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enotnert posted:he asked me what the music was coming from, cause he's fuckin 7 and literally had never seen music being played from something not a phone. buy your poor friend a goddamn stereo already
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atomicthumbs posted:buy your poor friend a goddamn stereo already then how will i afford my synthesizer addiction?
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epipen posted:yeah, be nice to understand why i guess this is yospos, everyone here has either some sort of mild-to-severe mental illness or persistent learning disability, me included
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Robot Pride posted:the downside is that you will have an unquenchable appetite and people with even somewhat tenuous self discipline instantly balloon up in weight lol the first time i took one i ate an entire loaf of bread worth of toast and a 12" shepherds pie
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fishmech posted:This is wrong as hell. yeah the only reason classic cars are on the road today at all is *a fucktonne of work* - oil changed and carbs tuned every season, new bushings every couple years, you'll probably notice they're almost all the standard v8 engines ford and GM used for loving everything - t-birds and mustangs and poo poo came with 6 cylinder engines, too, there's just fuckall parts for them because the engines weren't also used in trucks, buses, etc modern cars' bushings last about a decade, oil lasts ages (dont skip oil changes tho) and don't need to change the oil for winter, by using MAFs/AFMs/etc the ECU doesn't need to be retuned for different seasons and altitudes, etc also you probably can fix your LCD tv, the most common points of failure are still the transformers and caps, it's just a pain to get them open and the parts probably cost more than a new tv really, in any device at this point the most common point of failure is likely to be the power supply Notorious b.s.d. posted:yeah non-rich mental health cases are chased out of here at a furious pace, because we are all such dignified individuals, our garden-variety anxiety and depression and dysmorphia can't be viewed through the same lens as the toiling classes lmao, do IT students count? enotnert posted:on that vice motherboard thing. . . all i gotta say is I have a user making "HIGH END SCIENTIFIC MACHINES" with those loving gamer motherboards (his are by gigabyte) this is adorable also the right angle sata ports are, ostensibly, to keep cables out of the airflow, and to facilitate routing them thru cable management holes in the case i guess. i mostly find they're just a pain in the arse but virtually every board has them, and it saves on some board space if you're going to have a whole tonne of sata ports atomicthumbs posted:this is yospos, everyone here has either some sort of mild-to-severe mental illness or persistent learning disability, me included fuckin' same
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friend of mine had a 1928 buick and the manual said "have your man adjust the spark gap every 500 miles". because there was so much maintenance you had to had a dedicated full time manservant to drive you around in it and keep it running he also had a mode A ford. didn't need oil changes, which sounds better than todays cars but then you read the manual and see that it had no oil pan - it just dumped oil out onto the ground and you put new oil in every 500 miles. the manual actually said this was a feature because it helped keep dirt roads from getting too dusty. modern things are a lot more reliable and low maintenance. a new car will go 7500-10,000 miles without even an oil change, just gas, and it won't have a carb that needs to be adjusted when the humidity changes and other poo poo like that that we forget about today. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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reminds me of a coloring book i had when i was a child. it had some cool and completely impractical/impossible concept planes in it. i can only find small pics of it tho. here they are.        
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upgrading pc parts is fun but it comes at a cost - the standard form factor - that limits how small and light you can make things. also computers really only last 4-6 years tops before you start to feel the need for more speed.
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yeah looking at super old cars you can see why early electric cars were actually competitive for a while even though they were lovely heavy rear end bullshit full of lead-acid batteries or why steam engine cars lasted as long as they did even though you needed to fill the water tank before every trip and start it 10 minutes before you actually wanted to go anywhere to give the boiler time to warm up
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meanwhile i just put gas into my 98 toyota every once in a while and take for granted that it will take me however far i need to go, whenever i want, and that it'll probably last for another ten years with minimal maintenance
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C.H.O.M.E posted:friend of mine had a 1928 buick and the manual said "have your man adjust the spark gap every 500 miles". because there was so much maintenance you had to had a dedicated full time manservant to drive you around in it and keep it running modern cars own
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we will likely never surpass the energy density of gasoline with battery technology and by 'surpass' I mean like "get within 1/100th the energy density"
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i have a friend who worked at the henry ford museum when he was in college, as a guide and driver of the old model Ts that you can get a ride in he said that at least once a day there'd be some cocky guy who'd be like "hey, can i drive it? i'm a real good driver" and nag him about it, so after a while he'd let in and go "alright, sure, slide on over" and then just smugly grin as the guy would sit down, put his hands on the wheel, pause for a second, and go "....uh....i....uhm....how do..." quote:The Model T's transmission was controlled with three foot pedals and a lever that was mounted to the road side of the driver's seat. The throttle was controlled with a lever on the steering wheel. The left pedal was used to engage the gear. With the floor lever in either the mid position or fully forward and the pedal pressed and held forward the car entered low gear. When held in an intermediate position the car was in neutral. If the driver took his foot off the left pedal, the Model T entered high gear, but only when the lever was fully forward – in any other position the pedal would only move up as far as the central neutral position. This allowed the car to be held in neutral while the driver cranked the engine by hand. The car could thus cruise without the driver having to press any of the pedals. There was no separate clutch pedal.
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Moist von Lipwig posted:we will likely never surpass the energy density of gasoline with battery technology yeah but it doesn't actually need to, it just needs to make a car go 300+ miles and charge in 10 minutes.
