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I would like to point out the bears are themselves also naked. Bunch of hypocrites!

Not the waterline

From the official specs:

Wade Mode allows Cybertruck to enter and drive through bodies of water, such as rivers or creeks.

They say up to 31 inches, not sure that qualifies as a river, but sure whatever. The water in the picture doesn’t look like 31" where it’s at. Looks more like it sank in the mud and bottomed out. The Cybertruck has abysmal ground clearance as it’s designed to be as shit as possible in all circumstances.

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I had that exact AMD 486DX4 100mhz. It was awesome! It was on an older socket, where Intel was pushing people to go onto a new socket. But motherboards were super expensive back then and often you would need to do a memory upgrade as well. Then AMD came along with a 3x multiplier for a really good price. It gave my system a couple of extra years.

Later they did the same with the K6 series, where they pushed socket 7 systems to their absolute max. Those 550 mhz K6-III chips were super fast and cheap and you didn’t need to upgrade your entire system. And in my experience the 450 mhz models were much cheaper and could be overclocked to 550 mhz without any issue.

It’s all fun and games until your computer turns into a black hole because there is too much information in too little of a volume.

You might want to look into using some form of parameterized queries.

NASA gave SpaceX a bunch of money because they were developing Starship. It’s this super powerful super versatile do all launch system and platform to do a lot of stuff. With NASA being required to use and fund private companies for part of what they do, they put out the call for a bunch of missions. SpaceX said they could do it with Starship and do it for cheap, much cheaper than any other company. They also have an amazing track record with the Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule. At the same time other companies are either startups with pretty much nothing but a good idea. Or the old garde which were used to getting a bunch of government money to do very basic shit for way too high of a price. ULA and Boeing seriously dropped the ball lately.

It’s easy to shit on Musk and his bullshit. But there are some really talented people working at SpaceX and a lot of the stuff they do has been impressive.

As far as Starship goes, for now it’s still a total pipe dream. Nowhere close to being what they promised it will be. But the same was said for Falcon and they pulled that one off (eventually) with the block 5 Falcon 9 being one of the most reliable rockets ever made.

I was very critical of the Starship booster. The whole we have a whole bunch of engines concept isn’t a good idea in my book. Sure if one of them fails, or even a couple, you can still do the mission. And each engine can be simpler, smaller and easier to build. And take advantage of scale to build them faster and cheaper. This is why the Soviets tried this concept with their Moon missions back in the day. However the issue is, you need to be able to detect issues and shut down engines fast enough. All the engines are close together and when things go wrong, so much energy is involved it usually leads to shit flying places it should not. This means a single engine going wrong has the potential of throwing pieces of itself at great speed into other engines, control systems or fuel tanks. And a whole lot of engines means a whole lot of points of failures. It also makes things like pipe and cable routing much more complex. Monitoring and controlling is much more complicated as well. So it isn’t all upsides, there are significant downsides also.

However their testflights have seem to have shown the engines to be reliable. The monitoring to shut down engines in time when issues are detected. And a whole lot less big booms than I was expecting. Before hand I thought the thing would just explode every time. So I have to admit, they might have figured it out. Now a couple of testflights doesn’t mean it’s reliable enough, but at least it works some of the time.

There is however also a lot of BS, as usual when Musk is involved. NASA has figured SpaceX isn’t going to deliver in time or within budget. The booster might work, but Starship is still very much a dream at this point. Some other companies have since received money for missions which earlier were claimed by SpaceX. And I believe there are multiple lawsuits going on, claiming SpaceX just under bid to deny the contract to its competitors with no expectation of delivering.

Starship was an important part of the now canceled Moon missions. But before it was canceled a lot of folk didn’t think what SpaceX promised was viable. Even if they had Starship working the way they said they would have, their plan was never going to work. It relied on launching a Starship to orbit and then have it be refueled by other Starships. But after calculating how much fuel the thing lost while waiting in orbit and how much a single Starship could provide after using most of the fuel to get itself to the other ship, it turned out best case scenario you’d need a dozen launches. And these would need to be back to back, so no refurbishment time. And this assumed the booster would be lost or at the very least land in the ocean, no returning to base. With more realistic scenarios there would need to be many more launches. And keep in mind the Starship to Starship fueling hasn’t been done before and is extremely difficult.

But as always people believed all of the BS Musk has been spouting. And to be fair SpaceX does have an impressive resume. So the NASA folk were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Deny SpaceX, even though they had the best papers and the best price? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. Or grant them the contract, knowing there is a good chance SpaceX isn’t going to deliver. But the same can be said for all the other companies, many of which only had concepts and not the track record like SpaceX. And we’ve all seen how good Boeing is doing right now, that crew needed a ride home provided by either the Russians or SpaceX, total embarrassment.

