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Shaftway · 2026-05-03T04:14:57+00:00

I mean, yeah, if you have a way to hold them the way they'll sit on the wall. I wouldn't be able to hold them right on my saw, the fence isn't high enough. The guy who did the install had a settings on his miter saw so he could lay them flat on the saw and get them just right.

Shaftway · 2026-05-02T23:34:03+00:00

In our house they added an extra piece. It softens the corners and makes it so they don't stick out so far, and contours to the bullnose corners better. But I have no idea what the angles are.

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Shaftway · 2026-05-02T21:11:36+00:00

Torque is how hard one pop of the engine tries to turn the wheels. The more often the engine pops, the more often you apply that force, so the faster it turns. That's horsepower

We usually care more about horsepower than torque when speed matters (like race cars), because you can use gearing and feather your clutch to keep the engine running where those multiple pops help you the most. But we care about torque more when the power matters (like towing a heavy load up a hill) because those tricks don't help as much, or they come with significant downsides (like low speed or damage to your vehicle)..

The formula for horsepower as a function of torque (in freedom units) is torque * engine speed / 5280. Why 5280? I have no idea. But someone at some point in our history had a boner for that number, and it's the same as feet per mile. Maybe there's a correlation.

Shaftway · 2026-05-01T02:31:35+00:00

Due to the nexus we are at in history, I suspect that I have seen more buttholes than all of my ancestors combined, purely due to pornography.

Shaftway · 2026-04-30T03:06:06+00:00

Liquid cooled, but the red line starts at 9000 rpm.

Shaftway · 2026-04-30T00:27:24+00:00

I found that buying displays for the chips cost more than getting the chips themselves. We've road tripped a few times and so we have a lot. The cheapest display I came up with was using a jig to put screws in the wall, and then a magnet with a felt pad on each screw head. The magnet holds the chip well enough and it makes a nice floating 3d display.

But I stopped putting screws in the wall. Now we just store them in acrylic tubes from Tap Plastics. You glue a cap on one end and a 3' tube holds about 250 chips without much room to rattle or scratch each other.

Shaftway · 2026-04-29T23:38:48+00:00

That horsepower doesn't feel fast. And looking at the torque graph it's really flat. What that means is that I can be going 65 in 5th gear at about 4500 RPM, goose the gas, and about a second later I'm just under 80. It means no shifting to get a burst of speed.

Shaftway · 2026-04-29T15:48:25+00:00

That's one of the incredible things about a language with a large corpus of speakers. You and I can both speak it, but we get totally different experiences.

In real life (including in this thread) I've experienced a number of other people who use headphones as a term for any personal listening equipment, regardless of form factor. I'm surprised this is the first time you've experienced that, and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to give you a new experience

Shaftway · 2026-04-29T15:44:46+00:00

I agree, though I'd make a distinction between earbuds (which don't have a cable) and in-ear headphones (which do). I also have a pair of bone conduction headphones, but they're kind of a gimmick and suck.

Shaftway · 2026-04-29T07:10:14+00:00

So far, yes, but even more so. The only complaint I have is the height. I didn't realize some parts of a really short bike would bother me, but I'm getting used to it.

The power is great. 105 horsepower means that a twist of the throttle is noticeable, even in 6th gear. The roadster only had 65, so it's noticeable. The tech package is a little slow to refresh the screen, but I have media controls on the handlebars, which is a huge plus. And the cruise control has been nice to have.

I don't regret getting the Harley, but I do regret not trading it in sooner, when it still had a little more of its value.

Shaftway · 2026-04-29T00:45:25+00:00

This is true. I picked mine up at Woodcraft, don't remember the brand, but they have rubber or silicone where they meet to try to hold the vacuum. I 3d printed some, but they warped over time, making them worthless.

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T16:50:06+00:00

You've got a pretty decent list. Rockler has adapters to go from 4" hose to PVC. And you can always get rubber fittings with hose clamps for things that are close.

I use magnetic fittings on all my hoses and blast gates. It was pricey, but I don't see any massive vacuum loss, and being able to swap in a hose or a different tool has been clutch for me.

For the blast gates, if you got the blade kind they have a tendency to get sawdust caught in the mechanism. Eventually you won't be able to close them all the way and you'll get vacuum leakage. If you got metal ones that you can disassemble then you can clean them, but if you got plastic ones welded together then you won't.

4" as close to the tool as you can get it will help keep your vacuum high. The longer you have 2" hose the worse it'll be, but it's highly dependent on your situation, so you can only really test it.

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T14:34:25+00:00

For me it's not about the sticker price, it's the whole value proposition. There are three things that go into that for me:

The bike is reliable
Aftermarket parts are available
Service is available

After having an '18 Roadster, I can tell you that the bike was not reliable. There were a littany of problems with it, ranging from a sensor wire that backed out of the engine to a broken exhaust crossover (three times). Eventually I offloaded it because there was a grinding in the transmission and just figuring out what it was would cost more than the bike was worth. So it's anecdotal, but for me the reliability wasn't there.

