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They make triangle manhole covers? What the hell
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Haha, I don't think I've ever seen a triangle manholes but valves definitely. Most bikes would be fine but could probably catch a scooter out depending on how you hit it.
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Sep 2, 2022 22:07
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They look like giant guitar picks, crazy
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Sep 3, 2022 01:17
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Toe Rag posted:Haha, I don't think I've ever seen a triangle manholes but valves definitely. Most bikes would be fine but could probably catch a scooter out depending on how you hit it. lol wild. all our water and gas valves are circular here in TN. occasionally square in the older infrastructure
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Sep 3, 2022 01:19
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Toe Rag posted:Haha, I don't think I've ever seen a triangle manholes but valves definitely. Most bikes would be fine but could probably catch a scooter out depending on how you hit it. oh what up we’re neighbors  e: wait nevermind, you just placed yourself in SF area earlier. Leaving because “.” posts are weirder than awkward-posts. um.,SeattleGoons represent? televiper fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Sep 3, 2022 02:52
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Portland here
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Sep 3, 2022 03:04
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I used to live in Seattle and also LA and now SF and I've visited SD and Portland so I have the whole coast covered AMA
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Sep 3, 2022 03:53
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What is your favorite shape of man hole
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Sep 3, 2022 04:03
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Sep 3, 2022 04:11
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As long as it opens easily and there's nothing gross inside, I'm down.
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Sep 3, 2022 04:17
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Toe Rag posted:As long as it opens easily and there's nothing gross inside, I'm down. Not too easily. You don't want some gaping manhole just sitting there wide open in the middle of the road.
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Sep 3, 2022 05:04
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Slavvy posted:What is your favorite shape of man hole New title imo
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Sep 3, 2022 08:01
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Slavvy posted:What is your favorite shape of man hole There's actually an engineering interview question like this that I used to ask: why are manhole covers round? There's two answers to the question that I'm looking for: how someone reacts to something so absurd while wanting to give an answer, and the actual technical reason for it. My rationale is that sometimes you're going to get asked a question in a meeting that you have absolutely no expectation for, so it gauges how well people can think on their feet. But manhole covers are round because there's no way to orient the lid that it can fall through the hole. Also because 'round' is a lot easier to manufacture than anything else.
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Sep 3, 2022 18:56
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Then how come Wendy's burger patties are square?
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Sep 3, 2022 19:31
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Strife posted:There's actually an engineering interview question like this that I used to ask: why are manhole covers round? There's two answers to the question that I'm looking for: how someone reacts to something so absurd while wanting to give an answer, and the actual technical reason for it. My rationale is that sometimes you're going to get asked a question in a meeting that you have absolutely no expectation for, so it gauges how well people can think on their feet. I know a guy named Murphy who will take that engineering assertion and jam a round manhole cover halfway down its shaft just to prove a point.
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Sep 3, 2022 19:37
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Mister Speaker posted:Then how come Wendy's burger patties are square? So you can pack more of them in a box.
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Sep 3, 2022 19:41
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BabelFish posted:So you can pack more of them in a box. Yeah same reason Johnnie Walker bottles are square. But some ad wizard at Wendy's made a campaign about how McDonalds cuts corners because their patties are round. Finger Prince posted:I know a guy named Murphy who will take that engineering assertion and jam a round manhole cover halfway down its shaft just to prove a point. Generally I'm hiring people to fix where Murphy's been.
