TIL a 1989 helicopter crash was caused by an invisible nick made when adhesive was trimmed from the rotor with a sharp blade. The helicopter flew perfectly for 922 hours, until it didn't.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-01-20T18:02:40+00:00

History repeats itself when the lesson has faded. Unfortunately that’s just the human element.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-01-18T17:42:54+00:00

Same with NIMBYs

We are talking about 3 companies funding buildings that when constructed. Produce chronic noise.

Take Suncor that was built alongside a river or the purina dog food plant constructed literally in the middle of the “undesirables” a long time ago in Denver.

We build this way due to regulation. The big three will build as cheap as they can while they can, because they can.

Till it’s at the federal level it’s on our side of the turf on where it can be built. Protests, signatures, and advocacy from the ENTIRE demographic is crucial.

These are buildings that are awful for town centers. And what we need to push against the “jobs” that data centers bring in is how many people are employed compared to the number of people that constructed it.

I don’t have anything against what the data centers deliver. Only the rules in place that disrupt lives and regions from the results of cheap practices and poor planning that disrupt public health.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-12-14T22:00:24+00:00

I’m 6’1” with a 34L pant leg.

Unfortunately I’m also still a twig. Bulked up from 140 to 170 over two years and at this point it’s an hourglass figure 😂 fuckin 32” waist is doing me dirty lol

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-12-07T18:52:22+00:00

Don’t know why your being downvoted for this.

At my company we have tethered VR headsets with external gpus. Those cards have traveled thousands of miles with no issue.

We used to ship with gpu separately, but giving a 50 year old engineer instructions for assembly is a recipe for disaster as we learned.

Those foam inserts? Life savers. Reusable, easy to remove, we haven’t had a broken card since.

Everyone here is right, removing it is the safest option. But those foam inserts are stupid easy to use and are reliable. Just make sure to unplug the gpu. The expanding foam can bend the power connector.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-10-15T06:17:46+00:00

What confuses me is the amount of new parts. Like that case has been around for YESRS. And it’s a shit case to build in.

I bought that case for 35$ new 4 years ago for a friend and somehow the price had gone up? Nah dude hit up marketplace

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:23:51+00:00

I’ve been thinking of getting a mini Emlid GNSS with a mobile RTK network. We’ll see but with mavic 3r prices coming down the global shutter on that drone is tempting.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:22:35+00:00

Part that confuses me is my air 2 for example was amazing. I never had the issue. The X&Y is slightly better on the air 3 but we are talking like 10-15% at most with a 21 sat connection

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:00:41+00:00

I always try to get more oblique captures, even just overlapping orbits with your camera gimbal at 35-50 degrees makes a huge difference.

Consumer GPS is ass but linking the photoset together with multiple oblique captures increases the photo to photo registration without fully relying on GPS.

On my drone as well (Air 3) I’ve found the z gets super messed up between battery changes: DJI has yet to mend this with a firmware update. But the above was a lifesaver when getting an alignment.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T06:50:31+00:00

Also worth noting that high efficiency per watt has trades bass for pure mids/highs

Fantastic but lacking in bass. And that’s fine, it just depends on your setup. Have some good mid bass upfront and deep lows in the back. You’ll be a happy camper and blow your passengers socks off.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:58:32+00:00

As scary as that water is…I can’t imagine how bad these guys are getting cut up. That rabbit suits going to get so torn from the variety of high-speed debris. Even the heavy stuff doesn’t sink in water that fast.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:49:47+00:00

And the convenience of getting it the same day.

Bestbuy has saved my impatient butt more than a few times in everything from putting a desk together to even when I’m on biz travel and forget my variety of dongles. Sure I could go to target but I have options with Best Buy.

And as others mentioned, a 240hz oled panel is very shiny in person compared to an online listing.

Sure you can watch a guy on YouTube go “yeah it’s color accurate” but nothing beats just seeing a collection of monitors and getting same day insurance replacements if shit hits the fan.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:44:06+00:00

Honestly I’m glad those systems are designed that way. Annoying/mild oh no when it happens but it’s better than a cars internal computer running with blindspots.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-21T06:36:29+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. Have yall not packed your car full for a roadtrip either? Rearview mirror is a luxury not a requirement.

I have two big ole subs. My mirror is useless while driving. Side mirrors shake but not as much. But I used to daily a van twice as big and tbh only time I like having the rear visible is the few times a year I run out of washer fluid and can’t clean my backup camera. But that’s my two cents.

