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Frezik

@ frezik @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Trains 🤧

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  • No such thing.

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  • I had a 370Z for a while. I dunno if they did this on the 350Z, but they stuck a very heavy flywheel on it that does terrible things for throttle response. Makes it as smooth as a V8, and that's obviously a cop to people who aren't buying it for performance. You can cut the flywheel weight in half and still have a perfectly functional car for regular road use.

    The shape of the trunk makes a difference. Yes, the 350Z/370Z trunk is larger on paper, but the Miata's is shaped nice and square. Easier to drop things into.

    Felt like sitting in a bathtub. Has much worse rear visibility than a Miata (even with the top up).

    Its oil cooling isn't sufficient on the track without upgrades. Engine will go into limp mode after a couple laps. Can be fixed, of course, but a Miata is pretty close to track ready out of the factory.

    Traded the 370Z for an NC Miata and have never looked back. On any kind of twisty track, the flywheel issue prevents the 370Z from being able to use its extra power; I don't think my track times are significantly different between the two.

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  • I once did a track day with a Nissan GT-R, Ferrari 588, Lamborghini Gallardo, and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Excepting the 911, I would have been just as happy to have been in my Miata that day.

    Supercars are vastly overrated. Even the 911 is a tough sell against the cheapness of the Miata.

  • Russia may (or may not) agree to silence the guns of its invading forces in Ukraine, but it will not stop its escalating shadow war against European NATO -- [Opinion]

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  • This is what gives away the answer (emphasis added):

    Russian ultranationalist milbloggers, a key pro-war constituency for Russian President Vladimir Putin, continued to reject the modified peace proposal, criticize the United States for moving away from Russian demands, and claim that Europe only wants to continue the war in Ukraine.[16] The milbloggers called for Russia to achieve its war aims by force instead.[17] The Kremlin has refused to meaningfully negotiate in response to all US-led peace initiatives thus far in 2025, and has shown no willingness to make the significant compromises required of a negotiation process.[18] The Kremlin very likely aims to prolong negotiations to end the war to allow Russian forces to continue advancing on the battlefield. The Kremlin likely plans to use Russian advances to further intensify information operations aimed at convincing the West and Ukraine that a Russian military victory is inevitable and that Ukraine should capitulate to Russia’s demands. The Kremlin continues to show no willingness to compromise for good-faith peace negotiations and has not set conditions for Russians to accept anything less than a full Russian victory in Ukraine.

    If they aren't setting up conditions for the civilian population of Russia to accept less than full victory--propaganda like "we have accomplished what we need to in Ukraine, and now is the time for the Russian people to have peace"--then don't expect them to negotiate in good faith. Even the full 28-point peace proposal, which was clearly written by Russia and has been whittled down to 19 points, was never meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to say "see, we made an offer, and they rejected it".

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • So you bring out "this is my second language" after telling someone else "you might want to put more effort into reading". No, that does not fly. You put "sorry, English is my second language" first. Lashing out like that is not a good look.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):

     
        
my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
    my $line = $lines[0];
    if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
        push @real_hits, $line;
    }
}

    Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl's regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn't do its one job.

    If anything, I'm probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.

    This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like "WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU". Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • I can't load a stress how bad your proofreading is. Don't blame that on others.

  • not possible

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  • This man is probably from Wisconsin, went to CampNCN, and thinks fucking in the forest there is kinky.

  • Pentagon says it's launching 'thorough review' into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly

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  • They should try finding an inexperienced lawyer who is willing to do anything for Trump, and then promptly embarrass themselves in front of the judge and news media. It's going so well with Comey.

    Edit: lol, I posted this just before reading that the indictments against Comey and James have been dismissed due to the prosecutor being improperly appointed.

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    Only a few years left

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  • Do what? I thought this was a colonoscopy joke, and those are still important.

  • Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties

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  • The world can, but Canada can't ignore the psychopath who lives in the flat downstairs.

  • Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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  • China is the only major country still building new coal power. The UK, meanwhile, closed its last coal plant in 2024.

    The US needs to give up on drill-baby-drill. Germany needs to stop closing perfectly functional nuclear plants. The US especially needs to get out of car-based infrastructure, though even Europe isn't ideal.

  • Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer

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  • Not very. Ultimately, that's an argument for anarchism.

  • Samus Aran drawing I made

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  • Yeah, just need to make some measurements and plan some things around other planned tattoos.

  • Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer

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  • But Germany is hardly unique in that regard. Both now and then.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Millionaires are not going to move away from NYC when the stock exchange is right there, the big buildings are right there, and the port is right there. NYC is important because of where it is and what it has. A 2% tax on high incomes is not going to change that.

  • Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer

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  • Germany the nation isn't the problem. Fascism is the problem. There is nothing special about Germany that makes it any more or less susceptible to fascism than anyone else. 1930s Germany happened to have especially fertile ground, but it could have been a lot of other places.

    Although AfD does need to be told to go the fuck away.

  • functions

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  • No, no, they're saying Kotlin seams together the fun.