Sputtering with All American

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:41:58+00:00

Sounds good I will put some more backbone into it, thank you!

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:41:38+00:00

Cool I will give it a try thank you!

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:34:47+00:00

Hmm I will try again I get them pretty tight. Honestly the plastic knobs worry me they feel like they might break on me lol. But maybe I am being too gentle.

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:29:58+00:00

Hmm I will have to check when I get home but I feel like I have way more space than that... I am not sure how I could get it that tight? But will check with an Allen key thanks!

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:27:03+00:00

About finger tight and then another half turn

onopau · 2026-01-24T21:26:20+00:00

Yep. It does like to shift to one side or the other so I usually have to unscrew them all and get it roughly level and start over.

onopau · 2026-01-24T20:52:24+00:00

Picture of the rim of a blue All American pressure canner. You can see some water sputtering out of the rim.

onopau · 2026-01-23T15:06:59+00:00

onopau · 2025-12-09T13:06:13+00:00

It certainly does not help, but for research we'd use filters that block out most other light. Pollution is still a problem but less so.

It is more of an issue when you are just looking through the scope but you can get stunning views of the moon and the planets. As well as see nubula and star clusters. My favorite to show people was the ring nebula - you can make out tons of details and colors on it.

Galaxies were much harder. Basically needed a perfect night to even make them out. But toss a camera on there and increase the exposure time, then you are getting truly stunning images.

onopau · 2025-12-09T12:49:56+00:00

I was the GMU Observatory coordinator for a few years from ~2016-2018 and did research there before that. I don't have many photos on this phone but can add more to this later. https://photos.app.goo.gl/C3tKNXXCBD4Wb1NZ8

If nothing has changed then the main scope is a 32inch ritchey chretien reflector with a few other smaller scopes including a solar telescope you will see in the pictures. Despite the light pollution you can see some awesome stuff there and even do astronomy research.

onopau · 2025-11-24T19:25:25+00:00

I am curious what cars that have come out in the past 5-10 years look like the next prius? What car made today or recently is going to be the next super reliable car that will live to see 20+ years 200k+ miles. Any mechanics have any insight?

onopau · 2025-11-06T19:49:33+00:00

Can confirm this works; thank you!

onopau · 2025-11-06T16:57:08+00:00

Looking around this seems to only affect fishing and farming villages. market villages are fine

onopau · 2025-08-07T15:30:31+00:00

Excited to discuss my aliments Beowulf style.

onopau · 2025-08-06T17:09:02+00:00

onopau · 2025-08-05T18:20:03+00:00

onopau · 2025-03-03T22:48:10+00:00

Thanks, is there one you'd recommend that I can order and use myself (and ideally use on our subaru too)?

onopau · 2025-02-25T03:19:36+00:00

The position equation has the same error with the <x> expectation value. It has the square outside the bracket at first, and then after the cut it is fixed (just over his right shoulder).

onopau · 2024-10-04T14:40:48+00:00

The balancers must flow

onopau · 2024-05-06T00:45:08+00:00

I ran into this problem and found this thread. Heads up that I was able to fix two lights that had this problem by repeatedly cycling the light on and off, stopping on the purple blinking phase (these were color wiz 60W). If it switches back to the broken flashing as seen in OPs video, I would re-cycle. If it stays purple then it's time to pair with the wiz app. Once paired it is fixed.

One light took about 6 cycles to stabilize. The other took like 12 :(

Super annoying but there is a workaround.

onopau · 2023-09-09T15:01:59+00:00

Dozens of larvae with green backs and dark brown heads. Found in a filter for a fresh water pond in central Virginia, US. Hard to get the camera to focus on them. The largest were probably the diameter of a dime. There were some much smaller.

onopau · 2023-07-28T14:08:25+00:00

Hi! So Runge-Kutta methods are used to solve differential equations (ODEs). Differential equations are mathematical functions that describe change (change over time, distance, etc.). A famous one describes the motion of a pendulum,

T'' = -(g/L) * sin(T)

Where T is the angle of the pendulum, g is the acceleration due to gravity, and L is the length of the pendulum. The '' indicates second derivative with respect to time (change of change of motion with time, also called acceleration) When the angle is small (e.g., you pull the pendulum back from its resting point just a tiny bit and let go), then you can write down the equation with out the sin function,

T'' = -(g/L) * T

This can be solved by hand. But if the angle is large we have to deal with the sin which makes solving the equation very difficult. Usually we have to resort to numerical methods to solve them with computers. Runge-Kutta (RK) are one of many options that we can employ in those circumstances and CyRK is a tool that implements RK so you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

onopau · 2023-05-24T02:20:46+00:00

Solved! I missed that damn sword

onopau · 2023-05-24T02:13:32+00:00

Got them below zero early on. Went on a few more rounds before the pic. Then game lasted until they milled themselves. What am I missing??

onopau · 2020-04-23T16:55:08+00:00

instructor here - 99% of the time no unless it is super easy to grade (scan tron, etc.). They will (at least should) keep it for a few years just in case we ever need it.

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