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tw_wanketteon The Ruby community has a DHH problem

>>1/3 native

Natives have rights to their homeland.

tw_wanketteon There Goes the American Muscle Car

I have a Lexus LX, one of the most expensive Lexus vehicles ever made. I love it. It was made in Japan.

Tesla panel gaps and quality are fine. They had some early issues, but the damn things are basically body panels hung off of almost entirely cast chunks of metal. There is not a lot of room for wiggle. If anything, they're so we'll integrated that they're hard to repair after a crash.

tw_wanketteon There Goes the American Muscle Car

Am I reading this right? 130 km/h is ~ 80 mph. In the US, doing 80 in a 70-zone doesn't upset most police officers.

tw_wanketteon It's Time to Let Go of 'African American'

Prescribing what (to you) is acceptable behaviour to a free person is wrong.

tw_wanketteon Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go

Starlink now has many laser crosslinks and no longer requires a base station to be in its line of sight.

tw_wanketteon California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

Anything sounds wonderful if you ignore the problems.

tw_wanketteon Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots

Correct. They've become significantly cheaper to run, and their lifetime costs are vastly more affordable.

In the 1960's, getting a car to 100,000 miles was an achievement; now, the car is just getting broken in.

tw_wanketteon If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling

For Multimode, they now make splices where you jam the two cleaved ends into the splice. It costs about $5 per splice.

tw_wanketteon DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards

If anything, such an extensive system should have better controls than a small business. Given that, there are trillions of dollars flowing around of other people's money.

tw_wanketteon DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards

Aren't they taking away the 'command' part of the government? No government, no command.

tw_wanketteon The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand

>> The Thermette, a simple and effective device for boiling water outdoors over an enclosed fire, was invented by Manawatū plumber John Hart and patented in 1931

The Kelly Kettle was produced in Ireland decades before. The Thermette is a knockoff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Kettle