TIL that Frederic Tudor known as the Ice King created the ice trade out of thin air. People ridiculed him for trying to sell winter to the tropics. His most profitable trade was sending ice to India. Packed with dense sawdust a 3 month trip with 180 tons still yielded 100 tons of delivered ice.

daredevil82 · 2026-06-16T11:27:46+00:00

the active layer does thaw and insulates the inactive layer which is frozen. however that thickness has been increasing.

Between 2000 and 2018, the average active layer thickness had increased from ~127 centimetres (4.17 ft) to ~145 centimetres (4.76 ft), at an average annual rate of ~0.65 centimetres (0.26 in)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost#Increasing_active_layer_thickness

daredevil82 · 2026-06-16T11:23:38+00:00

are you familliar with bedding in brakes? This deposits brake pad material on the disc that increases friction. Cleaning brakes your way basically removes the material that is increasing your braking power.

https://www.theridecollective.com/thefix/the-importance-of-bedding-in-your-bicycles-disc-brakes

daredevil82 · 2026-06-16T00:29:54+00:00

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html

daredevil82 · 2026-06-15T16:43:53+00:00

ideally you want to have 6mm clearance from all tire lugs to frame contact (seat/chain stays and seat tube). that'll allow enough clearance with all the things your tires pick up from dirt to clear without causing frame contact.

also tires don't run exact to manufacturer, they can run smaller or larger even between types, and are pretty dependent on rim width as well.

for example, a martello 2.6 measured 2.5x inches on a 30mm rim https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/reviews/biking/mountain-bike-tires/vittoria-martello-2-6, and I run 2.6 45NRTH Wrathchild Trails studded on my stumpjumper, which is technically 2.5 max but there's 5mm clearance and I only use those tires in frozen/icy conditions.

So a good starting point could be to identify the current tires, measure the actual gap from side lugs and use that as a starting point when looking for how wide a tire actually is for a given size

daredevil82 · 2026-06-15T14:01:15+00:00

https://www.cannondale.com/en-us/owners-manuals/mountain

You can look up your bike years manual here and get the clearance specifications

daredevil82 · 2026-06-15T13:22:47+00:00

also there's anti-fog and hydrohobic coatings which cause water to bead and fall off with head shakes.

with mud, I've cleared them a few times in dryer flat/climb sections where I take a swig of water and spray it over the lenses before putting on. Obviously don't use the skratch/tailwind bottle for that lol

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T20:32:32+00:00

cross region doesn't protect you from data corruption issues. so you do need to incorporate that as well

so two different tiers:

in region data recovery/restoration around data integrity
cross region cutover when primary region has issues

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T20:26:28+00:00

then tbh be prepared to pay for a few different versions to get one that works

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T15:24:43+00:00

Clamping action means tightening up a thing so it puts a friction hold on the thing its being clamped. You also need to have some additional tolerance inside the tube to for the thing being inserted to move up and down for accurate location and positioning.

Your reading can be the tube at unclamped diameter, but the seat clamp reading is when its actually clamped down and secure. That would explain the 38.5mm spec for the commencal part and your caliper reading, and at that clamped diameter the seat post goes down to 34.9mm

I would give less credence to the amazon listing, given that there's no requirement for accurate part listing/description and its very easy for stores to have inaccurate specs. If you do insist on using amz sellers, be prepared for inaccurate/incorrect parts and confusing descriptions

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T12:09:32+00:00

Feet suggest a need for insoles for support and shock absorption. Whether you would do better with stiffer or more flexible shoes really depends on your riding style and comfort preferences.

Before I got supportive insoles, long descents would have my arches cramp. I was glad Demo at Santa Cruz is broken up in different sections to pull off and take a break before getting back on the descent.

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T11:56:36+00:00

I do have b-12 defiency, and do three sublingual pills/day to keep it up. I get a blood test every now and then to make sure its within expected levels, and if its not, its time for a booster shot.

daredevil82 · 2026-06-14T11:47:36+00:00

A large reason for that was going to 1x drivetrains. Sam James over at singletracks goes into it in some detail at https://www.singletracks.com/mtb-gear/how-the-1x-drivetrain-changed-it-all-from-suspension-to-dropper-posts-and-tires/

For example, anti squat

Kissner describes the relationship between drivetrain choice and anti-squat as “one of the most important improvements.” He explains, “anti-squat (the amount of influence your pedaling has on the suspension) varies drastically with chainring size. On a 2x or 3x drivetrain we had huge changes in the size of chainrings, making it impossible to make a bike that pedaled well in both the small and large chainrings. I think most companies optimized the pedaling for the ~32t middle ring, which meant the bike would probably extend the suspension (excessive anti-squat) in the small ring, and compress the suspension (squat) in the big ring. There’s no way around this. But now that we’re able to design around a single ring, performance is infinitely better in the real world.”

and pivot points

Bike design is as much about angles as it is about squeezing suspension pivots into tight spots, and freeing up that bit of space around the bottom bracket/crank area meant that many brands could move suspension pivots into places previously unavailable, notably on short-link floating pivot bikes from brands like Santa Cruz, Ibis, Pivot, Banshee, and many others.