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Sep 3, 2022 19:42
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Strife posted:But manhole covers are round because there's no way to orient the lid that it can fall through the hole. We need more rouleaux triangle manholes
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Sep 5, 2022 02:47
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a regular triangle cover also isn't going to fit down its own hole though
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Sep 5, 2022 12:35
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As a one time sewage treatment worker I have never seen a triangle or square manhole. Square would be horrible because you could drop it into the shaft
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Sep 5, 2022 15:27
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:As a one time sewage treatment worker I have never seen a triangle or square manhole. Square would be horrible because you could drop it into the shaft So THAT'S the qualification that got you the modding job
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Sep 5, 2022 20:05
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This isn’t a rant so much as a love letter to the dude who let me have a little fun on a beautiful day. Was out for a ride and there’s a nice long on-ramp where you can give it the beans for a bit which I was looking forward to. I was coming up to it and there’s a sweeping right with a yield for traffic turning left into it. As I’m getting there a big ol’ super duty pulling a trailer full of scrap or something is starting to turn left. Pretty sure he read my supremely disappointed body language and saw me shaking my head sadly because he slowed down and stuck his arm out the window and waved me on like a third base coach sending me to home. As a rule I rarely let other cars break the flow/rules of traffic for me because that’s how bad poo poo happens but today it was much appreciated. Semi-related I’m currently on the hunt for a cheap Sportster because while I adore the Monster, I need something to putter around town on because while I knew it was gonna be kinda dumb I’m starting to get tired of being stuck in 2nd gear all day every day around my part of Seattle. Quite A Tool fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Sep 6, 2022 |
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Sep 6, 2022 00:15
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Slavvy posted:So THAT'S the qualification that got you the modding job Naturally, yes
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Sep 6, 2022 00:31
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Quite A Tool posted:This isn’t a rant so much as a love letter to the dude who let me have a little fun on a beautiful day. Basically the opposite of my experience yesterday. Although it is a holiday weekend, it's hot out and I started a little later, so I was hoping I missed most of it. I guess it's 30+ degrees cooler on the coast than inland, so nope. Literally 200ft outside of my garage. I hate Uber drivers, and their COVID absence is sorely missed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8JsC2aSYUA Then about a half dozen people like this who have never driven on a country road before, although this was definitely the worst offender. If I had been in a car I would have been off the road. The following truck probably lives out there and moved over to their side properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYgtqhYTfRg And then this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4cvdgdwTA Yes I know riding on the shoulder is illegal, but I'm not going to sit in a 4 mile long traffic jam in 95 degree ambient air temp when I can safely scoot on by. If there shoulder were narrower, or not there, then so be it, but the only dangerous person is the guy in the car. Also at the very start of my ride my battery went dead and I had to push start it in this heat wave in full leather 
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Sep 6, 2022 02:01
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Quite A Tool posted:This isn’t a rant so much as a love letter to the dude who let me have a little fun on a beautiful day. it's always nice when drivers not only notice you but wave you by. On my favorite mountain road the last outing, getting there later than I like to and catching traffic, I had two vehicles in a row pull over and let me past, I always give them an enthusiastic thumbs up.
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Sep 6, 2022 02:03
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Toe Rag posted:Basically the opposite of my experience yesterday. Although it is a holiday weekend, it's hot out and I started a little later, so I was hoping I missed most of it. I guess it's 30+ degrees cooler on the coast than inland, so nope. See, that last guy was being very courteous by leaving a nice wide space to pass him on the left. I hope you gave him a thank you wave! When filtering in London everyone always splits down the center line, even with the oncoming traffic. The first few times you do it it feels suuuper sketch but after not dying a few times it comes naturally.
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Sep 6, 2022 02:38
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That shoulder is a motorcycle lane, clearly.
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Sep 6, 2022 02:41
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Mister Speaker posted:That shoulder is a motorcycle lane, clearly. If you're on a bicycle nobody gives a gently caress, from their perspective there is zero difference, so I come back to the idea that they feel somehow cheated t you aren't sitting there getting frustrated with them.
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Sep 6, 2022 02:52
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Slavvy posted:I come back to the idea that they feel somehow cheated t you aren't sitting there getting frustrated with them. That's exactly it. The only time someone ever complained to me about lane splitting, I was riding in between the left lane and a street patio, because most of the cars in the left lane were jammed up trying to turn and I wanted to turn right anyway. The way I saw it I was helping traffic move, but this one lady who was waiting to pull right was so mad that I fit and she didn't.
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Sep 6, 2022 03:25
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I remember splitting down the Gardiner in Toronto one time when I could see the evil eye being given to me in the side view mirror of some kind of luxobarge being driven by a crotchety oldish white dude as he slowly inched closer and closer to the line. My dude, you're in the middle lane, a bus could now filter past you on the other side of your car. Thank you though.
