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crazyjncsu

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    Comment #38469818

    That’s what I thought too, but it’s not the case. The transmission of a traditional ICE vehicle is a component commonly prone to failure due to reliance on clutches, friction coupl…

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    Comment #37456512

    Maybe not your experiences, but, to me, their transmissions: * hastened the inevitable transition away from manual gearboxes in cars * gave a bit of a “last hurrah” to ICE powertra…

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    Comment #37188199

    I don’t know about that. I have an older sport quad ATV. Loud AF with custom exhaust the last owner installed. I have full control of the fuel delivery with the carb mixture/jettin…

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    Comment #36752053

    To be fair to those people, they also don’t think you need your plywood and mulch because you should live in a nice little apartment with a surely altruistic landlord who takes car…

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    Comment #35649379

    I did not, but I was only looking for 25 year old trucks as that is the age requirement for import.

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    Comment #35648876

    I’m Jake from the article. The trucks have all just gone through auction and have inspection reports. Mine I bought for $2k was grade 3.5 and what I’d consider pristine for a 25 ye…

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    Comment #31849585

    I’ve seen a couple of these blooms—- first at the NCSU Plant Biology greenhouse and then at Tony Avent’s Plant Delights nursery. Both were spectacular. Neither smelled at all. I th…

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    Comment #31834898

    Not a traditional dsl modem, but these work well using dsl technology: https://www.amazon.com/Tupavco-Ethernet-Extender-Kit-Repeate...

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    Comment #30143026

    Range. Many people expect towing to severely and adversely affect the range.

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    Comment #29252890

    That’s certainly already the case. Ivermectin has lost effectiveness against particularly insidious parasites such as Haemonchus Contortus (barber pole worm). We’ve resorted to oth…

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    Comment #28331495

    Nothing new folks. 23 years ago I bought a RIVA TNT video card ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT ) where early models (and, conveniently, the ones sent to reviewers) were cl…

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    Comment #27780537

    > But this is exactly how market dynamics work in a union of states Which would be great if any other state had the weather and beauty of California. And California is fucking huge…

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    Comment #27235122

    “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ― Henry Ford The people answering your survey probably weren't aware they could power an entire jobsit…

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    Comment #26587422

    I expect dredging will be the main solution. Dredges are just slow moving, so they’ve taken a while to arrive. I’d also expect some long reach excavators and/or draglines to be wor…

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    Comment #26410681

    S3 backups. It’s part of this pseudo-cloud orchestrator we wrote for moving around instances of our single-tenant app.

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    Comment #26407724

    We had a bunch of servers get taken out by this. We were able to failover with backups from the last 12 hours. The incident sounded suspicious from the start, but the wording “coul…

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    Comment #26254240

    When did he engage in "explicitly invoking a politicized definition of the word merit"? I'm very new to the understanding that the word "merit" is now politicized, and I find it ve…

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    Comment #25544428

    Just so the laymen here don’t think this is some kind of hack, this is what is referred to as “rotating your tires”, which should sound familiar. The problem is that tires are ofte…

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    Comment #25543682

    They aren’t needed in fossil fuel based cars either if you have an engine for each drive wheel. But most electric cars still employ a differential on one or more axles, even Tesla.…

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    Comment #25510673

    If we're concerned about wordiness, we could have dropped "Rasberry Pi CM4" from the title as this detail seems irrelevant when the external wifi adapter is doing the heavy lifting…

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    Comment #25380958

    My fault guys, that was just me ... but I can’t help if if they have the only national radar animation that isn’t infested with ads and other bloat: https://radar.weather.gov/Conus…

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    Comment #25326762

    Plus it’s fun. We’re talking 20 ft high flames you can feel from 50 ft away.

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    Comment #25199145

    The problem is when “no abuse is acceptable” and at the same time we continue to redefine these types of terms to apply to lesser and lesser offenses. I personally am tired of work…

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    Comment #25185267

    >> estimate long term effects also with children comparable to young adults So, like nil then? I still can’t find anything beyond dramatized anecdotes to suggest any special danger…