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by tsomctl 5y ago
Cutting round things in a saw can be dangerous if they aren't clamped correctly: they can spin. (Don't know of a link, this was taught to me at community college in the context of cutting round metal stock in a band saw.)
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I stuck a table knife into the outlet when I was little. I only did it because everyone kept telling me not to. I have this memory of it jumping out at me, I'm genuinely curious if I actually touched the hot side or it's just my i
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by tsomctl 5y ago
The federal government had super strict emission laws for vehicles starting in the 70s. This was before computers were cheap and reliable enough to stick in average vehicles, so the way automotive engineers got it to work was to have vacuum
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Every time I restart Windows 10, I get a full screen prompt wanting me to create an online account, with a tiny little button to "remind me in 3 days". This is why I will never fucking do it.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
As a nerd, and a huge Pink Floyd fan, I'm embarrassed to say I never really paid attention to those noises.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I have a neighbor with a car with no muffler. Half the neighborhood just signed a letter to his landlord with our complaint. It's pretty impressive to have an entire page full of signatures, each one completely different. It went from
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I never realized how bad Jalopnik is without adblocker. I could feel my phone get significantly hotter.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I live a couple hours north of San Francisco, about a mile from the ocean. There is pretty much always a prevailing ocean breeze. Last summer, about 10 in the morning, I walked out on my lawn, and couldn't believe how hot it was. There
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Having experienced both, I'd prefer to have COVID. The only reason why I'd take SSRI's for COVID is to prevent the multi month recovery of symptoms.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I've watched a number of his videos. He has a hobby of finding old CRT TV's and "resurrecting" them (basically replacing the minimum amount of parts to get them working, the focus being on the diagnosing part). Here&#x27
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Even if you rarely use the brakes, seems to me like a good idea to keep them functional. And based on my experience working on old, worn out shit, the less something is used, the more likely it is to get corroded or gunked up and not work.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Modern calipers have slide pins that they move on (so that you only need pistons on one side). These can freeze up, and your brake pads won't wear evenly. By the time it starts screeching, the friction material is gone, the steel backi
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I always thought it was supposed to be a woman orgasming. The last song, Eclipse, is about death. edit: > She was Alan Parsons' idea. We wanted to put a girl on there, screaming orgasmically. (David Gilmour)
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Or U-Haul
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by tsomctl 5y ago
In the eighties and nineties, BMW and Mercedes spent a huge amount of money on researching how to lay out car interiors. The idea being, a car with easy to read displays and easy to use controls is going to be safer. Although, TBH, I think
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Go read up on the three plate method to manufacture surface plates.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Queue the machinists shuddering at the polishing compound sitting on the table of the vertical mill.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
> The company dissolved its press office and doesn’t usually respond to media inquiries, however. Well, that's one way to solve the problem.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Roll. It's the fastest way to move under a house (I'm a plumber/electrician).
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by tsomctl 5y ago
I think the main concern is breathing in lead dust. Also, since it's so soft, it rubs off easily and can contaminate other things. I've worked with lead, and my bright orange gloves were black with lead pretty quickly.
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by tsomctl 5y ago
Uh, no. There's a ton of dedicated integrated circuits that are highly optimized for one specific task, and which contain everything you need. For example, an ABS module is going to contain something like the L9396, which does signal c
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by tsomctl 6y ago
Jalopnik has it's fair share of memes and repetitive in-jokes (BMW blinkers, Mustangs hopping curbs). But there are are also some pretty insightful and knowledgeable threads. I've seen a couple of technical comments on certain veh
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by tsomctl 6y ago
improved link: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu...
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by tsomctl 6y ago
By swallowing a valve, he means one of the valves that lets air into the cylinder, or exhaust out, snapped off. So you no longer have that cylinder working, plus you have the valve rattling around against the piston that's still moving
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by tsomctl 6y ago
Hi there. I have social anxiety. There's a fucking huge difference between performing in front of someone more important in a job interview compared to talking to peers in a casual setting.
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by tsomctl 6y ago
Hate to break it to you, but a zener diode on your ECM can fail short, which burns up the pcb trace for the power. And the ECM is glued together, and it's ridiculously hard to open up without damaging it further, and it has a flexible
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by tsomctl 6y ago
Most modern vehicles are repairable at the corner garage, it just takes being a computer nerd and several thousand dollars in tools. You have to buy a scanner to read the codes and watch the live data (basically as an oscilloscope). If you
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by tsomctl 6y ago
How about making it legal to import spores, just like most other states? https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_law8.shtml
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by tsomctl 6y ago
Modern automatics are smart enough to downshift when coasting down a steep hill. I've driven a Duramax with the Allison up and down mountains. Absolutely amazing. You just slightly touch the brake pedal, and it downshifts and the exhau
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by tsomctl 6y ago
I'm running a Thinkpad T530 with Intel graphics. Ram is maxxed out, I have a SSD, and I upgraded the screen to 1920x1080. It's more responsive than most other computers that I use. The only thing it struggles with is playing HD Yo

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