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My First Electric Vehicle: 10,000 Mile Ownership Update
Why an Electric MINI? My wife Jing and I needed a second car. When looking for cheap vehicles, some electric vehicles showed up because of $7,500 tax rebates. We were after something small, thus affordable and easy to maneuver. MINI won us over the Leaf or Bolt in part to its cool/funky/cute style and MINI’s […]
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The Firehose Method of IT Support
Even the most tech-savvy among us have had to look up some issue here or there; it’s the nature of the tech beast. This article will briefly cover an especially egregious example of how bad tech support can be from Microsoft’s very own “Answers” blog. A firehose overwhelms, inundates. Likewise, to “support” a user by […]
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Nutrition Data Storage Hypothetical
How much data does food require in the United States? Well, let’s find out. I’ll be using C, since it’s the lowest-level language many programmers are comfortable with, and it is plenty efficient enough to handle this task. The data required for one label can be expressed in a C struct with 42 data items, […]