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by xenadu02 3y ago
Cars are much larger and their seals are much larger. They consequently have much more play and far larger tolerances. If you scaled the forces and subjected the car to the equivalent of dropping a phone on the floor it would be totaled ins
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by xenadu02 3y ago
AFAIK after pro-union candidates swept elections the Confederacy invaded the officially neutral state of Kentucky. They even admitted Kentucky under a shadow government.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You make this claim but have you ever worked in product design for something trying to achieve an IP water and dust ingress rating? It is far more than "just a gasket and a few screws". The rating can't just be good on unboxi
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Its not like private companies and foreign governments aren't doing the exact same thing. See the recent eBay security case, the Khashoggi journalist case, etc. Plenty of examples of things like Saudi's sovereign fund being a prim
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The percentage of people who use a third party app to read reddit is likely relatively small. They're also the most likely to be invested in the platform. Why make these users angry? Why even take the risk that some of your users might
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by xenadu02 3y ago
It won't keep time because on an actual mains grid the operator tracks frequency variations over time and makes corrections in the opposite direction to keep the average very close to the stated Hz - one reason for that being mechanica
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by xenadu02 3y ago
FWIW they have revised the Model Y suspension for 2023. Reports say it is more comfortable without affecting handling. Some owners have reportedly ordered the parts from the 2023 vintage and had them installed on prior year models - but I h
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by xenadu02 3y ago
For the record I drove a 2001 E46 M3 for years. My follow-on was an Infinity G37-S. I am very familiar with what sporty handling means.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
And my E46 M3 had interior door trim with glue that melted in the sun and fell off. Oh and the crankshaft bearings ate themselves and grenaded the engine at highway speed (the dealer charged BMW $14k just for the engine on that warranty rep
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by xenadu02 3y ago
If memory serves the main ECU control loop didn't check for stack overflows so excessive recursion could smash the global variables on the stack and accidentally turn off any number of ECU tasks - including the one responsible for moni
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Two things can be true at the same time. 1. Most unintended acceleration events are user error across all vehicles. 2. Some small number of Toyota unintended acceleration events were caused by low quality software on the ECU and a very badl
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Some people (like myself) prefer a sporty ride. They're really fun to drive. I own one and don't regret it. Obviously no car will appeal to everyone but clearly Tesla has a market despite the nay-sayers. edit: The purchase experie
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I understand the quote and 100% believe that some people within MS wanted it purely to prevent competition. But clearly someone with a cooler head looked at it and made the call not to enable it. That's the only thing that actually mat
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by xenadu02 3y ago
AM is also one of the easiest bits of infrastructure to cobble together: you need an oscillator, an audio amplification circuit, a microphone, and a length of wire. The circuit is so simple anyone can build one DIY or with a hobby kit (thou
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Microsoft has done many questionable things but the AARD code was never enabled on a shipping version of DOS so it doesn't seem quite fair to blame them for that. I also find the whole argument silly because it was obvious even during
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Yes, this is for whatever reason a favorite disaster scenario so it has been tested many times. A training pilot on the ground walks the person through what to do and they can usually get the plane down with autopilot. This assumes no major
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Foundation has not been a pure layer on top of CoreFoundation for over a decade. Some class implementations are unified on the ObjC version, not the pure C CoreFoundation version. Objective-C got good enough that all processes on Apple plat
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This is a new effort that is committed to shipping on Apple platforms. It will also be the first time 3rd parties can get code changes into Foundation.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Because the rock formations in some areas are more prone to production of Radon gas which slowly diffuses through the soil. Basements in those areas tend to have Radon infiltration. It is obviously very slow but the basement is a low point
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by xenadu02 3y ago
It's the constant yin-yang of MBA types running companies. They proclaim some modernization effort or another will let them downsize the expensive employees (or they just do a layoff to bump the stock price). Then when the project fail
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by xenadu02 3y ago
For those who are wondering about lambdas and defer those were tabled to the next standard revision but not rejected. Lambda: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2892.pdf Defer: https
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Officially adopting __auto_type as auto is good. Unfortunate that N2953 dropped function return type and parameters. This feature composes with _Generic macros quite well: #define div(X,Y) _Generic((X)+(Y), int: div, long: ldiv, long lo
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by xenadu02 3y ago
At the most basic level a system call is: loading the arguments into the ABI-specified registers then triggering an interrupt. Some architectures have a specific syscall or syscall-like instruction that is more optimized than a generic soft
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That's fair. For many systems you can come up with a pathological workload that defies any existing optimizations.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
It can but it involves additional complexity in the controller. Some definitely do a much better job than others. Most controllers handle the block to page mapping problem well. They just mark the old block in the map as dead and write a ne
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by xenadu02 3y ago
It reminds me of being a teenager in the late 90s and the early days of the internet. I discovered entirely on my own that I could telnet to port 80, type "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n" and the server would send me the headers + p
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Flash controllers provide an abstraction layer that should turn any write workload into a sequential one, freeing software developers from having to care about it.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
IMHO that stretches the definition a bit. They're clones that happen to have an interconnected root system. Does that really make them the "same" organism? Not in any useful sense of "same".
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by xenadu02 4y ago
There will never be another one. Who would put R&D into something the EU might not approve?
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by xenadu02 4y ago
To give a more concrete answer: you dig under a small section of footing. Small enough that the footing itself bridges the load across the gap. Then you install your first support element between the remaining undisturbed soil and the footi

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