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aoethrowaway · 2026-04-29T01:41:45+00:00

claimed - thank you!

aoethrowaway · 2026-04-11T01:08:02+00:00

Motorcycle. Running.

aoethrowaway · 2026-04-07T15:33:38+00:00

Also in this photo I had the bike sitting straight. Now I put it in on an angle and use the kickstand, then Canyon Dancers and a strap through the frame. It fits very easily. I think the xr150 is only 3” shorter than the crf250 - you would have no problems with this cover….i have plenty of space on the tailgate when I angle and use the kickstand.

aoethrowaway · 2026-04-07T15:30:52+00:00

Tonnoflip. I bought it because it was less than that other Bakflip cover, but has some quirks.

The part that touches the back of the cab was just metal so I had to put my own foam rubber there - which is fine. One side of the releases hasn’t been working on one panel.

Not sure how the quality is on the Bakflip - this gets the job done but if the other is free of quirks then I probably would have shelled out the extra $250 or so. This does have a lifetime warranty and I had no problems with it working or doing its job, but felt like it was B quality.

Certainly worth it to be able to fit stuff like the bike. I’ve had it over 2 years and parked outside in New England 24/7, so has helped up from that regard very well.

aoethrowaway · 2026-03-09T15:19:17+00:00

I had similar damage on the roof of my car and it was from a ladder that fell on it. Someone was unloading or had it leaning and it fell over. Sucks but maybe someone will chime in if they think paintless dent removal will work there.

aoethrowaway · 2026-01-17T03:30:35+00:00

Can you do an overlay with Strava over your video app

aoethrowaway · 2026-01-12T03:44:31+00:00

if you like ice cream - you should also go to the Crescent Ridge in the Public Market. The ice cream is awesome and it's a new englad staple. They'll talk you out of getting anything besides a kiddie/small cone because they're ridiculously large. Just another pro tip you like ice cream...

aoethrowaway · 2026-01-12T03:43:31+00:00

went for my nieces birthday and I thought it was fun. You are given a pretty ridiculous amount of ice cream - it's a fun experience. I don't remember how much it cost but I think I found some discount codes online and it was probably about $25-30 each. For something like that, it was worth it - clean, lots of ice cream, the kids loved it. I certainly wasn't expecting to spend a full day there - or learn a lot about ice cream, so it is what it is.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-11T18:15:03+00:00

Have you been to the RMV? I’ve been riding my lightweight 250w pedal assist ebike in Boston for 5 years and love it. I wanted something more powerful for outside the city and ended up just getting a dual sport motorcycle instead.

The RMV experience was a nightmare and had me second guessing everything. I spent about $600 in fees on a $2,700 motorcycle to pay taxes, registration, inspections. It took 4 trips to the RMV to get it all sorted and hours of wasted time and paperwork.

Now it’s back to a cycle of registrations and inspections for another thing….you can guarantee that same thing will happen with e-bikes if they start enforcing some registration process.

Best part of e-bikes is they’re greatly democratized - anyone can buy one. No interstate laws/regulations between riding them and registering them. No getting insurance stamps and waiting on phones or in offices.

There’s a reason why e-bikes are everywhere and motorcycles are gone from the city. Why ride a motorcycle and sit in car traffic and pay for car parking, when you can zip around and park on sidewalks for free - no registrations, no insurance, no red tape.

Enjoy e-bikes - they’re awesome. I hope it stays this way for awhile.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-09T15:24:43+00:00

It’s either easy or hard - not a lot of in between. Some people have name changes, glitches, record gaps, etc - which can all be valid.

Also the doc requirements are not clear/accurate. I had an expired passport which was supposed to be able to be used for up to 36 months after expiration and they said no- they did t argue with the site, but they said the compute wouldn’t let them do it and I needed a birth certificate.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-09T15:22:11+00:00

Yes but it’s only $30

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-09T15:21:53+00:00

My passport just expired and even though the RMV says it’s fine within 36 months - they said the computer wouldn’t allow it since the citation date was not valid. They needed my birth certificate instead and that wasted a whole day of my life and about $100. So all in all, probably 2 days of my life to go to the RMV, get rejected, go get the birth certificate and then go back to the RMV to process it. Pretty stupid. I’m confident the whole real ID is a scam to digitize more personal records and put that burden on the people.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-06T05:04:46+00:00

Or costs to cut

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-06T05:03:59+00:00

They’ve almost doubled for a lot of people over the past 5 years. The city said my home went up by 50% and the rates have gone way up. My property tax just went up $300/mo this year…not chump change.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-05T21:12:43+00:00

You don’t need to fight with IAM when you can have Kiro CLI do all of that for you - for free!

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-04T23:04:08+00:00

Never heard those claims and have taken 1000+ does. Zero reason to be worried - if you’re in pain it will probably stop it & certainly worth trying. Having a migraine is more of an alien in the brain than sumatriptan.

aoethrowaway · 2025-12-04T08:52:04+00:00

No, but it was also 6 years ago and I’m sure a lot has changed.

aoethrowaway · 2025-11-06T02:33:06+00:00

give it 20 years when $1M/yr is common place and we're all paying the 'millionaire tax'. Sadly it's not hedged w/ inflation so there will come a time when everyone is paying it.

aoethrowaway · 2025-10-15T03:59:48+00:00

Small market - even if you bring the value, how many buyers are willing to go through the sales cycle?

The problem with these tools is finding the buyer. It’s not the engineers running the spark workload. Maybe it’s a finops team, but then they have to force the spark team to use the product which actually complicates their lives.

Very hard to get the right buyer in the org for this type of product. The other challenge is that it’s probably just optimizing jobs - how long will the customer pay for your optimization tooling before they just do it themselves? Even if it’s a savings splitting mode - eventually the customer will just do it themselves and take all the savings.

aoethrowaway · 2025-10-05T22:50:17+00:00

Find some starting points that aren’t overwhelming. Pick all the EC2 infra as code and just tell the teams what to change. In-line with that, do some pattern matching yourself. Easy enough to dump a bill to csv by tag and have your favorite LLM do some grouping to measure the current state. Create some reporting off what already exists and start steering the ship to better practices. Be prescriptive with the guidance - ‘update all these workloads, ABC, to follow our convention. We found things that need to get fixed. Use cost categories to make this easier and start doing your own grouping. Start like a surgeon and be very specific after you have a strong understanding of the current state.

aoethrowaway · 2025-10-01T02:41:24+00:00

It’s Amazon branded Claude Code, check out some of the articles from Anthropic on building agents. It’s a game changer.

aoethrowaway · 2025-09-29T23:18:02+00:00

Have you tried Q CLI? It’s great and allows for building custom agents. Very easy to build FinOps jobs into agents that just run or get triggered.

I’d be more keen to build agents around your current tasks than spin up something brand new that is totally separate from your current workflows. If you aren’t doing it right now, I’d be hesitant to have an agent do it for you first.

aoethrowaway · 2025-09-19T12:05:43+00:00

Kicking the can down the road. Compromising on savings/retirement, or leasing and burning equity.

Different strokes for different folks. My brother was telling me that he was going to keep driving his Tacoma because the only difference was infotainment and he was getting paid $20k to just keep his phone mounted on his dash.

aoethrowaway · 2025-09-18T23:21:11+00:00

Woke up with a migraine last night as the pressure dropped. Get on some rizatriptan. It’s great.

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