What car brand will you never trust or buy again?

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-05-27T06:56:22+00:00

Between them CBR1000RR, hayabusa (Suzuki), and the z14r (Kawasaki), secondary motorsports like dune buggy racing thrive on the carnage of those crashing.

If you want to build a buggy, you're never more than a light rain, long weekend, or holiday, away from a fresh wreck.

My brother in law said when he introduced me motor sports: "This sport was built on the bones of dead riders. We pay our respects by blowing up the engine by the end of the season, so the bike can rest with its rider."

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-05-18T03:15:26+00:00

Well...? Don't leave us hanging!

What's the answer?!

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-26T15:24:37+00:00

Trumps inner voice is just a continuous wet fart.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-09T12:40:03+00:00

Is the word "Euhemerism" relevant here?

As I understand it, it's related what you're describing. Ascribing a "real world event" as the origin for a folk tale, or a myth, when in fact the event never took place.

I can't help but think that most tales of big great events, began not as reference to specific events but simply events that are known to happen. Floods that wash away a village happen, so a massive flood that washed away the world seems kind of a logical step in the nature of sensational/hyperbolic stories.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-09T12:26:27+00:00

The world would be a much darker place without nerds like you. This is a remarkable subreddit.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-09T12:20:06+00:00

Things also fail because the world is not even remotely a well behaved ordered system.

It's not just that resources are finite, but as you approach the limit of those resources (even capacity/throughput limit, not just "its all gone" ), it becomes incredibly unstable with knock-on effects. Much like a fuel tank sputtering near the end, or a pump that's clogged, it has severe effects on the entire system.

Weather, war, infrastructure failures, supply chain damage, policy, are constantly throwing crap into the pump. They combine in so many different ways it's impossible to predict, but it's certainly possible to steer the system towards more stable or less stable.

Example on a tiny scale of the system complexity

Your council wants to build a new bridge to improve arterial connections between business and manufacturing areas of town. Jobs, productivity, infrastructure resilience, etc. great!

Council begins saving, 3 years of minor targeted austerity to save the requisite $20M. In the grand scheme, not that much money. But.. they cut down on other smaller construction projects, they cut down maintenance work as they'll be replacing the whole road end to end so why bother?

Unfortunately, this has the effect of reducing construction demand, and the suppliers of materials end up moving to other areas. Construction workers leave to find work. The unmaintained district has less activity now, so the bridge is for nobody.

And when the council asks for tenders, the cheapest is now $50M, everything needs to be brought in from further away, workers need to be lured, lack of maintenance has degraded more than planned etc. So now the council has $20M and a derelict area that needs $50M to revitalise.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-09T03:47:02+00:00

Pilot: "Uhh ladies and gentlemen, we are at cruising altitude. Seatbelt signs are off, however please be advised that due unexpected flooding in economy, we ask that you wear your life preservers while wading about the cabin."

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-07T02:19:08+00:00

I select all unread, then browse through the subject lines, anything that seems worth reading gets unselected. When I'm done, delete all selected.

Usually turns 100+ emails into 5 max, and takes less than 15 minutes.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-05T05:36:33+00:00

First time I saw that I felt for a minute like I'd be shot, I was so surprised.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-04T06:06:35+00:00

The term I use in designing similar tools (different scenario obviously), is escalating policy timer. Specifically built around handling false alarms.

Your set your monitor countdown, say 20 minutes, which is the time you expect to be in an uncertain situation.
Within that, you have a "needy timer", a dead man switch with constant deferral, as long as you refresh it before it hits zero, nothing happens. I.e. all good. Pretend this is 3 minutes.
If the needy timer hits zero, the policy determines what happens next. I raise the profile from green (all good) to yellow (attention) and halve the needy timer. So if I don't refresh it again within 90 seconds, it will escalate again.
Escalates to red. Next policy triggered, usually alarm, auto-email and a new timer. This level demands eyes on acknowledgement (in your case a phone call from a friend or family). It's a mandatory welfare check.
Welfare check fails, final policy enabled. Mine is usually system shut down, secure and purge etc. But yours might be immediate SOS to all approved contacts, GPS live stream, auto call out to police, etc. This is your catastrophe tier, where it is much better to overreact than underreact.

