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  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoHumor@lemmy.worldHistory repeats itself.
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    18 hours ago

    “Kei modernized their truck”.

    Kei is a style of vehicle. This is like saying, “pickups modernized their truck”. So let’s try and understand what this misguided individual meant.

    “The small vehicle that I saw had poor crash handling”. Perhaps, but that’s going to be on the individual vehicle, not a class, in the same way some small vehicles handle really well, and some fall over (remember the Mercedes A class, anyone?)

    “The style of vehicle that is categorised by kei is impossible to secure, and all of them score zero”. I’d love to see evidence of this, if you’ve got any. A modern kei-style car, the Honda E 2020 has a euro NCAP 4* rating - not the best, but not zero, and that’s just the first one I found.

    Sadly, kei trucks are not commonly for sale in the UK or US, so I can’t find ratings for them. There’s no reason they can’t be made as safe as other small vehicles, only a market preference for larger vehicles.







  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThanks
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    10 days ago

    I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.



  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTea Time
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    10 days ago

    Coffee isn’t a tea, as you don’t boil it. If you boil it, you burn the coffee! That’s an extraction - you can steep it, but it’s better if you just push the water through at high pressure (which will royally screw up a tea).

    Ah, pedantry in pedantry. So - now for Lemmy to tell me what I’ve gotten wrong :⁠-⁠D