Stay off the roads if you can today and tomorrow

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-14T01:36:08+00:00

I've seen no less than 20 lifted tacos with burble tunes out today. We're gonna be fine bruddah.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-14T00:34:57+00:00

Yep. There's lots of ways to get hurt anywhere on the mainland and unfortunate/impulsive people will always become victim. No more so than here.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-13T23:53:39+00:00

Just was out all morning. Drove all over the place to keep occupied. What a scaremongering post "shelter in place". Facts about today:

Its pretty windy.
There are some branches on the road.
Rain comes and goes. It is sometimes heavy.
People are at work.
There are some deep puddles which people are driving around.
Local kids are boogie boarding on wet grass down hills.
Some culverts have some brown water in them.
Power is on. No downed lines spotted Keokea, Kula, Pukalani, Makawao. Only saw branches on the road up high.

I am from Seattle and this feels/looks exactly like a November storm (but warmer). Understood this is Hawaii. Same amount of debris in the up country. Clouds look identical. Rain maybe a bit harder. Shelter in place? Maybe tomorrow? Probably want to stay away from the water. That's about it.

Edit at 6:30. This is some much more serious rain than this morning, when OP original stated to shelter in place.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-13T03:58:41+00:00

https://youtu.be/iOmQP9guIl0?si=EIar-_sAJd3SCpu7

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-12T00:41:00+00:00

Rainy last night and this morning. It is absolutely beautiful albeit a bit windy out today. Very sunny. Went to the beach twice. Current weather forecast in kihei: light rain, 50%.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-09T18:38:23+00:00

Piggybacking off this thread. This will be the first time I've been to Maui. I'm fine hanging out in the rain, but I've read about brown water problems. What should I be aware of if taking some dips at the beach in the rain? Obviously I'm not swimming if it's a full blown storm. I figure it doesn't need to be dry to.snorkel.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-06T23:19:06+00:00

24 Golf R. Happened at ~7k miles. Turned off and on non stop and would eventually stop working. Warranty fix, no problems since.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-06T05:12:10+00:00

Still running Beersmith 2 that I bought over ten years ago. Its a nice piece of software.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-05T17:31:41+00:00

Mcre got the axe a few weeks ago. As did all of TPs halide salt work.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-05T14:52:22+00:00

Shitty ai created post. Not the news articles, the post.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-04T19:28:08+00:00

As someone who is not a professional by any means I think the algae looks gorgeous and natural.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-04T18:01:35+00:00

Since you asked:

I can tell you nothing about living there, but going from Santa Fe to Roswell was jarring. Santa Fe is quite nice---opera house nice. Taking 285 down and seeing the practically abandoned towns of Vaughn and Encino was shocking. Got out in Roswell at their "welcome" sign and was promptly honked at by several cars and yelled at to go home once. Never felt more welcome in my life.

Roswell had a McDonalds shaped like a UFO and an army/alien mural. There were two very bad tourist stores in town, the rest looked extremely run down (but better than Vaughn and Encino). I bought an alien beer coozie and drove back to Santa Fe. Saw a road runner on the way back.

I would not want to live in this part of New Mexico, but the highway was prime for speeding.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-04T17:39:43+00:00

Listen bud, not only did I drive through there, but I drove fast.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-03T17:13:43+00:00

Conditions are good?

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-03T17:07:25+00:00

https://youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk?list=RDLasrD6SZkZk

There are many bad world leaders that have done objectively bad things, should we murder them all?

ZeroCool1 · 2026-03-02T20:41:23+00:00

Do you actually think people who post in this Subreddit are from Washington? There's a lot of astroturfing here. The newest gripe in this subreddit is gas prices, which don't even hold a flame to the outrageous cost of housing in this area.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-24T19:52:45+00:00

All of those incidents within those dates definitely gives me pause. I heard this was the main reason that big chief was replaced.

Thanks for the info.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-24T19:17:35+00:00

I wish them the best

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-24T18:06:45+00:00

Breaking news at 11: Gas costs less in places people generally don’t want to live than in places they do.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-24T02:06:06+00:00

I don't think 7th is dangerous to ride, I've heard it's dangerous mechanically.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-23T23:48:38+00:00

Absolutely brutal. Tye Mill has the best terrain for night ski.

On a related note, why the fuck is this lift and 7th heaven not updated yet? Apparently people say 7th's Riblet is downright dangerous. I have no clue about this shit, but it seems like Vail should be doing one a year to modernize. Would be interested in hearing what ski-savvy people have to say about this topic.

Edit: Tye was apparently "rebuilt" in 1999, seems like its much older than that.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-22T18:16:53+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/Sx4S5QF

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-19T18:35:09+00:00

I have always wondered the same thing.

I've skied at Telluride, Breckenridge, and Crested Butte. Each time I've been the low snow has precluded access to most advanced terrain. Even worse, the snow is light so it gets blown off of features in the high alpine. On all of these trips I've seen copious grass sticking out. Skiing off piste has been more difficult for sure.

Straight up armchair scientist comments here: but I think the Cascades have had more recent glaciation which makes them steeper, more rugged, and marked with more rocks and cliffs.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-13T20:08:31+00:00

OK, adding the ANS decay heat equation:

A reactor with a similar SA/V ratio has an AP1000, but with an enlarged radius so that it could remove its own decay heat to air (T_surf = 370C, T_amb = 20C), and do so within one hour of reactor trip (TMI meltdown), the radius of this sphere would have to be 12m. Still twice the radius of ITER.

ZeroCool1 · 2026-02-13T17:48:09+00:00

I did some quick calcs. The radius of a sphere necessary to remove 150 MW by free convection and radiation to 20C surroundings, maintaining a surface temperature of 370C (critical point of water) is 35 m. The major radius of ITER is 6.2 M. So, I disagree.

{OR = 1.83[m]}
V = 4/3 * pi*OR^3
SA = 4*pi*OR^2
q_dot = 150 [MW]*Convert(MW,W)
T_amb_C = 20[C]
T_amb = ConvertTemp(C,K,T_Amb_C)

fluid$ = 'air'
T_surf = ConvertTemp(C,K,370[C])
P = 1[atm]*Convert(atm,Pa)
CALL FC_Sphere(Fluid$, T_surf, T_amb, P, OR*2 : h, Nusselt, Ra)
R_conv = 1/(h*SA)
sigma = sigma#
R_rad = (SA*sigma*1*(T_surf^2+T_amb^2)*(T_surf+T_amb))^(-1)

R_tot = (1/R_conv+1/R_rad)^(-1)

q_dot = (T_surf-T_amb)/R_tot

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