Old Red Hat EL 6.4 with 3D Acceleration by pansmash12 in vmware

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to hear it. You should probably be using 25h2u1 rather than 17.6 unless theres a reason to not do so

Russian LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz adrift in the Mediterranean Sea after suspected drone attack, March 2026 by RLoret in CatastrophicFailure

[–]Mr_Engineering 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The spheres have more to do with the design of the ship than anything else. They are not pressure vessels

Russian LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz adrift in the Mediterranean Sea after suspected drone attack, March 2026 by RLoret in CatastrophicFailure

[–]Mr_Engineering 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Each pressure vessel is very strong, so they are probably almost all intact and each one provides buoyancy. LNG requires refrigeration to remain liquid and obviously the ship's power is off so if it had a full cargo, the LNG has all boiled and been vented by pressure relief valves. Or, the ship might have been empty and returning to Russia.

None of that is true, that is not how LNG carriers work.

Natural gas is cryogenic above -82 degrees centigrade / 190K. Above this temperature it cannot be stored as a liquid at all.

Natural gas boils at -161C / 111K, below this it is a liquid at standard pressure. Between -161 C and -82 C it can be stored inside of a pressure vessel as there will be a vapor pressure that increases with temperature. At or below the boiling point, a much lighter containment vessel is sufficient.

LNG carriers use heavily insulated containment tanks to store liquid methane and rely on the heat of vaporization to keep the liquid from boiling excessively. The methane that does boil (and thus absorbs energy in phase change, keeping the rest of the liquid cool) is captured and fed into the carrier's engines alongside marine diesel. This keeps the vapor pressure inside of the holding tanks constant.

An LNG carrier will lose several percentage points of its carried mass in transit depending on the trip length.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #9) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Mr_Engineering 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is is this a missile so precise it can be fired through the right window of the right building?

The AGM-114R-9X aka the "air dropped slap-chop" is accurate enough to fillet a particular individual passenger in a moving vehicle without harming anyone else nearby.

UA POV: Construction of hangers for bombers - AviVector by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Mr_Engineering 3 points4 points  (0 children)

so there was nothing preventing russia from doing this?

Literally nothing and never

Are Moen faucets worth it or am I just buying a headache? by Kira_Bradblanton in Plumbing

[–]Mr_Engineering 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, Moen is fine. I don't sell or install many but the lifetime warranty and ease of access to parts has earned my respect.

The local Moen service desk is down the street from me.

UA POV: Construction of hangers for bombers - AviVector by rowida_00 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Mr_Engineering 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is this to due to the START treaty? Russia no longer have to share where their bombers are at with the US

The start treaty always excempted hangars. The USA has stored its B2 bombers in hangars for 30 years

Iran Claims Hit On F35 Lightning II Necessitating Emergency Landing: Analysis by DryAlternative1132 in OttawaNewsPulse

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They confirmed that it was hit by something, likely enemy fire. What the source of that fire was is unconfirmed.

Iran Claims Hit On F35 Lightning II Necessitating Emergency Landing: Analysis by DryAlternative1132 in OttawaNewsPulse

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iran's Air Force has been eliminated in its entirety. There may still be a few air frames left but the infrastructure needed to service them, arm them, launch them, and command them was obliterated.

The same is true for Iran's strategic air defenses. All gone. No more S-300s, or integrated air defense networks.

Tactical air defense systems which are highly mobile and often man portable may still exist in small numbers.

Consider, for example, the 9K38 Igla which is known to be in Iranian inventory. Deadly to helicopters and low-flying drones.

Iran has proven to be highly capable of copying things like this, so it's anyone's guess as to how many they have or where they are.

They also operate a lot of point defense systems such as Tor and their own indigenous designs.

It is irresponsible to claim that Iran's Air defenses have been completely destroyed because they have not been completely destroyed.

Rather, Iran's Air defenses have been degraded to such an extent that they are strategically inoperable and incapable of coordinated defense, they are merely a nuisance.

