Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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That's ; you want one of these:
http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/images/L-Escort-RS1800-Mk2.jpgSome might say you want one of these:
But there's three reasons why not:
- It's not an Escort; the chassis is actually a shortened Sierra
- Jeremy Clarkson used to have one
- It makes you look like a gigantic penis
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Some might say you want one of these:
I do. They're brilliant like most fast Ford hatchbacks, even if they are a bit outdated now.
I'd have one without the whaletail, the removal of which was an option, thoughthe chassis is actually a shortened Sierra
Sure, but it's the Sierra Cosworth chassis.
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I'd have one without the whaletail, the removal of which was an option, though
Mandatory in Swiss-land. But then in Swiss-land it's illegal to wash your car on Sundays, so...
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I stopped liking the Escort after the MK III. I had one, and it handled very well - but that's another story.
@loopback0 Whilst I had [spoiler]damp[/spoiler] dreams of a Cosworth, any Cosworth (or RS), a chopped and welded chassis is a chopped and welded chassis. I can understand putting the power of a Sierria into the body of an Escort, but I would not be happy with the overall integrity of the resultant hybrid. If I wanted a car that could go round corners on all four wheels at high speed, I would get one. Not make one - but that is my personal opinion and preference.
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chopped and welded chassis
It wasn't 'chopped and welded'; it was the Sierra chassis design, just a bit shorter. It was made by Ford themselves, after all.
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My apologies. I did not "get" that.
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it was the Sierra chassis design, just a bit shorter
Not by a lot either. The Escort Cosworth shell is slightly longer.
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Reason 2 and 3 are identical
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@dcon Do they have one for Assembly?
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@Zecc And with a smartphone's camera, you could probably use it as an optical mouse too.
But seriously. The mouse is a great idea, but obviously only for cases when you just need a super-cheap computer.
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@dcon Ooh, a great way to test static analysis tools
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New Year's Eve morning, pot of coffee and a half (plus) bottle of peppermint schnapps.
So far so good.
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@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
New Year's Eve morning, pot of coffee and a half (plus) bottle of peppermint schnapps.
Sounds like the perfect preparation for watching Hogan's Heroes reruns.
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@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
..... my doctor doesn't want me doing this?
where do i sign up?
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@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I am quite sure that can be done perfectly safely.
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@PleegWat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@boomzilla said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
I am quite sure that can be done perfectly safely.
FWIW, in a regular ballet class, at least at beginning levels, you're not actually dancing with anyone else. You're either doing basic arm and leg exercises at the barre, doing the same movements at the same time, but each in your own individual space, or taking turns doing the same movements, one at a time, at the centre. As long as you maintained an arm plus a sword distance between each other, the only danger would be hitting yourself, although that's not an insignificant danger, depending on what you're doing.
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Soccer, but with one rule change: there's no such thing as "this team's goal." Whoever kicks a ball into either goal, their team scores a point.
This would completely change the strategy of the game!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Soccer, but with one rule change: there's no such thing as "this team's goal." Whoever kicks a ball into either goal, their team scores a point.
This would completely change the strategy of the game!
But then you'd need to track who last touched the ball before it went into the goal. It would also effectively eliminate the goalie position and offside penalties.
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@lolwhat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
It would also effectively eliminate the goalie position
Either that, or each team would have two...
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@Mason_Wheeler If we're counting who last kicked the ball, rather than who last touched the ball, then you'd also need to define kick well enough to make it crystal-clear who kicked the ball into the goal in the vast majority of circumstances. That seems pretty difficult.
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@lolwhat Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
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@lolwhat said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Soccer, but with one rule change: there's no such thing as "this team's goal." Whoever kicks a ball into either goal, their team scores a point.
This would completely change the strategy of the game!
But then you'd need to track who last touched the ball before it went into the goal.
You could probably do that with modern technology fairly easily. Perhaps the ball could change color depending on who last touched it.
It would also effectively eliminate <snip> offside penalties.
Not a problem.
But it would essentially cut the field in half. Why would you need two ends? And it would cut the game down just to scoring - there would be no value in moving the ball closer to the goal, because that would be as likely to benefit the opponents as your own team.
On a tangentially-related note, I have wondered what basketball would be like if you removed the "Offense is God" rule. In other words, you would remove the distinction between offensive and defensive fouls. Surely the scores would be lower, but would it be more interesting in other ways?
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@jinpa
Or maybe glow in the dark like a hockey puck!
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@izzion I forget the product (probably beer) but they had a commercial years ago depicting the supposed pitch meeting for this. At the end the guy gets thrown out of the room with a blue streak behind him
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@izzion said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@jinpa
Or maybe glow in the dark like a hockey puck!the fact that there is a "news" network using our name and not in anyway affiliated with us nor primarily offering news coverage of us, or to us..... annoys me in a low grade and sort of vague way.
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@Vixen said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
the fact that there is a "news" network using our name and not in anyway affiliated with us nor primarily offering news coverage of us, or to us..... annoys me in a low grade and sort of vague way.
Were you annoyed or gratified by @Fox ?
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@jinpa said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Vixen said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
the fact that there is a "news" network using our name and not in anyway affiliated with us nor primarily offering news coverage of us, or to us..... annoys me in a low grade and sort of vague way.
Were you annoyed or gratified by @Fox ?
i have not had the pleasure, or to hear most reports about that user from surviving denizens of this plane the displeasure, of interacting with them. Given the reports I have received i would guess i would be more annoyed than gratified, but i would have to withhold a proper answer until such time as I encountered said person or vulpes.
