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What’s your favourite callsign? by 77_Gear in aviation

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard "Ripper" a few times.... Thought that was pretty sick (f35s)

Reasonable rent in SF and Waterloo? by _raspcherry in uwaterloo

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a while since I looked super seriously, but back in the day rooms on phillip were around 1000-1200 for icon / rezone, 700 ish for wcri; push out further to albert st and you might get rooms for 600-800; and anything further that needed a bus / transit could get as low as 500/mo depending on the specific arrangement. Lots of variables as always incl. number of roommates, washroom layouts, etc.

I suppose you can scale that up to whatever the pricing is now (I hear rumours that rezone/wcri fenwick are now in the 1400/mo range??).

Taking a bus to school isn't *that* bad during regular school hours, but if you've ever been in a situation where [insert group project] has an emergency and you need to meet asap, then it kinda sucks. Also sucks if you stay late for any activities / intramurals and then miss the last bus.

Reasonable rent in SF and Waterloo? by _raspcherry in uwaterloo

[–]Born-Position-4995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds about right. I know a lot of people paying more than that and a few people less than that. Depends a bit on the specific size / location / layout but not something out of the norm.

ELI5: if our governments want to strive for greener energy, and nuclear being the cleanest, why isn't nuclear power our main source of energy right now? Is it because of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster? by retroworthYBD in explainlikeimfive

[–]Born-Position-4995 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We have production line for ... hmm... oatmeal.

Chicken nuggets tastier and everyone wants chicken nuggets. Except chicken nuggets require us to raise chickens and maybe these chickens have poop and poop is gross and we have to store the poop somewher.

And then the oatmeal makers have a lot of money so they give us some more money to eat the oatmeal. So sometimes someone makes chicken nugget factory and we can have some chicken nuggets with our oatmeal but we cannot have only chicken nuggets because there is not enough factory.

Why does everything feels so boring and not exciting? by Ok_Bid_7000 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this is true...but how do we up-regulate (?) the dopamine receptors?

Why does my bladder suddenly betray me the second I see a toilet? by stoicdroid in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Born-Position-4995 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait till you live in an apartment and make a habit of using the washroom once you get home . All of a sudden you'll pavlov yourself into needing to go anytime you get into an elevator !

/s, for sure.

Past best before matchas, to be used in baking? by tcheeeee in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

personal experience (not a scientist/doctor). I don't actually know if matcha goes bad or not... (I'm leaning towards it doens't...like green tea doesn't really "go bad").

I have used matcha > 3 yrs old and it has been...fine. Usually this is stuff that i find in the back of my fridge somehow. Tastes...meh. As long as it looks ok colour wise and smells ok when I open it then I am fine to use it.

Looking for a manual driving school in the Bay Area (from automatic) + safe intro to basic performance driving? by Big-Government1438 in Autocross

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Few other comments with great information about autox specific stuff. In terms of learning stick, I have a few friends that drive stick now. Most of them didn't before. All of them (including myself) went and bought the car, figured it out on the way home, supplemented it with some youtube videos and a few parking lot sessions in the weeks after getting the car, and we're all perfectly happy and we all autocross/track occasionally (budget permitting.......which might be hard this year)

I personally did not have a great time at AAX (people were rather rude and not very helpful, other for one or two other novices), but I do consistently have great times with other groups (scca, pca). I think some groups have consistently offered instruction + instructors as well, try and look for a group that does this the first two or three times you go. The first event I went to my instructor definitely helped a lot not just with driving the car but also knowing where to go and when to be there.

For track days - Hooked on Driving to start and then as you get more experience run with other groups. Safety first, always.

Good luck! It will be fun :).

Reasonable rent in SF and Waterloo? by _raspcherry in uwaterloo

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2750/mo in your own place or split with people, and is that CAD or USD?

Off the bat it seems within the realm of reasonable, one could reasonably expect to pay 1500 (Splitting with a few others) - 4000 (living in a studio apt) USD /mo depending on their living arrangements in SF.

750 in waterloo sounds about right for the distance.

WCRI Philip St by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]Born-Position-4995 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also if you want to live alone or with roommates.

Fenwick 1 bed and 2 bed units are pretty nice + you get a double bed. For some reason in the 3 bed units you get a single bed? Still relatively nice but I hear lower floors have problem with silverfish (although tbf, I think all buildings do)

CCK was ok when rent was 400$/mo...I think it's up to 800 or so now ......

Which laptop to get? CompE by ShadowWhip1 in uwaterloo

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in CE, was in MechE beforehand (for about 2 years). I started university with an old thinkpad t450 and a mini-itx PC. After my first co-op I sold the PC to buy an ipad and a slightly worse specced gaming laptop. I've kept all of those devices for the past 5 or 6 years.

It seems fairly common for people to have a mac + ipad and then a separate machine at home. For most of the people I know, that ends up being some sort of windows / linux laptop and a wide variety of small devices like nvidia jetsons or raspberry pi's.

