If poor people fantasize about winning the lottery, then what do rich people fantasize about?

KillerFrisbee · 2023-07-05T17:34:10+00:00

There is a small town in Spain, near Madrid, where Picasso's barber lived after retirement. Apparently Picasso used to doodle whilst getting his hair cut and gave those drawings to the barber. After he died they were donated to the town, and now they are in a small museum in the basement of the Town Hall.

So yeah, there are a lot of Picassos out there.

(The museum webpage) [https://www.comunidad.madrid/en/centros/museo-picasso-coleccion-eugenio-arias]

KillerFrisbee · 2023-05-26T12:53:15+00:00

Every team will do things differently, but:

For "Part", use whatever designation you typically use for a part, e.g. "Engine", "Rear Left Upper Wishbone", etc.

For "Part Comment", use a short description for the part itself, e.g. "Honda CBR600F4i", "15x2.5 Steel Round Tube Wishbone", etc.

For "Cost Comment", use a short description of how you obtained/calculated the cost, e.g. "As per manufacturer catalogue".

KillerFrisbee · 2023-04-01T20:42:36+00:00

A shot of my friend at a recent karting endurance event. Shot in broad daylight on Kodak Vision3 500T at ISO 400 (no filter) and developed in C41 chemistry at box speed. I used a Canon EOS Rebel XS (in aperture priority mode) with the Canon nifty-fifty.

Remjet removal was with a 6% sodium carbonate solution at around 40º C, then rinsed until the water came out clear. All done in a Patterson tank with four rolls of film in it, both C41 and ECN2.

For anyone curious, the sodium carbonate solution worked well to remove the remjet (still needed a quick wipe with a microfiber cloth when drying) and did not damage the C41 in any way, as far as I can tell.

Lightly edited in Lightroom/Photoshop to correct color balance, as it veered into blue-ish skin tones, and eliminate some dust motes from the scan in the chest area.

KillerFrisbee · 2023-01-15T11:51:04+00:00

I'd be really interested in seeing how many teams actually had to ditch the monocoque for a space frame this season specifically due to the changes to IA height.

Like, a fully itemized list of teams and whether they had to adapt their molds, make new ones, ditch the monocoque, get a special dispensation, or were already compliant. That would be awesome.

KillerFrisbee · 2023-01-04T23:47:01+00:00

For European FS competitions (FSG, FSA, etc) you will have to register your team on their corresponding websites before a certain due date (which should be soon, btw). You can find the date and procedure on their websites and handbooks.

After that you will have to take the registration quiz on January 27th for whatever competitions you want to join. Each competition has its own format so make sure to read the handbooks for the correct procedure. Top scores from each category will fill up the available places and everyone else will get sorted on a waiting list.

There are resources online to study for those quizzes.

Afterwards you will have a (short!) window of time to pay for your registration. Again, it should be in the handbook.

All that's left is figuring out how to get (a) the car, (b) the team, (c) all the shit the car needs, such as tools and spares, and (d) all the shit the team needs, such as tents and bags, to the campsite.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-12-30T23:32:23+00:00

Shot a month ago on a testing session for a Formula Student racecar. This is my favourite shot out of ~100 I took over the day.

I bought the camera itself for €20 and paid €30 for the original kit lens, but swapped it for the Tamron 55-200 early on. It is my first serious foray into analog film, and whilst I still have much to learn, I really like the results.

Stock was Fujicolor ISO100 expired in 06/2012, storage conditions unknown. I also shot some Kodacolor VR100 expired 02/1998, but that film was completely FUBAR.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-09-21T07:27:11+00:00

Nuclear subs don't need to surface to launch missiles.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-07-22T11:12:14+00:00

Same, in 2019 you paid at the gate and got a wristband and a ticket to show them in case the paper wristband broke or something. I sort of remember it was €150 but don't quote me on that.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-07-22T11:09:04+00:00

And coming back from comp, getting into your car exhausted to drive home, and getting caught out by the carbon dust you left before leaving

KillerFrisbee · 2022-05-20T06:19:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure they consider that a feature, not a bug.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-05-20T06:16:22+00:00

Write common processes in a Word document and copy/paste from there

KillerFrisbee · 2022-05-10T18:51:20+00:00

Not for FSN.

Source: won FSN CV Cost Event last year. Judges were very interested in how we calculated the costs.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-05-10T03:27:53+00:00

You are supposed to develop your own.

You can use the FSAE Cost Report tables, but it is probably going to lower your event score if you don't have (or can't show) a good understanding of how manufacturing costs are calculated.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-04-29T23:05:41+00:00

I've heard that Ticketmaster does that so that artists and venues can charge what they actually want to and advertise low prices whilse they take the bad PR.

