anotherandrew

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The dumbest part is that after I got my car updated (the Passat only needed a firmware update) the fuel economy was not even one MPG worse. It’s been a decade and I’m still regularly getting slightly better than 50MPG on the highway and low-30s in the city. There was no reason to cheat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I'm currently driving that VW TDI -- best car I've ever owned in 35 years. Next vehicle wasn't going to be a Tesla, but perhaps an F150 Lightning if they ever get their head out their asses and offer a regular old e-pickup -- I don't want quad cab and a short bed, just two doors and a regular full size bed would be great. Alas, that's hard to find in ICE, let alone electric.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

nowhere near the trunk of the car, thankfully. :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I guess the closest I've gotten to that is to have a cow lick the "T" off of the "Passat" lettering on my trunk a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

it's amazing how I could immediately identify which loops you are referring to and have repaired a few of my own for similar reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Had you known how to sew, you could have mended that rip!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

those appear to be physical clones, not electronic equivalent clones. How is this specific company any different than the dozens of other earbud clones out there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My brain seems to be too good at this, and weirdly terrible at forgetting something I have mis-remembered. Drives my family crazy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Between (old) reddit, phpbb and smf... the old reddit model wins by a landslide in my opinion. I've used all of these over the years and absofuckinglutely HATE phpBB and SMF, with SMF earning slightly less hatred than phpBB.

I'm also old enough to have downloaded .QWK files for offline BBS forum reading/replying and even connecting to the internet over a FidoNet-internet bridge. Lemmy did the exact right thing in copying reddit's format.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

ah, so you're the jerk who caused the sudden snowstorm/cold weather here. :-)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I... I'm actually kind of surprised that American cigarettes are an export item. Surely to expats and pro-American Europeans who have lost all sense of taste and smell?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mainly use it to generate unit tests and it frequently makes shit up that clearly won’t work. Like directly invoking non-exported functions that I deliberately choose not to export, because they don’t need to be exported.

If you work where I work, their solution is to just #include "the_file.c" so they have access to all the functions/variables I painstakingly marked static specifically to prevent them from trying to unit test the internals.

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