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Comment Re: Of course (Score 1) 414

I lived in a city in New Hampshire and rode my hybrid bicycle to work year round. Rain, snow, ice, cold, all fine.

Eventually I got a 125cc scooter, but it didn't have adequate traction in the snow. It was also a lot colder than the bicycle, although that wouldn't have deterred me. So my bicycle was my main form of transportation for the 3-4 months of the year there was snow on the ground.

Getting around on the scooter was a lot faster than the bicycle though.

Comment Re:How Do Poor People Afford Internet? (Score 1) 193

Worst case, there's public libraries.

When I lived in a semi-rural town, our cable ISP offered a 3mbit down / 1mbit up plan for $15/month and it was great. Now that I live in a very rural town, the cheapest DSL plan is $70/month, and it's a problem.

The people saying that they don't add a television plan don't understand what being poor means. That's like finding magical money by not buying $6 coffees.

Comment Re:Hello intel my old friend (Score 1) 151

Oh, no shilling here. I was just genuinely trying to understand the disparity between the hype/price and the apparently identical single core performance -- I had to be missing something. I also hadn't looked into the cheaper Ryzen processors, and for me they seem like a good deal.

Seems like I was just living in the past where there was some relationship between price and single thread speed. Apparently now, it seems the single thread speed is pretty flat across the price ranges, and you pay more for the extra cores if you need/benefit them.

Personally, I don't, so it's a good time for me to buy fast processors for not much money.

Comment Re:Curiousity in automobile technicians (Score 2) 226

I've gathered from story after story that mechanics failing to do ANY real diagnosis is a huge problem. I've especially heard this for motorcycle dealers, because I hang around those forums.

Ruling out the fan for example is normally pretty straightforward. Usually there's a simple temperature switch that turns the fan on and off. You can heat this up with specific temperatures of water and check the resistance values against spec. The fan itself can be tested by bypassing this temperature switch.

Or even simpler, they could have measured (or even felt) the temperature of the radiator and seen that it wasn't getting hot enough to activate the fan.

Clearly their strategy was replacing the cooling components one at a time until the problem went away. In my opinion, you should get your money back for all the untested, uninspected parts they replaced.

Comment Re:Curiousity in automobile technicians (Score 1) 226

What? That's ridiculous. Repairing a 15 year old car is going to be nearly identical to repairing a less than 5 year old car.

By some miracle, the data on the ECU is *usually* pretty accessible (thanks to the OBDII standard). Motorcycles are a different story, and you'll likely need a proprietary tool. If the ECU itself actually fails (rare), you replace it like you would a mechanical part.

Replacing a failed water pump is going to be exactly the same, and is purely mechanical with no computer control.

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