t catch me like it apparently did you. That aside, what you’ve said (and, AFAICT, what TFA was trying to say) matches the scatterbrained marketing and product vision I’v
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by mikestew 12d ago
I’m not reading that disjointed wall of text to the end. If you have a point to make, spit out, don’t proxy it to someone else. Links are to support your argument, not make it for you.
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by mikestew 12d ago
https://archive.is/nX0zx
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by mikestew 12d ago
Same thing you did sixty years ago when your Cadillac got a flat: take the cover off the wheel well. https://photos.classiccars.com/cc-temp/listing/165/1814/3484...
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by mikestew 12d ago
Karma threshold for the downvote button used to be 500, IIRC. Only 449 upvotes to go!
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by mikestew 12d ago
Now you have me wondering if our OG Leaf didn’t work that way, as I have this vague memory that maybe it did. EDIT: nope, that is definitely an electric motor on the top of that 2011 Leaf steering rack: https://www.ebay.com/
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by mikestew 12d ago
It’s hydraulic fluid, which is oil. Nope, glycol-based and synthetic. Not the best article, but best I could find at the moment: https://engineerfix.com/what-is-brake-fluid-made-of/
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by mikestew 12d ago
Brake fluid isn’t oil (generally speaking). EVs have electrical motor-driven power steering, not hydraulic. You scored correctly on the reduction box, which will need changing well after most people sell the car (>100K miles).
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by mikestew 13d ago
plenty of things inside the EV require all kinds of oils I can come up with one . What's your list?
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by mikestew 13d ago
Oh, it's been proven to work, even in a limited number of production vehicles. Just not with what you buy out of the back of a magazine. :-)
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by mikestew 13d ago
Three questions: 1. Why is the city creeping on children with surveillance cameras? I'd be tempted to run for city council and beat that drum until the head broke (but then I'd have to serve on the city council). 2. How did they
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by mikestew 13d ago
The water-injection system for your carburetor that the oil companies don't want you to know about! -- paraphrase of an actual Popular Mechanics ad circa 1978
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by mikestew 13d ago
Would seem kind of silly to look at photos on a B&W display. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/specs/ipod_photo_30g...
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by mikestew 14d ago
My favorite is "Florida Hill Country" of Dade County. I raced a bicycle road race in Dade County once. It did, indeed, have a few hills, but the toughest climb of the whole race was literally an interstate overpass.
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by mikestew 14d ago
Sue for using “cola” in the product name? Citation most definitely needed.
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by mikestew 14d ago
They’ll probably want to go after Jones Soda first. :eyeroll: https://www.amazon.com/Jones-Soda-Fallout-Nuka-Cola-Flavored...
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by mikestew 15d ago
Republicans have been a buttplug in the political process for going on twenty years, and yet who has the majority in congress?
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by mikestew 15d ago
I clicked, and still only saw the first paragraph or two of TFA.
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by mikestew 15d ago
I did find a few eGolfs and leafs for $5k-8k, but in my experience if a car is that cheap there is a reason for that The reason is: no one wants them. Three years ago we sold an OG Leaf my spouse’s coworker for $3500. Battery was about 80
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by mikestew 15d ago
There's more to it than just a loop. If it was just a loop, it would peg a CPU core and be done with it. But you'll have to reread TFA to find out how it takes out the window server, thus freezing the rest of the system.

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