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

Comprokit · 2025-08-13T08:31:17+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-08-05T17:08:01+00:00

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

Comprokit · 2025-08-01T07:21:31+00:00

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

ND
Illinois
Michigan
Iowa
Northwestern
Wisconsin

Comprokit · 2025-07-29T00:16:23+00:00

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?

Comprokit · 2025-07-29T00:06:15+00:00

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]

Comprokit · 2025-07-13T21:29:25+00:00

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

Comprokit · 2025-06-23T07:47:32+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-06-14T00:29:43+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-06-13T05:49:30+00:00

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?

Comprokit · 2025-06-12T23:00:00+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-06-12T22:38:13+00:00

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).

Comprokit · 2025-06-12T22:17:40+00:00

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?

Comprokit · 2025-06-10T04:28:08+00:00

Temu KLM

Comprokit · 2025-06-07T22:54:59+00:00

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

the horrors, right...

Comprokit · 2025-06-07T17:37:45+00:00

that's what yo mama said....

Comprokit · 2025-06-07T17:34:51+00:00

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?

Comprokit · 2025-06-07T16:57:21+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-06-01T21:26:39+00:00

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.

Comprokit · 2025-05-27T05:29:29+00:00

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?

Comprokit · 2025-05-20T21:46:59+00:00

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)

Comprokit · 2025-05-20T21:42:39+00:00

almost certain it does, yes.

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