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by rpcope1 11y ago
They don't come with one stock, sure, but there's nothing to stop you from going and buying the correct sized steel (or cheapo alloy) wheel and a decent tire that's the same size as the ones on the car and carrying it with yo
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Beyond the issue with unsprung weight, that seems like a truly awful trade-off. A run-flat still needs to be serviced if punctured and is still vulnerable to sidewall damage and potential blow-outs. If you carry a full size spare (I sure do
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by rpcope1 11y ago
There are lots of ugly problems with airless tires; another beyond the ones you mention is that servicing the wheel gets more difficult. A lot of Bobcats shipped with foam filled tires and you virtually could not separate wheel and tire wit
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think you really ought to have to read Little Book of Semaphores before you're allowed to touch multi-threaded code. [1] [1] - http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey05semaphores.p...
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Speaking of old diesel tech that just works and will be here forever, if you're in the U.S., it's still possible to pick up an M35A2 on the cheap (like ~$2000 cheap), and they'll run just about any fuel (multi-fuel Hercules d
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Even better than any penetrating oil you can buy: ATF + Acetone[1]. Also, having a rosebud torch with Oxygen + Acetylene is a must if you find yourself dealing with rusty bolts often. [1] - http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum
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by rpcope1 11y ago
> Based on what? Based on the fact this got any media coverage whatsoever. Idea is cool, from the technical perspective of bridging from one frequency range to another (and there's obviously money to be made in it, as the equipment
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by rpcope1 11y ago
If I were associated with the government, why would I encourage you to just use a very good 802.11 transceiver with the appropriate (dish or yagi) antenna instead? If I were with $YOUR_GOVERNMENT I think I'd encourage you to use "
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think this device is way, way overhyped. If you are at the point where you need a device like this to get away from some government agency (or terrorists, or whomever) you expose yourself to so much risk just planting a 802.11 to 900 MHz
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by rpcope1 11y ago
The guy behind this just hooked together two Ubiquiti 900 MHz bridges. Unless Ubiquiti wants to share their schematics, I doubt there's much to show on the hardware side.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I agree. Using Electron on all of these desktop application "frameworks" keeps seeming like throwing a supertanker at a job when someone asked for a tugboat. I feel like this will only continue to bloat so many applications furthe
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by rpcope1 11y ago
How do these talk with the outside world? Do you need to attach them to your own internal WiFi?
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I guess it just goes to show that Tesla (or whoever ends up betting the farm on electric cars) still have a lot of way to go before we see something approaching critical mass. All of the chargers are placed OK assuming you don't leave
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I'm not so sure this is actually the case. If you look at the supercharger map: http://www.teslamotors.com/findus#/bounds/49.38,-66.94,25.82... you'll notice major corridors like I-64 from Lexington to S
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by rpcope1 11y ago
For starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp... A lot of the removal of rail capacity has been short-sighted, and often for the gain of automobile manufacturers.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yes, for starters, some hardware companies still use Forth for low level testing of devices.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Well for a lot of devices I've worked with, you can shoehorn Forth places that most (if not all) other languages short of assembler can not go (Forth is _really_ lightweight). Forth was designed with DSL's in mind (Forth has &quot
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by rpcope1 11y ago
It's really cool to see all of this interest in Forth. I think when I learned Forth, it made me a significantly better developer over all; it's also an awesome base for DSLs and really a fascinating paradigm.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think numpy and scipy[1] beg to differ. You should go look at what's actually available in terms of scientific computing on Python, as I think you might actually learn something (hint: numpy is really a bunch of Python wrappers over
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by rpcope1 11y ago
>So we get PEP 484, which is ugly but might help Python survive. Might. This seems really hyperbolic. I'm not sure Go really competes in the same space as Python; also Python is so well entrenched as the successor to Fortran in the
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by rpcope1 11y ago
> While the Headroom hack was childish as well, it was also completely absurdist and didn't promote anything. I think its rare to see something like this where the hackers aren't pushing some agenda or self-promoting. From an a
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by rpcope1 11y ago
You know if this thing were an everyday occurrence (not that I even watch TV) it would probably be annoying, but the nature of the Max Headroom broadcast intrusion was more comical than anything, and it's almost a shame that no one has
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by rpcope1 11y ago
If what she claims is true, it must take some rather large amounts of wherewithal to continue in this industry, for which I certainly applaud her. It's also rather hard to imagine or contend the manner in which many in our industry beh
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I don't think we should encourage this sort of behavior; Python already has excellent exceptions and handling and this only encourages the detrimental sloppiness that one sees in JavaScript. If your program hits an unhandled exception,
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, you're right. I made a perhaps bad/loose equivocation for System/38, which I think predates IBM PCs, to AS/400, which showed up in the late 80's.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Any possibility or getting Erlang and Scala logos?
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by rpcope1 11y ago
It's always amazing to me to see all the hype around containerization and build once, run anywhere, and a lot of the tech trends happening now and realize that we've been reinventing the wheel, since products like AS/400 (a.k
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by rpcope1 11y ago
It's funny manslaughter is not portrayed as a planned crime, but I suspect it would rightfully get the same tone that the crime in the article did; the pilot was really recklessly negligent which warrants the response.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, this is definitely one of those places where if you didn't test and analyze the system relatively well before deployment, you probably shouldn't be surprised that someone came along and did this. Is it nice/fair, no, no
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree much at all, but I take issue with your last statement. Why on earth would I ever want to move to anything remotely like ReactJS when I'm building a single user application? You must carry state information, a

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