Vapor lock was a thing in the time of carburetors.
This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
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#12Maybe not important, but I would have put (2010) in the title. The article was posted on May 10, 2015 but the story is from 2010.
more like ~1978
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#13https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
Indeed! From the article:
> In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received...
> This was a cool act by General Motors especially in this world of Internet when news can go viral in matter of seconds
From Snopes:
> This legend surfaced in print in 1978, but an anecdotal sighting places it even earlier than that, in 1971.
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#14Correlation vs causation, eh?
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#15Why do sites use this crappy scrolling override. I's infuriating and makes navigating the article a pain.
I just thought my ctrl-key was broken because I couldn't change
the size with ctrl-mousewheel. I whish webbrowsers wouldn't
allow this shit. There is no legit reason for a website to
fiddle with the basic controls.
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#16Not the point of the story, but I wonder if engineers would reach the solution faster than non-engineers due to their practice debugging. As soon as I read the guy was driving to the store to pick it up I knew it had to be timing due to store layout.
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#17Correlation vs causation, eh?
It actually is causation. There just happens to be a causal step in between.
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#18Reminds me of my wife's macbook air wifi that was always spotty when she was using it, and always got back to normal when I used it. She thought I had some kind of magic engineer's touch.
After much thinking, we realized that when she was using the laptop in her bed, she would put it on her lap with her legs bent, so that the computer was sitting at a 45 degree angle wrt to the floor, while I would put the computer flat on my chest. This angle made the wifi antenna much less performant.
Re: “My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
#19Vapor lock was a thing in the time of carburetors. This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
Interesting. Fuel-injected aircraft engines get vapor lock—shutting down to refuel and then restarting can be a serious pain—but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a carbureted one doing it.
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#20Reminds me of my wife's macbook air wifi that was always spotty when she was using it, and always got back to normal when I used it. She thought I had some kind of magic engineer's touch. After much thinking, we realized that when she was using the laptop in her bed, she would put it on her lap with her legs bent, so that the computer was sitting at a 45 degree angle wrt to the floor, while I would put the computer f…
Humans are basically bags of mostly water, and water is not god to radio signals. Have seen the exact same problem in rooms that are far away from the router. Massive difference if any of my body parts is in the way of the signal