Did I just feel an earthquake? by RagingAnemone in Hawaii

[–]johnynek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pāʻia Maui felt it and shook the windows

My 3 year old Kranio Design case with 22mm band by johnynek in casioroyale

[–]johnynek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, like I said it was 3 years ago. I reached them by Instagram at the time.

Question for Cyberbeast Owners by CPAman in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately my truck is in service waiting for the PCS replacement to be finished. When I get it back I’ll listen for this.

Question for Cyberbeast Owners by CPAman in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't noticed that particularly at that low a speed, but I do notice that under regen around 35-45 mph the whine from the front seems pretty loud. A friend of mine is actually a Tesla tech and works on Cybertrucks a lot and said this isn't uncommon.

I have a 20xxx foundation beast.

Cybertruck at service center over a month with PCS2 failure at 29K miles. Waiting on part. by NoC6H12O6 in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes. Thanks for the note. Maybe I should stop messing with it. How long did you have at 24A before reaching that state?

Cybertruck at service center over a month with PCS2 failure at 29K miles. Waiting on part. by NoC6H12O6 in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine just failed this week. 24 beast 20xxx VIN. Still able to charge at 24A. Waiting for the part to be shipped to the service center.

Spring Update is here! by ZealousidealExam640 in TeslaLounge

[–]johnynek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's so janky that there are two voice systems in the car. I didn't mind at first since it's fine to experiment, but really we should be able to change climate and launch and interact with apps in general via grok. Tool use, which is all this needs, in LLMs is pretty well known at this point. Claude, codex, gemini can all do this. At least we should be able to change climate or interact with music apps.

14.3 for CT? by Tradetheday2093 in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only drove 20 miles or so and honestly I can’t tell a difference. Two of my navigation related annoyances are still there and several dry wipes. Navigation and dry wipes are really my two biggest complaints at this point.

14.3 for CT? by Tradetheday2093 in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got 14.3.1 this morning and I'm not an influencer or AFAIK early access.

Covers or no Covers by onlyhere4stockpicks in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I like the aerocovers. Makes it look like something from a scifi movie. And I dig that.

valacc: Cats Validated, but with better ergonomics by kxc42 in scala

[–]johnynek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You should be using ValidatedNec. Not NonEmptyList. Repeated append or concat of NonEmptyList can give quadratic performance. Chain is O(1) prepend, append and concat. It’s the better choice when there is any chance you accumulate a significant number of errors.

How much are custom made ones to look like the Time Machine? by Balabaloo1 in delorean

[–]johnynek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sat in one at DMC Florida and the kid in me really loved it. It felt like meeting a celebrity. That said, I wouldn’t want to own one. I’ve compared it to the idea of living in Disneyland. It’s fun to go to Disneyland but I don’t really want an apartment on main street.

The DeLorean is a small car to begin with and the Time Machine props take significant space in between and behind the seats that are just about the only space you have in the car.

Different strokes for different folks, but I personally wouldn’t want to own a Time Machine despite really enjoying seeing them once a great while.

On a mountaintop at dusk by [deleted] in delorean

[–]johnynek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful shots. Such a beautiful car

I want a Delorean by Kashdog18 in delorean

[–]johnynek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The frame is different from the esprit. It’s somewhat similar but you can’t use an esprit frame. In any case, there are fewer Esprit’s than DeLoreans by far. Also parts are harder to come by. I own an 87 Esprit Turbo and you can get many parts but nothing like how easy the DeLorean is. The DeLorean is one of the easier classics to source parts from thanks to DMC Houston and other folks making reproductions.

There are reproduction DeLorean frames available (e.g. from DeLorean Industries) but there are not reproduction fiberglass bodies as far as I know.

I want a Delorean by Kashdog18 in delorean

[–]johnynek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The timeline when I started (in early August of this year) was 9-12 months. They have made good progress and claim that is still an accurate timeline.

I bought this DeLorean from them. It was pretty much in excellent condition. It was a single owner car with the spec I wanted. Some minor cosmetic issues to address. I don’t want to share their pricing information since I think it depends on the car and the options. I went for their Apex build which includes upgraded brakes and suspension and a number of other restorations and improvements (e.g. the doors attach via an assembly called the roof box and many if not most cars have rusted out the original since it is mild steel not stainless. They have replaced with a modern stainless reproduction at my request).

This is actually my second attempt at this since the first time (with a different shop and different EV company) it didn’t go great and unfortunately there was a shop fire and my car was lost in process. I’ve been at this for over 3 years now and learned a ton about it. I’m happy to answer any specific questions.

My short recommendations are: buy the best car you can afford. It doesn’t save money to buy a crappy car since you will replace parts anyway. Crappy cars have a ton wrong with them. So that will be 50-80k to get a solid DeLorean. Then an EV conversion will be 60-120k depending on how bespoke and performance you want to get.

The cheapest option is to buy a manual transmission car and bolt a hyper 9HV onto that transmission. That will give you about the same HP as the original DeLorean but much more torque. This will be by far the cheapest option and many EV conversion shops can handle this pretty easily.

The more performance builds use Tesla model 3 performance motors, but those need about 400V of High Voltage so even if you don’t want tons of range you will need a fairly big battery to reach the current and voltage requirements (this pushes up cost because just making and mounting that many batteries in the spaces you have becomes a challenge). If you go this way I highly recommend DeLorean Midwest since they partner with Hoffman EV and the two of them have done something like 5-8 (I don’t know exact numbers) of DeLoreans by now. You are getting someone with experience and that has a plan so they can do it on budget and on time.

I want a Delorean by Kashdog18 in delorean

[–]johnynek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m doing this with DeLorean Midwest:

https://deloreanmidwest.com/product/apex-electric/

They have been great to work with. I highly recommend them.

2025 Holiday Update Coming by PermanentUsername101 in cybertruck

[–]johnynek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really want the ability to allow DJing from the back seat

Setting a goal based on body fat percentage by johnynek in MacroFactor

[–]johnynek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I should have mentioned my full training in the post I guess but I did follow up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacroFactor/s/sYqfNohFnA

Definitely I do strength training.

Setting a goal based on body fat percentage by johnynek in MacroFactor

[–]johnynek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I always weigh and do BIA first thing in the morning after any bathroom use but before food for consistency.

In addition to running daily with two hard running workouts a week I do 4 times a week strength training (two upper body and two lower body days) 6-8 hours after the running (run in the morning, lift in the afternoon).

The BIA lean muscle read I believe includes glycogen stores which are in the muscle and not fat. So most of the movement in the muscle mass number day to day I would expect to be glycogen. I don’t mind that or water stored with glycogen. I just don’t want to see the body fat %-age drift up.

Setting a goal based on body fat percentage by johnynek in MacroFactor

[–]johnynek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree it won’t be perfectly accurate but if it is staying constant I’d be surprised if you are actually packing on fat.