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by tsomctl 4y ago
English ivy is a ground spreader, at least where I live. It won't grow on the ground if it gets a lot of sun, but ground shaded by trees will turn into a thick mat that is impossible to pull up. Some yards have it growing as a ground c
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Toyota does make seals (Koyo), bearings (Koyo again), and forgings (Aisin). Dunno if they roll their own steel, but would be surprised if they don't.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
https://bioagewho.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Martha-Stewa...
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> The most difficult part for me was getting the screw holes lined up for VESA mount. Use a blind hole transfer punch. You can make your own with the right sized bolt and a grinder. https://www.amazon.com/TTC-Blind-Hole-S
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by tsomctl 4y ago
I've sold lots, some of which were obviously chopped out of vehicles with a sawzall (vehicles that I legally owned, btw). They've always scanned my ID, took my thumb print, and mailed me the check after a couple of days.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
I had a math professor who I'm pretty sure was borderline autistic. His son actually was autistic. While he wasn't the best math teacher I've ever had, he was very good. (Didn't help that I can't comprehend delta-ep
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> My last post was about either How to transport a convex object on a camel or Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection. Find out which. I realize one option is supposed to be ludicrous, but based on this post, either optio
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Everything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
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by tsomctl 4y ago
That was true 20 years ago. The question is how much do you ease up the brake on that specific wheel, and then how much do you reapply it? You need to know the coefficient of friction of the road to know this. Modern controllers are doing a
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by tsomctl 4y ago
I was woken up by my neighbors Dodge Charger 11:00 last night. There's a special place in hell for these fuckers.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Or, like my wonderful neighbor, want to remove their muffler to show off how awesome they are. More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to be an electric car. You can convert a normal front engin
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Visually? Really? Didn't know that. I only own and work on old vehicles, and those all have a float with a magnet that triggers a reed switch.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> and a software patch that lets a driver know if their brake fluid reservoir is running low. You mean like every single other vehicle ever made? I thought this was a law. Also, if all it takes is a software patch, then that means there
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> "I'd better not annoy _that_ guy, he might reach through my window and rip my head off and then go home and murder my family and pets". Do people actually think that? I always thought they were just cosplaying.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
I have a family friend that recently had 2 strokes. The doctors are confused because he has none of the risk factors for a stroke. Really, he pretty closely follows this: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143344 ). How
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by tsomctl 4y ago
My grandparents bought a game camera at Costco, so they could see what animals were in their yard at night. I had to help them view the pictures on the SD card. It came with some app to view them, or you could just stick the SD card into an
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Perhaps. But that's how Starbucks works, by buying shitty beans and dark roasting them. It also makes it easier to have consistent coffee (consistently burnt, that is).
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Two things, that are obvious to gamers but really confused me: Sony owns PlayStation. This is the Bungie that made Halo. Yes, Microsoft owned them at one point, but sold them 15 years ago.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> I'm scared that when I die my wife will sell all my cars for what I told her I paid for them. (Not my joke)
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by tsomctl 4y ago
Your examples aren't of this law being abused. This is the whole point of it. The writers know exactly what's going to happen.
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by tsomctl 4y ago
> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders. Granted, he wasn't there to sign the articles of incorpora
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by tsomctl 4y ago
I was working across the street from the high school today, and was watching some kids race down the street in office chairs. But they weren't cheap Costco ones, they were metal and obviously from the school. I was thinking that they m
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by tsomctl 4y ago
As a hobbyist electrical engineer, one of the most important things I've learned is that at high voltages and/or high currents, our nice lovely lumped element model is not always accurate. There's enough stray inductance and
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by tsomctl 4y ago
While I agree that it's a somewhat mundane article, there's normally comments that make it interesting. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31436869
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I've been reverse engineering a modern ABS control module. It has 2 cores, and they are separate CPU's with their own memory (although one cpu can access the RAM of the other CPU) and role. One reads/writes the CAN bus and do
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by tsomctl 5y ago
9/11 shows what happens when those weirdos are intelligent and get some funding.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
So should I go 5 mph in wooded areas to avoid hitting deer?
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I had a neighbor with a Dodge Charger with no muffler. I talked to a police officer about it. He basically told me that he himself drove a loud car, and his neighbors complained to him about it because he leaves for work at 5:00 AM, and tha
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by tsomctl 5y ago
That feels like an additional sentence was added every time someone screwed up their machine and called support.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
At my cousin's property (which I spend a lot of time at), for a little less than their monthly price, AT&T gives us an analog telephone line with local calling. That's it.

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