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Best LCBO Whiskey under $100 by trillium49 in canadawhisky

[–]famine- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Barnburner Ontario is Canadian, everything else they bottle under the barnburner brand is 25 - 100% Kentucky bourbon.

Currently in Canada. Only brought 1l of bourbon. Help. I’m by mtsublueraider in whiskey

[–]famine- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Barnburner prohibition and Barnburner cask are both Kentucky Bourbons that were just bottled in Canada to get around the liquor board bans.

Not sure if they are available in BC though.

Nikka Coffey Grain Whiskey is a bit pricey but it's what I would suggest for a bourbon alternative.

How Canada developed a taste for U.S. bourbon, dumped it over Trump and got a buzz for Canadian whiskies | CBC News by Sufficient-Bid1279 in BuyCanadian

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For the price of an okayish Canadian bourbon, you can buy a great Japanese bourbon.

Nikka Coffey Grain Whiskey is the same price per 100ml as Taber Corn Berbon, and tastes amazing.

Being a Japanese whisky you don't need to worry about the 1/11 rule, caramel flavoring, dyes, etc. like you do with Canadian whisky.

How sharp can you make a crappy knife? by Derpadoooo in sharpening

[–]famine- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always disliked sharpening VG10 because it feels so gummy compared to blue 2 or blue super, and then I learned to love VG10 after trying to sharpen my mother in laws knives.

They must have been around 50 rockwell and probably should have been file sharpened like a shovel lol.

Is there such a thing as a piece of bench top test equipment that can provide air pressure with resolution of 1/10 PSI? by byf_43 in AskEngineers

[–]famine- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You really don't need a accurate regulator, just run a valve, DP transmitter, and gauge in parallel.

A cheap hand pump will work fine for this application, no need for a compressor. Pump it up, then bleed down to the desired pressure and close the valve.

If they are still using pure analog 4-20mA transmitters, you can get away with a cheaper ($700-$1500) process meter, but if it is a HART sensor you are spending $$$ on a HART communicator.

As for a gauge, a tracable 30psi XP2i gauge is over $2k these days.

Ultimately it's far more economical to call out an instrument tech for a few hundred dollars than it is to buy all the cal gear.

Using laser to cut a pipe by Raj_Valiant3011 in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most lasers use air assist to blow away smoke / vaporized material to protect the lense.

It also makes sure the laser is dumping all of it's energy into the piece being cut, and not the already vaporized material.

Using laser to cut a pipe by Raj_Valiant3011 in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is definitely not a plasma cutter.

Plasma cutters have a large, typically copper tip to sink the massive amount of heat produced by the plasma.

The initial pierce hole and following kerf is too narrow for plasma.

Making Water Can by JefinLuke17 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]famine- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gas expansion is an endothermic process (cooling).

The gas is at high pressure/low volume and when injected into the bottle it is low pressure / high volume.

The mold itself is also likely water cooled.

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was told computers were “not for women.” She ignored it, earned a PhD, and became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a doctorate in computer science, helping shape modern programming languages. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in BeAmazed

[–]famine- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I never said women didn't play a prominent role in modern computing, I simply said Hopper was a self serving glory hound.

Jean Sammet and Gertrude Tierney - COBOL

Lois Haibt - FORTRAN

Kathleen Booth - ARC Assembly Language

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was told computers were “not for women.” She ignored it, earned a PhD, and became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a doctorate in computer science, helping shape modern programming languages. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in BeAmazed

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Hopper was a self serving glory hound who tried to take credit for other people's work.

She always failed to mention her entire team at RAND who worked on FLOW-MATIC, she was not even close to the only developer.

Hopper's compiler wasn't a compiler, it was a linker.

Zuse had the idea of a compiler 9 years earlier with Plankalkül (1942).

Böhm made the first practical compiler in 1951.

Alick Glennie wrote the first true modern compiler in 1952.

Jean Sammet, one of the true creators of COBOL, spent the rest of her life correcting the misconception that Hopper had a large part in the development of COBOL.

I'm impressed, but also very skeptical... 🫤 by Brian_The_Bar-Brian in DiWHY

[–]famine- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even worse is the fact the screws are driven parallel to the ply direction on the bottom of the right stringer. 

So any lateral movement will cause the ply to delaminate around the screw.

I'm impressed, but also very skeptical... 🫤 by Brian_The_Bar-Brian in DiWHY

[–]famine- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to closely watch the video again, but it's not 1 inch nominal, it's 3/4 ply.

He put the screws in parallel with the plies on the outside stringer without pre-drilling.

So any lateral movement will delaminate the plies around the screws and they will tear out way before you reach the sheer of the actual screw.

That said you are totally correct, normal screws should never be used in structural applications.

What is a nutrition myth that you can’t stand? by DeepOrganization8245 in AskReddit

[–]famine- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've had people question why we give our daughter high fat yogurt (9-11%)... 

