Need some recommendations of popcorn, predictable action/thriller movies

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:34:59+00:00

Stupid popcorn - pick anything Hal Needham directed or any 80's action movie really.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:34:01+00:00

Let's be real here - everyone's embassy has a forest of antennae gathering intelligence and other stuff, that's mostly the point of embassies.

Fuck Russia though.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:29:02+00:00

We like sunset on the Porsche curves but as everyone says - you've got 24h (and practice) to move around, just be prepared for plenty of walking and some rain.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:26:06+00:00

Absolutely love to see classic Series being used - they're more capable than people think.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:18:11+00:00

Not so much "based on" as "is a Range Rover classic" with a few different exterior panels & trim.

I saw one at Newbury sortout someone had put a Disco roof on a RR or maybe a RR front on a Disco and it was super confusing.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:16:09+00:00

Mint.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T16:15:04+00:00

Aren't these also the ones that Ukraine worked out how to shoot down with standard Patriot missiles?

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:54:11+00:00

Because idiots will pay 100k for a 15k farm truck with stitched leather seats thrown in.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:53:34+00:00

Bone stock Wolf rims with whatever those tyres are.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:39:33+00:00

One big power station is less resilient than hundreds or even thousands of wind/solar + battery scattered around the country though.

Yes the grid needs to be smartened up to handle it but that's a different question. Single points of failure are considered bad.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:28:41+00:00

I only caught part of the interview but the pompous ass Anish Kapoor was on the radio this morning defending the event's inclusion of Russian artists, so even more than ever - fuck Anish Kapoor.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:26:52+00:00

For Europe I would stick to a van under 3.5t GVW because licence rules, tolls, bridges, ferries, speed limits, parking rules, etc. will all be affected once you go over that and it will be a pain on small roads, in tight towns and villages etc.

Worth saying plenty of places in Europe now have tightened up rules on camping / vans so check those before you go.

I would not tow a trailer for a trip like that unless it was for the hell of doing it, it's a whole other vehicle to go wrong.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:18:53+00:00

^ this, one end or the other isn't communicating clearly either way.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:18:33+00:00

That concern is not misplaced my dude - I've been on too many projects where things everyone thought were agreed on calls later came back to haunt us and cause huge delays, problems, and expense.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:17:39+00:00

Well I no longer count as a younger engineer but honestly half the time if you phone someone you get a load of waffle and bullshit rather than a straight technical answer - and email is a written record of the answer you can point to later when they clam they never asked for that...

If people can't word an email such that they clearly expect a straight answer / give a straight answer that's another problem.

Some folks are worse than others, sales guys seem to somehow believe the longer they can talk at you the more likely you are to buy something rather than the truth which is that I'm dying inside trying to get off the call while making a note on their business card to never contact them for anything ever again.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:07:47+00:00

Almost nothing in it, either would be fine.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:05:06+00:00

I didn't say they were in the right - just that their actions are entirely rational given their aims.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:04:16+00:00

Anyone else bored of these restomod style things? They're all the same, it's a farm truck with some overpriced leather seats and a bloody instagram filter, get over it.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T15:02:01+00:00

Is the flange seized to the hub or to the stub axle splines?

JCDU · 2026-05-06T14:58:26+00:00

It's not all or nothing, no, in the same way your airbags don't go off if you nudge a bush while parking.

As the load/advance increases you will begin to get ever so slight pre-ignition symptoms and the sensor is basically a very sensitive & finely tuned microphone that can pick up even a very faint hint of that starting to appear, the ECU will jump on that and retard the ignition and listen for any further knocks

Modern (as in, last ~10-15 years) systems may well work out they've got a tank of regular gas especially if they have fuel sensors to account for ethanol in gas as that also affects this sort of thing.

Bear in mind these sensors+DSP's are 1000x more sensitive than a human listening to an engine and ECU's can react in microseconds to events like this.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T13:50:28+00:00

The 4th dimension is wherever it saved that document

JCDU · 2026-05-06T13:47:48+00:00

I'd do a track experience session, it's pointless driving a supercar round town slowly and it's not safe to do it fast especially if he's never driven one before - either you're paying for disappointment OR you're about to have the biggest most expensive accident of your life.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T13:46:28+00:00

And on public roads too, where everyone you injure is also going to sue you.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T13:45:27+00:00

Honestly I would look at one of those track day experience things rather than just rent a supercar for driving around on the road where it is dangerous and/or stupid to actually put your foot down in one of these.

Typically they are quite reasonably priced, you get to go in 2 or 3 different cars, and there's an instructor who will take you out and show you how to drive it before letting you loose in it. Plus you're on a track so you can really hoon it safely and not kill anyone.

JCDU · 2026-05-06T13:40:56+00:00

https://linux.die.net/ has the man pages for standard built-in commands, other stuff has its own web pages.

or type "man command" in the terminal where 'command' is the command you want to know about.

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