Recent content by Ash

Your bike is too clean. I keep mine a little bit dirty so that fluid leaks show up better in the dust :p

I fiberglassed up some damage in my track fairings last fall and then put everything away for the winter, intending to finish them when things got warm in the spring. Of course I procrastinated on that, so now I'm rushing to get things ready. Trying my hand at Bondo for the first time:

A story from Jonathan Rea about how to check mystery fluids under your bike:

Most search engines allow you to restrict your search to only show you results that existed prior to 2023, which is one fascinating social response to filter out AI junk articles. Search engines could potentially provide ways to explicitly filter out AI junk, but the cynic in me thinks that they...

Here's an extraordinarily long and detailed dive into what LLMs are doing. The most easily digestible stuff is at the top: What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? So they're effectively like a toddler, stringing together random words based on sounds they have heard other people make...

Maverick Vinales had a spectacular crash due to brake failure a few years ago after the team decided to run something other than the recommended rotors at the Red Bull Ring: Yamaha’s Red Bull Ring braking disaster explained

There's some good reading on live robo-taxis if you search "Waymo" or "Cruise taxi". San Francisco has/had some pilot programs, and apparently Texas cities are prohibited from regulating autonomous vehicles due to a state law. A gaggle of Cruise taxis stop in the middle of the city, blocking...

I saw a social media post of someone who had it happen to them. They said they just stepped on the brake, which automatically cuts the throttle regardless of the throttle pedal position. I think this might be a mandated feature on all passenger vehicles now. My econobox does it, which is kind of...

I meant the guy standing behind his vehicle looking down at his phone in the middle of the 401. :oops:

That is definitely the stupidest thing I've seen so far this week

I snort-laughed at the commentary in Sunday's warmup session. They were talking about the Saturday sprint results: "There were two big losers, you'd have to say, yesterday." <camera pans over> "Here's one of them: Pecco Bagnaia"

You probably didn't miss much from the commentary, except for a dozen or more references to "the horsepower rodeo". The official MotoGP app lets you turn the commentary audio off, so TSN probably just grabbed the wrong stream. It's kind of nice to shut the commentators off when they get too...

Real men just keep an adapter cable and one of these in the trunk:

I trained mine right away to live with a single carry-on bag. Not even a roller bag, because they are heavy even when empty, but a real soft-sided backpack. Everything is so much easier when you aren't lugging around 150lbs of crap that you don't use. She still vastly overpacks her bag, but at...

They have a separate tag for 'surplus' on items, but you can't filter by that tag on the web site. There's a whole surplus category though. There is a different tag for 'discontinued/clearance', and you can filter by that one on the website. There's also a filter for 'Active', whatever that means??