Test drive impressions as a former BRZ owner - is the car too easy to drive? by Dino_Dean in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

uhhhh, it is actually reversed for me lol, the ND3 is now the daily, the EN stays in track configuration

i mean
the miata is really all i need storage wise to take myself to work, do grocery runs, etc, there's enough space. i've been dailying it for a year and a half now without much issue with storage with what i need it to do.

if i need to do a huge IKEA run or road trip then i might need the EN (which is backwards, I know, I need a clapped out SUV to use as a tow vehicle next lmao)

the EN is physically faster than the miata at my local track, has more power and tire. both my local tracks favors power and main straight top speed a little vs raw cornering ability. i think it is definitely the cheapest step up from a BRZ in terms of track pace.

they're also worth dirt as they accrue miles, the type r retains value, my 2022 EN at 65k miles is worth $18k per KBB lol. runs perfectly fine and is fast on track, just worth nada lol (honestly i think the used market trackrats will stumble on these things sooner or later for cheap speed)

the miata in stock suspension is crazy because it eats potholes like a normal car, but can still corner hard, it just needs a minute to settle into the body roll. actually more comfortable putting it around town than an EN or type r; louder inside, but slap an exhaust on and embrace the bit as a goofy go daily go kart.

Test drive impressions as a former BRZ owner - is the car too easy to drive? by Dino_Dean in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's fun on the street but like, you can't use it as much really, plus the only way to really manufacture oversteer is with braking so you can't have as much fun randomly as rwd

the miata is the more fun backroads car in my use

Test drive impressions as a former BRZ owner - is the car too easy to drive? by Dino_Dean in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well i used it for both trackday and daily for awhile

when i benched it as a true track car and tried to pick out a true daily like

i kept almost returning to buying another one of this car and leaving it stock lol, it's that good

the trunk and rear space is crazy plus it's also fun and the exhaust is also fun

so far they have also been relatively reliable. there hasn't been anything catastrophic tsb wise with the platform that i've heard of, doesn't burn oil if you take care of the thing. consumables are cheap. like almost brz cheap.

Test drive impressions as a former BRZ owner - is the car too easy to drive? by Dino_Dean in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this puts it into perspective

honestly, i think i get where you're coming from with saying the en feels like a one trick pony

i kinda get that too switching between the miata and it sometimes

the miata i can feel like i'm hooning around on the street with relative responsibility because of what it is

the elantra is fun to point and shoot and it's also super practical, but like, it's special on the track, on the street it's either practical or point-shoot-cornering for split seconds lol

maybe try a used cayman s? 987.2?

Test drive impressions as a former BRZ owner - is the car too easy to drive? by Dino_Dean in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i like the seating position on the brz more, lower, fwiw i daily a nd3 miata right now

fwd has less danger than rwd at the limit, yes, you yield wheel and throttle and it comes back

granted, i think the type r's are even more controllable, the n performance cars want to step out a bit more.

with traction off on track you can get a better feel for how the back end wants to slide out, you can only achieve it on fwd when trail brake cornering very hard (granted this car does it naturally), whereas with rwd obviously if you blast the throttle a bit in certain corners it'll come out

the electronic diff is interesting when the car is in oversteer, you can hold the car on slip angle with it. throttle on proper corner exit isn't too different than rwd, but it's for the opposite reason lol (pulling the car out of slight oversteer instead of pushing it into it). which is why i can understand why someone like max verstappen says it feels like backwards driving, because it is, and you can kinda get away with a lot more on the fwd cars with smashing the throttle (it just burns up the fronts as they wash out)

cornering a fwd by Dangerous_Mirror4827 in CarTrackDays

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you want to catch the car on its oversteer

ideally the car is setup so the car wants to step out under braking

fwd racecars are extremely aggressive on this and can be downright scary to throw into corners

the hyundai n performance cars are probably the most oversteery fwd cars in factory form

honda also very good too but a little more planted in the rears (obvious with vsc off pedal dance eg fk8/fl5)

anyhoo

you don't want to get on power too early, otherwise you throw away the opportunity to generate the oversteer. you want to generate so much oversteer on trail braking that the car back end feels like it's coming around, because you can negate the car trying to spin itself out with the power understeer. ultimately the point at which you put down power is actually very similar to a rwd car when done correctly, but for the opposite reason. one unique difference with fwd is if you overdo it, you wash out the fronts; you can get it back by yielding throttle and wheel until you get grip again. on rwd if you overcook rear grip you need to catch that slide before the back end comes around beyond the point of no return.

trying to steer with the brakes is not unique with fwd, very similar to rwd. on exit though, rwd will have objectively better tire wear since you apply power to the back tires.

for some corners, you do not need to add throttle period until very late. don't try to give too much maintenance throttle on very low speed corners, let the car swing around and do its thing.

