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Anecdotal, but I did some tests in my previous car (a 2014 Mercedes, automatic) and it coasted really, really, really well. In drive, downhill, on the freeway, feet off all pedals, it would accelerate as much as if I put it in neutral, so I think its software and transmission allowed it to perform as good as a manual in that situation.

Not calling you out specifically, but a lot of people arguing for manual transmissions in this thread seem to base their experiences on ~10 year old cars or older, and weirdly assuming that nothing has happened since, that software and technology in cars has been magically frozen in time, despite enormous incentives for car manufacturers to improve it.
>You can choose to do your road test in an automatic, but that'll earn you a restriction on your license, barring you from driving a manual.

Interesting. Here in New Zealand, once you move from your learners license (fully supervised driving) to restricted (ability to drive by yourself with conditions), if you sit the test in an automatic you get a condition for automatic only on your license. Once you sit your full license in an auto, that restriction disappears.
And susceptible to the whims of and demands upon your registrar or registry. "Torrentz.eu Domain Suspended After UK Police Request " etc

Probably best to pick a TLD and registrar outside your immediate jurisdiction as well as that of the USA and EU, which rather narrows the choices. .ch or .me seem reasonable.

Little wonder 'normal' people don't bother with all this stuff.
Of course it works that way, but just for the note: what the car computer reports in dash is manipulated by software and it can be anything. It's not necessarily completely true.
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It's interesting how different people can interpret the same situation in different ways.

I am wondering why you consider borrowing costs for a mortgage in PLN to be gigantic. I just checked and the total annual rate looks to be around 3.3%. Is that what you consider gigantic?

I've lived in Poland for over five years now. It took me some time to get used to operating procedures here. It is different than in the US, which is what I was used to. There are things that are worse than in the US, and there are things that are better. It is not as horrible as you make it seem.

Like everywhere, you have to know how to maneuver. A person having just arrived in the US may not know what to do when faced with bad service. Things that tend to work there is insisting to talk to a manager, and threatening a chargeback. Both will be difficult if you don't speak English.

In Poland, depending on the situation, threatening to report the company to UOKiK (the consumer rights groups) works really well. This will be difficult if you don't speak Polish.

I've had bad experiences in both countries. These were few and far between, both in the US, and in Poland.

Regarding the bad experience you've had... Could the delay in replying been to language difficulties, or were you communicating with the store in Polish?

P.S. You're right on about many retailers listing stock they don't have. Lot's of just-in-time types of stores. It comes down to finding reputable retailers. Not once though have I had a situation where something was not shipped. I've made hundreds of purchases online.
I have evaluated and ditched many messengers over time, and frankly: If you don't offer a native client that keeps itself at <100 Mb usage, and an absolute minimum of CPU usage when not in use, you get relegated to being installed on a trash phone used only for responding to absolute emergencies and even then only with letting the sender know how much i disapprove of their use of the software. I've moved many of my friends and business partners off such disrespectful software over the years, even some who worked on said messengers.

You can try and tweak and fiddle knobs in a website running in a chrome-less browser all day, but you'll NEVER get into an acceptable performance range for an ever-present background process.

And if you can't get there, you don't deserve being used.

Yes, it's cheaper for you. But the costs you pass on to your users (and the environment) are astronomical.

Edit: Also, the spacing in your UI layout looks fine for promotional purposes, but is extremely wasteful and useless for involved conversation, particularly of a technical nature where referring back to earlier bits of the convo is important.
Careful, some/most(?) of the lawsuits aren't because of risking patient's lives. They're for things like defrauding investors. They're not somehow more guilty because they also happened to do some other wrong thing at the same time.
I agree, AIUI this is no longer the case.
> And yet the JVM still beats the CLR in performance.

Which CLR and which JVM?

Languages are not implementations, I remember when junior Assembly coders could easily write code better than any C compiler, and look how C is regarded nowadays!

As for the CLR code, if you know about compilers and watched Channel 9 and MS blogs, than you would know that Microsoft only made the CLR good enough.

Only now they are sharing the backend with Visual C++.
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Pretty much this, security isn't improving, its just those infected zip & doc files usually aren't targeted at Android or iOS.
That's why I'm using my own domain now for emails. Even if my email provider goes away I still keep the address.
No, you are paid to turn a business requirement into a SOLUTION. Yes, unfortunately most of the time you have to write software to reach that.
What 9 figures in funding buys, apparently.
I was paid pretty well yesterday to judiciously delete a lot of code, and I had a blast.
Are you sure that wasn't "bush"?
They want this data, and they know Google will let them get away with it. Just like how they segment SOCs based on what version of Android they support for each SOC, so if you want Android 6 or kernel 3.10, your paying for a higher end chipset.
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> Sure, for professional racing drivers.

