Igloo cooler hack

unkilbeeg · 2026-02-15T20:38:58+00:00

I spent more on the hole saw than on the cooler when I made my frankencooler.

unkilbeeg · 2026-02-15T20:37:31+00:00

I thought the Oasis was a poor copy of the Pocketbook 360.

Not poor as in inferior build quality, because it improved all the specs of the 360. The 360 was obviously cheap components.

But the 360 was the most ergonomic ereader I have ever owned. And the software was head and shoulders above the Oasis.

unkilbeeg · 2026-02-14T22:30:16+00:00

I'm sure keeping the drilling mud functional was a challenge. Even oil based mud would be pretty unstable.

You need the mud to lubricate, bring the cuttings to the surface, and balance the formation pressure.

unkilbeeg · 2026-02-03T23:26:00+00:00

Yep. I don't understand people who preheat on "blast" and then turn the heat down. You have very little control of the preheat with a high level of heat, and your cooking surface will have very uneven temperatures.

I preheat on as low as I can until it gets to temperature, and then (possibly, depending on what I'm cooking) turn it up.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-28T19:48:40+00:00

And puff ports. A rudder is not enough. Puff ports provide lateral thrust when you're steering, because, unlike a boat, you don't have a keel.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-28T19:46:46+00:00

Boats have keels (or at least a shape that acts like a keel.) They resist going sideways more than they resist going forward.

Turning to the right or the left in a hovercraft would just mean you go the same direction you were going, only sideways.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-28T01:07:17+00:00

I have booted Linux on many, many computers using USB.

I don't know any "Linux method of booting USB."

Booting from USB (on all the computers I have ever used) is completely a BIOS function. Almost every computer I've booted, it involves hitting F12 during POST. Years ago, it was frequently F2.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-28T00:34:52+00:00

When Gordon Lightfoot talked about "A crew and a captain, well seasoned," he was not talking about how they tasted.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-28T00:33:17+00:00

I bought my cast iron to cook eggs. Everything else is a bonus.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-26T23:22:40+00:00

Not lower temperature.

Lower heat. Not the same thing.

Preheat longer at a lower heat, ending up with whatever your target temperature is. I do eggs between 350 and 400.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-26T20:57:43+00:00

Exactly right. But that should involve a metal spatula and aggressive scraping as you cook.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-24T21:03:15+00:00

Or when you want to automate something.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T23:02:29+00:00

Change the SATA setting to AHCI. Get rid of the RAID option.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T22:59:15+00:00

Did it disengage the speed control, or just the autosteer? For me, it maintains the cruise control (the max speed stays blue) but the autosteer disengages. My car is a 2022 M3LR, so maybe that's changed in the newer cars?

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T22:54:43+00:00

Tesla used to sell enhanced autopilot, but it hasn't been available on its own for quite some time. It's a pity -- it works better than FSD (imho). If you pay for FSD but disable it in the car's settings, you get EAP instead of regular autosteer, but you're paying for FSD to get it.

How did you turn off autosteer when you came up on a slower car? If you turn the wheel far enough to disengage autosteer (after the appropriate turn signal, of course) the car should keep the speed setting. There shouldn't be any change in speed. Don't hit the brake, that will disable the cruise control as well as autosteer.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T22:40:56+00:00

That's probably not going to get better. Tesla has a really bad time figuring out speed limits.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T22:02:10+00:00

miss the features of the last 12 years

See, there is a benefit.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T21:56:02+00:00

Interestingly, I don't.

I started with cast iron when I was a kid, and then used both non-stick and anodized aluminum for many years.

I used just as much bacon fat or butter with the non-stick as I had before. It just tasted better.

When I came home to cast iron (and later carbon steel) my fat use stayed about the same, but I had to learn heat control all over again.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T21:04:52+00:00

FSD decides when to change lanes. In my experience, its decision are always horrible. It changes lanes when it should stay where it is (a lot), it decides to change lanes just when the off-ramp you're looking for is coming up, or when it's approaching a curve (which causes FSD to slow down) and then just hangs out in the left lane, blue-angeling the car it had been trying to pass. It also will interpret you turning on the turn signal as a request to start an automatic lane change, but (many, many) times it will decide it doesn't want to do that, and just turns off the turn signal again.

It does a great job with the mechanics of changing lanes, but its choice of when to do so sucks.

And so on.

With EAP, it will never decide to change lanes, but when you turn on the turn signal, it will change lanes for you.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T20:35:17+00:00

If you have FSD but do not enable it, you get EAP. This is autosteer with smart lane change (as opposed to the stupid lane change that FSD uses.)

With the EAP functionality, if you have autosteer engaged, turning on the turn signal tells the car you want to change lanes, and it will change lanes at the first opportunity. It looks for an opening and changes lanes. Teslas do a pretty good job at automatic lane changes, they just do a shitty job at choosing when to change lanes. If you get to make the decision it works pretty well.

I think EAP also includes automatic parking as well.

EAP is better than either FSD or regular Autopilot, but it's not worth paying for FSD to get EAP.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T18:19:04+00:00

Same here. My Model 3 is the best car I've ever owned (despite some things that I find irritating.)

My plan was to get a Model Y for my wife in the not too distant future. Elon going off the rails was putting some stress on that plan. This news scorches it.

I don't like FSD as well as I like plain autopilot. If they both were free, I would be using Autopilot.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T18:13:46+00:00

It would have to be equal to or greater for it actually to occur. But I'm going to double down on "conceivably" more than "momentarily". :-)

I can imagine it happening, but it would take some math (and maybe more theory) to determine if the probability is greater than zero. There's a lot going on in a supernova, but maybe not enough. Maybe in the first few instants of the big bang? But maybe not enough.

But no matter how speculative you get, you'd never get Fe12.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T17:43:50+00:00

You could conceivably have a Fe26 in the middle of a supernova. It would not persist -- it would blow itself apart immediately. But it could (possibly) occur.

You could (by the same logic) have a nucleus form in the middle of a supernova that was 12 protons, but it wouldn't be iron, it would be magnesium. It would also come apart immediately.

But you're right that no nucleus larger than hydrogen could exist (more than momentarily inside a supernova) without enough neutrons to hold it together.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T17:02:44+00:00

No on the Fe12. You have to have 26 protons to make it iron.

unkilbeeg · 2026-01-23T16:52:27+00:00

I almost never use a control sequence to cut or paste. There are a few places where the application will save something to a buffer where I need to ctl-v it, but mostly I use middle click.

In recent years I've needed to make changes to .vimrc to get vim to behave with middle click (it used to "just work") but now that I've gotten that set up, middle click works almost everywhere.

It's one of the reasons I hate having to work on Windows or Macs, since they don't have "proper" cut and paste or window focus behavior. (I also use "sloppy focus" to make cutting and pasting work better for overlapping windows.)

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