seabird

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by seabird 2mo ago
At least in the US, Toyota is wildly successful across every segment. The RAV4, Camry, Corolla, and Tacoma do massive numbers, even though the compact and midsize sedan market is collapsing. Even niche offerings like the GR Corolla can be c
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by seabird 3mo ago
>You DO NEED those 2nm CPUs and GPUs to run the CAD and CAE work to design an effective missile We've been able to do intensive CAD and CAE to make effective missiles for a long while now. Modern process nodes are not required. Iran
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by seabird 3mo ago
You do not need a 2nm processor to run an engine, perform an ultrasound, drop a missile on someone's head, make 10 million parts in a factory, or fly a plane. The vast majority of the increased processing power we've developed sin
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by seabird 3mo ago
“Only for industrial uses” is kind of a crazy thing to say when you say it out loud, don’t you think? You might as well say “only for having real-world impact”.
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by seabird 3mo ago
There's a lot of sociological observations you can make. RWD Challengers and Hemi Chargers are obviously going to be death magnets. The Altima gets the exact type of numbers you would expect. The WRX is surprisingly low. The Outback is
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by seabird 3mo ago
Thumb through IIHS numbers and you'll see that "bigger is better" doesn't pass a sniff test. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
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by seabird 3mo ago
> How do you know that? Because I started giving a shit about it functioning properly starting with Windows XP and have been using the product for basically as long as I can remember. I’m not saying they’ve never had stinkers but you’re
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by seabird 3mo ago
This argument sucks and there’s no point making excuses for Microsoft when we know full well that they can ship updates without constant severe defects. Somebody isn’t a power user just because they use their computer for more than watching
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by seabird 4mo ago
1. Appealing to the attitudes of 150+ years ago leads to all sorts of absurdities. We live in 2026. 2. The US not functioning without illegal immigrants is a bad thing. More often than not, employers like illegal immigrants because they can
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by seabird 4mo ago
It’s an awesome looking machine even if it’s a bit dated for some people’s tastes. Any way the wind blows, it’s massively preferable to today’s largely soulless designs.
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by seabird 5mo ago
Their strategy is more in-depth than that, and they’re more accurately looking for sharps. Somebody working minimum wage in a trailer betting for “their guy” isn’t a problem, even if they’re not going to make the book much money. Somebody w
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by seabird 6mo ago
Seller protections on eBay are effectively non-existent. I’ve sold $50,000+ of stuff on the site and their compulsory Money Back Guarantee that they make on your behalf will make your blood boil when you get bullshit INAD shakedowns because
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by seabird 9mo ago
Yup, it's time to let go. The forces that eat away at quality software are running an indoctrination campaign with budgets in the billions of dollars to ensure that people don't remember what quality software is. You can do right
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by seabird 9mo ago
Even if they fix the keyboard, iOS as a whole can't really be fixed. This is a single symptom of a much larger problem. So much is broken, poorly implemented, or so laughably tasteless that it hurts my head to think about how it's
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by seabird 1y ago
I've been using an iPhone for the first time in 10 years, and it confuses me as to how Apple has somehow managed to make them as opaque and arcane as they are today. Most interactions with the phone are noticeably and negatively affe
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by seabird 1y ago
50mg/ml disposable vape liquid tasting better than the freebase stuff is a crazy take. I haven't met a single person who was there before the modern disposable trash that doesn't think it's markedly worse. It tastes like
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by seabird 1y ago
Enthusiasts want small trucks. Americans don't want small trucks. They don't want a single-cab S10. They wouldn't even want a double cab S10. What they actually want is a minivan but they're too far into not-cool territo
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by seabird 1y ago
It's not 3.5 tons, it's the footprint (track width * wheelbase). The emissions standards reward larger vehicles that generally start around $35k-$40k. Americans just love going immediately underwater on a $100k Grand Wagoneer.
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by seabird 1y ago
>and any proposed solutions split along various ideological lines To massively oversimplify for the sake of brevity, the actual solution is create an economic and social environment that's conducive to the greatest number of people
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by seabird 1y ago
>But rarely is the answer that young men have a crisis of self-selecting bad role models, putting less (or no) effort into their appearance and education, holding gross sociopolitical beliefs, and not developing the emotional and househo
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by seabird 1y ago
Are you talking about direct object pronouns? At least in the case of Spanish, lo/la is the pronoun for a masculine or feminine noun. It would obviously follow that it's the pronoun for a man and woman, respectively, the same way
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by seabird 1y ago
Yeah man, I know that it's traditionally called gender, and I know that German has a gender and case system. I don't understand what the link you've posted has to do with my point, I'm really not sure what there is to mi
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by seabird 1y ago
Except there's no mandate that "a male" and "a female" are of different noun classes, nor are the nouns for man/woman abnormally privileged in most cases. I know Dutch has fused masculine/feminine nouns in
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by seabird 1y ago
A lot of languages assign nouns to a noun class. They are (usually) not ascribing a biological gender to an object. "Gender" is a horrendously bad name for the concept.
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by seabird 1y ago
Everywhere is in a downturn. ZIRP is over, this isn't limited to automotive. Just because you're not going to be hired within a few days of looking doesn't mean that everything is doom and gloom. Automotive software engineers
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by seabird 1y ago
In respect to both points, Ada provides decimal and binary fixed point representations as a first class feature of the language, and in the event you must use floating point, SPARK provides the capability to prove that you're not runni
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by seabird 1y ago
The Patriot failures were the result of floating point error. Ada provides facilities specifically to deal with this, while you're left rolling your own in C/C++. Of course Ada won't save you from human bugs, but it's si
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by seabird 1y ago
I'm near Detroit which has a huge amount of auto industry, and engineering pay is good across pretty much all disciplines. It'll pay for a happy life and then some as long as relentless title climbing and job hopping isn't yo
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by seabird 1y ago
Everything I've heard about it was that it was pressure from contractors because they didn't like training or finding Ada talent. I get that there's more tools for C++ but first class formal verification support and a languag
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by seabird 1y ago
Where in my comment did you get that I think culture is a barren plain of consumerism? Some styles of dance and music, which are a component of an overall culture, are totally centered in large cities. Music is a bizarre thing to bring

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