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by sergiosgc 3y ago
That is true, but only in automatic mode. In semi-automatic, everything is quite predictable, no?
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
> It is an extreme frustration to have to look at the screen to click the slider to turn them [wipers] off. No need. Push the button on the left stalk, press the left scroll wheel to the left for a couple of seconds. > Recently a mech
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
Genuine question: What exactly do you enjoy? Twenty years go, you could do a mountain road engine braking with downshifts, getting then the perfect gear for the turn apex and coming out perfectly balanced. But cars have changed. Engine brak
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
I'm on the side fostering that change. Ever since I got a Mini Countryman with a ZF6. I was forced into an automatic because the car was a hybrid, and now I wouldn't go back to manual. The car was a little janky from a dead stop,
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
My only experience with touchscreen cars is with the Model 3. You don't need the screen for operational stuff needed for driving. Off the top of my head, these are all on the steering wheel/stalks: - Blinkers - High beams - Gearbo
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
As an European, where we drive mostly stick, it's funny to observe the newfound US love for stick shifts. It's funny because it happened almost exactly when automatics became good! Good dual clutch gearboxes are amazing, but even
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
Banks aren't directly profiting from higher interest rates. They are profiting from arbitraging the change. They are increasing loan rates before their capital costs increase. They could easily do the same on a downward slope.
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
I could itemize, but several people already did, so I'll add a different perspective. Some products are so much better that, when you try them out, you realize there was a quantum leap there. Like when I tried a capacitive touchscreen
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
As important as drawing the casus belli is laying out alternatives. What are the alternatives to Zoom, supporting Linux, OSX, mobile and Windows, with decent terms of use?
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
This is a lot of argumentation for such a thin knowledge base about the device. However, even if it is all true, it does not matter. The Apple Vision Pro is a developer kit only Apple could launch. Nobody knows what is possible with AR. The
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
> Personally I love OS tech so maybe I'm just cut out for it. I used to be able to tell what the machine was doing from the HDD whirrs (...) I loved the story about how a developer of ZFS, from the Sun days, went down a rabbit hole
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
I'm not familiar with sail vocabulary in English, but in Portuguese there is only downwind (sotavento) and upwind (barlavento). Functionally you don't need the other two, so I imagine it's similar in English.
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
Four, actually. You also have the wind frame of reference, which is actually the most important (for sail boats). You don't turn left or right, you turn upwind or downwind.
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by sergiosgc 3y ago
You never sail at 0 degrees upwind. When going upwind, the angle is about 30 degrees minimum. Closer than that and you can't inflate the main sail, thus get no power. 30 degrees should be enough to prevent toxic hazards. Sitting on the
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
Don't know your install, but Debian by default uses Pipewire, not Pulseaudio. If you are using Pipewire, indeed you can't install a Pulseaudio application. That's expected. You can replace pipewire with pulseaudio. It's
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
sergio@sergio-laptop:~ > sudo apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: fonts
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
I never broke a Debian install beyond repair, and I've used it for a couple of decades. Even when doing some really off the charts stuff, including powering off a system mid dist-upgrade. Apt is really really solid and well documented&
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
There's a Pareto effort, of course. If you release Debian and Redhat packages, you cover 80% of the user base. It's not hard to maintain, if you compare to building msi installers. Further, the process of generating packages for d
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
C# is classic object-oriented, while Rust skips polymorphism. It takes a while to grasp how to properly design using traits with no polymorphism. The transition is far from simple. I happen to like Rust's choice, a lot, but it is a ver
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
That's a user interface problem. Just tie a brand to "whatever antibiotic is on rotation now". Grandma gets used to Activir, but Activir changes active principle every couple of years.
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
A bit late on the reply, but mine is a Sonicare Power Flosser.
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
This, but for water jet flossing. Why did I muck around for decades with strings in my mouth? A water jet is a lot less effort and much much more efficient/effective. P.S. If you never tried these gizmos, get a portable, battery powere
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
That was my exact personal diagnostic, until 2018. My weight very slowly drifted upward, but you start adding 0.5kg-1kg per year over a couple of decades, with a few dips here and there on dietary effort, and the result was a health disaste
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
Angers some current owners. You can always find people to complain about anything. It's just that bashing Tesla sells newspapers today, and that's where the news industry is going. I bought a Model 3 seven months ago. At the tim
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
A couple non contestable points: 1. It has been useful so far as a challenge for technological development that finds other uses on the ground, and this is certainly not about to change; 2. It has been useful so far, in direct applications,
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
I'm not moving anything. Re-read my comments, they are clear.
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
> I don't see anything baseless or at odds with public opinion. "Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to fracture the West." This is baseless and at odds with public opinion. It is also the lede
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
That is an option that regularly pops up but, as you say, it will cause a more serious crisis later on. Russia is very clearly an expansionist state. If allowed to expand to Ukraine, it will expand further. The Baltic states would be next o
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
The article is baseless and at odds with what I see as publicly stated political opinion and, more importantly, public (EU population) opinion. The article is baseless because it echoes unnamed sources. "Top EU officials", but not
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by sergiosgc 4y ago
It's a capital-intensive industry with a long lead development cycle. You develop the product, then you develop the factories, then you actually build the factories. Software has a long lead development cycle but no capital investment

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