But note that the transmission in F1 cars is semi-automatic [1]

[1] https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/inside-f1/understan...
While the use-cases for cruise control are more limited with a manual transmission, I wouldn't go as far as to say the two are incompatible.

I would never use it in heavy-traffic and rarely on a single-carriageway (i.e. anywhere that travelling at 60+ mph is a hazard), but if you're only switching between 4th and 5th, then it really is very useful

I don't know of anyone that uses ACC for city driving or non-motorway commute. This might be due to the nature of British roads, though
Is it unusual to have such terms in a hardware device? I'm guessing that Google loses money on the hardware but makes up the difference in other ways (i.e. personal data, etc). But, other industries use the same model without such terms. Are they trying to lock down identity so that it almost always has a one-to-one relationship with the device?
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That's an especially ironic statement you pulled because Malcolm X told blacks they were continued chumps and race traitors for voting Democrat.
The insomnia.rest homepage takes 5 to 6 seconds to load. That's all time spent on the images. I thought the site was broken, at first.
What i wonder if how much will this make Stack Overflow faster, it is already VERY fast with no cache.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790650
You mean right side of the road? (left side being wrong)
>as they would "hinder the adoption of innovative FinTec".

Which is not surprising considering the banks have their own similar scheme giropay/paydirekt and not allowing competitors doesn't seem that fair.

> IMHO we urgently need a law that makes wire transferees instant

SEPA Instant Transfers are coming 2018

PSD2 coming 2018 requires bank to provide API access to third parties as well, so this is basically a solved problem.
There was similar attempt here in Poland few years ago, i believe it was sofort used by few online shops owned by German parent companies.

This ended very soon, because people here are quite sensitive for such practices and Financial Supervision Authority begin informative action as this was against the law.

But what was more important, people quickly realized that they could abuse this process. After such payment, they log in again to bank account and cancelled wired transfer (in most banks we can cancel wired transfer unless it actually leave your account few hours later), and then change their bank password. From point of view of shop, payment was successfull, they process order, but never get cash for it. This was the reason such payment systems ended very soon.

Like kybernetyk and other wrote, in Poland we have very modern banking system, there's no problem to make fast wire (up to 15min) using official banking systems or reliable payments systems - you authorize each transaction directly in your bank system without revealing your login details to the middleman.
There's script & executable invocations inside systemd service files as well. They're simply handled differently. Some setups use dedicated units to just do `modprobe X`, and have "easy" dependency management. Some are replacing udev rulesets with systemd units, none of which are "orders of magnitude smaller".

Just saying, the de facto ways of using systemd are starting to diverge a lot from the intended behaviour. And of course, the de facto usage is what we'll judge each piece of software's merits on...eventually.
just don't have US/Israel passport or visa stamp from there, and Iran will be one of best experiences in your life. people are amazing, culture is just WOW, whole place feels ancient even to europeans (and it is...). it is properly exotic in some parts in a way that will soon be only a thing of the past for most 'exotic' places on the earth, that look more and more like a standard copy&paste westernized locations.

most people speak OK english, very welcoming and friendly. don't trust some crap propaganda.
I live in an area (in USA) with a lot of car theft. A police officer said the easiest theft prevention is to buy a stick because the thieves can't drive them. He said they had a really nice bait car, but because it was a stick nobody stole it.
Especially so, with the rising gig economy. To more and more people, their digital assets and how and when they access them are how they make money.
> instead of implementing their own universal system that undercuts Sofortüberweisung's merchant fees (0.9% + €0.25 per transaction) is beyond me.

Well, they are trying with wasting 300 millions so far on Paydirekt.

Their rates are still over credit cards though...
The lock-up only locks up in very limited conditions, especially older ones. There's basically a few specific speeds with a 10km/h margin that locks up.
Google doesn't have a say on what you can do with your phone.

Google does have a say on what you can do with their service.

These people were clearly trying to game the system. Google caught them red-handed and has now exercised their rights.
Security on desktop OSes is still much worse, with even sandboxing being fairly rare.
It would be easy to setup a backup system where all backups are encrypted with a set of randomly generated keys. (1 key for each user/service pair or something). The keys are going to be (relatively) tiny, so they could be kept on non-archival storage.

