timelol

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   by timelol 9y ago

   Those are both great cars in their element. When the MX-5 debuted in 1989 it had IIRC 110 horsepower, and for many motorsports purposes was utterly dominant. There is something to be said for balance in a sports car.
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   by timelol 9y ago

   You can't compare diesel and petrol cars on a fuel-volumetric basis. You have to use mass because diesel is more dense. There is 15% more fuel in a gallon of diesel than in a gallon of petrol.
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   by timelol 9y ago

   I have an electric _bicycle_ that routinely dusts off ICE cars at stop lights. It just takes a while for all that machinery to start rolling.
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   by timelol 9y ago

   Using GPS as your time source is a fabulously good way to trash your entire database during a leap second. See this paper for a discussion on how essentially everybody but Google gets this wrong: http://crin.eng.uts.edu.au/