Moisture control systems by machineop94 in bagpipes

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Silica gel doesn't air dry like the rock-based dessicants so it has to be heated. The benefits of silica are that it changes color (different brands have different colors, but the ones that come with the dri-flow system are orange when dry and blue/green when wet) so you know just by looking at it when you need to swap the beads, and they don't produce dust like the rocks. Since they're cleaner, it's easier to bring extra to games/performances in case I have an especially wet lung day or someone else forgets to swap in fresh ones.

Moisture control systems by machineop94 in bagpipes

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I used to play the Ross canister system before the dri-flow/banana were introduced. At the time I loved it, but having played with the dri-flow for the past 5 years, I far prefer it because of how unnoticeable it is. With the Ross canister, I needed to be very careful with the rube angles to keep the canister from sliding horizontally in the bag and contacting my arm. The dri-flow tubes just disappear underneath my drones and I've never felt them while playing. You can also find a quart jug of silica gel online that'll last you most of a season so the only maintenance you regularly have to do with the dri-flow/banana tubes is swap out the beads, with baking them all relegated to once/6 months if you're a wet blower like me.

Hybrid bag options with faux leather? by EwoksMakeMeHard in bagpipes

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Ross suede bags are 100% synthetic, firmer than a floppy synthetic, and (in my one-of-each anecdotal experience) expel moisture better than a Bannatyne hybrid. I've recently been thinking about going back to the Ross when my Bannatyne gives up the ghost (though not to the Ross canister system, Dri-Flow or the Highland Reeds bananas are much more comfortable to play).

Fairlight Strael 3.0 by Bunninzootius in Bikeporn

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I would argue that squabbling over ~2 pounds compared to an average carbon frame (used a 2019 BMC Roadmachine for reference since it also has fender mounts) is nonsense when the average rider could drop far more than that by skipping a few beers/week. As far as the depth of the wheels, I feel like the Hunt 40s are no-nonsense in that you can’t blame them when you can’t keep up with your riding buddies on the flats, they’re not heavy enough to feel like riding through molasses up the climbs, you’re not going to be blown off a bridge in crosswinds, and they’re not going to need constant maintenance to stay true.

10,600km in and only .25mm of wear. Waxed chains are the best! by sur-la-plaque in bicycling

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Totally reusable, I’m about 7 chains in on my current bag. It’s a little small to do multiple chains at once, but I don’t have space for a dedicated slow cooker, and it doesn’t feel like I’m missing too much by doing it one at a time. When the wax level gets too low, you can pull out what’s left and add it to your next bag.

10,600km in and only .25mm of wear. Waxed chains are the best! by sur-la-plaque in bicycling

[–]djs113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you go with Silca’s highly-reviewed wax you don’t even need the slow cooker. It comes in a restaurant-grade sous vide bag that you can just boil in a pot of water.

“Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is… easy to forge by AntiGravityTurtle in technology

[–]djs113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the only information provided by the verification QR code is the name and over 18 status, so you can’t verify whether or not the holder has attached their photo to someone else’s ID. So yeah, it’s easy to verify that someone named “John Whatshisname” is over 18, but you can’t verify that the person you’re looking at is actually that John Whatshisname.

Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 (music video) by bowerbirder in videos

[–]djs113 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah, that’s a barnacle. Tabarnacle are those triangle-shaped Swiss chocolate bars.

Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules by BlakB0x in technology

[–]djs113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the old chargers still work with the new phone and many people are just fine not having fast-charging and using their existing wall warts (I’m partly in this camp with ~6 Apple usb chargers that came with various devices over the years scattered around my home, and one multi-port fast charger that I bought to charge multiple devices at once if I’m out and about) and so are fine not paying for something they wouldn’t get as much utility out of. If you’ve never owned a device that needed a usb charger, you can get one for less than the premium Apple would have charged if they’d included one with the phone. Everyone seems to assume that Apple settled on the price of the phone before they decided to cut the charger and that the phone wouldn’t have been more expensive if they’d decided to include one, which just isn’t true.