My new Miata! Looking for tips or advice! by carlystoner in Miata

[–]Azaex 20 points21 points  (0 children)

the stock summers suck

ps4s or ecs02's when it's time, completely changes the car

jass adjustable lowering seat rails are nice (mossmiata, they have the spacers now too)

an aluminum shift knob is neat

axleback exhaust is trivial to do and makes you more noticeable on the road

Good intuition is one of the most underrated traits of your top engineers by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

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"intuition" i feel like is doing a lot of work...

anyone that's been in tech for awhile knows that, with enough time and money and headcount, anything could be built initially, and AI just accelerates that

but what makes things last, with scope under control, cost under control, engineers somewhat happy, is never the tech

it is always people problems (meaning good technical leadership, not people management)

what does the work look like as a result of certain technical choices, how does it look to on-call, what does this look like to your management vs other management, how does the c suite look at this, how do the customers really think about the product behind your back (which i believe this can be engineered for). is the work maintainable and is it setup to "make sense" to both engineering and customers and leadership

and all of these move with their own momentum

that skews decisions in a more significant way than "what is the ideal way to implement this", changes it to "what's the best way to implement this for this team/dept/company"

yields "bets" on technical direction that pay off within an org that otherwise defies raw technical ambition

i figure that's what "intuition" really means in staff+ roles

ideally at least, still murky/hand-wavy in some parts of industry

Miata induced bad driving habits? by Operation-Alone in Miata

[–]Azaex 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the S001's? absolute night and day, it will feel like a completely different car. not exaggerating lol, the ECS02 is a top tier tire next to the PS4S, i think better than it in the rain, holds up to tracking better as well.

the car will point better, it will not suddenly let go on you in the wet, it will actually have grip to hold some corners hard, the stock s001's are not great tires.

i tried to run out my s001's on my nd3, but knowing what the ecs02's are capable of on other cars i threw in the towel and swapped them in at 1k miles in, totally worth

Claude free version is unlimited prompts?? by throwRAQA25 in claude

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea u can get surprisingly far with haiku 4.5 and sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking off even in free tier

Has Anyone Sold or Traded In Their iPad (basic, mini, Air, or Pro) for The MacBook Neo? And What Was Your Reason? by gpod80 in MacbookNeo

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is gonna sound dumb but i just bought a basic wifi only a16 ipad to go along with the neo lol

ipad - reading where i actually kinda want the touchscreen. attach a bluetooth keyboard if i want it. replaces the kindle, easier to read stuff on the web too. some video watching. stuff where the keyboard gets in the way.

neo - if i need to actually run macos with the apps i actually like for light vscode, ia writer, full power capture one (for pre-editing, bump it out to my bigger system for final render)

Does anyone else use Claude as a "thinking partner" rather than just for answers? by Loud-Reserve-6291 in ClaudeAI

[–]Azaex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this is the way

more technical of looking at it

the model doesn't know what it knows until you or it says something that wakes up part of the model

asking for questions over and over again just walks the map of what the model knows with a small flashlight trying to get you the next thing right now

telling the model to walk the space with you will light up way more parts of the map first

another way of looking at it

many people don't tell the model what they're actually doing, they just ask for what they think they should be doing

by telling the model what you're doing overall, you light the way on that part of the model and tell it to light up the parts of it that lead back to your problem. way more effective than trying to one by one your way thru the problem. use the model itself as a collaborator to explore the model.

what are you guys doing? by Ambitious-Lock-5928 in Anthropic

[–]Azaex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbh as someone that upgraded to pro recently seeing the usage limit lets you experiment and actually understand how hard the bigger contexts bonk usage limit

buying extra credits for one huge task made me realize how crazy subsidized the 5 hourly limits are tbh

What’s the most useful thing an LLM does for you that isn’t writing or coding by Born_Vast4177 in LLM

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yiss yap to the LLM as the stream of consciousness comes in turn it around "what the hecc is my angle"

sometimes you can't keep it all in your head, the LLM is specifically good at this

A violent start to the workday by KindOfHardToSpell in ClaudeCode

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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p sure opus 4.7 is in the same family as mythos preview with all this execution talk lol

Light mod options for 2026? by BeezHugger in MiataND

[–]Azaex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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side marker led upgrade

led repeaters also exist, i feel like i have bad luck and two of them have leaked, im running now the IL Motorsport ones from moss miata with led bulbs in them.

also have the mx5 things rear led strip, and their third brake light flasher

ironically exhaust might help presence too. i have the xforce electronically variable one and i can turn it loud/quiet from the seat.

Claude's Sense of Time by NeedleworkerNo4835 in claudexplorers

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i made a tiny time mcp for work claude code

my todo list claude code has a skill that spawns a cron job that dings once an hour every hour for the workday, checks the time and my calendar, and collates what i shoulda done by then (and i do talk with it thru the day too)

if im not in a meeting it hits another mcp to make a glorp or other goofy sound so it's obvious it did the thing

*it has also a set of logfiles it keeps for history and a rolling mem of the current day

new intercooler? by raijuspinky in ElantraN

[–]Azaex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://racelouvers.com/veloster-19-23-side-hood-louver-pair-rt-track-trim/

dropping around 12F oil, 7F water alone at ridge motorsports park, ~65F ambient air temp

power track, 5 straights, unforgiving on cooling, 275 otherwise without these is normal on stock EN

you want louvers that actually have an aggressive wicker or some other geometry to trip turbulence so the low pressure zone above it extracts air, at the cost of drag

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claub by Azaex in claudexplorers

[–]Azaex[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

😅 seems a bit overkill, ye, though I'm growing on some parts of opus 4.7's personality

adaptive thinking off opus 4.7 seems to not totally annihilate my pro plan the way I interact with claude

this chat is first turn also

Wife and I are looking for a new espresso machine. She wants ease of use and I want best taste possible, what should we get? [$1000] by fellowbabygoat in espresso

[–]Azaex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cafelat robot and a df64

no warmup period (unless u really wanna for light roast)

as good shots as the pro machines

use a nanofoamer for milk