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by somerandomqaguy 9d ago
Patent system? I know lot of folks on Hacker News hates patents but that was the whole point of them: the patent holder got exclusive rights to the invention for 20 years. But the trade off was that specific details about the invention, how
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by somerandomqaguy 9d ago
Hell if I know. AFAIK the regulations were put into place to prevent untreated water from going into storm drains and into the water system, so presumably the cities are fine if you pour it down into the bathtub drain and let it go to the w
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by somerandomqaguy 9d ago
Most Canadian cities prohibit washing anything (car, bike, etc) outside with soap unless you're capturing the runoff. Even biodegradable soaps. Car wash is the only legal way to use soap, for better or worse.
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by somerandomqaguy 1mo ago
I've had a few RAM sticks fail, but the ECC usually caught it first. Also had one case that somehow the stick slightly unseated itself; dunno how but it was out of service for months until someone opened it up and reseated the stick. .
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by somerandomqaguy 3mo ago
Hmm, curious, I remember seeing way more Crown Vics and other Panther platform vehicles from the 90's onward then Tauruses, even into the late 2000's. Wonder if it was just a regional thing where I lived...
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by somerandomqaguy 3mo ago
As far as I was aware the others didn't sell in any close to the same numbers. The Crown Vic and it's Panther platform siblings were the basis for taxis and police cars across the US and Canada for a long time, and they could be h
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by somerandomqaguy 3mo ago
I think you're romanticizing that era a bit. The most commonly sold CUV's today are smaller length and width wise then station wagons or sedans way back when. The Crown Victoria was considered a regular sized sedan for it's d
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by somerandomqaguy 6mo ago
Reasonable so, slump tests have been in use for as long as I can remember. There's a couple of other tests that need to be performed as well for fresh concrete. One for air content in the concrete, then temperature and volumetric weigh
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by somerandomqaguy 6mo ago
>a societal level, cars that can automatically fix a "recall" with an over-the-air update are generally better than recalls that will wait to get fixed until an owner schedules an appointment to have the car serviced Maybe? At
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by somerandomqaguy 7mo ago
Disagree, we do have the Bach's and Rachmanioff's today: John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Bear McCreary, Yuki Kajiura, Hans Zimmer, and probably a slew I'm not even aware of today. We're in the greatest era of symphonies
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by somerandomqaguy 8mo ago
I'm a little confused why you think that's wild; It's pricing is inline with other BEV's in the Canadian market at least; it's comparing with the Model Y, the Equinox, the Blazer, the Mach e, the Ioniq 5, the EV6, t
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by somerandomqaguy 8mo ago
OEM volume pricing is $20 USD or so for system builders like Dell, HP, etc last time I saw it, but that was a long time ago. So technically yes it was purchased if you bought a system, it was just built into the price.
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by somerandomqaguy 8mo ago
> Remember that gas stations weren’t on very corner when the gasoline car was invented, either. Yeah but gotta keep in mind when the first gas cars as tools came out, you didn't need a gas station on every corner either. You bough
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by somerandomqaguy 8mo ago
>Really step back and imagine a world where the modern EV [1] was first to market and a gasoline combustion engine was second. .... you worded that extremely poorly. Being first to market is completely different then someone's perso
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by somerandomqaguy 8mo ago
I'd call the that country that adopted EV's first and gasoline second... extinct after WW2. If nothing because the country wouldn't be able to launch an airforce to counter the bombers hitting your power plants. If not that t
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by somerandomqaguy 9mo ago
So.... what happens when you don't have at home charging, or it's too limited to give you any meaningful range?
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by somerandomqaguy 9mo ago
>Honestly I can't comprehend Americans thinking their constitution is some holy grail. It's old and has been written centuries ago without all the experience we have in modern democracies. Eastern Europe too has made very bad c
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by somerandomqaguy 9mo ago
Eh, I've been thus far unimpressed. Part of it being that a lot of ISP's don't have static prefixes, they do get rotated pretty often and have no guarantee of CIDR size that you're going to get. By default my ISP will on
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by somerandomqaguy 9mo ago
The market did choose it's most optimal. The real burning question is who's the customer.
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
They shine best I think as alternatives to the 50cc segment; 60kph max with round trip taking 5km to 10km. At that point the limitations aren't a big deal. Anything beyond that's... iffy.
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
Authorized software means authorized for that car's VIN number. Basically it's the same issue with parts in Apple products that are serial number locked. If for instance if you damaged a headlamp, and then went to an authorized BM
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
UN Regulation No. 155, and 156, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) are requiring car manufacturers to implement cryptographic validation that allows only authorized software from the manufacturer to be run.
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
Just my sense as an outsider, but a lot of interest in voluntary reunification got chilled after seeing China's actions in Hong Kong. A lot of it stems from lack of trust for the CCP to honor it's idea of a one county two systems
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
Yes to being worth building. The whole point of the navy is to be able to control waterways. The whole point of being able to control waterways is to be able to economically ship large amounts of material and people; in the case of warfare,
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
They already are investing in the JSDF. The JS Chokai is in San Diego right now being equipped with Tomahawk cruise missles, but AFAIK the plan is to equipped all 8 Kongo class destroyers with those missles. And that's just one part of
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by somerandomqaguy 10mo ago
It happens. The Jaws movies brought a lot of shark panic to public consciousness despite how utterly rare shark attacks are. The China Syndrome's effect on the nuclear industry given it's timing with Three Mile island. Probably mo
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by somerandomqaguy 11mo ago
From the horse's mouth? >The CMNR reviewed many of these studies when they were initially completed and noticed that underconsumption of the ration appeared to be a consistent problem. Typically, soldiers did not consume sufficient
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by somerandomqaguy 11mo ago
Not exactly easy. The US military (hell just about every army on the planet) spends a lot of money and effort into developing field rations that are palatable enough for infantry sections on the move to eat in it's entirety. I can&#x27
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by somerandomqaguy 11mo ago
Ah, I wasn't aware the Fiesta discontinued outside as well. AFAIK Ford did so to retool Cuautitlán Assembly plant in Mexico from the Fiesta to the Mach-E. Looks like Cologne Body & Assembly is going to be producing Ford's EU e
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by somerandomqaguy 11mo ago
There's always option 3. Keep product lines and factories semi targetted for their individual markets. Ford discontinued the Fiesta in North America but they are still being built in the EU AFAIK. Major car markets product their domest

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