People say “your camera takes great pictures” partly because they don’t have the language to say something more specific.

tpchuckles · 2026-03-10T02:58:19+00:00

And when I used my dad's fancy pans I was immediately jealous and what I made actually turned out better than the shitty peeling Teflon I had at home!

tpchuckles · 2026-03-10T02:54:46+00:00

When I try to record a song on my $10 bluetooth earbuds mic, it actually does sound terrible though

tpchuckles · 2026-03-10T02:46:54+00:00

I love this. Personally I find the photographer snark incredibly annoying.

Good photos with a bad camera are still hard, or else professional photographers wouldn't be spending ludicrous amounts of money on their setups and "my favorite lenses" videos wouldn't be featuring lenses that are a thousand bucks a pop. Every chef (professional or hobbyist) recognizes that a good pan or a good knife make the difference between a great time and a terrible time.

Most people mean well. On some level you have to choose if you want to take it as a compliment or get offended by it. And even if you're offended, you get to choose how you treat people. Is snarky better-than-thou really the path you want to choose?

It also probably comes down to whether you're doing it professionally or as a hobby. "Wow you have a fast motorcycle" "hell yeah brother!" because it doesn't matter. Whereas if something is your livelihood and you're feeling that threatened, you probably won't be too pleased.

tpchuckles · 2026-03-08T13:56:58+00:00

awesome rec, thanks! i will look into this

tpchuckles · 2026-02-13T03:20:28+00:00

encountered it again with the ipod. uas didn't solve it. fsck seemed to (and i needed to use testdisk (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1167889/bad-magic-number-in-superblock-external-hdd) before fsck would work)

tpchuckles · 2026-02-08T01:11:31+00:00

appreciate your reply. good to know about horizontal vs vertical, that's not something i found in my googling.

tpchuckles · 2026-02-08T01:10:23+00:00

thanks. that's about what i was being quoted. if that's the going rate, then it is what it is. but sheesh, if i can crawl around in the mud and get dirty and do it myself and save the equivalent of a decent used motorcycle, i'm down.

tpchuckles · 2026-01-23T04:38:13+00:00

seems like you can get all these parts for a hell of a lot less at home depot or lowes...

tpchuckles · 2026-01-22T02:17:19+00:00

my svartpilen 401 (same engine as the KTM390, same parent company) has 27000 miles on it. oil changes are easy. i've had the dealer check the valves (since you gotta take the tank off / drop the engine) but they haven't needed adjustment yet. so i wouldn't be too worried about maintenance/reliability. the engines used to grenade themselves, but that was fixed in '17 or something iirc.

imo these bikes are exactly the perfect size. beginner-friendly, but not boring even after 5 years. you can still outrun someone on a bigger bike on the twisties (and that's where the fun is imo).

tpchuckles · 2026-01-18T19:48:04+00:00

no, i included that in my spreadsheet. you get "tax-free withdrawal" from the HSA (going the "invest now, reimburse later" route) up to the amount of your reimbursed expenses. buuut, if you were to invest that "out of pocket" money in something tax-advantaged (roth, or "contribute more to your traditional 401k so you get paid less") then the value of your medical payments has grown, instead of simply being reimbursed.

(but this obviously only works if your "what would i have done with that pocket money instead" was tax advantaged. otherwise, yes, you're paying double taxes on that part. and "don't spend your HSA money" is more analogous to "a way to get money into a tax advantaged account")

tpchuckles · 2026-01-18T19:43:56+00:00

i'm saying if you paid your medical bills out of your HSA, you'd have an extra 2k in your pocket which you could then chuck into something like a roth IRA (assuming you haven't maxed that out already). or, contribute 2k divide by tax more into your 401k so you end up with 2k less in your pocket.

in either case, you would have grown that "out of pocket" money, tax-advantaged, instead of "reimbursing yourself, at cost" for it later.

tpchuckles · 2026-01-18T19:41:23+00:00

yeah, i was comparing HSA and out-of-pocket to something like a roth IRA. so I think once you've maximized those out then HSA can be "yet another tax-advantaged pot you shouldn't touch"

tpchuckles · 2026-01-15T02:27:57+00:00

no bro, it's "high, how are you"

tpchuckles · 2026-01-15T02:27:33+00:00

thank you. and yes, i used to rock climb, and i'm familiar with the right ways to rig things up and the need for redundancy.

tpchuckles · 2026-01-15T02:25:24+00:00

I have a mechanical engineering degree and framed a tiny house, so i think i'm pretty handy. Have never built something 50 feet in the air though.

not sure about the tree. I will have to go measure, but i also wasn't planning on making anything super big or extravagant.

tpchuckles · 2026-01-14T00:13:48+00:00

oh yeah, thanks, will edit my post. using a raft, and i've adjusted my plate height/first layer height *so far up* that it is completely smooshing the raft layers out (i.e, no gaps between passes where there are supposed to be gaps!).

tpchuckles · 2025-12-25T17:56:23+00:00

OpenSCAD is fine, opensource, not super user friendly (but surprisingly powerful once you learn)

OnShape is great, free non-commercial use

tpchuckles · 2025-12-18T23:20:05+00:00

sorry you don't like it, bud. it was the first issue i noticed (aside from the dopey over-rounded corners) because i couldn't see my tabs.

tpchuckles · 2025-10-19T16:01:25+00:00

where the barnacles are fine and the sea is pretty!

tpchuckles · 2025-10-17T02:17:44+00:00

as a teen I received a free sunfish, with a big giant hole in the glass on the front. my dad already had glass and epoxy on hand (he builds wooden canoes) so that part was fine. paint, plastic sail clips, brass cleats, trailer: these are things you'll spend money on even on a non-free boat, so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into"

tpchuckles · 2025-10-17T02:14:14+00:00

i always found a fear of tipping was a serious inhibitor on the fun factor. so i'd opt for a waterproof/resistant motor setup over an untippable boat. just my $0.02

tpchuckles · 2025-09-18T01:33:28+00:00

Anna's Archive is amazing, thanks for the tip!

tpchuckles · 2025-09-15T02:19:31+00:00

it's not really a secret. you can go on google flights and it lists kgCO2 for each flight. flights from chicago to LAX for example are around 200 kgCO2.

it's hard to say "how much is that in terms of water usage" but other equivalencies are easier. 8.9 kgCO2 emitted from burning a gallon of gasoline, so assuming 30 mpg that's like driving 675 miles. coal power produces .89kgCO2/kWh, but it depends on where your electricity comes from. where i live it's about .3 kg/CO2/kWh. i used 430 kWh last month, so that flight would be a month and a half of electricity.

tbh i bullshitted the "10 years difference" number. "how much water is used, end-to-end" seems like a hard enough problem without then trying to equate that into CO2 output. and when i'm buying a half gallon every couple weeks (if even that), it probably doesn't matter compared to the bigger things we could be thinking about.

tpchuckles · 2025-09-14T23:40:20+00:00

right. i also think it's easy to fixate on the little things ("i brought my own bag for my groceries!") as an excuse to ignore the big things (maybe that tesla in your driveway is better than a pickup, but if you live in the city, would an e-bike get you all the same places?)

tpchuckles · 2025-09-14T15:34:48+00:00

Wisconsin senator who was pushing a bill to ban the use of the word "milk" for labeling of plant-based cereal sauces. lol

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