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Comment Re: Anyone is surprised about this? (Score 2) 53

Trains use an air brake system with glad hand connections so that if a coupler fails (or more likely, wasn't correctly secured) the pressure is released and the brakes set on the entire train. The device we're talking about, which is known as FRED (on railroads the F is considered to be an F-Bomb) replaced the caboose in the 1980s. It monitors brake system pressure to ensure that it is in the operating range, and can also release the system pressure from the rear. This is needed so that the train brakes more from the rear than the front, although there is not much difference in timing unless the train is very long because the hoses are fairly high diameter.

Comment Re: Somewhat regional issue (Score 1) 151

If he wanted to help me with that he could have made the phone call, which either also would not have helped or would have done. He also didn't offer to call when I told him what happened, he acted like it was my fault.

Yeah I'm aware he was a shit father but there's lots of those

Comment Re:Somewhat regional issue (Score 1) 151

It's bullshit advice in general anyway. My dad thought he was friends with some guy who was an exec who worked for Diversey-Lever (initials J.L.) and he gave me "his" number to call to allegedly get an interview. So I called up about it and got a receptionist who I couldn't get past, and never got a call back. People like that don't have friends, just people they can use, and they have people in between to protect them from people who think they are their friends.

Comment Re:Ok boomer (Score 1) 151

#1 - Did you somehow entirely miss the part that the nephews older brother - in the same generation with the exact same upbringing - is doing fine?

They don't have the exact same upbringing, in particular first and second siblings are typically treated differently in a number of ways. They also are not the same person, and different people are able to take advantage of different opportunities for multiple reasons — not all people have the preparation to take the same opportunities, and not all people will have the same opportunities handed to them. So no, you are factually incorrect, they did not have the exact same upbringing, and even if they did that would only be partially relevant.

Logic, you fail it.

If you think the government paid 70% of your tuition 30 years ago - I have a bridge to sell you. It simply didn't work that way, ever. In fact, most people in the 90's and 00's worked their way through school.

Oh look, more clown shit. The government provided more funding to those schools instead of offering predatory loans directly to students, so the tuition was a lot cheaper for the student, because so much of the cost was paid before they were billed.

You fail at facts, too.

Comment Re:So the problem is some people (Score 1) 151

Life is a competition.

Modern life as we know it is completely impossible without cooperation. Even the most trivial of finished goods require the input of hundreds or thousands of people. It is also be competitive, but it is inherently cooperative, and there's no reason not to make it moreso just to make the bootstrap pulling, boot licking crowd satisfied.

Comment Re:slightly OT, but interresting Java fact (Score 1) 50

SIM cards, from what I've heard, don't even seem to support strings.

You used to be able to store phone directories on SIM cards, albeit not with very many entries. On my Motorola Triplets and RAZR phones (original RAZR obviously, not the ones where they reused the name) you could easily choose whether you wanted them stored on SIM or locally. Maybe they don't know how to process strings, though, only store them. Or did they remove that functionality? I haven't tried to use it in many years, so I wouldn't know personally. Looking around I see that sometimes even SMS was stored on them?

Comment Re: A better trick still? (Score 1) 46

Yeah, I do have that same shit. It's not a driver problem though, it's a too much bullshit problem. The management agent on my PC sometimes goes rogue and starts using up CPU to an extent which not only causes the fan to throttle up, but actually causes perceptible performance degradation — Even the GUI itself is affected, perhaps exacerbated by the fact that it's an intel-based laptop with integrated graphics. (HP had the gall to sell this fucker as an Elitebook, which used to mean something. Not quality, but at least power. My last Elitebook had a core 2 duo and discrete Nvidia quadro graphics.)

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