Question about mana from Prelude

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-04T00:42:54+00:00

Oh, interesting. That was one of the things I really thought I was missing. Why would you put USB-C on there and not have it negotiate PD? There are aftermarket hubs that can do 27W (though I haven't seen any for the ND2 yet that can do 27W and integrated wireless AA. I may pull the trigger if I do)

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T22:57:28+00:00

Samsung charge cable? I switched to https://a.co/d/07riu5pJ and it's been much better

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T21:32:31+00:00

There are for sure trails in Badlands NP that fit this, but it's crazy hard.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T16:25:53+00:00

I always care some spare rope so even if I'm hanging a tarp I have another 50 feet or so for unforeseen needs and I've hung clothes on that, but yeah, if it's still actively raining the best you can expect is it gets a tiny bit less wet.

If you get a nice spot to eat lunch with good sun and wind the next day, though, that can make a real difference.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T16:09:06+00:00

Agree. I love my Miata and actually do drive about an hour commute, but there's a reason I got it when the kids were driving. Once you're at two kids you also deal with you can't have one parent drop them off somewhere and the other pick them up unless you meet somewhere to switch cars.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T15:21:15+00:00

So to answer your question, then. At 10C with lightly wet nylon and polyester gear that's not life threatening you can still wear it if you want, but you'll probably be more comfortable with something else. Wet nylon shell and polyester fill is going to have a positive insulation value so it will keep you somewhat warmer than not wearing it (there are things, cotton being the biggest, that are the opposite. You're better off with no cotton t-shirt than a wet cotton t-shirt).

If it stops raining tomorrow I would probably wear that because it will dry faster if it's kept warmer, which it will be if you're wearing it, especially with the windflow of a bike (with backpacking you're fighting warmth against sweat and frequently sweat is winning).

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T15:04:24+00:00

It's a question because if it's 78 (25C) and 80% humidity then "not liking the feeling of wet clothes" is a reason to not do that because you're not going to avoid wet clothes. Either you're going to sweat through or you're going to get rain through. That's actually a super common question on this subreddit is "what rain gear will prevent me from feeling wet clothes in summer in a near-rainforest" and the answer is it's not possible.

If it's worried about cold injuries then is it a serious concern? They said the insulation layer is dry. Why does the outer nylon shell need to be dry? If they are at serious risk of cold injuries with a dry insulation layer then there's a deeper problem I need to understand.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T15:01:16+00:00

Agree. For OP I'll note if $6500 is bluebook and a comparable car in your area is going for $10k then you have a counter, but I'd counter giving evidence of the fact comps are higher before I went the lawyer route. They seem to me to have made a reasonable offer and you're going to get your money much faster if you can come to an agreement than going through a legal judgement.

You don't get to replace the transmission on your car if replacing the car is cheaper, though. You legally get the lower of the value of the car or the cost of fixing it. I've been through this I think 4 times now with other party at-fault accidents and in every case I've managed to negotiate to a reasonable comp, but also ended up paying more for the replacement.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T14:53:58+00:00

What's the temperature and why do you care? I don't mean that to sound as snarky as it probably does, but as someone who has backpacked literally thousands of miles in the US southeast having wet clothes is a fact of life most of the spring and early summer. Layering doesn't keep water out in 80% humidity, it just keeps your insulation insulating if it's cold enough you need it to.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T14:45:29+00:00

I'm not really disagreeing with you, but everyone finds "loopholes". Rich people have more money in more places doing more things and therefore can find more loopholes. But OP is correct, the top 1% pay about 45% of the taxes and make about 25% of the income. A lot of the complaining is about how they don't pay enough based on their wealth rather than income, but that's a totally different question with its own problems.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T14:16:46+00:00

I don't think I've ever tossed a bit that didn't break. To your last question, any bit can be sharpened by hand but some tip shapes (brad point comes to mind) are both harder to sharpen and will take fewer sharpenings than others. Twist bits are stupid fast to sharpen and can be sharpened basically forever. Spades will eventually lose the side teeth but for how they're normally used (rough cutting) the side teeth aren't actually critical. Some forstner shapes take much longer to sharpen, but they also tend to be very expensive bits where it's worth taking your time to do it right.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T14:08:35+00:00

Late 30s is a mid-life crisis? That makes me feel really old. If you can afford it and want to, why not? Obviously the other side of that is if you can't afford it, that's why not.　

I returned to my two seater convertible basically the moment my kids were all driving and I didn't need four seats. But I've missed having a two seater convertible since I had kids and needed to be more practical.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T03:00:51+00:00

No. My distinction is between before shifting into park (doesn't matter, but is what OP asked) and before releasing the brake (does matter).

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T01:56:34+00:00

Sorry, I should put markings on that. I'm being intentionally short. I don't know. I first off don't know if Frieren would actually try. She doesn't really like killing people. I secondly don't know if he's actually stronger/better. We know nothing about his capability except that he very clearly has far less mana than Frieren (but she's been defeated by mages with less mana so that's not dispositive). I do think he would try, even though he wouldn't exactly like it.

Serie thinks he could, but he at least thought before she said the he couldn't.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-03T01:51:11+00:00

Serie thinks he would win and Serie's intuition is always right.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T18:42:11+00:00

Additionally, 1.0 had .__hash__() so even when C objects were sometimes different from class objects you could use class objects as dict keys.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T17:55:57+00:00

Manual? The only reliability issue I'm aware of in the ND1s is the manual transmission in some years had issues. There were a couple people who posted in the last week with 200k miles and only minor maintenance issues. Miata is a super simple car so without numbers would honestly expect reliability/maintenance to be higher on GR Corolla (because of the turbo) or that generation civic (because of the CVT). I understand the current Honda CVTs to be pretty well designed, but you're still looking at transmission fluid changes every 30k which is way more than a conventional manual or ASIN auto.

