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That's the most fucked up stuff I've seen in weeks - and I live in Florida.
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Florida man tased for twerking during rainy traffic stop https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/09/09/florida-man-tased-for-twerking-during-rainy-traffic-stop (trigger warning: Facebook)
Florida woman fights off large alligator while paddleboarding in terrifying video (maybe the same pissed off alligator?) https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/09/10/florida-woman-fights-off-large-alligator-while-paddleboarding-in-terrifying-video
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Austin and Seattle say "keeping it strange" while Florida just goes "hold my beer"
> Is anyone twisting your arm and making you upgrade?
AT&T is sending me incessant texts saying 3G/4G will be EOLed by February and I need a new phone.
I don't know how true that is, and I also don't know if this is spam because I have no way of confirming the number is indeed AT&T. I have marked them as spam, though.
Oh but Haynes (and Chiltons) fucking KNEW nested function calls!!
*Replace starter motor
See "Remove throttle bodies"
* Remove throttle bodies
See "Remove airbox"
* Remove airbox
See "Remove left fairing"
See "Remove right fairing"
See "Remove air horn"
* Remove air horn
See "Remove engine"
Otherwise someone will fish it out of the bin and use it on another box that starts to mysteriously fail.
Anyone remember the horror that was active SCSI termination? Where the drive at the end of the chain had to be powered on (so it would have termination) before the server or it would all go to shit?
I remember trying to explain that "this drive needs to be turned on first" and being told I was complete rubbish.
Yes, I remember when highres game cards didn't bother to support standard VESA modes.
It's called bleeding-edge for a reason. You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.
I remember buying stuff based on if it was supported by Linux or not. There was a lot of sites that told you if a particular laptop was hostile to Linux. Remember the Sony VAIOs that had the floppy drive select line inverted just for the fuck of it?
I remember when you had to hand-calculate X11 "mode lines" for EVERYTHING, and if you screwed it up, you had a good chance of blowing up your expensive monitor.
I remember when EDID showed up and you could ASK the monitor what resolutions it supported! What a concept!
> Delivery people can get lost trying to find a flat in a tower block or navigate a large housing estate
So instead the robots won't give a shit and just drop the parcel where-ever? I think UPS has a patent on that already.
Edit: also, if that thing came trundling down the sidewalk, it'd be spare parts inside of an hour, at most. "Look! Stepper motors!"
A prop strike means the engine needs to be removed, dismantled to the crankshaft, and carefully inspected. It's usually a toss-up to if it's cheaper to buy a new engine, and insurance usually instantly totals it.
I wonder if the owner (or insurance company) has any recourse for the costs?
it's perhaps unreasonable to expect kit makers to keep providing software patches for years after they've stopped shipping a device
Why? I don't see why people should be allowed to lob shit into the market and wash their hands of things.
I think if companies were required to provide 3 years of security updates, this would stop cheap garbage marketed on a razor-thin margin.
Well, in an interview where he was walking around the new Starship build, he did say his deadlines were super optimistic, then he said "if I wasn't optimistic, then I wouldn't have tried to land boosters on barges, or build the biggest fully reusable orbital rocket. Everyone has repeatedly told me how impossible all that is."
However, I don't see how this robot "gets us to Mars"
This is usually how it goes with Wendy's and Burger King. Only McDonald's has its shit together to have the self-order kiosks functioning.
What's worse with Wendy's are the self-order kiosks are basically registers turned around, and they're at the order stalls, so you stand there in the way of people trying to queue up to order from the staff.
And people wonder why Amazon and McDonald's are doing so well. They seem to be the only companies able to handle modern technology. I tried to order a rainsuit and some mirrors for my motorcycle from a company that was not Amazon, and it was building-the-pyramids time.
The even sadder part is the food quality is in inverse proportion to the service. Wendy's burgers are actually recognizable as meat and mostly edible.
Have you ever driven in America??
Windows NT could probably drive better than 60% of the people here.
A REAL self-driving car solves all the idiot "drivers" killing people because they don't give enough of a shit to pay attention to what's going on around them.
Unfortunately, we don't have any real self-driving cars, and I don't think we will for at least a decade. It needs more than hooking a bunch of sensors and a GPS to a computer and attaching a steering wheel motor.
Edit: God, I can't type.