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It is that kind of party!

We should all aspire to be the Oceans 11 heist of having a library card.

Guys, I’m starting to think Trump isn’t completely right in the head.

What kind of third world shit hole makes its dictators face consequences?

The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn’t that high, IIRC.

There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.

Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.

The weather was terrible for a jump. Nobody who had training would have tried it.

He almost certainly died in the jump.

He also made an offhand comment about the airline, and that suggests a revenge motive.

Lynch demonstrating the literal origin of the word “lunatic”.

I had a 370Z for a while. I dunno if they did this on the 350Z, but they stuck a very heavy flywheel on it that does terrible things for throttle response. Makes it as smooth as a V8, and that’s obviously a cop to people who aren’t buying it for performance. You can cut the flywheel weight in half and still have a perfectly functional car for regular road use.

The shape of the trunk makes a difference. Yes, the 350Z/370Z trunk is larger on paper, but the Miata’s is shaped nice and square. Easier to drop things into.

Felt like sitting in a bathtub. Has much worse rear visibility than a Miata (even with the top up).

Its oil cooling isn’t sufficient on the track without upgrades. Engine will go into limp mode after a couple laps. Can be fixed, of course, but a Miata is pretty close to track ready out of the factory.

Traded the 370Z for an NC Miata and have never looked back. On any kind of twisty track, the flywheel issue prevents the 370Z from being able to use its extra power; I don’t think my track times are significantly different between the two.

A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):

my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
    my $line = $lines[0];
    if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
        push @real_hits, $line;
    }
}

Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl’s regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn’t do its one job.

If anything, I’m probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.

This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like “WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE’RE GOING TO GET YOU”. Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.

They should try finding an inexperienced lawyer who is willing to do anything for Trump, and then promptly embarrass themselves in front of the judge and news media. It’s going so well with Comey.

Edit: lol, I posted this just before reading that the indictments against Comey and James have been dismissed due to the prosecutor being improperly appointed.

Do what? I thought this was a colonoscopy joke, and those are still important.

China is the only major country still building new coal power. The UK, meanwhile, closed its last coal plant in 2024.

The US needs to give up on drill-baby-drill. Germany needs to stop closing perfectly functional nuclear plants. The US especially needs to get out of car-based infrastructure, though even Europe isn’t ideal.

Yeah, kinda. I’m probably guilty of some pop philosophy here, but it’s basically something that makes you rethink your whole life.

Serious time: it was never a very good theory. There are clearly dialog options where they zoom over Link expressing complex ideas to someone he just met. Unless you want to assume into existence a sign language that everyone in Hyrule knows, Link can talk just like anyone else.

When the pizza picture is so bad it gives people an existential crisis.

Yeah, just need to make some measurements and plan some things around other planned tattoos.

Millionaires are not going to move away from NYC when the stock exchange is right there, the big buildings are right there, and the port is right there. NYC is important because of where it is and what it has. A 2% tax on high incomes is not going to change that.

No, no, they’re saying Kotlin seams together the fun.

Nothing substantial beyond rumors. It just wouldn’t be surprising. I had some kind of hope that Melania had sheltered him from the rest of the family and he’d grow up different, but probably not.

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