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That is not the point at all; We're not talking about a spring rate that increases as you push on the pedal. In a proper braking system, the driver can feel through his foot what t…

The lack of information on how it /feels/ is telling. Feedback is important for safe driving.

My family has passed down through the generations an old farmhouse in the mountains where we go on vacation. When my father was growing up, they would pack the family of five and t…

The "alternative" is to arrest people who commit violent crimes, not people who write provocative messages.

HNers in the Boston area can see a similar feat at the Peabody Essex Museum, where they have reconstructed in detail the house of a merchant from the Qing Dynasty. https://www.pem.…

The popularization of computer science degrees absolutely did push down the price of software engineers on average. The Big Names in SV are outliers; the rest of the industry emplo…

Google Fi used T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular behind the scenes. At least, they did at the time I signed up, which was why I signed up. Sprint merged into T-Mobile a few years a…

US Cellular has great coverage back home (Maine) but shoddy coverage where I live now (New York) and T-Mobile vice versa. I've been on Google Fi for the past ten years because it i…

The jobs that I both want and can do are all in places where I both don't want to live and can't afford, either. If I and my cohort could buy a decent home in Boston or New York or…

> when is the line crossed between "friendly banter" and straight-up harrassment? I don't think he could call it harassment if he were still buying the new issues.

This article started as a nice reflection on the old internet creativities and communities that we used to have and a lament for its loss at the hands of corporate social media. Th…

The real core gist I'm getting from this article is that "the case against hiring people from Ivy League schools" is that ivy league grads don't want to work ridiculous overtime fo…

Court Says California's Age Appropriate Design Code might be Unconstitutional. A ruling has not been made in the case; only a preliminary injunction has been issued.

GNU C99 for dev, Python 3 for V&V

Likewise, the last time I can recall a notable increase in my own enjoyment from a new GPU was my GTX 660. It ran all the games I was playing back then (TF2, Skyrim, Civ V, Bioshoc…

United States Independence Day https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Goddard_...

There aren't even wagons for sale in America anymore. There are a few crossover-wagon options, with lifted suspension and plastic cladding a la Subaru Outback; there are a few over…

Except that the Toyota Yaris has been cancelled entirely in the US market, along with the Prius C, the Honda Fit, the Nissan Versa hatch, the Ford Fiesta (and all Ford cars except …

It's not an "individual choice" when the options are entirely unavailable due to regulatory discrimination.

It's never brought to the courts because there's no law about it. Complain to Congress; it's their job.

C is right next to X on the keyboard.

Effective communication is absolutely something I'm looking for in a candidate. The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing is critical. I've worked with far too m…

No, thanks; that's not my job. I'm hired as an engineer, not as a rat-race "content creator".