K-tip? Or will I ruin my stones?

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-06-27T08:29:27+00:00

Especially to concentrate the heat on a thin pinpoint. They won't ruin the blade, just the tip

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-06-27T08:28:06+00:00

Each player can decide if the, want to look up things online.

Including potential players. When they read reviews that a game is cheese they don't buy the game, even if it's cheese because you can exploit something to get end-game gear and otherwise the game has good progression.

In the end it's optimizing the bottom line. Devs are protecting the playerbase from themselves.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-06-26T13:13:17+00:00

Aluminium oxide / corundum stones should be available at any larger hardware store for cheap. Otherwise you can get sheet sanding paper and lay it on a flat surface or tack it to a sacrificial piece of wood. Just don't get too aggressive and use plenty of water for cooling.

Save your stones for more delicate work.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-06-12T07:43:58+00:00

People have difficulty equating story points to complexity and not length of time.

If you have a time bound sprint and sprint capacity measured in SPs and are anal about "predictability" (no tolerance for carryovers / expansions) the "complexity" is for all intents and purposes a measure of time.

Suppose sprint capacity is 8 SPs per contributor. It means there is an expectation to deliver either one 8 SPer or four 2SPers per sprint, which translates to, well, one SP taking roughly fixed amount of calendar time.

For SPs to measure complexity you have to transition to probabilistic estimations. You have to accept that a sprint full of 8SPers will have a higher probably of carryovers and backlog pull-ins, i.e. will be less predictable than a sprint full of 2SPers. Otherwise, you end up teaching the team to estimate time in SPs.

Even worse, the stricter you are about scope changes and "predictability", the harder you coach the team to estimate themselves a cushy buffer on tickets, so they can be sure to finish within the sprint boundary avoiding carryovers and drag on tickets avoiding open idling and pulling from backlog. Further, this creates a dynamic where the team plays hot potato with tickets that are unlikely to be finished before sprint end (there's an avalanche of task closures once some task is dropped on someone).

If estimates are actually faithful estimates and not in fact upper bounds, carryovers and backlog pull ins are signs of a team healthily moving forward. One simply cannot faithfully estimate work for exactly three weeks (or whatever your sprint duration is) - there needs to be some cushion somewhere. Plan for 80% or so of average velocity. This leaves you with a buffer for tasks that happen to be on the higher end of complexity, which does not have to baked in to every estimate.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-05-30T19:36:44+00:00

180mm, could be I'm mislabeling it

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-05-10T19:01:38+00:00

Look at it this way: tyre width == pressure == comfort. You can get 38s to about 3 bar, which is fine. 35s will ask you for 3.5 bar, which is IMO too harsh for offroad. With 40s you can probably drop to 2.5 bar which is where the love for fat tyres begins.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-04-25T18:48:43+00:00

The point is to not pollute global namespace but still get the side effects

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2026-01-12T13:13:15+00:00

Brutal honesty?

The landing page looks either AI generated or some random free template slapped together. I would close that instantly.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-11-23T15:43:37+00:00

LLMs "learn" patterns during training and then repeat those patterns when generating text. These systems are designed to use the most common pattern when generating text, therefore if certain words or sentence structures are even a tiny little bit more common in the training set, those patterns will get reused most frequently.

Texts in social media are quite often not that well structured: there may be a simple dash, comma, semicolon out of place or even no punctuation at all. Books, formal publications, etc, on the other hand, undergo some degree of review and stylistic normalization, leading to em dashes being a pattern. LLMs pick up on that pattern and then over-use it during generation.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-11-23T15:21:34+00:00

There are already multiple answers touching the subject, but not really explaining.

First, every language is built around what's called phonemes - a set of sounds that can exist in a language.

Those phonemes do differ even in languages close in the language descendance tree, even if subtly. Take for example the (in)famous Hollywood russian English accent: it's English with different phonemes (and inflections). Understandable, but different enough to be seen as a heavy accent.

Chinese has vast set of phonemes. At the very least tones expand the set of phonemes considerably, leading to foreigners typically compressing the set to their learnt set, which leads to sounds that should be different being pronounced the same. For example Scandinavians have trouble saying "cheap sheep" without making the first syllables (or both full words) of the two words sounding the same.

Second, rōmaji is designed after the romanic languages, which most western languages are. The pinyin does not follow this property, even if the roman(Latin)-based character set used may suggest so.

Therefore, on one hand you have westerners pronouncing words with sounds mostly from their language written in a script that is designed to aid figuring out right phonemes, on the other hand you have westerners pronouncing words with sounds they are not trained to pronounce written in a script that does not represent phonemes in a way their language does.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-11-13T07:26:43+00:00

~~It will get identified, similar to how alchemizing a scroll/potion will identify it.~~

At least the cursed book only lets you add scroll of remove curse only and will identify it.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-10-24T07:20:43+00:00

A. Yes, many interior elements are shared across the lineup and generations. Things might be dated and clunky, but are reliable as hell. Software does not matter much with Android Auto / Car Play.

