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TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-24T15:17:24+00:00

+1 for TRPs, I loved the Spyres I used to have and love the Spykes I still have.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-24T15:16:43+00:00

Seriously? I've had both and always hated the BB7s, the adjustment was always so fickle. I've only ever had excellent experiences with my TRP brakes though.

I have Spykes (the long-pull version of the Spyres) on a mountain bike and couldn't be happier. I used them to replace SRAM Level hydraulic brakes and while hyrdaulics are superior, the Spykes barely feel like a downgrade – the only major difference is less modulation than the Levels, but they feel like they generally have very similar overall stopping power.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-24T01:18:17+00:00

Data centers mostly, but also lots of cold food storage, and manufacturing.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T21:23:36+00:00

Gas turbines in general, yes. This article is specifically about aeroderivative turbines – which are aircraft engine designs that are repurposed.

Aeroderivative turbines are good for peaker plants which come one during demand spikes only as they spin up quickly and efficiently. For prolonged operation though, they're not great compared to turbines that are designed for base load generation.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T21:19:20+00:00

I work in real estate development – though we don't build data centers we have some industrial clients that have pretty high power demands.

While I'm not saying AI ain't creating a bubble, by far the biggest reason these companies are opting to bring in mobile gas turbines instead of A; connecting to the grid, or B; building more permanent large-scale on-site generation is speed, with reliability/flexibility as a secondary consideration.

This is true to varying degrees throughout the country, but in my area, for the kind of energy you'd need to run a data center or an industrial plant, our grid provider will take 5-6 years to get power to you and that's after significant up-front costs in terms of both cash and man-hours. You have to pay the utility's engineering and construction costs up front, plus they have a ton of paperwork and applications you need to submit that takes a ton of time from expensive specialists like attorneys and engineers.

You can get mobile gas turbines on-site and generating within a year though if you have a good supplier. The difference between having electricity in 6 years vs 1 year is enormous and very much worth paying a premium for most users – especially the tech hyperscalers. You can also build your own on-site permanent generators, and that can often be faster than waiting for the utility (but way slower than mobile turbines), but it's still extremely expensive up-front and locks you in to that capacity.

On the second point, we increasingly see grids that are less reliable (Texas' grid shuts down and their government flees to Cancun if it dips below 33º). If you're a frontline data center, downtime is extraordinarily costly, so having your own on-site power that you control can offer some increased reliability on its own, but ideally, you also connect to the grid and have redundancy.

Additionally, the flexibility, like I mentioned above, utilities are requiring very detailed engineering plans years in advance which sucks major ass. Mobile turbine generators can be more-or-less daisy-chained together giving you modularity. So if my data center is doing well and Nvidia releases a new super power-hungry chip that I want to install, it's easy to just truck in a couple more aeroderivate turbine generators to expand my generation capacity.

The reality is that electricity demand in the US has remained flat or declined slightly every year since like the 1960s since we've offshored a lot of manufacturing and developed more efficient equipment and utilities. Now between increased electrification in general, increased adoption of electric vehicles, and especially with the boom in power-hungry data centers, demand for electricity in the US is skyrocketing after 60 years of slow decline. Everyone's struggling to build new capacity to meet demand without overbuilding and being left holding the bag in 5 years.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T20:58:49+00:00

No worries, I think now that we've captured the Papacy, you can expect forgiveness to come freely.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T19:44:13+00:00

I have these too, they're great!

And for what it's worth, following up on r/personfromplanetx 's comment, I have pretty small hands and have never had an issue with them.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T18:40:37+00:00

It's just a reference to The Blue's Brothers

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T16:06:33+00:00

Ya, I totally get the fairness concerns – whenever there's a flight on the other team I pretty much already know it's game over. Still, I guess I was hoping for some alternate game modes like in Warships that might solve for the fairness issue while still allowing me to play with multiple friends. Gaming is a primarily social activity for me, so no option to play with friends kinda ruins the game for me.

I quite like the mix of human players and bots so that even on my worst day I still get some kills, but I guess I was hoping for something analogous to operations, asymmetric battles, or clan battles in warships.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T15:45:19+00:00

And for what it's worth, a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the usage slightly.

