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Triumph

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  • Learning to drive

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  • Yeah ... There was a weird in between time where there were still some small vehicles without p/s, but they were still using similar steering boxes or racks, and the same smaller steering wheel. I'm pretty sure that rack and pinion steering is more difficult without power assist, too, or because a different enough gearing would change the packaging, need too much room, increase design/production/manufacture costs too much - they just went fuck it and removed p/s without changing anything else because "good enough".

    I don't remember whether the S10 had rack and pinion or pitman arm style.

  • Milk

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  • But you don't make soup with a beverage, you make it with a broth.

  • Milk

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  • *Gazpacho

  • Milk

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  • To throw this into greater array: now that the milk has been poured into the cereal, it's clearly broth; what was the milk before it was poured into the cereal?

  • Milk

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  • Depends on how much milk was added. Lots of milk? Definitely soup. Just a little milk? Sauce. Somewhere in the middle? Stew.

  • Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery

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  • You're missing it. It got sneaked into a museum and hung on the wall. That's an extremely important part of it.

  • Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery

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  • Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery

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  • I agree with the first part, disagree with the second.

    Jackson Pollock was just some idiot with a paintbrush. John Cage was just some idiot with a piano when he wrote 4'33". "I could have done that." Sure, but they did. Having the concept and then executing it is as much of the art as the finished product.

  • Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say

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  • "That's part of any policing strategy – deterrence," Bovino said. "Whether it's to deter a shoplifter in a department store or to deter illegal aliens from both coming across the border and remaining here."

    Not your fucking jurisdiction, cockhole.

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • I do; or at least I can. But really, Device #2 should be in a fire safe, and Device #3 should be in a safe deposit box. These should be "set and forget" devices, not just "the laptop that I use and the phone that I use". Those are additional costs, additional planning, additional effort, additional administration (because you need to also be checking that these cold devices still work on a scheduled basis), maybe additional required skill (depending on what you want these set and forget devices to be). You need to have an appropriate place to keep that fire safe. And when one of those cold devices doesn't work anymore, you have to figure out why and likely replace it.

    To do it right, you really have to have your shit together. That I don't.

  • Learning to drive

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  • I elucidated in another comment.

    e: Rereading that comment, maybe the connection didn't make much sense. In older cars, 10/2 was a better starting place for doing hand over hand, because if you wanted to turn (say) left, you'd start by pulling your left hand down and right hand left. Then remove your left hand, pull down with the right while grabbing over with your left. Switch hands, left pulls down, switch, right pulls down.

    Starting with hands at 9/3 means you would have less on that first down pull with the left, and have to push up with the right. When every normal turn required hand over hand steering, 10/2 was more sensible.

  • Learning to drive

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  • In a modern car, yes.

  • Learning to drive

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  • That's more for mad offroading, because the weight of the vehicle over terrain can lever the front wheels quickly enough to spin the wheel. Not impossible, but far less likely on pavement, even in any crash.

  • Learning to drive

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  • Ain't nothing stopping me from eating my burrito.

  • Learning to drive

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  • Yeah, I can see that, too. Definitely more than one additional injury risk that is easily mitigated by changing hand position habits. Totally makes sense that they changed the way driving is taught.

  • Learning to drive

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  • Aha, hand over hand, now I get to wax poetic about that.

    Hand over hand steering was useful up until maybe the mid 1960s. Later, too, but after about 1967, power steering was becoming more the norm. Cars were far more likely to not have power steering. Instead, they employed lower range steering gear boxes and giant trash can lid steering wheels. In order to make a regular old 90 degree turn, you'd have to crank the wheel over way more than you do on a modern car, and the car was heavier, had steel wheels (more mass to move).

    They continue to teach it today, because if your car loses power and/or shuts off (ICE cars especially, not impossible with EVs) or the power steering otherwise fails while you're moving, you're really going to want to know how to hand over hand steer. It's much more difficult to steer a car with power steering that's dead/broken than a car that just doesn't have power steering at all. Why they still demand it for drivers' tests on every turn, I don't know. You should be able to demonstrate that you can do it, but hand over hand steering on essentially every car today is more clumsy, as long as everything is working properly.

    e:

    If you mime driving a car, do you put your hands at 10 and 2? No, you'll probably do 9 and 3.

    Only if that's the standard you were taught, and the cars that you learned to drive were ones where that made more sense. I mean, just look where Toonces puts his paws.

  • Home with others

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  • Could, yes. In 1990, the standard was to call 411 if you needed to find a phone number. And that often cost money, so parents would drum into their kids not to call 411. "We have 411 at home. ::slams phone book on table::"

    Which means they'd have had a phone book, and everyone knew where it was. Sometimes local police/fire/hospital emergency numbers were printed on the cover, or on the first page. If not, there'd be a place on the cover where you could write them in yourself. They'd also come with a refrigerator magnet sign that you could write in with marker later on.

    I'm not saying any of this to be disagreeable; there are a zillion plot holes in that movie. Just reminiscing with some late 1980s "day in the life" nostalgia.

    Now get off my lawn.

  • Learning to drive

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  • Came here to say that whoever wrote this is old, like me.

    The switch from 10/2 to 9/3 is because of airbags. If you’re doing it the old way, you’re more likely to have the airbag catch your hand and whack you right in the face with it.

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • Think of passkeys like they’re backups.

    If you have one, you have none. If you have two, you have one. If you have three, at least one of them has to live offsite.

    There are a ton of people who can’t reliably meet the “three” threshold, and plenty who can’t meet the two.