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[Andy44]

When I turn the key, the electrical power comes on, you can hear the relays switching, but I don't hear the clunk of the starter motor. When the engine does turn over, it turns over quickly, not slow as when the battery is dying.

I need to get it checked out, but the problem is too intermittent right now. It's the kind of problem a repair shop will charge you lots of money to fix without ever really finding the root cause. In other words, the kind of weird problems I have had on every vehicle I've ever owned.

My old VW Sirocco used to have weird electrical problems, but that car was simple enough that I could take a multimeter and track down problems and fix them myself. These newer vehicles are not so user friendly.

 

[Notebook]

Sounds like the starter relay, or the sticky brushes scenario I mentioned earlier. Starter motors are chunky devices, take a lot of current, and make a lot of (Carbon) dust internally.
Starter motor brushes had a lot of copper in them, and that makes them stick in their holder.
Cheaper of the two is the relay, just because its clicking, doesn't mean the contacts are making well.
Quick test is a spanner across the two large terminals.
Danger will Robinson. this will crank the engine if the starter is good, and the spanner will get hot. Lots of sparks.
I did it once, but I was 18 and didn't know any better.
Save your health insurance and wait till it dies completely...

N.

 

[Andy44]

Staying in sick means I have watched A LOT of Rick and Morty the last two days.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

"I'm Pickle Riiick!"

 

[jedidia]

Apparently I managed to write a piece of code that crashes exactly two out of three times. Yay me!

 

[Urwumpe]

Apparently I managed to write a piece of code that crashes exactly two out of three times. Yay me!

Initializing a hardware register with the contents of a clock register?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Apparently I managed to write a piece of code that crashes exactly two out of three times. Yay me!

I'm getting in my final class project assignments, done in Matlab. I think some of them think that their shoe size is an important parameter to getting this code to work. :huh: "Unexpected behavior" doesn't quite describe what I am seeing.

 

[dbeachy1]

Urwumpe's epic post count recently overflowed the maximum value that can fit inside a signed, 16-bit integer value. The staff spent most of last weekend upgrading the forum software to use unsigned 16-bit integers for post count fields in order to support up to 65,535 posts per user*. Although we were able to complete the upgrade in time, we very nearly had to start auto-hard-deleting any posts that would overflow the 32,767 post threshold*.



* Not really.

 

[jedidia]

The staff spent most of last weekend upgrading the forum software to use unsigned 16-bit integers

Which immediately makes me wonder: Just what kind of Database would this thing have to be running on to even make that feasible? :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

Which immediately makes me wonder: Just what kind of Database would this thing have to be running on to even make that feasible? :lol:

/me imagines the forum running on some BBS package from before the dawn of time, running on top of Netware 2.x, with an IP-to-IPX gateway and 20 other compatibility shims somewhere in the mix to make it accessible over http on the Internet.

/me goes mad from imagining such a monstrosity.

/me walks out to the chatbox and hooks up hoses to the pentaborane and ClF3 flood valves.

/me screams "Kill it with fire! Kill it with fire!" and turns on the hoses.

FOOM!!!

 

[Urwumpe]

Urwumpe's epic post count recently overflowed the maximum value that can fit inside a signed, 16-bit integer value. The staff spent most of last weekend upgrading the forum software to use unsigned 16-bit integers for post count fields in order to support up to 65,535 posts per user*. Although we were able to complete the upgrade in time, we very nearly had to start auto-hard-deleting any posts that would overflow the 32,767 post threshold*.



* Not really.

I wanted to be the first with -32768 posts.

 

[Linguofreak]

I wanted to be the first with -32768 posts.

If you spam the forums really hard, you might be first to -2147483648, or even -18446744073709551616.

 

[Urwumpe]

If you spam the forums really hard, you might be first to -2147483648, or even -18446744073709551616.

I doubt i could get that far in a lifetime with my roundtrip times. :lol: I would need to insert some SQL there... like "BEGIN; UPDATE orbiterforum.users u SET u.postcount=-18446744073709551616 WHERE u.username='Urwumpe'; COMMIT;";

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https://www.flightradar24.com/AIB232E/fd1fd63

I would say, its Christmas now.

 

[statickid]

Why????

Who would pay for such an obscure thing such as this flight???

 

[Urwumpe]

Why????

Who would pay for such an obscure thing such as this flight???

Airbus or Emirates. Its a test flight of a new Airbus A380 from Hamburg.

 

[Fabri91]

It's not unprecedented:

If one has to do a long-range test flight, might as well make it a bit silly!

 

[statickid]

:lol: Wow!! I had no idea this was a thing. Well, I guess you can also quickly and easily gauge the accuracy of the navigation! bonus!

 

[Linguofreak]

It's better than, ahem, other things that have been drawn by aircraft recently.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Ya know. Those Navy guys might have gone overboard with their fun. And the punishment was equally silly. But they are never going to buy their own booze in the O-club. Ever.

 

[Artlav]

And the punishment was equally silly.

So, how did that story end?