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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 riffraff »

thinkingemote wrote: post #132
riffraff wrote: post #33

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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.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandSucks TV Tropes suggests the idea whilst even existing in fiction for hundred of years before TV, is now "discredited". --- Personally I prefer more interesting madcap cultural theories. Here's one from the top of my head: Quicksand refers to anxiety about the natural world from an increasingly urbanised and ecologically disconnected population. Or maybe Quicksand…

I like this theory, especially connected to how few shows deal with open nature anymore (stuff in the savana or jungle or old west with pumas everywhere etc). We seem to have become thoroughly urbanized even in imagination.

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

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Post by ubermonkey »

I'm a lifelong Porsche fan, and even owned an air-cooled 911 for a long time, but that part of my life is in the rearview now. Even so, I was happy to attend the Porsche festival Luftgekuhlt here in Durham last weekend.

I was astonished, upon turning a corner and seeing one, to realize I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that the 914 existed. It's one of those cars that was a dime a dozen in my 70s and 80s youth (along with MGs and proper, original VW Bugs) that slowly in inexorably vanished from the casual landscape.

Back then, I kind of hated them (the shared heritage with VW made them "not a real Porsche" in my eyes, which then as now preferred the lines of the 911s anyway), but now I find them charming little oddballs. We may take it as read that the examples at the show were in rather better running order than the one in the article. ;)

https://luftgekuhlt.com/

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

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Post by paulnpace »

arjie wrote: post #58

I could have written this for my Ducati, but they nonetheless stole it, put it on a flatbed, tried to drill the ignition and fuel cap to start it and failed because Ducatis have had immobilizers for decades now . One dreams of a better class of thief but if they had the IQ would they be thieves of a multi-decade-old motorcycle? The tax that morons levy on the rest of us cannot be understated. Look at what these lead-…

There is long-ago-deleted reddit AMA by a motorcycle thief who was never caught before retiring. The details he went through made me believe he was the real deal, even if not actually retired.

One of the things he stressed was all the ways people think motorcycles are stolen aren't they ways motorcycles are stolen, because those methods are used by would-be professional thieves who get caught. The professionals are the ones who don't get caught also don't use the same methods.

The thief mentioned replacing OEM ECUs with some sort of home-made jobber that was "good enough" to start the bike and ride it away--the actual way motorcycles are stolen--to a shielded transfer point, typically a delivery truck, where the buyer waits to collect and pay for the stolen bike.

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

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Post by timcobb »

tdeck wrote: post #134
kalaksi wrote: post #128

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

But then all the tool's dependencies have to play nice with the dependencies of all your other unrelated Python-based tools. One thing you can do (I'm not saying it's user friendly) is set up the tool in a virtualenv and then set up an alias like alias foo-tool=/home/blah blah/tools/something/env/bin/python -m foo-tool

But this is true for anything that isn't statically linked?

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

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Post by sgarland »

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 has done for Python what Docker did for containers. Could you accomplish what Docker did with OS primitives like cgroups? Of course. Do most devs know what those are, much less how to use them? Doubtful.

I consider myself to be fairly good with Python, and excellent with *nix. uv is far and away the best tool for managing Python projects, tools, and scripts, bar none. Sorry, Poetry - you had a good run.

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

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Post by RGamma »

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

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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."

Nintendo taught me that quicksand is located in deserts.

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

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Post by sgarland »

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.

I tried a bike once, and that was enough. My brother had an R6, and since we were both idiots, he encouraged me to give it a try.

It was on that day that I discovered that their brakes are thankfully equally potent as their engines. I finished the ride and realized that if I ever got a bike, I would either be jailed or dead in short order, so decided to not get one.

I know there are plenty of more reasonable bikes out there, but the problem is I would gain skills on those, and then talk myself into getting something faster.

I don’t have a problem with fast/fun cars; I’ve had a Datsun 280Z with an LS1 swap (waaaay too much power for the tires and aero - if you launched hard, it would start to hook up in 3rd, and by 110-120 MPH it started getting floaty), and used to daily a Honda S2000 (favorite car I’ve ever owned - they’re like big go-karts). But bikes are on another level. The only thing I’ve experienced like that was an acquaintance’s MKIV Supra, where every upshift feels like the hand of god shoving you back, there’s a cacophony of intake shriek, blow-off puff, and exhaust roar, and you’re doing your best to keep focus.

Man, I love engines. EVs are definitely the future for a variety of reasons, but I’m still sad about it. The sheer number of mechanical pieces all working together in perfect symphony is mind-boggling and beautiful.

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

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Post by aitchnyu »

psadri wrote: post #43

I feel like this could be adopted for your homegrown "whatever" framework (eg: UI framework, Auth framework, …) Congratulations on getting hired to this team! You probably count yourself lucky, but don't. We had been trying to fill this role for the past 5 months and every candidate would run away as soon as we showed them our homegrown auth framework. But don't run yet please, do give it a try. So, you are still her…

StackOverflow jobs no longer has Joel's checklist, one was a single script to bring up a dev environment in your system.

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

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Post by zahlman »

wtallis wrote: post #124
noitpmeder wrote: post #117

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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 w…

I do have a blog post planned on the topic that's hopefully only a few posts away, and a renewed commitment to start frequent blogging again. And this has all been off topic, so I'll spare the reply.
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