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xani_

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    I always wished the throttle to be linked to slip sensor on wheels, say push back throttle a bit more when the wheels start slipping and not just wonders why WOT doesn't accelerate…

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    We had users complain about migrating to MS Teams as the text part of it is almost entirely a piece of shit that every competitor does orders of magnitude better but management sai…

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    Only if you're extremely dishonest in comparisions. Checklists at its core is just a list of common/required actions grouped in a list to don't forget during routine tasks. There i…

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    That's also easier way to design it in Factorio. When I was playing with Space exploration mod that's precisely what I did, the base sent "shopping list" and the provider sent stuf…

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    > 1) Robust system design involves identifying the parts of your system that are mission-critical and always monitoring them. NASA missions have great automation and a 24/7-staffed…

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    Comment #33239754

    The buggy behaviour of A caused buggy behaviour of B that caused buggy behaviour of C, just so happened to align enough to "look like it is working". Double fuckup if the thing is …

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    Eh, that heavily depends on language. Some have better tooling to get most of the typical errors out before the compile. That being said I'm always suspicious and start to fiddle w…

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    > For example, cars have "fail open" brakes but have independent cylinders so that it is relatively hard to have all four wheels fail at the same time (older cars had single master…

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    That's why in our monitoring we used nagios scheme + 1 (0 for invalid, 1 for ok, 2 for warning, 3 for crit, 4 for unknown)

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    Comment #33230274

    Hell, some SUV low beams are already obnoxious at night...

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    Comment #33230257

    Finally use for those massive screens used as dash

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    > Largely because we have a long inversion of how government should act. It should have never needed "approval" in the first place, government should have to seek to ban a product,…

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    > A whole lotta flickering is what would have happened. This literally became the paradigm for the patent office of what a trash invention that shouldn't be given a patent looked l…

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    > You may find it interesting the NHTSA is pushing for breathalizers in cars starting in 2026. Yeah, another idiocy. They aren't reliable and need constant calibration, good luck d…

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    Also interesting piece about why US was stuck in decades of same light design because of more stupid regulations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8

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    Oh, oh, do orange turn signals next!

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    > The reason why it's easy to match Copilot results back to the original source is that the users are starting with prompts that match their public code, deliberately to cause prom…