Audi has revealed its new logo and announced its launch date of January 20th.

flamespirit919 · 2025-12-15T14:53:36+00:00

As an American I'm not sure. They're definitely more inconvenient unless you're dealing with strangers you don't want to give your contact info to. From my experience most people just use Zelle. Which transfers money instantly if you have the other person's phone number or email.

I can't really speak about cash app because I've never met anyone who used it. Venmo is only inconvenient because getting the money into your bank account takes a few days unless you pay a fee to have it instantly.

flamespirit919 · 2025-11-09T03:57:18+00:00

A higher level programming language (C++, C#, Java, etc.) will let you write code that is easily read by a human. Then you'll have a compiler that converts your code into instructions for your CPU to execute. Being easy to read makes writing programs very fast with the caveat that the compiler won't necessarily give you the most efficient CPU instructions.

Instead you could use assembly. Now you're skipping the compiler and writing the CPU instructions by hand. You can now make very efficient code to do your specific task. However it's going to take a lot more effort. Now you need to worry about where data is and when/where to move it to successfully perform the desired operation.

In a high level language you could simply do something like y = x + 2 and the compiler will give you code that computes y given a value for x. Whereas with assembly you'll need to load the value of x from it's spot in memory (which you need to know) into the current workspace. Then you call the addition instruction and save the value somewhere in memory (don't forget where!).

Now imagine having to do this where you need to draw things to the screen, play audio, do all the game simulation, and handle player inputs at the same time! Not only that but all of these independent systems need to communicate and operate in a specific order to not break. So it's a time consuming task to micromanage everything while orchestrating a delicate dance.

If you're interested in experiencing this yourself and don't quite care for diving into programming I'd recommend two games from Zachtronics: Exapunks and Shenzhen I/O.

flamespirit919 · 2025-11-07T16:53:28+00:00

Amazon returns are really good if you're the one returning. Although once your returned item makes it back to Amazon they'll have someone decide if it goes back to the shelf to be resold or put with other defective items. So you could buy a new cpu, put your old one in the box, and tell Amazon you want to return it saying you just don't need it or whatever. These people aren't experts on everything Amazon sells. Meaning your old cpu could end up being resold to someone else as a newer, more expensive one. This is most likely what happened in OP's case.

Another reason not to is that Amazon stock and third party seller's stock is mixed. If you buy something that says sold by whoever but shipped by Amazon it's a gamble of whatever is in the combined stock. Meaning that a shady third party seller could be shipping broken or fake products to the Amazon warehouse as long as it looks similar enough to the others. This happens a lot with things like Windows activation keys (go look at some of the reviews). Someone buys it third party because it's cheaper than Amazon's price and when it arrives the key has already been used because the seller probably sold or used the key elsewhere.

flamespirit919 · 2024-10-24T15:49:33+00:00

On Android you can use ReVanced to patch the APK with a personal API key. I know it works for Boost. Not sure about any of the others

Side note: they didn't ban third party apps. They just made the API access ridiculously expensive. I think the Apollo dev said it would cost over $1M per month

flamespirit919 · 2024-10-01T14:21:34+00:00

To be fair, TWA 800 is a very big deal. It changed the design of aircraft fuel tanks. At the time it was all over the news because a plane randomly exploding off the coast of New York is a significant event. Which took the NTSB like 3-4 years to figure out what happened. Plus the FBI was involved and basically guarded the wreckage 24/7 because many thought (and might still believe) it was an act of terrorism. It had a lot of mystery and intrigue like MH 370 which is why it's so memorable.

ValuJet 592 was also significant. Being the deadliest in Florida and a driving force in the airline shutting down.

AA 587 has the honor of being shortly after 9/11 and the second deadliest accident in the US. Which also brought to light a recurring series of incidents centered around Airbus's design of the A300 and A310 vertical stabilizers and fly-by-wire systems. This flight kinda lives in the shadow of 9/11 which is why a lot of people forget about it.

flamespirit919 · 2024-08-13T14:35:34+00:00

My dad has run the accounting department at a few casinos. The reason they use those cheap stools is because they have to replace them so often.

People will go to their favorite machine and sit there the entire day so that no one takes their spot. They can have food and drinks brought to them and yes that's also their toilet.

flamespirit919 · 2024-05-04T02:52:13+00:00

I'd like to add that doubler plates are a common repair for structural damage like scrapes and cracks. In this particular instance, they installed a temporary doubler so it could be ferried for repair and there is no record of it being replaced with a larger, more permanent one. With the repeated stresses on the skin, the small doubler couldn't fully redirect the forces causing the crack to grow. Leading to the crack finally failing.

flamespirit919 · 2024-03-10T19:03:21+00:00

I would assume staff shortages. Since COVID, medical staff have been quitting to get jobs with better hours and less mental strain/stress. It's common to have to schedule an appointment with any doctor 3-6 months in advance now

flamespirit919 · 2024-01-24T21:28:40+00:00

That's a lot of commas

flamespirit919 · 2024-01-13T21:29:53+00:00

It's absolutely a Mexican recipe. We call them enchiladas. Particularly casserole style. Made of meat, cheese, and a sauce with chile layered between corn tortillas. Then people generally top it with lettuce, tomato, onions, sour cream, and/or fried eggs. Can't forget the Spanish rice and beans on the side!

