Fathoming airport wifi port tribbles
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So you probably don't want to hear that station was down to $2.54 this morning. If it helps, the 91 or whatever is only 30 cents more.
That means that it's under $3, which would make me happy. 93 octane is around $3.35-$3.45 where I am at the cheapest stations.
I could probably run 87 octane as my ECU has timing tables for that, but it would mean losing 20-30 horsepower AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.
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I could probably run 87 octane as my ECU has timing tables for that, but it would mean losing 20-30 horsepower AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.
It also means reduced economy and risk of damage. Richer fuel mix, late spark = less power from more fuel. The ECU will only adapt when it detects knocking, it's not a predictive thing. All around it's a bad idea.
Also, you lot should stop complaining about the price of fuel. Other than Saudi Arabia I think you've got about the cheapest fuel in the world. I pay about 1.65 AUD a litre for diesel. 95 RON is similar, 98 RON is more.
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retains the 1/39.37-metre definition for survey purposes
I'm still gonna answer "10 inches long", whatever your definition.
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Other than Saudi Arabia I think you've got about the
cheapest fuellowest gas tax in the world.Stop whining about the problems you guys created for yourselves.
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Stop whining about the problems you guys created for yourselves.
On the way home, I saw gas dropped another 6 cents, to $2.48. Since I've got tomorrow off I think I'll drive over to the nearest Kroger and use another $0.20/gallon discount. By then I might be able to get half a tank for under $2.25/gal.
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Stop whining about the problems you guys created for yourselves.
Back at ya, buddy. Fuel prices wouldn't matter if you didn't insist on driving thirsty land yachts 100km each way to work every day.
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Back at ya, buddy. Fuel prices wouldn't matter if you didn't insist on driving thirsty land yachts 100km each way to work every day.
I very much enjoy my large-displacement V8 land yacht, thank you very much!
Filed under: although it handles much better than a yacht and can get 25 miles per gallon
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Fuel prices wouldn't matter if you didn't insist on driving thirsty land yachts 100km each way to work every day.
My commute is 1.4 miles. Suck it!
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My commute is 1.4 miles.
That sounds like a long way. Is that a long way? How many hogsheads is that?
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11200 links
11.2 furlongs
448 rods
2464 yards
22176 hands
1.216567 nautical miles
[spoiler]2.25 km[/spoiler]
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Back at ya, buddy. Fuel prices wouldn't matter if you didn't insist on driving thirsty land yachts 100km each way to work every day.
Sure they would. I work from home and they matter a lot to me. This is what we call, Economics.
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if you use points, you get scaling on different devices.
See, that's how it should work, but baked into CSS3 is an explicit requirement that 72pt == 96px, the Windows standard. So all measurements always scale.Incidentally, Photoshop and other Adobe software bake in an explicit requirement that 72pt == 72px, the Mac standard. Which it enforces on Windows as well. And includes this fact in PNG files it generates. *siiigh*
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[@dhromed]'ll be back.
That's good news.
So, something transient like heavy workload? Not a silent rage-quit?
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So, something transient like heavy workload? Not a silent rage-quit?
Yup. He dropped me a note a while back.
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See, that's how it should work, but baked into CSS3 is an explicit requirement that 72pt == 96px
Last time I tried printing a web page with fonts specified in px, they printed in printer pixels. Has that changed? While a 12px font may be readable on screen, it's not on a modern printer.
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11200 links11.2 furlongs448 rods2464 yards22176 hands1.216567 nautical miles
You forgot
your flash drive1232 fathoms.
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Doing it wrong™.
You need to take a photo of the screen and print that out.
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I never said the list was exhaustive. There are lots of other units I could have included (e.g., Windows Calculator includes a conversion for pica (which one, and why does the drop-down say "PICA"?), but I thought that was sufficient.
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You need to take a photo of the screen and print that out.
You remember I did that in another context not too long ago, right? I still have the pic and I can upload it here if need be.
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What?
Filed under: try doing dimensional analysis in imperial units sometime
Oh no, Imperial is bad for the opposite reason: it has a nicely divisible base (12... except sometimes 16...), but it's inconsistent. 10 is not bad for divisibility, but 12 is way better. 60 is awesome.
What SI brings that is a wonderful idea is not the reliance on base 10, which is... pragmatic, but wrongheadedly so, but the regular prefix system. However, even this it does in what an urban drag queen would call a basic way: irregular affixes to be learned in almost as arbitrary a system as Imperial units. (What comes between kilo and mega?)
Instead, a system with a highly divisible base, regularly-named affixes based on the powers they represent, and a language-agnostic set of units would be much better in many ways.
Or, if you prefer, we can all start using Quote Notation. :P
EDIT: New (I think) Dicksores WTF: the : above appears as a colon in the editor, but as its literal in the post. ::sigh::
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Windows Calculator includes a conversion for pica (which one, and why does the drop-down say "PICA"?
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Or, if you prefer, we can all start using Quote Notation. :P
EDIT: New (I think) Dicksores WTF: the : above appears as a colon in the editor, but as its literal in the post. ::sigh::
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