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what does turbo even mean in the context of an electric car? not sure how you could have forced induction or why porsche would name it that

when traveling for work why does the cleaning fee factor in, or is it just the chores does your work not book your travel? or do they give you a flat fee and tell you to find your own accommodations and any money extra/left over is your own deal?

my mistake. i thought virginia also had local county income tax. in that case virginia is lower and ill update my post.

maryland has local county tax which for montgomery county adds up with the state income tax to be several thousand higher per year than DC, for me.

I live in NW DC now and spent several years on the MD side about 500m from the DC border. I love it here. I am absolutely uninterested in politics and have no desire to work in defense and there is still so much to do around here, both recreation and career wise.

Another comment was suggesting not moving into DC proper an I highly disagree. being close proximity to the metro line is what enables alot of the fun parts of living in the city. also taxes are less than maryland, but higher than virginia.

job wise, there are a handful of startups as well as tons of local companies (cap 1, appian), as well as branches of larger companies (google, microsoft, amazon, every consulting company you can think of) with offices in and around DC. with the advent of remote work I think the case for moving to dc is even stronger because even if companies are located in northern virginia, you dont have to slog through some of the worst traffic in the country and can just go in occasionally - which is what i do and honestly love it.

I wish i knew more start ups but when i was job searching recently i was looking at remote roles and most of the startups i looked at were non local. also, because of the high concentration of tech jobs, there are a few local recruiting companies that know the area really well and have placed me in 2 of my last 3 jobs.

let me know if you have more questions!

i live in DC and their HQ2 in arlington VA dominates my linkedin suggested roles. they still have hundreds or even thousands of unfilled roles. i remember hearing originally they were hiring like 5000 engineers across both HQs.

surprising that they would straight up freeze hiring, unless this is maybe just freezing of junior roles or something. I want to see more details about this

i work remote but live in the northern dc area. i occasionally have to head up to the harpers ferry area after work (northwest of DC by about 60-70 min without traffic, for non locals) and the afternoon rush hour literally starts by 3pm, especially on thursdays the days i usually have to go up there.

its funny cuz so many people think "oh ill leave early and beat traffic" that you are often better off waiting until like 6pm.

i still cant believe how many WV plates i see on 270 on any given work day. i hope i never end up in a commute like that

i've been driving manual for the last seven years pretty much exclusively and i used to think that, but ive certainly found myself in all sorts of unsafe driving predicaments where i end up revving out the car, shifting with my left hand, shifting with food in my hand, etc.

In the last few years ive made a point to reduce distractions while driving and no longer do this stuff, but the point being, once you get used to manual - you find a way to be dangerous driving it haha

normal cycling shoes have a cleat you lock into the pedal with that allow very little movement. sometimes just a few mm of position change is all it takes to relieve a nagging ache and im guessing he found it easier to get comfortable with a shoe he can move around on the pedal.

I've stopped mid ride to adjust my cleats just a smidge when i was feeling discomfort. you don't want to mess around with knee pain especially when riding 12 hours a day

considering zwift has over 2.5 million users, and a billion dollar valuation, I think the market is larger than you think. I personally know dozens of people who use zwift nearly everyday (although my friend groups skews heavily towards cyclists/fitness enthusiasts)

cool anecdote about the team sessions. I have done a few team races and they are a ton of fun with friends. my one gripe with sessions is that its very... permanent. like if you join with the wrong car or wrong team, you cant back out and change it. any idea why it was implemented like that?

I am horrible at iracing, likely because I never practice and just decide to hop into a race occasionally, but it is a good way to spend the offseason when we cant go irl racing

The only issue with F1 in iracing is that its almost too realistic. unless you spend hours tweaking the setup and really know what you are doing, the car will be difficult to drive and significantly slower than anyone else in the F1 leagues, who have spend that time fine tuning their setups.

Oh yea and they are still difficult to drive even with a good setup. 1000 HP rear wheel drive monsters...

I don't have any sources but anecdotally I would say that one of my packages has a status of "delayed"

It arrived in my state, about a 45 minute drive from me on Sunday, and it is not expected to arrive until Friday. presumable sitting in a warehouse in a queue of things to go out

I was obsessed with RCT2 in elementary school.

