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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Does that relate to driver-controlled height adjustment of the headlights?
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
My 2020 Lexus has the same system. I’m amazed at how well it works for same-direction traffic and how terrible it is for opposite direction traffic (which seems like it should be a vastly easier problem to solve). I wish it was usable, but
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
If you polarized the light and windshield to 45° off vertical, opposite direction traffic would have their windshield at 90° to your light…
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Headlight function (including aim) is on the MA vehicle inspection: https://www.mavehiclecheck.com/motorists-basicinfo Whether it’s done carefully or not, I doubt, though I did fail one year for headlight lenses too cloudy,
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
I’ve seen a few cars that have strobe-then-solid brake lights from the factory, where the strobe only fires under hard deceleration. That seems like a safety win to me. (Remember it being on a high-spec Mercedes SL, and I’m pretty sure it w
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
On many cars, the beam of the DRLs are more offensive to oncoming drivers when used at night. Properly repairing your car might make it less distracting/infuriating.
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by sokoloff 11mo ago
Back when sensors, electronics, and servos were unaffordable or unavailable, it made sense to have a low beam height control as the resting pitch of your car could vary by several degrees based on passenger/cargo load, trailer tongue w
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Requiring an OBD2 programmer seems totally fine to me, just as requiring a 10mm socket and wrench is.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I have an Intel MBP from that era. It’s showing its age, but still works well enough. If I was going to complain about the performance of an 7-8 year old laptop, I wouldn’t do it on a tech site for sure.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That is the standard meaning of that term in business accounting. When you or I work for a salary, we think of income as all the money coming in, but that's because there are no allowable expenses that we get to deduct against that inc
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Income is closer to profit than you're thinking. There is gross income, which is roughly sales (revenue) minus the direct costs of those sales. There is net income, which is the money left over after also accounting for other costs,
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by sokoloff 1y ago
One thing I’ve learned over decades of home/DIY projects is it’s usually better to intentionally target a small overlap/reveal rather than trying to have two materials match perfectly. If you have a piece of door trim that exactly
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I probably agree more than this comment might suggest, but I think that you run into organizational dynamics limits before you run out of vertical scaling limits. Shipping a monolith worked on by 250+ devs in 30 teams is slow due to the coo
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you drive a fairly typical 12.5K miles per year, it will take you 8000 years to drive 100M miles. “Or more” technically includes a factor of 20-80x, but I think you were way low.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Is the purpose of travel to go from one place to another or to spend time? If it’s to go from one place to another, referencing statistics to per-mile seems to make more sense and, to me, it’s in no way “cheating because planes travel so fa
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Worth noting in your “if the system was automated”: There are aircraft permanently without electrical systems. There are aircraft temporarily without electrical systems.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> talking of IQ in a quantitative way ("x points less") I read that as a within a single individual, case A (no brain damage from cause C) vs case B (with brain damage from cause C), where using it as a shorthand for intelligen
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Given I’m going to die anyway, I’d readily do it. How else will we increase our understanding of the brain’s experience of dying? And it seems that even beyond the mere understanding, we might be able to prepare for and manage short-term ca
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by sokoloff 1y ago
IQ as a precise, cross-comparable measure? Sure. As a conceptual shorthand to describe the concept of intelligence? No.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Well, if they’re going to request commented out scripts, serve them up some very large scripts…
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I would definitely use this to knock together quick prototypes before ordering boards from China. So many times that I’d happily pay $20 to try a board right fricking now (and I doubt they’ll be $20 all-in). For me, it would replace breadbo
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by sokoloff 1y ago
GP is correct. 1 has 1 click (at least in US where I grew up). There are a few variations listed below, but none seem to use “extra” clicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_dialing
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Teaching children to invest in bonds is spectacularly bad asset allocation. Investing in stocks or bonds both help promote economic growth. For me, the notion of teaching kids to invest in some company they know (Disney, McDonalds, Coke, Ap
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I take that even a little farther. Whatever my kids make (up to the Roth limit), I give them money to put into a Roth IRA [and they can keep what they earned]. That maximizes what they (as teenagers) can put into retirement accounts, their
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by sokoloff 1y ago
"If it had ham, it would be closer to a British carbonara..." https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK3aeJjyv98/?hl=en
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I definitely suffer from this "do enough research until I find flaws that I then can't un-see". When my older kid wanted a gaming monitor, he suggested a specific model because it was on sale and he could afford it. I took th
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Because it’s easy and convenient for new parents. The typical parent has never heard of Synology or Ubiquiti, doesn’t have a NAS, and gets whatever tech their ISP gave/rents them.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I took that a step farther and got written into our SOX compliance processes explicit “deviate from normal processes as much as required when this short list of people declare an emergency”, shamelessly cribbed from aviation law. Slightly m
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In that story, we don’t know why legal would need to be involved. Maybe it’s for a good and essential reason or maybe it’s for a sand-in-the-gears reason. Maybe the CTO’s company uses GPLv3 or AGPL software and the customer’s legal departme
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Correct (and thanks for the link to that unit). Though it’s worth noting that that first 2 ton rated unit is putting out 0.5 tons (6k BTU/hr) at that temp and rating. That’s not going to be particularly helpful for a structure that nee

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