You can actually do these sorts of IFTTT -> Dropbox -> Computer Script automation mashups without the Automatic OBD2 dongle: just use IFTTT geofence triggers. I use this approach to turn recording on my security cameras on & off & set my thermostat away mode as I leave or approach my house. I wrote another script that…

I suppose I should point out the sheer number of different ways this was a huge gamble:

Not exactly racing, per-se, but it's hard to think of a bigger gamble on wheels, ever, than the Thrust SSC supersonic land speed car.

A few technical points:

The unequivocal remarks by Ryan, who chairs the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee, quash hopes for the deeply tax-averse House to pass a gasoline tax increase as a mechanism to pay for a long-term highway funding bill.

Most of the Audi RS cars. Fabulous on the street, but far too prone to understeer at the limit to be any fun on a track.

Test firing successful, emperor!

I meant to say 10th overall at LeMans, in case you don't know the story already.

I'm not sure any car has ever had a more surprising performance at the track than this 1950 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, which finished 10th overall.

This is empty speculation, but I wonder if the "answer" is to shoot and project at higher frame rates, but process some motion blur back into the shot (digitally). Done properly, that might allow you to overcome issues with judder while maintaining the overall 24Hz "look."

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True. Fully grasping why 16/44.1 is more than adequate for sound reproduction isn't very intuitive and requires a firm understanding of Fourier transforms, phase space, and sampling theory - subjects understood by perhaps 0.001% of the population - but people who consider themselves in a position to espouse the…

A lot of the high-res proponents out there don't seem to quite grasp that this is just mathematics. A 16 bit, 44.1 KHz digital stream contains ALL of the information needed to EXACTLY reproduce audio frequencies out to 22 KHz over a HUGE dynamic range. If you think you somehow have superhuman ears that are sensitive…

The Z/28 has posted slightly better lap times on *some* tracks with *some* drivers, but (and I BTW I love what Chevy has done with the Z/28) that comes down almost entirely to the stock tires, which are both wider and a good bit stickier than the stock GT-R rubber. I have a GT-R kitted out with 305-width treaded R…

Clearly this is only simulated crowdsourcing, since the article fails to tell me how I can make thousands of dollars per week working from home.

I've always been partial to the early 70's Ferrari V12 F1 sound (from 0:49-1:10 in the infamous Shell commercial below):

I can understand (and I suffer from) the horrible completionist urge to finish every stupid, repetitive side quest in sprawling open world games, but I have to admit, when I hear about players "grinding" through the exact same content over and over again in order to turn the #31 in their character stats page into a…

I'm playing on Xbox One. Other than some lengthy load times I'm not running into much in the way of technical issues.

Cadillac is going to be pissed that Ferrari stole their tail fins.

In fairness, dry clutches only rattle like that when the clutch is released and there is no load on the drivetrain (i.e. the transmission is in neutral). Also, from the factory Ducati typically puts a (solid magnesium, in their nicer bikes) cover over the clutch that mutes most of the noise. Still, I suppose removing…