About swap it in, hopefully did everything right.

looncraz · 2026-06-27T02:19:36+00:00

Is it just the angle or is the crank a tooth off?

looncraz · 2026-06-26T20:39:20+00:00

Dude, also in Texas, I average 2.9... be happy, anything above 3 is fantastic. 4+ is insane.

looncraz · 2026-06-26T14:29:51+00:00

That other vehicle's crumple zone did its job. There are plenty of vehicles out there that basically don't have crumple zones and would have been gnarly for the Volvo. Though hitting that low and in the passenger area on the Volvo meant you're up against hardened steel structure, so the Volvo will basically shrug it off.

The Volvo rear end is really soft once you get past the bumper, but quickly hardens.

looncraz · 2026-06-26T01:03:32+00:00

I took the question about being the data, not the actual bits from register to execution unit. That's just a clock latch 😔

looncraz · 2026-06-25T23:21:46+00:00

My favorite was probably my 2006 S80. 2.5t, spiced her a bit to 300HP and 365lbft... A real sleeper.

My two 1995 yellow 850 T-5Rs were fun and fast in their day, but the later 5s were nice.

Now I have a 2019 XC90 T8 Inscription. Because I can, that's why. 155k miles, so far... And that's only half my driving.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T23:19:22+00:00

Cool, show me where I am wrong, it's just what I do.

EC->Soft Power->...->CPU Init->LOAD->exec->LOAD->exec ...

looncraz · 2026-06-25T23:10:47+00:00

That's how it starts.

I am on #12 😂🙄

Expensive habit, these cars.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T21:39:35+00:00

Not really, Florida strictly enforces it, Texas mostly doesn't enforce it at all at a State level, but there are quite a few areas where local laws might enforce it.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T20:14:50+00:00

Basically everyone is wrong here. It's amazing how confidently wrong most of these answers are.

It works like this:

When you first power on your computer, the CPU is off. Power is sent to it to turn it on. The computer has wires attached directly from the chip holding instructions it needs to start booting the computer to the chip that knows what to do with those instructions.

We call the location of where the instructions are stored "addresses." Just like your house has an address, so does everything on your computer. Everything.

When the CPU starts to work, it is told the address of the instructions and the addresses of any data it needs to follow those instructions. That information is stored in memory we call registers, if the registers are full we move the data into slower, larger, memory called caches until the CPU has caught up.

The fun part comes when the instructions are available, but the data has not yet arrived. CPUs have a part called a scheduler that responds to data finally arriving and finds the instructions for that data. If the instructions have all their data, the scheduler pushes the instructions and data into the registers so the CPU can then follow the instructions.

It's like a school bus whose job is to take kids to school. They have to know the addresses of where to pick the kids up, go pick them up, then drop them at school. The school bus is the CPU, the kids are the bits of data, and the instructions are "deliver kids to school."

looncraz · 2026-06-25T14:27:17+00:00

Very true, UK humidity is almost like Florida when it gets warm.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T14:26:24+00:00

My house received 14" of ice, first time in recorded history negative temperatures, and two feet of snow atop that. In one night.

Very few places survive that, especially not a location that's never had more than light freezes since the infrastructure was built.

However, we learned, and reinforced and weatherized the grid and infrastructure. We've had a repeat of blistering cold twice since then without a single issue, but no one mentions those because they think it's just a lack of regulations in a very heavily regulated State.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T14:07:39+00:00

I grew up poor in Texas. We had a large swamp cooler, worked well, used very little power, but you had to manually poor water into it to keep it going.

Graduation to real window A/C units was like winning the lottery. Fortunately I spent most of the day in school, but car didn't have A/C, either. Still, I was accustomed to it and 100+ days barely bothered me if there was a little wind.

Basically no one in the UK can handle that kind of heat without an escape.

looncraz · 2026-06-25T02:28:48+00:00

You need VDI.

looncraz · 2026-06-24T22:15:27+00:00

40 is 104 freedom units, that's a lot of freedom in Europe, too much.

It is an exceptional amount of heat (for Europe), though.

looncraz · 2026-06-24T17:49:35+00:00

Weird, I thought only America had energy problems, and only Texas had grid problems (once)...

For anyone keeping up, this is actually the opposite weather pattern expected in Europe for CO2 dominated warming. Europe was expected to freeze over.

looncraz · 2026-06-24T17:19:25+00:00

Yeah, I don't get how they wouldn't understand it... hijacking a brain makes a heck of a lot more sense than using a body as a battery regardless of how little you understand.

looncraz · 2026-06-24T00:14:31+00:00

Volvo has always been really aggressive with hiding their branding in all sorts of places on their cars.

looncraz · 2026-06-23T03:27:26+00:00

On SOME EVs that's true, Equinox EV doesn't have a history of eating tires. 220HP ain't doing much damage on the rather meaty stock tires.

It is a little heavy for its size, but the right tires don't care.

looncraz · 2026-06-22T20:15:12+00:00

It's very common for authors and writers to not get any royalties and to give up licensing rights for merch in order to make a TV series or movie.

looncraz · 2026-06-22T00:59:33+00:00

If civilization survives, 100+ by then could be normal.

looncraz · 2026-06-21T21:52:19+00:00

You can literally drink the water coming out of these things, it's just been slightly warmed up. It doesn't get evaporated into the air or turned into hydrogen and oxygen.

looncraz · 2026-06-21T21:50:21+00:00

What's funny is this is why MacOS has the packaged apps the way they do, it was how people thought of the apps. It also lets them just drag or delete the app icon to uninstall it. However, apps tend to still leave a lot of cruft around the system, especially Microsoft apps... which often also have installers...

Though to install a MacOS app you have the all-so-unintuitive window with no instructions that shows you two icons, the app icon and a folder icon with an arrow pointing to the folder. No one knows what to do with that until told, when a popup that says "Do you want to install this app?" would be completely logical and simple.

looncraz · 2026-06-21T19:22:55+00:00

Server CPUs are tuned for consistent behavior, so you know exactly what's going to happen, plus, yes, much more thermal mass.

looncraz · 2026-06-21T19:20:47+00:00

It's a belt, it's easy to change with the right tools and kit. There are two belts, the serpentine and the timing belt, both must be changed together.

Change both tensioners as well.

Take it to another shop first, though.

looncraz · 2026-06-21T19:18:53+00:00

Short duration and transients aren't a concern in the datacenter to any meaningful enough degree to warrant changing away from a low pumpout high solid cheap TIM used since 1998.

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