cardinalfang
Re:The Brave Souls Who Bought a Used, 340k-Mile Rental Camper Van
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:02AM (#48049613)
The T4 is better than the T3 where you are the crumple zone.
Re:DOS game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reverse engineering/reconstruction ...
on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @05:53AM (#40353387)
The gradient might have been created using copper palette switching, which would cost no CPU time but only work with horizontal lines.
Re:E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
on Sunday March 10, 2024 @06:04AM (#39657997)
An airbag helmet full of electronics would allow traditional dress, but I don't know enough theology to make the decision.
Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:12AM (#35948449)
Statistics -> stats, calculus -> calc, logic -> null
Re:Retiring a Favourite C++ Joke
on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:28AM (#35195584)
Sportier drivers may wish to brake and accelerate simultaneously (rev matching, weight transfer tricks). Normal cars just cut fuel when braking to avoid two-foot drivers burning their brakes.
Re:Dropping support for old C++ standards
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:47AM (#35068338)
We have used two boost versions built in different namespaces. Most of it works but there can be Fun if two now-independent versions of the same funtion use the same resource.
Re:Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid ...
on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:36PM (#33885798)
Must have been before rvalue references.
Re:1960s Bike Buses Used to Transport Cyclists Under the Thames
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:50AM (#32618397)
They use the same drivers that are on standby to escort fuel tankers and hazardous goods through the tunnel.
Re:Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard
on Friday August 26, 2022 @08:20AM (#32606408)
Not too much, don't want to overpower the ammonium chloride.
Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default
on Friday July 08, 2022 @04:26AM (#32024359)
It's full of fructose, which is slightly less viscous than sucrose and therefore healthier for the laptop.
Re:Mechanical Watch
on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:11AM (#31270132)
The end was the best bit. I have seen good explanations of the escapement and timing gears before, but not of the crown adjuster mechanisms.
Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks
on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:17AM (#31164204)
There seems to be a correlation between the political demographic in Germany that hates wind turbines and the one that supports Putin. Maybe someone thinks creating more wind turbine haters will increase support for Russia.
Re:There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:59AM (#30112679)
That can probably be automated. clang-tidy has some opinionated linting rules that contradict each other, just enabled these and choose to auto-fix.
Re:Museum of Plugs and Sockets
on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:43AM (#29340858)
Similarly you can fit a UK shaver into a Europlug socket, but may not be able to get it out again.
Re:Variable tyre pressure wheelset is a mountain biking breakthrough
on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:39AM (#26193604)
You normally want to use different force front and back. But there are brakes designed for bike polo and the single-handed:
https://bikerumor.com/2019/11/15/paul-pulls-both-brakes-with...
Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract
on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:11PM (#25961082)
Too late, this affair has already been used as artillery by the pro-brexit press.
Re:EA to buy Dirt Rally-maker Codemasters for £1B
on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:03AM (#25418326)
Aged 17½ * 2
Re:Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record
on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:01AM (#24728083)
Is that a euphemism for unemployed?
Re:KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000
on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:20AM (#23924956)
That speed is slower than magnetic memory; it could be delay-line memory, which would be even earlier.
Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:26PM (#23471659)
Britain's energy mix for 2019 had more wind than nuclear+hydro
56 TWh nuclear, 6 hydro, 132 gas, 64 wind, 12 solar, 36 bio
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Re:Apple adds 192-room hotel to plans of Northwest Austin campus
on Sunday May 24, 2020 @04:23PM (#23294395)
It would be a Doss-house.
Re:WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows
on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:17AM (#23089732)
Situation: There are 15 competing standards and they all have the same name.
Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lockdown ends
on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:20PM (#23044968)
Depends on the riding conditions. The pads on my road bike lasted about 10,000km. In 12,000km my mountain bike has needed 6 sets of pads and 1 set of rotors.
Re:Albert Uderzo has died
on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:22PM (#22679731)
His English name was Ptenisnet.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian saf...
on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:28AM (#21669867)
The weight of a Model X (2.5t) and the Truck's 1.6t payload is easily above the 3.5t gross a European car licence is limited to.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian saf...
on Saturday November 30, 2019 @04:32AM (#21669266)
The T5 scored 1 NCAP star for pedestrian safety.
Re:Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to ...
on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:11AM (#19890902)
The A350 has two types of AoA sensor - vanes and multifunction probes - which should reduce the chance of everything failing together.
Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:48PM (#19880328)
Modern cars have a wireless pressure sensor failure instead.
Re:What to Expect from Marzipan
on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:46AM (#19875898)
To make marzipan structurally sound requires adding too much sugar, which spoils the taste.
Re:UX clichés
on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:24AM (#19833243)
I know those books. I think it means fractional distillation where the volume of content remains the same but is categorized differently.