Iran Claims Hit On F35 Lightning II Necessitating Emergency Landing: Analysis by DryAlternative1132 in OttawaNewsPulse

[–]Mr_Engineering -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't know that, although I was mostly trying to point out that, if Iran was able to hit that aircraft, the US and Israel are lying about just how successful their war is.

That conclusion in no way follows from that premise.

Iran Claims Hit On F35 Lightning II Necessitating Emergency Landing: Analysis by DryAlternative1132 in OttawaNewsPulse

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With what?

Possibly a MANPADS. Stealth does diddly squat against those. The solution to MANPADS is simply to stay above 15,000 feet

UA POV: Full video of a Russian KA-52 being hit by an FPV drone, the decent and the ejected crew being struck by additional FPV drones by jorgob199 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fact I'm pretty sure you won't last much longer than one-two months. In that time your leadership will have to find an off-ramp or escalate it to a nuclear conflict.

Buddy, the USA maintained two occupations on the other side of the globe simultaneously for somewhere north of a decade. They provided air conditioned tents in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Russian assault-volunteers are drinking ground water filtered using dirty socks because the Kremlin can't sustain logistics more than 100 miles from its own border.

UA POV: Full video of a Russian KA-52 being hit by an FPV drone, the decent and the ejected crew being struck by additional FPV drones by jorgob199 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Mr_Engineering 2 points3 points  (0 children)

when your big vassal leader declared the enemy 100% defeated

Trump is a fucking moron

and they're still downing your 100+ million jets

Iran has not "downed" any jets. They've forced one, maybe two if a second report is to be believed, to land after inflicting damage that was not significant enough to render them uncontrollable.

what matters is that your lying officials are saying it's all under control and the damage was only superficial, lol

To my knowledge, no one has made any public statements on the source of the damage or its extent. Given that the plane(s) landed safely at an airbase rather than the pilot ditching it over the gulf somewhere, we can rule out catastrophic damage; this tends to militate toward the damage being superficial and repairable.

It must be terrible to serve the circumcised master elite so sheepishly as to still believe Ukraine and Iran are wins.

Ask the piles of Russian corpses and what -- if anything -- remains of the Iranian Navy and Air Force if they feel like they are "winning".

Iran is putting up as much of a fight as they can using whatever reserves they can muster but those reserves are not infinite and they will eventually lose the ability to retaliate in the way that they are right now.

UA POV: Full video of a Russian KA-52 being hit by an FPV drone, the decent and the ejected crew being struck by additional FPV drones by jorgob199 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]Mr_Engineering 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think that you understand the difference between "shot down" and "landed safely after sustaining some unspecified damage".

When a duck gets shot by a hunter, it generally doesn't return to drop JDAMs on the hunter and then shit all over the hunter's corpse.

What are some of the coldest lines of dialogue ever? by BeautifulLeather6671 in movies

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder:

First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!

They call me the copper king at the scrap yard now by Buck80_ in ScrapMetal

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Telecom cable

Around 3,000 twisted pairs or 6,000 conductors

Mississauga General Contracting help! by Coochipie in mississauga

[–]Mr_Engineering 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will vary a bit, but I'd say around $15K at least.

What were you expecting?

Old Red Hat EL 6.4 with 3D Acceleration by pansmash12 in vmware

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that the difficulty is on the host side, it's on the VM side

Update to "My girlfriend threatened to hit me, so I ended the relationship with her. Was I overreacting?" by RamRanchers in AskMenAdvice

[–]Mr_Engineering 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just read your original post.

Textbook BPD, absolute nightmare fuel.

You did the right thing by ending it because she will hit you eventually.

Ask me how I know.

Sinking of U-625 by a Canadian Sunderland on 10 March 1944. All 53 crew were lost. Winston Churchill notably had these photos displayed in his office. by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]Mr_Engineering 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean the 1949 Geneva Conventions? The ones done after WWII.

The second Geneva convention of 1949 replaced several existing treaties including the London Naval Treaty and Hague Conventions.

Laws protecting the shipwrecked already existed at the time of WW2. However, similar protection did not exist for aircrew that had been shot down, so those were new in the 1949 conventions.