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AFAIK the range benefits you'd get from a smaller electrical motor are minimal, and in the cost of a vehicle the bigger motor doesn't add a huge cost. Also, a bigger motor can be more reliable, if you're not running it at ful
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I'm fairly certain that Ford has gotten to the point where, at least in the US they aren't losing money on their 'smaller' vehicles. Certainly not making as much as they can make on an F150, (I think the estimate on a Ma
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1y ago
I've known a few . But they are certainly not the majority. I've known far more people who have to do a 400-600 mile drive at least once a month.
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> seems like a 75mile battery + gas is both more practical and requires less infra I think it's hard to economically hit that and give a car that folks are OK driving within limitations. Mazda tried to do a range extender setup on t
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You'd have bigger questions coming up based on the general 'how did it get to this' as well as any other companies as well as the populace being very concerned about such behavior.
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I think GP's point is that the filesystems used by someone self-hosting gitlab may not be the same as what gitlab themselves are using. File systems can be weird. Sometimes the OS can be weird and fsync type calls may not do what you e
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Fair, but `n log n` definitely is the historical "good enough to actually sleep at night" in my head, every time I see it I think of the prof who taught my first CSC course and our data structures course due to how often it came u
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1y ago
Hey if the check clears for the bonus they got for hitting 'reduce costs in the IT department', they often bail before things rear their ugly head, or in the ugly case, Reality Distortion Field's the entire org into making th
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'Standard practice'. And yet there are plenty of shops that will either symmetrically encrypt passwords (at best, the email address or username is used as an IV), Log passwords stupidly [0], have a piss-poor integration where &quo
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1y ago
Attenuation is going to be an issue for any signal, but in my experience Fiber can go for many miles without a repeater whereas something like Coax you're going one to two orders of magnitude less. [0] [0] - Mind you, some of that for
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> timing skew between lanes That's a big part of it. I remember in the Early Pentium 4 days, starting to see a lot more visible 'squiggles' on PCB traces on motherboards; the squiggles essentially being a case of 'the
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In my experience, AI just makes bad managers more obvious... The best a bad (or worse, toxic [0]) manager can help for, is that AI will help them look like less of an idiot. The nominal I have seen however, is managers providing non actio
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Since you've already been pedantic here, I'll note that a 'shell' can also consist of pellets fired from a shotgun round, which are still 'inert bits of metal propelled from a barrel' but for at least a traditi
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Extraction is the challenge... The US has subsidized Helium via this mindset for a long time. Where I get confused is, after all these years, surely others could make a bigger effort? (unless the nature of US reserves put us in a unique pos
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A good batter knows when the pitch is bad and you take the balls and get a walk.
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My dangerous question.... how much of those 'visits' are AI bot crawlers? Based on their other behavior, it wouldn't surprise me if Reddit both used crawler hits to pump up numbers while decrying AI bots and doing things that
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I'll give my example, although it's a bit out of place on my part... /r/news locked/suppressed [0] as 'Politics'. I sent a Message to modmail: Me: Calling this 'politics' makes me ask who's
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> (unless the ORM manually validates the shape of the query response every time, which will come with a real runtime cost). Semi related to this, the ORM explicitly specifying columns ensures that the shape is consistent which both mak
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A 6502 can easily power a robot to bend metal and other objects. You can bootstrap everything else from there.
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Heck, the US had this problem when they needed to renew/refurbish nuclear weapons due to more or less 'forgetting' how to make Fogbank.
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> Modern camera phones are wide angle enough that it’s not hard to grab a shot of the monitor out of frame. Pedantic correction: 'grab a shot of the monitor out of frame of the webcam of the person wanting to take screenshots of the
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From the Article, if only to be pedantic enough that I agree with 'yes a browser might work' > The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July 2025. OTOH w
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You're 100% right that the 386 had a huge amount of changes that were pivotal in the future of x86 and the ability to write good/fast code. I think a bigger challenge back then was the lack of software that could take advantage of
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I'm not the biggest fan of Protobuf, mostly around the 'perhaps-too-minimal' typing of the system and the performance differentials present on certain languages in the library. e.x. I know in .NET space, MessagePack is usuall
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Sure, but even that article shows that it's a small fraction.
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When a company builds the moat too high (i.e. restrictions on external sub signups) it becomes monopolistic. Apple is honestly worse than Microsoft in so many ways as far as restrictions (nowadays, anyway) and yet it's taken this long
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This is obscene lmao. if you take the high end for all of these points, Apple is claiming 74% of the revenue is thanks to them. Also, there's a certain level of 'hand-waving' here where if you're developing for iOS you&#
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> Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Here's the fu
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FWIW the Adventure game adaptation, is -really- interesting from everything I've seen on Youtube, especially because it's apparently randomized in various ways on each play-through...
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At the time of release of the A6000, having a mobile app to take a picture (and not having to buy an adapter like some other brands) was cool enough that you could deal with the (at the time, relatively minor) jank. Biggest thing is they ne
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