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by mk89 1y ago
You know that you can tune your engine right? And this is done with software that does ECU tuning. So in theory all cars are illegal? The issue is not that you can do it, the issue (as stated in the VW article) is how to update your car pap
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by mk89 1y ago
I got downsizing mixed up, you're right. We're talking about something I didn't look up for a while now, so in mind the downsizing was connected to the ability to resize the engine with software. While the downsizing was done
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by mk89 1y ago
From a manufacturer perspective it costs less to produce and test 1 engine type than 5. So it's questionable to me that you believe you're paying more. You're just getting better hardware, but it doesn't mean it would be
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by mk89 1y ago
It is unfortunately true and pretty much everyone does it. You should look it up [0] or talk to car mechanics. Ps: Just to be clear, it's not 1 engine type installed in all the cars from the same brand. It's more of a family type,
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by mk89 1y ago
As I said in other comments, this is already happening since years (and I mentioned Ford, but literally everyone else does it). Car manufacturers already give you the same powerful engine that you can't afford/don't want to b
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by mk89 1y ago
This is a very specific case, to be honest, and I am happy you can enjoy your motorbike like the model with more HPs, etc. The thing is - for mass production, it has become cheaper for a manufacturer to produce 1 engine type and block it wi
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by mk89 1y ago
I wouldn't mind boosting my car when we need to go for a road trip and bring it back to a cheaper/smaller engine for everyday drive. Of course, if you have a car 2.0+cc and 150HPs why would you care. But the opposite can be useful
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by mk89 1y ago
The emission scandal is something that VW paid while literally everyone else didn't - they got caught because they installed cheating software and deinstalled it after the test lab, while the others did pretty much the same in the sa
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by mk89 1y ago
To be honest, I prefer this to what other car makers do. Example: Ford. In many cases they ship 1 engine type and restrict it by software. This way they reduce manufacturing costs, I understand, it's just unfair that you have the same
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by mk89 1y ago
I am not sure if I am more disturbed by the user journey they want to introduce for accessing websites or the fact that a private company (american, chinese, I don't care) has to become the gatekeeper to let me in. Who the hell wants t
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by mk89 1y ago
Do you mean reaching/exceeding the smoke point? Or just generally "heating up oil"?
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by mk89 1y ago
The nice thing about democracy and politics in general is that everyone can have an opinion and a way to see something. Many MAGA hats don't all mean the same. I doubt all of his supporters like the tariffs, or how he is dealing with R
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by mk89 1y ago
We're talking about mainly 4 countries in the Mediterranean Sea. The way I see it is that while it's true that there is an issue with the weather, they increased the prices in 2022 due to old high-demand/low-offer law (other
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by mk89 1y ago
There was a huge spike in demand, due to the lack of cheaper alternatives. Sadly enough, the prices have stayed the same, although the demand has very likely normalized, now that people can buy "again" sunflower and other vegetabl
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by mk89 1y ago
As well as rapeseed oil. Here in Germany it reached the prices of olive oil, which was insane.
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by mk89 1y ago
Do they support some policies or everything that this administration proposes? In my experience I have seldom seen people who believe 100% in whatever party/government does. Most of the time it's a few topics that matter - be it i
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by mk89 1y ago
It's already happening. [0] This is so much worse than searching for something and getting ads which you can ignore (like we have been doing now forever...). [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments&#x2F
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by mk89 1y ago
You can see it that way, however, there are automated tools to scan for secrets. Even github does it. In my opinion, this educates the developers to be more careful and slightly more security oriented, rather than afraid of shipping code. I
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by mk89 1y ago
> Wars generally don't end with genocide. I agree with you that this is not actually the nature of War. However, it's also true that it depends on the type of war being fought. It's not uncommon to see in history that when
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by mk89 1y ago
Germany has been doing this for years now. [0] Probably Italy too... 0: https://discoveryalert.com.au/news/germany-gold-repatriation...
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by mk89 1y ago
In mid sized companies, creating/using/maintaining AWS resources requires nevertheless one or more teams of devops/sre. Out of experience, in the long run, this "managed aws saved us because we didn't need people&qu
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by mk89 1y ago
I think he is talking about the fact that Trump is screaming left and right that "EU iS ScREwINg US CiTIzeNs" because he merely takes into account trading of physical products, without showing the full picture. Basically if you co
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by mk89 1y ago
Many places here in Germany have typically 1-2 parking spots dedicated to charging EV. (Free to use) I believe increasing their number of chargers as the need arises is the main way this is going to develop. Basically no central gas station
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by mk89 1y ago
You mean the 5 years old 1 person's experiment [0] or the more recent 1 year old POC [1]. Would you build a product with either of these things and sell it and put your name on it? I wouldn't. [0] https://github.com&#x2
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by mk89 1y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by mk89 1y ago
I am not sure but your comment seems to make the point of the person you're answering to. Dart is used probably and exclusively in one context (= library): Flutter. Nobody would dream of writing anything else with it and put it in prod
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by mk89 1y ago
Out of all things that prevent innovation, this is probably the simplest with a "pay to fix it" solution. And the amount is not even that high.. we're talking about a few euros per month.
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by mk89 1y ago
It cannot be a letterbox. You must provide a real address that has capabilities to receive mail. Luckily for a few euros per month you can rent quite nice addresses and the relative mail forwarding services (e.g., once a day, once a week, e
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by mk89 1y ago
Yes, because from my observations these are the people who cannot write anymore code today - they really don't understand the newer paradigms or technologies. So Copilot enabled a lot of people to write POCs and ship them to productio
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by mk89 1y ago
Then I misunderstood, I guess... Why would it be more expensive to produce it in the US, then? I thought one of the reasons for making the movie "abroad" was to get some subsidies from other countries "if you film it here&qu

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