I guess the part of Italy I live in stop signs are best described by your second paragraph, but they're pretty frequent. These roads get wild sometimes.

4w ago

Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

You mention stop signs so that sounds like the US

Wait hold on... why's that? Is there any juristiction where there are traffic laws, but no stop signs?

4w ago

Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Sounds insane [...]

This is in Italy, it IS insane, and admittedly I don't know how much my grievances against S&S are mitigated by automatic transmissions (never used in tests).Tests do not require you to disable S&S, instructors simply tell you not to let out the clutch while in neutral to avoid it, but the strictest examiners see engine shutdowns as "failure to correctly operate the vehicle", like stalling - if it happens once, we all make mistakes, if it happens twice, come on man, if it happens three times k gg bb, it doesn't matter whether it's a feature of the car.

There are arguments that having your engine off on the road is unsafe, I guess those examiners are just being zealous? If they even exist, I'm trusting my instructor's tales on this factoid, but drivers' ed here is very strict so I'm inclined to believe him.

Most of the people who turn S&S off do so because they find it annoying, I myself try to use it effectively but I prefer driving responsibly rather than playing chess with a half-metric-ton deadly weapon.

I do know that S&S systems require better starters, but that just means they cost more, right? And even if the increased cost is marginal, the increased fuel consumption on short stops is still a problem.

4w ago

Kia drops the ball again on their vehicles

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

As far as I've read around, S&S mainly wears out the starter, not the engine itself.

I don't understand how the system could cause problems on slippery roads, but if it works on OP's car like it does in mine, the way it's designed to kick in is dumb, infuriating and counterproductive.

I have to disable it every time I start the car, because otherwise it would just stop the engine and restart it immediately whenever I get to a stop sign (which burns more fuel than just staying on).BUT, if I want S&S to work, I need to re-enable it BEFORE I slow down, otherwise it just doesn't - but I can't predict how long I have to wait when I stop before I get to the sign, if I could they wouldn't have put a stop sign there in the first place!

So I either:

keep S&S enabled and disable it at every busy junction before I put it in neutral, then enable it again;
forget about it and always keep it on, wasting fuel, increasing emissions, prematurely having my starter replaced to prevent failures in the middle of busy roads;
forget about it and always keep it off or just never put the car in neutral, which is what all driving schools in my country teach drivers to do by the way (people have failed their tests by not preventing the engine shutdown), and possibly fully shut the engine off at my not-taking-drivers-license-test discretion.

And my car isn't even a KIA, I can't imagine how bad the S&S system would be on a KIA!

1mo ago

I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1mo ago

Spaces behave like this because markdown was designed to be like HTML but quicker to write and easier to read without formatting;most web services that use markdown translate it to HTML rather than parsing it directly, and in HTML whitespaces are supposed to work like you demonstrated in your comment.

The reason for this behavior in HTML is "because someone in the 90s said so", I'm afraid.

2mo ago

systemd-detect-fash: A utility to detect problematic software

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

/usr/bin/true and /usr/bin/false come to mind.

Then there's /usr/bin/test, or more commonly known as [.

How about function fn { return 1; }; fn?POSIX-like shells consider that a failure, doing that on Bash with set -e or on Zsh with setopt err_exit will close the shell.

Should I compile a list of examples with common utility programs like mkdir, or should I investigate whether 0-is-success also applies to PowerShell-run programs on Windows (idk for sure)?

2mo ago

systemd-detect-fash: A utility to detect problematic software

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

returns 1

That just means the user is not an imbecille, there's still a great number of scenarios to rule out

2mo ago

I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

Discord does markdown differently than intended: it's better for non-techies because hitting enter once is more intuitive than the alternative, but the standard way to insert line breaks in markdown is to type two spaces at the end of the line you want to break.

2mo ago

hmmm

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

One even recommended I take a prompt engineering boot camp

2mo ago

hmmm

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

Answer: Why don’t you try searching for the question first?
Me (confused face): How tf do you think I found this page?

2mo ago

hmmm

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

That's just the average stackoverflow comment

2mo ago

hmmm

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

Your description of the problem has words I've heard before, like "a" and "even"; marked as duplicate.

2mo ago

Priorities

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

If you let it exposed for long enough it hardens and you can use it as a þat

2mo ago

Baffled at PC freezing on Linux, but not on Windows for the same workload

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

Windows 10 and 11 really dislike HDDs, that's probably why you can't admit to using HDDs online without getting stones thrown at you (I've been there before).

I've disabled paging files (= swap) for one of my Windows VMs, unfortunately - to my surprise - that only had a small performance boost, and I still need to let the VM chug for a few mintes before it even lets me open File Explorer.

... but it does improve performance, definitely consider doing it if you don't need swap/paging/whatever they call it now.

2mo ago

I_fucking_hate_them_now

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Sonotsugipaa @lemmy.dbzer0.com 2mo ago

I use Zsh too, though at this point is becoming detrimental to my (already limited) Bash skills because of features like the ${^array}{1,2,3} syntax which I use in some scripts of mine, which in turn I wouldn't dare try to translate to Bash.