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nilloc ,

They’re also damage multipliers in otherwise minor accidents. So instead of needing a new plastic bumper cover and some styrofoam, you now also need a new grill, headlights and hood too.

nilloc ,

Most of the plastic parts are made in China, so it depends after you live.

nilloc ,

You mean like these?

nilloc ,

Time to update to a fax machine then!

https://www.possupply.com/other-pos-supplies-accessories/fax-paper-rolls-ribbons

nilloc ,

Was it a file system workaround, or character limit in some older programming language?

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

nilloc ,

I figured they were trying to ban them so we wouldn’t learn what they actually do with lost luggage.

nilloc ,

If it’s incinerated properly, burning the old plastic shouldn’t be much different from burning other hydrocarbons.

I’d rather they burned up plastics from landfills than coal, and probably oil and gas too really.

nilloc ,

This is why is assumed they mark them to overwrite. Google knows a lot about what makes drives last longer, and OS and drive firmware makers have known for decades too.

nilloc ,

It’s a contribution thing. He contributed enough to society to deserve to not worry about money for the rest of his life. It’s rare though since we have a bunch of billionaires who skim the rewards from huge swaths of the population who also have contributed their part.

The financialization of retirement is a huge part of the problem for the middle class (or what’s left of it, upper-lower-class is probably more accurate). We have to invest in these assholes in order to save for retirement. The harder workers in services, laborers, and fields don’t even get that.

nilloc ,

I miss my free cable and Wi-Fi in my first Boston apartment. I didn’t discover it worked until 2 months into living there (just after 9/11 actually). It went month to month when the owners sold the place and we wouldn’t have ever left if it weren’t for the shitty icebox and terrible parking in that neighborhood.

nilloc ,

So will a bunch of LLMs

nilloc ,

If I lived in a place with basically perpetually summer weather I’d ride all year and ditch a car too.

nilloc ,

Is snows 3-4 months of the year and is regularly below freezing. I love riding my bike and did some pretty rough weather when I was younger in Boston, but I just don’t have it in me between mid November and mid April.

nilloc ,

Montreal has a bunch too, Milwalkee I think, has enclosed bridges between a lot of the buildings downtown.

Boston has some between malls and hotels, but it’s really only in the touristy parts. And definitely no bikes in there.

nilloc ,

Vietnam was bike centric for decades before Northern Europe. They just did it by making cars impossibly expensive for most people.

And besides monsoon season, is pretty nice to ride in.

nilloc ,

I’ve been saying this pretty much since I started working in tech in 2005.

They paid too well for a while and gave nice lunches and free lattes while sucking 60-70 hours per week out if us.

I quit and fix cars now with hardly any retirement funds and shit health and dental care.

nilloc ,

Similar in NH, but I haven’t processed the video from my good camera. The colors were brighter at 10:30-11 than later at 1:00.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/edf43dd9-336e-443c-a563-95ef835486d6.jpeg

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/500ff54b-cfdf-4b4f-8b11-eb66b7c4511d.jpeg

nilloc ,

Massachusetts has had decent right to repair for a decade too. And had universal healthcare way back too. They just got legal weed recently, but like the others, cost of living is rough there. Boston, Somerville and Cambridge housing, but you’re stuck in Boston.

nilloc ,

Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.

It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.

nilloc ,

Lead acid batteries seem to be less and less reliable lately. The warranties are shorter and shorter as well, which is the best supporting evidence I have beyond needing batteries more often for the 4-5 vehicles I maintain.

nilloc ,

Sounds like a job for the torque test channel.

nilloc ,

I could imagine them letting AI (or offshore workers) manage everything, and keeping the managers around with chatbots reporting in to the managers, so they wouldn’t know they were being replaced.

nilloc ,

At least the charging network. We can buy it off Tesla no problem (we already have them a $17 million down payment).

Then start printing up new stickers to cover the Tesla logos.

I don’t even own an EV and I support funding this. It’s probably cheaper than the existing charger network plan anyway and would allow actually standardizing around the smaller smarter Tesla plugs too.

nilloc ,

And not being a raging narcissist. But then he wouldn’t be a billionaire, so it would be a win win.

nilloc ,

I don’t know if you’ve already tried this, but I’ve had weird behavior with older Pi3s when the power supplies weren’t up to snuff.

A good 5V/10A (yeah I know they only need 5A) sorted out one of mine that had a heavy load of Neopixels running on it, even though the neopixels had their own 5V supply.

