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  • NP. Yes ABS is designed to avoid exactly that issue, essentially by implementing in a mechanical way what drivers used to do manually - pumping the brakes etc.

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    What's the closest you have ever been to actually dying?
  • They're "brakes" and it's "braking". Yes, I know the previous commenter got it wrong as well.

    The usual problem with slamming on the brakes is that it causes the wheels to lock up and slide instead of slowing the vehicle down.

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    Europeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?
  • The way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.

    The way that the price you're quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.

    The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.

    The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.

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    List of last words - Wikipedia
  • "Let all brave Prussians follow me!"— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.

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    Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK resident
  • Based on how he's been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we're seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.

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    Lord Sugar tried to avoid £186m tax payment as a non-UK resident
  • He was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.

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    Emmy award winner talking about Oppenheimer.
  • They're not saying it makes their opinion matter more, they're stating it in response to the comment statement that his degree didn't do him much good.

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    What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?
  • I can't find any reference that says it's moving away from us at twice the speed of light, which would violate Relativity. The fact that it is further away from us in light years than the age of the universe in years, is due to the fact that the space itself is expanding.

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    What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?
  • It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

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  • Presented by Dan Smith - Senior Developer (Java Platform Group - Oracle) during the JVM Language Summit 2023 (Santa Clara CA).

    Project Valhalla ➱ https://openidk.org/projects/valhalla/ Early-Access builds ➱ https://jdk.java.net/valhalla/ Development ➱ https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla

    Follow along Expert Group design discussion ➱ https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/valhalla-spec-experts/ Implementation & usage discussion ➱ https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/valhalla-dev/ Design feedback (write-only) ➱ valhalla-spec-comments@openjdk.org

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    NHS management is a bullying, incompetent cult
  • It doesn't take much research to find out she was against wearing masks during COVID, she's pro-Brexit, and she's a climate change denialist.

    In short she's a reactionary fuckwit, who should be ignored.

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    Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs and More
  • I played the original Elite on the BBC, and then Elite 2 & 3 on the Amiga. Elite Dangerous on the PC was just plain dull by comparison.

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    Presented by Ron Pressler - Architect (Java Platform Group - Oracle) during the JVM Language Summit 2023 (Santa Clara CA).⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resources ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯◦ https://y...

    Presented by Ron Pressler - Architect (Java Platform Group - Oracle) during the JVM Language Summit 2023 (Santa Clara CA).

    ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ Resources ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

    Make sure to check the JVM Language Summit 2023 playlist.

    Tags: #JVMLS #Java #ProjectLoom #OpenJDK

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    youtu.be How to Upgrade to Java 21 #RoadTo21

    Java 21 is chock-full of great features and if you're coming all the way from 17, there's a plethora of additions to use and get used to, but it's all for na...

    "Java 21 is chock-full of great features and if you're coming all the way from 17, there's a plethora of additions to use and get used to, but it's all for naught if you can't actually update. In this #RoadTo21 episode, we discuss all you need to know to update from Java 17 to 21: API changes that may require you to update your code (like the introduction of sequenced collections or bug fixes in Double/Float::toString and IdentityHashMap), ongoing deprecations (threading, security manager, finalization, and more) and changes in networking (like earlier URL validation and HTTP timeouts), encoding (UTF-8 by default and changes in date/time/unit formatting), the runtime (like removed options class loading), and tooling (like new warnings). We'll also go beyond the nitty-gritty details and see the bigger picture of how to best prepare and execute your Java and 3rd party updates by talking about inside.java, release notes, Quality Outreach, and much more."

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