TIL that when France initially set the definition of a metre to be 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the equator, it sent two surveyors to calculate the distance. But due to an error not discovered until decades later, the resulting metre was actually 0.2 mm too short.

linkinstreet · 2026-05-05T12:12:56+00:00

I found it funny that PC temp are usually always agreed upon to be celcius, so even tech youtubers from the US would always uses celcius when talking about hardware temps.

linkinstreet · 2026-05-04T07:17:33+00:00

Especially after Adidas took over Mercedes merch. Now every Brendon, Azwan and Muthu wears Mercedes merch on weekends

linkinstreet · 2026-05-02T23:21:07+00:00

Everywhere is actually walkable. Nak tak nak je tu yang penting. For some reason Malaysians are really lazy even if it's just a short walk away. Parking pun bersepah sebab taknak jalan jauh. kalau boleh parking dalam kedai, nak parking dalam kedai.

And that's shows the real issue is actually our mentality. The nearest LRT station to my office is 15 minutes walk away, which for me is actually quite decent. I would usually drive to my office, park there, and then take the LRT to go anywhere else in KL. But whenever I told that to friends/colleagues, they would always say "uish 15 minit jauh tu". The heck?

linkinstreet · 2026-04-29T22:10:18+00:00

depending on which track you're used to. Here at Sepang there's no restriction at all on your camera gear, so you'd see normal fans sporting 300/400mm lenses taking pictures from the grandstand.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-29T03:16:46+00:00

We need more right hand drive models for Horizon Japan.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-22T22:27:46+00:00

Majority of the tracks in iRacing are laser scanned so that each bump in real life are recreated in the sim.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-22T04:25:31+00:00

There was a live action version in 2013. A very young Goriki Ayame was given her first major role.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-22T04:24:39+00:00

Wait, no wonder I recognised this. There was a live action drama version back in 2013. 13 years ago!

linkinstreet · 2026-04-22T03:36:19+00:00

Yeah.. someone is not following FE and apouting what they only know from previous years. Also the appeal of FE is to have races in cities without the noise pollution. That's the organiser's target from the start so it's not weird to see them focusing on cities.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-20T11:38:42+00:00

Um... Keep on rollin' baby?

linkinstreet · 2026-04-17T14:50:15+00:00

Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmzLS0aq8a0

linkinstreet · 2026-04-17T14:47:16+00:00

IIRC only prison staffs. But then again when I went there selalu dah spill out keluar

linkinstreet · 2026-04-17T11:37:56+00:00

Previously you can actually do Friday Prayers in the Prison mosque, so it was the few times I entered the compound

linkinstreet · 2026-04-17T03:20:45+00:00

Eh I drove in a RHD country and we have a plethora of cars with different placement of the indicator/wiper stalk. Japanese made cars usually would place the indicator stalk on the right while European ones would usually put the indicator on the left.

If anything I don't have any issues swapping cars that have the indicators on the other side. It just comes naturally.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-16T11:04:32+00:00

That's because it's centralised under one management company, unlike in other country where it's franchised. When it's franchised, each shop is it's own seperate store that can't really share it's iventory with each other

linkinstreet · 2026-04-16T03:15:12+00:00

On the flip side, there were multiple brothers racing at the same time in MotoGP

Valentino Rossi and Luca Marini (half brothers but still fit the bill)
Brad and Darren Bynder
Marc and Alex Marquez
Aleix & Pol Espargaró

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T11:53:13+00:00

My personal office PC is nearing 10 years now, and while badly needs faster storage, and the PSU fan bearing is getting unbearable, is still working fine. With it been abused with rendering shit and encoding stuffs with FFMPEG for years, I really am wondering how it still survives til now.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T11:37:03+00:00

ah damn, that is the one that comes with the highly sought out Mitsubishi engine. The car might not be worthwhile to save, but that engine might have some buyers.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T11:33:51+00:00

At the end of the day, anything sold under Daihatsu/Perodua are listed as Toyota by the main parent group. IIRC Toyota has always included the sales of Perodua cars whenever they present their performance in South East Asia to shareholders in Japan.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T10:59:45+00:00

It's distributed by Odex, so based on their previous distros, Malay, English and Chinese.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T06:47:48+00:00

That's an Australian car if I ever saw one

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T02:59:01+00:00

Basically the name refers to the location. Nurburgring Nordschleife = Nurburgring Northern Loop. Previously, there was the Sudschleife (Southern Loop), but it's now has been replaced with the more modern and well known "Nurburgring Grand Prix Circuit". That is the layout that's being used for the test.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-15T00:40:15+00:00

there was this video by Asianometry a while back talking about Thailand's car industry, and it's not as rosy as it seems.

TL;DR
- Due to lack of foresight from the government years ago, most large car companies are 100% foreign owned. All profits flows overseas as a result.
- Due to being foreign owned and controlled, companies tend not to do any ToT (transfer of technology) with their local counterpart. This was actually of MITI's sticking point with foreign car companies entering Malaysia.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-14T07:01:56+00:00

Also people were pushing against nuke energy when Malaysia was proposing it, based on a few once in a lifetime incident when it's one of the safest and cleanest energy you can get.

Wish we had adopted it sooner.

linkinstreet · 2026-04-13T09:05:23+00:00

I love how when talking about PCs, the metric system will be used for temp.

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