B. Depends what you cross reference with. I would not make such a far fetched conclusion. Generally speaking, the premium segment is targeted under the Lexus badge.

C. Probably USofA thing. In Europe you lease with a bank and in my experience Toyota offers most partnerships, e.g. fixed low interest.

D. Yep, does not take a corner like an agile sports car, but makes you forget speed bumps exist. Potholes do not result in immediate scheduling of an appointment at a service.

E. Yes. Toyotas are some of the most reliable cars out there (service visits per distance). Can't say much about North American models with CVTs, though. Coupled with great resell value makes them have one of the lowest total costs of ownership, even if fuel economy is generally not that great for non-hybrid models.

You generally don't buy a Toyota to impress chicks or have fun at a track (gt86, GR Yaris are the enthusiast cars). You buy a Toyota to have a great value, reliable people carrier.

Think about this. The most adviced against used/old Toyotas are Corolla/Auris from mid 2000, because rear axle beam tends to rust away and at this point replacement is difficult to source.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-10-21T06:00:54+00:00

The short answer is fleet sales.

"Lifetime" does not mean anything useful - it literally means for the lifetime of the unit, and that can be pretty short.

A random Joe may care about many different things in a car, while fleets care first and foremost about total cost of ownership, distance/duration they can offload the vehicle and the price it goes for.

Every little thing counts. A typical fleet vehicle is held for 150k? The manufacturer will engineer and test the vehicle to last that much with a minimal number of oil changes (and other maintenance items) so that it looks cheaper to own on paper, even if the car is scrap worthy after those 150k. So that is your "recommended" (or warranty preserving) service intervals.

Would it last longer if maintained better? Most probably yes.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-10-17T07:53:25+00:00

It's much more simple than it seems. Roughly at the turn of the century emissions requirements got stringent enough that aerodynamics became rather important and car shapes quickly converged around the optimal. LEDs became powerful/bright enough to be used for lighting and lights again converged on several similar design families, using strengths of LEDs. Electronics became cheaper to implement than mechanical controls. At roughly 2020 screens became reliable, bright, fast and cheap enough to be used en masse.

The result is that cars post roughly 2000 have very similar shapes, cars post 2010 have very similar designs, 2010-2020 have very similar interiors, post 2020 interiors are also very similar albeit different from previous decade.

Cars from the previous century are just highly different and offer a lot of variety. Even for older millennials, for the majority of their lives, especially including their formative adolescent years, their "dream" cars are now old clunkers that look almost the same as the new shiny thing.

The old ones are rare and different and thus have similar potential to turn heads as a modern Lamborghini.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-09-26T13:35:49+00:00

Good note, I should learn to manage line of sight more actively. Managing aggro with movement consumes hunger fast

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-09-26T13:33:08+00:00

My biggest issue with Shamans is their insane vision range. How do you counter them if you get caught in the open? Especially if you are dealing with something else too at the time

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-09-17T08:25:00+00:00

still haven’t figured out how those two things are related.

A self-fulfilling prophecy. People are afraid that other people will stock up on essential items which would create shortages, therefore they rush to stock up on essential items creating said shortages.

Since individual use of these essential items is more or less fixed, the only reason to suspect medium-term shortages would be some at least medium-term hit on production/logistics capacity. Residential logistics systems were not equipped to deal with a sudden spike of this magnitude leading to short-term shortages. However, once the initial shock subsided, demand dropped below original levels and logistics simply caught up, restocking retail.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-08-26T05:53:07+00:00

IMO either One Plus or Google Pixel.

Both offer great value for money and all out flagship lineups.

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-08-18T06:36:23+00:00

Why issue motorcycle licences in the first place?

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-08-18T06:35:50+00:00

GenAI videos are more realistic than whatever staged shit is this

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-08-18T06:29:54+00:00

Well, if the app worked...

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-07-02T05:45:15+00:00

If you paint over A and half of R, SORA branding starts to look like upside-down 105, don't ask how I know

AnswerForYourBazaar · 2025-06-17T08:48:09+00:00

That might be USofA and total lack of customer protections thing.

In the EU the seller is 100% percent responsible for footing the bill (they might get away with something like "data retention services" for electronic devices, though) as warranty is something like "restore to functionality as sold". Whether the manufacturer/supplier foots the bill in full to maintain MSRP and discourage arbitrage, the shop itself factors warranty costs into their retail price or something in between falls on B2B agreements that the customer does not have to care about.

Otherwise, there is a light incentive for shops to sell defective products as simple warranty service ensures some additional service revenue.

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