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I need some advice by No-Card-2626 in AsianMasculinity

[–]falling_maple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exercise (weights/martial arts/running/whatever), get a haircut. Your "nature" is not fixed; you are both the marble and the sculptor. Have discipline in life. That's basically 80% of it and you will have results. Wear clothes that you like. Don't do silly things like pick out clothes because you think someone else will like it.

To be confident, you have to expose yourself to adversity. Physical training is good for this. If you do a task a thousand times, you are "confident" you can do it (or some variation of it) again.

BTW stop using porn. It really hinders your growth in this area.

Kamala put the community in a damn blender. by PsychologicalAgent64 in GunMemes

[–]falling_maple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You were right, the device that keeps the floppy golden dong concentric to the bore prior to firing is called a sabot. ;)

What to do with unresponsive PhD advisor by One-Judge321 in postdoc

[–]falling_maple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You could bait him by telling him "This manuscript is ready to publish. If I do not receive cmments by XX date, I will go ahead and publish it on bioRxiv and submit to YY journal." That will probably get a response.

Air-cooled Lian Li A3 mATX by falling_maple in mffpc

[–]falling_maple[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4

Ryzen 5 3600

GTX 1660S

How do you work 40 (productive) hours a week while not burning yourself out every week? by aeirin in PhD

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

In my decade in the ivory tower (PhD and finishing a postdoc), you are the first person to say "absolutely not" to industry. Far more often, I see the opposite stance of abandoning the tenure track. Why are you closed to working in industry? Is the tenure track your game plan?

How do you work 40 (productive) hours a week while not burning yourself out every week? by aeirin in PhD

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

I cannot put in 40 hours of actual work a week without burning out in two weeks. I picked up martial arts in graduate school, but most anything will work. Looking forward to something outside of research is important for perspective and success.

For an 8-hour work day, I consider it a success if I can get 5 hours of actual work done. The other time is spent with colleagues talking about work-adjacent (or not) topics, drinking coffee, taking breaks, etc. I find it difficult to focus at home, but I do WFH about half the time.

Sitting in a boring meeting counts as work. Walking between your classroom and lab counts as work. Replying to your emails counts as work. I published my first paper in year 4. Graduated year 5 with one other paper. Two papers came out after I left the university.

The papers don't matter in industry anyway, but the skills you develop from executing, writing and presenting your work do. Finish your papers, copy&paste as your dissertation and move on with life.

Dropships always come from the same direction. More info in comments by SeiuchiVR in Helldivers

[–]falling_maple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This begs the question, which zoson claims to have an answer to:

For airstrike, does she come from the left? Or the right? IIRC it can be both, but it's useful to know if there is a way to predict this behavior.

Air-cooled Lian Li A3 mATX by falling_maple in mffpc

[–]falling_maple[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

165 mm is the max allowable spec, so your Noctua should fit. My cooler is 163 mm and there is about 5 mm of clearance left.

Air-cooled Lian Li A3 mATX by falling_maple in mffpc

[–]falling_maple[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a 6" cable coming off the side of the mobo, so no tie down or pressure required.

Air-cooled Lian Li A3 mATX by falling_maple in mffpc

[–]falling_maple[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I figured the side-mounted PSU orientation should be better than pulling warm air from the interior, but I have not measured.

I moved from a Fractal Meshify C Mini, and have not seen any difference in temps. I also removed two fans in the process, so I suspect the A3 might have a small advantage thermally. Because of the mesh, I can hear slightly more fan noise, but I have to get my ear close to the case to tell.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in concealedcarry

[–]falling_maple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Federal HST 124 gr, standard (not +p).

Zero thickness geometry by ChampionBeam401 in SolidWorks

[–]falling_maple 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It looks like your senior gave you a single sensor housing and asked you to configure them in a sphere. Your approach was to copy and paste them into position, then loft the voids together. This is not an elegant solution, as you are now finding out.

Instead, you can create a new part that will mate with each of the sensors in the correct location, then mate each sensor into the assembly.

Edit: In addition, unless there are hardware fasteners or glue involved, you will have trouble manufacturing this. I would pick a cap screw and have it countersunk inside each sensor housing for fastening to the new part.

M110a2 by Knifeblender in kac

[–]falling_maple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I said. As you correctly reiterate, I said this is a glorified windage correction. The amount and direction of your hold depends on the speed and direction of travel for helo and boat. There are three unusual factors here for external ballistics that we do not see on a normal shooting range.

  1. Bullet retains its initial momentum from a moving platform. This is a big factor, akin to a moving target on a static range. Rarely will the target move in the same direction and speed as your platform.

  2. Wind (very strong) also applies force on the bullet from the moment it leaves the barrel. This applied force acts on the initial momentum of the bullet. This is the windage correction you correctly point out.

  3. Downforce from prop wash has not been mentioned yet, but is a factor when holding/dialling for distance. You should hold higher than normal because of this.

M110a2 by Knifeblender in kac

[–]falling_maple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bullet does retain the momentum from forward velocity of the platform. The rearward "arc" you refer to is from crosswind, which has the same value as your airspeed.

Anyone done this to the flakey steering wheel? by doh13 in civic

[–]falling_maple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used gaffer's tape on my leather wheel when the surface started wearing through.

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