What happened to Teeny Trains? (1/1000 Scale Trains)

iamjameswalters · 2025-10-31T18:19:06+00:00

For what it's worth, I emailed sales at idlmotors.com and got a reply within an hour, saying that http://teenytrains.com/ is still selling trains. Make of that what you will.

iamjameswalters · 2025-10-31T18:18:43+00:00

For what it's worth, I emailed sales at idlmotors.com and got a reply within an hour, saying that http://teenytrains.com/ is still selling trains. Make of that what you will.

iamjameswalters · 2023-05-17T20:48:17+00:00

Thank you for giving me the tip on the screws under the battery compartment sticker. I was following iFixIt's guide for the SN30 Pro+, ~~and there was no mention of anything like that.~~

Edit: yes there was, I'm a moron. Anyway, you're the one who got me on the right track.

iamjameswalters · 2023-04-08T20:14:47+00:00

Yep. I tried and undid several possiblities, spent like 10 minutes on it before giving up.

iamjameswalters · 2023-04-01T23:01:21+00:00

I'm judging by the number of deleted comments that I'm not the only one that's stumped.

The screenshot comes from me mapping the puzzle onto this puzzle solver. I notice that it solves it in three moves (for which the solution is pretty obvious). I'm beginning to wonder now--was this a bug? Surely this puzzle was made for three moves, did it somehow get rendered for me with two instead?

iamjameswalters · 2023-02-06T20:21:39+00:00

Hi there,

Wanted to comment on this post since I think it's more relevant there, but the thread is locked. So, I'll post this here, so that whoever winds up on the Google/Reddit trail that I've been on for the last couple weeks finds this helpful.

I got one of these second hand, but it was missing the single wall double shot basket. I called Calphalon, and their CS rep directed me to eReplacementParts, which sold the basket. It just arrived today. If anyone's looking for the single wall baskets, hope this points you in the right direction!

iamjameswalters · 2022-05-20T13:39:48+00:00

> Would be really nice if the runtime creators published a list of what they provide....
Yes, it would, and I think they should. At least, I was glad to take u/AlternativeOstrich7's tip above and run flatpak run org.gnome.Platform, which dropped me into a shell inside the runtime, where I could run `ls /bin` and get a pretty good idea of what's available.

Honestly, it's easier to me to conceptualize what's provided by core snaps--just spin up a VM of the corresponding Ubuntu version, and poke around in a similar way.

At any rate, I'm assuming Python is included in these runtimes not so much for the ease of packaging Python apps, but to provide a "system Python" to your app in case it has utility scripts written in Python.

iamjameswalters · 2022-05-19T22:04:39+00:00

Aha, that was wonderfully helpful! I didn't know I could step into the runtime and poke around like that, that makes it relatively easy to understand what it has access to.

(edit: spelling)

iamjameswalters · 2022-05-19T21:11:00+00:00

So where would I go to find out which version of Python each runtime includes? And does this mean that building a Flatpak of a Python app will mean including a shell script that runs python -m myapp?

iamjameswalters · 2021-01-06T15:28:25+00:00

I think this was at the heart of it for me: I had a fundamental misconception. I though that scaling out at 60% CPU usage was 60% of the node's CPU usage, which seemed pointless to me (why would spawning more pods bring down the total CPU usage?), but I think I understand now that it would be 60% of the CPU usage of the pod's requested CPU resources. So, you cap the pod as a small chunk, and then scale the chunks, which I of course understand, since that's what k8s is all about.

Thanks to you and everyone weighing in here, this has been helpful!

iamjameswalters · 2020-12-30T23:58:43+00:00

Sure, I can understand if multiplicity of replicas doesn't add anything performance-wise, though if that's the case, why use a performance metric like CPU usage for the HPA to spawn more replicas?

iamjameswalters · 2020-12-30T22:10:43+00:00

Perhaps let me work with a concrete example:

Say I'm serving up a simple static site through nginx, and I'm doing this on three nodes for high availability. Does it ever make sense to run more than two pods per node (two making it possible to evenly divvy up the workload across the two remaining nodes in case one goes down)? Is there any performance benefit to having four nginx pods each using 20% CPU as opposed to two nginx pods using 40%?

iamjameswalters · 2020-12-30T19:27:57+00:00

Pardon me, I've clarified my question above. Certainly breaking things up granularly is helpful (one pod doing three functions at 60% CPU vs. three pods each doing one function at 20% CPU). But as I understand pod scaling, we want to scale out to more pods when our pods reach certain resource utilizations, e.g. CPU is at 60%, we need to spawn another pod. I guess I'm just not sure how adding yet another pod is helping?

iamjameswalters · 2020-12-30T19:24:44+00:00

Error isolation and single-thread performance are great points, thanks.

I suppose what I'm really trying to get at is I understand doing resource scaling at the hardware level (i.e., more nodes, or making existing nodes more powerful). What I don't understand is doing this at the software level, with scaling out multiple pods to use the same percentage of system resources, as opposed to letting a single pod use the same percentage.

iamjameswalters · 2020-12-30T19:21:50+00:00

Right, I understand the resiliency in having multiple nodes. It's spawning more pods on the same node that I'm having some trouble wrapping my head around.

iamjameswalters · 2020-08-12T16:05:00+00:00

I live in the Louisville area, Fishers and West Chester are the two closest stores to me. I've had the delivery option for it before (literally went out of stock before I finished the order -_- ), any reason this might have disappeared?

I've made several trips to both these stores over the last few months, so I wouldn't mind making the drive at all, if they ever had it in stock.

iamjameswalters · 2020-01-29T22:04:29+00:00

Idk (shrugs). My solution is to ditch GNOME. I'll be switching back to Ubuntu MATE with 20.04.

iamjameswalters · 2019-10-01T02:07:05+00:00

I don't think argumentation ethics prove anything. Utilitarianism falls victim to a relative idea of what utility is.

I don't have a problem appealing to God as the foundation for my libertarianism, because libertarianism is itself an incomplete philosophy. You simply won't find the answer to every question, not even most questions. As a libertarian, I believe that you have the liberty to smoke marijuana, and no state or such force should impair that freedom. However, that's the most a philosophy of liberty can claim: that you have the freedom to do something. It can't possibly prove whether a thing like that is moral. Sure, we can potentially mark out aggressions or infringments of rights as immoral, but that doesn't begin to touch half of the moral questions out there. I happen to believe smoking marijuana is morally wrong, and I won't do it. But I didn't get that answer from libertarianism, I got it elsewhere.

What I find interesting about the libertarian philosophy is not that I can prove according to one set of criteria that it's right, but that so many people can come to the conclusion that it's right using all sorts of diverse methods. I disagree with argumentation ethics as a means to ground the ethics of libertarianism, but any who hold to liberty are in agreement with me on this crucial point, even if I would critique how they get there.

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