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Comment Re: modern cars are less safe (Score 3, Interesting) 181

Some things like an unclosed door signal are super useful, but some things are so annoying... Last time I rented a car in the US, I had to stop and read the manual after a mile because it was unbearable: it beeped when a car was passing me, it beeped if I didn't use my turn signal *after* passing a car (who does that ?), it vibrated in a scary way if I got close to any line, it beeped if I got 1mph over what it *thought* was the speed limit (many streets were wrong), and so many other things. I spent 15 mins in the manual to disable it all, and it was like 5am for me due to jet lag.

Comment Solar fridge (Score 2) 34

I want to note that it's long been possible to make a solar fridge at night. You know the solar ovens that use a parabola of mirrors and heat water or a sausage at the focal point if you point it at the sun ? Well, if you point it vertically at the night sky on a clear night, the black body radiation emitted by your water at the focal point will all flow to the sky and it will cool a lot faster that if it was simply lying on the ground.

Comment Re:Get it right (Score 2) 95

That's the thing: it's a matter of preference. I like that on KDE I can put the task/menu bar anywhere I want. I hated that on Windows it HAD to be at the bottom; well I don't care anymore because I don't even have a remnant of Windows anywhere. On those long narrow screens I put it on the right and it it's a VM it goes on the left, so this way if I'm in a maximized VM I know immediately.

Comment Re:act your credit rating, not your shoe width (Score 1) 55

I could never get over the fact that if you've never borrow money and never used a credit card, you have a shit credit score...!?! It should be a perfect credit score instead ! I borrowed money for the 1st time when I was 35 and I had only ever used debit cards before and I couldn't find anything better than a 17% rate loan. What a fucking ripoff.

Comment Re:It's a shame it's so undeveloped (Score 2) 27

I remember looking at ReactOS in the early 2000 when I wanted to wean off the MS tit, but I found it severely lacking and decided to just jump completely to Linux, Gentoo first and then Kubuntu; only keeping an XP in a VM. I don't know how much it's improved since then...

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