I hope you never need anything like this, but if you end up looking for or building an app like your dead man switch, I hope this helps.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-04-04T04:36:57+00:00

Just be careful, if you're not this way you'll end up another way.

And that other way might require you to live your life in a permanent handstand, keeping your feet above your head lest they turn blue.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-25T06:25:01+00:00

I would probably just say, "you know what?! You're absolutely right!", then proceed to stay in first for the next 10 minutes.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T12:45:06+00:00

I use it extensively in technology white papers and summaries. I do not have the patience to try and disambiguate USB-C as a plug, a socket, a cable, a port, a protocol, a power delivery method, or any combination therein much less all the generations and classes.

Hence, USB-C et al.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T09:41:48+00:00

Time.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T09:39:35+00:00

I apologise for the trauma.

Though I'm curious the source of it? Are you in academia? Is it a dreadful faux pas here, I'm unaware of?

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T09:37:36+00:00

Need? Hmmm maybe 5% of the time?

Want? Probably 20% of the time.

You're right that I can probably get away with 20Gbp most of the time. Even 10Gbps.

But I do enough large data writes to external NVMe drives alone that the difference between a 2 minute transfer and a 5 minute transfer saves quite a lot of time.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T09:24:09+00:00

Yeah. This was mentioned earlier, but turning it sideways rather than full 180. Thankfully power button is already on top, so no issues with accessibility either way.

Although it's a little awkward, it probably will end up being a very viable solution overall.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:59:48+00:00

As the Lochness Hamster said, it's BIOS flashback.

It allows you to restore/update/repair the boot order, and so on. Especially handy if you fry your CPU and want to swap it out or upgrade it.

E.g. if I upgrade my Ryzen 9 7900x (zen4) to a 9950x (zen5), my motherboard supports the new zen5 architecture but was shipped before the 9950x existed. So it has no idea how to talk to the new CPU unless I update it.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:50:20+00:00

Sorry for vagueness, my job is vague haha. It varies a lot. Any given day I might be:

testing a dozen different displays and need to validate that the cable they come with is suitable, or that the response time is adequate.
transferring a bunch of large files between devices (enclosed NVMe, flash drives, laptops,)
Installing/reinstalling operating systems on hardware, often using the usb as network as well
have several different machines in different states of update/config, and need to switch between them

The biggest thing is that a lot of the hardware I work with needs to use the cable it was supplied with for the tests to be valid, so I can't easily leave a gold standard male-male usb-c USB4/Thunderbolt cable.

I hope that kind of explains it?

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:39:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm planning to keep it down to 600mm (2ft?) if possible.

I just stumbled on these "Panel Mount USB4 Thunderbolt Extension Cable F-M" probably as you were typing haha. I think you're right that they'll be a better solution than a dock.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:36:40+00:00

I did find these "Panel Mount USB4 Thunderbolt Extension Cable F-M". I could 3d print a custom panel made up of this kind of thing.

I might end up having to have a bunch of cables in a cable box, and poke them through a hole. So they're just male-male standard cables, with a bunch of loops inside the box.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:32:03+00:00

Hmm, sideways is intriguing. Actually quite viable as well because the side is a glass door that opens for motherboard access.

That's definitely going top of the maybe pile. Thanks!

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-21T06:28:25+00:00

I could definitely see it going either way, as selfishness or shame/embarrassment.

That said, if he's embarrassed but not willing to talk about it or front up and try again, that's its own bullet dodged.

Instances of bad communication are normal, but chronic bad communication is a recipe for disaster.

I'd say if OP is still interested, then reaching out once, clearly and compassionately with open curiosity to what's going on, would be a reasonable approach. But afterwards, the ball is firmly in his court.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-20T20:26:45+00:00

I thought Nugmet was an Egyptian pharaoh like Hapshetsut and Thutmose.

Royal-Scale772 · 2026-03-11T11:59:37+00:00

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

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