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偷走我的 914 之前，你该知道的几件事
A few things to know before stealing my 914
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这是一篇以“偷车前须知”为切入的幽默随笔，作者细数自己那辆保时捷914的种种古怪脾气、启动方式和机械缺陷，仿佛在劝退偷车贼，实则在炫耀并表白这辆老车。文中充满对化油器、电喷系统等细节的硬核描写，即使不懂车也能被其文风吸引。
为什么经久不衰：它把冷门老车的机械细节写得妙趣横生，幽默中透着对车的深情，所以多年后仍被反复分享。
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分享高中时复活一辆914的难忘经历，与文章呼应。
高中时，我和朋友们设法复活了一辆在车库里搁了十多年的914。我们用皮卡把它拖到山顶，等有了一定速度后尝试推车启动。我们谁都没指望能成功（尤其是坐在驾驶座上的我），但神奇的是它居然着了。一个朋友跑步跟上，在我努力让车别熄火时跳了进去，我们绕着街区飙了几圈。不久后我们熄了火，就再也发动不起来了。谢谢你勾起这段回忆。好文章。
blastro查看英文原文
In high school, my friends and I managed to resuscitate a 914 that had been stowed away in a garage for over a decade. We towed it to the top of a hill with a pickup truck and attempted a clutch start after we'd picked up some speed. None of us (especially me in the driver's seat) expected this to work, but amazingly it fired right up. One of my friends managed to jog alongside and jump into the car as I tried to keep it puttering along, and we ripped a few laps around the neighborhood. Soonafter, we stopped the engine and were never able to get it started again. Thanks for bringing up this memory. Cool article.
即使对车毫无兴趣，也会被作者的专业深度和独特文风吸引。
这是我最喜欢的写作风格之一。我完全不知道这个人在说什么，对车也毫无兴趣，却读完了每一个字。我喜欢那种对某件事有极深了解的人，能写出如此独特而周到的文章。这让我想起《厨房机密》《别闹了，费曼先生》，或者大卫·米切尔任何关于英国政治的吐槽。
gkoberger查看英文原文
This is one of my favorite styles of writing. I have absolutely no clue what this person is talking about and have no interest in cars, yet I read every single word. I love when people have such a deep knowledge of something that they can write an essay as unique and thoughtful as this. It reminds me of Kitchen Confidential, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman!, or any rant about British politics by David Mitchell.
用Web应用太不稳定反而难以利用来类比老车靠毛病多“防盗”，幽默贴切。
这个故事让我想起我参加漏洞赏金计划时试图利用一个Web应用的事。不幸的是，这个应用太不稳定了，任何SQL注入尝试，或者说任何畸形的请求，都会让整个网站崩溃数小时，大概要等管理员来重启服务器。DoS不在赏金范围内，所以我一直没拿到奖金。我确信它本来可以被利用，但它实在太摇摇晃晃、粗制滥造，我根本搞不清怎么弄。靠不稳定来保证安全？
cameronh90查看英文原文
This story reminded me of the time I was trying to exploit a web app as part of a bounty programme. Unfortunately the application was so unstable that any attempts to SQLI, or really send any kind of malformed request would simply crash the entire site for hours, presumably until an admin came and restarted the server. DoS wasn't included in the programme so I never won a bounty. I'm sure it could have been exploited, but it was simply so rickety and shoddy that I couldn't figure out how. Security through instability?
补充914的机械背景：化油器是为避开难修的早期电喷而做的改装，且维修位置极其刁钻。
> 双Weber化油器没有阻风门，你得用加速泵往化油器筒里喷油，完成必要的启动预注。讲究工程纯粹性的人会想知道，Weber其实是改装件，是为了逃离原厂那套——70年代还算前沿！——大众电子燃油喷射的权宜之计。那套EFI“大脑”是个现代小型笔记本电脑大小的盒子，塞满了分立晶体管、电感、电容和电阻。当时北美似乎没人知道如何诊断其内部故障。车主的选择要么是从报废车上拆一个二手大脑（多半是因为别的原因才在那儿），要么改Weber。报废车的大脑可退，但安装、测试、可能还要拆下来的几个小时不可退，所以得仔细斟酌。要够到那个大脑，就像914发动机舱的大多数活儿一样，需要大型动物兽医般的敏捷、力量和决心；大多数操作都得从下面伸手，因为它被卡在座椅下方和后方、后备箱与变速箱前方的一个三角形缝隙里。
everybodyknows查看英文原文
> The dual Webers don’t have chokes and you’ll be squirting fuel down the barrels with the accelerator pumps for the necessary priming regime. The engineering Puritan will want to know that the Webers are a retrofit, a hack for escape from the factory's refractory -- but cutting edge tech in the 70s! -- VW electronic fuel injection. The EFI "brain" was a box the size of a small modern laptop, stuffed with individual transistors, inductors, capacitors and resistors. No one in North America, it seemed, had any idea how to diagnose an internal fault. The owner's options were to buy a secondhand brain taken from a junked car, presumably there for some other reason, or the Webers. Junkyard brains were refundable, but the several hours installing, testing, and possibly uninstalling were not, so careful deliberation was in order. Access to the brain, like most engine compartment work on the 914, demanded the sort of agility, strength, and determination required of large-animal veterinarians, with access for most tasks from underneath, wedged as it was in a sort of triangular gap below and behind the seats and ahead of the rear trunk and transmission.
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