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12:44 AM
Night Mech.SE!
 
 
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1:51 AM
@BobCross Cuz no one likes upitty!
 
 
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10:15 AM
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Yup that works. Retracted.
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Also, Travel.SE rocks. Come join us! We have cookies. Somewhere.
 
 
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12:50 PM
Focus focus focus ... election day ... focus lost!
What's some productive work that I can do that doesn't require my brain or any sort of attention span...?
 
@BobCross You're a Ford fan?
 
@anonymous2 ho ho ho! My side! Stop, please stop!
 
@BobCross, don't you think this site should have been called gasoverflow.stackexchange.com?
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@anonymous2 You know, if you drank less soda, that would be less of a problem....
 
Rats. Not cool.
 
1:05 PM
@BobCross Lol. Not quite what I intended.
I guess it could have been misinterpreted, eh?
@BobCross Is there some place you can watch the vote counting, like we have in CA?
 
@anonymous2 There are far too many sites. I have several open right now. Polls don't start to close for 10+ hours. I'm taking my oldest son for his first big election today. He has very strong opinions (turns out the 19 year old males really do know everything... ;-).
@procrastilater trouble?
 
My dear Americans: I wish you success with the next president, whoever it may be.
 
@Myself I second you.
 
oh god - I do not need minute by minute updates. My hair is already white enough.
 
1:12 PM
@procrastilater Okay, we don't have anything like that in Canada.
Well, I guess we do, actually. The counting is live; so you see updates every couple minutes.
Usually, the counting starts before the polls are closed. Last election, the results were announced before the polls were closed.
 
@procrastilater I guess that will be valid if one candidate has already more votes than there are uncounted..
 
Oh, yeah. Complicated, but basically there were enough of the ridings that had enough votes in that statistically, it was impossible for the other party to gain enough support to win over.
@Myself Sort of. A lot more complicated, because we're dealing with up to ten different parties essentially running a by-election in all the different ridings.
 
good grief
 
Oh, I'm telling you it makes a lot more sense than American politics... once you know what's going on. ;)
(Though they would tell me the opposite.)
 
1:20 PM
@anonymous2 I plead no contest
 
@BobCross Granted.
If it came to a vote, I would be in the minority.
But the minority is always right. Proof positive: the minority says so.
 
Our electoral college system is a puzzle but it does have some fun consequences. Our little bitty state has four votes. A bunch of those big rectangle states out west only have three. It makes people crazy that a little state is worth more than a big state.... :-)
 
Sounds a bit too close to voting fraud for my liking.
 
@BobCross Afaik you do not elect the president directly. You elect presidential electors who then elect the president?
 
@Myself That's right.
 
1:31 PM
The presidential electors can elect whoever they want or is this fixed?
 
@Myself Theoretically they can. They're expected to vote for the leading candidate of the party; but they threatened to boot out Trump in the Republican Party and pull in someone else.
They threatened the same with Romney.
 
It's all in the Constitution. Any switching would hit the Supreme Court in about ten seconds....
 
But I should let an American talk.
@BobCross So in other words, their threat wasn't really going to go through?
 
@anonymous2 Let's just say that talk is cheap
 
1:54 PM
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A: 96 Impreza ECU Pinout

BenThe wiring diagram looks correct when comparing against another wiring diagram. I only did a cursory look over comparing random pin colors. Pin 32 should be Light Green/Black. This may be easier to read... for the 2.2.

Nice answer.
 
2:23 PM
@BobCross Is that down to population? or is there some other criterion?
 
3:07 PM
@NickC - The electoral votes (e-votes) are factored on two things. First, every state gets an e-vote for each senator (each state has two, so that's all for that). Second, they get e-votes based on population. The population dictates how many Representatives (congressional) each state gets, then each state gets an e-vote per each Representative elected to Congress.
The minimum e-votes a state can have is three. I think California has the highest number, congruent with its population. California has 55 e-votes of their own.
 
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Hmm. Great explanation. I didn't know how they determined the number of electoral votes.
 
3:23 PM
I am ordering some tools, does somebody knows the most used sizes of a flare nut wrench?
 
 
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4:55 PM
@Myself Depends if you're working on Volks, GM, or Ford. If you're working on Volks, you'll use metric sizes; if you're working on GM you'll need English; if you're working on Ford, you won't need a wrench. ;)
 
5:05 PM
@anonymous2 - BWAT!
 
