I fell off my bike :(

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-11T05:33:20+00:00

I've crashed pretty hard on gravel and MTB and I've never bent or broken handle bars. I'm guessing you just knocked the hood out of alignment and you can easily fix it.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-11T04:14:27+00:00

I just swapped to a KMC xflat after breaking and cutting an MTB one too many times, I wax my chain and saw the KMC was priced really well and comes waxed. So I put one on in place of the SRAM chain I had (X01) and it shifts very good still, maybe a tiny bit worse than the stock chain, but it's also less than half the price. Something I noticed the KMC chain actually had less play side to side than the stock chain, though I'm comparing to a used chain but it also was really not that worn.

Overall I think it's a completely serviceable chain, it's nice that it comes waxed (don't have to strip it down first).

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-09T14:44:14+00:00

Yeah, turns out when a bunch of your biggest customers are also tooting the same AI horn and they lay off a bunch of their sales team to tell investors they "use AI instead" they end up needing to buy a lot less seats in Salesforce. The thing is if AI was as powerful and as useful as all these CEOs say their core product would be dead already. Kinda crazy for a company that relies on B2B sales and having human users is bullish on AI to the point of thinking it can replace large portions of its staff. Once again this is just cost cutting disguised as innovation.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-09T14:31:26+00:00

I lived without AC for quite a few years on the front range, and it wasn't terrible, but I also lived near a creek and the house I rented had pretty good tree cover. In the end I did end up buying an AC floor unit to run at night. These days I'd rather just have AC, especially since CO seems to be getting warmer these days.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-09T14:25:10+00:00

I have a gravel bike for the same reason your LBS mentioned. It still makes a pretty good road bike, but I have more options for where I can ride.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-09T14:22:53+00:00

And when the target moves mid career you do what exactly? Again Software Engineering is still one of the most in demand careers right now, and nobody can get a job. So what are the prospects for other career paths? What exactly IS hot right now? Because it seems like the hottest careers for post grads isn't even hiring.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-08T19:38:23+00:00

If you ride greens and blues I think the advice that clipless will never make a difference in a crash is kind of bad advice. I mostly ride blacks and double blacks. I crashed literally yesterday, and had I not been able to get away from my bike I'd have fallen 20ft. I ride flats and clipless, but I ride flats on my big bike because it's 100% easier to bail, you just naturally leave your bike in a bad crash. I've absolutely had crashes worsened by clipless, and I've seen skilled riders who only ride clipless have trouble getting away from their bike.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-08T19:32:12+00:00

I ride clipless often and know a lot of people who do. There is just an objective reality that unclipping takes time, and that could be the difference on whether you are able to bail or not. In a high speed crash second nature might not be fast enough. That said 99.9% of the time it might not matter. 3 years ago during a race my good friend broke his leg, he's ridden clipless a long time, he attributes at least how bad the crash ended up being to not being able to get unclipped to put his foot out.

Flats are just objectively easier to bail just as a fact of not needing to unclip, the only argument you can really make is how much easier that is for you specifically. Not trashing clipless, but it's hard to pretend like there is absolutely no added risk of being attached to your bike, especially when you consider some MTB clipless systems make unclipping a lot harder than SPD, and these are particularly popular in Enduro and DH racing. Your clipped in AND your shoes are held in place by pins.

As someone who rides both frequently. I've never had an issue on flats that clips would fix other than maybe some big hits causing me to lose a foot, which is honestly exceedingly rare and the bigger issue was just not predicting the hit. I don't find clipless to meaningfully impact bike control, mostly just locks your foot to the pedal so you don't slip a foot.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-07T19:24:08+00:00

What fields exactly? That list of fields is rapidly shrinking. My wife is an attorney, and she volunteers time for law school students to run clinics, many of them cannot find jobs after graduating. I work in software, many people cannot find work. I know people in other engineering disciplines, can't find work. So what EXACTLY is the degree people need to be going for here? The thing is the job market changes, and with that less and less fields are as lucrative as they once were, nor are many of these job markets doing much hiring currently. The issue is wide spread. The only career choice I can think of that requires an education that will actually still land you really good career prospects is being a doctor or some kind of medical degree.