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Sep 6, 2022 04:12
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Finger Prince posted:I remember splitting down the Gardiner in Toronto one time when I could see the evil eye being given to me in the side view mirror of some kind of luxobarge being driven by a crotchety oldish white dude as he slowly inched closer and closer to the line. My dude, you're in the middle lane, a bus could now filter past you on the other side of your car. Thank you though. You would think anyone who's been in Toronto long enough would recognize the need to have as little mass as possible up on the Gardiner
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Sep 6, 2022 04:48
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Renaissance Robot posted:a regular triangle cover also isn't going to fit down its own hole though It can, the same way you can lose a square cover down its hole. Consider that for an equilateral triangle with sides 2 units long, its height is 1.73 (or square root of 3). Meaning you can turn it vertical, like the square, and then orient it so the height lines up with the side of the hole. 2 - 1.73 = 0.27 units of clearance = one dropped manhole cover. Of course we're setting aside the effects of cover thickness and support lip depth, because it's trivial to make a manhole "plug" taller than it is wide (and therefore impossible to fit), or to make the lip that supports the cover project so far in that you couldn't fit a toothpick down the hole, let alone the lid.
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Sep 6, 2022 05:34
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Toe Rag posted:And then this guy. People actively do the opposite of this in the UK, it's great.
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Sep 6, 2022 08:10
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In my experience, as the relative wealth and value of vehicle goes up, so does the entitled indignation about being split by a motorcycle, or anyone, really. In contrast, in the "poor" town down the road, people will cheerfully drive their beater in the ditch to let you through. I used to work at a boarding school, and the flashy parents in Lamborghinis and Teslas would fall into the first group, whereas the old money multi-million/billionaires and/or titled gentry driving clapped out 60s land rovers and 80s ford escorts would be in the second.
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Sep 6, 2022 09:17
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Toe Rag posted:And then this guy. AZ passed legal splitting in stopped traffic which goes into effect September ??? (90 days after legislative session ends or something?) and can't wait for all the people blowing their lids when motorcycles start to do it legally. If I die in a road rage incident it will be from getting shot after taking someone's mirror off when they decide they just can't abide those bikes getting around them.
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Sep 6, 2022 16:26
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Shelvocke posted:In my experience, as the relative wealth and value of vehicle goes up, so does the entitled indignation about being split by a motorcycle, or anyone, really. Ehh maybe. Bimmer driver or Fiat driver, everyone will pull over for you in Italy and Spain. Switzerland everyone is too incompetent so I'm just happy if they don't just veer off somewhere. In most of London everyone expects bikes, filtering/splitting is the norm and safe, all good. Then you drive down Whitechapel (not at all a wealthy area) and the normal rules of traffic don't apply and cars can come from any direction whether there's a junction or not. Drive up to Birmingham and there are way fewer bikes, and even though the driving is generally OK it's way more dangerous, people just aren't used to looking out for bikes and filtering past people is an unwelcome surprise.
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Sep 6, 2022 16:47
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Nothing fills me with rage more effectively than people acting like cops on the road about motorcycles. I can’t find a solid date on this for some reason. I saw a bike filtering this weekend though and it reminded me that it’s finally happening. I can’t decide if it’s worth waiting at all or just to do it. A month or two extra isn’t going to make people any more “used to it” than now. Also, utility covers chat:  
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Sep 6, 2022 17:21
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Russian Bear posted:I can’t find a solid date on this for some reason. I saw a bike filtering this weekend though and it reminded me that it’s finally happening. I can’t decide if it’s worth waiting at all or just to do it. A month or two extra isn’t going to make people any more “used to it” than now.
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Sep 6, 2022 18:16
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Nothing fills me with rage more effectively than people acting like cops on the road about motorcycles. I commuted year round on a bike in AZ, that’s a much needed change. It was like 120 in August and I was on the 143/202 interchange just trying to get home during rush hour and it was all sorts of backed up. I was slowly cruising along the shoulder when some shitheel in a brodozer drat near went 90 degrees to traffic to block me. I pulled the same move Toe Rag did and as I was rolling by he was already hopping out and screaming at me. I wish you the best of luck. Quite A Tool fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Sep 6, 2022 |
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"Crabs in a bucket" should really be changed to "pickup truck drivers in traffic."
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