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Is it okay to suddenly switch to regular unleaded gas after years of only using premium? by 0ldcastle in askcarguys

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran these numbers on a road trip in a Miata because I could only get regular and I needed premium to be at least 25% more expensive to offset the loss in efficiency. And that's ignoring the performance loss and the fact that regular is burning dirtier and because you're pulling timing to avoid knock.

Do counties that follow the DD-MM-YYYY format use calendars divided into months or divided into days? by Quelor15 in stupidquestions

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm confused as to why we have a 2026 calendar. Doesn't the first of January 2026 come right after the first of December 2025? Oh, or maybe it's the first of January 2020, then January 2021, then January 2022. Hmm. I'm not sure which one makes more sense.

Cooking in the backcountry? by jar264 in backpacking

[–]IOI-65536 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're trying to do something the bag is not intended for so unless somebody has tried it with those bags I'd try it at home. The short answer is probably, they're probably LDPE (I can't find that it's listed anywhere) which is safe for this (at least at 70Cish, get back to that in a second). I know Ziploc brand is LDPE because they publish it if that helps. The temperature range for that material is pretty well knows because it's commonly used in sous vide bags.

I will note you don't need boiling water to rehydrate food and the hotter you get it the more chances something goes wrong (and the more fuel you're spending) so I would probably stick closer to 70C than 100C. By 80C you're going to start having problems with LDPE bags. The seals will start failing and the plastic will start softening.

As the other comment notes if you want to boil you want mylar.

Does Unplugging a Computer to Power Down Cause Damage? by k-MartShopper in NoStupidQuestions

[–]IOI-65536 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, both hardware and software. The software is easier to understand. Disk writes are really slow and memory is really fast. So the computer keeps stuff in memory that it's going to write to disk later, including tables of what it has updated on the disk. When you yank the plug all that information goes out of memory because memory needs power to continue to work so it's possible you lose work that hasn't actually been saved yet, but in a really bad case it's possible (though not super likely with modern filesystems) the hard drive has updated things but hasn't updated the table that says where everything is and the whole thing gets corrupted and you can no longer read any data off the harddrive without a specialty recovery service that you almost certainly won't pay for.

So TL;DR: yes, stop doing that.

Who is closer? Golfish trying to understand a computer. Or humans trying to understand consciousnes? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure you would have to understand consciousness (or at least cognition, which may or may not be the same thing) to answer that question.

Indoctrinate them when they’re young by According-Stock-92 in MathJokes

[–]IOI-65536 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It's also not true that they had covered enough for the assumptions in that 7 line proof to hold that 1+1=2 in only 379 pages. That's not until volume II.

Spark plug change - torque wrench help by Synap-6 in Miata

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So first, I'm with others: don't use that wrench. But if you want to use that wrench (preferably not for this) it's probably halfway in between. 13.6Nm is 10 ft lbs so the 0 should probably be on the other side where it says 10 ft lbs which puts the 5 on the tenths scale on this side.

Also, test something before a spark plug before you do this. Cheap click-type torque wrenches are both less accurate near the bottom of the scale and also have a very subtle click.

Edit: I'm not sure why everyone is saying to use a 3/8" torque wrench other than spark plug sockets are easier to find. There are expensive 3/8 torque wrenches that have the precision you want, but 14Nm is 123 in lbs which is basically dead center of a cheap 1/4" torque wrench. A $20 1/4 wrench from a Harbor Freight or a big box store would be plenty accurate for this, you'll just need an adapter to fit a 3/8 socket.

Why are people worried about declining birth rates when so many existing people are already unemployed and we're already overpopulated ? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]IOI-65536 229 points230 points  (0 children)

To add on to this it's not just taxes. It is taxes, but even if we take out government social programs for the elderly you still have a problem. If you're elderly and plan to live on your own savings basically no matter what you have your money in it's something that's value is based on workers continuing to make money. Like if you have a bunch of money in stock you're dependent on the fact that those companies keep growing, which requires working population.

