my black brembo-equipped 5.0 on the tail of the dragon

secondhandloser · 1 day

Mustangs are pretty common at my local AutoX events and Mustangs have been dominating in FS at the National levels for the last several years. Sam Strano made a splash a couple of years when he pulled a time a Nationals with his stock 2011 Mustang that would have won in AS (where all the Porsche Caymans are) and trophied in most other stock classes. Mustangs have already started going around turns. A lot of people just still think that the 2011+ Mustangs corner like the 89s for some reason.

Also, though, AutoX is a very specific type of racing that rewards a very specific type of car. Cars that set records on the Nurburgring do very poorly in AutoX quite often.

But, yeah, in general there seems to be more of a culture of drag racing around Mustangs. That's changing though now.

CroydonC · 8 days

So are original Picassos in many of the same circles, but they're still art.

Actually, I supposed a Ferrari would be a better example. Engineering art that's taken as a status symbol.

Also, as far as wristwatch status symbols go, Rolex is kind of middle of the road, like a BMW. Patek Phillippe, Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet are the Bentleys.

nipuL · 8 days

What kind of power were you running parallel to these ethernet cables? It sounds like you are talking about some pretty serious power cables, not the individual server/switch power cables that OP (and myself) were referring to.

Nevertheless, that sounds pretty crazy.

ElagabalusCaesar · 12 days

Hmm. That was written in 1998. The nanostructure discovery was in 2006. So far as I can tell, none of the modern wootz Damascus has been tested under an electron microscope.

ElagabalusCaesar · 12 days

True, although any type of nanostructure, be it cementite only or cementite and carbon nanotubes still makes my point valid. I was arguing that these impurities were important in the strength of the steel, and it looks like they may in fact have been reaponsible for improving the steel's microstructure in a similar way to forms with concrete.

This paper is 6 years old. No one has come up with any contradictory findings in the last 6 years. The article was published in a reputable scientific journal and has not been retracted. It's distinctly possible that thier findings were wrong, but I don't think there's enough evidence that they were wrong to dismiss their research out of hand as many seem to want to do.

ElagabalusCaesar · 13 days

Just to clarify, I am not arguing and never have been that any sort of Damascus steel is stronger/better than alloys that we have today. I'm not saying that we should be looking at this as anything other than a historical exercise.

So, correct me if I've misunderstood, but it sounds like Riebold believes that the nanostructures increased the strength of wootz Damascus steel by guiding the creation of better microstructures in the steel. The fact that the nanostructures remained in the steel afterward made the steel weaker than if that same microstructure had been created without the nanostructure impurities. But still, the better microstructures more than make up for the weakness imparted by the impurities. However, those better microstructures wouldn't have formed (with ancient technologies) without those nanostructures. It's sort of like a concrete structure where the forms were sealed inside. Is that correct?

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.

ElagabalusCaesar · 13 days

You are obviously far more knowledgable about materials science than I am. I was merely attempting to point out that wootz Damascus steel (as opposed to just pattern welded steel) was not just an early attempt to remove impurities, but rather was made stronger by an interesting set of impurities that strengthened it in ways that I fully admit to not understanding as well as you.

Regardless, my goals were twofold:

1) I wanted to draw a distinction between wootz Damascus (which is what I believe OP was referring to) and pattern welded steel that people often refer to as Damascus steel.

2) I think that the particular mechanisms that appear to make wootz Damascus as strong as it is are fascinating and deserving of more than a general dismissal, especially when the topic is about lost arts/advanced ancient technology and there is a decent amount of evidence that wootz Damasus steel contains carbon nanotubes.

I have been unable to find any information about whether this initial finding (from 6 years ago) has been replicated or whether or not any of the modern wootz Damascus created has been tested for these structures.

In other words, I thought that your comment left out the interesting bits :)

ElagabalusCaesar · 13 days

Do you know if they were able to recreate the carbon nanotubes and the cementite nanowires that have been found in actual 17th century Damascus steel?

