sbalea

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by sbalea 3mo ago
You're touching on what is probably the real reason. Volvo has an extensive dealer network in the US, and dealers are traditionally involved in the political process (i.e. they lobby extensively). Also Volvos enjoy a decent market shar
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by sbalea 4y ago
If you need a new vehicle, the you can certainly go with a quality EV. I live in NJ, it gets cold here in winter, with temps dipping in teens and single digits in Jan/Feb. Don't have a garage either. As long as you can plug your c
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by sbalea 4y ago
To your first point, you cannot operate a commercial airliner from a carrier, for a multitude technical reasons. That being said, I seem to remember that, back in the day, the Navy would post ships at various remote points in the Pacific oc
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by sbalea 5y ago
Funny, I am typing this on a Mac connected to an MST Dell 5k display....MacOS supported this setup since at least 2015, when I bought my display.
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by sbalea 5y ago
I don't think you understand the concept of free speech. It allows you the right to express your opinion without fear of government oppression. It does not allow you to yell your opinion through a megaphone, in front of my house, at al
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by sbalea 5y ago
Worth noting that there was no Russian presence in Romania at the fall of communism back in '89. Russian military withdrew peacefully starting in '58 through early 60s.
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by sbalea 5y ago
+1 on this. Gorgeous landscape, very fast and cheap internet and cell networks. Decent number of people speaking decent English, especially amongst the urban youth. Not as cheap as it used to be, but still cheaper than Western Europe.
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by sbalea 5y ago
To be honest, you'll most likely encounter corruption if you intend to operate a business, especially if said business has anything to do with any level of government. As an ordinary resident you might have to deal with bureaucracy, bu
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by sbalea 5y ago
My house has 100amps service and I was able to install a 14-50 outlet (240V/50amps) which allows me to charge at sustained 32amps. It all depends on what other load do you need to handle, for me the only other significant load was the
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by sbalea 5y ago
Coronaviruses are not really novel, about 15% of common colds are caused by 4 different strains that are endemic in humans.
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by sbalea 6y ago
1. I am tired of hearing this rehashed over and over again. Yes, overall density in US is lower than most countries in Europe, but even high density places like New Jersey still have plenty of spots with only one, overpriced, shitty provide
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by sbalea 6y ago
You can buy fobs for 3/Y, for extra $$$
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by sbalea 6y ago
They cross-train for AN-124, which is quite similar, though obviously smaller.
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by sbalea 6y ago
In Scala/Akka, you could use the ask operator and compose the resulting Futures, something like this: for { a <- aProviderActor ? gimmeA b <- bProviderActor ? gimmeB aPlusB <- adderActor ? (add, a, b) } yield
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by sbalea 6y ago
If the problem you're solving can be easily split into many independent, low volume, maybe long running, communication oriented tasks, you owe it to yourself to look into the Erlang ecosystem. Think handling signaling for calls, chat c
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by sbalea 6y ago
Hot swapping support in Erlang is first class, but even with that, it is not an easy feat to accomplish in large systems. Which is why, in my experience, people tend to avoid it if they can do without it. Systems i have worked with either h
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by sbalea 6y ago
I was concerned about that myself, but so far so good. I suspect the ability to charge on either side makes a difference. I usually plug in on whatever side is closer to a wall and out of the way. Combined with all the other usb-c/tb b
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by sbalea 6y ago
To add more color, the top few high schools in Bucharest at the time were all highly competitive, with low % admission rates. So the student body was naturally skewed towards more academically inclined students. In a sense, if you made it i
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by sbalea 7y ago
For an English speaker, there's no problem. We visited about 10 years ago and the one person not speaking any English was an old lady keeping a convenience store somewhere in the north-western corner of the island.
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by sbalea 7y ago
Maybe this is a New Jersey thing, but here you don't need to be a Costco member to buy gasoline at Costco stations. It's also not that good of a deal, at maybe 10-15 cents less than regular gas stations. Sometimes it's just n
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by sbalea 7y ago
It's accurate. Just got back from spending a few weeks at my dad's country house that's wired with 940/450mbps fiber. No problems remote working from there, except, of course, time zone differences. Here's the ISP l
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by sbalea 8y ago
United has a few as well
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by sbalea 8y ago
> The BMW 320d, which is sold all over EU etc. and has better performance and better fuel economy than the Toyota Prius? CA won't allow its sale because of their regulations. The BMW 320d that is sold in Europe is exactly the same c
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by sbalea 8y ago
Concepts borrowed (in a simplified form) from Scala.
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by sbalea 9y ago
My LG OLED65B7P can definitely play .mkv files, at least ones encoded with H264 and H265. Not sure about other codecs though.
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by sbalea 9y ago
No longer the case. However, they only allow devices that are certified to work on their network, and that means support for legacy CDMA. But if your phone is unlocked and it has the necessary bits, you can certainly bring it in. Also, all
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by sbalea 9y ago
I did exactly that. It actually costs about 5% less. And driving the German Autobahn or some twisty mountain roads in The Swiss Alps is an unique experience.
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by sbalea 9y ago
Trust me, the vast majority of Romanians at the time did not mind their execution one bit, they in fact cheered for it. I know because I was there and cheered along. It's hard to fathom the intensity of hate that the average Romanian h
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by sbalea 9y ago
Romania and Poland were never soviets. Communist, yes. Behind the Iron Curtain, yes. Members of the Warsaw Pact, yes (Poland is kind of obvious on this). But never soviets.
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by sbalea 10y ago
Two notable differences: Akka Actors concurrency is done at library level and an actor can block a JVM thread if not coded carefully. Erlang processes concurrency is support at VM level and there's no way an Erlang process can block a

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