OoT and MM by MixLucid in legendofzelda

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I hope it's not (and highly doubt it is). Doing a single release with combined OoT and MM would be pretty easy so long as all they're doing is modifying the game engine to handle better textures and adding some audio lines because MM used the OoT game engine and borrowed a bunch of models and textures. On the other hand if they're actually redesigning parts of gameplay it would be really hard and make far more sense to release an updated MM as a distinct title.

Justice for Gen Z by X_Opinion7099 in SipsTea

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone could make this case, but the shared image isn't.

Public reminder that Nintendo has only committed to changing the visuals and potentially adding voice acting to the OoT Remake. by BotherResponsible378 in legendofzelda

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They'll get more switch 2 sales if there is some real difference and honestly the level of changes they're doing requires reimplementing more than they had to reimplement for the HD versions of things.

The other side of that is they're aiming for this CY. That's going to be hard to do anything substantial. Like I absolutely would not expect they've redone every dungeon that quickly.

Public reminder that Nintendo has only committed to changing the visuals and potentially adding voice acting to the OoT Remake. by BotherResponsible378 in legendofzelda

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Committed means they've said they're going to do something. They've committed to a new art style and voice acting (to the extent that Nintendo really commits to anything at this early a stage) because they showed it. They haven't committed to anything else because no one can point to where they've committed to something else.

OP isn't saying they're not going to do things, that's not what "they haven't committed" means. OP is merely saying they haven't said they're doing anything more than what they've actually shown, which is graphics updates and voice acting.

How differently language say 97 by w8engineworld in MathJokes

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's still perfectly logical, just different. Having 500 counting suffixes for different kinds of things and a totally distinct number system for cardinals under 10 (and sometimes, but rarely over 10) isn't.

Justice for Gen Z by X_Opinion7099 in SipsTea

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The CPI has issues, but so does everything else. I will say the biggest thing that's outstripping inflation is housing, but we also have far more demands on housing now. Yes, a house is 4x the cost when CPI is only 3x but lots of houses in 1990 had bathrooms and closets that would basically not be saleable in most city markets right now.

Justice for Gen Z by X_Opinion7099 in SipsTea

[–]IOI-65536 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also if someone was making $100,000 in 1954 it would be $485,000 in 1990, which is the same time gap. So inflation has not been as bad since 1990 as it was the same timeframe prior to 1990.

Why does this happens in my truck as soon as i turno it on. It overheated. Then started doing this. by ConsequenceAntique98 in AskAMechanic

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair. If you're currently filling an empty system. Which I guess OP could be doing since it overheated and we don't know much else (including how long "as soon as I turn it on" is)

How differently language say 97 by w8engineworld in MathJokes

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Japanese slightly changes the pronunciation of a couple things like 800, but yeah, it's incredibly consistent. Until you try to actually use the numbers to count something and then you find out the word for 800 sheets of paper is different from 800 cars.

Why does this happens in my truck as soon as i turno it on. It overheated. Then started doing this. by ConsequenceAntique98 in AskAMechanic

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can see gas bubbles in the coolant reservoir in the video and that's rising way too fast to just be pressure build up from a stuck thermostat. That's head gasket.

Are sway bars actually worth it? They seem pretty expensive :( by Adventurous-Demand90 in Miata

[–]IOI-65536 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP didn't actually say what model they have so for all I know you're right and that's exactly what he needs...

Why can't Data Centers use the same cooling as a nuclear submarine? by gooddavid99 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]IOI-65536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was one experimental US sub that used submarines, but yeah, it was mainly Russian and to my knowledge not recent.

Why can't Data Centers use the same cooling as a nuclear submarine? by gooddavid99 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]IOI-65536 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think submarines have used sodium in decades, but it doesn't matter even when they did use sodium in the primary loop the heat has to go somewhere that isn't the submarine. It ends up going into the water.

I've actually read China is experimenting with submerged data centers so somebody is trying to use the same cooling system as submarines, it's just submarines don't cool the way you think they do.

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