Onomatopoeia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

The help file shows it using a variable for the file name.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They're not strangers, to each other, or to their constituency.

If you don't know your local government, that's on you. They're people from your local community.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'll give you three fiddy

(Gotta admit, ya asked for it!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Since 2018!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, so at first I downvote you, but waited to read it all before navigating away.

That downvote is now an upvote for the ride you took us on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not really.

It depends on a number of factors, including your local conditions, how much you drive, where you drive, etc.

I have a vehicle that gets driven perhaps once a week. No way in hell I'm putting the excellent winter-rated tires on that. It's fine with less expensive ones. It never goes faster than 45 (and that's pushing it) because it's only for city driving. It almost never drives in the snow (because we get it so infrequently through a winter), so the winter rating is for a just-in-case. Even if it had to go in snow, I've never driven a vehicle like it in snow, and I've driven a LOT of vehicles in winters worse than I get now.

I'm also not paying $2000 for an extra set of wheels to swap out seasonally, or paying to have them remounted/rebalanced seasonally.

Everyone's risk situation is different.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

I thought the only smart move was to not play?

Oh, wait, that's Global Thermonuclear War.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Because we only get 80 years on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Hahahaha, love it.

I have some cheap hi power magnifiers for close work.

Have you tried some of the online shops like Zenni? They were half the cost of going to an optical shop, with the same features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Interesting, a vacuum solenoid.

I'd guess it's defective if removing it resolves issues. When you remove it, do you cap the lines?

Places like autozone should have a vacuum pump to test it. It's probably a simple switch that closes or opens with vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Doh! Sure would.

Shouldn't be too hard to replace, make sure to find a really good insulator replacement (just in case) and wire tie them to the body away from the exhaust.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

So Lineage on an old phone will easily go 5 days without charging.

If I were to disable a bunch of stuff, and force low battery mode (or lowest possible with location sharing still working) it would probably go longer, closer to 8.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Totally off the wall question, which I realize probably isn't very meaningful, but I was watching a movie where a character was using a suppressed rifle. Looked like an AR/.223 (I assume).

Well it got me thinking - how much can a given gun be suppressed (decibel reduction) before performance is significantly reduced (I assume it must impact performance, even if just a little since it's attenuating sound waves, which are energy, but what do I know?).

I'm sure it varies by round/load, barrel length, etc, so let's assume a subsonic .223 round in a 14" barrel (is that a common lenth?). Or if you know a specific case that's fine too.

Surely there are reasons why a given suppressor is chosen for a specific use case, and I don't know enough to see that (diminishing returns for length/weight?)

I tried asking chatgpt, but it just returned generic suppressor info.

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