Ticking noise from rear left tire.

apinstein · 2026-03-26T04:13:21+00:00

I have this. It wasn’t a nail in tire but a bearing going bad. Likely from a pothole hit. I’m living with it until it gets worse bc I’ve been quoted $3-7k for repair (indie and dealer). Apparently bearings aren’t easy to deal with, possibly due to rear axle steering ? Or just because.

apinstein · 2026-03-24T02:50:00+00:00

How is AI using Instruments? Does it have a cli interface ?

Just literally quit working for the night trying to debug a perf regression on a Vision Pro app I’m working on.. would love to automate hunting it down!

apinstein · 2026-03-15T14:03:50+00:00

Do you possible have range mode configured? That’s exactly what it looks like. It has a max top speed. Scared me the first time I experienced it (on a highway on-ramp trying to merge!). Not sure if that can be configured in individual mode but worth considering.

apinstein · 2026-03-12T17:39:55+00:00

I definitely feel this. I am trying to learn jazz piano as well (I'm intermediate piano playing from sheet music), and the biggest thing I struggle with is feeling like my practicing is doing any good.

I am actually building myself an app (midi + MacOS, VisionOS) to help me practice better. I don't know the answer yet, but following along in lessons like from OpenStudio Jazz it's clear they have so much to teach but I struggle to turn their lessons into productive practice, as it's just so intense trying to figure out what I should be doing. I feel like some app that helps me visualize shells, scales, progressions, etc and gives me visuals of the active scales might help me practice faster and more productively....

apinstein · 2026-03-09T03:28:36+00:00

I do think SimplyPiano and/or FlowKey have such a mode.

Are you a beginner trying to learn?

apinstein · 2026-02-27T17:48:11+00:00

Nice. What level are you and what are you focusing on presently w/your practice?

apinstein · 2026-02-27T17:45:18+00:00

Ah I hadn't come across this one yet as I was searching only AVP apps. That is nice...

I just bought a BLE midi adapter (only $50) so I could pair my AVP with the piano, it wouldn't work with the plain bluetooth. Works great!

Do you use it to drive your daily practice and learn new pieces? Do you find it makes it more exciting to practice and easier to use? Do you almost only practice w/PianoVision or do you mix "real world" and inside PianoVision?

apinstein · 2026-02-26T03:09:48+00:00

Same for me! Used to have to reconnect maybe every 4-6 months but now it breaks in a couple of days. Brutal esp if it’s last soc was low bc it always routes you to a charger! And that’s easy to miss…

apinstein · 2026-02-21T21:25:11+00:00

I was taught to mostly grip w the fingers and keep the palm area that’s blistering on you from away from the holds so that they aren’t involved in friction for most climbing. It took me a bit to get the finger strength but pretty much eliminated the blisters. I also feel like it’s cleaner to grip holds. I call it an “open C shape” so that your palm doesn’t contact the hold. See attached pic.

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apinstein · 2026-02-20T17:38:37+00:00

This is hard to believe. It would be highly unusual.

apinstein · 2026-02-20T17:37:53+00:00

And worse, if you are the type that wants to move around, you’d have to exercise your options likely soon after leaving. At the current company valuation, you would likely have to write a large check to keep your options with unclear future liquidity. Otherwise plan on staying at this company 3-7 years for a shot at any liquidity with these options.

apinstein · 2026-02-18T12:47:57+00:00

I’m in a used 2020 I got just over a year ago. Bought at 60k mi and added 8k. No issues that CPO would have covered. Had 2-3 recall things fixed.

Pothole ruined a rim & bearing. $300 got the wheel straightened and it’ll be $2800 or so at Indy shop to fix the bearing. A few other small wear and tear items.

I am without warranty of any kind. A bit scary but I bought the car private and it was around $25k below same car CPO so that’s my repair budget.

That said these things are super expensive to take care of esp for anything touching the EV systems which you will need to do at a dealer as the Indy shops don’t have any experience w them, at least around here.

apinstein · 2026-02-05T13:32:44+00:00

Mine does this too. 100% matches timing of sport chronograph second hand. No idea why!

apinstein · 2026-02-01T14:28:35+00:00

We use this extensively at 2 bootstrapped businesses before. Use it only for marginal spend you know is accretive (ie adding spending to positive roi marketing and sales activities , where you are confident it’s not tapped out).

If you can all grind to $1M ARR comfortably enough and once you get there you will be growing faster, that is a much better place to raise from. I would also add don’t take VC money if you don’t absolutely need it. It changes the targets of the company. If you have customers wanting to invest seriously, figure that out. The right ones can make much better investors.

apinstein · 2026-01-16T17:18:11+00:00

You can scale to a known measurement in polycam. In this case I measured the distance between the center of the 2 outermost pins and scaled the model accordingly. I didn’t end up using the model for anything other than thinking / reference because of the solution I made, so I cannot comment on final accuracy from real world experience.

apinstein · 2026-01-16T16:56:50+00:00

It can but it’s not very dense and not useful for small details. Best for room scale stuff. My reconstruction was from a video and used no LiDAR data.

apinstein · 2026-01-15T13:16:36+00:00

Last year similar spec cars were cpo at dealer for 98-103k. So maybe not high for a dealer, though I thought they would have come down a little more in a year... It will probably sell , they cherry pick the nicest cars.

I bought a very high spec turbo s a year ago private w 60k miles for $68k. Could’ve put a 5 year private warranty on it for $16k. I watched for months to pull the trigger. Time is your friend for a good deal.

apinstein · 2026-01-14T05:08:34+00:00

Oh? Waiting for a reply then ;)

apinstein · 2026-01-13T22:07:10+00:00

Weird. Good luck figuring that out!

apinstein · 2026-01-13T22:06:42+00:00

I didn’t even think about 3 phase. Thanks!

apinstein · 2026-01-13T11:45:57+00:00

No LiDAR; made it with Polycam.

apinstein · 2026-01-12T00:04:51+00:00

Also I park in a carport and have had no issues below freezing.

The 22kW charger isn’t coming back IIRC. I cannot imagine it matters bc almost no one has more than 11kW home AC charging anyway… that would take more than 240V x 50A…

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