This. Basic maintenance like that isn't difficult. It's well-worth the time and effort to learn to do those things yourself.
If that dude really paid $700 to replace a set of rotors, he needs to learn how to do basic maintenance himself. Even if he's not interested in doing the work, it'll help him spot dishonest scumbags posing as mechanics.
To the parent: Your mechanic sounds like a dishonest scumbag. Find someone else. You're getting hosed.
I used to fix my cars when I was younger and poorer. But I would charge a heck of a lot more than $700 providing equivalent time and facilities to do tasks for people. I'd prefer to spend the $700 and not have to deal with it. I have a mechanic I trust and have used for 15 years. If I did not I might suspect I was being overcharged. But opportunity cost is real.
What is a "20% better car"? Is there an objective absolute "car goodness" measurement scale I never heard of?
I don't know, but I got my 350z used and it's an excellent car. Certainly 20% better than the one it replaced. As with my wife's Mazda 5 (120k and likely to go another 100k) we expect to drive it until its resale value is effectively $0, or until I've saved the money to buy a new one when the fancy takes me.
What I won't do is borrow money to buy a car. How efficient my total cost of car ownership is is not something I particularly care about, but I like having a decent car and I hate being in debt.
I've bought my last MacBook and iPhone. Nexus Android phones and laptops dual-boot Linux and Windows from now on, and Windows just for games and work. Sick of the walled garden, smugness and arrogance of Apple Computer.
So long, Tim Cook. It's been fun!
I love the general 'it works and the case is sound' aspect of my Apple computer along with the way I can bring up a bash shell and be productive with VIM, Python, GCC, sed, grep and all that other gunk.
I don't see a day when I won't have to work with all the major and some of the minor OSs all the time, but Unixyness, a stable UI and good hardware are a fine combination.
>That really depends on how you rank different aspects of freedom Indeed it does.
> (healthcare, welfare, etc.) I've tried both. Healthcare and welfare wins hands down, both as an individual and as an employer.
> whether you are on the side of freedom of speech or on freedom from hate speech The EU rules do a pretty good job on this. The US has some good rules, but they get violated all the time and the highly litigious natures of the US does more to suppress free speech in the US than actual criminal laws do in either place.
The US is pretty bad on stupid laws. Jaywalking, excessive copyright laws, alcohol laws etc.
The industry that appreciates what I do is in the US, so that's where I am and the US or the UK are certainly not the worst places to live, but we shouldn't let that cloud our judgement of how free they are.
so far, and mostly thanks to EU who has stopped UK from going batshit crazy on human rights. but now Brexit has fixed that. so, I guess UK and USA will have the same level soon. and I don't mean that as a good thing.
Right. The EU human rights laws prevented a lot of human rights violations by UK conservative governments.
It seems likely that Brexit might be prevented my parliamentary votes or a second referendum called because many voters were misled by lies during the first referendum. I certainly hope that is the case, since I'm British and European.
My wife is Malay, I've had extended layovers in HK and Taiwan, is it realy that easy to leave the airport for a bit and see some of the city? Just wondering cause I'm going back in a few weeks and have another long layover.
I've done it in Guanzhou once and HK several times. When I was traveling on business to Shenzhen, I had to get a visa ahead of times. So I think they treat tourist trips and business trips differently. I travel on a UK passport. I don't know if a Malay passport is treated differently by China.
When it comes to visiting China, HK != the rest of china.
Similar, but playing Baldur's Gate on my tablet. I get a lot more than just zombies to kill.
The new Hitman turned out to be a little short lived - Training, Paris and Italy and you're done. So I was retreading Sniper Elite 2 Nazi Zombie edition.
Yep. I was passing through China to Malaysia, but had an overnight stay. They let me get a day visa to visit the city by filling in a small form and going through the passport inspection line with it. No advance planning required.
Some neck beard has to make a comment about PIN numbers!
No beard here, but I an a crypto/security type person.
The PIN codes are very low entropy. They don't give the option for a nice high-entropy long password that you can keep in you password manager. So it's no surprise that there are automated attacks.
I didn't know that. I'm British, but I've lived in the States for 16 years. I haven't noticed it being used over here. It is standard parlance in the UK. I imagine it will be used in reference to the economy and personal freedoms given what's been going on in the past couple of days.
Why? Because as soon as you air gap a machine, you need humans to ferry the data back and forth. Now humans can exploited to be the exflitration path.
