𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I have my commercial driver’s license. Driving an 18 wheeler is an order of magnitude harder, but even that is not too hard once you know the constraining rules. I think it is harder to stay in a minimum width lane than it is to shift an 8 speed with 3 splitters and no synchromesh. The rev band is only around 2k RPM, and you only have around a 200 RPM window, with a 50 RPM sweet spot, where the gears will engage without grinding or shutting out the gate entirely. Cars are quite easy by comparison. Driving a tractor trailer, then getting into a regular manual car makes the car seem laughable. It really isn’t hard at all.



  • My first phone was one of the Nokia bricks around the time of the 3310. When I was in middle school my old man carried a pager. He eventually had a phone around #5. My first was somewhere between 7-10.

    With my first body shop, I ordered a used Sony Ericsson T800 from eBay that came from Europe. It was one of the first smartphones, pre android and with a resistive touch screen. I knew the utility was far more valuable. A bunch of family and friends swore up and down about their dumb flip phones and razors, and how I was crazy.







  • I bet everyone here has a ton of these. I have a large abandoned footprint in several spaces, especially when engaged in projects. Like on YT, search is garbage, but I posted the only reference available for several tasks and projects.

    Heck, I have never been able to find it again, but back in the first year of YouTube I posted a few times about clay prototyping and fiberglass composites for custom auto body parts. That was long long before people were doing tutorial like content. It took forever to upload that potato quality junk too.