Recent content by drnickriviera

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    2025 EV & self-driving news

    Beware the ICCU on kia/hyundai. It's made me wary of them Noticed that it parked in a red zone? Wonder how that works in an autonomous vehicle? is it standing or parking?
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    Trump parade

    Army band actually played 'Fortunate Son'? Don't show Trump the lyrics, else the Greenland base is going to get a new band. Out of sync marching hurt my eyes, just some random bros out for a walk
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    BOINC Pentathlon 2025

    We need more participation from small fries like me. Maybe i'll ask the mods if I can spam multiple topics to get more recruits. Made it my goal for this year to sell off all my old equipment and upgrade. Maybe a 50 series card and a AM5 system. I was eyeing the servers godman is selling...
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    Jesus's middle name is Hume! Caution: Some NSFW images within!

    Sound on. Looks fun, bet tickets aren't cheap
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    Weekly DC Stats - 30MAR2025

    Anyone know who mazzmond is? Came out of nowhere and blew past me in F@H like i was standing still
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    Any word anywhere on whats up with free-dc ?

    Think a power outage took out his webserver and he doesn't want to mess with it anymore. Skillz maybe going to help out
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    DIY Electricians, Posidriv is your friend

    I've had good results with robertson, but posi is another step up. If you look at the head design, you see that you don't get contact on all 4 sides of a robertson. Question is, when did they change and why didn't they tell us peasants? I've bought klein electrical screwdrivers and even a...
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    DIY Electricians, Posidriv is your friend

    I'm not sure why i'm just leaning about this, but the screws on things like outlets and terminal bars are posidriv. Looks like a phillips with a square drive inside. I've used square drive mostly for electrical work, but have had issues with getting good torque on them. Pz 1 for the screws...
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    Only 31% of Americans want an EV or PHEV. What about you?

    That's interesting. What in particular in the Bolt gets you? Seems to me the bolt seats are at least a few inches higher than the leaf. Wish more mfgs would copy Easy Entry from Tesla. Moves the seat and steering wheel in a position you feel is easier to enter and exit
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    Only 31% of Americans want an EV or PHEV. What about you?

    Just a small correction, not all Bolts in the recall had their batteries replaced, some just had extra software installed to monitor it. But for the $4-5k extra price tag, you get a heck of a lot more EV.
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    Only 31% of Americans want an EV or PHEV. What about you?

    It would probably work for you then. They are getting dirt cheap. I may be selling my Leaf 24kwh soon and will probably be in the $2500 range. I'm also tempted to strip the drive train and put it in my ranger, but hate to junkyard an operating car. I'd say in summer with an 80% degraded...
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    < Dead > Bedjet cooling or warming sleep aid for $244. Deal may end tonight.

    Thanks for posting. I usually check SD, but didn't see that deal. Wish it had actual cooling as my wife likes it at -200 K while sleeping
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    What is this garden tool?

    Never seen that design before, but kinda looks like a thatching rake
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    Nobel prize in chemistry - something we all contributed to through crunching DC

    Related to this thread and protein folding. Not sure why they didn't mention folding@home. Now I question whether it is worth it to run fah or rosetta if ai does it so much better