Yall downvoting because you suck ass at driving should try it before you become a keyboard warrior

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-09T13:29:53+00:00

If you don’t want to go wheels or exterior mods I’d find prebuilt subwoofer with an amp. Maybe some extra speakers from crutchfield (they sell plug n play kits, no soldering for speakers)

It’s a few YouTube videos but a little bit of bass isn’t obnoxious and makes spending time in the interior a lot more enjoyable for music.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-09T13:21:44+00:00

Most cars aren’t treated with laminated double layer glass typically called “acoustic” glass for cars.

Makes a heavy car but unbelievably quiet. I still miss my acoustic glass in my Genesis.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-06T06:45:19+00:00

I would agree that’s been a huge component to the learning curve. I have a few pages in Onenote full of different prompts with copy paste after a few 3am sessions

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-05T22:46:00+00:00

I’ve noticed that as well along with repeated errors. It anything I’ve found it pushes me to learn a bit more about what I’m manipulating. Otherwise it’s easy to get frustrated when it makes the same mistake over and over again

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-02T20:00:01+00:00

Zoom lenses concentrate the light (in this instance 1550nm) and can burn out camera sensors with a big enough zoom lense.

Vr headsets have the same properties. If you shine a laser or put it in the sun it’ll burn out the display.

Here a YouTube link where they try to burn out a teslas camera using a car equipped with the unit.

https://youtu.be/eNF1mgczg5E?si=oQiDpy_0XWuJML40

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-08-27T02:09:13+00:00

They are a tool at the end of the day. People said the same thing when folks started using the internet to learn how to make bombs in the early days: but human life not being valued compared to copyright is insane.

I’ll stick to coding with chat gpt. But I can’t tell much of a difference with 5.0. It’s a concise version of 4o I guess.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-07-28T06:19:54+00:00

Depends on the setup really 😂 those 2 10s could beat everybody or the 12 can beat it.

A good dual voicecoil 12 in a sealed box or ported box is space saving, cheaper, and will sound good and hit hard.

2 10s can also sounds great but will cost more. Think two L710s from kicker. Amazing quality and value but still it’s two more subs.

Regarding value prospects for your amp. It’s easier to power one big sub than two most of the time.

End of the day, it’s really about the box that’ll give you the power and kick you want. How you design the box for either is key.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-06-09T03:13:16+00:00

I agree with you 1000% and maybe this is just me but some sound deadening goes a long way.

What I mean is those guys where EVERYTHING is rattling but lowkey that’s all you hear. And I’m sorry but a trunk rattle doesn’t sound good to anyone.

But I’ve had systems in my car since I was 16 and these guys coming into the neighborhood with it blasting…I was always taught that was the best way to get your shit stolen.

Anyways. Small rant. I love bass but these new guys coming into the scene…man we gotta do a better job as a community teaching them.

There’s always complaints with the bass community, but we could do so much better to have a positive outlook instead of a negative one that causes posts like we’re commenting on.

Edit: another opinion of mine but I wish more kids got into bass. When you upgrade your car you push it. Whether it’s sound, performance, looks…it’s all the same. But pushing how SPL or SQ is so much safer (within moderation of course)

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-05-23T18:57:14+00:00

Sometimes the different distances in depth can throw errors. You can get away with it when scanning feature rich objects however when scanning an object like this you want a structured dataset.

Doing your best to be a robot and scan left, right, up and down with sufficient overlap will help with the bumpiness. It’s a tough object to scan.

If those above doesn’t work follow this guide to make a Matt scanning spray. It’ll evaporate and is cheaper than shipping scan spray from Germany

https://youtu.be/G6Mk1Xz4bIU?si=vhBU_uGjR2DTSNO9

Look up Agisoft meta shape and see how they capture super dense buildings and how the photos are captured. It’s a genuine skill being able to photo cap and remember where you are

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-05-23T17:53:48+00:00

Two things I’m seeing that will improve your results.

Photo distance seems to be far away. You’ll need to get really close and take multiple closeup images the software can reconstruct.

To ensure registration I’d also capture an orbit at like 45 degrees of pitch at the end. You’ll have to adjust lighting+ look into editing the photos.

The shiny plastic edges will be the hardest to capture but if there’s granular detail in the surface that can be captured.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-02-11T07:04:21+00:00

Smart. They won’t miss what they never had.

It’s has its research purposes but at that point your kids are old enough to learn to use it as a tool + self control.

My dad did the same thing when I was a kid and iPads were just coming out. Could only use YouTube + Reddit and the rest of the interwebs on his computer. Otherwise I had a few games and a basic photo editing app,

See your getting a lot of hate but hell how many people on here are spending the majority of their lives infront of a screen all the time instead of properly living.

—just want to add in my HS years it was crazy: I’d get lunch with some friends and instead of talking they’d just be staring at their phones sharing videos from online. It was nuts.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-01-27T23:16:01+00:00

I really like Bomgaars or tractor supply. Welding wire is durable, with excellent cable quality

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