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by wmoser 7y ago
Well, the old way to do it is to use sea water flushing which leads to its own problems over the life of the ship with pipes corroding. New(ish) environmental regulations dictate that you can't just flush everything overboard anymore,
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by wmoser 7y ago
You’ll have to excuse me because I’m not in front of a windows computer right now, but if you open excel first, there is a data tab on the ribbon and an import data wizard or something like that and you can tell it what the delimiter is. Yo
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by wmoser 7y ago
Again, not necessarily a work around, but you might check with your local library in the US. Our library gives us access to online NYT.
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by wmoser 7y ago
The pumps are probably pretty large just so it doesn’t take that long. It’s more of a large volume of water problem than a push it forcefully problem if that makes any sense. There’s something called hydraulic head or pump head that determi
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by wmoser 7y ago
But also easier to order. I've taken more than one waiter outside and pointed at the plastic food.
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by wmoser 8y ago
This is sort of incorrect, it is possible to flag a foreign built ship under the American flag, it just isn’t eligible for Jones Act trade. There are a few reasons why a company might want to do this but for the most part, companies will ch
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by wmoser 8y ago
You are both sort of correct. A foreign built ship can be us flagged, it just isn’t eligible for Jones act trade. I am a US Merchant Mariner who has worked on a US flagged, Australian built ship in Asia. There aware other considerations be
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by wmoser 8y ago
I believe RADAR was a technology that was honed during the war that had a significant impact. They had experimental RADAR before Pearl Harbor but thought it was a glitch when they saw the Japanese approaching. I’m pretty sure later the newe
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by wmoser 8y ago
I wasn’t very clear, if the NaK is liquid it could flow through a radiator and could still be considered air cooled. While there are some pure air cooled engines, lawn mowers, motor cycles, etc. A typical car engine is also considered air c
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by wmoser 8y ago
Probably a giant radiator. Lots of equipment that is “air cooled” has an intermediary coolant that is actually cooled by air over a heat exchanger (radiator).
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by wmoser 8y ago
I just use it to turn my caps-lock key into an esc since I’ve been using vim as my go to text editor.
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by wmoser 9y ago
I work on an offshore oil rig and have to undergo Helicopter Underwater Egress Training (HUET) every 3 to 4 years. They tell us to wait until the "violent motion has stopped." I think it's so you don't get thrown aroun
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by wmoser 9y ago
All the figures are at the back of the book, if you happen to start reading and were wondering where all the pictures they were referencing were.
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by wmoser 9y ago
For those of you that enjoyed the site, you might enjoy this one as well. It was the first thing I thought of when reading the description of the McMansion Hell website: http://blog.buildllc.com/2010/04/couch-cush
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by wmoser 9y ago
I'm going to preface this by saying I don't know much about aeronautics engineering but I am familiar with another niche engineering industry, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Another avenue to consider is to find out wh
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by wmoser 9y ago
Profession: Electronics Technician on an ultra-deep water drill ship. Full Time- Rotational 28 Days On - 28 Days Off [0430] Alarm goes off. [0500] Call wife before work. [0530] Morning meeting with all departments to find out plan for the d
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by wmoser 10y ago
They are also used quite a lot in building trades or wood working or machining. Pitch of roofs are often given as a ratio, tapers on machinery shafts, making sure your pipes have sufficient slope to drain properly. Another construction exa
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by wmoser 10y ago
The last few books I've read I heard interviews with the author or discussed on NPR. Everything else is technical manuals or books on computer things I am trying to learn. Those are normally what I pick up from OReilly or No Starch or
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by wmoser 11y ago
When I was in HS some of my classmates got in trouble for something similar. In MS word there is a dictionary that can be edited for the auto-correct. Example changes teh -> the, etc. You can put a name or common word as the common missp
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by wmoser 11y ago
While it's somewhat small, I always try to stop by the MIT Press store in Cambridge MA if I'm headed through the area.
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by wmoser 11y ago
I haven't had any problems with spotlight on Mac, in fact I've come to rely on it at work. For searching PDFs of wiring drawings, I can put in a cable tag and it will come back with the documents it found it in. I open them in pre
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by wmoser 11y ago
Not if you get good generators and the systems on standby. On an oil rig our engines always have their lube oil prelube running and heaters on. We can go from blackout to online in under a minute. Like most other things it's an engine
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by wmoser 11y ago
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. Mechanical equipment lifespan normally follows a well curve. Premature failures from manufacturing defects and improper component installation or commissioning taper off to a period where there
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by wmoser 12y ago
You would think so, but having worked on a ship built at SHI there is still a lot of installing part c, cutting it out, installing A, D, and L and then reinstalling C.
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by wmoser 13y ago
Make magazine had a cover story about how to make one a few issues ago. http://makezine.com/video/nuclear-fusor-star-in-a-jar/
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by wmoser 13y ago
I've taken numerous (1 EPA, 2 FCC, 16 USCG) government administered tests and they are all have these poorly written, blatantly wrong answers. Fortunately, with larger question pools and more questions on a test it doesn't throw y
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by wmoser 13y ago
Japan
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by wmoser 13y ago
I agree. The nature of my work is very cyclic. I would love to be able to work on courses during down time and put them on hold during busy periods. A coursera course that I was taking is just finishing up now and a few weeks ago work was b
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by wmoser 13y ago
There are a lot of people looking at fuel efficiency as well as carbon/sox/nox emmissions. For the companies running ships, the more efficient the plant is, the more money they save on fuel. About ten years ago we did a rough back
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by wmoser 13y ago
Well to be fair, regardless of its suitability as a long term viable fuel source, it is nasty stuff. It's basically tar. It has to be kept heated to about 70c less it become to viscous and can't be pumped anymore and heated even m

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