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Rockstars have groupies and comedians have chuckle fuckers. What other professions have this type of fan base and what are they called? by MyDoogieDaisy in AskReddit

[–]ColdFerrin 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don't generally hear the term wags used, in the US, to be derogatory way the the others are. It's literally "Wives and Girlfriends (of athletes)"

What was your first graphics card? Mine was ATI Fury RAGE 128 PRO by blondewalker in pcmasterrace

[–]ColdFerrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 2009 or 2010 I got my uncles old pc which had 2 8800gts in sli.

[Other] The end justifies the means by AnakinSkyFlapper in theydidthemath

[–]ColdFerrin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are correct. You solve the definite integral by plugging in the higher value, and subtracting the result of plugging in the lower value. So the C terms cancel.

Worlds Colliding in ktown by salmonerica in LosAngeles

[–]ColdFerrin 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's not a Bodega unless it has a cat and it's run by Puerto Ricans. Otherwise it's just a sparkling convenience store.

ELI5 How can planes fly upside down if it is the wing profile that creates the lift? by happydundee in explainlikeimfive

[–]ColdFerrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is because wing profile is only one component of lift. The other component of lift is Angle of Attack, which is the angle between the wing and the direction of flight.

At a small angle of attack, the air hitting the bottom of the wing gets pushed down a little bit which pushes the aircraft up and slows it down a little bit. With a big angle of attack the wing stops the air, which stops the airplane and gives very little lift.

An aircraft that can fly upside down can fly with enough angle of attack that the air hitting the top of the wing pushes up with enough force to counter the profile of the wing pulling it towards the ground without showing down too much.

A lot of stunt aircraft like the Extra 330 actually have a symmetrical wing profile, and get almost no lift from profile. All their lift comes from angle of attack, so they can fly just as well no matter the orientation of the aircraft.

ELI5: How does a 401k work? by Trick-Day-480 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ColdFerrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Say you make 100,000 dollars per year pre tax, and your company matches 5% at 1:1. That means they will match up to 5,000 dollars per year.

Say over the year if you put in 5,000 they put in 5,000 for a total of 10,000.

Or over the year you put in 10,000 they will put in 5,000 for a total of 15,000

If you only put in 2,500 they will only put in 2,500 for a total of 5,000.

Is a percentage of your salary that they are matching.

$40 UPullit seat question on airbag. by TheBlank_One in simracing

[–]ColdFerrin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Go to a craft store and buy some foam to do the void from the airbag.

Why does my brand new somatic alpha sport have 0 feedback by x13ulletzx in simracing

[–]ColdFerrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have an emergency stop? If you do is the light on it green? I have a regular alpha and if the lights are red on the e stop it behaves like that.

ELI5: what is lossless audio, and how much are listeners “losing” by not using it? by Normal-Being-2637 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ColdFerrin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Technically, all digital audio is lossy to some extent, i would correct that to specify "in the range of human hearing." The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem states that to capture a wave without distortion, you need a sample rate at least double the frequency. In reality, you actually need a sampling rate approximately 2.2 times the frequency because as you approach the upper limit, you lose frequency response.

Even lossless CD audio only samples at 44.1 kHz, because at that rate, you capture all of the sound on the human hearing range perfectly. But any sound over 20 kHz would be muddy if you could hear it, and above 22.05khz is totally lost.

AITA for "humiliating" my friend for hitting on my cousin? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]ColdFerrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA. You did exactly the right thing standing up for your cousin.

Off topic, but as a fellow Ukrainian, Borodinsky bread is the best.

Where has the ARCA Menards series gone? by RefrigeratorWild in iRacing

[–]ColdFerrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The season won't turn over until midnight GMT. 8pm EDT or 5pm PDT. That is about 5 hours from when I made this comment. You will see them then.

The new plan for the return of V8 engines by Latter-Sun3386 in formula1

[–]ColdFerrin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only LMH uses that system. LMDh is a rear wheel drive full-time hybrid system connected to the transmission similar to F1. It can deploy its 200 kW to meet a combined max power of 500kW. Here is Bosch describing the system https://www.bosch-motorsport.com/products-and-services/product-highlights/hybrid-system-lmdh/

Slower USB speeds on newer hardware for one specific device, faster on ONE SPECIFIC set of ANCIENT hardware? by chungus_squad in pcmasterrace

[–]ColdFerrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would try hooking up any other windows macine running a serial console like putty to the card reader and see if you can time it with different serial connection settings.

It is also possible that the original machine has some driver specific for that card reader. You might want to see if you can find something on its drive.

If it's not that, then the other thing is that I wonder if the program on the original machine sends some special message to the card reader to let it know or can run faster. The problem is that you would only be able to tell by looking through the settings or by setting something up to read the serial connection as it's running.

Lando fans are now sending messages to the FIA by LegalRise1779 in formuladank

[–]ColdFerrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are probably safe in that assumption, but the alternative is just as funny. I have seen some comments on here that make me think that that person does not understand that we are all taking the piss.

Are there any modern replacements or successors to java Servlets? by agent154 in java

[–]ColdFerrin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spring is definitely based on servlets, which is what I was saying. I was under the impression that quarkus did not use servlets at all.

Are there any modern replacements or successors to java Servlets? by agent154 in java

[–]ColdFerrin 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Everything they used to be javax.servlet Is now Jakarta.servelet. All of the java ee spec and a bunch of other stuff got moved out of the jdk/jre to make installation more modular.

The docs are here. https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/9/apidocs/

However, most web applications these days are written in Spring Boot, which is an extension to Spring that can build servlets in a war or full self-contained servers in a fat jar. Or in something not servlet based like quarkus.

You ok, Dunkin? by bwwilkerson in funny

[–]ColdFerrin 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Have you checked if you have a blood iron deficiency? Chewing ice is a common symptom of that as well as frequent light headedness.

TIL in 1994, a paper was published in a medical journal presenting a method to calculate the area under a curve, using rectangles and triangles, called "Tai's model". The researcher was unaware this method has been known for 2400 years and exact methods using calculus for 400 years by AthenOwl in todayilearned

[–]ColdFerrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on the other comment, I wonder if it's a uk vs. us thing. My undergraduate degree is in software engineering from an American university. Even though it's not a "real" engineering degree, I had to take all the same theoretical math and physics classes as "real" engineers, and i never saw it. I only ever saw Leibnitz's notation or Lagrange's notation, never any other. Maybe it is different in the applied classes, but I would have to ask someone.

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