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Definitely, as much as I love working on mechanical things there have been quite a few times when I've stomped back and forth across my workshop shouting obscenities because I realized something I was working on was designed in a downright idiotic way. Nothing like spending hours removing a...

My daily driver is a 1988 Saab 900I and the relative simplicity of repairs is one of the reasons I love it. Of course, it has a Bosch K-jetronic fuel injection system and those are pretty finicky so ideally I think there should be just a pinch more electronics involved.

Easy mistake to make considering that Oden is in fact spelled Oden in Swedish.

From your comments it seems you're still in the stage where you're actively losing weight. While this part can feel easy the difficult part for most is to maintain your weight once you've reached your desired weight. For most people who have never been overweight this isn't much of a problem...

I have to wonder, are there any new cars these days that come with a standard single or double DIN stereo? And yeah, others mentioned 90s era cars, I have to say that one the things I love about my 1988 Saab 900i is how easy it is to fix and how it isn't a huge mess of tightly integrated...

I find that it varies. For some subjects it seems Google ranks Reddit's auto-translated pages higher than a lot of more relevant hits. Though when going back and checking some searches in my history just now it seems like Google may have been tweaking something because the results don't seem as...

I think that you're missing the point. If a person in Sweden (to continue with the example) went to Google and searched for something like "lagar isolering tak" ("laws insulation roof") before Reddit's AI slop translations they'd get SWEDISH results about SWEDISH laws. Now if they do the same...

Yeah, I've hated Reddit's automatic translations since they first appeared. Now, for someone in an English-speaking country they may not seem like a big deal because you're used to specifying location when talking about a lot of things. But, if you're Swedish and you search for something in...

Well this sucks. I have a couple of apps I use regularly where the developer stopped updating them due to loss of interest and instead chose to release the last version for free as an apk file. Guess I should be paying some dodgy Chinese developer instead.

This seems like a very US-centric take in an article that talks about international sales figures. Yes, in the US it appears that there's a push for NACS but elsewhere NACS isn't really a thing at all.

At this point I'm sure most devs have that one coworker who keeps trying to let an AI tool generate code for them with predictable results. Like, sure IntelliJ's AI-powered autocomplete for individual statements/lines of code is pretty neat (and often pretty accurate) but asking an AI bot to...

Good thing I'm still on IRC.

So, I did know about the stronger emphasis on ages but as I'm not one of those obsessive types who sit around waiting impatiently for new games I didn't know much more than this. Foolishly I assumed they wouldn't break the basic concept of what Civ games are, which is to say something like...

Just bought the game on Steam, played for something like 15 minutes before I uninstalled and made a refund request. This game is nowhere near ready for release. For shame, Firaxis. Edit: And just to be clear, I've played every Civ game and Alpha Centauri. I probably have over 10k hours played...

I have to admit that I haven't been paying attention to the specifications of prebuilt PCs lately but this reminds me of that era when for several years even as GPUs and CPUs improved drastically the baseline RAM option was 256 MB for way too long. I was running on 768 MB and thinking about...

Sounds like your Paperwhite is a lot better than mine then. Just grazing the button or resting it on a soft surface (think: duvet on my chest while in bed) will more often than not cause it to power off (or accidentally trigger a full shutdown because I didn't notice it was being pressed down)...

This is slightly off-topic but does the Colorsoft also have the power button idiotically placed on the bottom of the device like the Kindle Paperwhite? Seriously, that's my number one major complaint about the Paperwhite. Who thought that was a good idea?

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Tell me, which date which is convenient for your stance on this issue do you think we should use as the start of the current hostilities?

Seriously? You've missed how Hezbollah have been lobbing rockets at Israel (as in, Israel proper, not settlements on the West Bank) since right after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th?