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MadDogs
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Yes and no. Their skills are usually lacking but they are also willing to work cheaply.
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re: Flight 800 crash animation
Posted by MadDogs on 3/3/25 at 6:58 pm to Auburn1968
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Been one just off of Long Island since the 1920's. Notice the color key in green indicating test firing range.
Probably pointless to even comment as your mind is already made up but no one is test firing missiles in that test range you hi-lighted. It is for testing underwater, for things like torpedoes. Source: I spent years sailing in and out of there while in the Navy.
Yep. I had the same. They went to my hometown and visited people that knew me, not just people I listed on the background check paperwork.
re: Carrier USS Harry Truman collides with merchant vessel in the Med
Posted by MadDogs on 2/15/25 at 4:30 am to Stinger_1066
That is correct and they only just came on station within the past few months.
The rust is even more infuriating considering it just came out of refit last year. And yes we spent countless hours chipping and painting the hull when we were in port.
The rust is even more infuriating considering it just came out of refit last year. And yes we spent countless hours chipping and painting the hull when we were in port.
re: Any news reports on the house whose roof was ratchet strapped down?
Posted by MadDogs on 10/10/24 at 6:12 pm to DemonKA3268
Honestly, if the home is built to the current Florida building codes put in place after Andrew, the roof flying off isn't really the big concern.
re: Hurricane Milton - The Cleanup Begins...
Posted by MadDogs on 10/9/24 at 5:32 pm to Kansas City King
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Yeah, I'm done watching these live streams. These stupid people are pissing me the frick off.
You do realize where Key West is right?
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My one question is: how often has Florida dealt with a West coast landfall on a damn near due east track?
Not quite due east but that this is tracking very similarly to Charlie.
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Has anyone bought a 18-24 wrangler lately.
We do have a 22 Jeep, but haven’t seen any corrosion issues (yet). It has been in the shop a lot though.
I ordered one a month ago. Currently being manufactured in Japan and should have it by October. Great bang for the buck. Also considered a Supra or Nissan Z.
I tried to buy an Ocean about a month ago when they slashed the prices. Of course it was going to be a big risk knowing they were likely going under but it I was ok with that for the price. It is a nice looking vehicle but they weren’t able to come through with one that had the features I wanted.
re: Bing AI image generator try outs
Posted by MadDogs on 10/21/23 at 6:08 pm to Auburn1968
That is a yet to be resolved issue with all of this generative AI. Several court cases still get to be decided. It is why our company has not adopted several tools to this point. We don't want to get wrapped up in IP disputes or rather to protect our clients.
I'm sitting at 185k on my gen1. It's in pretty rough shape now but still keeps ticking and doing the job it was designed for.
re: WeWork Cites ‘Substantial Doubt’ That It Can Stay in Business
Posted by MadDogs on 8/9/23 at 9:49 am to HubbaBubba
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I honestly want to know, who uses these places? In the era of many people working from home, why would you leave your home to go work in an office that's not even the office of your employer?
I can't speak to WeWork's business model specifically but the company I work for moved out of our downtown office earlier this year since everyone was pretty much working from home anyway. We still had a few people that liked to come to the office so we have a shared office space similar to this. There is a private office that can hold 5-6 people then we share the rest of the space with all of the other companies there. It makes sense for some companies that don't want the overhead of a whole office.
I go down there occasionally but only because I have to drop off or pick up hardware, not really to work.
I do sometimes like to get out of the house to work but I'll just go to a coffee shop or restaurant, rather than drive downtown.
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Early in my engineering career (e.e.) I started riding what became about 20 nuclear subs on new build and post dry dock sea trials. My job was to help calibrate the navigation systems and their interface to the Sonar and Missile Control Center compartments.
They are the most complex and impressive machines I've ever personally been aboard, with classified technology that is amazing in its capability to navigate subsea and listen to faint, far away sounds in the ocean. Wish I could say more about how that works, or how the missiles are initialized for launch to target. Amazing technology.
It sounds like you might have been at Electric Boat and we might have even been on a sub together if you were doing sea trials on boomers. I recall having upwards of 400 people on the sub while we were doing sea trials, mostly contractors plus the ships crew of 170 or so. We had mattresses stuffed into every nook and cranny on that boat. I was actually sleeping in the MCC when we did a planned emergency blow.
I also remember the first time we went down to test depth during sea trials. It was one of my scariest moments in the Navy; listening to all of the creaks and groans hoping everything was going to hold together. We had a few things that didn't work properly at depth but no major issues.
re: Titanic tourist submarine goes missing
Posted by MadDogs on 6/23/23 at 2:24 pm to Wishnitwas1998
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Some are saying it's not possible to test the materials it was made out of properly.
I have no idea if that's true or not
The only source I have seen claiming this is the OceanGate people themselves. Back when their chief engineer was fired, this was a claim they made to him. I've fabricated things out of carbon fiber but have never had anything critical enough to require that kind of testing so I am not sure what is possible.
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all their government would need to do in the requirement to get the permit to climb, is have a quota of trash each climber has to bring back.
That is something they actually have now but we are talking years of accumulation at this point.
re: Titanic tourist submarine goes missing
Posted by MadDogs on 6/23/23 at 7:11 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I'm not sure what gas they use to blow ballast tanks, but if it were oxygen it wouldn't be liquid.
It is just high pressure air.
I haven't used the Throwflame. I do have several Exothermic Pulsefire LRTs. It uses a gasoline or gas/diesel mixture. That XL18 looks to be next level. What are your intended uses?
Most likely irrelevant as I would be shocked if the company is still around until next year. They are nearly out of cash and unless someone comes in and bails them out, these trucks will never be produced in mass quantity. I have friends that work there and it is a complete cluster. Their deal with Foxconn was supposed to be that lifeline but Foxconn is trying to get out of the agreement due to RIDE falling under $1/share. They just announced a reverse split to try and salvage it and also are suing Foxconn to force them to fulfill the deal, but most experts I've read think it is a hail mary that won't succeed. It is a shame for the workers as a lot of them are former GM workers who took jobs with Lordstown when GM closed down the plant. Some locals are hoping GM will swoop in and but Lordstown Motors but that is also a pipe dream. GM already had a stake in the company and got rid of it. I don't see what they get out of the deal.
I can't vouch for this translation but saw it in the Twitter comments.
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Ukraine, native motherland, Lord, our heavenly father: bless us!
Going to destroy the enemies of my native land. Murderers of my brothers, rapists of my loved ones.
Let my hand be strong - to kill enemies!
Let my eye be clear - to kill enemies!
May my weapon be in good working order - to kill enemies!
Let my will be steel - to kill enemies!
Ukraine, native land-mother, Lord, our heavenly father: bless our resolute offensive.
Our holy victory.
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