I haven’t needed to get a Pi5 for any of my projects and really use them as big arduinos in certain uses (better for camera detection and remote reprogramming).

nilloc ,

we need a /shittyaskanatchitect.

nilloc ,

I believe that’s the origin of “tits or GTFO” came from too, a cringey way of saying that they don’t care if your a girl if you say something dumb online. Though predictably it morphed into incel taunts and male chauvinist bullshit once the meaning was lost.

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VW was initially disappointed that its factories in the southern US weren’t unionized. All their German factories are.

I’ll see if I can find the article, I think it was road and track many years ago.

Edit: the previous failed votes were blamed on Tennessee politicians including Bob Corker.

In 2014 VW was reported as:

Volkswagen did not oppose the U.A.W. partly because its officials were eager to create a German-style works council, a committee of managers and blue-collar and white-collar workers who develop factory policies, on issues like work schedules and vacations. Volkswagen, which has unions and works councils at virtually all of its 105 other plants worldwide, views such councils as crucial for improving morale and cooperation and increasing productivity.

Source

nilloc ,

How many chassis are you on? Or do you live outside the rust belt.

nilloc ,

Why haven’t you yet? We’re going to as soon as I can afford some solar to offset the power bill.

nilloc ,

Manna got rampant capitalism + AI pretty close, and has predicted McDonalds payment kiosks, Amazon worker abuse, and probably some of the tech layoffs too.

nilloc ,

I’m doing the same thing, my dad died right after retiring (didn’t take care of his heart, long story). But he spent a lot of time with us a kids.

He never made much money, but worked construction in the summers so he could ski and be with us in the winters.

It sucks because he missed meeting his grandson, but it showed me gore important it is to be with your family. And also go to the fucking Doctor and manage your blood pressure and arterial health!

nilloc ,

So I grew up in the Midwes, then move to New England and there, everyone called Bavarian cream donuts, Boston cream donuts.

After looking it up, turns out the first Bavarian cream recipes in the US were found in the Boston School cookbooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_cream#History

nilloc ,

The OG teslas had FOMOCO e-throttle pedal assemblies from Ford.

The problem is that Tesla is constantly changing parts during a model run, sometimes for the better (reliability, simplicity) other times for cost cutting and that is why I’d never own one. Because there are a million iterations finding parts to repair them, and I only buy 10+ year old cars (possibly nothing after 2010 at this rate).

Teslas are built like one time use smartphones. Only good for parts recycling after they fail.

nilloc ,

Fucking that Fiero in particular. Woulda been more accurate if it was on fire though.

nilloc ,

It’s the christofascists get elected this year the odds go way up in the US.

nilloc ,

2000 part 3. I’m still so disappointed in Ralph over that election. (And the Supreme Court)

nilloc ,

Michigander here, Toledo is an actual slice of Michigan, but Ohio can keep it.

Cedar Point is pretty awesome though.

nilloc ,

Podcasting runs on RSS too, the problem is still that RSS doesn’t help discovery of content the way social networks do. And I have no idea how sharing virtual business cards (vCards) help either, they hurt anonymity in fact (unless you’re making anonymous ones with no real info in them.

nilloc ,

Usually has ice cream instead, which is objectively better.

nilloc ,

This is the problem, people who are nervous about charging, or unable to charge at night but want EVs think that a plug-in hybrid will somehow come close enough.

The plug-in bit is key though, otherwise you’re just lugging around a few 100kilos of dead weight.

nilloc ,

Corporate Greedflation and political deadlock.

Or

Late stage capitalism perhaps.

nilloc ,

Emulation still won’t make my NES light blaster work for when I want to play duck hunt twice a year.

nilloc ,

I helped my buddy move his new Trinitron HD (in 1999 or 2000) up 2 flights of stairs.

Our hands were practically bleeding and thighs were bruised from stopping repeatedly to adjust our grips.

There was one point where why weren’t sure we were gonna make it and would need to go rent a dolly to finish it. Which would have meant me sitting with the TV blocking the stairs for Horner long that would take.

nilloc ,

The map could look like a huge flower.

All roads could be loops the go back to Rome either way.

nilloc ,

Just ground your left hand while you work on it with your right hand. That way if it’s live it’ll quickly stop your heart and you won’t even know you died. No half measures!

nilloc ,

Wait till you learn it’s pronounced Co-burn.

Nether Wallop is my new favorite though.

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I went back to see if it was posted to dadjokes.

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