My tastes in video games have changed over the years and I am no longer sucked into the game as I was back then, but I did have a few weeks where I played a ton of OpenRCT2 with a friend - the multiplayer feature of it is a great feature and allowed me and a buddy to have a great time goofing off building rides

I never played any of the silent hills. I played resident evil 4 and 5 years ago, and recently played resident evil 7 - which i felt had a lot more horror elements then emphasis on shooting/exploding enemies like 4 and 5 did.

I REALLY enjoyed RE7. I felt like it kept me on my toes and I played it way faster than any other single player game in recent times.

What is the best entry point and order for the silent hill series?

I am more a fan of jpop but also enjoy kpop, and I have looked into this.

Japan is the second largest music market in the world. They don't need to export their music to sustain itself and through a combination of region locked music and less focus on worldwide appeal it hasn't had the same global reach as south korea's music industry, which is smaller and relies on worldwide consumption

Judging by yesterday’s race, the real key is just having your car finish the race (said in jest but there were nine DNFs in yesterday’s Austria Grand Prix and close to having a few more with Mercedes gearbox issues).

There is a ton of cool engineering in F1. If you are bored poke around https://www.f1technical.net/

Magnus Carlsen has been streaming for a little while!

sometimes doing silly things then absolutely wiping the floor of his opponent like in this clip

https://m.livestreamfails.com/post/36320

I only go to my homepage which contains about 20 subs I actually care about - and nothing related to news/politics etc.

Once I stopped going on r/popular or r/all my mood when using the site improved drastically

There are plenty of opportunities already for these people. It's just hard to force yourself to go to them. This is an incredibly optimistic view, it is far too easy to become complacent and not leave your house. Especially for young people, who for the last 16 years were basically forced to go to class and interact with peers. I'm a new(ish) grad and I really enjoyed getting to know some of my younger coworkers, and we hangout outside the office. I would have never reached this level of friendship if we only knew each other via slack and skype calls

This reminds me of the Drake equation. A sound formula for the probability extra terrestrial life..but half the parameters are wild guesses that can differentiate in orders of magnitude.

Same here, although I have been refreshing new quite often the last 24 hours :)

Not quite a quarantine side project as I started in December, but i've been studying japanese as my side project. I've been able to take advantage of saving 45 min a day on my commute and putting that into study time.

I'll have to check out your site!

Marylander here - where is this? Sounds cool.

just an fyi since we are talking about bike maintenance - wd40 can be used to clean your drive train but then you are supposed to wipe it off and then apply actual chain lube.

This is easily bought at any bike shop for well under the 50 Euros being offered here

The RAM going bad in my PC was one of the most annoying issues I had to troubleshoot. It started with having my firefox pages randomly crash. first occasionally and then several times a day.

I then started getting errors when playing games with obscure error codes - which yielded nothing when searching them up.

I eventually found a comment in a thread about the crashing game that the RAM could be bad. I ran some diagnostic tests and with the number of errors that came up I was surprised my computer worked at all

The perishable inventory is going bad before it gets to the store and can be panic bought.

It also pretty much ensures a wave of panic buying.

Yep thats what happened with mine. i sent it back to Apple and had the battery replaced. I tried to make an appointment at the apple store but it said it wasn't available, maybe they don't have the parts for them in store.

Truly a night and day difference. When I leave for the day I don't have to think about bringing my charger (although I still do sometimes in case of an emergency)

I'm on a three year old iPhone SE that I recently had the battery replaced in (An incredible use of $50 if anyone is fining their phone dying all the time)

I am really tempted to get this. I love the small form factor of my SE but I have large hands and the bigger screen might be a bit nice, and I really wish the camera was bit nicer on my current SE

I think they showed Max or Alex but I don't remember for sure - but that was certainly product placement/he was just playing it for fun. Lando and Max play alot of iRacing which is the most comprehensive and realistic simulator which can actually help you train for motorsports (I use it to learn tracks before I race in a miata) and I think they recently got Carlos and Alex into playing.

Besides, all the teams have their own non commercial simulators miles ahead of what you can play at home