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by skgoa 7y ago
> everyone will be plugging their car in at home I realize that a lot of people here are privileged enough to own a single family home, but the majority of humanity lives in apartments and parks on the street. Trickle-charging at home is
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by skgoa 7y ago
There are a lot of products like this available and every corporation's offices I have been to have had one of them.
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by skgoa 7y ago
Tell that to the people who won't buy that car.
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by skgoa 7y ago
You are 99% correct. We use the english terms for this here in Germany, too. Everyone in the industry used to literally call this feature and others like it "pre-crash".
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by skgoa 7y ago
Yes, but people regularly get burns and light blunt trauma from airbags. The US versions of many cars even have slightly weaker airbags, because many people don't wear seatbelts and might be killed by a full-strength airbag.
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by skgoa 7y ago
When you drive a truly noisy car or motorcycle, you will remember to do it.
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by skgoa 7y ago
It really depends. The newer traffic control bridges we have on our highways take a picture from both the front and back.
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by skgoa 7y ago
I had a similar issue when my bank introduced a new banking app. The web login page has different requirements for the password than the app. I.e. on either I can set my password to something that the other will not accept.
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by skgoa 7y ago
There was someone who not too long ago fixed an SQL injecction to his front bumper and it managed to break the automated toll collection system.
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by skgoa 7y ago
One important fact here is that everything the pilots will need to reach quickly in an emergency still is a physical button. It's just the more "nice to have" things (e.g. programming the cost factor of the engines, putting t
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by skgoa 7y ago
As a visually unimpaired person, those touch buttons are just horrible. Especially so when it is a function that does not have an immediate effect. Just this morning I switched my monitor on, off and on again, simply because by the time it
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by skgoa 7y ago
It shouldn't be, but for most people entering into it, becoming highly desirable on the job/employee market is the chief motivator. If a university doesn't cater to that demand, the students will go elsewhere.
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by skgoa 7y ago
So he wasn't that smart after all.
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by skgoa 7y ago
As an automotive security engineer, I have to interject. Miller and Valasek hacked into a car that was very far removed from what we consider modern automotive electronics. Any truly modern car will have decoupled networks with firewalls in
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by skgoa 7y ago
Yeah, this really isn't a good article.
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by skgoa 7y ago
The difference was almost entirely the size. The US used to have very few cruisers during the 70ies, but the Soviet Union had a lot of ships that were much smaller than US cruisers, yet designated as cruisers. So the US simply redesignated
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by skgoa 7y ago
Firefox has performance and general software bloat issues on all plattforms. They sacrificed their original "tailor the browser exactly to your needs" approach on the altar of keeping up with Chrome on features.
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by skgoa 7y ago
It used to be that these categories had very different roles. Nowadays, NATO defines these categories based on size. Well, technically the water displaced by the hull. The main difference is in how many missiles a given category can carry a
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by skgoa 7y ago
Sorry, but you are completely incorrect in this matter. White collar crime is prosecuted fiercly in Germany, especially when it's a case that got public attention. However it takes far longer than it would in the US, because prosecutor
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by skgoa 7y ago
Audi is not trying to get out of anything. They are saying that they will not throw an ex employee under the bus in the media before he/she is convicted of the crime. Audi do assist the prossecution and will probably push for a repayme
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by skgoa 7y ago
Eh, you are equating slow growth with "running out of steam". Even if they don't grow from here on out, they will stay one of the world's most profitable companies for decades. Apple is turning into a stable, mature comp
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by skgoa 7y ago
In my experience "the old waterfall companies" are the ones where the engineers are trusted with a task and left to do their thing. In such an environment, managers are only there to assist the engineers. I.e. escalate issues, pro
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by skgoa 7y ago
And if you don't use the tools the way they are meant to, you are just wasting massive amounts of time.
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by skgoa 7y ago
It seems to be a matter of propper balance. You can elevate patterns, idioms etc. to language features and you can add entirely new features that enable entirely new solutions. Java and Python are doing this sensibly. But burying devs in an
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by skgoa 7y ago
And this is why most companies doing anything having to do with media will not ever even read/watch works that were sent to them unsolicited. There are so many ideas being in different states of development at any given time that there
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by skgoa 7y ago
Some people even seem to see their 2 weeks vacation abroad as their annual excuse to act out power fantasies.
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by skgoa 7y ago
But this stems from lots of people having bad experiences with obnoxious people who will not stop before the police is called.
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by skgoa 7y ago
> Musk says it's still on the table as a backup plan "pending NASA approval". read: NASA says it's not happening.
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by skgoa 7y ago
Just because it was said on TV doesn't make it true. I don't mean to sound condescending, but if you are interested in this topic you will find a wealth of information in actual history books.
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by skgoa 7y ago
> and successfully concealed the existence of the network from the Germans (using the carrot propaganda and other means). This is not true. The RADAR stations were well-known to the Germans, who bombed them from the very start of the BoB

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