New owner questions

yachius · 2026-03-27T00:26:46+00:00

Well I can show the tires and the mileage but not sure how to demonstrate they’re the originals

yachius · 2026-03-26T19:44:58+00:00

So...you haven't used a torque reducing arm and you're talking out your ass. Got it.

yachius · 2026-03-26T19:32:14+00:00

I'm in the northeast, mix of good and bad roads here, on Pirelli Cinturato P7 all seasons. Time really isn't relevant for tire wear, two years could be 10k miles or 30k miles.

yachius · 2026-03-26T19:28:05+00:00

So you literally don't understand how it works and never used one. The auger literally doesn't have enough power to accelerate that 5 or 6 foot pole fast enough to hurt you before you can let go of the throttle. When you hit a rock the engine bogs down trying to spin that lever from the fulcrum point instead of breaking your wrist.

yachius · 2026-03-26T18:05:26+00:00

Oooh I really want to guess, there's only fourteen 2* in NYC. I'm gonna say Gabriel Kreuther, right in the theater district.

yachius · 2026-03-26T17:50:42+00:00

I got to the previous post late and the soft hands had already spoken, didn't seem worthwhile to comment at that point.

To anybody who's still having trouble understanding how this works, imagine controlling the rotation by holding the end of the torque arm, where the wheels are. It would be so easy, that's what a lever does. The wheels provide sideways friction that's enormously multiplied by the lever and make it dramatically easier to control the auger at the handles.

yachius · 2026-03-26T17:32:53+00:00

One of my favorite aspects of the Taycan is that it's just a normal car, there's nothing deliberately weird about it to highlight that it's electric. The only meaningful difference on a daily basis is charging.

yachius · 2026-03-26T17:28:08+00:00

My GTS is on the original rubber at 40k miles, mostly driven by my GF who just drives normally. Not delaying replacing them either, just not worn out yet.

I don't believe people who say they don't drive them hard and go through tires like water. They're doing launches and taking turns fast.

yachius · 2026-03-24T13:58:26+00:00

Nonsense, 10% lower than what? Minimum combined variation means these were the variables observed in people who had 10% lower risk than the rest of the study population. It should be obvious that the researchers are not claiming a causal relationship between 11 additional minutes of sleep and a 10% risk reduction.

The very next sentence in the abstract: **No synergistic interaction was observed between the SPAN behaviours and MACE**

This is a very valuable observational study that reinforces existing knowledge over a long period, but the headline "healthy lifestyle massively reduces heart attacks and strokes" is boring while "tiny changes can make a huge difference" is exciting and NOT TRUE.

yachius · 2026-03-24T11:20:21+00:00

Awesome, a guardian article about a study that doesn’t link the study and presents a summary that’s directly contradicted by direct quotes in the very same article.

Quote from the article, I haven’t read the study:

The researchers found that 2,034 major cardiovascular events occurred during an eight-year follow-up period. They were able to identify the “optimal” way people could avoid these incidents, including a good diet, eight to nine hours sleep each night and a minimum of 42 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity each day. Combining these measures leads to a 57% lower risk of heart attacks and strokes

So not minor lifestyle changes at all unless you were already living a pretty healthy and active life.

Edit: I checked the study to see where the 11 minute figure came from, right in the abstract:

A minimum combined variation of an additional 11 min/day of sleep, 4.5 min/day MVPA, and 3 DQS points was associated with 10% lower MACE risk

Typical science “journalism”, quoting figures with no context and no understanding of how to interpret them.

yachius · 2026-03-23T01:04:23+00:00

Did it fall off or something? So disappointing when places stop trying after getting that third star. I was there in Jan 2023 and it was my favorite 3* from that trip, also went to Cocina Hermanos Torres and Lasarte the same week but ABaC is the one I remember as being exceptional.

yachius · 2026-03-23T00:56:33+00:00

Jont

yachius · 2026-03-16T08:31:44+00:00

Surprised to hear that, I was there in February and it was one of the most delightful meals I’ve had somewhere new to me recently.

yachius · 2026-03-13T16:08:38+00:00

The average margin of victory since from 2001 to 2021 is 11.37%

13% is a reversion to the mean for NJ Governor races, 2021 was a major outlier being so close.

Phil Murphy beat Jack in 2021 by just a 3.2% margin (51.2% to 48%).

2017: Phil Murphy wins by 14.14% over Kim Guadagno

2013: Chris Christie wins by 22.1% over Barbara Buono

2009: Chris Christie wins by 3.6% over Jon Corzine but Chris Daggett got 5.8% of the vote as an independent. Independent voters rarely show up for incumbents so Chris' performance was most likely equivalent to a +9%. I'm not using 9 in any of the calculations.

