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Re:Asbestosis on Sunday October 26, 2025 @08:50PM (#45716323)
It is fun, that is my hometown. And I know 0 person who died from Asbestosis. My father student job was to stack bags of Asbestos on train and my grand-father worked at the mine his whole life. I guess it's the transformed form that is dangerous not the raw form.
Re:Veo on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @10:42PM (#40362545)
That not true, they look grey when they aren't bright enough, but they can look green or red to the naked eyes if they are bright. I have seen it myself and yes I was disappointed to see only grey ones last week.

see: https://theconversation.com/what-causes-the-different-colour...

Re:Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:36PM (#36072886)
I own a Canadian Ioniq 5 and it is indeed quite dangerous. I have been honked a few times in my year of ownership. Now, I usually release the pedal completely to at least flash the brake light to show people behind me that I am decelerating. But my wife hate the sensation so I usually don't use 1-pedal when I am with her. Which is sad because I really enjoy driving in this mode.

I totally agree, when you are decelerating at more than x/(m|k)ph light should come on.

On a different matter, first generation car, and there is a huge flaw with a high percentage of Ioniq5/Ev6/Genesis GV, have a ICCU (Integrated Charging Control Unit) failure at around a year of ownership. My car at the dealer for over a month without an ETA on part delivery :(

Re:Use Databases Without Putting Domain Logic in Them on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:32PM (#35658020)
And in how many systems you ever ended switching from one database engine for another?
Well as xPaw already stated he does not seem to interested in money. I would guess:

Give a Steam Award to xPaw

A Steam Award gives the creator of this site Steam points!

Is the best we can do to support his work! I just wanted to point there is a /donate. Not sure why it need to be cold hard cash to count.

He does: https://steamdb.info/donate/ link is just above footer of main page.