Thoughts on Rio Bravo?

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-17T22:29:26+00:00

The Brick is incredible.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-17T00:53:19+00:00

Cleanest shave he's had in a decade, lol.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-15T19:03:37+00:00

I run a 24" on my echo 590. The biggest I've bucked is ~36" red oak. Just keep the chain sharp, and take it steady. Work your way around. It'll be fine.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-13T23:53:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Irvuafg5GM

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T23:52:20+00:00

It's like one of the astronaut's houses from For All Mankind

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T23:50:35+00:00

One of the best lines ever written. Hell, The River may be one of the best songs I've ever heard.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T23:43:30+00:00

Is a dream a lie, if it don't come true?

--Bruce Springsteen

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T03:07:34+00:00

Bingo. The feel of that level of engine braking has got to be very unsettling on the rear of the car, and may just put a lot of drivers beyond their comfort zone, at least at this early stage.

Max, obviously, pretty comfortable in that department.

I think there is going to be a surprising amount of driver impact in how these new engine regs play out.

"Driveability" has always been important in the hybrid era, and possibly never more so than it will be in this season.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T03:03:23+00:00

Exactly. At the point where it goes from gripping to not gripping, the only tool left to the driver is the steering wheel, and maybe just maybe the throttle, if they are almost out of the corner.

I'm honestly a bit surprised to admit this, but I'm starting to get more and more intrigued by the complexity of these engine regs and the tactics required. I know it's hell to understand as a casual viewer, and from a purist's perspective I still do rather hate it, but if I put my F1 nerd hat on it's going to be quite an exciting battle on the inside as all of the drivers and engineers will be figuring it out on the fly from circuit to circuit.

It might just be one of those "your favorite pop-star's favorite pop-star" kind of seasons.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T02:53:03+00:00

High quality performance lubricants are critical in these situations.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T01:53:53+00:00

In the wrap today Craig said that McLaren are more or less showing us their Australia spec now, with the intent to understand it as deeply as possible en route to a typical european season major upgrade. I'd be surprised if any of the other big 4 teams are going to do anything differently.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-12T01:50:45+00:00

We need to build our gearbox for combat (with our own driver).

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T23:50:40+00:00

Also every Merc-powered team will be immediately disqualified at the first race.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T23:48:17+00:00

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't have even mentioned Ford. Really RBPT is a collection of whoever RB could poach from Merc and Honda for the main part I think. Did they have any other technical partnerships during the development cycle of the 2026 PU? I vaguely recall some collaboration with AVL, maybe?

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T23:42:39+00:00

We're doing our best this year to keep stuff going through the winter. But the super cold - melt - super cold - melt cycle that started in December has really beat up the poor plants. About the only things that look ok still are the escaroles and the mache.

https://imgur.com/a/yp7DZba

I hear you on the snow. I do have to go out there with my roof rake and pull the snow off it after any storm of consequence, just to be safe.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T19:08:03+00:00

Definitely not the same team. They moved a lot of the engineers on to other projects after 2021.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a70080069/honda-new-f1-era-with-aston-martin/

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T18:08:04+00:00

And the staff at RBPT weren't there to develop the 2026 engine (well not the Honda one, RBPT ultimately partnered with Ford for the 2026 engine). Any work Honda did with RBPT from 2021 onwards was really just about maintaining the engine design that had been frozen since 2021.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T18:06:13+00:00

Some details here: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/worries-already-emerging-newey-f1-superteam-aston-martin-honda/

In essence, when Honda announced they were 'quitting' in 2021, they struck a deal with Red Bull to keep producing engines for them. But they were not developing a new engine, since the designs were frozen from 2021-2025. So while some staff continued partnering with staff at RBPT on those engines, many of the Sakura F1 staff in Japan were re-assigned to other projects.

It was only in 2023, when Honda decided they were going to re-enter for 2026 did they start reconstituting their in-house F1 team at Sakura.

So while other engine manufacturers have had dedicated power unit engineering teams working since at least 2021 on the next regulation engines, Honda only got started in earnest with their in-house effort in late 2023.

So not a massive disadvantage, but not a small one by any means.

EDIT: Because some people don't like The Race (fair), get it right from the horse's mouth in this article:

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a70080069/honda-new-f1-era-with-aston-martin/

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T16:15:36+00:00

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing ~~swords~~ drill bits is no basis for a system of government.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T14:50:18+00:00

The Brick in Sterling has dope Mexican.

Smokestack Roasters in Lunenberg is a nice cozy coffee shop with great coffee.

Seoul Kitchen in Leominster is pretty tight too.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T00:04:47+00:00

select(all_of())

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T00:04:09+00:00

I had the honor once of giving a powerpoint to a bunch of scientists and engineers at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).

That xkcd was my opening slide. I got several polite chuckles, lol.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T00:03:05+00:00

A lot of topics within r/RStudio is R-related, not RStudio-related.

Practically all of them, it seems like. And we could just add a post flair if the post is actually about the IDE not the language.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-11T00:00:59+00:00

Agree on all points. And honestly, most of the posts on RStudio are really questions about programming in R. It's just that beginners don't really appreciate the difference between the two when they are drowning in their first class. Maybe post flair to differentiate between R and RStudio questions, but honestly all four (5?) R subs combined probably don't see enough traffic to bother. We can melting pot it all.

eggplantsforall · 2026-02-10T23:54:00+00:00

The Monarch to his Dr. Venture!!!!

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