Viking
Certifiably Surly
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
We got back on the boat two months ago. Spent 6 weeks putting her back together and fixing things (new autopilot computer, gps, engines overheating, ...) and then left for the Keys. Spent a few days each in the Everglades, Marathon, Islamorada, and now in Miami. Miami is crazyville for boats. We rolled into our anchorage a few hours before sunset and there was at least 100 power boats from 20 feet up to 150 foot all partying. They left after sunset and we've now got the place mostly to our selves.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
Yes, do it. That size sailboat is great for getting out on the water. I took lessons on a J/24 and Colgate 26 and they were so much fun.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
double post
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Same day or 24 hour test results are possible. I'm hoping to travel to the Bahamas next month and they require a negative test result 5 days or less before arrival. There are a few labs that offer 24 hour results in Miami/Ft Lauderdale. The difference is that those labs are doing the test in-house vs CVS/Walgreens send them off to be tested elsewhere.
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Who Knew Leander Needed a $1 Billion Lagoon and Boardwalk?
I didn't dig up the patents so I'm not 100% certain but I believe I remember seeing one was for a much more efficient filter that allowed the water to be turned over a lot less frequently than a normal pool. These things are huge and turning them over at a normal pool rate (2-4 times a day) would require massive pumps, filters, and electricity.
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Who Knew Leander Needed a $1 Billion Lagoon and Boardwalk?
There's a housing development in a north dallas suburb (The Lagoon at Windsong Ranch) that has one of these. Same company builds all of them as they have a few patents on the design. Looks kinda cool but I wonder about the long term maintenance required particularly when the pond liner needs to be replaced.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
Here's a new youtube channel featuring Miami Boat Ramp fails that some of your surly assholes might enjoy.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
Lonely but safe and sound. We've not been on the boat in 6 months however we're finally going back in 2 weeks.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
The stock exhaust elbows on these small diesels are such shit. Custom is the way to go and your's looks great.
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nerf weapons (aka shooting my children with foam darts)
My parents spoil the shit out of their grandkids so we have about 30+ nerf guns as a result. They've got everything from the tiny single shooters up to the dual 25 mag dual barrel machine gun. I'm not a fan of the guns with clips as once you've blown your load you're a dead man. My favorite is the Double Down as it is fast to reload, cock, and fire:
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2020 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: Joe Biden vs Donald Trump
I watched GoebbelsHannity for 5 minutes and it's exactly what you'd expect. Not one bad thing about Trump or the debate in general.
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Google v. Oracle (Supreme Court Copyright Case)
Google didn't copy the implementation. If I recall they specifically did a clean room implementation. Here's a simple example from java itself. The java.sql package is an API: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/sql/package-summary.html Database vendors implement this API so java apps can use their databases. Here is PostgreSQL's implementation https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/publicapi/index.html Is PostgreSQL infringing the copyright of this API? Can Oracle (also a database vendor) sue PostgreSQL for copyright infringement? What PostgresSQL did is the exact thing that Google did, only Google implemented a much larger API.
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Google v. Oracle (Supreme Court Copyright Case)
Fuck Oracle. Google is in the right. Some APIs don't even provide an implementation and it's up to 3rd parties to provide one by design. If I write an implementation for such an API am I infringing the copyright? I would love to know what percentage of an API I need to copy for me to infringe the copyright. Is it 1 method? All methods? Somewhere in between?
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
We have friends that lost their sailing cat (sister boat to ours) in that storm. My heart breaks for them knowing that they've put a couple of years into building towards a dream and it's gone just like that.
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Taco Cabana..No Enchiladas, WTF?
Rosa's Cafe replaced TC in my rotation years ago.
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Markets still falling like whoa
This reminded me of the last time I went to gamestop when the first WoW expansion came out. "Did you preorder?" "Nope!" "We only have copies for those who preordered." I went to bestbuy down the road and they had a pallet of expansions 15 feet past the entrance. How does a company that sells washing machines do a better job of serving gamers than a game store?
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
Damn you weren't kidding about the size of that wiring job. That looks niiice. BOATT: break out another ten thousand
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2020 Hurricane Season w/ special guest Covid-19
That forecast can get fucked.
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Perpetual Middle East Geopolitical Quagmire Megathread
Frontline released "Once Upon a Time in Iraq" last week which tells the story of the war by Iraqis that lived it. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/once-upon-a-time-in-iraq Fuck Bush.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
No, not wrong at all. Fuck that guy.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
That looks nice. How often do you polish the stainless? I think we do it about twice a year and pretty quick at that.. there's just so fucking much of it.
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
That sucks. Will you be able to sail back with the 2nd reef in?
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The Boat Fanatic Thread
I saw the news that Catalina was open for bidness and thought of you instantly hauling ass tothe marina and prepping the boat to go.
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Any Surly Car Dealers?
Manheim shares some high level car sales data at https://publish.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle-value-index.html. "Wholesale used vehicle prices (on a mix-, mileage-, and seasonally adjusted basis) decreased 11.41% month-over-month in April."