ElagabalusCaesar · 13 days

EDIT: People who are downvoting this: please clarify which part of this comment you believe is not adding to the discussion. This comment says 3 things:

1) It agrees that modern steel alloys are stronger than any type of Damascus steel.
2) It brings up a possible confusion in terms, drawing a distinction between wootz Damascus steel and pattern welded Damascus steel.
3) It references an article about a peer reviewed scientific paper published in Nature about a novel set of impurities found in ancient wootz Damascus steel that some are arguing increased it's strength.

Whether or not you agree, I personally think that this is a valid discussion and not deserving of being downvoted beyond the threshold so that others don't see this and the fascinating discussion with sikyon about how these nanostructures may have contributed to the microstructure of the ancient wootz Damascus steel.

Original comment below:

While I agree that modern alloys are better, was your other statement about Damascus steel being a time consiming way to reduce impurities referring to actual ancient Damascus steel, or to the modern meaning of Damascus steel, which just seems to generally refer to any pattern welded steel?

The actual actual ancient Damascus steel that everyone says is unreproducable is impregnated with carbon nanotubes and nanowires made of cementite from some unknown process (perhaps in combination with with properties of the ore that came from a specific mine or set of mines in India that played out in the 17th or 18th century IIRC).

I believe that your statement is true for pattern welded steel in general, but perhaps not for the actual Damascus steel that contained these nano structures as impurities.

Hachya · 14 days

There is another answer that I think he was looking for, specifically having to do with runlevels and which services start by default on which runlevel.

How you check that depends on your distro (as far as command line tools go) or you can look in the rc directories for each runlevel to see what's set to start and when.

dorri732 · 14 days

If you're interested, the SCCA Nationals results lists the tire type for all competitors.

In classes that allow R-comps, 95% of people run Hoosier A6s

In street tire classes, EVERYONE (with maybe 1-2 exceptions out of 100+ competitors) runs one of 3 tires:

Toyo R1Rs (light cars only) Dunlop Star Specs (Medium weight cars) Hankook RS3s (Heavy cars)

If you're interested in upgrading your tire grip again (for AutoX purposes), try one of those.

nolimitsoldier · 17 days

If you're going to do this, do it right. Despite the large amounts of anti-Mac sentiment seems to have reared it's head in this thread, there IS a proper way to manage Macs in the Enterprise. Lots of Enterprise level companies do it, including Apple itself, as well as companies like Genentech/Roche.

They all use Casper to do it. You might think that it's silly for you to need to pay for an Enterprise management tool, but that's beside the point entirely. Linux people think it's silly for MS people to have to pay for a lot of things that they have to pay for. Everyone runs off of a different model.

If you're going to do this, do it right so you don't have to redo it over and over again. Macs weren't made to interface deeply with AD. AD wasn't made to interface deeply with Macs. It's better to choose the right solution right off the bat and learn what you need to learn than to try to cram the Macs into an AD infrastructure that wasn't meant for them and that will cause mountains of small issues.

If you're not willing to do it the right way (due to cost, time, etc) then I think you should just leave them off of the domain. I think that putting them on the domain in a hacky way will result in more time spent in the long run than either leaving them off, or setting up things in the correct way.

shakeanjake · 19 days

I don't know. Gordon Ramsey liked the place I was thinking of when he was there. I suspect that he can tell "shit sushi" when he tastes it.

acleverpseudonym · 19 days

So, apparently, I didn't see the original, unedited post asking for advice. I just saw the edited one.

I saw the nutritionist bit as well. I also saw the parts about her talking so several actual doctors with MDs. I'm not saying that this woman isn't doing anything wrong. I'm saying that I don't KNOW whether she's doing anything wrong and neither do you unless you have a medical degree and have actually examined the child.

People here might THINK that they have a good idea what's going on. They might even be right. They don't KNOW though. The people who know the most about what's going on are the child's doctors, not you or I.