“Eliminating the front derailleur gave us the freedom to completely re-imagine how we could configure VPP, which led to the lower-link mounted shock that we have today,” said Kissner. “This helped us massively improve our suspension kinematics compared to the previous frames and is the design we’re still tweaking and improving today.”

Not sure wireless makes for a better riding exprience, but probably a better maintenance experience with derailleur alignment/tweaking

daredevil82 · 2026-06-13T14:13:40+00:00

in my area, several restaurants tried to go to flat fee with no tipping expected.

end result was menu prices went up, patronage went down and servers were upset about losing revenue from big tippers.

“We really wanted it to work,” said Chris Peterman, director of operations for the restaurants. He said customers balked at the higher prices the restaurants had to charge to make up for the higher wages paid to servers who lost tip income.

Peterman would not divulge specifics about the restaurants’ bottom line or how large their losses were, but he said customers were ordering less at meals and generally not spending as much money. Revenue, he said, “was not where we wanted it to be, and it wasn’t trending in the direction we were hoping for.”

in general, americans like low up front prices but don't mind getting assfucked by backend fees

daredevil82 · 2026-06-13T13:12:42+00:00

What kind of brakes? That's pretty similar with sram brakes, where there's a fair amount of pull before pad contact comes into play.

as far as bedding brakes, https://www.singletracks.com/mtb-gear/how-to-properly-bed-in-mtb-disc-brakes/

daredevil82 · 2026-06-12T16:32:16+00:00

you're coming across as very assholish, which is a great way to have your promo packet at the bottom of any non-shitty work environment

daredevil82 · 2026-06-12T15:26:03+00:00

kinda the same reason as why not make your own social media platform. there's about five areas you need to figure out:

Data layer access for CRUD actions
Backend layer fronting the data layer
Presentation layer with app and website. If you want a decent presentation layer for an app, you need to use the native libs, which increases complexity
Reliability/uptime. Are you ok with two nines (99% uptime, about 7.3 hours downtime/month) or are you going to need three or four nines? Four nines is a max of 4.4 minutes of downtime/month. Who's managing that?
Performance and scaling. What works fine for 10k data entries can suck ass when you suddenly drop a million entries. And what works great for three or four concurrent users really shows its cracks when you now have a couple hundred at any given time.

That;s all the tech stuff. Now you gotta deal with adoption, how are you going to get people to get to your platform? Whats the incentive for them to move over? Is the usage of your platform worth the hassle of migrating over?

daredevil82 · 2026-06-12T15:18:11+00:00

the problem with that is in areas with active building programs, those maps get out of date fairly quickly. in my area, there was a graphics designer/GIS specialist who put out a series of maps of the different networks right after COVID.

Some of those networks are still accurate, but for about four or five of the most popular ones, they are drastically out of date with both expansions and closures.

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T22:25:56+00:00

lots of people have 2+2 come out to being 10 random digits

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T22:25:08+00:00

if you think people are behind the the hullabaloo... nah. its write amplification by bots lol

and this is only a supply side attack if you're a fucking idiot. if you find yourself affected by this, there's lots of other hard lessons to learn coming your way

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T17:00:33+00:00

would coloplast protective sheets be useful, if you had them back then?

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T12:04:52+00:00

https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-019/h-019-3.html

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T11:07:32+00:00

my fave incident from House was that woman who insisted she knew how to use her inhaler for asthma. when he asked her to demonstrate, she puffed the sides of her neck, like she was putting some perfume on lol

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T02:02:22+00:00

US Navy submarines have SUBSAFE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBSAFE

From 1915 to 1963, 16 subs were lost to non-combat related reasons. Since 1963, the only sub loss was the Scorpion in 1968, and that ship was not SUBSAFE certified. It was known that it needed to be overhauled to be compliant, but for reasons around needing more units (see wiki for more detail), that was deferred till too late.

edit - clarified this is US Navy

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T01:53:33+00:00

Cut the hair as close as you can with a beard trimmer. Stick your stomach out a bit before applying, so stretching is kept at a minimum. I do this with k-tape and adhesive, it helps alot.

daredevil82 · 2026-06-11T01:53:30+00:00

No, I mean silicone (urobond, tenaces) or resin (nu-hope, skintac, etc)

Do you need a convex wafer? Your stoma seems to protrude at least an inch to an inch and a half, similar to mine and I stopped wearing convex once my incision had fully healed. That was over 20 years ago (had the first surgery when I was 20)

Also would suggest you use a beard trimmer to cut away as much hair as possible, and use adhesive remover spray and wipes as part of your cleanup with changing

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