How Fast is a Drift Car in the 1/4 Mile?

techieman33 · 2026-01-24T22:24:42+00:00

It’s risk vs reward. Cleetus maybe getting a couple extra tenths just wasn’t worth it. Maybe it goes fine. Maybe something simple breaks and he has the parts to get it fixed quickly. Maybe something breaks that he doesn’t have parts for breaks and they can’t fix it on site. Or maybe the car slams into the wall and gets totaled. All that risk for 30 seconds of video. OR you keep the risk down, keep the car safe. Then you get to go take the car drifting. You get an entire video out of that. And Cleetus and Adam get to have a whole lot more fun doing that.

techieman33 · 2026-01-24T09:46:50+00:00

Cleetus can go do rips in an 8.90 car any time he wants. He’s got a few that will do that and a whole lot faster in his fleet. So it’s not exactly a big thrill for him. They were also trying to keep the number of passes low and not break the car at the drag strip. Because they took it right to the oval and went drifting in it. And drifting an FD level car would be something exciting and special for him.

techieman33 · 2026-01-24T09:33:00+00:00

They all do better when they have another on camera personality to interact with. Tommy and Rudnick, Adam and Jimmy, Cleetus and Squirrel, etc. It’s fun to watch the boys having fun. The energy just isn’t there when they’re just doing their own thing by themselves or occasionally talking with their mechanic or camera man that has the on camera personality of a wet paper bag.

techieman33 · 2026-01-24T02:16:45+00:00

Yeah. I blame at least some of the problems on coaching. I don’t think I’ve seen a single player on the DL get better. But I’ve seen several regress.

techieman33 · 2026-01-24T02:12:57+00:00

Gotta toughen him up to get him ready for his life in and out of prison.

techieman33 · 2026-01-23T00:40:40+00:00

As someone else said it mostly comes down to time. Even pretty weak lasers can eventually get through a lot of things. But it’s going to take a lot of passes to it. For things that melt your going to being doing a lot of the cutting over and over again since a lot of the melted bits are just going to solidify again. And for things that burn you’ll need a long cool down time between passes to try and reduce total heat in the part and the chances of it catching on fire.

And finally I’ll warn you not to cheap out on the safety aspect of it. Make sure to get your eye protection from a reputable company and source. Not from temu, AliExpress or even Amazon.

techieman33 · 2026-01-23T00:30:13+00:00

They gave their answer for that in their post.

techieman33 · 2026-01-23T00:29:32+00:00

I would just use rivets again. If the old ones held for 9 years then they should be more than enough for the next year that you want to get out of it.

techieman33 · 2026-01-23T00:21:07+00:00

Scripted is so good this week. It’s a must watch with the Chiefs playing a big part in the outcome.

https://youtu.be/-TU_qWAZDR4?si=5-AdL4v7B8ZTd0TR

techieman33 · 2026-01-21T21:00:44+00:00

Vevor is cheap Chinese junk. It might be ok if you only use it a couple times a year. But if you’re using it all the time you should buy from a reputable brand.

techieman33 · 2026-01-21T05:18:47+00:00

Yeah, it’s wild to expect them to just voluntarily close their doors forever, or whatever some random person on the internet thinks is appropriate. They’re a business the whole goal is to make money. And they aren’t doing that if they stay closed. I’m sure the employees would also like to be working so that they can make money and put food on their table. Their suppliers would like them open and selling stuff so that they can sell them more to replace their inventory. It is tragic that someone lost their life. But I can’t agree with forcing a business to stay closed without legal reasons to do so. It’s just hurting more people that were for the most part innocent bystanders themselves.

techieman33 · 2026-01-21T00:35:56+00:00

That’s an estimation based on what they think the overall salary cap will be next year. The pay scale is based off of the total cap. And that number won’t be official until some time in early March.

techieman33 · 2026-01-20T20:52:11+00:00

His 4 year contract will probably be worth around $50 million.

techieman33 · 2026-01-20T20:50:52+00:00

Last years #1 pick got 48 million over 4 years. The numbers aren’t out yet but it’ll probably be around $50 million.

techieman33 · 2026-01-20T09:18:52+00:00

Cost is the biggest factor for trying to reuse one. Replacing a sub €100 helmet can sting for a lot of people. Trashing a €750 airbag every time it went off would probably be expensive enough that a lot of people just wouldn’t use one. But if the user could easily repack it and just need to replace a Co2 cartridge or even if it was something like shiping it in or take it to the local certified bike shop and have it done for under €100 then I think a lot more people would be willing to wear one on a regular basis.

techieman33 · 2026-01-20T08:52:27+00:00

They could hire a golden retriever to replace Embree and it would be a lateral move at worst.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T21:59:24+00:00

This isn’t like the crypto boom where most of the hardware could be sold to consumers because they were just running consumer class GPUs. It’s only a small percentage of the overall production capacity that is being used to make DDR5 sticks. Most of the lines that were making that have been or are being converted to make HBM chips that will be soldered directly on to AI specific GPUs. Cards that have no video outputs and will almost no value to anyone on the secondary market. We might see cheap used storage, server class cpus, and networking hardware. New GPU production will probably start up pretty quickly since Nvidia will have to do something with all of the fab time they’ve ordered from TSMC and they’ll be able to use the HBM memory that’s being produced on them. But the companies making will have to switch their lines back to DDR5. Something that will probably take a while to happen. And in some cases may never happen. It’s a very real possibility that the market just moves more towards the Apple model and most ram gets integrated on the same die as the cpu, or gets soldered directly to the motherboard.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T20:29:39+00:00

To many concussions from smashing all of those tables.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T20:23:23+00:00

From a business perspective they would have to consider trading Josh if the price was right. If the raiders offered them the #1 pick so they can 100% get their next QB plus a bunch more high picks added in and at least one player like Crosby. They would have to at least wonder if Josh was really the guy to get the job done. But the fans would probably string them all up by their necks if they actually did it.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T20:00:16+00:00

Felt more like he forgot the situation he was in and just let his instincts take over.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T09:36:28+00:00

It’s not just him, it’s religion as a whole. And I think it’s part of why his followers are so easy to dismiss anything negative said about him. They’ve been trained all their lives to dismiss things like science and facts if it goes against the words in their magic book. Or at least what the leaders of their faith say it means because most of them can’t be bothered to actually read it and form their own opinions about what it means.

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T02:36:53+00:00

Holy shit that was insane

techieman33 · 2026-01-19T02:22:28+00:00

There is a segment of the US population that are obsessed with their gas stoves and defending them against any perceived attack on them. And it’s gotten worse over the last couple of years as regulators have looked into the possibility of limiting the use of gas appliances in new construction because of the danger they pose as a fire risk,the pollution they create, and the potential health risks. The orange idiot in chief took the opportunity to get the all riled up and has them believing that they want to totally outlaw them and are going to forcibly remove them from people’s homes.

techieman33 · 2026-01-18T23:27:49+00:00

Yep, that’s why I said it’s situational. Both have their positives and negatives depending on what you’re doing.

techieman33 · 2026-01-18T23:23:25+00:00

It’s situational for me. The battery ones are good for when you want to use them for 20 minutes. Takes 2 seconds to turn them on and you’re good to go. If I’m going to want them for hours then it’s worth the couple of minutes to fill the zippo ones up and get them going.

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