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Comment · 1 month ago
My old Mercedes C240 (W203) took about 8qts for a single oil change. I'm glad I got rid of that car.
Comment · 2 months ago
Wait until you find out that even when scanning everyone's bags, the TSA's failure rate is around 85%: https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-ope... Granted, this article is almost 10 years old. Even so, I highly doubt that this administration is willing to test (or report) the TSAs effectiveness.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh, now that makes more sense, thanks!
Comment · 4 months ago
I love learning about nav aids on planes. One thing I didn't quite understand was the DME interrogation: "To handle conflicting pulses, each aircraft deliberately jitters its interrogation timing at random, then keeps only replies at a constant lag after its own pulses."

Does this mean that the pulse pair itself was jittered? As in, plane A sends a pulse pair, say 10us between the pulses and plane B sends a pulse pair 20us apart. The DME then responds with the same pulse pair delay and the planes listen then calculate the responding pulse pair to figure out which one is theirs?

Comment · 6 months ago
ThePrimagen and Tsoding. I don't watch their streams though; I usually just watch their main channel videos or snippets since I don't have time to watch a 2+ hour stream/VOD.
Comment · 8 months ago
If I had to guess, it's probably an attempt to automate karma farming over time to make an account look legit later on.
Comment · 1 year ago
Traffic enforcement is abysmal in my city (I'm sure in many other places too), and our ever-increasing car insurance premiums reflect that. If there's a better way to enforce traffic laws or punish drunk drivers rear ending me and running off, then I'm all ears. Right now, the only other alternative I'm reading is letting the problem get worse.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe I'm still bitter about having my car being hit twice, both times being a hit-and-run which I was basically 100% on the hook for, but maybe I'm okay with this (provided it's only on taxpayer funded roads only)? Driving, at least in the US, is a privilege and you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy out in public anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
n=1, but I graduated with a not so hot GPA so going into the market just before covid wasn't fun. Ended up doing "contracting" (still had a W2) with a really nice agency to get my foot in the proverbial door and eventually started working full-time as a software engineer, albeit in more of a support role. Working as a contractor wasn't too glamorous though (I could definitely say the same about the pay) as it was mostly writing and running automated test, but figured I had to start somewhere.

Is he going to start working FAANG making $300k? It'd be nice if he does, but it's best to keep expectations in check.

Comment · 1 year ago
Love the WS4000. I've been meaning to make a WS4000 like application I can throw on my firestick and just have it play all day on my TV as a side project. As someone without any GUI or graphics programming knowledge, it's definitely been a nice learning experience.
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't downvote, but I can imagine that most people weren't aware of that claim. I'm skeptical of it as well since I'm not aware of any research that shows fructose in fruit increasing over time.
Comment · 2 years ago
I miss the PSP jailbreaking scene. Back when I was in high school, I made quite the pocket change cutting PCB traces on people's PSP batteries. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure that got me interested in electronics in the first place.
Comment · 2 years ago
The rate of incidents in GP's article show a large increase in the 90s.

Are you insinuating that covid vaccinees were available to the public at the time?

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