If a user's data needs to be deleted for whatever reason, simply discard the user's corresponding encryption keys. That way you can effectively wipe the user's archive without needing to touch the tapes themselves.
>I think of systemd as one component in an attempt to create a good desktop environment based on the Linux kernel.

systemd works on systems as small as embedded systems up to huge hpc systems. It's not just a desktop thing.
Depends on your car - especially how heavy the clutch is!
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It's clear from this thread that the point of pgrebase may not be understood if you don't play often with functions, so let me provide a bit of context about what comes before pgrebase.

Why do we use migration tools?

Data is the most important thing for a business. You can loose your code and recreate it. If you loose your data, your business is basically done. Yet, your code often needs change in your database structure. So you write sql in files to describe those changes, because we can't just drop all tables and recreate them on each deploy, we have to preserve data.

It is not really efficient to "just drop sql files in your codebase", because database does not live in that codebase, and you can't be sure databases on all your installations, locals and servers, are up to date. Plus, you can't just load those files in any order, there is an order to be respected. For that reason, we use timestamped up migrations files.

But then, it means that full code related to a given table does not live in a specific and dedicated file. Should you want to revert the change (especially common in dev env), how would you do? For that reason, next to up migration files, we have down migration files.

All of this works just fine, but it has ultimately a single purpose: syncing schema without loosing data.

If you want to manage functions in that context, it will be painful. Postgresql won't allow you to replace a function if its signature doesn't exactly match. That is, you can't change a function signature, you have to first drop it, then recreate it. With migrations, this means that when you're migrating up, you need to drop the old function and create the new one ; and when you're migrating down, you have to drop the new function and recreate the old one.

Remember of how the purpose of this is to not loose data? Well, you can drop all your functions and recreate them, you won't lose any data. This means you can store them in dedicated files, which means you can revert files individually. So, this is what pgrebase is doing : managing all your non data altering pg code so that it's not needlessly painful to use.
> You have to engage the clutch, put the shifter in neutral, and release the clutch again.

That's both a long-winded and incorrect way of putting it. If you are stopped, then you're either already in neutral with the clutch released or the clutch is already engaged. There is no other way.

Really, the rule is just "you have to have the clutch released". For experienced drivers of manual transmissions, this is one smooth action.
But no clutch, and no shifting. Just let off the accelerator for instant regenerative braking, and turn the wheel left-right. Acceleration isn't everything when driving; a clutch gives a car challenge, personality.

For me, driving without a dry clutch and without a shifter is no life.
> Even if you don't intend to go racing, a manual is just a bit more interesting and keeps you paying attention the whole trip, in my experience at least.

I drive an E36 M3, a car almost 20 years old.

It's a musical instrument, and the driving manual is how you play it.

Learning to use a clutch is like riding a bike: at first it's frustrating and you stall a lot, but you learn quickly. Once you've mastered it, it's effortless and fun.

I got it for less than $10k.

It is basically open hardware: you can take most of it apart with standard tools, and there's a robust aftermarket for parts.

Old manuals break down less, and have cheaper failure modes than old automatics.

My car has no embedded sim card, no infotainment dashboard ipad, no nothing.

That gives me confidence that it will never be remotely hacked, letting some 4chan troll a thousand miles away disable my brakes[1]. Nor is the manufacturer collecting a detailed database of GPS coordinates, a log of where I go.

Buy a simple car. Learn manual. Enjoy the speed and control. Be the 3%!

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
They are both around 500 billion of valuation. Impossible.
When you coast with engaged clutch, you will engine brake. Energy doesn't go to the engine for free. Adding the fuel to counter the engine braking is less efficient than letting the engine run idle while coasting due to losses in the power-train. Plus, more efficient cars still have to inject fuel. The electro-hydraulically controlled conventional gearbox of the Lupo 3L disengages the dry clutch while coasting for a reason.

Of course, engine braking is obviously more efficient than friction braking, but that's not coasting, that's engine braking.

Another funny note is that "conventional" automatic gearboxes have the highest gear (usually the only overdrive gear) have a coasting clutch on it, so it's not even technically possible to coast with engine engaged. You're always idling if you let go of the speeder, losing energy to the torque converter that doubles as oil pump for the transmission.
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought Gentoo user had to make active choices when it came to make, compile and configure an installation, and that Gentoo as a distribution had a hands-off approach when it came to make decisions for the user. Is there a "default" init system, where if the user make no decision they end up with a specific one?
Why would age be a problem? I thought ( most )engineers are better as they age!
Always entertaining when supposedly leftist organizations like Twitter out themselves as fascists.