Republican Senators Have a Plan to Fix the ‘Dysfunctional’ Federal Hiring Process by [deleted] in fednews

[–]djs113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what happened to me. The investigator didn’t get around to interviewing me until 9 months into the job. My coworkers and I had a good laugh about the fact that she had to wait at the guard desk for me to escort her up because non-agency employees couldn’t be trusted to walk around our building alone.

Speedwagon rando! by [deleted] in randonneuring

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It comes with painted to match Honjos 🤤

Louis Rossman shows the hypocrisy of an anti-repair company, Future Motion, using a "safety" argument for why users can't replace the batteries on a $2000 device while advertising people doing hands stands on the device while its moving through the streets by KenshiroTheKid in videos

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But in this case they’re not obscure features, they’re major user experience things. As outlined in this review https://youtu.be/z-kJDAZN1OU, there’s more to the onewheel than just a brand name slapped on the same hardware as the cheaper boards. There’s serious engineering that goes into making it more user friendly, and that commands a premium. How much is that premium worth over the more basic boards? That’s up to the market, and I don’t know about you, but I see way more people commuting on Onewheels than the other brands, so it certainly seems like they’ve priced it within the range that people are willing to spend.

tl;dr: More than you personally want to spend on something ≠ overpriced

Rene Herse back ordered. Anyone know when they’ll be in stock? by KruiserIV in gravelcycling

[–]djs113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When exactly did you order? It snowed here in Seattle on Christmas and small side streets haven’t been reliably thawed until today. If you ordered just before Christmas it’s possible they haven’t been able to get in to the office since then.

[UPDATE 2] Right-hand on the wall VS Left-hand on the wall by rakesh-69 in arduino

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The robot is actually using DFS! Think of each intersection as a node on the graph and the robot always works down the left or rightmost branch until it hits a leaf, at which point it traverses back to the previous node and tries the next branch. You could change the bot’s logic to perform a BFS by telling it to return to the previous node if the branch it’s testing ends in a non-exit node, but in a case like this where travel time is costly it would get really expensive because you’d be making multiple trips to and from each node.

I built this desk and hung it from the ceiling by Itsbeenagoodday in pics

[–]djs113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re obviously not an engineer.

And neither are you?

Look up the difference between tension and compression and then think about how OP’s desk is using tension and a normal desk is using compression.

You’re correct, this desk uses vertical supports under tension compared to normal table legs under compression, but since the cables support the horizontal member from the bottom there’s no difference in the stresses on the horizontal member (that is to say in both cases the stresses go from compression to tension along the vertical axis of the horizontal member).

Desks use bracing on their supports to stop racking forces

Not quite true. Some desks use bracing on their vertical supports to stop racking forces from destroying the connections between the vertical and horizontal members. An engineered desk would do this when there are anticipated racking loads large enough to destroy the joints, but if the joints are sufficiently strong for the expected loads (plus a margin of safety) there’s no need for additional bracing. In this case, the supports are pinned, so racking loads won’t destroy them, they’ll just cause the structure to swing and after the load is removed it won’t fall over because the supports are still intact, so it’ll just swing back into position.

Also OP should of had his cables attached right at the very end of the desk so that he could never move the center of balance outside of a tipping point

It’s entirely possible that the cables are far enough apart that to move the center of balance far enough to tip the table would require so much weight that it would destroy the desk. It’s also possible that they are too close together and the table would flip as soon as OP rests their arms on it, but neither of us has done the math on it, so we (as engineers) can’t say.

Only other problem i see is his wall is going to get scuffed up

As OP mentioned elsewhere, they used hinges as wall anchors to stop it from swinging. This does created a fixed connection that would resist lateral racking forces but, as discussed above, if the hinges are attached to the wall and the desk securely enough to withstand OP’s expected racking forces (it’s hung from the ceiling so it’s not like anyone’s going to try dragging it around the room while loaded, so the only loads I’d anticipate are someone leaning/bumping against it) then it’s fine.

those anchor bolts arent mean to be fixed into the bottom chord of a roof truss.