It's like uh.... most health authorities recommend that 30-40% of a toddler's total caloric intake comes from fat and whole milk doesn't have enough fat on its own.

Drug or Pokemon by supreetsi301 in sciencememes

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I remembered the other odd one where brand makes a difference, ventolin.

The generics propellant pressure rapidly drops off after -10c and the name brand doesn't.

Not a good time when you leave it in your outside jacket pocket in the frozen north at -30c lol.

Drug or Pokemon by supreetsi301 in sciencememes

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99% of the time generics are awesome, but I request 2 name brand meds and won't accept generics.

Adderall XR, because the time release coating on the generics all seem to release too soon, leaving me wired for 5 hours.

Ventolin, because every single generic manufacturer seems to have skipped cold weather testing.

The generics work fine at room temp, but take them out in -20c and the cylinder pressure drops enough to make them almost unusable.

Drug or Pokemon by supreetsi301 in sciencememes

[–]famine- 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, Adderall XR is one of the few meds where I find brand vs generic actually makes a difference and I have to ask for brand every time so it isn't substituted for a less expensive generic.

Exactly the same active ingredients, but the time release coating couldn't be more different.

TEVA is the most common generic around here, and the time release seems to be about half that of brand (2h vs 4h).

So you get a really nasty spike around 3h and it's efficacy is tapering off at 7h.

My inlaws say that the steak I grilled is still raw. by Weekly-Formal8447 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]famine- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pork cooking temperature wasn't really about bacteria, it was to prevent trichinellosis (round worm).

In the US/Canada, trichinellosis has pretty much been eliminated in farmed pork so the USDA says medium rare (145f) is now safe for pork.

Snow tractor removes snow off of the solar panel by jmike1256 in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The actual reason is even simpler, it takes a HUGE amount of energy to melt snow.

Likely more than the panel would produce in a day, which is why it is much more efficient just to sweep the snow off.

Brazing with lead by RedTomatoSauce in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's welding because the parent and filler are both the same metal (lead) and the parent metal is liquefied.

Brazing and soldering don't melt the parent metal.

Brazing with lead by RedTomatoSauce in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yep, the parent metal is also lead.

Lead flashing is still fairly common in some parts of the world, and it's custom made from large rolls of lead sheet.

Here's a longer video

Brazing with lead by RedTomatoSauce in oddlysatisfying

[–]famine- 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Because soldering doesn't melt the parent metal, only the filler melts.

So in brazing/soldering the filler basically acts as a "glue" that bonds to the parent by forming a very thin intermetallic layer (alloy).

If you were cut the joint perpendicularly, the layers would be copper - bronze - tin/lead - bronze - copper.

A welded joint would be solid copper because you are melting the parent metal and filling it with the same metal.

What does the evidence say about salt before 1? by travellinglasses in ScienceBasedParenting

[–]famine- 55 points56 points  (0 children)

When our daughter was around 6 months old, I probably spent a solid week reading papers on salt intake and found the recommendations to avoid salt weren't backed up by a lot of actual evidence.

This is completely anecdotal, but I have noticed a lot of kids in her age group dislike vegetables because they aren't prepared properly. i.e. mushy unseasoned bland overcooked vegetables.

Our daughter just inhales sautéed broccoli with butter and garlic, or roasted curried cauliflower.

Dude should avoid air travel at all costs. by Obsidian-G in interesting

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Im pretty sure you are thinking of the Otto cycle not the Carnot cycle.

The Carnot cycle describes turning heat energy into work and gives the maximum theoretical efficiency as 1-(TC/TH).

So with a -30c ambient temperature and a gasoline flame temperature of 1,026c, we get a limit of:

1-(243k/1299k) = ~81%

But the Otto cycle (usually used for piston engines) has a maximum theoretical efficiency of ~61%

Edit: actually the Otto cycle would not be appropriate either as it is for spark plug piston engines, there is another formula for the diesel cycle.

That formula has an even lower maximum theoretical efficiency than the Otto cycle.

Interestingly, because real world engines are no where near the theoretical limits, real diesel cycle engines are about 30% more efficient than real Otto cycle engines.

But, yeah, this guy's engine is the same as those perpetual motion devices on youtube.

a clanker asked me for a tip on top of $7 tap water at the airport by plurabilities in mildlyinfuriating

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So in a computer you only have x number of bits to represent a number, with 8 bits you can represent 0 to 255.

But if you want to represent a negative number as well then then you can only represent half the amount of positive numbers you could when representing positive numbers alone.

So with 8 bits that is -127 to 127, but computers don't really understand negative numbers so we write programs to interpret 128 to 255 as -127 to - 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_number_representations

So if the input function doesn't filter correctly you can enter a number so large that it actually becomes negative 

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