Thanks, I actually finished 4th grade :)

I think it has gotten a lot better in the past 10 years, but there are still a lot of places where there is too much lead in the environment. It doesn’t degrade at all, so unless it’s dealt with it just stays there. Given we’ve only gotten rid of leaded gasoline less then 3 decades ago, the effects are still very much there.

The mistake in this assumption is you actually have a choice in the matter.

If you have the choice between buying locally and buying from a certain other country, tariffs can make sense. For example if the other country is trying to get a foothold and dump prices using subsidies. Or the other country has less strict environmental regulations, which allows for cheaper production at the cost of the planet. Then you can put tariffs on those goods, making the local option more viable, which ends up a bit more expensive for the customers but with a better result for your own country in the long run.

HOWEVER the big mistake Trump and his idiots make is there often isn’t such a choice. Stuff gets bought from outside the US, because it isn’t available in the US. Putting on tariffs raises the prices for the customer, but doesn’t really change anything at all other than that. Now you can hope in the long run that leads to products being produced in the US, but that takes decades. The US has been outsourcing manufacturing to the rest of the world since at least the 1970s. Tariffs destroy the economy in months to years and reversing 50 years of outsourcing would take probably 50 years as well. With not just raw materials, but entire supply chains and end-production being done abroad, this isn’t really reversible. So this whole gambit is flawed from the get go.

The world has also changed a lot, with such a large population, high speed data connections and a formidable logistics industry, it has become easy for people to get stuff from all over the world. This has lead to each country doing their own thing and doing it well, selling stuff and buying stuff across the world. This global economy isn’t something you can just change overnight, nor should we really want to. Isolation isn’t the future, cooperation is.

Now this is very simple and broad, there are actually a ton of nuances and tricky subjects surrounding this. But tariffs ain’t going to do anything except ruin the economy and the lives of a lot of people.

On the other hand, we have seen exhaust being very efficient in distributing chemicals with adverse health effects across the planet. Leaded gasoline was a huge oopsie that still has adverse health effects today.

Another effect is micro-particles from the jet exhaust that form a lot of nucleation sites, this allows the vapor in the air to condense into tiny droplets more easily.

With a custom made staircase? Why would the holes already be drilled? I’m not sure that blue color is the final color, or just a primer to prevent rust.

With the staircase I had it was simply 4 holes drilled in each stair and a short but fat screw driven through. This lead to bowing in the middle over time which made the stairs creak. So when I refurbished it, I drilled extra holes in each stair. As well as a thin strip of rubber over the top of the metal. Drilling in a relatively thin flat piece of steel like that is pretty easy. It wasn’t particularly hard as it was designed to flex with use instead of being super hard and being subject to metal fatigue. The holes weren’t that big, iirc they were 8mm.

I drilled the holes by hand and it was fine. Sure it’s a pain in the butt because there were so many stairs. But that was kinda par for the course in a project like that, especially since every stair was unique with it not being a perfect circle. But for people who do projects like this for a living, they have one of those fancy magnetic base drills. Those make easy work of something like this.

The wood would most likely not be fixed to the wall and be designed with a small gap to allowing movement. Wood tends to move around a lot, so you want to have it free to move where possible. Just bolted to the metal would be just fine.

No way, it has splotches and a big unfinished ragged seam. The wall facade is also floating about an inch of the floor. This is most definitely not a finished floor.

The lights are embedded in the wall and the stairs are fixed to the wall. So they probably wanted to finish out the wall before they put in the stairs. The wood of the stairs would also need to be fitted to the wall exactly, so it makes some kind of sense to finish the wall first. I would have opted for little nooks for the stairs to fit in, but there were probably reasons that didn’t make sense in that situation.

This has been reposted so many times. It’s obviously a work in progress, with the wood from the stairs missing. The floor doesn’t look finished as well.

I used to live in a home with a spiral staircase very similar in construction to the stairs in the picture. Once I removed all the wood in order to clean, fix and re-finish the wood. With the wood removed it was in fact a death trap like shown in the picture. I replaced the wood with temporary OSB cut to the right size, which actually looked kinda cool.

Its profits are plunging, as is its share price.

Looks at share price: Up 10% in the last month…

It’s actually pronounced Pah-Wraith

The minimum requirements one is a bit of a weird one, as those were definitely a thing back then. Gaming pushed computer technology a lot and personally many of my computer upgrades were motivated to play the latest games.

I remember upgrading my PC for Duke3D from 4MB to 8MB, it cost me my entire paycheck.