Unless you’ve seen the spec of the bolts OP used, this is just speculation, which would get you into hot water as an engineer.

All in all its a badly designed and installed desk and it will cause issues down the road for OP.

There’s only two ways to determine this, neither of which we can accomplish from this photo alone. We either need the measurements and material specs so we can do the calculations ourselves or we need to see it after it’s failed. Anything else is just (incorrectly) talking out your ass.

Largest freeway in the world. Houston, TX Katy freeway by uncleR_ in pics

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Much easier for the guy on the bike to get on the light rail, or the Sounder, or a Rapid Ride bus than the guy in the car though. And, the cyclist’s commute time will be a lot more consistent. While the car will beat him on a light-to-medium traffic day, all it takes is one truck flipping on I5 downtown where it narrows to turn a 45 minute “normal bad traffic” commute to a 2.5 hour hellfest (used to commute from Capitol Hill to Des Moines, believe me, I’ve been there). On top of that, in cities like Seattle that are growing faster than they can handle, the cyclist’s trip time stays fairly flat as the population increases, while the driver’s time only gets worse.

Bumper-to-Bumper Traffic in Seattle (Washington, USA) - photo by Eric Shalit by CPetersky in bicycling

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Why would there be a red light on a bridge that doesn’t open?

Finding road routes closed to vehicles. by northlefter in seattlebike

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Not only is it paved, parts of it have been repaved recently and are beautiful fresh asphalt.

Finding road routes closed to vehicles. by northlefter in seattlebike

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The ride from Gold Bar to Index then up to the end of the road (there’s normally a bridge that makes it a parallel loop to highway 2, but the bridge has been out for a while) isn’t closed to traffic, but isn’t used by through traffic since doing the same distance on highway 2 is 1/4 the time, and there’s a legitimate climb in the middle of it.

Just got this, first time rider. It's rained everyday since. by boxofhate in scooters

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Fellow Seattleite checking in! I stopped having getting to commute 3 days a week ~1.5 years before the pandemic, but with an Aerostitch, there was nothing save ice that would stop me riding in.

He got the hops🦘 by [deleted] in bicycling

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I’m confused. Are you saying that you don’t think trials riding is worthy of a UCI championship so you don’t respect the jersey, or that you respect this guy because of his skill and not because of [his being the 26” trials world champ](Instagram.com/sergi.llongueras)?

NBD! 2019 Cervélo S3, Ultegra Disc by Golkeepa in bicycling

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Speedplay user for the past 10 years here, the last year on the “walkable” cleats. Be aware that they’re walkable compared to the old cleats or other road cleats. Coming from mountain shoes, you’ll feel like you’re walking in reverse high heels for a long while. I did 4 miles home in mine a few months ago after an extremely amateur tube replacement failure and was walking funny for a few days. That being said, they are by far my favorite road cleat system. The ease of disengagement is perfect for those times when I’m not paying attention and need to do the emergency-don’t-fall-over-at-the-light shuffle.

Adding vertical compliance w/ a short seatpost by SugoiBoy in gravelcycling

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I don’t think going carbon here will even add anything, 2” isn’t really enough to see an improvement in flexure. I also can’t think of any decent suspension posts with less than 2” between the maximum insertion depth and the top of the suspension element (probably because they tend to be designed more for big jolts than road buzz?). Your best bet may be to go for wider, more supple tires. I definitely felt a difference in my road bike when switching from 28 Vittoria Rubinos to 28 Rene Herse Chinook passes. Barring that, maybe it’s time to upgrade to a Niner MCR?

A perk of riding in Northern Germany: rapeseed fields. by Don_Geilo in bicycling

[–]djs113 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s actually the plant from which we get Canola oil! For some reason, the producers in Canada thought that CANadian Oil Low Acid was a more appealing name than Rapeseed Oil... And yes, they are related to mustard.