The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I work on vehicles/equipment that are 30-50 years old that are much more reliable than the vehicles of the past 20 years.

    I think you’re confusing durability for reliability here.

    30-50 year old vehicles will go forever, but usually need small repairs fairly often. Modern vehicles will do 200k-300k km with no problems, and then everything bad starts happening, because it’s not like anyone maintains them.

    So the 30-50 year old ones are more durable, but the newer ones are more reliable. Until they’ve reached the end of their useful life, that is.

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      1 year ago

      There’s also survivorship bias. All the crapily designed cars from 30-50 years ago are long scraped while some of the well designed ones are still around. With “current” cars you see the whole spectrum.