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Moist von Lipwig posted:we will likely never surpass the energy density of gasoline with battery technology yea. liquid fuels are far and away the most convenient and powerful way of storing energy we've got, and gasoline is the queen of liquid fuels imo battery-electric cars are a stopgap for the next twenty years or so until someone invents an efficient direct-methanol fuel cell and bioengineers a good way of getting cellulosic alcohol...then we'll just switch right back to trucking liquid fuel and pumping it into tanks, with neutral carbon debt and twice the efficiency
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Sagebrush posted:i have a friend who worked at the henry ford museum when he was in college, as a guide and driver of the old model Ts that you can get a ride in yeah i was a pro too until i got in the buick and was like me: "what is this lever on the steering wheel hub?" him: "that adjusts spark timing" me: "i'm out" also the model A had to go up steep hills backwards to keep the gas tank (also the dashboard) above the engine. driving a model t sounds about as complicated as that silent movie piano guy pulling all the levers. hit it joe! <me stalls immediately>
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Sagebrush posted:yea. liquid fuels are far and away the most convenient and powerful way of storing energy we've got, and gasoline is the queen of liquid fuels another possibility: cheap electricity (from renewables) + water = hydrogen fuel
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Moist von Lipwig posted:we will likely never surpass the energy density of gasoline with battery technology even if you have to cart around your own oxygen it's still worth it gently caress even if you have to bring the oxygen and gasoline all the way from earth to, like, mars, it would still be worth considering having a gas engine in your rover
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also let's get to work on those nuclear isomer batteries already i want the full on science fiction "damaged phaser power pack melts down and vaporizes entire city block" effect
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i propose that, for fuel, we figure out what the sun is made of and then bottle that.
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duTrieux. posted:i propose that, for fuel, we figure out what the sun is made of and then bottle that. what the gently caress do you think sun chips are dumbass
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duTrieux. posted:i propose that, for fuel, we figure out what the sun is made of and then bottle that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW55cViXu6s
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FMguru posted:algal biodiesel is a ways off but it will get here eventually it doesn't even have to be electricity, i remember like 13 years ago hearing about some way to design nuclear power plants in such a way that some of the excess heat could be used to generate hydrogen given a sufficient energy surplus, would it be possible to just synthesize gasoline with carbon from the atmosphere?
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ol qwerty bastard posted:or why steam engine cars lasted as long as they did even though you needed to fill the water tank before every trip and start it 10 minutes before you actually wanted to go anywhere to give the boiler time to warm up you say this and yet my neighbors with gasoline fueled trucks will run their engines for > 10 minutes just to warm them up it fills me with liquid hatred
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back when the wright brothers were working on gliders there were basically two schools of thought w/r/t how to go about making a plane the first school was guys who figured that you could just load up your plane with propellers and fans and poo poo without a lot of thought towards aerodynamics. they wanted to just plow through the air like the airplane was a big truck, and they were known as "chauffeurs". the second school was guys who thought it was more important to make carefully-balanced aerodynamic shapes and have a really good handle on maneuvering, pretty much to work with the principles of aerodynamics instead of trying to make them your bitch. the guys were called "airmen". anyways the wright brothers were airmen and it worked out pretty well for them, while the dude who drew that picture was a gigantic chauffeur fanboy.
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Elder Postsman posted:reminds me of a coloring book i had when i was a child. it had some cool and completely impractical/impossible concept planes in it. i can only find small pics of it tho. here they are. Glorgnole posted:back when the wright brothers were working on gliders there were basically two schools of thought w/r/t how to go about making a plane these posts are great
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Moist von Lipwig posted:seroquel owns i was on olanzipine b4 and switching to seroquel was like like breathing
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reminds me of that east german inventor dude karl hans janke who was locked up in a gdr asylum http://tinyurl.com/jkdr2ce
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Breakfast All Day posted:what the gently caress do you think sun chips are dumbass You can't use those for fuel because they're frozen, moron. Ever touched one?
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Breakfast All Day posted:what the gently caress do you think sun chips are dumbass
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Elder Postsman posted:reminds me of a coloring book i had when i was a child. it had some cool and completely impractical/impossible concept planes in it. i can only find small pics of it tho. here they are. Glorgnole posted:back when the wright brothers were working on gliders there were basically two schools of thought w/r/t how to go about making a plane duTrieux. posted:these posts are great
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Moist von Lipwig posted:seroquel owns as a sedative or what do you like about it
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Robot Pride posted:it's hosed up that i can actually hear the recorder sound when i am reading those "notes" yeah? I dispense a shitload of it and no one really describes it as good. what kind of dose does that to ya I knew one girl that would wake up with half eaten food in her mouth coz of the appetite it gave her
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Sagebrush posted:here's a hot take  modern peoples are very good at driving until something goes wrong but have no idea whatsoever how a car actually works or anything you can do to fix it
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gabapentin is probably the best drug I have ever tried that actually allows you to function
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my favourite are the old engines where you could manually advance the valve timing from the driver's/pilot's seat like VTEC, but far more likely to open a window in the block i just paid $40 for a script of melatonin, loving kill me
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echinopsis posted:gabapentin is probably the best drug I have ever tried that actually allows you to function apparently scouse speed freaks like it a bunch, or so I am told
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echinopsis posted:yeah? I dispense a shitload of it and no one really describes it as good. what kind of dose does that to ya 100mg with no tolerance will get you pretty stoned followed by coma-like hibernation that will be amazing and when i say stoned i really mean stoned. expect to sleep at least 10 hours and you will def still be quite a bit stoned and happy when you wake up i loving guarantee it and if you are used to it control yourself and don't eat after you drop it because it fucks with your ability to swallow. it takes about 10-15 minutes to grab you by the rear end once you eat it if you are unfortunate enough to live in america and not have insurance the poo poo will cost you about $300 per month which is relatively cheap for a respectable drug habit. just like rushing it with coke like in the link i posted it really pairs well with most stimulants and i spent many nights lifted on it while dipping kodiak epipen posted:i just paid $40 for a script of melatonin, loving kill me wow, that is a pretty shameful hustle
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