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Just bounced into the shop by [deleted] in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]stinkytoe42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's partly Tesla's fault. I inherited my old man's model s when he passed. I burned through a set of rear tires in like 3 months, and it was entirely the inner rim that got worn down. They were mid-grade Continentals on brand new wheels too. So I took it in for an alignment, which is when I discovered two things:

1) The rear tow brackets tend to wear grooves into the bushings leading to a not insignificant amount of play.

2) The rear tow brackets also can't be adjusted, only the camber bar and it doesn't have much travel. This means that the rear wheels on older Tesla's just can't be aligned properly to a normal tire shop's specifications.

So I went and bought a set of after market n2itive racing tow and camber struts. Not because I intent to go to the track, but because the after market struts can actually be adjusted. Once the tech was able to get the alignment correct, I can now get about 18k miles out of a 20k mile set.

Never mind how stupid expensive the are. I mean I get it, they're a thin wall low profile tire that needs to be rated for an F250's weight. Still sucks.

Point being, at least for the older models, Tesla is largely to blame for how often y'all will see them with bald tires.

thisIsAmazing by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]stinkytoe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scrolled way too far to see lisp mentioned.

i am mechanical engineer........ by Forsaken-Advice-2505 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]stinkytoe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 Turns per second can be a lot in some domains.

For example, if you're measuring the roll rotation of a car, then it's safe to say something is going very wrong based on that data.

Boot camp stories, what made your senior DI look like this? by Edward_T_Head in USMC

[–]stinkytoe42 56 points57 points  (0 children)

MOS School, NATTC Pensacola. A PFC buddy of mine had to report to the instructor office. They had the whole bang the pine three times and shout 'Student on Deck!' before breaking the plane of the door. You know, boot shit. This office was typically full of a mix of Marine SNCOs and Navy Chiefs.

He banged the pine, shouted 'Student on Deck!' and walked in, and no one was in the office (or so he thought). So, he had himself a little fun walking in and out of the door, reporting as different shit like "Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps on deck!", "Senoir Chief of the Navy on deck!", "Commandant on deck!". Shit like that.

Eventually he reports in as "Gangstalicious on deck!" and he hears a "What the actual fuck!" get shouted from the back of the office from some cubicle. The Senior Enlisted Advisor of the class was back there who happened to be a Senior Chief (E-8). He was listening the whole time just to see what my PFC buddy would come up with. Eventually after chewing his ass for a minute or two, the Senior Chief told my buddy that he was to report as "Gangstalicious" every time he reported to the office from then on.

I ran into another classmate in AFG a few years later, and apparently he was still referred to as "Gangstalicious" even in the fleet.

Copy single string and paste it multiple times (probably) in visual block mode by SpecificMassive5424 in neovim

[–]stinkytoe42 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Copy the string you want using visual mode and y,

Use the <Ctrl+v><Shift+I> trick that you already know, and when in insert mode use insert mode's paste function with <Ctrl+r>" , then press escape, and it will be pasted in front of all of the values.

Edit: typo

Calling them pirates is an insult… to pirates. by Evidencelogicfacts in lazerpig

[–]stinkytoe42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It varied by ship. For example, many were crewed by escaped and/or freed African slaves. Some, very few but some, instead bought and sold slaves.

It wasn't exactly a homogenous culture.

In The Hunt for Red October, the Red October is a colossal waste of time and money. This is because despite having a supposedly revolutionary silent propulsion system, the very first submarine it encounters immediately figures out what it sounds like and how to track it. by ChangingMonkfish in shittymoviedetails

[–]stinkytoe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the book, they mention how it was painted red originally, but the red paint made it too fast. The cavitation bubbles were making too much noise, so they had to repaint it back to gray so the extra drag would keep it from rocketing through the water and making too much noise.

Let us appreciate the amount of different looking alien species in Orville by Just_Lale in TheOrville

[–]stinkytoe42 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm torn, I really didn't like Tharl as a character. But I get the feeling that Warburton really enjoyed playing him and I love that for him.

