flyingfences

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by flyingfences 2y ago
That is not the point at all; We're not talking about a spring rate that increases as you push on the pedal. In a proper braking system, the driver can feel through his foot what the tires are doing, because there is direct mechanical
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by flyingfences 2y ago
The lack of information on how it /feels/ is telling. Feedback is important for safe driving.
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by flyingfences 2y ago
My family has passed down through the generations an old farmhouse in the mountains where we go on vacation. When my father was growing up, they would pack the family of five and their bags into a Volkswagen Beetle and head up for a weekend
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by flyingfences 2y ago
The "alternative" is to arrest people who commit violent crimes, not people who write provocative messages.
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by flyingfences 2y ago
HNers in the Boston area can see a similar feat at the Peabody Essex Museum, where they have reconstructed in detail the house of a merchant from the Qing Dynasty. https://www.pem.org/yin-yu-tang-a-chinese-home
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by flyingfences 2y ago
The popularization of computer science degrees absolutely did push down the price of software engineers on average. The Big Names in SV are outliers; the rest of the industry employs us at wages far closer to other professions than they cou
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by flyingfences 2y ago
Google Fi used T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular behind the scenes. At least, they did at the time I signed up, which was why I signed up. Sprint merged into T-Mobile a few years ago; Fi dropped US Cellular last spring. Since then, I'v
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by flyingfences 2y ago
US Cellular has great coverage back home (Maine) but shoddy coverage where I live now (New York) and T-Mobile vice versa. I've been on Google Fi for the past ten years because it is the only option (at least when I last looked) that ju
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by flyingfences 2y ago
The jobs that I both want and can do are all in places where I both don't want to live and can't afford, either. If I and my cohort could buy a decent home in Boston or New York or California, the equation would be very different.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
> when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment? I don't think he could call it harassment if he were still buying the new issues.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
This article started as a nice reflection on the old internet creativities and communities that we used to have and a lament for its loss at the hands of corporate social media. Then it turned out to just be a lament that one of those socia
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by flyingfences 3y ago
The real core gist I'm getting from this article is that "the case against hiring people from Ivy League schools" is that ivy league grads don't want to work ridiculous overtime for someone else's dream -- not exact
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by flyingfences 3y ago
Court Says California's Age Appropriate Design Code might be Unconstitutional. A ruling has not been made in the case; only a preliminary injunction has been issued.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
GNU C99 for dev, Python 3 for V&V
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by flyingfences 3y ago
Likewise, the last time I can recall a notable increase in my own enjoyment from a new GPU was my GTX 660. It ran all the games I was playing back then (TF2, Skyrim, Civ V, Bioshock Infinite...) on mid to high settings. The newer cards I&#x
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by flyingfences 3y ago
United States Independence Day https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Goddard_...
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by flyingfences 3y ago
There aren't even wagons for sale in America anymore. There are a few crossover-wagon options, with lifted suspension and plastic cladding a la Subaru Outback; there are a few overlarge hatchbacks, e.g., the Honda Civic; but, look fo
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by flyingfences 3y ago
Except that the Toyota Yaris has been cancelled entirely in the US market, along with the Prius C, the Honda Fit, the Nissan Versa hatch, the Ford Fiesta (and all Ford cars except the Mustang), the Fiat 500, the Smart Car, the Mitsubishi Mi
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by flyingfences 3y ago
It's not an "individual choice" when the options are entirely unavailable due to regulatory discrimination.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
It's never brought to the courts because there's no law about it. Complain to Congress; it's their job.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
C is right next to X on the keyboard.
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by flyingfences 3y ago
Effective communication is absolutely something I'm looking for in a candidate. The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing is critical. I've worked with far too many people who'll respond to a question with
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by flyingfences 3y ago
No, thanks; that's not my job. I'm hired as an engineer, not as a rat-race "content creator".
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by flyingfences 3y ago
Hatchbacks have three pillars, wagons have four. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_(car)
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by flyingfences 3y ago
https://archive.is/fo3jV
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by flyingfences 4y ago
https://archive.is/7obIS
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by flyingfences 4y ago
He also assured us that Pol Pot was doing nothing wrong.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
(40 JPY is .304 USD today) Most of Maine is paying .264 USD/kWh this winter.
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by flyingfences 4y ago
https://archive.is/VnYRJ
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by flyingfences 4y ago
Some things you don't have to can right away. For example, we found that we can pick strawberries in-season, wash and top them, freeze them in gallon ziplocs, and then make jam later in the fall and it comes out the same as if you jam

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