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English ivy is a ground spreader, at least where I live. It won't grow on the ground if it gets a lot of sun, but ground shaded by trees will turn into a thick mat that is impossib…

Toyota does make seals (Koyo), bearings (Koyo again), and forgings (Aisin). Dunno if they roll their own steel, but would be surprised if they don't.

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> The most difficult part for me was getting the screw holes lined up for VESA mount. Use a blind hole transfer punch. You can make your own with the right sized bolt and a grinder…

I've sold lots, some of which were obviously chopped out of vehicles with a sawzall (vehicles that I legally owned, btw). They've always scanned my ID, took my thumb print, and mai…

I had a math professor who I'm pretty sure was borderline autistic. His son actually was autistic. While he wasn't the best math teacher I've ever had, he was very good. (Didn't he…

> My last post was about either How to transport a convex object on a camel or Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection. Find out which. I realize one option is suppo…

Everything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

That was true 20 years ago. The question is how much do you ease up the brake on that specific wheel, and then how much do you reapply it? You need to know the coefficient of frict…

I was woken up by my neighbors Dodge Charger 11:00 last night. There's a special place in hell for these fuckers.

Or, like my wonderful neighbor, want to remove their muffler to show off how awesome they are. More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to b…

Visually? Really? Didn't know that. I only own and work on old vehicles, and those all have a float with a magnet that triggers a reed switch.

> and a software patch that lets a driver know if their brake fluid reservoir is running low. You mean like every single other vehicle ever made? I thought this was a law. Also, if…

> "I'd better not annoy _that_ guy, he might reach through my window and rip my head off and then go home and murder my family and pets". Do people actually think that? I always th…

I have a family friend that recently had 2 strokes. The doctors are confused because he has none of the risk factors for a stroke. Really, he pretty closely follows this: ( https:/…

My grandparents bought a game camera at Costco, so they could see what animals were in their yard at night. I had to help them view the pictures on the SD card. It came with some a…

Perhaps. But that's how Starbucks works, by buying shitty beans and dark roasting them. It also makes it easier to have consistent coffee (consistently burnt, that is).

Two things, that are obvious to gamers but really confused me: Sony owns PlayStation. This is the Bungie that made Halo. Yes, Microsoft owned them at one point, but sold them 15 ye…

> I'm scared that when I die my wife will sell all my cars for what I told her I paid for them. (Not my joke)

Your examples aren't of this law being abused. This is the whole point of it. The writers know exactly what's going to happen.

> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders. Grante…

I was working across the street from the high school today, and was watching some kids race down the street in office chairs. But they weren't cheap Costco ones, they were metal an…

As a hobbyist electrical engineer, one of the most important things I've learned is that at high voltages and/or high currents, our nice lovely lumped element model is not always a…

While I agree that it's a somewhat mundane article, there's normally comments that make it interesting. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31436869