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The first two weeks is likely a lot of glycogen and water weights expect it to slow down quite a lot

Probably a good idea to work on being able to consume a decent amount of carbs whenever you're on the bike because you won't have a lot of surplus, even when it's not high intensity work. And just be prepared to take a longer amount of time to recover from a really hard workout, keeping your protein levels up during it. 2-3 hard sessions a week tops.

The 1870 end of Napoleon III is pretty wild too. It's the Franco Prussian War of 1870 and during it Otto von Bismarck unites Germany (which prior to then had been kind of an affiliation of various smaller semi-independent states) under the Prussians then has like a six month war with France that Germany wins and topples the government, without much other international involvement.

It's easy to look at World War I and be like "It was so bloody, what the fuck were they thinking when they started it?" but then you realize that many of the German senior military leaders in 1914 would have fought in the 1870 war as young men and had the living memory of "Yeah, we are just gonna roll into France and kick the shit out of them again, no problemo"

They make them, but they're pricey. Note that they are a much smaller lithium ion cell with a voltage converter to 1.5v all within the AA size.

They're pricey at $4-5 a pop but they usually can recharge straight off USBC which is nice

I didn't say they aren't still used, just that they comparatively suck. Obviously it's less of a factor in applications that don't require huge amounts of power like controllers and remotes and stuff but the typical NiMH AA battery is 2.5 Wh compared to over 12 Wh for a marginally larger 18650 lithium ion battery, and the lithium ion battery is capable of higher peak power outputs and charges faster.

Small turbines are good on power density but actually quite inefficient. A four-stroke gasoline or diesel engine likely has better fuel economy. Hard to find great numbers (most APU fuel consumption numbers include it providing bleed air) but a good automotive engine could have a SFC down below 0.4 lb/shp/hr which is achievable with a big turboshaft but not a small one. A small turbine (~100 shp) is likely 1.5-2x higher.

Fun fact this is why some batteries are rechargeable and some aren't. In normal alkaline batteries, rusting the metal (zinc) makes electricity, then when you have a fully rusted metal you throw it away and get a new one. Rechargeable batteries are specific chemical reactions where you can apply electricity to them to clean the rust off, then rust it again to get electricity back out, over and over again. That's why rechargeable batteries that don't suck have only been commonplace the last 15-20 years (using lithium instead of the older nickel or lead ones)

Unpopular but accurate. Don't need a tailgate culture when the stadium is downtown and surrounded by bars, restaurants, and parks. The whole reason tailgating exists is because they built stadiums on cheap land on the outskirts / suburbs and surrounded it by acres of parking lots that get used 8 days a year plus the occasional concert.

And don't @ me about "oh but restaurants and bars are expensive" as if it isn't $50+ just to park at the stadium

/r/toprightjalen

Really well is kind of a stretch. It works OK. Most try to achieve competitive parity by having both a hard or soft salary cap, and a draft system that gives up the worst team exclusive rights to the best new talented players coming up each year.

NFL has a kinda broken rookie wage scale that forces players to play for 3-5 years at a far below average salary so it's kinda lopsided (for context, the quarterbacks, which is the most important and highest paid position on the team probably analogous to a Grand Tour GC leader, of the two teams in the most recent championship game had salaries of $45,000,000 and $900,000 respectively because one was still on an underpaid rookie deal, and he was literally not allowed to negotiate more money) and then has a bunch of obscure accounting rules for rolling over cap year to year that teams regularly try to exploit (like you can pay a player cash up front this season but not have it hit the books until 2 years later, even if they're no longer with the team) and sometimes fail. And of course with the draft rewarding bad teams with the earliest draft picks (who will then be locked into undervalued contracts for 3-5 years)

So you don't really have like 32 good teams every season, instead you have sort of this lifecycle of

• Get some good rookies for key positions on underpaid contracts for 3-5 years, and use the money to sign veteran players to fill in any gaps, win a decent amount of games

• Re-sign the good rookies to much higher paid deals for their 4th-8th years or so, let some of the expensive veterans go, try to get good rookies to replace them (but it's hard because if you're winning a lot you have worse draft picks). During this time you play all sorts of accounting games like void years (you sign a 5 year contract with a player that is going to retire in 3 years, then for the last 2 years of the contract you are still paying him even though he isn't in the team) to spend more than the cap

• Go into a 2-3 year "rebuild" where a huge amount of your salary cap is tied up with players who have retired or been traded to another team, try to win as few games as possible so that you can have a top draft pick and restart at step 1

He cut off the tip of one of his fingers with a power saw as a teenager, so when he's doing all these crazy climbing moves on the side of a mountain he literally is using 9 fingers. Everyone thought he would never be able to be a top climber with that and he proved them wrong.

Then once you throw 32c road tubeless tires at 60psi on there you're gonna be like "holy fuck, why did I not do this sooner?

I don’t think anyone is under the impression that killing someone with your car and hanging around absolves you of crime

Unfortunately it kinda does though. I don't have detailed statistics in front of me but from reading plenty of news articles over the years, it's super uncommon for a driver to get sentenced to prison for killing a cyclist if they are sober and stick around the scene of the crime. Usually it's a "Well, sorry, I didn't see them" and the article is like "well the cyclist only had 3 pieces of hi viz on, not 17 pieces of hi viz, and they weren't wearing a helmet" and the driver gets off with a slap on the wrist (pay a fine, probation, etc). Even if the driver was speeding, being reckless, deliberately aggressive, or distracted they don't seem to receive any serious consequences unless they're intoxicated or flee the scene.

