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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Ironically, it's regulation that made them like this. Obama-era emissions rules stipulated that trucks had to get a certain fuel economy, unless they were heavy duty trucks, which did not have the same requirements. The option was to e
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Trick I learned from an old wrench: overestimate time and cost, then when you deliver something in half the time and half the cost they'll think you're twice the mechanic. I'm not sure that's what NASA does, but it certa
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Makes you smarter too. Your brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells, and alcohol tends to kill the weakest brain cells first. It's like culling the herd, you speed everything up. (.../s)
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Interesting to see you guys talking about this, I just read something with Adam Curtis where he was describing Britain right now as being like the USSR before it collapsed. Disillusionment, lack of vision for the future, a growing sense of
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
The talk in the trade is that asbestos is way overblown and it mostly affected people installing it in ships for the Navy. They worked in tight spaces with lots of asbestos in the air, lining the ship and its pipes with it, all day every da
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
I keep reading this submition's title as "Where do journalists go to die?" Like there's some obscure place that aging journalists make a pilgrimage to after they've completed their final article (probably their obit
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
>there is also always the specter of future uses against your interests. This. The danger isn't even necessarily that we gain some crazy ability to predict things about a person from their DNA, but that people believe that it can
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Don't forget the sleep timer. Such a simple QoL improvement, and none of the TVs I've owned in the past 10-15 years have had one. Seems like every TV had it when I was a kid (or at least a good sized portion did).
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
Not sure why this was down voted. If you're hauling, the lightning gets very little mileage. If you've got a camper trailer, you're not going far from home, even if the campsite has chargers (lol). Compare with a regular truc
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
There's better resources if you just want to know about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem tbh. GEB is neat because of all the other ideas he ties into it.
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
I think decentralized networks essentially provide another opportunity for businesses. Look at email, or web browsers and how centralized they are now. Make an app for a decentralized protocol, add some polish and maybe give something away
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
> Citrix [...] hospitals My stomach just turned.
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by drivebyadvice 3y ago
The metaphor I use to think about burnout is imagining your energy as a lithium ion battery. You can occasionally charge it to 100% and run it down to 0% without any real degradation, but if you start doing that every day it won't hold