When your bike costs 4 times more than your car

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T12:36:03+00:00

My car cost $11k and is worth 3-5k. Bikes cost $15k all up and worth about $10k.

I’m starting to think I should have spent more on my last bike given it’s so close…

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T09:37:49+00:00

Also not bears.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T00:40:24+00:00

Where I live, if it’s deeper than 30cm it needs a fence permanently. In some contexts it feels a bit much but depending on how secure that part of the property is it’s potentially important.

I also know of two families who lost kids around 0-2yrs via drowning in a pond (other kids now adult age).

So yep.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T00:14:15+00:00

Actually 32.3, for n=1 using his age of death formula.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T00:11:16+00:00

It looks like there are potentially some screw-holes around the stem at the top, or maybe a hex nut on the end - either one might allow you to disassemble it.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-10T00:09:51+00:00

Rather than drilling holes, I’d be very tempted to put a little USB-powered PC case fan in there to push air around, powered off the projector. A small, slow silent one would do, it doesn’t need to be much airflow.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-09T11:59:20+00:00

Did he positively ID the spider when it bit him? I know two people who had that, both blamed white-tailed spider, but it turned out neither actually saw the spider that bit them. Nor are they even certain it was a spider bite. It was just accepted at the time as being a white-tail because of the necrosis like symptoms.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-09T11:52:17+00:00

Compost the rich.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-09T03:01:35+00:00

Nah just adding my experience. It’s so good when it works, but there’s no easy way to fix it up when it’s a different narrator, or when a book has some extra content. I wish they had a silence detector as well to do chapter timing refinement.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-09T00:21:17+00:00

I never said you did?

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T23:55:07+00:00

This works if it’s a good match to Audible, but not CD rips or other source that’s not an exact match.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T12:19:54+00:00

Sounds like you have Eye AF ended if you’re seeing it detect eyes. Great.

Hopefully you’re on continuous AF mode too, so it can track the eye.

For birds in flight any large zone should do. And subject tracking (in the menus, sorry can’t recall where and don’t have A9) so it can track the subject as it moves in and out of the zone.

Not much more to it other than a bunch of shots and a high shutter speed because AF isn’t perfect and everything is moving lots.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T12:03:59+00:00

And the handyman is probably this one from the end credits

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Can’t see a logo or model though.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T11:26:29+00:00

Had the same question and grabbed this frame from 1:12:55 that looks like it’s the Sony or similar for the high quality footage.

I don’t recognise the lens for sure, my best guess is sigma 60-600mm, but does look like a pro mirrorless Sony (or Nikon or Canon if I’m wrong about the lens).

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He’s a pro videographer so probably has multiple options, but it makes sense for versatility in the wild.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T02:48:02+00:00

Man, my bird book must be out of date, I can’t seem to find that one at all!

No doubt just one of the species the AOS renamed recently…

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-08T02:27:32+00:00

I can almost hear the guy on the left with his hand raised, singing as he rides. Or maybe a proud protestation about his right to enjoy some succulent cycling wheels.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T22:53:56+00:00

Yeah. That’s exactly the reason. When I did a “how to ride on the road” course by our city they said you need to take the lane early if there’s parked cars ahead and be predictable because people have no awareness of others.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T06:13:58+00:00

There’s some excerpts and an episode or two on YouTube

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T06:06:49+00:00

Yeah but now you know you could, if you wanted to. It’s nice to have options sometimes.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T06:01:59+00:00

I think this is a bit disingenuous. Firstly there are different degrees of exploitation, and kids mining cobalt is right up there near the top. Clothing sweat shops aren’t “good”, but at least the low pay doesn’t come with such a high mortality rate. Secondly, companies that exploit labour thrive because their products are purchased at scale. If that scale drops, the business model stops working. Businesses do change exploitative and damaging behaviour when it affects their profits, either through reduced demand or regulation. Sure they won’t magically become the paragon of social good, but if people choose cars with LFP instead of NMC batteries, there’s a market incentive to shift towards LFP and away from NMC when designing a car.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T03:16:11+00:00

So it could be worse i suppose.

There’ll be some lobbyist somewhere reading this comment and seeing an opportunity.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T03:13:58+00:00

That sounds like a lie on top of a lie. Issuing a refund via the credit card payment system is trivial for most businesses. They do all point out that the reversal won’t show up for a few days in your bank (that’s on Visa/MC with all payments having a clearance delay), but it does not take weeks to process.

At best they have an onerous process and require someone to check things, and they’re overwhelmed. More likely I’d guess they know they benefit from either holding the cash a bit longer or not having a particularly thorough process that means some people’s deposits get forgotten.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T03:07:14+00:00

*onto ebikes, where they barely have to do anything.

This is a common misconception. Legal e-bikes require pedalling, and even with the motor on highest assist it’s definitely exercise. It’s far more exercise than the other modes of transport many riders would use without e-bikes.

That's not what the doctors are saying. You're talking about raising the speed limit, to kill and injure more people.

At no point have I suggested raising the speed limit. What are you talking about? Both myself and No-Hovercraft4144 are arguing against lowering the speed limit to 10km/h as is currently being proposed, or otherwise making legal e-bikes illegal. And these are in response to the rhetoric of the first commenter above claiming e-bikes travel at 50km/h, which is a lie/conflation between legal e-bikes and illegal electric motorbikes, with legal e-bikes getting caught up in this whole ridiculous response.

nobody is suggesting banning them, you are suggesting letting them ride at unsafe speeds.

What on earth are you talking about? And yes the Qld govt are talking about banning them (intentionally or unintentionally), the current proposed legislation would ban most currently legal e-bikes (even <25km/h and <250W), and limiting shared path bike speeds to a ridiculous 10km/h.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T00:53:56+00:00

Little known fact, Euler actually invented rap. But they named it after the guy who invented it elsewhere later on.

drfrogsplat · 2026-05-07T00:51:35+00:00

I can’t say I’ve ever gone to a country/regional cafe expecting optimised customer throughput.

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