Handing out advice like people have been handing out can be dangerous. What if the child has a rare metabolic disorder or somesuch. Amateur advice given out on the Internet could kill her. And yes, I know that being obese and unhealthy can kill her too, but it's not going to kill her in the 6 months to a year that it would take to be medically careful and diligent about this situation.

If she was asking for advice, I would tell her to listen to her child's doctors and talk to a couple of other nutrtionists. If all the nutrtionists are saying the same things, listen to them.

But everybody on here is acting like they have an informed opinion about this situation. No one does though. They all have guesses. Myself included

acleverpseudonym · 19 days

Umm. This supposed to be an "Ask me anything," not a "tell me what I'm doing wrong." She offered to answer questions about her situation. It really isn't her fault that everyone on reddit is more interested in lecturing her than asking her questions.

Also, everyone here or reddit seems very clear that people should go to lawyers for legal advice and not listen to the masses. Why should this woman take the advice of complete strangers on the Internet over what her child's doctors are telling her?

I think that it's an act of supreme arrogance for anyone here to assume that they know better than multiple doctors (who have been involved in this case for a while it sounds like) after 5 minutes of reading on reddit.

shakeanjake · 19 days

Depends on where you live, I suspect. If you're in Kansas, then yep. If you're in California, there are some bargains to be had.

acleverpseudonym · 20 days

Don't get me wrong. I don't hate the show. I quite enjoy it. It's entertaining. I just dislike when they are deliberately misleading. Rather, I dislike when people in certain places <cough>reddit<cough> treat Top Gear as the source of all car truth and repeat these misleading things over and over again.

And I still say that if Jeremy Clarkson and Carroll Smith disagree on something car related, there's a 90% chance I'll side with Smith.

acleverpseudonym · 20 days

Sure, but Top Gear is also testing these cars on different days, under different weather conditions and (possibly) with a different driver. This has led them to get some interesting results, such as a faster lap time for an R32 than a 996 911 Turbo. They also have some pretty serious bias in the all of their subjective reporting and will say some seriously misleading things for the sake of humor or drama. Corvette leaf springs anyone? Implying that the Tesla ran out of juice on the track?

The trick with Top Gear is separating the entertainment from the reporting, which can be pretty difficult. Even they themselves say that it's not a serious car review show.

Jeremy Clarkson making fun of the Corvette's transverse leaf spring may have been funny, but it made me realize just how much they're willing to mislead for the sake of humor. Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of people around here who take everything they see on Top Gear as the gospel truth.

acleverpseudonym · 20 days

The difference in engineering required between a car that is capable of going 220mph and a car than is capable of going 250 mph is incredible. 50% of the engineering in the Veyron can only be observed at speeds that are faster than the cars you listed are capable of travelling.

You may find the goal of "build a car with the fastest top speed ever" to be "meh," but there is nothing "meh" about the engineering that was required to do that.

kingdavecako · 21 days

As someone who worked primarily as a Microsoft admin for the first decade of my career and has been working almost exclusively as a Linux admin for the last 4 years, I have a bit of experience with both.

When it comes to managing desktops, Microsoft is king. They have Office, Exchange and AD. Office is the most mature office offering that anyone offers, Exchange is really the most fully featured and mature mail/calendaring back end (though I can't bringmyself to say that it's the best MTA). AD is in a class of it's own as an LDAP implementation/Desktop control system.

Linux shines in the datacenter. The LAMP stack is bulletproof. It's fast. It's default error logging is detailed and amazing. It's stable. There are many options for managing servers by the thousand. Due to the lack of licensing (with CentOS, which is what most people use in the Datacenter space) and great automated install utilities, it's incredibly easy to roll out 100 or a thousand new systems. It's more customizable than Windows as well.

Linux does not however shine in the desktop segment. At all.