5:36 PM
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Sorry, I have a soft spot for Ford.
 
@anonymous2 - Nah, Fords are just a "soft spot" all around ;-)
@anonymous2 - I agree! It was completely helpful.
 
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Humph.
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 It's unfortunate that these excellent answers get so few upvotes compared to easy answers.
 
Oh, btw, I like the "gasoverflow.se" suggestion!
Hello @Zaid ... how are you today?
 
Hey here @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2
 
And, just as I say that, I have to go back to work, lol.
 
5:43 PM
Amusing myself with some of the tweets regarding the Indian rupee
The PM announced that the 500 and 1000 rupee denominations are no longer official after midnight
I expect the rupee will nosedive against the dollar tomorrow
Or the day after
Banks in India will (predictably) be closed tomorrow
 
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Maybe I should suggest it on meta, eh? ;)
 
6:08 PM
@anonymous2 - That's up to you, my friend.
 
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 I don't know, I don't think it would blow over too well, lol. :)
Of course, I could, just to see what people think. It never harms to suggest something, right? Worst that can happen is the suggestion gets rejected.
 
@anonymous2 - That would be the gist of it. I don't think I'd worry about blow back on it. I'd like to see what the community things of it as well. You could also suggest "PetrolOverflow.SE" as well? Just in case there's any people of that flavor. I just think the irony of it is awesome!
 
6:54 PM
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A: Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!

ZaidSupport for tables/tabulation in posts I'm not particularly concerned about how this feature is implemented, but it is cumbersome as a user to have to reach out to a 3rd-party ASCII-table utility in order to convey one's message more clearly.

^ appreciate some support on this
 
7:39 PM
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A: What is the "propane test" and how is it carried out?

ZaidA variant of the propane test can be used to test for bad cats This is for vehicles equipped with OBD-II readers and both pre-cat and post-cat lambda sensors Items needed propane supply OBD-II reader Safety Warning : DO NOT IGNITE THE PROPANE SUPPLY The propane is there to just induce a ...

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Done
 
7:49 PM
@Zaid I was going to post this as a comment underneath your propane test answer, but you did a great job with that answer and my comment is so inconsequential that I didn't want to sully it.
Great, detailed information! But, I wouldn't really call this a "variant" of the propane test. The two tests are for very different problems and measured in different ways. I think this answers the question as asked, but it should be described as "another" test using propane.
 
@ZachMierzejewski Love the word 'sully'
@Zaid How are things?
 
@DucatiKiller hi there! I'm good thanks. How are you?
 
@Zaid Just getting things under control at the new job. SAP.....the horror of it....
 
@ZachMierzejewski I don't know if variant is the right word either. "Version" perhaps?
 
@Zaid things are good though. Living the dream....once again.
 
8:05 PM
@Zaid Version sounds good to me!
 
8:15 PM
@DucatiKiller never used SAP
 
@Zaid Good, it's a nightmare. It steals your humanity. Consider yourself one of the lucky ones.
 
8:42 PM
Hooray for teleworking. Today's commute == zero seconds!
 
Say, @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2, are you able to see drafted posts before they are posted?
 
Um ... I don't think so?
 
Okay, just curious.
 
I think it's held in a cookie or something until you post it.
What, you wondering about a proofread or something?
You can always dump it into a separate chat ... just create one and dump away. Then let me know what you're doing.
@BobCross - Congrats on 20k!
 
9:15 PM
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Heartily seconded!
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 Okay, done.
 
9:32 PM
Just had a cool project today.
Fitted a Walbro K-10 WAT on a Zama carb. Ha, ha. What shocked me was that it worked. I had to file down the center post on the diaphragm and orient it sideways so the primer would still work.
Furthermore, I didn't have a 22mm primer bulb to replace the cracked one on it, I only had a 19mm.
So I cut off all but the bottom of the 22mm and fitted the 19mm inside it; essentially using the frame of the 22 as rubber holder for the 19mm.
 
10:07 PM
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 oh hey, look at that!
 
About time you get all the privs ... uh ... oh ... yah, you already have them and then some. Congrats, nonetheless.
 
 
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11:26 PM
thanks
 

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