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All EVs have a speaker and the noise is standardized. The problem is there is a different standard in each country and the solution is to make one noise which covers all of the standards - thats why it ends up sounding so strange. The combination of the various standards varies from OEM to OEM - thats why it ends up sounding different OEM to OEM.

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I think a better term would be a 15m neighborhood, rather than city. I live in Stuttgart in Germany and there is no way that you can walk this city in 15m, however my neighborhood has everything I need (store, bank, pharmacy, doctors, dentists, hair cut places, kindergarten, school, metro station, train station, etc) within 10m walking from my house (the food shop is 700m away - the furthest of all). This becomes even more apparent in a city like Paris, it has its own quarters where everything is locally available - you don't need to cross the city to reach anything because its all already available in your quarter.

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I wouldn't say that building on your skillset as (in this example) a skilled craftsman is deferring happiness. You still enjoy what you create today, even if its not as good as what you will create one year from now. I do woodworking and metalworking as hobbies - I've always enjoyed the process and the improvement I see in my work. Its about the journey not so much the end result.

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When I'm doing manual machining at the lathe or mill I will use an actual calculator rather than smearing my phone with greasy fingers.

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Expanding my workshop where I build stuff out of wood and metal. I can now 3d print parts and cast them in metal (including gold), build furniture out of wood, fix just about anything. Started a youtube channel, so video/sound/lighting has now become something I think about. I need more time.

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German is not a romantic language, it is a Germanic language :)

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Hard choice man. I went to a private engineering school and graduated with ~80k of debt. Paid it off in 4 years after graduation - no regrets about going there. I was not highly motivated or focused on what I wanted to do when I was 18 so I didn't try to really do more than what came easy. If I had to do it again with what I know now and I had the choice to go to MIT, I 100% would. You can also work/find scholarships/etc. during your studies to finance it. I would have been in over 140k if I didn't do anything on the side.

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Are you swiss or were you an international student?

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I'm a strava user and use it for biking and running...I am also a snowboarder and I have to ask...why would you ever record snowboarding runs?

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I am 184 cm (~6') and 62-64 kg (137-141 lbs), have kept this weight range for the last ~15 years. Maybe sharing my diet/sport schedule could help ppl..? I drink mostly water and coffee (rarely but sometimes redbull, beer maybe 1L per week). I skip breakfast most days, eating a small portion of leftovers from the night before and some fruit (apple + orange or whatever is in season) for lunch. Usually I have a after work snack (bowl of corn flakes with a bit of sugar). Dinner is usually around 20:00 and we eat whatever...meat, veggies, carbs, whatever is available that week. For sports I am on the bike for maybe 50-100 km per week depending on how lazy I feel that week. I go climbing (bouldering) 2x per week (usually riding my bike there - makes a 2-3 hour boulder session with 1hr of bike on top). Not sure if the sport would make a big difference one way or the other (if it was there or not), I think eating the right amount makes the biggest difference. However without sport my brain feels like shit so I tend to keep doing it.

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I use mine to 3d print parts and then cast them in metal. They make special resins for this process, works great. I can go from Sketch - Fusion - Slicer - 3d Print - Cast in about 18 hours depending on the part size (long time to print complicated / big parts). If you're interested look in my bio there is a link to my youtube - watch the "casting gold balls" video - it basically runs through the whole process (albeit without explanation).

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See my comment below but again - this is reposted online everywhere but I've yet to encounter this even one time in my 10 years here that US citizens get denied an account or get complaints from their bank about FACTA.

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I have a German bank and am a US citizen. No problems here. I've seen this reposted online on several occasions but living here and knowing other Americans here I've not actually heard any stories of people being denied a bank account. No idea if it would work but I suppose you could use something like Wise to bank here - it gives you an IBAN like a normal bank so it should work.

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I've found a solution to this - you need to use the internet in any language other than English. You get much higher quality results that are not so full of ads and SEO and all of the other evil stuff which is going on. Its not perfect, but if you search for "pancake recipe" in French or German you have a much higher chance of being linked to some "old internet" style blog rather than some food.com bullshit.

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I'm with the other guy - I've owned my car for 8 years and never touched the climate control except to set it to 24 in the winter and 22 in the summer. Otherwise I just let it do its thing, which works great. 2013 Audi A4, btw.

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I work in automotive, its the same here. There isn't a single person who you can find that has a big picture detailed understanding of the whole system.

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What's crazy to me is: I work on one of the more complex electromechanical systems in passenger cars. It has gotten to the point where there is no single person that understands the entire system and all of interdependencies. But...it WORKS. I guess you can scale this to the world, nobody understands it but somehow it still works. Pretty cool.