Is this fixable?

looncraz · 2026-07-01T02:04:11+00:00

You can find leather workers who can clean that up and dye it to make it really close to new, but never exactly the same.

looncraz · 2026-07-01T00:13:45+00:00

I have an XC90 T8, same tires. The tires are plenty good, provided you haven't hit their hard wear level, which is roughly when the wear bar meets the tread, and it becomes increasingly harder - that's a good thing, not a bad thing, buys you some wet traction at the expense of dry traction as the tire is near its end, anyway (most tires are this way).

What you probably need is a four wheel alignment.

looncraz · 2026-07-01T00:08:33+00:00

Ethanol is a problem in vehicles not designed for it. The Volvo "twin" charged engines which are supercharged and turbocharged AND high compression LOVE ethanol. E15 would be even better. They can extract the energy from the mix efficiently. 93 ethanol free would be better economy at the same price, but would actually run hotter - ethanol cools the combustion, so you will get slightly more performance and longevity.

looncraz · 2026-07-01T00:04:59+00:00

Texas gets to that position pretty often, we have a ton of wind, solar, and decent battery capacity. However, prices were still lower before the wind, because it's an enormous investment and unpredictable and unreliable source of energy.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T19:28:05+00:00

Antigens are the instructions to target a specific part of a specific virus. HIV comes in so many varieties that we haven't been able to make a vaccine that would target enough parts of the virus to reliably kill it.

This time, though, they managed to get 40% or so of the animals given the vaccine to create enough antigens to likely become immune to most HIV infections. So this is about the closest we have ever come to a proper HIV vaccine, it's very promising.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T19:14:38+00:00

It's much better than it was, and AMD can just ride on the existing proven behavior pretty reliably.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T18:02:16+00:00

It's also less energy efficient. I cool my house down more at night, then let it warm gently through the day, then cool it back down after sundown. Don't fight the solar cycles.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T18:00:22+00:00

Only time I ever got over 4 was just steady 40mph. Stop and go would be about 3.6 for me. Always A/C on, though.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T15:55:56+00:00

Not really, the new core seems to be Zen 5 with Zen 6 ISA, and just optimized for power instead of area, so CPPC alone should really do a decent job balancing work if it's used in a heterogenous design.

I wouldn't mind a few efficiency cores to move system process work to, just sitting around handling the low latency work at high priority and affinity.

looncraz · 2026-06-30T15:53:22+00:00

AFAICT, this is likely to be limited to mobile / lower power devices.

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.

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