akallio9000

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by akallio9000 11y ago
Just the photo alone made me facepalm. Why buy a riding lawn mower for five times the price of a basic push mower that would easily mow a trailer park lawn in 10 - 15 minutes?
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by akallio9000 11y ago
When I read his description of "radiator fluid" and dumping gravel into the oil fill of a car, I began to have my doubts, but when he suggested that a revolver with the cylinder swung out might still have a bullet in the chamber,
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by akallio9000 11y ago
So if the spacecraft could be stationary, it would pick up 400km/year acceleration via nuclear power?
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by akallio9000 11y ago
> I personally know people would love that kind of stuff You do realize that sometimes plumbers have to wallow through raw sewage under a house? It's not all fun and games like on "This Old House".
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by akallio9000 11y ago
This is especially heinous given that car manufacturers are trying to keep you from repairing your own car, claiming that the computer systems are copyrighted. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8490359/ge
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by akallio9000 11y ago
I don't foresee any garbage collectors or plumbers working "for the fun of it" or "personal fulfillment" anytime soon.
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by akallio9000 11y ago
This seems to me to go a long way toward explaining why dissimilar metals make the best bearing interfaces, i.e. the atomic lattices don't match up.
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by akallio9000 11y ago
Most (if not all) cars decrease the air/fuel ratio on wide open throttle, which ensures lack of air to burn pistons, etc., as well as cooling the charge to allow greater volumetric efficiency. Carburetors had a "power valve"
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by akallio9000 11y ago
So you could substitute green ink in the black ink container?
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by akallio9000 12y ago
"-Challenge--this must be very carefully balanced. It must be sufficiently tough to make the player want to keep trying, but not too hard so the player gets frustrated quickly. Having different skill levels is helpful, but you still
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by akallio9000 12y ago
You want your own random bits? Tune your AM radio between stations and record the resulting static to your PC. Grab the low bit from every 10'th sample or so and concatenate into a buffer until desired length is reached. You may wan
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by akallio9000 12y ago
If they're all that poor, they don't have many possessions. How about they get off Hotel 22 at the far end and be homeless there? Or further, if that's suffering from liberal dystopia too.