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@Vixen said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
i have not had the pleasure
You could go and read those threads. On 2nd thought, we'd really rather you stick around...
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@dcon said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
You could go and read those threads
well..... I am in fact banned by federal court order from entering the garage.... so i'm not actually able to in the first place. but given the reports I think you are correct that it would not be the best idea ever.
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@Vixen tl;dr:
You do know that dailymail has the journalistic integrity of breitbart and the accuracy of a moron trying to give a speech on acid, right? Even just reading the article, it has two sources: a facebook post from a secondary source and a local news site that itself cites zero sources and adds nothing to the credibility of the story. Furthermore, it doesn't list the author of the article. Yet another perfect example of the shady practices that made dailymail famous for being a fake news site. For all we know, this entire situation could be made up, and even assuming the local news site is telling the truth to the best of their ability, that still just means that the McD's franchise owner received a complaint and responded to that complaint in some fashion, which could just as easily have been to check security camera footage, see that the cop was not treated that way, and promptly ignore the complaint.
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@hungrier said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Vixen tl;dr:
You do know that dailymail has the journalistic integrity of breitbart and the accuracy of a moron trying to give a speech on acid, right? Even just reading the article, it has two sources: a facebook post from a secondary source and a local news site that itself cites zero sources and adds nothing to the credibility of the story. Furthermore, it doesn't list the author of the article. Yet another perfect example of the shady practices that made dailymail famous for being a fake news site. For all we know, this entire situation could be made up, and even assuming the local news site is telling the truth to the best of their ability, that still just means that the McD's franchise owner received a complaint and responded to that complaint in some fashion, which could just as easily have been to check security camera footage, see that the cop was not treated that way, and promptly ignore the complaint.
i..... i'm not entirely sure I follow the point?
sure news sources are getting substantially less reliable since they decided that "What Karen posted on her facebook timeline" was a primary source..... but the rest of that...
what? .... and why do I think i need a drink after reading that?
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@Vixen It's our very own FoxPasta and the thing that ultimately got him banned. He kept spamming it outside of the every time it would get Jeff'd, and I think after his main account was suspended he hopped on an alt and resumed spamming
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@hungrier said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Vixen It's our very own FoxPasta and the thing that ultimately got him banned. He kept spamming it outside of the every time it would get Jeff'd, and I think after his main account was suspended he hopped on an alt and resumed spamming
i...... see.....
If you'll excuse me..... i need to see a man about a drink..... BARTENDER! four fingers of your strongest whiskey! No ice! with a fancy pink umbrella please!
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@hungrier said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
You do know that dailymail has the journalistic integrity of breitbart
So, better than I thought, then.
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@hungrier E_ACCESS_DENIED_AND_I_AM_HAPPY
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@Vixen You wouldn't have been able to reply anyway.
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Accidentally stumbled on an old post of mine...
@Gąska said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Random fact: at my company, we connect GPS receivers via HDMI.
I didn't remember writing that. And I was like, WTF was I saying? Then I remembered that yes, we have indeed connected GPS receivers via HDMI. I was way too high in the tech stack to know how it worked, why it was made like this, and whose goddamn idea it was. But I remember the cable had to be exactly 2 meters or the readings were off.
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@Gąska said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
But I remember the cable had to be exactly 2 meters or the readings were off.
Any hardware and/or physics guys want to explain how that could be?
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@jinpa we used GPS for very high precision clock synchronization (up to a couple dozen nanoseconds error). Signal propagation time is something we absolutely had to take into account.
Have you heard of that one time a GPS satellite was off by 13 microseconds?
Hundreds of QA bug reports were filed that day.
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@Gąska said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
why it was made like this
It could have been something as basic as the electrical properties of the cable. For high precision work, that kind of thing really matters a lot.
Thank god I don't have to deal with it.
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@Gąska You could have just said "propagation delay".
@jinpa Signal propagation happens (at most) at the speed of light, even in copper cable. Though copper cable has some other factors too. In any case, light has a finite speed. This is taken advantage of by e.g. Investors Exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEX
IEX's main innovation is a 38-mile (61 km) coil of optical fiber placed in front of its trading engine. This 350 microsecond delay adds a round-trip delay of 0.0007 seconds and is designed to negate the certain speed advantages utilized by some high-frequency traders.
There's a deeper write-up on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/26/putting-the-brakes-on-high-frequency-trading-with-physics/
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@Gąska You could have just said "propagation delay".
I could if I knew I should.
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@acrow said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
Signal propagation happens (at most) at the speed of light, even in copper cable. Though copper cable has some other factors too.
Depending on those factors, it tends to be around .6–.7c. 2/3 is a good rule of thumb, absent information about the specific cable.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/mirror/giveaway-china
From Steam announcement:
To avoid the nCov, it's better to stay at home. So we decide to give away 45,000 copies of Mirror to keep you company. Please accept our gift and stay strong!
I'm sure you've read this before but we're still going to emphasize this again: Please avoid going out, if you must, please keep your mask on at all time.
Please avoid getting physical contact with other people and stay away from the crowd.
Please wash your hands as many times as you can. <-- obviously
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
So we decide to give away 45,000 copies of Mirror to keep you company. Please accept our gift and stay strong!
Requires a phone number required to be in mainland china.