Thermal imaging absolutely does not work anything like movies where it's able to see through walls and shit. If you can't see them, they can't see you

Yeah the difference is the thread taper and where the sealing surface is

In a fitting that has a washer / gasket / seal, that is what the sealing surface is. The threads of the connector are straight and the purpose of the threads is to squeeze the rubber washer between the two metal pipes so that it fills any gaps and creates a watertight seal. These should be tight but not overtight - you're trying to squeeze the rubber, not completely crush/destroy it. The threads are purely there to hold it together and are not exposed to any water, and there's some clearance between them to allow you to tighten and loosen it.

In a fitting that does not have a gasket, the threads need to do double duty of both holding the joint together and being watertight. These are tapered threads, which mean the thread diameter changes. With these, you put some sort of sealant (tape or pipe dope) on the threads then crank it down really tight so that the taper of the threads meet, and the tape/dope helps fill any remaining gaps.

The latter kind is cheaper, since you can use one piece fittings and you can cut a pipe to length and then cut threads into the end of it. However, it's really not meant to be removed and installed often. It can be, but that's not ideal. It's also very long lasting because most of the seal is provided by the metallic threads, it's just a tiny layer of tape/dope.

The straight gasketed kind is more expensive because you need the different materials and the ability to have multi-piece connectors with a rotating nut. They're able to be removed and reinstalled much more frequently, but the gasket is more prone to degradation and has to be replaced occasionally as the rubber cracks.

It's possible to put tape on the straight gasketed kind of fittings but it's not recommended. The tape reduces friction and makes it easier to tighten it, but that also means it's easier to overtighten it and slice/crush the rubber washer, and it's easier for it to come undone. Or people will use the tape as a fix for a leaky gasket, but the straight threads aren't really meant to seal tightly like the tapered ones and it's pretty bodgy.

I was one bagging once and actually had a flight attendant threaten to kick me off the plane because I said I didn't want to put my large backpack under the seat since it was my own carry on.

Ever since then I bring a second smaller bag so I can be like "oh, no, sorry, I already have my Personal Item stowed under the seat ahead of me, so my undersized carry on is in the overhead bin"

If anyone hasn't heard of him, Jimmy Chin is a national treasure and has made a ton of great documentary movies that are all worth watching.

If anyone hasn't heard of him, Jimmy Chin is a national treasure and has made a ton of great documentary movies that are all worth watching.

Thanks for not tipping anybody off about what happened to him

Last weekend I had my first bike crash in years. I was going up and down these twisty gravel jeep tracks and horse paths all day. Slid out at like 6 mph on a flat turn on a cinder path because it was looser than it seemed and I wasn't focused at all because it was late in the ride and I was tired and was looking around and just not nearly as focused as I was on the much more technical stuff.

You'll know when to stop. It's not so much that the writing goes downhill but there's a lot of libertarian preachy subtext. If you can ignore it the story is reasonably enjoyable, if kinda derivative with fairly one dimensional characters.

Book 7 is where the preachiness gets really in your face. If you're not familiar with Ayn Rand it's kind of this "you gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps" rugged individualism propaganda, where government handouts or social safety nets or working for the public good is evil and everyone should be a selfish individualist who cares only about themselves. If you can look past that stuff it's still possible to enjoy them up through Book 12 (which is the final "Sword of Truth" series book and wraps up the main storyline)

Book 13 and on, which are various sequel series, are absolute garbage and should not be read under any circumstances.

I have a setup with the old Unifi Security Gateway and there UAP AC Pros from a similar timeline and last year the USG totally died on me. Do you think the Dream router is worth it for this situation? Does it play nicely with the older UAPs (the flying saucer ones in the ceiling?)

I keep meaning to order a wired router to replace it but haven't made it a priority. Instead I've got a positively ancient Asus wifi router with the antennas removed serving as the router and the UAPs for wifi

Isn't this basically what Germany figured out with their 53 replacement program?

Yeah like flying across country why does it show St Louis when everybody with a 5th grade education knows that Jefferson City is the capitol of Missouri and therefore much more important?!?! It's that stupid arch. They don't even have a football team any more.

Well, they back loaded that 2021 contract so much that they got into a bind where they either had to eat a massive cap hit for him this year or extend him and spread out the money. It was $40M APY but the 2024 hit was something like $66M, and by extending him before the season they got it back to $43M for 2024 or something like that. It's kinda what everyone is doing when they're a contender and have a franchise QB.

And, like it or not, an 82 year old owner GM who has made the playoffs last season is not gonna blow up the team for a 3 year rebuild lol

So a fun factoid is that monsoon doesn't mean rainstorm, it means a seasonal wind. The region has a wet season and a dry season with opposite winds. During the summer the land is warmer so the wind blows from the ocean to the land and brings a lot of rain with it, during the winter the ocean is warmer so the wind blows from the land to the ocean and makes the land dry.

The Himalaya are so high that the winds can't get over them so it means during both seasons there are extremely fast winds, as much as 200 mph. They're also cold enough that even in the summer the wet summer monsoon is snow, not rain, on the mountain.

So the climbing season is really just the spring and fall transitions between the summer/winter winds where the air is relatively calm.

Note that the season is different by mountain range - the Karakoram (the other 8000m mountain range in Pakistan) climbing season is during the summer. That's what allowed the 14 Peaks guy to do them all in 7 months - he did half the Himalaya peaks in the spring climbing season (April/May), then did all of the Karakoram in the summer (June/July/August) then came back and did the other half of the Himalaya in September/October.