If I'm providing a company with workstations, an office solution, file serving services, etc, I'd choose Windows in a heartbeat. If I'm providing a 1000 server backend for a website that's accessed by millions, I'd go straight to Linux. Just because Microsoft CAN do something doesn't mean they're good at it.

nipuL · 22 days

So, has anybody here ever ACTUALLY seen packet loss/errors caused by running short distances (<5') of ethernet cables parallel to normal server/switch power cables? I don't think that I ever have.

I've always been under the impression that with modern cables, this is only really important for longer cable runs. Don't get me wrong. I still avoid it if I can, but when I haven't been able to avoid it, I've never run into issues.

68Cadillac · 24 days

Although, I'd like to point out that they do well in AutoX still. At the 2011 SCCA National Championships, the Mustang GT that won it's stock class also would have won in many other stock classes, including the one that contained all the Porsche Caymans.

m0viestar · 24 days

Well ok. Fair enough then :)

There's a lot of American car hate around here, that is quite often based upon misconceptions, so I can get a bit defensive.

Regarding the specific driveshaft issue: When you modify the ECU of a car, you have the possibility to allow yourself to do all kinds of nasty things to your car. Removing your rev limiter for example, adjusting your timing and fuel-air mixture. In this case, removing the speed limiter does nasty things too. It's pretty clear that the V6 Mustang was never meant to go more than 120 mph. If you leave it bone stock, it performs astonishingly well for a 20k car. I think that it's unfair to judge the car harshly for not being able to do things that it was never intended to do and for which safeguards were put in place to prevent these situations from happening.

The moral of the story is, mod and drive your car responsibly, no matter what it is.

m0viestar · 24 days

I did a cursory Google search on the Supra strut thing. Apparently, it was too cursory of a Google search as it turns out that I was looking at info on the Mk II which did have MacPherson struts. Also, you make it sound like the Supra never had MacPherson struts, when in fact it did for the first decade of its production.

Regardless, there were still plenty of compromises made. My factual error about the particular generation of Supra that you have doesn't invalidate the point about all passenger cars being the result of compromises, many of which are cost related.

I notice that you jumped on my factual error about MK 3 and 4 Supras (But not Mk I & II Supras) but completely ignored the carbon fiber monocoque comment. Also, the fact that MK 3 Supras have SLA sort of supports my point. SLA wasn't invented in 1987. It had been around for decades. It didn't suddenly become superior to MacStruts in the late 80s. Why didn't Toyota use it on the MK IIs? That looks an awful lot like one of those "cutting corners" decisions that I was talking about.

I'm not talking shit about Supras, by the way. They were amazing cars and I wish Toyota would bring them back

The value of a car has to do with their rarity and the demand for them in large part. Miatas are pretty cheap and I think everyone here agrees that they're good cars. Supras are rare in comparison to Mustangs and Camaros and they're cult cars (meaning that there's a group of devoted followers who are willing to pay top dollar for them and keep the prices high). If you want to talk bang for the buck, compare track times, not dollar values.

Or is this just a pointless thing to be talking about because you've already decided that American cars are all pieces of shit and will ignore all evidence to the contrary (like the Mustang GT beating Evo and STI track times in several tests, the Mustang GT beating the Porsche Cayman times at the AutoX Natl' championships, etc).

m0viestar · 24 days

I think you missed the entire point of my comment.

That term has a bad connotation, but EVERY car manufacturer does it. Every car is a compromise. Did that Supra come stock with double wishbone suspension all the way around? How about revalvable 5 way adjustable shocks? Nope.

Was it because Toyota thought that MacPherson struts have better handling characteristics than SLA? Nope. It was a compromise. Cost was likely a big part of that consideration. They decided that McStruts were "good enough."

Why don't M3s have carbon fiber monocoques? Does anybody think that a carbon fiber monocoque is worse than a standard unibody for a high performance car? Nope. It's cost.

Every sports car that costs less than $200k is the result of "cutting corners."

The key to making a great, sub 100k car is to know where you can cut cost and provide your customers with the most bang for the buck.

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