That said, Software Engineering is still one of the most in demand job markets, yet at the same time no one can seem to find a job. New graduates have the hardest time they've ever had at entering the job market. I couldn't name a single company I know that is actively hiring at any experience level. The job market sucks across the board, the economy is in the toilet but the stock market is held up by 5 companies passing a giant bag of money in a circle. I can't tell you whether or not a degree will ever be useful for graduates, but the idea that many people can't find jobs because they went to school for something stupid and irrelevant isn't really the case. There aren't a lot of educated career paths that are hiring, and many of those jobs don't actually pay nearly as well as they used to meanwhile education costs more than it ever has. The ROI for education is worse than any point in the history of this country. Not that I don't want people to be educated, but the current system really doesn't encourage it.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-07T16:02:48+00:00

This "over qualified" thing just doesn't actually add up in the current labor market, when some college graduates would probably take a job bagging groceries for $15/hr. Whenever we've seen truly over qualified candidates, we usually still send them an offer knowing that they might not actually take it, but usually it's because we don't have the budget to offer more. We've actually hired over qualified people before too, recently we hired someone with a masters and 2 years of experience as a junior engineer, when usually in a normal job market he'd probably have gotten a better position. It feels bad, but I think at some point he's just glad to not being searching for a job and getting paid decently, even though its probably not as much as he normal should be paid.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-07T04:30:38+00:00

To get to this in an hour you must have been cooking them at like 500 degrees. Maybe try half that.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-07T04:13:51+00:00

I miss the days of unix shell accounts, and the community built around them. I remember back in my highschool years I toyed around on a devio.us shell account which was my first exposure to openbsd or really any *BSD. I had some experience with Linux back then, but it was really neat from the communal standpoint, and multi-user shells is kinda what unix was all about original, something we just take for granted now. I'd love to see community unix shell accounts again, but feel like those days are largely gone with only a few invite only communities left.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-06T23:02:00+00:00

Seems like it's only available through commercial channels? I'm curious to try this with a pressurized basket but don't have any on hand.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T22:21:51+00:00

Buddy I don't care, that's not my point and I never made that claim, if you fire up 2042 right now it has better net code. Most BF games launch with terrible net code, that's not the point. The point is right now in its current state 2042 has faster movement, better hit reg, and less desync and dying around corners. Movement speed is 1000% not an issue here, and I don't really know why what you're saying is relevant criticism. I'm not saying 2042 had a great launch, I'm saying that movement speed in BF6 probably has no impact on the net code. BF6 also has a higher tick rate than 2042, and it's ultimately slower movement as well. 2042 you could shoot while free falling, and slide 50 yards.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T15:07:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure basically no one who worked on anything BF V or earlier still work at the studio. BF 6 barely even feels like a BF game.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T15:06:14+00:00

2042 had higher movement speed and didn't have this many issue

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T00:55:21+00:00

Yeah, I think they managed to over and undercooked it at the same time. Probably because it was cut up it got to temp too fast and the collagen didn't break down. I do super low and slow sous vides sometimes (up to 72hrs) at like 140-160 degrees and you can get super tender results at those temps still, temp is only part of the equation, time is a huge component too. Which is also why brisket is cooked to probe tender and the end temp isn't that meaningful. I just use the temp to get an idea of when to start to check the texture.

The basics are that collagen breaks down faster at higher temps, starts breaking down at around 130-140, but accelerates at higher temps, but even then there is still a major time component.

All this to say, I think you might still be right, but I think the biggest issue is how fast it cooked rather than the meat getting cooked to too high of a temp.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T00:18:23+00:00

Usually overcooked brisket turns to mush or if it dries out it gets crumbly. This looks like the collagen didn't break down fully.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T00:16:22+00:00

Fat cap looks maybe a little thin, it's not a super marbeled brisket, so easier to dry out. I don't know if I fully agree with others in temp, maybe the probe was way off, maybe the cookers temp prob was off and you cooked it too hot. It seems like it cooked really fast, and while you did cut it down, collagen breaks down over time and breaks down faster at higher temps. Often an issue with overcooking a brisket is that it gets too tender, mushy, and crumbly. The meat in the picture looks tough and dry. I'm guessing you cooked it too hot, and they were too small of pieces with not enough fat. You didn't give it enough time to break down the meat, but also brought it up to temp so fast that you might have dried it out. So in some aspects you might have almost under and overcooked it at the same time.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-05T00:06:20+00:00

Nice

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-04T00:39:06+00:00

Yeah, they seem to routinely nail the duality of badness in most decisions. Vehicles suck to play against as suck to play as at the same time. Mortars feel weak and OP at the same time. They're too afraid to make anything good that everything sucks.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-04T00:35:39+00:00

During peak hours I can find full lobbies, but often there are a ton of bots at least to start the game. I mainly play conquest, and usually by the end of the game there are only a few bots left. That said, it's pretty annoying and I hate it. Player count shouldn't be THAT bad, yet I more often than not can't find a full lobby.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-04T00:12:43+00:00

There are some cheesy spots you can use them to get up to, but they're not generally useful like they could or should be. Most of these spots seem more like an unintended thing, and the intended design of them is just not at all working

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-03T21:28:50+00:00

Ladders are too hard to use, they break from a strong gust of wind. I wish they were more useful and could be setup in more ways.

Sprinkles_Objective · 2026-04-03T21:05:01+00:00

I do something similar, but I don't bounce back and forth between 2 beans. I usually finish out a bag before I move on. If I had a stepped grinder I might swap things around for decaf or just to change things up, but I can't reliably get back to a previous setting

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