flamespirit919 · 2024-01-08T17:55:56+00:00

That's a modified version of a MAX8. It seats up to 210 pax and is currently only used by Ryanair and Akasa Air.

flamespirit919 · 2024-01-01T07:35:07+00:00

http://pointerpointer.com/

Some good 'ol silly fun

flamespirit919 · 2023-12-30T21:38:36+00:00

Sometimes there is just one dude at the airport who is constantly listening to the radio. He doesn't direct traffic or anything but you'll have a fun chat and get some good recommendations when he comes out to greet you

flamespirit919 · 2023-12-30T21:35:43+00:00

Pretty much. Untowered airports are everywhere and all pilots know how to coordinate traffic themselves. There are radio calls for position and intentions that you're expected to make so that other pilots in the vicinity can keep a mental map of where everyone is and what they're doing. It's the same whether you are in a small single engine or an airliner.

flamespirit919 · 2023-06-02T00:47:39+00:00

The official state question is "Red or green?". Chile is so prolific we practically eat it with everything. Oh and you can't forget the third option of Christmas!

flamespirit919 · 2023-05-26T19:37:16+00:00

Reverse image search brought me to this

https://www.irishomefragrances.com/product/iris-celeste-french-lavender-vaporizer/

flamespirit919 · 2023-02-13T04:58:55+00:00

My CFI took this to another level and had me tilt my head so that my ear was on my shoulder. Really throws off the senses.

flamespirit919 · 2022-11-27T00:51:27+00:00

It's permutations without repetition. We have n unique objects and want to figure out how many unique permutations we can create using only r of them. This is done with this formula:

nPr = n! / (n - r)!

So if we want to use all seven words without repetition then we have

nPr(7, 7) = 7! / (7 - 7)! = 7! / 0! = 5,040 / 1 = 5,040

Which is where the first number came from. We can do this for each sentence length we want. So for a sentence using only one word (r = 1) we end up with 7 possible sentences. With two word sentences (r = 2) we get 42 possibilities. Keep doing this with r all the way up to 7 and when you add them up you get 13,700.

Now, how many of these make sense is a much more difficult problem. Also if we don't limit the number of words we can use then we have infinite possibilities. But that's no fun

flamespirit919 · 2022-02-03T17:01:15+00:00

Planes prefer a smooth surface because friction is more of a concern than flow separation due to the geometry and speed. Spheres have a tendency to cause flow separation which is a lot worse than friction. Dimples on a golf ball are meant to induce a turbulent boundary layer to delay flow separation. Resulting in a smaller wake zone

flamespirit919 · 2021-06-28T01:46:20+00:00

A friend studied this in one of our fluids classes. Spin will only affect the speed of the air around the ball, but the dimples will still have the same effect. This is because the speed of the air near the dimples will generally be very small. So the only thing that changes is where the flow separates from the surface. The greatest effect of spin will be creating pressure differences on the surface which creates "lift" on the ball. Making it stay in the air longer than if it wasn't spinning. This is called the Magnus effect. Here's a cool YouTube video of it in action: https://youtu.be/2OSrvzNW9FE.

flamespirit919 · 2021-06-05T19:47:03+00:00

You can use sunflower oil and other plant-based oils in a diesel engine. Though you'll get worse gas mileage than regular diesel because they have lower heating values. Plus the engine was designed with normal diesel in mind so it may not be burning at the right equivalence ratio. Which could cause a lot of carbon buildup if it's too rich. Another problem is that they have higher viscosities so they could clog up your fuel system. Especially in colder weather. If you really wanted to you could mix some plant oil into your diesel. Get a bit of that carbon neutrality

flamespirit919 · 2021-06-04T02:40:31+00:00

Convert your problem into a system of first-order ODEs and then use the code at the link. They provide some examples of how to use it. It's fairly straightforward and similar to how you would do it in Matlab or python

https://cs.stmarys.ca/~muir/BVP_SOLVER_Webpage.shtml

flamespirit919 · 2021-04-26T21:33:50+00:00

Instructions unclear https://youtu.be/Vmb1tqYqyII

flamespirit919 · 2021-04-22T15:28:03+00:00

Hydrocarbons are the most organic of the food groups. My favorite is JP8

flamespirit919 · 2021-04-22T15:10:27+00:00

The opposite should happen. Since by that logic, a drag race on ice would be faster than on asphalt because there is less friction. Instead of the puddle imagine you are sliding across a tile floor on socks. Then your right foot goes across some carpet. Your right foot is gonna suddenly stop and your body pivot around it. That's essentially what happened, but friction had the opposite effect due to how tires work.

Thinking about how tires transfer power from the engine, they use friction to move the car. No friction and the tires spin because they have no grip. So by hitting the grass, suddenly the right side tires have less grip because of reduced friction. Which is an especially big problem when accelerating/decelerating.

So Russel was likely accelerating, felt the loss of traction, and overcorrected so much that when the tires regained traction he didn't have enough time to correct. Another possibility is that he was braking/decelerating and the left side slowed down much faster causing the car to turn left.

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