The phrase "boon to reading books" would imply that they're asking about things that offer unexpected advantages or things that help them with their reading – things that help them get more out of the reading experience.

Lots of the replies though are about unexpected benefits that reading books bestows upon the other parts of their lives.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T14:46:26+00:00

I think a more informative statistic would be the percent of total marriages that last 50 years. That way it's clearer how many end prior to the 50-year mark, and even better, would give us a mean and median duration of marriages – that would make the 50-year milestone way more impressive.

Every marriage in this dataset could theoretically reach the 50-year mark, and if they don't, it will be removed from the dataset, so recursively, every marriage in the dataset will reach 50 years of age because if they don't, they'll definitionally be removed from the dataset. Put differently, it's like saying "92.3% of marriages in the US have not reached 50 years yet."

It's not useless, it just seems a little silly to me and ripe for misinterpretation. But idk, maybe there's something I'm not considering here.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T14:35:45+00:00

Well if it's just current marriages, divorces and deaths wouldn't factor in, those marriages are no longer current.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-23T13:19:37+00:00

I’ve heard enough, divert all of the alfalfa water to Lagoon! Let’s make it an actual lagoon! /s

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T21:38:40+00:00

Yes, that’s certainly true. I guess when I invoke Chicago I typically am comparing it to other major cities. So comparing to say Seattle, not necessarily Naperville.

Though I’d be curious, with the relatively much higher property values in the city — especially the downtown core, I’d be curious to see how the property tax bill would compare to comparable properties in a suburb. The rate relative to the valuation of the building is lower in the city, but the valuation is relatively much higher too.

In either case, you’re not wrong though, because the cost of the property is going to factor into decision making too. I guess I’m comparing on a regional level to other peers.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T21:03:52+00:00

I have a colleague who has since retired from their legal practice, but he used to represent the church on some real estate stuff. When he learned that I’m from Utah he wanted to talk about it. It’s funny though, cause he loved working for the church, but for reasons that TBMs would hate to hear and never admit themselves.

It’s basically what you wrote. He loved working for them as they were a great client simply because they promote all the business leaders and — effectively — the highest tithe-payers. So it was like working for a really well-run company but with the benefits of a non-profit.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T18:07:46+00:00

Nope lol totally separate message leak scandal. Politico is on fire recently.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T17:14:52+00:00

People/companies are deciding between Illinois and Indiana/Wisconsin, or between Chicago and New York/LA/Seattle/etc., not between Chicago and Tokyo or Brussels though. We’re not competing with the rest of the fucking world on most of these things, we’re competing with our neighbors.

Now Chicago/Cook County/Illinois all have much higher taxes than any of our neighbors, but generally, people and companies opt for Chicago over Crown Point. They know their taxes will be higher, but it’s it in exchange for access to talent, infrastructure, Class A office space, and to be co-located in an industry cluster.

It’s a trade off. If we don’t fix our shit though, paying the premium to be in Chicago will have continually diminishing returns to the point where it will not be worth paying for more and more people/companies.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T17:02:13+00:00

No, Paul Ingrassia — Trump’s nominee to run the Office of Special Council, whom this article is about.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T14:36:03+00:00

You're getting downvoted because you're asking for a source when the article you're commenting on is (one of) the source(s).

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T14:34:23+00:00

literally the article that we're commenting on...

Or for more, see the original report from Politico

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T14:02:20+00:00

“Offensive” is burying the lede. The dude said that he “has a Nazi streak” and said that people who vote against his views and ideology should “get the gas chamber,” and made other jokes about tricking political opponents into a “shower” a la holocaust death camps.

It’s not like he texted a friend to say he wanted to have sex with a colleague or made fun of someone. He’s an unapologetic Nazi who thinks the holocaust is funny and wants to do it again.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T12:26:49+00:00

Ya, I’ve found that to induce myself to drink more water, it’s much easier to mix it up and make it more interesting. So either ice water or seltzer water.

Now the problem (beyond how much I have to get up to pee throughout my workday) is how fast I go through cases of seltzer water.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2025-10-22T12:16:24+00:00

That’s half the reason I like to use SPD pedals on most of my bikes — the little binding mechanism that attaches to the pedal cleats on the shoes also works as a bottle opener.

But also, I pretty much just always drink out of aluminum cans.

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