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Germany: 160,000 people protest against far-right party in Berlin in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Oh, duh, that's fantastic

Germany: 160,000 people protest against far-right party in Berlin in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can you explain it for me? The aFd one? I know the AFD party of course

Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, lots of teams are mixed nationality too

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What's the opposite of eating the onion? That happened to me just now too

Looking for a book I've only heard of, not read in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool, this is maybe what I was referring to anyway. Thanks for the link! I'll be grabbing this

Looking for a book I've only heard of, not read in c/[email protected]
Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well there's lots of ways to measure speed. Some use a worm gear in the transmission, some use a sensor on the wheel hub. But all of them take tire diameter into account, unless you count like GPS, which afaik (though probably some really shitty privacy invading car may prove me wrong) isn't a thing for speedometers and odometers

So yes, all production cars, I believe.

Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You're absolutely right!

I don't know of a single car that it wouldn't affect, but there could be some using a gps speed instead? Sounds like a bad idea to me

Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well, I'd argue it's not a blanket "no". I've owned 9 crotch rockets and all? Of them had speed sensors on front sprockets. A lot of similar or the same designs within, so surely it's off ABS rings if they're newer, but a fair few of them have had speed deviations because of that

Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

Hi! I was a controls engineering in the automotive industry in the US for a while.

Yup. You sure should! Some cars even have tire dimensions and quick selections of winter/summer tires for exactly that. Some cars make it much harder/impossible to do.

Same with motorcycles if you swap sprockets of course (a common modification)

Edit: seems bikes are a pretty mixed bag where the speed sensor is. Your mileage (and speed) may vary there

It's been years in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Fun fun fun fun fun

It really is like this in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do feel for you, I know life in the US has gotten much worse recently and I feel that's accelerating.

I'm not so sure life in China is better per se, but it is different.

I will probably blanket statement this and say life in the EU seems a lot better than in the US now, though with plenty of problems depending on where you go. I say this as someone who left the US for the EU.

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