By the time £3.999m has been siphoned off on ~~bribes and corruption~~ necessary overheads, you should be happy with the coathanger and a car battery, comrade.
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Well; $500 in parts and fifty hours in the shop, plus a courtesy car for this guy's wife while they're fixing it, and what you'll have at the end of it will be a 2013 Sorento with 80k on it, and which might never run like it used to again. You reckon you'd be able to sell one of those for $10k? Versus writing a check, getting an easy grand in scrap metal, and calling it a day.
Not saying you're wrong, but I can see why insurance might be inclined to write things off a bit prematurely. They do like certainty.
Smells like someone's been smoking in it, though - you can never get that smell out of the upholstery...
No-one takes a bribe quite like FIFA.
Is it possible for your DPS output to go into the negative!? Shaz does good work in keeping the rest of your party dealing damage, and 'sneaky Shaz' can help your party cheese some hard fights, but man alive, take a shot whenever she actually hits something for double-digit damage.
Plotting how I'd be able to get all four of my BG3 party into the back row, now...
Yeah, they can fuck off with trying to blame their problems on drivers refusing to work overtime, as if being on a reasonable-but-not-exceptional wage is somehow the root cause. Drivers need to be sharp - they're responsible for a lot of people's safety! - and I'd prefer they did no overtime at all thank you. Perhaps twenty years of underinvestment following privitisation might be more the problem here, eh?
Train strikes have caused me a bit of disruption over the summer, but that is exactly the point of them going on strike. Keep laying into the bastards and make sure that we've got the safe service that we need. 100% behind you all the way.
Cool video - really clear on how to set it up correctly, might have to check out more of Park Tool's videos.
Got me some friction shifters on an old Raleigh Record 12 I've set up as a road racer. Beautiful machine - pencil-thin steel frame tubing makes it look like a drawing of a bike, super elegant. Can't argue with how easy it is to maintain those shifters, either - it is trivial, and you do the fine adjustments yourself while you're riding. Was a bit terrifying on my first ride out, but it's actually smoother than indexed shifters. Main drawback is that you have to plan ahead a bit for gear changes, so:
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having to brake if someone pulls out on you and then being in a bad combo for setting off again
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going out exploring, and then turning round a corner into a big bastard hill that you didn't know about
... are far from ideal. But can't argue with obvious, lightweight and simple on a bike.
Exactly this. It is of course possible to fix anything, given spares, skills and time, but if you have to ask, then you probably don't have the skills already.
Kitchen equipment tends to be quite simple to repair - burned out heating elements generally just unscrew, motors and valves in washing machines tend to be modular, and just swap out - but if you're not confident with a multimeter then you won't be able to diagnose it. They tend to be high-power appliances too, which are the riskiest when things go wrong.
If the alternative to fixing it is just to replace it, then feel free to take it to bits and see if you can decide what's wrong. If there's very obviously a burned-out part and it's easy to swap out, then go for it. Otherwise, you can learn about that the parts are and how it all fits together - every day is a school day.
I wish there was a linter that stopped my colleagues from adding in a half-gigabyte of Apache Spark artifacts to go with a single line of code, which makes the product impossible to deploy to customers; or to implement another fucking O(n^2) algorithm that flies through the test suite and craps out in production; or our placement students from trying to get ChatGPT shit through code review. Sigh.
I also fucking hate checkstyle, or any of its friends like Google's spotless; sometimes you want to format your code so that the underlying thinking is more obvious, perhaps to highlight how some parts are different and make things that are not as you would expect stand out, but no.
Tools that generate warnings, for the assistance of human reviewers? Great. Tools that generate errors, so that you have to go stupid shit to keep a machine happy? Not so great.
A few months sounds suspiciously short, but that's a really open question. Depends what you play, depends how often you play. Depends whether you're using ultra-traditional catgut strings, or some synthetic ones which will be longer-lasting. I understand that some people have more acidic hands than others, which will work through strings more quickly. Tension and tuning matters as well; I'd normally replace my violin strings every year, acoustic guitar every other year, and my electric guitar like every five or something, and that's probably more often than needed for the electric.
Ah - that's happened to me before. Making banana wine, crushed and boiled my fruit selection, didn't filter it very well before fermenting, blocked the airtrap in my demijon, first I knew about it was an almighty bang and then I had to repaint the kitchen.
Joy of homebrewing, am afraid. Sometimes you do stupid things and they turn out amazing, and sometimes you do sensible things and just forget one tiny but essential step. I heartily recommend making snakebite-and-black homebrew, btw - lager kit, cider kit, couple of bottles of blackcurrant juice all in your fermenter; loses all its sweetness and most of its purple colour and the result is a very tasty brew.
Was making a joke with you, about how much the Russian army loses in corruption and how their prices are not to be believed. Wasn't having a go at you. Try to be a bit more chill?