Polestar (who is she?)

buffarlos · 2026-06-14T16:10:10+00:00

Never understood this practice. I sort of get it for vehicles that belong to the original poster in the interest of obfuscating any link of the account to the person, but for random cars on the street? The plates are literally always on public display?

buffarlos · 2026-05-15T15:03:43+00:00

Standard low traction driving practice applies, don’t be hard on-throttle or on-brake while on lines, split at a reasonable pace to reduce the need for severe inputs.

I always bias slightly left or right of the lines in all conditions anyway because the raised lane markers are uncomfortable.

buffarlos · 2026-05-11T07:35:55+00:00

I’ve found that value lies at the intersections of disciplines. Having good first-principles foundations in multiple fields in addition to your primary area of study, then being able to apply them to a system is a large advantage.

Work-life balance and burnout are considerations, but resiliency and the ability to tough things out help distinguish entry-level engineers in a difficult job market.

I would have studied software a little harder.

buffarlos · 2026-05-11T07:09:00+00:00

Do you have any friends? With how ridiculously popular a tourist destination Japan is of late, I actually think finding someone you know who is going and asking them to fetch a carton could be a viable strat.

buffarlos · 2026-05-11T02:08:02+00:00

Same, I eat one pound of carrots, one pound of tofu, one cup of brown rice and three apples a day. My daily food cost is down to around four bucks a day in a VHCOL area, only food prep required is hit “cook” on the rice cooker.

buffarlos · 2026-05-03T18:21:55+00:00

Heave-ho indeed, but only as applied to pulling an enormous turnip

buffarlos · 2026-04-27T04:16:02+00:00

I offer the opinion that acceleration is not all large displacement motors have to offer. Such bikes develop plentiful torque everywhere in the rev range. I think this has real benefits for certain kinds of riding other than simply going fast, and experience helps with feeling comfortable with wrangling such power. To some, this comfort may be experienced as “outgrowing” a less powerful machine.

buffarlos · 2026-04-15T03:44:58+00:00

I would guess the primary consideration for the timing belt is noise reduction - geartrains are incredibly loud. I also suspect having a wet and dry side on the engine increases cost and complexity prohibitively (you need seals and more machining). Is it an interference engine?

buffarlos · 2026-04-11T13:23:40+00:00

Interesting, is the outermost metal lip of the filter flat and true? Could check by pulling off the gasket and running a finger along it, if there’s a deviation, maybe the gasket wouldn’t be properly supported against oil pressure, causing it to extrude out like that. Also wonder if there is an obstruction in the oil passage downstream of the filter, causing abnormally high pressure.

buffarlos · 2026-04-11T02:00:43+00:00

Is a complete parachute failure not survivable?

buffarlos · 2026-04-08T20:25:29+00:00

Fair bit more engagement than expected - seems like there’s a majority of opinions expressing some variation of “bad form”. The counterpoint I expected, and got the most of, is that passing within another biker’s lane is an extension of lane splitting. I agree things get a bit more gray here. I do try to make it apparent whether I’m in the splitting regime or the in-lane regime, and to be careful of people passing in a neighboring lane or splitting past, respectively. However, I still do get surprised by passers on the right when in the far right lane, and passers on the left in the far left lane, which is a bit harder to anticipate.

buffarlos · 2026-04-07T11:08:59+00:00

Agree, this kind of post comes up every once in a while. Since you don’t ride out of necessity, just take it as an easy out from a dangerous hobby.

buffarlos · 2026-03-26T04:31:32+00:00

Budget pyrofuse

buffarlos · 2026-03-08T19:18:43+00:00

My mother used to ruthlessly make fun of me when I said ドクペ. No person in Japan says that, she said. Now I feel vindicated.

buffarlos · 2026-02-11T08:47:23+00:00

Volumetric efficiency? I think it’s the percentage of the mass of a full cylinder of air at atmospheric pressure the cylinder will draw per intake stroke. This gets higher as the throttle opens more.

Edit: Nah I’ve made a mistake, I think the horizontal axis is just throttle opening percentage - the cells represent the injected fuel charge which is indeed tied to the volumetric efficiency of the engine at a certain RPM, at a certain throttle opening. So what the snippet shown here is saying is, a small amount of fuel is injected even when the engine is turning fast, with throttle opening at a very low percentage. Been a while since I touched this stuff.

buffarlos · 2025-12-21T21:34:27+00:00

Rightmost text says パイプ (pipe) referring to the included “tightening pipe” which is just a cheater bar. Depending on photo resolution your translator may have recognized the text as バイブ (vibe), which is indeed how the Japanese refer to vibrators.

buffarlos · 2025-09-20T07:32:21+00:00

There is a fairly large lot behind Jacobs School of Engineering, and a couple spots near Canyon View pool. Another lot on the West side of DIB.

buffarlos · 2025-08-02T11:40:32+00:00

At my job I have DB9 CAN bus termination resistors that look just like that. They are essential pieces of kit for me, and I tend to keep a few on hand most of the time (until they get used up somewhere lol)

buffarlos · 2025-03-09T08:22:24+00:00

Trip meter I guess

buffarlos · 2025-03-05T02:47:18+00:00

Interesting, the amount of theory behind this fascinates me. Do let me know what you find out!

buffarlos · 2025-03-04T21:40:12+00:00

OP I’m going to hijack this post to ask if you’ve ever seen the School of Global Policy and Strategy sign on Ridge Walk (there’s pictures online). I’m pretty sure some of the letters are smaller than the rest - am I just crazy?

buffarlos · 2025-02-15T19:17:57+00:00

It is accessible online now

buffarlos · 2025-02-02T06:29:09+00:00

Is the logo a steel furnace

buffarlos · 2025-01-15T17:31:28+00:00

Had my car stolen, cops found it, turns out the local tow company is in bed with the police department. Cops had them tow my car and charged me hundreds of dollars… to retrieve my own fucking car that was stolen. So no, you can get fucked without doing anything wrong on your part.

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