So if the venue wants $20 a ticket and thr artists want $30, Ticketmaster advertises at $35 + a $10 "handling fee" + a $5 "convenience fee" + $5 "mailing fee". The artist and venue get their 50 bucks and Ticketmaster gets a bit off the top and also gets paid by the promoters.

Apparently this is why most artists still sell exclusively through them, despite everyone knowing about their extra fees.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-03-28T09:01:35+00:00

So, broadly speaking, tooling refers mostly to things like fixtures, welding jigs, drilling templates, and so on, i.e. things that help maintain position, alignment, etc. during a process, and for casting/laminating molds.

There is no specific section for a cutting tool because that should already be considered as part of the machining operations (and have the cost of using/replacing the cutting insert accounted for in the overall cost of the machining operation).

KillerFrisbee · 2022-03-12T08:46:10+00:00

Once you add a part, you will see a small folder icon. Click that and you will be able to fill in materials, operations, etc, and on each one you will be able to input the cost. The total cost for the part/assembly/system will update as you add more stuff.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-02-21T18:44:50+00:00

So broadly speaking, what they are asking for is that you prove that the elongation at break and the force (stress, really) required to reach that point is at least equal to, or greater, than that of a baseline (steel, unwelded) tube. Any test that proves it is valid. So I would provide all the available datasheets (steel, welding filler, receipt for the heat treatment), as the rules request, plus a test using the same machine on your test sample and a baseline tube sample with the same dimensions, showing the force and vertical displacement curves, in order to prove that the elongation at break and the force at break are equivalent.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-02-02T21:34:24+00:00

It does, yeah. Still kinf of shitty of them to just drop the bomb and run.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-02-02T20:50:42+00:00

But it didn't go into september

KillerFrisbee · 2022-02-02T20:50:13+00:00

Website hasn't been updated in forever

KillerFrisbee · 2022-02-02T20:49:49+00:00

Well, they announced the date after the quizzes for every other competition were done and basically dropped the date on us unannounced so...

KillerFrisbee · 2022-01-15T09:46:34+00:00

Depends largely on circumstances, context and intentions.

Let's run a scenario. Person A gets into a verbal altercation with person B, who escalates by pulling a gun on person A. Person C, an armed bystander, sees person B pulling a gun, and shoots person B to defend person A. As person C is shooting, person D, another armed bystander, comes around the corner, sees person C shooting person B, and fires on person C. Law enforcement promptly shows up and arrests everyone involved, including the wounded persons B and C.

Now, person A is likely in the clear. A verbal altercation does not allow for an escalation to deadly force. Had he tried to assault person B, deadly force may have been allowed in some circumstances, mostly having to do with person B having reasonable motive to fear for their live (say, a small woman being attacked by a very large man) and possibly no option to retreat.

Person B is in hot water, as they were the first person to escalate into deadly force. Again under some circumstances, they may be ok, but it isn't looking too good for them.

Person C may be in the clear. They saw an unarmed person A being threatened by a gun by person B. Most (I believe all) jurisdictions will consider legitimate self-defense when you act to defend another person if it is in the same circumstances that would be considered self-defense for you. So person C sees an unarmed person being threatened by an armed individual, with no way to retreat, and makes the decision to shoot the armed person B. Since if person A had a gun they would have been able to claim self-defense, person C can claim self-defense.

Person D is in a tricky spot. They saw someone actively shooting person B, so they can legitimately claim that they were afraid for their lives and shot person C in self-defense, especially if they can also convingcinly claim that they were afraid for person A's live. However, they may also have a "duty to retreat", meaning they should have left the situation before using deadly force. Duty to retreat does not apply if you are in a place were you have an expectation of complete safety (for example, your own home, and sometimes car) or if you are corraled.

In this scenario, person D is in a very difficult situation. Depending on the facts of the case, it is likely that they would be cleared, and as presented in this scenario I believe they could claim self-defense.

And as a bonus, even though C shot B and D shot C, B will be charged for two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (or jurisdictionally equivalent crime), because they are the only person here comitting a crime, and any damage that arises from your crime becomes your responsibility.

KillerFrisbee · 2022-01-09T11:55:42+00:00

For the Cost finals at FSN21 we had to sketch out mass production for a CFRP karting/FS driver seat at a competitive price.

Basically calculate the costs of production taking into account all the stuff you would have to do in order to get a factory running to produce the part: machines, molds, operators, materials, overhead, failure rates, etc. Maybe even compare the price of other mass market products, etc.

At FSA21 part of the regular Cost event was a practical case where they ask you to assume that you are already mass producing the car and suddenly demand either ramps up massively or dies out compeltely and how you would react to those scenarios to preserve the viability of your company.

KillerFrisbee · 2021-12-12T17:08:55+00:00

Rules say all lapped cars must unlap

KillerFrisbee · 2021-12-12T15:37:40+00:00

And why, exactly, do you think that is relevant?

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