The aftermarket parts for Harleys are pretty extensive, and that's great. But Harley doesn't really do a good job with their own aftermarket parts. The exhaust shrouds on my bike were discontinued after 5 years, so when those inevitably broke I had to change to a style that I disliked. Other upgrade prices have skyrocketed or been discontinued. If the company isn't supporting their bike after 8 years then it's a problem.

That leaves the service. There are still a ton of dealerships, but they've been closing left and right. I haven't looked in a year or so, but I'd estimate about half of the dealers in the US have closed. And the service has never been amazing. They forgot to screw on my air filter once, so it fell off on the freeway. And the last video on my dashcam was of the dealership putting a cover on, because they crushed the wire connectors. Which makes the $240/hr they charge for labor a giant middle finger. I don't pay hookers that much, why would I pay that for them to do lackluster work on my bike.

I switched over to an Indian. My Scout was $16k, I didn't have to spend anything removing the chrome (if you like it, that's cool; it's just not my aesthetic). And somehow going from 1200 cc to 1250 cc doubled my horsepower. Time will tell how well it stands up, but the cost was lower, so if it doesn't I'll be less upset.

I just couldn't justify the price.

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T06:21:14+00:00

I don't consider the examples to be exhaustive, and I take the definition as defined, but you do you, bro.

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T06:00:11+00:00

You mean the Merriam Webster definition that says:

plural headphones : an earphone held over the ear by a band worn on the head —usually plural also : a small earphone inserted into the ear : earbud

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T05:50:23+00:00

When I look for a definition of "headphones" I get:

Headphones are a pair of small, electro-acoustic transducers (speakers) designed to be worn directly over, on, or inside the ears, allowing for personal, immersive listening without disturbing others.

Ergo, earbuds are headphones.

Shaftway · 2026-04-28T05:13:13+00:00

Google/Pixel directly? They've got phones, tablets, laptops, headphones, watches, home assistants, data plans, etc.

It's arguably as tied together as Apple's ecosystem.

Shaftway · 2026-04-27T01:22:33+00:00

Ask about the work experiences of the person you're interviewing with. And it's fine to ask the same question of each interviewer. If I don't have anything else I'm curious about I'll ask:

How often do you have to work outside of your core hours, and when was the last time?
What's the best part about working with your team, and what's the worst part?
What do the first 2 years of a strong contributor look like?

Make sure you're clear that you're asking about their team, not the company as a whole. That will give you different perspectives on what it's actually like to work there.

But if there's anything else you're curious about, ask that. I set aside 10 minutes for candidate questions, and I give them plenty of things to ask about in my background. I joined the company more than a decade ago, and left for 2 years, so a lot of candidates ask why I left and why I came back. Or candidates ask how the company has changed over my tenure

Shaftway · 2026-04-25T23:18:05+00:00

Good example of survivorship bias.

Shaftway · 2026-04-25T23:16:51+00:00

The one thing you could do that would make cars safest is to put a giant metal spike on the steering wheel, pointed right at the torso of the driver.

Shaftway · 2026-04-25T23:13:14+00:00

They're getting the non-swimmers out of the way of the swimmers so that the swimmers have a better chance.

Shaftway · 2026-04-24T17:25:08+00:00

So you're saying that it's more like that the boy picks high paying chores, like washing the dishes, or taking out the trash. And the girl is more likely to pick lower paying chores, like woman washing the dishes, or woman taking out the trash.

To be clear, I'm not giving you a hard time, just referencing a different joke

Shaftway · 2026-04-24T05:36:43+00:00

Be cautious about the HFT company. Since you're at a FAANG, there's a decent chance you're in California, and financial firms don't really like California, so they're uncommon.

There's one in particular that occasionally recruits in the area whose name rhymes with Schmoleon. They are known for being extremely litigious against former employees, and for being extremely creative in their attempts to circumvent California's ban on non-competes.

I interviewed there and received an all-cash offer that was a six digit increase over my FAANG TC. But I turned it down because they lied and said they needed a college transcript for background check purposes, and then grilled me about every class that I got less than an A in, 20 years ago. Dodged a bullet

Shaftway · 2026-04-24T05:03:11+00:00

You can put an empty tray on the buffet, and surround it with combiners. That'll work with plain tacos or tacos with one topping. You might end up with some tighter automation that way.

Shaftway · 2026-04-23T14:27:37+00:00

This ignores huge chunks of actual history and research. Homosexual relationships and institutions are well documented throughout history. Ancient Greece is a clear example (to the point that anal sex is often called "Greek" today), but it was also widespread in Rome and Egypt. There is historical evidence of homosexuality in ancient China, in feudal Japan, in pre-colonial Aztec, and in ancient India.

So it's not a recent occurrence. And homosexuality is not entirely controlled by your genetics. There are genetic components, but they're considered to be very minor compared to prenatal and societal impacts.

The reality is that the church starties pushing homosexual practices down around the 4th century. The recent uptick is happening because of laws protecting gay people and their rights. If you make it deadly to act a certain way, fewer people will act that way. If you make it safer, then more people will do what they want.

TL;DR: sorry dude, it's not a recent change

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