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by sbaiddn 4y ago
How about the OEM who abandoned their million dollar equipment so you cant replace the XT even if you wanted?
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
In grad school (07-13) at a top 10 engineering school world wide some of the fanciest equipment in the department (microscopes?) ran connected to windows 3.1 machine. The facilities manager kept spare parts in the closet. The manufacturer h
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Its impossible - imagine the basement is the hold of a ship with holes below the water line the size of doors. You'd need a jet to pump the required water. The only technical "solution" would be to build a barrier higher tha
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
That lady is dirt poor clinging onto the meagre rent of a very insignificant asset. I guarantee her entire life, including as a "landlord", has been certainly tougher than mine, but probably yours and 99% of the people on this for
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Youve added a pretty sophisticated complication to that engine. What happens if the O2 sensor fails in flight? Also, I dont know that you want to increase the compression on the hot cylinder. If anything Id run rich to make sure it doesnt k
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Yes, Yugo and Albania broke from the Soviet sphere early in the 1950s. Look Im not saying Albania was a swell place to be in 1950. It sucked. Commies are terrible terrible people. But the relations in the Eastern block were far more nuanced
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Reagan did a lot of things wrong, but he understood one thing better than anyone in DC - nuclear war cannot be won. With this conviction he was able to defuse tensions. He was a great, if flawed, president (and as a Latino, Im on the recei
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
What US interests are served (thats all of NATO, really) antagonizing Russia over Latvia? And NATO's "peaceful resolution" of European conflict is bunk - ask the Cypriots or the Greeks how NATO tampers Turkish ambitions.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
The Cold war wasnt cold. Not in Asia, Africa or Latin America.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I thought there was a non general secretary head of state before Stalin made the secretary the top post. I can recall what it was called though
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
NATO is voluntary? Please! Gladio, P2 in Europe, the Greek civil war and coups in Turkey beg to differ. The post war equilibrium was decided in Yalta explicitly defining how Europe would be split with zero input from continental Europeans
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Ya, 20 years of war and a loss and the West still doesn't know the basics of Afghan history. We think we fared better than the Soviets did.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
This happened to my sister. She dislocated her right shoulder and among her friends: - Two didnt know how to drive - One didnt know how to drive stick - the guy who ended up driving her to the hospital, didn't have a drivers license. I
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
I had a 2011 3.0 V6 Ford Ranger with 4X4 with a 5 speed manual. $20 000 new. Manual locks Manual windows. In 2015, when my first kid was born, I traded it in for my SUV. Got my 20k back for it. Every time I see a Ranger, my heart aches
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They are also incredibly frustrating to drive unless they have a massive engine with plenty of torque. Honestly, how have automatics gotten worse in the past ten years?
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
On the Ranger you learned to perfect the heel- toe within a few thousand miles . The funnest was uphill on snow from a dead stop with no weight on the bed. Luckily my truck had 4x4
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My Ranger had a foot emergency break
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Aint it great when that heel toe the shifter slips in with no resistance and the de-clutching didnt affect the engine at all? Perfect engine speed match. Perfect syncro match. The apex of the curve behind you and full throttle ahead
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
You haven't driven much in Spain recently, Id gather. The industry is going towards 10 speed autos for heavier cars and CVTs for light ones. Cheap hybrids get CVTs, good ones eCVTs (actually a differential couples to a couple of motors
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Rental fleets are so bad now, the first thing I do is figure out how to manually operate the tranny. Then Ill downshift 15 seconds before needing the power. I recently had a car with "10" speeds (it was actually a CVT) and to get
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Just to clarify: Shipping fuel is a filthy byproduct no one really wants. Some of it can be cracked to other products but, in the end, if it ain't burned on ships it will be just burned onshore, probably a third world country, in whate
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
This isn't good for their bottom line. The efficiency of batteries is comparable to shipping oil at best, and electricity is rather expensive while shipping oil is almost free. Shipping oil is filthy, dirty, hard to use. To a good appr
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
"But since even the most efficient internal combustion ship engines are no more than 50% efficient, a [...]" But how efficient are the coal, nuclear, or natural gas needed to charge the batteries? At best 60%? Was it mid 20s or mi
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Another "Europeana are racist ergo Mercator". The Mercator projection is popular for one very important reason: ease of navigation [1]. If you know nothing but your location on Earth you can sail, walk, fly, paddle wherever you wa
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
TL/DR, but far field diffraction is the Fourier transform of the aperture (the math is straightforward enough, an integral of an exp). It blew my mind when I did in school, yet... there was the proof that it worked!
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
Read the Talmud. Then proceed to read the Church Fathers through to the scholastics. Add Justinian for good measure. The roots of (real) liberalism are all there in these largely theological treatises including the inalienable right of the