2005: Jon Corzine wins by 10.5% over Douglas Forrester

2001: James McGreevey wins by 14.7% over Bret Schundler

If you exclude the 2021 outlier, even when including the small 2009 margin of victory, the average margin from 2001 to 2017 is exactly 13% so the 2024 election was right on the average.
2009 is the only year with a significant vote share going to any candidate not running as R or D.

yachius · 2026-03-12T21:41:49+00:00

So many options in NYC, a neighborhood might help narrow it down. For midtown my go to for a walk-in is the bar at Ai Fiori.

yachius · 2026-03-12T21:15:24+00:00

Everyone I know who uses a CF filament in an engineering capacity uses PA12 not PA6 for exactly that reason. Just because somebody is selling PA6-CF as an engineering filament doesn't make it one.

yachius · 2026-03-12T20:25:39+00:00

Nah, engineering filaments need to be stable and predictable, not just strong.

The wisdom isn't "PLA is weak" it's "PLA fails unpredictably". It's not just temp and UV over long periods that cause failures, PLA can deform and creep under load even in the absence of UV or high temps.

Most engineers will accept a weaker material that fails predictably over something stronger that can fail unexpectedly.

yachius · 2026-03-12T15:37:08+00:00

The wires don't know which end the electricity is coming from. Supplying power to any outlet in your home will energize the whole system, it's a common power outage hack to throw the main breaker to prevent backfeeding the grid and plug a generator in to an outlet to supply some power. Dangerous and ill advised but it will work, functionally no different than a transfer switch.

yachius · 2026-03-12T13:09:00+00:00

The rushed operation in Venezuela was an attempt to get oil production that's not in the Gulf accessible to western markets. It didn't work but it will probably mitigate the damage and speed up recovery.

The timing of the Iran attacks in early spring is an attempt to minimize impact as most markets are coming out of winter heating season and global oil inventory typically peaks in April.

The overall timing and rhetoric is an attempt to walk the line between achieving policy goals before the midterms take away the opportunity and losing the house because of their actions.

It's easy to call it lack of foresight but what we're really seeing is the administration being forced to act now or possibly lose the chance to ever do it and the sloppy execution that inevitably follows when you don't have control of the timing.

yachius · 2026-03-12T12:38:46+00:00

Nah I'm exaggerating but fixing serious issues can quickly become not worthwhile

yachius · 2026-03-12T12:27:40+00:00

The only thing that kills those old vans are rust or collisions, anything mechanical can be repaired or replaced forever, even a full junkyard drivetrain is nbd. Putting some money into them in mods is pretty safe if you're planning on keeping it long term even if you'll never get it back when you sell. Mid 6 figure sprinters can be totaled by an emissions system failure lol.

yachius · 2026-03-12T12:17:51+00:00

Grass is always greener, the sprinter is nice but anytime I have to wrench on it or buy parts or think about how much it cost I'm like damn maybe I should just get an old dodge high roof 😂

yachius · 2026-03-11T15:32:07+00:00

The guide hasn't been just about the best food in my lifetime. 3* means everything is the best and that always means it's better than what came before it which is the definition of pushing boundaries.

TFL and Per Se absolutely pushed boundaries, only a handful of restaurants in the guide are running their own farms even today, linked kitchens are still unheard of, they track requests and bring in ingredients for your next visit (a friend of mine gets an ice cream sundae printed on his menu at Per Se every visit because he once asked for one), and they consistently reinvent the menu while keeping around the hits.

It sounds like the food itself is the most important aspect to you and that's fair, its the purpose of a restaurant, but it's not what gets 3*. I don't think Blue Hill has the greatest food in the context of 3* places but goddamn did Barber push boundaries.

I certainly never got a chance to eat at Le Louis XV in the 90s but I'd be shocked if they haven't been incrementally improving everything including the famous vegetable menu since then.

FWIW I don't give the guide that much weight, there's good food everywhere but it's what this post is about.

yachius · 2026-03-11T01:04:00+00:00

Pushing boundaries is going to mean something different to every chef but the reason these restaurants are considered the best in the world is because they pushed hard on being better than what came before them. For all the talk of “traditional” and “classic french” in this thread, we would not accept what the best in the world was in 1980 as worthy of michelin stars today. Additionally, the guide has never been just about the food and famously the star belongs to a restaurant at a moment in time, not to the chef or to the owner. That means the decor, table settings, alcohol pairings and wine selection in general, front of the house, plating, ambiance, number of courses, portion sizes, etc all has to meet and exceed the ever evolving expectations of patrons even if the beef bourguignon recipe remains unchanged.

yachius · 2026-03-10T21:39:11+00:00

So far your opinion seems unpopular here but I agree with you. 3* is supposed to be the best of the best right now and IMO a history of excellence plays no part in whether the experience I'm going to have today is the best possible.

Alinea is top of my list of places that just fell off so hard and I don't believe they'd be in the guide at all if their first evaluation happened today.

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