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A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by bluGill »

fallinditch wrote: post #6

This story reminds me that I have a recurring nightmare: I am driving a car and the brakes hardly work at all, so I am in constant fear that something will go terribly wrong. This nightmare was born from a real experience with my first vehicle, a VW micro bus that had horribly squishy brakes.

The only time my brakes went out on my I happened to be towing a 10,000lbs trailer. I was able to use the trailer brakes only for 10 miles of stop and go traffic (rural freeway under construction, the backup started just past the previous exit, and of course the brakes were working until then). I never want that to happen again.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by psadri »

I feel like this could be adopted for your homegrown "whatever" framework (eg: UI framework, Auth framework, …)

Congratulations on getting hired to this team! You probably count yourself lucky, but don't. We had been trying to fill this role for the past 5 months and every candidate would run away as soon as we showed them our homegrown auth framework. But don't run yet please, do give it a try.

So, you are still here? It must be a bad job market out there. Looks like you found the documentation for the project. Let me save you the trouble, it has not be updated since 3 years ago (about the time John quit). No worries, there are lots of usage examples in the Perforce repo. Perforce is like Git but that's for another day.

So you managed to checkout the code. Before you type "make", let me remind you to install this particular version of Python and set up your LD paths. Make sure you don't have anything else relying on Python because they will probably never work again.

If you hit the dreaded "std::vector > >'} is not derived from 'const char*'" error, ask Joe (if he is still around) to show you which header file you need to tweak. That's not checked in because it breaks the build on a legacy server we still have running for one of the customers.

… someone else please take over… :-)

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by maples37 »

olyjohn wrote: post #22
selimthegrim wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t this why you cannot push start cars anymore?

I was really surprised when I couldn't push start my 1992 Miata. I had the thing rolling down a hill at like 15mph in first for at least 2 blocks, engine was spinning, but just refused to fire. Jump pack fired it right up. I know the battery was dead after I left the light on, but I figured for sure the alternator would make enough juice to fire up the injectors and ignition...

Some alternators ironically require electricity to make electricity. They don't have permanent magnets inside, but instead use electromagnets. So from a stone cold battery, if there's not enough power to get those electromagnets functional, you don't have a way of converting that rotational energy into electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternator#By_excitation

I do wonder how much current that requires, though. In a pinch, could a duct-taped string of AAs be enough to get you going?

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by dmurray »

th0ma5 wrote: post #37
riffraff wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's the thing with quicksand? I was born in 1980 and it seemed people would get stuck in quicksand on tv regularly when I was a kid, but it seems a kind of danger that has almost disappeared from the collective narrative. Why was it popular before? Why isn't it anymore? This baffles me.

You still can very much die in quicksand but the problem is that you get like your foot stuck in a way that you just can't escape and then you just die out there like that. But the idea that you sink down and drowned is some kind of weird combination of a swamp and not really quicksand but is much more filmable.

You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown.

Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too.

[0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by drewg123 »

By now you’ve certainly noticed the smell. That is the aroma of Mobil 1 oil being boiled off

That sounds so familiar!

My first car was a barn-find 22 year old (at the time) 1964 Triumph TR4. It had a moderately bad oil leak, and the oil would land on the exhaust manifold and be blown along the transmission tunnel. Smoke would fill the interior around the shift lever. It would smoke more heavily the harder you pushed it.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by gdevenyi »

fallinditch wrote: post #6

This story reminds me that I have a recurring nightmare: I am driving a car and the brakes hardly work at all, so I am in constant fear that something will go terribly wrong. This nightmare was born from a real experience with my first vehicle, a VW micro bus that had horribly squishy brakes.

Fun fact, the VW microbus has the same engine as this Porsche.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by bloomingeek »

Great read. Several years ago I owned and drove a '67 Olds Cutlass for sixteen years. (Two door, auto-trans, AC, standard brakes.) I purchased the car in 1990 and everything was in working order. When the carburetor finally warped beyond repair, I cobbled together some other Olds carb body parts and, since the automatic choke parts were bad, I rigged up a manual choke line through the firewall. This made the car undriveable for the other drivers in my family! The sequence of gas pedal pumps and knowing when to disengage the choke was too much to surpass. :)

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by wildzzz »

fallinditch wrote: post #6

This story reminds me that I have a recurring nightmare: I am driving a car and the brakes hardly work at all, so I am in constant fear that something will go terribly wrong. This nightmare was born from a real experience with my first vehicle, a VW micro bus that had horribly squishy brakes.

A teenager slammed a beat up Chrysler 200 into the back of my rental car. Once he managed to get the door open, he said something along the lines of "yeah the brakes don't work so well". Of course this was in Florida so there was never any expectation for his car to ever have working brakes. Luckily I paid for the LDW on the rental so it was not my problem.

Re: A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)

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Post by bityard »

dmurray wrote: post #45
th0ma5 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still can very much die in quicksand but the problem is that you get like your foot stuck in a way that you just can't escape and then you just die out there like that. But the idea that you sink down and drowned is some kind of weird combination of a swamp and not really quicksand but is much more filmable.

You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown . Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too. [0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...

I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."
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