If you had a wire, you could control the protocol on the wire, put in overlapping constraints on traffic on the wire, and keep the humans out of the room.
A USB-C headphone would be cross platform if iPhones and computers all came with USB-C connectors but today they do not.
You're forgetting all of the other things you might want to plug headphones into. For example: Home stereos, mixing boards, video cameras, and electronic instruments (musical or otherwise). Or how about portable music players? The iPod uses 1/8" audio. Did all of the Apple fanbois simply toss their iPods in the trash whenever S. Jobs released a slightly newer version?
I'm not forgetting it. I was criticizing the analogy so this wasn't apposite. However yes, I use my noise cancelling headphones every day. I plug them into computers, phones, a home mixing desk and anything else I need to listen to. A usb-c or lightening connector headphone would be dramatically less useful.
For those not familiar with parliamentary rules, this is the archetypal dick move:
>Mitch McConnell (R-KY) switched his vote at the last minute. He submitted a motion to reconsider the vote following the defeat.
In generic rules of order, when a motion is voted down, only someone who voted against it is allowed to submit a motion to reconsider. So if it looks like you don't have enough votes to pass you motion, you vote against it and then file a motion to reconsider. The motion to reconsider has a lower vote threshold, so the failed motion is resurrected like a zombie.
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Yeah, and a lot more people should probably go that route of they can't afford a car. My income is ~80k/yr and I've never owned a new car in my life.
I earn a lot more than that and I don't buy new cars either, it's such a poor use of money.
Buy second hand, keep it for a long time, and spend your money on more useful things (investments and travel).
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Skipping the leading edge of the bathtub curve is pretty neat too.
This. Basic maintenance like that isn't difficult. It's well-worth the time and effort to learn to do those things yourself.
If that dude really paid $700 to replace a set of rotors, he needs to learn how to do basic maintenance himself. Even if he's not interested in doing the work, it'll help him spot dishonest scumbags posing as mechanics.
To the parent: Your mechanic sounds like a dishonest scumbag. Find someone else. You're getting hosed.
I used to fix my cars when I was younger and poorer. But I would charge a heck of a lot more than $700 providing equivalent time and facilities to do tasks for people. I'd prefer to spend the $700 and not have to deal with it. I have a mechanic I trust and have used for 15 years. If I did not I might suspect I was being overcharged. But opportunity cost is real.
What is a "20% better car"? Is there an objective absolute "car goodness" measurement scale I never heard of?
I don't know, but I got my 350z used and it's an excellent car. Certainly 20% better than the one it replaced. As with my wife's Mazda 5 (120k and likely to go another 100k) we expect to drive it until its resale value is effectively $0, or until I've saved the money to buy a new one when the fancy takes me.
What I won't do is borrow money to buy a car. How efficient my total cost of car ownership is is not something I particularly care about, but I like having a decent car and I hate being in debt.
Parallel parking isn't exactly science and replacing it not necessary.
Parallel parking is already a solved problem. Backup-cameras (mandatory in all new cars in 2018) make parallel parking easy.
Knowing how to parallel park makes it easy.
I've bought my last MacBook and iPhone. Nexus Android phones and laptops dual-boot Linux and Windows from now on, and Windows just for games and work. Sick of the walled garden, smugness and arrogance of Apple Computer.
So long, Tim Cook. It's been fun!
I love the general 'it works and the case is sound' aspect of my Apple computer along with the way I can bring up a bash shell and be productive with VIM, Python, GCC, sed, grep and all that other gunk.
I don't see a day when I won't have to work with all the major and some of the minor OSs all the time, but Unixyness, a stable UI and good hardware are a fine combination.
How do you quantify a unit?
In terms of Plank units of course.
>That really depends on how you rank different aspects of freedom
Indeed it does.
> (healthcare, welfare, etc.)
I've tried both. Healthcare and welfare wins hands down, both as an individual and as an employer.
> whether you are on the side of freedom of speech or on freedom from hate speech
The EU rules do a pretty good job on this. The US has some good rules, but they get violated all the time and the highly litigious natures of the US does more to suppress free speech in the US than actual criminal laws do in either place.
The US is pretty bad on stupid laws. Jaywalking, excessive copyright laws, alcohol laws etc.
The industry that appreciates what I do is in the US, so that's where I am and the US or the UK are certainly not the worst places to live, but we shouldn't let that cloud our judgement of how free they are.
so far, and mostly thanks to EU who has stopped UK from going batshit crazy on human rights.
but now Brexit has fixed that. so, I guess UK and USA will have the same level soon. and I don't mean that as a good thing.
