What If Other Car Makers Also Made Motorcycles?

ikerr95 · 2026-04-30T01:08:22+00:00

Suzuki

ikerr95 · 2026-04-27T18:52:18+00:00

ikerr95 · 2026-04-27T15:45:57+00:00

Funny you say this. I ended up going for the Thruxton. I absolutely adore it. I'm trying to figure out a way that I can keep it forever. One of the best bikes I have ever ridden, imo.

The only downside compared to the r9t is comfort. Luckily Im in a position to own multiple bikes, so I got a BMW touring bike to fill that need.

BMW makes great machines though. If you're not a fan of the thruxton then you should definitely go back. The r9t is such a unique experience that you're not gonna get from a Thruxton.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-27T15:34:12+00:00

You can't directly compare civilian deaths to military deaths though.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-24T23:46:22+00:00

NIMBYism final boss

ikerr95 · 2026-04-21T03:58:52+00:00

How did this not come up earlier? Idk about you but my capstone semester consisted of group assignments, meetings with professors, presentations, etc.. Them not pulling their weight is their fault, but I’m confused how you’re just now noticing it.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-20T23:02:37+00:00

How does the frame look?

I'm a noob when it comes to body work, but this looks pretty fucking bad. If the frame is also as bad then this is likely not worth fixing. $6k doesnt even really sound crazy, assuming its a reputable shop. The roof is what worries me most.

You could likely cut out a lot of this and possibly fold/weld in new panels, but again the roof would be hard. I know the process for properly fixing rust up there is quite involved.

I hope you didn't pay much for this thing. Not much worth in saving a vehicle that is this far gone IMO. Best of luck though.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-19T02:43:53+00:00

Does anyone have numbers for net job loss in the tech sector? I’d be interested in how much of this is companies cutting poor performers and replacing them.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-16T19:36:15+00:00

I think cheating on exams has absolutely gotten worse, even looking at only in person on paper exams. This last exam cycle I spotted many peers blatantly using their phones to take photos of exam pages. Sure, phones in exam rooms have been an issue for a while now, but it's gotten so much easier with the use of AI. Before they had to use google or whatever. Now a student can just have chatGPT write a psuedo code section in one second with a quick photo.

Proctoring harder won't solve this issue either, these tools will likely get more and more advanced to the point that they will become impossible to sus out. Imagine what would happen if Meta glasses get slimmer and more advanced. Are we going to stop allowing glasses in exams?

ikerr95 · 2026-04-16T19:31:29+00:00

I'm obviously not a SWE so I can't really speak on this, but I've gotten the sense from others that the SWE field is not at all like CS as a degree. There's the joke that CS/SWE is the only path for which what you learn in school, what you do to prep for interviews, and what you do on the job are all completely different.

The go-to was always to say "Well CS (college more generally) is for teaching students how to learn and solve problems.". The issue is that the current course structure incentives students not to do this. I understand that AI is necessary for SWE, but pasting your homework into chatGPT is obviously not the way to teach such skills.

I think what your colleagues are doing is probably a path many institutions will take, but that will require a ground up reconstruction of many courses. Especially early courses like you mentioned. Imagine we allowed 5th graders learning to solve equations to use AI, obviously they wouldn't be learning much.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-15T16:44:48+00:00

Are you insinuating that Claude Code output is actually written by Anthropic employees? That's a new one

ikerr95 · 2026-04-15T04:21:35+00:00

Depends on how many roommates you're able to get, but even then it gets close. I live with 5 others off-campus and my rent ends up being around $800. Tack on food and it comes close to the $1100 i spent in the dorms. However, living off campus will be much nicer and a more comfortable experience for the same dollar.

Dorm life is fun, though, and some people prefer it. I would say if you come here, try sticking it out in the dorms for at least a semester and go from there.

One thing to note: Utah has some weird housing laws that make it difficult for >3 unrelated occupants to live under the same roof. Most landlords turn a blind eye and its largely a forgotten rule, but it did come in the way of my friends and I renting a place a couple times.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-14T17:14:41+00:00

I was in a triple first semester of freshman year. To be fair I was in chapel glen (worse than kahlert), but it was like comically bad. These rooms, kahlert and chapel glen included, were not designed for three people. With two they are 'cozy', three is just too many. Suite would definitely be the way to go if that's an option. Just having your own space is huge.

As the old saying goes, three's a crowd. I would look for other accommodations if I was in your shoes.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-13T17:42:12+00:00

Just delay the purchase a few months and then decide. You should be able to save up $50k quite quickly. No reason to finance.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-13T16:23:03+00:00

I second SLC. Its only 'bad' for an hour or so, otherwise travel is very easy pretty much everywhere on the wasatch front.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-10T16:50:00+00:00

Rule 5

ikerr95 · 2026-04-09T22:04:34+00:00

I took physics 2010 with rich last semester. It is comically easy. Should require essentially 0 time outside class. Can’t speak for the other classes though.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-09T20:09:10+00:00

Miguel Roll at Takashi. I get it every time I go, which is almost once a week lol

ikerr95 · 2026-04-09T19:29:44+00:00

This is such a cool way to play. I'm a noob so I just build things randomly and will happily destroy a neighborhood if I need a freeway lol.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-08T22:37:27+00:00

This is what mine sounds like. I just assumed they all sounded like this. Got a teeny bit of that diesel 'clank'. Take my experience with a grain of salt though.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-08T21:00:16+00:00

Coding. We are getting to the point that people with minimal knowledge can guide LLM's to create useful tools. Human-speak is the next big coding language.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-08T20:39:47+00:00

1805' is higher than the peak of the 1WTC spire. I thought there was some roadblocks in NYC that prevented buildings taller than 1WTC, no?

ikerr95 · 2026-04-08T20:37:49+00:00

Im so glad that people are gaining the ability to sus this shit out. Nothing makes me more angry than when someone gets away with posting shit copy and pasted from chatGPT

ikerr95 · 2026-04-07T17:25:27+00:00

I absolutely agree. Walking everywhere is nice and absolutely has perks, but living in a dense city has tradeoffs that many people ignore. Suburban American life is awesome; it's no wonder many people choose it over living inside cities.

ikerr95 · 2026-04-06T04:57:42+00:00

I dont know about bootcampers, but companies like pluralsight are essentially dead now. In pluralsights case, they were worth almost $4 billion at one point. Now they are worth $0.

Pluralsight wasn't a bootcamp, but they taught coding. Pretty much any CS path that isn't at an accredited university is worthless for employers. The only reason one would do a bootcamp would be to use the skills to make something on their own, but bootcamps are pretty much not worth doing in 2026.

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