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Comment #46819752
I didn't think I'd see Steve mentioned on this site! The camp stove would probably be fine, but the fuel would be an issue. I wonder if axes are allowed in carry on?
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Comment #44773137
I'm stuck with a cloth interior. I bring a beach towel to drape on the seat after my rides. Mud falls onto the towel which makes it easy to clean out of the vehicle.
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Comment #44748572
It depends on the use case. If your server is able to handle 45k connections but 42k of them are stalled because of mobile users with too much packet loss, QUIC could look pretty a…
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Comment #44748370
QUIC would work okay, but not really have many advantages for machine-to-machine traffic. Machine-to-machine you tend to have long-lived connections over a pretty good network. In …
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Comment #44259440
I've wanted a receipt printer for years just for giggles, after doing some custom integrations with them in medical labs. It turns out F**book marketplace in my area has some for m…
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Comment #43661313
One other thing you can do - live in a newly developed area. Areas that had car traffic when lead was still used in fuel can have significant amounts of lead in the soil. If you li…
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Comment #43095307
I had to look this up, and I found the answer interesting because I used to develop software to accurately report magnetic declination at any point in time, for directional drillin…
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Comment #42775395
I'm not a lawyer, but worked in the US for 6 years as a Canadian TN. The green card eligibility is the big differentiator between TN and H1B. Other than that, there isn't much diff…
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Comment #42703286
My guess is no, it won't. This is US taxpayer money being used to increase the manufacturing capacity available to the market so that the US has domestic manufacturing when stuff g…
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Comment #4302348
It is unlikely that a natural gas conversion could be done for this price. The tanks to hold natural gas are quite expensive and I doubt we will find a significantly better way to …
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Comment #4302303
The design decreases the efficiency of the car in total, through increase in weight, increase in mass and probably a few other things we haven't thought of. It makes up for it by a…
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Comment #4302272
I don't see how the design could be adapted to disc brakes. The majority of vehicles sold have drum brakes on the rear, probably close to the 90% figure the person in the video men…