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A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by tombert »

It has become a big pet peeve of mine when people treat "workarounds" like "solutions" to problems. I have certainly done this in the past, so I'm not excluding myself from it, but I try pretty hard not to do that now.

For example, I mentioned that my speakers on my laptop sound like shit under Linux to a friend. I mentioned a few of the fixes I had tried, none of which really improved anything, and eventually the friend recommended I buy some headphones or an external speaker. Yes, that would "work" in the sense that I would have higher quality audio, but it doesn't really "fix" my problem, just makes it easier to ignore it.

This article shows the logical extreme of that thinking, I love it.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by throwaway422432 »

kerblang wrote: post #53
fallinditch wrote: post #6

This story reminds me that I have a recurring nightmare: I am driving a car and the brakes hardly work at all, so I am in constant fear that something will go terribly wrong. This nightmare was born from a real experience with my first vehicle, a VW micro bus that had horribly squishy brakes.

My driving nightmares, in order: - I am utterly fucking shitfaced drunk and having great difficulty with reality in general - I am completely blind, albeit sober - I am driving from the back seat, for some reason (trying, at least) - I am going uphill, but the hill keeps getting steeper, until finally I am completely vertical, and to my surprise, traffic is passing me - Don't ask me how I know, but I have entered a n…

- I am driving from the back seat, for some reason (trying, at least)

Yeah, this one with the added bonus of having the whole family in the car - and for some reason I'm not steering at all for a lot of the time.

Weird dream.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by zahlman »

ecshafer wrote: post #82
dreamcompiler wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Make sure you don't have anything else relying on Python because they will probably never work again. This is why when I see some clever open source tool discussed on HN and I go to the repo and see it's written in Python I close the browser window and pretend I never saw it. Yes I know there are ways to protect yourself when using Python in much the same way that lead-lined glove boxes protect you when working wit…

UV has gone a long way to fix that issue with python.

uv has not really done that much. It's all been possible, and usually about as ergonomically. It's just opinionated in a way that people currently seem to like, and fast primarily due to good internal design (not because it's written in rocket emoji Rust sparkle emoji, although that certainly is a net positive to performance).

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

#105

Post by quotemstr »

tombert wrote: post #101

It has become a big pet peeve of mine when people treat "workarounds" like "solutions" to problems. I have certainly done this in the past, so I'm not excluding myself from it, but I try pretty hard not to do that now. For example, I mentioned that my speakers on my laptop sound like shit under Linux to a friend. I mentioned a few of the fixes I had tried, none of which really improved anything, and eventually the fr…

> It has become a big pet peeve of mine when people treat "workarounds" like "solutions" to problems. I have certainly done this in the past, so I'm not excluding myself from it, but I try pretty hard not to do that now.

My favorite is this pattern that occurs in every big backend job-running script in every place I've worked: the success paths spams the log with expected errors. Something tries to connect to something else on start?

  FATAL ERROR: COULD NOT CONNECT
  debug: retrying... (1/3)
  FATAL ERROR: COULD NOT CONNECT
  debug: retrying... (2/3)
  Service connected! 
  Startup succeeded
"Just learn to ignore the expected errors, bro" is the most infuriating "workaround" for this lack of basic log hygiene

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by RandomBacon »

kerblang wrote: post #53
fallinditch wrote: post #6

This story reminds me that I have a recurring nightmare: I am driving a car and the brakes hardly work at all, so I am in constant fear that something will go terribly wrong. This nightmare was born from a real experience with my first vehicle, a VW micro bus that had horribly squishy brakes.

My driving nightmares, in order: - I am utterly fucking shitfaced drunk and having great difficulty with reality in general - I am completely blind, albeit sober - I am driving from the back seat, for some reason (trying, at least) - I am going uphill, but the hill keeps getting steeper, until finally I am completely vertical, and to my surprise, traffic is passing me - Don't ask me how I know, but I have entered a n…

> am driving from the back seat, for some reason (trying, at least)

That's the only driving dream I have ever had.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by wkat4242 »

james_marks wrote: post #98
wingspar wrote: post #9

“ Since there is not a clutch safety switch on the starting circuit, make sure to press the clutch down before you try to crank the engine.” Growing up, a friends dad would use this as a ‘feature’ on his Datsun to move the car out of traffic when it wouldn’t restart. Put it in first, release the clutch, crank the starter, and move the car out of the way.

Most (manual) cars of that era could be roll started this way! Did it many times when a starter or battery died; just need a bit of a hill or a good push.

I did it daily with a car I had bought for 50 bucks and that was not worth a new battery. Just make sure to park it on top of a hill. Push it off with a foot out the door, gain momentum and now you have one attempt.

I did a 3000km road trip with it. Lol

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by _carbyau_ »

bityard wrote: post #50
dmurray wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown . Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too. [0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...

I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."

"Quicksand" is the harder sand just above the water line that is more solid and faster to walk/run on.... /s

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by lmm »

zahlman wrote: post #103
ecshafer wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UV has gone a long way to fix that issue with python.

uv has not really done that much. It's all been possible, and usually about as ergonomically. It's just opinionated in a way that people currently seem to like, and fast primarily due to good internal design ( not because it's written in rocket emoji Rust sparkle emoji, although that certainly is a net positive to performance).

UV hasn't done anything except for all the parts that matter. (And while there are compelling arguments that Rust has nothing to do with it, the correlation is pretty strong)
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