@Mercfan3Mercfan @chinafutureclub Then I’m not surprised you spent $24K/60K km on your other cars.
I was wrong, I admit. I assumed people know how to release the hand break before driving. Your example demonstrates that some people don’t.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub Consumables are not fixed service items, they are checked and replacement recommended if required. All my ice cars required discs and pads before 60 kays.
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@akafaceUS Great idea!
Prepare to see folks parking in front of that door blocking the garage.
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@vlasta_blaha @RepLuna This is a different topic.
Meanwhile, maybe you stop spreading this lie:
> 32 years, 3 months, and 21 days since the Budapest Memorandum have passed, and many of the security assurances it promised to Ukraine have not been upheld in practice.
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Today, for the first time in close to a 1/4 century, 5 members of Congress (bipartisan) met with 5 members of the Russian Duma to discuss peace and bilateral relations. As representatives of the world’s two greatest nuclear super powers, we owe our citizens open dialogue, ideas, and open lines of communication. We will continue to foster this dialogue and push for peace in support of this admins push for peace, as well as economic opportunity. 🕊️
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@Mercfan3Mercfan @chinafutureclub Look at the service schedule I attached above for a Honda Accord. Breaks go further than 60K km typically.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub Im talking servicing not just replacing air filters Einstein. No ice car is making it through servicing without further work ie brakes etc.
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@Mercfan3Mercfan @chinafutureclub Replacing air filter is easier and cleaner than changing oil. If you want to do it at a shop, it's under $50, incl parts.
And no, of course replacing air filter doesn't void warranty in the US, assuming you don't do anything real stupid.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub We’re doing our own oil changes now? The vast majority don’t, and your warranty will be void.
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@RealRGTV @chinafutureclub I agree.
I’m not sure how it works in a “real city”, eg in Europe, as opposed to US suburbia. Its hard to find *an* overnight street parking spot there, let alone any kind of an overnight charging point. I don’t think your average guy in eg Milano owns a charger in a garage.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub Small cars are mostly for greater city use. If you install a charger at home, there is no need for finding gas as well. This is one of many huge pluses for ev
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@brainbootcamp @chinafutureclub That makes total sense, if you commute around only and especially so if you can install solar at home. But even a 2hr away ski trip requires a charging stop for a Tesla.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub Do you not have a spare plug at home in your garage?
Why do you bother with the "find a gas station” hustle, when you can fill up at home overnight for much less?
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@Mercfan3Mercfan @chinafutureclub Not sure about other countries.
Besides oil changes, first 60K km require just an engine filter replacement (a 15 min easy and clean DIY), that’s it. The rest (tire rotation, etc) are the same for gas and ev cars.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub The cost of the oil is greater than that in many countries. Servicing schedule is not just an oil change buddy.
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@FUZxxl @ChesshirCasey @maxliani I think the reason for making [] behavior non-checking is that C++ attempts to be as efficient as C under default use. In other words, standard library would like to claim “you cannot implement this functionality on this hardware more efficiently”.
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Actually, no.
You can totally dereference a std::vector out of bound, write outside of the memory boundary, corrupt memory. You can remove from a container in a way that corrupts iterators. You can easily enter a bad state from exceptions.
No, the std library doesn’t give safety
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968
If you use the STL, you can write safe code in C++ Everything is object, allocator, and algorithm-based, and that's it. You NEVER call malloc or free or use strxxx() functions. You never see, access, or operate on memory directly. It's different than regular C++, but less different than Rust.
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@ajjaksbkzks @joni_askola I don't think they were stupid back then, I think that was the right decision on their part.
An important aspect is that Ukraine was supposed to stay permanently neutral, as stated in its Declaration of State Sovereignty, its founding document.
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@joni_askola Just goes to show how stupid Ukrainian leadership is. Imagine giving up your nuclear arsenal for 0 binding security guarantees.
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Americans, Brits, and Russians need to remember the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
Ukraine voluntarily surrendered the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
In exchange, Washington, London, and Moscow pledged to respect Ukraine’s borders
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@bozzb13 @chinafutureclub Yes, I think so too. Not sure about AU, but US costs are much lower.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub His numbers are bullshit $24000 to drive 60,000 km would make owing a car unaffordable, there is no logic to it , it's literal retardation
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@Mercfan3Mercfan @chinafutureclub Yes, oil changes in even a 6-cyl car are <$100. First 60K km don't require maintenance beyond oil changes in a descent car. The attached coupon is for an oil change at a NYSE-traded station; synthetics are about 1.5-2x more expensive, still under $100.
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@msiguc @chinafutureclub 4 oil changes for $300? 😂 you also forgot maintenance and repairs
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@GulledgeKurt @ehsanjoarder @RepLuna For a politician, being on a payroll of a lobby of *any* foreign county, even the most friendly one, is in fact a problem.
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@ehsanjoarder @RepLuna If being pro-Israel is "the problem." Then I'm a mf-ing problem, you liberal beta male!
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At this rate, it’s not even about being a Democrat or Republican anymore. It’s literally the American people versus a uniparty establishment that is corrupt to the core. It’s time for voters to wake up when they go to vote on Election Day. Stop sending the same garbage to the Senate.
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@hispanicnomad Weird conclusion.
Why does a waiter working in a private restaurant “support” a public school teacher? Both add value to the society and I’d argue the teacher likely adds more value.
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37% of the population in Spain 🇪🇸 works to support everyone else
Literally only 37% of Spaniards work in the private sector
The other 63%?
- Public workers
- Retirees
- Politicians & their consultants
- People who don’t work and receive some sort of state help
This is why taxes are so high btw
Made in Ancapia@MadeInAncapia
Vivimos en uno de los países más parasitarios del mundo
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@DavidLyddon @kiraincongress Didn’t happen in Georgia, after Putin won the war of 2008 there.
Since then Georgia lives in peace, first time for so long and counting, after the collapse of the USSR, growing steadily its economy with RU being its #2 trade partner.
Be a good neighbor of RU and you’re fine.
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@kiraincongress That would not bring peace because Putin would want more, you give an inch, they would take a mile. ✌🏼❤️🇺🇦💪🏼
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The problem with “giving up” territory is the assumption that occupation brings peace. It doesn’t.
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Mathematics. The Problem of the Pink Line.
Is there a human alive today who could solve this problem?
Puzzle and figure by Ed Southall, Used with permission.
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@bv9122 @RepDonBacon The Ukrainian constitution cancels elections during war.
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Kallas wants freedom, democracy, free markets and rule of law. Medvedev wants dictatorship, domination, religious persecution, gulags and opponents thrown out of high rise windows.
Dmitry Medvedev@MedvedevRussiaE
The lab rat Kallas, her face unmarked by intellect, put her foot in it again, saying Russia is “demanding something that’s never been theirs.” Donbass! Which was Russia’s and no one else’s. It's a pity to be so dumb at 50. In fact, Estonia (the horror!) was also part of Russia😂
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@PI010101 Awesome, intuitive explanation, no prerequisites required (besides understanding of linalg) here:
youtu.be/eiDD6lwLZ2k
YouTube
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The Johnson--Lindenstrauss lemma says something quite remarkable: if you have an astronomical number N of vectors of large size (say, in a very high-dimensional Euclidean space), then you can linearly map them into a much lower-dimensional space, of dimension about log(N), in such a way that the distances between the vectors are almost preserved.
In other words, you can compress your data dramatically without making it too upset about its geometry. A random matrix with i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries will most likely do the job.
Google Research@GoogleResearch
Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI
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