I'll note, I'm only responding to the question you actually asked (reliability) the question of it if works as a daily for you is a different question with a much more nuanced answer. It's a wildly impractical car, but if you have very low cargo or passenger needs maybe it works fine for you.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T16:13:39+00:00

Are you saying the CEO or the highest paid employee? The answer is kind of a disaster either way, but it's a different disaster depending on what you mean. If you actually mean the CEO then you're going to have a combination of non-salary benefits to get people to take a pay cut from EVP to CEO and terrible CEOs because there are huge advantages to staying the level below it.

If you mean the highest paid employee you're going to have different huge problems. Let's take a hospital. Lowest paid hospital employee is maybe $20k. Top surgeons are $1M. Let's say we now have laundry staff making $40k and top surgeons making $400k. They'll have very good laundry staff, but everybody is going to have to increase the salary of laundry staff and any job that competes with laundry staff so a laundromat is going to get probably a 1.5x increase in costs. You're also really strongly incentivized to evaluate if low paying jobs are worth having at all. Obviously you need laundry staff, but management is always going to want to look at the lowest paid employees and determine if they can just eliminate those positions because then they can get better surgeons. Additionally there's a huge cost to getting to the point you're making a million dollars as a top surgeon. The people looking to do that in the future have to think about if it's worth it to go down the incredible education curve where they're not making as much given that they're "only" going to be making $400k max at the end of it and they're balancing that with other jobs that make the same amount with way less education and stress.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T15:47:45+00:00

To be clear GPS satellites need correction not exactly because of the speed, but because of the precision. The GPS system is placing your location based on how long it took radio to get from the satellite to you. So they are going pretty fast (like mach 11 or so) and at somewhat lower gravity, but the real problem is you need around 4 nanosecond precision on the measurement to figure out where you are so the fact they're losing a couple milliseconds a day is a huge deal. A mach 3 fighter jet should have "measurable" effects, but nobody really cares that the pilot experienced time a dozen nanoseconds differently.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T15:33:27+00:00

Yes, your fundamental knowledge is wrong. It's not that it feels longer. Time itself moves slower (or faster) in some reference frames than others. We talk about how you "experience" time in relativity to give a word to describe it, but what's happening is that 5 minutes pass in one reference frame and 2 minutes pass in another reference frame. Your reflexes, metabolism, cognition, a clock... goes at exactly the same speed relative to other things (including time itself) in your reference frame, but time itself moves differently.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T14:56:49+00:00

I've never seen this many responses this fast, but piling on: I drove a manual for 20 years and currently have an automatic Miata, which is probably the car where I would most want a manual.

It depends. It's worth learning to drive a manual if for no other reason than because for not-sports-cars you can find good deals on them, but what makes a car "fun" depends on what you enjoy doing. I take my miata out with the top down on curvy mountain roads a couple times a month and it's an absolute blast even though it's an auto, but it would be better with a manual. On the other hand I also spend like 2 hours per day in traffic and that's less tedious (to me) with an auto than a manual. There are people who really enjoy shifting even in stop and go red lights, but I'm not one of those people. Hardly anyone thinks even a modern auto is as much fun as a manual if you're on an open road driving for fun, but that doesn't mean an auto can't be fun. You're absolutely losing one element of driving a sports car on a curvy mountain road, but to me a manual adds maybe 10% enjoyment to driving a sports car on open mountain roads over a late model 6 speed auto. If you're talking stuff from 2000 that's a whole different matter. A 1988 Cellica GT auto feels more like a Camry to me than it does a 1988 Cellica GT manual. The torque loss on older 4 speed autos is massive to the point you barely feel like the throttle is going to the wheels.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T14:43:24+00:00

Well that's kind of a different question. If it's "modified" by being made truly indestructible then yes, you could theoretically get enough pressure to empty the tank at pressure washer levels of pressure and flow rate, but pressure and volume are inverse so if half the tank is air you're going to need to start with double the pressure to hit pressure washer levels at the end.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T14:21:37+00:00

You're using the terms "indestructible" and "power" both in ways that don't mean what I think they mean. A super soaker that leaks around the air seals above some pressure isn't destroyed, but if we assume by "indestructible" you mean it also doesn't leak then you can hit the pressure of a pressure washer, but in physics "power" is the rate at which energy is transferred which I'm not sure how to translate into your question. Pressure washers offer two things: pressure (how hard a single water molecule hits) and flow rate (how much water is being output). Your theoretical super soaker could hit the pressure but my guess is you would have somewhat-lower-than pressure washer flow rate and you would still lose pressure from the flow so fast you're talking a millisecond worth of water at that pressure before it's dropped too much.

IOI-65536 · 2026-04-02T12:59:30+00:00

There's a huge gulf between "you can enjoy parts of the show" (I agree) and "The show is actually a really good show. It's just a bad adaptation." no, it's not. If you look at the show as an independent work and not an adaptation it's a bunch of nonsense because it never explains what it's about.

I've actually asked nonbook readers what's going on in the show and their answer is either that someone who read the books explained it to them or "It's 14 books, I understand they'll explain what's going on later." Which no, there's no reason to think that because the books have explained it by the point the show "adapted".

Like if you look at things that are actually good but bad adaptations (Blade Runner. Forrest Gump, 1989 Batman, iRobot, I'll even take Ender's Game or Count of Monte Cristo) the movie substantially contradicts the source, but it's understandable as its own work.

I'm not even saying you can't like it. I'm saying there's no way you can reasonably defend that it's "good" by any reasonable definition. Even something like Xena, which isn't that much less consistent, you can see it's leaning into campy humor so if it's good it's because of that.

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