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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 RajT88 »

arjie wrote: post #64
roflchoppa wrote: post #63

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do you still ride?

Only e-bikes in the city, haha! Banned by order of the wife since we have a young newborn. "When the kids go off to college" she says knowing full well that I know that 20 years without and getting on in my sixties will kill me instantly.

> Only e-bikes in the city, haha! Banned by order of the wife since we have a young newborn.

This seems to be how it goes. My own father used to ride a motorcycle back in the day - until it almost fell on me and my sister when we were screwing around on it.

Off that motorcycle went, never to be seen again after that.

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

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Post by thr0w »

fallinditch wrote: post #32
thr0w wrote: post #16

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Yeah I have the squishy/very soft/not really working brake nightmare.

Perhaps symbolizes a feeling of being out of control in some aspect of one's life? By all accounts quite common: https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamInterpretation/comments/nnndju...

Less interested in interpretation, more interested in the fact that lots of people have the same nightmares (squishy brakes, class test and you haven't been to school in decades, etc.). Here's one - I desperately need to make a phone call or send a text or enter an address into Maps, but I just make typos over and over. Anyone else?

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Post by wtallis »

zahlman wrote: post #99
dreamcompiler wrote: post #75

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> 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…

These kinds of histrionics are really uncalled for. Virtual environments are easy to work with. https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/09/04/python-virtual-envi... is a solid tutorial.

Virtual environments are an incomplete solution at best. In particular, they really don't help much with the use case of wanting to install a tool: if you're installing a tool and not just setting up a development environment for working on a specific project with its dependencies, then you probably want to make that tool usable without activating its venv. The virtual environment capabilities shipped with Python itself don't really have any affordances for that.

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

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Post by wtallis »

noitpmeder wrote: post #117
lmm wrote: post #110

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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)

UV has provided easy solutions for engineers that are easily frustrated by a lack of easy solutions. There's nothing wrong with easy solutions, but any python engineer worth their salt has long since solved and moved on from the issues that UV claims to solve. I believe UV provides value, even significant value, to lite python users, but for those working with python day in and day out, maybe you're using a new tool,…

uv provides a breadth of functionality that no single tool has before, and that no simple, easy combination of tools has before. For developers, it replaces poetry with something much faster and more reliable, and replaces pipenv. For end users, it replaces pipx and pyenv, and pretty much replaces pip itself (which no longer wants to be used by end users). And most importantly, uv relieves you of having to remember which of the preceding tools are suitable for which use cases.

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

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Post by justin66 »

riffraff wrote: post #33
wat10000 wrote: post #25

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I was told this was a potential last-ditch way to escape if you stalled while crossing railroad tracks. In hindsight, stalling while crossing railroad tracks, like quicksand, is a much less common danger in adulthood than I was lead to believe as a younger person.

what's the thing with quicksand? I was born in 1980 and it seemed people would get stuck in quicksand on tv regularly when I was a kid, but it seems a kind of danger that has almost disappeared from the collective narrative. Why was it popular before? Why isn't it anymore? This baffles me.

> Why was it popular before? Why isn't it anymore? This baffles me.

Television moved on to lava in the interest of progress.

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

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Post by maccard »

firecall wrote: post #66
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.

IIRC The British Highway Code* used to suggest this as a method to move a vehicle stuck on a level crossing! (Train crossing). They did note that it’s only good for manual cars. Automatics were not standard in the UK in the 80s. All from memory, so might be mangling the details :-) *Or could have been the Australian version.

Automatics are not standard in the UK in 2025 either!

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

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Post by kalaksi »

wtallis wrote: post #123
zahlman wrote: post #99

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These kinds of histrionics are really uncalled for. Virtual environments are easy to work with. https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/09/04/python-virtual-envi... is a solid tutorial.

Virtual environments are an incomplete solution at best. In particular, they really don't help much with the use case of wanting to install a tool : if you're installing a tool and not just setting up a development environment for working on a specific project with its dependencies, then you probably want to make that tool usable without activating its venv. The virtual environment capabilities shipped with Python it…

I don't get it. Then you just install the tool outside of venv? then it's installed for your user account.

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

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Post by staplung »

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.

"Driving" via the starter motor turns it into an electric car!

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

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Post by prmoustache »

mikestew wrote: post #21
selimthegrim wrote: post #11

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Isn’t this why you cannot push start cars anymore?

If you can't push-start a car, it's because it has electronic fuel injection. If the battery is stone dead, there's no juice to run the FI and fuel pump, it will never start. It would work on stone cold carbureted cars because there'd be enough fuel left in the float bowls to bootstrap the whole operation.

Starter motors can die and you can push start a car with electronic fuel injestion in that case. Also a weak starter is often a warning symptom of a dying battery so push starting can help heading to the next shop / service station selling car batteries.
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