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I have a Dell XPS 15 at work and it's so difficult to install and setup Linux between the M2 SSD drive and the Nvidia Optimus GPU. Would not recommend.

I understand what you're saying but I'm just not sure I'm prepared to wait at a service station for an hour or more to recharge my car. Today I drove from the south east to the Lak…

Having spoken to a number of friends and people I haven’t met on the Facebook groups I was in (theme was all car enthusiasts) - not one of them cared. Their arguments were that Fac…

I just bought an A6000 mirrorless camera and love it! I’ve had it for a couple of weeks and so far it’s been great. Low light shooting is excellent and 1080p 60FPS video is nice. I…

I’m not sure I’d agree. The Model S is quite prone to understeer, and it’s not just slight understeer but real unrelenting understeer. I’m not sure how though because there isn’t a…

> I turned left on to the main road, and began to move up through the gears. That’s when a car coming towards me flashed its lights. This used to happen to me a lot in the Mini. So…

While Coinbase might have scaled their support, it’s also important to highlight than the number of tickets received in the first 3 months of 2018 is nothing compared to that of th…

What is the catchment range for new (inexperienced) drivers? 18-25? There are a lot of people who have been driving for a long time who are not good at driving at all and lack all …

Could one look at it more like viewstamped replication rather than traditional consensus?

Sure, he is making 3x now, but there are a lot of people in the U.S who do not have healthcare or fall into real debt financing it. On a side note, the NHS crisis worries me a lot,…

Does a P100D have a gearbox? I thought it was single speed. It also has a mountain of torque and power.

What I find odd is how does a car with 400PS and almost 700NM of torque max out at 124mph? In comparison a Jaguar F-Pace 3.0, which has 375PS and 430NM torque will max out at (limi…

The weight is substantial. The Lithium-ion packs in the Model S, for example, weighs over 500KG. One of the largest engines in a current production car, the Dodge 8.4L V10, is 42% …

I saw a horrific case the other week where an internal recruiter cut and paste the feedback from an engineer verbatim. The candidate received feedback which said and I quote “You’d…

We use a monorepo at our place of work and it’s great, so far. We also use govendor to manage external dependencies in the monorepo. We are rigorous about keeping packages up to da…

I have a hard time with using Java to write micro-services. Even though lots of packages, such as Undertow, support non blocking I/O, a lot of the rest of the stack and the program…

We also pay for Internet service, yet a lot of ISPs collect and extract browsing behaviour about their customers.

Sure, but what heuristic are Google going to use to detect encrypted files? What if that heuristic matches files which aren’t encrypted and starts deleting those? We’d start to see…

It doesn’t, but why would they delete it? Google don’t have a policy to delete data they can’t read, as far as I know anyway.

I was thinking about treating Google Drive as a dumb storage service and storing AES-256 files on it. It can’t figure out what’s in the files so it can’t delete it nor can Google r…

Sure, a Golf GTI and Leon Cupra has different suspension set up, but the cars more or less drive the same and feel the same, at least on track. I love the EA888, but it’s ubiquitou…

I’d be a little cautious about going 150,000 miles without changing brake fluid. It does break down due over time and of course due to heating and cooling which can lead to sudden …

Is there no maintenance requirements on electric power trains at all?

Do those come strict conditions though? For example: don’t launch the car, don’t use ludicrous mode more than X times over the lifetime of the drivetrain, etc.

VW has been moving almost all transverse front-wheel drive/all wheel drive cars to the MQB platform for a while now. This includes sub-brands such as Audi, Seat and Skoda. The bene…