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I drove a WRX for five years and the clutch was kinda heavy. Not terrible, but enough that I'd put the car I'm neutral at a red light of I was there for more than five seconds.

I'm glad start stop is supported on manuals this way. It makes sense. I thought the stop start systems didn't really save much fuel, but I've read some real world tests that clock in at 8~10% savings. All that idle time does really add up.
> ... that media needs to be under strict control ...

Is that really an alt-right position? I lost interest in politics a long time ago, but the last time I heard that sentiment was from the left - calling for the Fairness Doctrine to be brought back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
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Tell that to Aleppo

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/16/syria/russia-incendiary-...
There's one thing i'd like to point out to that.

But first: Yes, such posts are abhorrent and unacceptable and come from people who're very childish, emotional and lack self control.

That said, it helps to understand where this comes from. Many of these people (particularly the one responding to 2) feel that thanks to the policies of Trump and the people he surrounds himself with, they or their friends are being indirectly already being told to die. (LGBTQ, Obamacare recipients, others)

I am not making excuses for these reprehensible tweets, but i feel it is valuable to understand where the causes for them lie.
> Prius' CVT

It should be noted the transmission in a Prius isn't really a CVT. A traditional mechanical-CVT can be slow to respond as it still requires the transmission to mechanically move which means it can feel 'soft'. In the Prius' 'e-CVT' there is no mechanical linkage that needs to move, so it responds instantly.

The electric motors can provide their full torque while the ICE is at 0 RPM, so when you push your foot down, you get a good amount of power without waiting for the engine to spin up to higher RPMs, as with a traditional automatic transmission (vs a mechanical transmission, where you can run the engine faster and use the clutch to limit the amount of power delivered to the wheels). This is why the Telsa's ludicrous mode is a thing - unlike an ICE, electric motors provide the highest torque from 0 RPM.
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> but in Italy they do expire

They do expire but you don't have to take a new drive test. It's more about periodically checking you're still physically fit to drive (e.g. you need to take a mandatory eyesight test every few years).
Except that the more complex unit files still rely on shell scripts - they're just split off into separate files in another directory. systemd simplified init scripts by spraying their content over half a dozen or more different files and then only advertising the size of one them.
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True, but submarine cable bandwidth is ridiculously expensive many places. E.g. I know locations where the only local cable operator charge $3000/month for 20Mbps uncontended bandwidth, just because they can. Meanwhile in London even the most extortionate colo-provider I work with charge "only" $250/month for similar quality bandwidth.
Meta question: do software developers typically enjoy these types of officious, bossy article that state what is and what must / must not be done?

The tone of these types of posts always make me chuckle. And, I see similar types of articles on here often. When I read these, I feel like Dad is mad at me for being a bad programmer.
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Good grief, I'm off to backup my shit now
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There are so many different types of gearbixes/engines these days and hat ipresume every conversation on here will be talking about a different flavour of 'automatic'.

As a rule if the technology comes in a car costing more than my annual salary I don't think it is worth discussing in terms of 'normal'
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I don't really stay on top of popularity of distros, but I'd be surprised if Gentoo is in the top 10, in terms of usage. But, when I say "major Linux distros", I mean, specifically: RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian, as those are clear market leaders on the server (I mostly pay attention to the server space). Fedora, Mint, and maybe Arch comes into the picture for desktop, I guess? SuSE seems to be on the rise again. All of those are systemd, I think.

I guess one can argue about what level of popularity makes something a "major Linux distro". I, personally, wouldn't put Gentoo into that category, unless I saw some evidence of dramatic increase in its usage.
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> if giving up on gambling which you are not addicted to but find pleasurable saves a subset of the population that cannot control their own abuse of gambling, would you do it?

This is a very interesting question, thanks for posting it. For me the answer is yes.

Another question: if someone who isn't addicted to gambling doesn't give up gambling to save those who are addicted, what punishment would you support the state imposing? (jail, fines, forced "treatment", etc)

And another: if someone who is addicted to gambling doesn't give up gambling, what punishment would you support the state imposing? (jail, fines, forced "treatment", etc)

I ask these questions because I don't think analogous ones were considered before launching the drug war. For me the answer to both is a whole-hearted "no punishment".
Well, engine braking to the red light would have been more efficient. :)

But indeed, automatic cars are less efficient. They do not know what you will do next, so they often make erroneous gear shifts that waste fuel and time. They don't know when to coast or when to engine brake (For older transmissions, the overdrive gear had permanent coasting, and could not engine brake at all), often have lossy pumps, etc.

Dual clutch transmission are awesome, though.