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by nikau 5y ago
Id assume most of the magic is downforce + sticky tyres + tyre surface area + light car weight. It would be interesting to know what the power dissipation capacity is for F1 rotors & calipers vs something on a sports car like a 911 or s
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by nikau 5y ago
I prefer WSL2 over OSX, just from the fact that apt is so much quicker and reliable than brew.
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by nikau 5y ago
Its fine for most day to day tasks, for example I have a simple "~/d" symlink to my windows "Downloads" folder that I can use to fetch files I've downloaded in windows Chrome.
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by nikau 5y ago
One killer feature is WSL2 can run windows binaries. I've made an "open" alias to emulate the mac behavour, eg. you run "open fred.docx" inside WSL2 and it will open the document in word. I've also made a &quot
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by nikau 5y ago
Its an architectural difference by locking filename rather than the inode, and its one of the most annoying "features" of Windows. Maybe there are some apps that release the lock, but 99% of windows apps lock the filename, and its
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by nikau 5y ago
Even just the fact you can run windows binaries from wsl2 is a killer feature, its nice being able to run something like tasklist.exe and process the stdout in bash. Sure you could write a similar script in Powershell or cmd, but its a head
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by nikau 5y ago
I think the biggest advantage of WSL2 is being off the radar - corporate IT support will just be "oh its a Microsoft product, install approved, add to whitelist in all security monitoring products". Rolling your own implementation
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by nikau 5y ago
I've moved to Windows terminal as its the path of least resistance: Its from Microsoft so no installation concerns from corporate IT. Its config file is json so once you get it setup as you like it you can check it into git and use it
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by nikau 5y ago
> You assume 'repairing under warranty' isn't done with simply replacing the entire device. You are aware that this is standard practise anyway right? No its not standard practise. If my battery is degraded they replace it
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by nikau 5y ago
> It seems you have missed the point so hard it's almost pointless to reply. As are you - you are bringing up all these hypothetical production line theories, where in practise the screen is the most common repair, and Apple have no
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by nikau 5y ago
> It has been found that during assembly units that do not pass QA often has this chip fail, and thus making it easily swappable increases the production yield during assembly instead of PCBA. Yet its on the second most expensive part of
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by nikau 5y ago
Isn't the issue here that the security chip is on the screen vs the motherboard? Given a screen is probably 100x more likely to break this is consumer hostile engineering.
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by nikau 5y ago
Geez I wonder why people aren't flocking to Oracle cloud even though its cheaper?
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by nikau 5y ago
I find this comment very amusing in its irony. Your friends company no doubt leverages the cheap labour arbitrage of manufacturing in China vs locally, but the Chinese buying chips and making arbitrage money is suddenly a bad thing.
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by nikau 5y ago
The problem is going from one extreme to another. It should be a regulatory requirement to have volume mute, max defrost, wipers, headlights and other safety critical features as tactile non-touch screen input.
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by nikau 5y ago
Looks like a generic logo you would see on some Aldi organic oat packet.
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by nikau 5y ago
I've had managers not want to terminate during probation period because it makes them look bad as they hired the wrong person, so they prefer contracts that they can just not renew.
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by nikau 5y ago
> It not always being easy to get parts even through it's a very wide spread laptop. For any framework part you can easily get the equivalent Lenovo part from ebay in much larger quantities. > Lenovo not providing schematics for
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by nikau 5y ago
Yep, framework is better in theory, but in practise the sheer volume of Dell/HP/Lenovo laptops means there are plenty of scavenged second hand parts available from aliexpress or ebay.
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by nikau 5y ago
Like all things it comes with industry experience.
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by nikau 5y ago
Engineering for manufacturing is a different skillset from even EE, for example a pick and place machine can only run so many reels of components, so sometimes its more economical to use multiple resistors instead of one as you can then get
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by nikau 5y ago
I'm not sure what the hype is around framework laptops and reparability - having looked at a teardown video they are the same design as my Lenovo only each module is labelled with a QR code. Lenovo already have full service manuals onl
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by nikau 5y ago
Also get some thumbtacks and red string and use it to create a real world relationship mapping between each person.
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by nikau 5y ago
Drink alcohol.
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by nikau 5y ago
Yes but relatively a lot better. Ideal scenario is a remaster from original master tapes without compression onto CD.
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by nikau 5y ago
And here's me just picking the burner size that matches the pot/pan size
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by nikau 5y ago
I don't understand this line of thinking like a teenager in some drama series - its business and you have contract to get paid for a set number of hours a day. Either the company compensates you for working overtime and you want to do
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by nikau 5y ago
This - unless its causing a production outage just say no. It's managements job to maintain expectations for delivery dates, not your job to work extra hours.
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by nikau 5y ago
Bingo - record vinyl onto a CD and then do a double blind test to see which is better and you wont be able to tell. Its the mastering not the medium.
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by nikau 5y ago
And all that goes out the window when the dynamic range compression dial is turned to 11 at the final mastering step.

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