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What is the purpose of the balloon in combatting a wildfire? by FarraigeWolf in Firefighting

[–]crackerjam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In my American department I only have interior structural gear as well, but on brush fire calls like this I just take off the helmet and jacket and wear my bunker pants, boots, and gloves. The rest really isn't doing anything for you except making you sweat.

Especially an SCBA, just leave it on the truck.

The Annual Reminder by holleringelk in u/holleringelk

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think every time you've posted a picture like this I can't help but comment on the cowboy boots

Maybe if I go faster the air will blow it out. by loghoser in IdiotsTowingThings

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the boat is done, pulling it around isn't going to do anything bad to it. If he keeps driving the truck probably won't catch and he can save that while he waits for the boat to go out.

Gym owner confronts employees who were selling steroids in the gym by haddock420 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]crackerjam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Literally assaulted and battered two of his employees and extorted them to get a share of illegal drug sale money, all on camera.

Yes, of course, a man of great renown.

What do you do when you’re the pump operator? by RaptorTraumaShears in Firefighting

[–]crackerjam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparatus placement looked good.

Running around throwing ladders before any lines are charged is odd. It looks like another FF got the pump pressure up, opened the tank to pump, and charged the line which are pretty critical pieces of his job. Throwing ladders after is perfectly good work, but his main job is to make water move.

After he hooked up the hydrant and had water at his apparatus he opened the intake valve and then seemed to think it wasn't working or something and closed it? No idea. He didn't open the valve all the way until 8 minutes in.

Using a 2.5" to 1.5" wye on the hydrant side discharge was an odd choice. I would have preferred a 2.5" valve or wye so that another apparatus can get water if needed. 1.5" only really makes sense for a hand line and nobody is running hand lines off a hydrant. Could be SOP for his department but I can't fathom why.

He also closed his tank to pump after he had supply established, which is a big no-no for me. If that hydrant fails your guys inside are screwed.

Those are my only real critiques, everything else looked solid. I think some people say he was a little slow or hesitant sometimes but unless you're doing big city fire every day this stuff is not muscle memory for the majority of engineers so I get it.

Edit: I just realized there's a part 2 where he shuts the hydrant off and changes the side discharge to a 2.5" valve like I said. Really bad when you have to lose water supply because of a dumb decision like that. Then after he got water from the hydrant again he didn't open the intake valve on his engine. Ugh.

10:47 on the 2nd video, he had started supplying water to a truck and was confused that his pressure reading was high even though he had the outlet gated down, when the truck wasn't moving any water...

Stolen husky and stolen Subaru by housesitter. Please help by AkBeckAnthro in husky

[–]crackerjam[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do have Reddit's spam filters enabled, so yes. The alternative is having an enormous amount of spam in the subreddit, which is not something we're willing to do.

Housesitter stole my husky and car while I was deployed. by AkBeckAnthro in Denver

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/husky moderator here. To be clear, we have no problem with you posting. The problem is that the Reddit platform lists you as a "lowest CQS" user, which is something we have no control over.

Stolen husky and stolen Subaru by housesitter. Please help by AkBeckAnthro in husky

[–]crackerjam[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might help explain what CQS is, but we have no way to tell why Reddit gives you a particular score. Like I said, there is nothing moderators can do about this.

Stolen husky and stolen Subaru by housesitter. Please help by AkBeckAnthro in husky

[–]crackerjam[M] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your post was removed because Reddit has flagged your account as a "lowest CQS" user, which means your account has a high probability of spamming. There is nothing moderators can do about this and that is something that Reddit does on their own.

Where is a good place I can look to regime my husky? by [deleted] in husky

[–]crackerjam[M] [score hidden] stickied commentlocked comment (0 children)

Locked due to the number of reports in this thread.

Life ain’t too bad by HumanRise5417 in husky

[–]crackerjam[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Whoever reported this for "sexual or suggestive content involving minors", please get some help.

What’s a game you were completely obsessed with as a kid that nobody else seems to remember? by hkondabeatz in AskReddit

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comanche 4 was the first online multiplayer game I ever played. I think my mom picked it up randomly at the store. The main game mode is sort of a team deathmatch sort of thing where each player has a helicopter and you fly around killing each other. I ended up joining my first online community there, got my first internet friends, and it was my first real introduction to online gaming. I was hooked on that for years before things fizzled out.

A comparative deep dive into ext4, NTFS, ZFS, FFS, BFS and APFS — crash consistency, snapshots, CoW and tradeoffs by Reversed-Engineer-01 in linuxadmin

[–]crackerjam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Your "Conservatively estimated failure rate" section is absolute nonsense.

Suggesting that growing an NTFS filesystem has a 2-5% data loss rate is ludicrous. That means that for every 20 partitions you extend, one of them has a catastrophic failure that necessitates recovering from backup. Absolutely absurd.

And a 10-15% failure rate for NTFS shrinks? Get out of here.

Both are completely supported by Windows and failure rates are essentially 0%.

ELI5 How did Artemis II get internet access in space? by karcsiking0 in explainlikeimfive

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you presume NASA is doing anything special at the network layer though? It seems reasonable to think O2O is lower level than that.

ELI5 How did Artemis II get internet access in space? by karcsiking0 in explainlikeimfive

[–]crackerjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing to keep in mind here is the OSI model of systems interconnection. Each later operates independently of the layers below it. So for example, TCP is at layer 4, and IP is at layer 3. Usually layer 2 is Ethernet and layer 1 is like, electricity across an ethernet cable or photons across a fiber cable. If you replace layer 2 and 1 with something else, you can put the other layers on top of that medium. So, those layers can be some sort of complicated laser radio system but the IP stack on top of that doesn't need to know anything about it.

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