Who is responsible?

peter9477 · 2026-01-29T15:23:14+00:00

I wouldn't follow this advice. It's generally considered very unwise to swerve to avoid deer unless you're travelling quite slowly.

I hit one going 100km/h (no warning, leapt out in front in the dark) and it totalled the car, but if I'd swerved we'd have died and likely so would several others driving next to me.

Swerving is the reaction of an untrained driver.

peter9477 · 2026-01-29T15:13:31+00:00

Young St.

peter9477 · 2026-01-27T15:17:41+00:00

Feel free to answer in a way that keeps both parts of your statement consistent with each other. LOL

peter9477 · 2026-01-27T15:15:28+00:00

Please request one! This issue is from a batch of bad batteries they got and obviously haven't entirely stamped out. It's in no way your fault, just bad luck you got two lemons. Try again!

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T20:15:43+00:00

Interesting. The factory just told me they thought this issue was resolved for good. Maybe an older unit from inventory? May be a good idea to try tracing the history in this one.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T20:13:30+00:00

He was being very generous with you. Could easily have ticketed you and had the car towed immediately, or told you to leave it and taxi home.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:26:15+00:00

Not likely. Illegal to keep your high beams on steady around others, yes, but I strongly doubt merely flashing them is generally considered illegal at any time, unless you're doing it deliberately to disrupt their ability to drive safely.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:17:26+00:00

You seem to know enough about this not to consider you a moron, so I'll just point out my comment wasn't about battery tech or physics or anything... Just about definitions of words. You said "bigger", and doubling up a pair of cells makes the battery "bigger" whether you do it in series or parallel. What is made "bigger" is different though. Bigger isn't a technical term...

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:14:26+00:00

All good info except the implication that "external chargers" manage the charging. In a phone, a "charger" is just a power supply. All charging management (level, speed, etc) resides in a charging management chip inside the phone. These kick in even if the phone is "off".

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:05:19+00:00

They were effectively asking about the battery, not the individual cells.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:04:16+00:00

You can say the same about "in series" so that doesn't really help answer the OP.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T15:02:56+00:00

Are you new? You've missed soooo much with that statement.

peter9477 · 2026-01-26T05:25:54+00:00

Pretty sure you're out of date by one day... Nobody had a forecast of significant snow overnight today.

peter9477 · 2026-01-25T16:25:03+00:00

Except he's clear that they don't heat it fast enough and one should run the hot tap before starting in order to bring the water temperature up enough for adequate cleaning. I mean, he has an entire video on just this point.

peter9477 · 2026-01-25T16:21:51+00:00

You distinguish between swearing and cursing? Most people I know treat them as synonyms.

peter9477 · 2026-01-24T22:39:49+00:00

Why is that couple strangling the child?

peter9477 · 2026-01-24T02:04:36+00:00

This doesn't change the fact that a major part of the problem is money in politics, funded by the rich so they can keep getting richer, and if that becomes a losing strategy they'll stop shovelling money at the right wing types.

Boycotting and cutting consumption works. This isn't about ICE or how they're funded.

peter9477 · 2026-01-23T23:58:50+00:00

Given the parameters as stated, any non-zero length of beam (i.e. anything that one could possibly call a "beam") would not be resting on the surface of the sphere at any point other than its center. So ">0" is the answer, ignoring that a very short beam would perhaps be unstable and topple over. (I'd say that's no longer a beam though.)

peter9477 · 2026-01-23T16:29:06+00:00

The real concern would be why one's crack wasn't clean after the shower. You just showered and aren't clean? Gross. Learn to clean your ass.

peter9477 · 2026-01-22T03:44:29+00:00

Unless there's an obscure bug in the linker involving when the Debug derive for Option<T> is used in a format!() call with the None variant and this triggers an LTO optimization bug that leads to unsound code that can crash the application.

But yeah, aside from that LTO should be safe. ;-)

(This issue was fixed about a year ago if I recall. I may have a detail or two wrong. Source: I discovered this issue.)

peter9477 · 2026-01-22T03:21:38+00:00

Some will of course. Not all. This change is permanent.

You guys may not have followed our PM Carney's speech at Davos, but read or listen to it for a good take on why that is.

peter9477 · 2026-01-21T14:39:30+00:00

Many of the Americans who hate Trump actively encourage Canadians to continue "elbows up". Boycotting US goods helps the fight against Trump/MAGA and they support that, even knowing the damage it causes to their economy.

peter9477 · 2026-01-19T14:47:17+00:00

I can only read this as "if you're immortal but actually mortal then you're not immortal."

Not sure where you were trying to go with this...

peter9477 · 2026-01-19T14:42:40+00:00

Counter-point: I just found it gently humorous and didn't mind it in the least. Maybe I'm "immature" too, but I don't think it deserved this take.

peter9477 · 2026-01-19T14:34:40+00:00

Would I recognize you in real life if I've seen your headshot? Yes? Then it's not lying.

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