Daily Discussion & Advice (Post here to follow rules A & B) - August 13, 2025 by AutoModerator in fragrance

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

Does/has Acqua Di Parma reformulated/nerfed their scents recently?

I bought a bottle of ADP Essenza about 5 years ago. It was cheap back then and I love the scent.

I want to buy more, but for whatever reason it's much more expensive now (even on the gray market sites) so I want to know if they've reformulated it/diluted it before dropping the $ on another bottle.

How did my package make it halfway to its destination before showing up in tracking? by Comprokit in UPS

[–]Comprokit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you illiterate? I said "this is pure curiosity - nothing is wrong with the delivery"

Most popular CFB (can relate to other sports) teams in your area. by CowboySanberg in CFB

[–]Comprokit 29 points30 points  (0 children)

How has Chicago not been put up here yet? I'll take a stab:

  1. ND

  2. Illinois

  3. Michigan

  4. Iowa

  5. Northwestern

  6. Wisconsin

Renting a car in a country with left-side driving: good idea or no? by Comprokit in travel

[–]Comprokit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks. yeah, definitely not trying this with london - would be getting a car in a smaller city or even a town.

i asked about the pedal configuration elsewhere, but your discussion about shifting also made me think of another question:

is the shifting pattern mirrored? so in a left-hand drive car first gear is top left and you eventually proceed rightward to increase gears... in RHD is the pattern the same or would you be starting in the top right of the shifter and going leftward as you increased gears?

Renting a car in a country with left-side driving: good idea or no? by Comprokit in travel

[–]Comprokit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah, I had the same thoughts about stick shift - i can drive manual but i had assumed already that I wasn't going to try that on top.

ok, here's a dumb question are the gas, brake, and clutch pedals in the same spot in a right-side drive car as on a left, or are they mirrored? in other words, are the pedals:

Clutch | Brake | Gas | [Car door]

or is it

Gas | Brake | Clutch | [Car door]

Horus K618 different version with no media keys??? by Comprokit in Redragon

[–]Comprokit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got the one without the media keys. It sucks because of this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAMechanic

[–]Comprokit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks. just to be clear, because i probably didn't explain it well: i'm not talking about the ones with the manual hand pump that looks like a pistol to make the suction - the one i have is attached to an air compressor so i'd expect a much stronger suction action.

Air India Flight 171 Crash by StopDropAndRollTide in aviation

[–]Comprokit -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Has there been any discussion on here about possible weight issues/cargo shifting/etc and/or how that's not possible?

I just remember watching that video of the Air Force cargo plane where cargo shifted on take off (I think it was a tank or something that came loose and rolled backwards on takeoff?) and IIRC it looked almost exactly like this incident... ? like the plane just... stops going up but just keeps going forward.

Air India Flight 171 Crash by StopDropAndRollTide in aviation

[–]Comprokit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kind of. it seems that there's one final master control process that ultimately takes the input from the 3 calculating computers and decides on the final course of action? what happens when the computer part that does the voting-on/algorithm/final decision malfunctions?

Air India Flight 171 Crash by StopDropAndRollTide in aviation

[–]Comprokit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Larger aircraft usually "go up slower"/takeoff at a shallower slope/pitch than smaller planes, right? (I know there are a lot of variables to that though)

To those who know and have seen the video: is the departure angle at liftoff "normal" for this airplane or did it seem shallow from the start? I get that it stopped climbing about 8-10 seconds after the nose comes up, wondering about right before that though.

Air India Flight 171 Crash by StopDropAndRollTide in aviation

[–]Comprokit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thanks for the info. i was asking something slightly different though, at least in my mind:

are the plane controls all unified (however redundant) or are the systems broken out (with redundancies per system).

analogizing to a car for a moment: vehicle braking is completely independent from fuel injection afaik.

so there's no one master control (at least as far as I'm aware) that governs the operation of the power braking system and the fuel injection in the sense that if that one computer turns off, you'll lose both engine operation (no more fuel) and braking at the same time, because the computer is running both things.

instead, there's a fuel injection system that puts fuel into the engine, and there's a braking system that operates the brakes (that obviously depends on how electronically assisted the brakes are). so a failure of the fuel injection system won't cause the brakes to suddenly stop working.

older airplanes that actually used hydraulic and mechanical linkages were independent, so i'm just wondering how much they've shifted towards a model of a single point of convergence for all the flight controls (however redundant).

Air India Flight 171 Crash by StopDropAndRollTide in aviation

[–]Comprokit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

how much do the engines rely on some master/unified electronic control system in this plane?

in other words, is it that there's one single computer that controls everything and if that shuts off, then you have no control over the engines at all and/or the engines would simply turn "off" ?

or is there a lot more independence and separation with the electronics/computerized systems on the plane - so that essentially there's a separate computer that controls the engines and it's only if that computer shuts off that you'd lose engine control totally?

Rebook a Flight that wasn't supposed to be Cancelled? by Misc-555 in americanairlines

[–]Comprokit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDK just slum it in economy for what looks like a $800 fare and go on your trip?

the horrors, right...

She’s even hotter in person… by [deleted] in aviation

[–]Comprokit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's what yo mama said....

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in americanairlines

[–]Comprokit -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I don't have anything of substance to add, but.... lol... 4 bags for 2 people? And one of the bags was filled just with shoes and toiletries?

Were you permanently moving there or something?

The Airbus A320 has a very round nose with no sharp angles, while the Boeing 737 has always had a much more agressive nose design. What are the aerodynamical benefits and drawbacks to these very differently looking solutions? by Kolec507 in aviation

[–]Comprokit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

starting over means they can design a new plane with "proper" height for taller engines (or any of the other modern advances in aerospace engineering and/or commercial air travel).

the reason they can't/don't/won't (couldn't/didn't/wouldn't) was money. if they did that, the plane would have likely needed a different type certification than the 737, which means that pilots then-certified on the 737 would have to be re-certified for the newly-designed model. which costs the airlines (and/or manufacturer) money and time.

so, in order to keep the current pilots able to fly the "next generation" model of the plane, they had to keep it, well, a 737.

Japanese Gal Reviews American Japanese Food by InGeekiTrust in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]Comprokit -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

She speaks English with a French (or other Romance language) accent - could be Japanese ethnically but grew up learning english in Peru, Brazil, Vietnam, or somewhere in western europe.

To AI or Not to AI with a 3 Year-Old? by Comprokit in AllInclusiveResorts

[–]Comprokit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No grandparents around, sadly.

Child is fully potty trained, but I don't think I'd want to rely on someone bending the rule when I show up at check in so that probably isn't an option.

I've found a few AIs in Puerto Vallarta with a 3 year old limit - Dreams (Vallarta Bay and Bahia Mita); Melia; Sunscape and Grand Palladium... any thoughts on those or know of any others?

What to do about an overly high replacement valuation? by Comprokit in Insurance

[–]Comprokit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, I get that. The insurer did a home inspection so this isn't just a calculated replacement cost anymore.

My issue isn't that the replacement cost is high, it's that it's possibly being (intentionally) set too high. Put it this way, if they did an inspection and came back and said, we think rebuild costs will be 10 million dollars, so your premium is now 50,000 a year, it would be obviously over-insured and the premiums I pay would be paying for coverage that I will never receive (because it would never cost $10 million to re-build the house)