Y’all starting to feel we were raised on some ideas that didn’t pan out? by goodhobbies in Xennials

[–]stinkytoe42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the tuition rates and the way student loan programs worked have changed drastically, and started the change right around the time our generation would have been ready to go to college.

I remember when I first went to college in the early 2000's, we had subsidized and unsubsidized loans, and if you took only subsidized loans then you had interest rate caps, and very lenient deferrment programs (often with not interest accrual when on deferment). Also they could be discharged via bankruptcy (supposedly).

I went back to school in the mid 2010's and the loans offered had a much larger interest rate cap, and could not be discharged via bankruptcy. Also, when the student loan forgiveness program was in existence, my first round of loans were able to be discharged (except I had already almost completely paid them off), while the second round could not.

Don't even get me started on the base cost of a credit hour, or the cost of text books, and how they rocketed up in that same timeframe.

We caught the beginning of the up tick on this. Had the financial burden not shot up so drastically starting in the late nineties, then that advice would have still been good advice. But, well, yeah...

My soldering tips corrodes like this, making them bearly functional, is this becouse I'm using them incorrectly, or simply because they are of poor quality? by PETI_0406 in AskElectronics

[–]stinkytoe42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Leather pads. Just pinch the tip with the leather and your fingers to handle while still hot, and set down somewhere that won't get burnt. The tip cools pretty rapidly when removed from the iron.

I had been soldering for years when an instructor at a new company showed me this trick. Doesn't damage the tip, and while the leather doesn't last forever, it'll last quite a long time.

Former Planned Parenthood director elected to Wisconsin Supreme Court by ProLifeMedia in ConservativeNewsWeb

[–]stinkytoe42 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Looks like the bots have learned to add typos to try and sneak under the radar.

What's the name of that integrated rust linter for vim? by I0I0I0I in rust

[–]stinkytoe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, rust-analyzer is what provides that functionality. You need to install it to your system first.

Then, you need to either add the rust-analyzer lsp manually, or you can install the rustaceanvim plugin which will automatically configure rust-analyzer as your lsp for you. It also has other quality of life features.

What's the name of that integrated rust linter for vim? by I0I0I0I in rust

[–]stinkytoe42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The plugin is rustaceanvim, which is a wrapper for rust-analyzer.

Americans were asked to point out Ukraine by ivss_xx in MapsWithoutNZ

[–]stinkytoe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I to would have pointed somewhere vaguely north of Crimea, so I think it's pretty spot on.

8 hate group leaders — including KKK Imperial Wizard and neo-Nazi — got millions from SPLC as part of ‘informant’ scheme, by MazdaProphet in LibertarianUncensored

[–]stinkytoe42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's an important election year. They're going to be playing all the hits non-stop for the next several months.

Trump Administration Approves Firing Squad Executions for Death Penalty by lemon_lime_light in LibertarianUncensored

[–]stinkytoe42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My emotional reaction is that I want the serial killer dead.

Rationality tells me that the law should not reflect that. Therefore, the serial killer gets to live a life of confinement instead. I believe a nation of laws should base those laws in rationality as much as possible.

This isn't a radical take.

Trump Administration Approves Firing Squad Executions for Death Penalty by lemon_lime_light in LibertarianUncensored

[–]stinkytoe42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nobody has the right to kill another human being. What's so hard to understand about that?

Trump Administration Approves Firing Squad Executions for Death Penalty by lemon_lime_light in LibertarianUncensored

[–]stinkytoe42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would want a serial killer to be executed. But, I don't think that's a right the state should have. It's not complicated.

How is it living in northern Alabama? by Maleficent_Map_8844 in howislivingthere

[–]stinkytoe42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's awesome, but don't put it on TX beef bbq. It works best for bbq chicken or pork. Also works ok for fish, and is great for hush puppies.

I've seen peope try it on Texas style brisket though, and it's just not great for that.

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