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[–] [email protected] 3 points 57 minutes ago (2 children)

I haven't looked at a diagram for that car, so my thoughts will be generic.

Let's start with the codes. I'll run a non-boosted engine with O2 codes, because the worst it'll do is maybe run a little rich. With a turbo car, you're playing with fire (depending on the system design). It should default to limp mode, but extra fuel in a turbo engine can be a bad thing as detonation is even more likely (though lean is far worse).

Without perusing the diagrams for that engine, pI suspect disconnecting that solenoid somehow forces the computer to use a default mix setting.

Do we know if that solenoid is really a solenoid, or actually a sensor (manufacturers sometimes use those terms interchangeably). Or does the computer sense the current demand or position of that solenoid?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Sounds like a load of fun.

I sure like wasting my time with someone who I know would dislike something essential about me.

But hey, you go sis, stick it to the man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Wow, very cool.

Certainly there exists a system(s) that takes input from every kind of existing signal (cell, loran, vhf, ham, gmrs, etc), and can locate based on those?

Location capability from cell alone is pretty accurate, even on phones today (since we have pretty good info on tower location and signal strength).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Just get progressives, otherwise you just look like an old fart pulling out your readers all the time.

My first progressives had near-zero distance correction, because that was as low as you could do at the time. At least I stopped having to carry glasses, they just stayed on my head.

Edit: It's a brilliant concept though. Great idea for people who only occasionally need readers. Or as a "hot spare".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I'd start with understanding there is empathy, and sympathy - one means to feel what another feels, one means to intellectual understand what another feels.

You'll find theres not a clear agreement on which meaning is assigned to which word - I use empathy to mean "understand what another feels" and sympathy to mean "feel what another feels".

So from my definitions, empathy is an intellectual function, while sympathy is an emotional response.

My understanding is ASPD (and some other disorders) have difficulty with sympathy, but since empathy is the intellectual process it's "easier" to develop/practice. Then you can work on emulating sympathy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Keep in mind the difference between empathy and sympathy.

One means to feel what another feels, the other means to understand what another feels

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Not really, no - entropy is one-way at the macro scale.

The flour absorbed water, and combined with kneading, produced gluten (and was baked, causing more chemical changes).

Grinding it all up wouldn't reverse that process - it would just be ground up bread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Hahahaha, I snorted. Enjoy your upvote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I flew for work for years, when they treated you half decently.

Fuck that anymore, I'll drive. An elderly family member died last year - I drove 24 hours rather than fly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And terrifying.

Amazing shot.

(For those not in the loop, storms in a place like that bring high winds and torrential downpours, making for flash floods).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Now flammable and inflammable...

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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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