noonespecial

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Comment · 6 years ago
Soon some madlad will create a kit with pedals, a shift knob, and some noise makers for under the car plus a sweet software patch that will perfectly replicate the manual petrol experiece.

A bunch of purists with then argue that despite the fact they can't reliably tell the simulated electric from the original in blind a/b testing that the original is still better because it has "soul".

Comment · 6 years ago
"Oh wow, I didn't know you were a Medical Doctor as well! Where'd you go to school?"
Comment · 6 years ago
It still feels kind of like we're in the "Apple Newton" phase of self driving with the iphone in the indeterminate future.

One day we'll look back and say "aww, they tried so hard with the limited tech they had and got so close but what they needed to make it good just didn't exist yet".

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There's a fourth one but its undefined.
Comment · 6 years ago
In 1992 I got a Swatch "Earth Day" edition self winder. Made from the best modern earth friendly materials. By 95 it had cracked and yellowed to the point it was illegible.

I started wearing my grandfather's '68 Caravelle self winder. I still am.

Comment · 6 years ago
I have like this:

Mac Virtualbox runs linux with host only network vbox0.

Docker runs in vbox linux. (now it gets ugly)

Vbox linux brctl's docker0 (set to match vbox0 ip space) into vbox0.

Docker container is reachable by IP from mac host. All is fast and good.

Comment · 6 years ago
If the punishment levied by the government costs less than the gain from the crime, I think its just called taxes.
Comment · 6 years ago
I do also. As I hand them the cash I say very deliberately, "Thank you. This is for you, not them".

I've been doing it for ubers lately as well.

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Then again, if nobody has kids then who are we saving the planet for ecactly?
Comment · 6 years ago
I'd bet on related, but not what you thought. If I had to guess, I'd put my money on the magnet pulling some tiny metal bits into the control board and shorting it.

But one thing is for sure. OnTrack are dicks. Can confirm.

Comment · 6 years ago
It can, but the exchange rate is terrible.

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

--Stanley Kubrick

Comment · 6 years ago
I find it more curious that doctors are paid so little than programmers are paid so much.
Comment · 6 years ago
People tell me that I didn't "live up to my full potential". I say, "I know. That would have been exhausting."

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