Recent content by fsdork

You're welcome to your opinion, but it has no bearing on regulations. Features like front airbags and stability control are in fact legally mandated, and the original Beetle doesn't have them.

Besides being non-compliant with regulations and therefore impossible to sell in developed countries, that's a fantastic business plan.

The challenge is getting a jack stand under a jack point which is being used by the jack. There are some jack & stand systems which are designed to address this by nesting together.

Fair enough - I was genuinely curious. My tinkering leans more toward solar/battery storage, and microcontrollers than AI servers, so I was definitely a bit blind to where your bottleneck might be. If you need to make all of that happen with the constraints you've explained, laptops seem like a...

What are the "variety of reasons" laptops make sense for the application? Mobility would be the obvious reason to infer - but do all of your computers need to be mobile?

Classic wooden spring traps with peanut butter and a bit of cracker jammed into the top side of the trigger. If the mice are really good thieves, I've tied the cracker down with some plain dental floss or string. 5 gallon bucket trap if the kill count is too high to keep up with, or needs to be...

When comparing policies, don't underestimate your real-world replacement cost. If something like a fire makes a home a full tear-down and replace, the cost could easily exceed the market value of the home - assuming the land isn't incredibly valuable. Depending upon how the relevant coverage...

My former employer had one in panel van configuration as an on-site service vehicle. My experience was limited to moving it in and out of the bay it was stored in overnight. It felt like a coffin, but that probably had a lot to do with the lack of rear windows.

In Texas (for the OP): Texas Transportation Code TRANSP § 521.451(a)(4) is the section which prohibits possession of more than one valid licence or certificate. So (not a lawyer, legal advice is worth what you pay for it, etc.) one might infer that possession of their expired licence in...

That would be determined by the entity (state government) issuing and legislating the use of licences. In Alberta, there is specific legislation prohibiting possession of more than one physical licence.

You could always structure a contract with penalties for missed milestone/overall completion dates. Whether you could find a good contractor who would agree to those terms is another story.

Everyone's financial situation is different, but I think it's fair to say for most people who have a place to put a washer and dryer that there are better ways to make or save the cost of delivery and disposal. Then again, I get taking pride in DIY. It's been a decade and a half, so...

Personally, I'm often the guy clearly annoying a non-negligible chunk of the driving population by leaving a couple seconds of space between myself and the vehicle ahead. It's actually in an interesting experiment to leave more than a couple car lengths in traffic - people are conditioned to see...

Thoughts for the one-pedal absolutists: You're driving toward a controlled intersection. Your direction is currently green, but cues/instinct tell you it's stale and could flip yellow at any moment. There's a car in front of you, and you're following at a distance which neither too much nor too...

Physics takes over under hard braking with or without ABS, in that nose-down pitch will transfer weight to the front tires. As others have mentioned, that de-weights the rears, reducing usable braking force back there. The system(s) may decide to modulate braking force delivered to the front...