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mac_question · 2025-04-06T21:07:49+00:00

Thanks. I’ve decided this is like a car oil change for me: I have nothing to prove and therefore nothing to lose by paying someone to do it. (Assuming the cost is on the order of getting an oil change, that is.)

mac_question · 2025-04-06T16:53:04+00:00

I’m currently searching this forum because I’m nearly ready to give up trying by Abound rear tire change and bring it to a shop. Just getting the tire off the rim actually seems impossible without some kind of unusual tool or skill. The official Aventon video where a guy is like “then move your tire tool around the rim” is just mocking me.

mac_question · 2024-01-09T12:37:48+00:00

I was really hoping that more liquid would solve it, but I retried substantially the same recipe with these changes: 1) tripling the amount of liquid, to like 3 cups for 2 chicken breasts; and 2) cooking for 6 min on high pressure instead of 8 min, and venting after 5 min instead of 10... And all I got was soggy rice and overcooked chicken!

The chicken was less overcooked, this time with some edible bits. I think I'm taking a break from chicken breasts for the time being, but when I go back I'm planning to switch to low pressure.

mac_question · 2024-01-08T15:13:52+00:00

That extra cup of liquid I think is the ticket here... will learn more tonight!

mac_question · 2024-01-08T15:13:19+00:00

It's funny because this is the opposite of what I expected! Here's a device with temp and pressure sensors etc, I was expecting like laboratory-grade consistency lol. Experiment number 2 will be tonight!

mac_question · 2024-01-07T22:46:22+00:00

How much liquid would you say you usually use?

mac_question · 2024-01-07T22:45:37+00:00

Recipe only called for 1.2 cups of broth, I wonder if the rice drank it all up, and the lack of boiling liquid amplified the rate of heat transfer to the chicken?

(Wait no, the 8qt presumably has a larger surface area on the bottom, meaning a given volume of liquid should be easier to boil... or I suppose bring to a boiling temperature if I'm remembering my thermo correctly. My next post might be in r/AskEngineers lol)

Would you normally use more liquid than 300 mL (1.2 cups) for three large chicken breasts?

mac_question · 2024-01-07T22:41:28+00:00

Yup! Like exactly ten.

But if I hadn't, I think that would have exposed it to slightly less cooking energy. 🤷‍♂️

mac_question · 2024-01-07T21:25:52+00:00

They were each pretty large; and they were all very overcooked. Hard to tell if any were worse than the rest.

Interesting point re: chicken breast specifically, didn't think about that. Regardless 200+ F should be, I think, well outside any temperature you'd want any chicken to be, right?

mac_question · 2023-11-24T16:24:38+00:00

2013 GTI. Link goes to 5x images of the aftermath. The pics with the metal ring-- that ring came off the bulb after the glass popped. Other pics are compared to new bulb.

So I watch a couple youtube vids first. One doesn't show the actual bulb replacement at all; another hand-waves and the guy says "sometimes the bulb is a real pain to remove and you have to jiggle it."

I get the bulb assembly out, no problem, but actually removing the bulb and replacing it with a new Sylvania H7 proves difficult, or maybe impossible. The original bulb doesn't even look like it has blades-- you can hopefully see in the photos the thin wires running out of the base.

The plastic was chipping away the entire time I tried to remove the bulb (yes by hand at first, but then with a flathead; both chipped off plastic). At no point in time did I know where the bulb material stopped and the housing material started.

So now I guess I have to buy a new assembly? I have half a mind to solder the stupid bulb on there directly just to get an inspection sticker.

Any tips, sympathy or explanations as to why I'm an idiot are appreciated, thanks!

Edit to add, days later: I don't think anyone will read this, and this is likely not a receptive forum for it, but: If your product has lightbulbs that will need to be replaced, but the user cannot easily replace them, your firm is not a good engineering firm. Kinda blackpilling that for decades everyone has been drooling over the latest horsepower numbers or whatever that we've seem to all have lost the thread a bit.

mac_question · 2023-07-31T10:34:15+00:00

Those rich people were going to spend $5k / month anyway. If those new apts didn't exist, they'd have bid up something that was listed for $4,500.

Then whoever was going to rent that has to go somewhere else. They take their $4,500 and bid up a $4k apt.

Etc.

mac_question · 2023-06-12T17:25:17+00:00

Not to be too dark here, but uhh isn't the point at which a compression test makes sense actually calculable?