Right.
The EU human rights laws prevented a lot of human rights violations by UK conservative governments.
It seems likely that Brexit might be prevented my parliamentary votes or a second referendum called because many voters were misled by lies during the first referendum. I certainly hope that is the case, since I'm British and European.
Does UK enjoy the same amount of Freedom that America has?
Not even close!
***AMERICA!***
Significantly more when you look at the details.
My wife is Malay, I've had extended layovers in HK and Taiwan, is it realy that easy to leave the airport for a bit and see some of the city? Just wondering cause I'm going back in a few weeks and have another long layover.
I've done it in Guanzhou once and HK several times.
When I was traveling on business to Shenzhen, I had to get a visa ahead of times. So I think they treat tourist trips and business trips differently.
I travel on a UK passport. I don't know if a Malay passport is treated differently by China.
When it comes to visiting China, HK != the rest of china.
Similar, but playing Baldur's Gate on my tablet. I get a lot more than just zombies to kill.
The new Hitman turned out to be a little short lived - Training, Paris and Italy and you're done. So I was retreading Sniper Elite 2 Nazi Zombie edition.
It's not always Zombies.
Yep. I was passing through China to Malaysia, but had an overnight stay. They let me get a day visa to visit the city by filling in a small form and going through the passport inspection line with it. No advance planning required.
Just tell them your slashdot ID then. Mine is 3654617.
If I told them mine was 175943 they would accuse me of lying by claiming so a low ID.
Alrighty. Let the pardoning commence.
The man got a generation to see their security in a way that more reflects reality.
I'm no expert, but I was under the impression that you have to be convicted before you can be pardoned.
Mr. O could maybe influence the prosecutors drop charges, but I have no clue how that works.
I could have watched TV last night, but instead I shot nazi zombies. This is how TV dies. One zombie at a time.
> re-entrant branch
No it's a directed acyclic graph.
Oh do keep up. This is Slashdot. It's..
APP int APP foo(APP*(APP) int APP a) APP: APP {}
and
for (APP i = 0;APP i(APP)++; i and finally:
APP return APP 1 (APP APP APP)
Apps!
Some neck beard has to make a comment about PIN numbers!
No beard here, but I an a crypto/security type person.
The PIN codes are very low entropy. They don't give the option for a nice high-entropy long password that you can keep in you password manager. So it's no surprise that there are automated attacks.
I didn't know that. I'm British, but I've lived in the States for 16 years. I haven't noticed it being used over here. It is standard parlance in the UK. I imagine it will be used in reference to the economy and personal freedoms given what's been going on in the past couple of days.
I thought I had a pretty decent grip of the english language, but what's a kibosh?
Kibosh is/was British English vernacular. It seems to be spreading though.
Air gapping machines is not effective.
Why? Because as soon as you air gap a machine, you need humans to ferry the data back and forth.
Now humans can exploited to be the exflitration path.
If you had a wire, you could control the protocol on the wire, put in overlapping constraints on traffic on the wire, and keep the humans out of the room.
The pro move would be to get rid of Java and put in a reasonable execution environment.
Fixing the silo security model would be nice too.
A USB-C headphone would be cross platform if iPhones and computers all came with USB-C connectors but today they do not.
You're forgetting all of the other things you might want to plug headphones into. For example: Home stereos, mixing boards, video cameras, and electronic instruments (musical or otherwise).
Or how about portable music players? The iPod uses 1/8" audio. Did all of the Apple fanbois simply toss their iPods in the trash whenever S. Jobs released a slightly newer version?
I'm not forgetting it. I was criticizing the analogy so this wasn't apposite. However yes, I use my noise cancelling headphones every day. I plug them into computers, phones, a home mixing desk and anything else I need to listen to. A usb-c or lightening connector headphone would be dramatically less useful.
For those not familiar with parliamentary rules, this is the archetypal dick move:
>Mitch McConnell (R-KY) switched his vote at the last minute. He submitted a motion to reconsider the vote following the defeat.
In generic rules of order, when a motion is voted down, only someone who voted against it is allowed to submit a motion to reconsider. So if it looks like you don't have enough votes to pass you motion, you vote against it and then file a motion to reconsider. The motion to reconsider has a lower vote threshold, so the failed motion is resurrected like a zombie.