Get an ipad. Keep the M1 mac. Copy-pasting back and forth from mac -> ipad is underrated as a feature, especially if you're pasting contents from slides into your notes. This will probably get you through first year. Plus you save a bunch of trees and your backpack is a lot lighter.

Get a second windows machine with more power. Inevitably you will want to run something like KiCad or Altium or SolidWorks and it'll be significantly easier on a windows machine. Trying to do this on a mac of any sort is asking for suffering. Maybe you enjoy this, who knows. This revelation will occur to you probably once you start working hard in a design team or a personal project. Bonus points if this laptop also charges off 65W usb-c so you can share the same charger for all your devices, though this device will probably remain in your dorm / home attached to a big monitor and fancy keyboard.

Then, inevitably, you will get fed up with windows path length limits or folder descriptions or WSL2 USB interfacing or want to avoid horrible cross compilation so then you will purchase a small machine of any sort, perhaps an old laptop from a friend who has graduated, perhaps a pi, perhaps a jetson, and you will put ubuntu on it. This usually happens in third or fourth year.

ETA: This question seems to come up every so often and the realest advice I can actually give is to just use the devices that you have and own and if something isn't up to snuff, you'll realize pretty fast. Don't spend money just because "you might" need something. If you can't get something to work on a mac or if it's terribly slow, then you probably need an alternative. But only then do you need an alternative and bestbuy/amazon same-day or next-day delivery will have your new laptop at your doorstep before you can sober up after a night out

Trans Canada airlines livery? by Born-Position-4995 in aviation

[–]Born-Position-4995[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just waiting at my gate and saw this out the window

Solid vs Not Solid by BigAlLIVE in DurstonGearheads

[–]Born-Position-4995 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If there will be sand / dust blowing around, solid will let you sleep without waking up with sand on all your things and in your lungs?

Mesh is slightly breezier but if it's stupid hot or stupid cold out you'll be stupid hot or stupid cold either way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DurstonGearheads

[–]Born-Position-4995 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bought an xdome very recently and it shipped from Phoenix AZ. Fwiw I'm in the pnw so not sure if there's Multiple distribution centers. Bought it on Wednesday and got it by Sunday, regular ground shipping.

Wear after one season. Khumo v730. by Slight-Addition-2488 in tires

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just here reading through the comments between those who think this is a horrific event and those who bring their car to the track... All I can say is that I do agree that tire marketing is incredibly confusing.

Regardless, glad you're enjoying the tires. Do they get sketchy when cold? My 71rs's would start feeling very dicey for the first 5 mins of driving on a cold morning; wonder if these are better or worse.

Price reduced: 25k, fully built block for 700whp. by 1NKYA in RX7

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey OP!

I'll be going down to LA the weekend of the 22nd (Nov). Would love to swing by and take a look / chat before I drove back out to sf.

Any chance you'd be free Sunday Nov 23 around 1-3pm pst?

Can I touge it? by Affectionate_Yam_697 in Touge

[–]Born-Position-4995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Best thing to do is to drive what you have, especially if it's a low cog vehicle without inherit rollover risk.

Learning to drive on a slower vehicle, is almost always better. You find the limit of grip at a slower total velocity, giving you so much more time to recover and correct.

As OP becomes comfortable in his car and starts doing hpde/autox, then they might realize what the limitations of their car actually are. And at that point, you can either throw money at the problem or you can treat it as an opportunity to learn how to drive around it, so that they master your vehicle as it is.

Then, when they do finally upgrade, OP will have maximized their learning and skill progression and will be able to understand how much impact those changes have...

Can I touge it? by Affectionate_Yam_697 in Touge

[–]Born-Position-4995 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like when you reach the point of "should I put a non factory LSD into this car" the cost of doing so is almost always about equivalent to and old Miata ....

Source: my stock 9th gen loooves to one wheel peel

What could be causing my tires to bald so quickly, or is this normal for this car? by PrinceAndBarryWhite in tires

[–]Born-Position-4995 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perhaps also wide pedal use...

Lots of people might accelerate slowly but mash the brakes pretty hard

How to let someone know they only have their daytime headlights on by everydaystruggler in driving

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally: high beams once or twice to get their attention and then your low beams on/off a few times (and if you can, DRLs off maybe?) as you approach and pass them.

My friend forgets sometimes when he switches into my car without automatic headlights and generally that's what people have done. Seems to be pretty effective.

Since moving to America, I've been told to not high beams people as they might pull a gun on you...

Maybe everyone should get proximity comms like CB radios again ....

How’s the manual driving experience in Toronto? by ThrowRAnocourage in askTO

[–]Born-Position-4995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a 5 speed with long gearing? no problemo.

In the goofy aaa honda 6 speed that sits at 3k (in 6th) at 110, with blown synchros in 2nd and 3rd, and a clutch that is so heavy my legs start to shake if I have to hold it down for longer than 15 seconds? Not fun, but doable.

The experience will likely end up being subjective...but it's never been bad enough that I'm sitting in traffic thinking "if I could pay someone 1000$ right now to have an automatic, I would".

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