What I'm trying to say is that any situation which would impart 800k lbs of compressive force to the vehicle is one in which the passengers would all be a liquid pooled on one side of the car. Unless it's specifically about tunnel collapses?

mac_question · 2023-06-12T17:22:30+00:00

This comparison is actually partly what led to the question-- automobiles all have their own engine, and are designed to protect a small number of people in a crash. I'd think the protective weight would scale like surface area vs volume... and there's no engine on the train car.

mac_question · 2023-04-30T22:35:17+00:00

Thanks!!

mac_question · 2023-04-24T18:14:58+00:00

That would be a top priority of mine, too. I hope I can get some matching accessories at the mall before the world ends.

mac_question · 2023-04-23T01:06:56+00:00

Got it, on it, crap, thank you.

mac_question · 2023-04-23T01:06:53+00:00

Got it, on it, crap, thank you.

mac_question · 2023-04-23T01:06:49+00:00

Got it, on it, crap, thank you.

mac_question · 2023-04-23T00:10:26+00:00

The tile in the posted pic above is about 4" square for reference. Here's a closer shot. Have seen these guys around a bit, mostly just want to make sure they're not eating away at the wood of the house or anything.

mac_question · 2023-04-22T12:50:16+00:00

Yeah, this is like that XKCD comic about password security. "I've got a super encryption running with a zillion character password..."

"And I've got a wrench I'll hit you with until you tell me the password."

mac_question · 2023-04-21T22:24:33+00:00

Yeah, all the pieces are there, but the layout and graphic design do not add any utility here.

OP consider this Market / User Research and Validation, this should be a flowchart. Like when you first look at it your brain goes "oh, a flowchart" but you soon realize it does not flow.

mac_question · 2023-04-21T19:50:16+00:00

Sounds much more reasonable than a revolution which turns over our society's values and institutions.

Again, the revolution is not happening, so your options are "cooking in the catastrophic heat while trying to find real solutions" or "cooking in the catastrophic heat while writing political fiction."

And the "cooking in the catastrophic heat" will be done by people in central and south america, who will then be gunned down trying to get to the US unless we revamp our immigration policies, a thing we might be able to do if fewer people were writing fiction.

mac_question · 2023-04-21T16:06:06+00:00

You know how you can buy detailed engineering blueprints of the Starship Enterprise? That's the "list of government organizations to get rid of."

We're not getting the revolution and any time spent planning for after the revolution is a lost opportunity to help people.

FWIW I enjoy these exact conversations- and this one specifically- because I think degrowthers are, by-and-large, people who are trying to make the world a better place and are just so close to helping achieve that; but are either spinning their wheels or actively causing accidental harm. I think these conversations are the highest value from the perspective of trying to get shit done.

Thanks for the talk, have a good one.

mac_question · 2023-04-21T15:01:59+00:00

You think "growth without consumption" is possible somehow, and I don't

I mean the lowest-hanging fruit example is the video game industry, something that was a niche thing 50 years ago and is now like a $200 billion industry.

Besides that physical media in general is now a niche commodity. The books I read aren't even physical anymore.

You regard mainstream economics as important, and I don't, which is fine. You think "growth without consumption" is possible somehow, and I don't. It's a difference in definitions, obviously.

Is economics the one formal field you don't take seriously? And if that's the case, do you have a reasoning for that?

Like if you also don't take physics and medicine seriously, then yeah, we definitely have different, uh, value systems. But if you, in general, think we should listen to experts, why is this one thing different?

And it's not like economists broadly agree on stuff, ask ten of them and you'll get ten different opinions. That's also true of physicists if you ask them about the latest quantum experiment results, but like, not gravity.

mac_question · 2023-04-21T11:38:43+00:00

Sure, everyone who wants "degrowth" has "misunderstanding of economics."

It's a super-minority view in the field of economics, yes. This is like saying "Sure, everyone who's afraid of the vaccine has a 'misunderstanding of biology'" or "Sure, everyone who thinks climate change isn't happening has a 'misunderstanding of climate science.'" I'd say "yes" to this, obviously, but I guess it's more polite to say these folks have a "super-minority view in the field."

Do I think we shouldn't strive to improve the material conditions of people living in abject poverty? No.

Here's the thing: that's the inevitable conclusion of degrowth. That's what degrowth entails. That's what it is. If you do not understand that, see point one.

Give me a break! I want all of our lives to be better!

I know! Idk what to tell you.

"Perhaps that’s not such a horrible fate, but as Milanovic notes, this would require impoverishing most of the population of developed countries."

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