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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Now you play in honour mode

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

The driver could have taken over at any point.

Leaving the highway, they could have taken over

Leaving the road? They could have hit the brakes or taken over

Following the rails? They could have turned away

I presume the car was following a lane along the railway, they could have stopped it

These people were just going along with whatever their $60k car suggested

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I like my white Varia VS3, the new model (vs6) has speed control, static reduction and a spout thumper

But it's only a 38mm grinder, so it's slower and hotter than a 68mm one, and it doesn't have as wide an array of alternate grinding burrs.

Others here using 68mm gear will have better advice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Some of it is. Like any genre there's good and bad incosmic horror

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed "19".year

So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The problem with microwaves is the ones from the '80s were far less powerful than new ones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I guess you assign no value to the waste of using 3 to 4 times the number of machines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Your product would be about three times the price of the cheap shit.

It might work in the current world with good advertising - Smarter Every Day (on YouTube) is part of a project to make a better, made in America, barbeque ~brush~ cleaner

There are a few companies now selling better quality stuff successfully, but I have seen no one doing so in whitegoods

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I spent a thousand dollars replacing the cheap compressor in my fridge because I asked the repair guy to replace it with better quality than it originally came with, and he used a commercial (as opposed to residential) grade compressor that was three times the price

But aside from a short lifetime, the big problem with cheap AC motors is they're imprecisely built and often waste more electricity as heat and noise than they put into their output shaft

Of course even with the better stuff there still "cot death" where a new product fails almost immediately (because noone tests their products), but at least those failures are under warranty, the cheap motors typically last at least a few years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Rhymes with rot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't it have been nice though to have a local English printer set spelling to their local style rather than a foreigner setting spelling to their foreign tastes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is specifically about causing an imagined future crisis to happen as soon as possible to get to the imagined golden age following it

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