RubberElectrons

RubberElectrons, 4 days ago

I saw the same when I lived in OC. It’s pretty lively up here in Seattle too.

RubberElectrons, 4 days ago

Same, I’ve been team calyx for several years now, the dev rocks and I’m very happy to donate to them for keeping my pixel 3 running.

RubberElectrons, 6 days ago

As a PE, fuck that guy, that’s fucked up.

RubberElectrons, 5 days ago

Private industry now, which has its own problems. I previously worked in water/sewage, so even a recycled design works. The focus was quality for the public, we just had 6 guys doing a 2 man job. I secretly think there are more people than jobs at this point.

Private industry in a different field, it’s all about speed, quality be damned. Luckily I’ve gotten the chance to show quality leads to less time wasted overall.

Still a love of meetings and shit though, private or public. Waste of life time.

RubberElectrons, 5 days ago

Lol I’m a mechanical engineer with a lot of experience in software, so maybe that alters my protective a little.

It’s a beautiful Friday, enjoy.

RubberElectrons, 5 days ago

Nah, what’re you talking about?

Case in point: whose foot?

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago

Do you think we Americans are ok with that? Life in this country is complicated in its own ways.

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago

I appreciate the clarification.

We’ll do the best we can against an extremely well funded and entrenched oligarchy, controlling what we read/see/hear as effectively as possible. Places like Lemmy are sort of a weakness in their systems.

We Americans also have ourselves to look at, as animals it is hard to invite change when our basic needs are mostly met, e.g. our toilets work and we can buy food. We can do better, but it’s a bit like climbing the walls of the maze vs running around within.

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago

Group buy-in is generally a foundational requirement for future changes…

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago

I don’t agree.

Unfortunately, you’re a perfect example of the success of messaging being broadcast directly to deflate the sense of power and ability we all have, in spite of the walls confining us for tropical fruit.

Follow your thoughts to their conclusion, as designed: we’ve broken too much, and they’re too powerful, there’s nothing we can do.

It’s not true.

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago

Pitiful.

RubberElectrons, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Sorry about that. You correctly guessed the right meaning of the word.

Let’s keep moving, we’ll all do better so long as we can ignore the people trying to slow us down. Best of luck to you in your corner of the world.

RubberElectrons, 9 days ago

You sound quite embittered. Try taking a vacation.

RubberElectrons, 11 days ago

Bullshit, these fucks led to hundreds of terrified deaths in pursuit of profit alone.

Accountants, engineers, manages, round em up and make them look through the wallets and personal possessions of the people who perished.

RubberElectrons, 11 days ago

The trick is how many more of us there are. The aristocracy seemed pretty complacent and untouchable, until one day when that changed.

Not saying it’s gotta get to that point, but making people see the direct consequences of their greed would be so good for us all.

RubberElectrons, 11 days ago

No. As an engineer, I can and will vouch for building a larger, stronger chain of regret against greed, lest this type of shit happen again years down the line.

The more people scarred by touching and feeling the results of their own greed and hubris, the longer it’ll be before we see such disregard for human life in an engineering firm.

RubberElectrons, 11 days ago

Mountains are always eroding, you’ll find a road that was clear before might have some gravel/sand show up on it the next morning.

RubberElectrons, 10 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Good comment, though I need to disagree re: quick braking based on physics principles; moto brakes are designed to handle heat load in most common environments, whether from fast hard braking or long moderate applications.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, right? Brakes turn kinetic energy into heat, and that’s a function of clamping force.

You’re applying less clamping to your brakes over a long period, and rejecting that energy as heat. You’re in fact generating very close to the same net heat with a sharp, fast change in velocity, as between the two options what you’re really affecting is your kinetic energy.

The difference between the two options is subtle actually, quick steps allow cooling air to access the center of the brake pad between applications, long stop actions don’t. But pads and fluid are now designed to conduct heat well enough to transfer the heat away faster than it can be generated, even if cooling now only affects 5 sides instead of six. That’s the primary and crucial reason why brake fade is no longer common.

Fast breaking adds potential loss of control into the mix, so it shouldn’t be necessary or recommended.

RubberElectrons, 10 days ago

Thanks for your response, friend. Last point is what I disagree with, for any bike manufactured past the late 70s. I’m clarifying that although sharp braking will lead to a seemingly cooler system, it actually isn’t a constraint because of how effective modern brake design is, and in fact invites danger through loss of control.

To the other points, brakes dissipate KE only, any sane designer will make brakes able to handle the heat load of a 140kg (300lb) rider on a 25% grade in ambient temps of 40c (104f) holding velocity steady at 50kph (30mph), all reasonable assumptions as I wouldn’t really want to ride at the edges of those specific envelopes. We’re not a truck hauling 36000kg (80000lbs), whose driver may accidentally approach the boundaries of their brake system a lot more easily.

Dot3 brake fluid is common, it’s at a 205c (400°f) boiling point and (this is key) we’ve got airflow interacting with the brake assembly over a longer period of time, while accruing less input thermal energy vs the sharp stop per moment of time.

If we sum the energy going in over the entire time vs energy going out (via air flow, fluid flow etc), the boiling point of the dot3 isn’t approached for any moto brake system designed past the late 70s, unless you’re slowly decreasing speed from a very, very high initial velocity, inputting thermal energy faster than the system can discard it.

We again reach the conclusion that within reasonable limits, holding speed steady using brakes alone won’t lead to brake fade on a bike manufactured past the 80s, no matter how long the descent.

RubberElectrons, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Supposedly he was driving his wife to get some urgent care. I dunno what the facts are here, but yeah. Not the best look.

Think I heard about it here: wxyz.com/…/hear-from-the-man-caught-driving-durin…

RubberElectrons, 12 days ago

See edit

RubberElectrons, 12 days ago

Never said that.

RubberElectrons, 13 days ago

I’d like for them to also get a quick, sharp kick to the nads. Just make sure to explain why they’re being punished during or immediately after, otherwise the training isn’t effective.

RubberElectrons, 13 days ago

Looks like a few ways to test for this, how’d you guys find the needle in the haystack? Doctors won’t actually run all the tests for cost reasons…

RubberElectrons, 14 days ago

I appreciate your answer, just pointing out that it’s hard to help others if you yourself are experiencing calamity, even potentially.

You may pass for the time being, but there will be a point where you need to say something or so something to protect one of those friends, and the facade falls.

Am I happy with Biden? Nope. But I’m definitely not voting for the cheatin’ Cheeto, or anyone even tangentially related.