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by jabl 2y ago
Ha, Running slirp in the ISP shell box was also how I first got beyond bbs'ed onto the wild west of the internet. Also getting online was one of my first motivations for using Linux, as the Trumpet winsock networking library for Window
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by jabl 2y ago
> My understanding of diesel ignition is somewhat informed by WWII-era triple-expansion steamships, which burned bunker fuel, that requiring a lot of heating (utilising spent steam) just to get it flowing toward the boiler, then again ge
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by jabl 2y ago
> What I was aware of was that early automobiles typically ran on what we'd now call "distillate", which were lighter fractions of petroleum, some just barely liquid (I don't know specific components), with a result t
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by jabl 2y ago
Well, per wikipedia: "On September 28, 2023, Capstone Green Energy declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy"
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by jabl 2y ago
> OTOH, they're so lightweight that they cannot sustain high compressions (hence anti-knock formulations, most notoriously with leaded fuels). Anti-knock capability of a fuel has very little to do with how "lightweight" th
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by jabl 2y ago
There are a couple companies working on 'cheap enough'(?) turbines in the GA size category. https://turb.aero/ (latest news is from March 2023, not sure the company is still afloat?) https://www.turbote
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by jabl 2y ago
Of course not, didn't mean to imply that. But the US seems to take it to 11.
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by jabl 2y ago
Parents driving kids to school and hobbies seem to be an almost uniquely American obsession. I live in an affluent not-USA country and my kids go to school and hobbies by walking/bike/bus. If I had to chauffeur them around all the
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by jabl 2y ago
It's spelled "slöjd", and yes, kids in Nordic countries do it in primary school (grades 1-9 or thereabouts). It's not only woodworking, often alternating with textile work (sewing, crocheting etc.), and towards the highe
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by jabl 2y ago
I've generally had success with openwrt upgrades, however when reading the release notes it seems my target has now converted from swconfig to DSA which means all configuration has to be done from scratch. Oh well, I didn't have t
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by jabl 2y ago
For Wifi, things with the ath9k was the gold standard for a while, though then Qualcomm bought Atheros, but supposedly the followup ath10k/11k/12k drivers are decent too. Mediatek MT76xx/79xx (mt76 driver) are also considered
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by jabl 2y ago
US shipbuilding was last competitive in the 19th century when building wooden ships. US yards were not capable of matching UK yards (the market leader at the time) on price, due to higher steel and labor costs. What the US WAS capable of an
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by jabl 2y ago
The argument I provided in the message starting this subthread that you answered, was to repeal the Jones Act COMBINED with enacting other subsidies and investment to revitalize US domestic shipbuilding and the maritime sector. Merely repea
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by jabl 2y ago
Yes. Or sort-of, at least. China is making serious military investments that seem targeted at achieving a capability to invade Taiwan while fending off US efforts to foil such an invasion. In contrast, I've seen no indication that the
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by jabl 2y ago
> China is #1, but Korea is #2, and Japan is #3 Yes, I know. > Is Japan a low-wage country? I never claimed that in my post. E.g. means "exempli gratia", or "for example". Thus the statement "shipyards in othe
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by jabl 2y ago
It seems an unintended side effect of the Jones act was to insulate the US shipbuilding industry from international competition, leading to them resting on their laurels while the rest of the industry worked hard to improve productivity (se
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by jabl 2y ago
Perhaps Xi Jinping and his henchmen should also look at a map? In case they have trouble understanding, here's a hint: Taiwan belongs to that large part of the globe which is "not China".
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by jabl 2y ago
Not always, but sometimes it does. Cavalry charges aren't a thing anymore, for instance.
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by jabl 2y ago
> The aircraft carrier does have a role, but it is far behind the contact line. That's why they're called 'aircraft carriers'. The entire point of them is that the offensive firepower in the form of aircraft can reach
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by jabl 2y ago
No, this is confused. Reentrancy ("reentrant-safe", or the somewhat related POSIX definition of async-signal-safe) and thread safety are not the same thing. A reentrant function is thread-safe, but a thread-safe function may or ma
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by jabl 2y ago
> A non-reentrant function cannot be thread safe. Actually, a non-reentrant function can be thread-safe. A common example of such a function in libc being malloc().
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by jabl 2y ago
> Christianity in particular is based on truth claims As opposed to...? I'm not aware of any major religion that openly admit their teaching is made up BS. All seem to claim to know "the truth".
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by jabl 2y ago
So how are you going to charge them then? Have the old Switch 1 lying around as a charging station?
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by jabl 2y ago
All my kids learned to bike on pedal-less balance bikes (or kickbikes or whatever you want to call them). We had "Puky LR" models, but there are others. By the time they were ready to switch to a real children's bike, didn&#x
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by jabl 2y ago
> Training wheels aim to maximise the utility of the bicycle (i.e. gears and pnumatic tyres) for a person of certain age, at the cost of learning how to actually ride a bike. I'm not sure this is actually true at all. Kids can go pr
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by jabl 2y ago
Perhaps they're betting that they will run their oil resources dry before world oil demand crashes? In such a scenario it might make sense to use the oil for export income instead of using it themselves?
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by jabl 2y ago
You could try "Sea of Words" by Dean King. It's pretty good. (Presumably the same Dean King mentioned in the linked article, FWIW.)
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by jabl 2y ago
What do you consider 'exact'? Approximate positions are drawn on nautical charts, so that ships don't accidentally go and try to anchor in the vicinity. Plenty accurate enough for a ship to 'accidentally' drop an an
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by jabl 2y ago
High-pressure water mist systems seem pretty good, including being usable in spaces with lots of electrical stuff like machine rooms and data centers. https://www.marioff.com/en/
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by jabl 2y ago
Engine rooms in ships typically have CO2 systems. There's been several fatalities when crew have reentered the space before the CO2 has been ventilated away. Made worse by CO2 being heavier than air so it can remain in some crawlspace

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