CandleTiger

@CandleTiger@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning to drive a stick is really easy if you have somebody to teach you well, but waaay too many people are like, “here, keep fucking up until the car doesn’t go anymore or you figure it out, whichever comes first”.

  Hardest part is getting the car to start moving from stopped. Changing gears once moving, you can fuck it up a bunch and nothing much happens except funny engine noises and the owner starts making constipated-looking facial expressions. But if you fuck up starting from stopped, then you lurch around a bunch, stall the engine, and don’t go anywhere.

  To get started from stopped, without horrible lurches or stalls, do like this FROM A FLAT PLACE – don’t try anything with hills until you can make the car go on the flat first:

  0. IMPORTANT: adjust your seat so you can easily push the clutch (left pedal) in – all the way to the floor – without uncomfortable stretching

  1. In your driveway when there’s nobody going to honk at you, start the car, put it in neutral, and practice pushing the gas pedal just enough to hold the engine at 3000 RPM or so. Not making crazy racing noises, just a nice steady “the engine is running normal-fast-ish” and hold it that way. Practice a couple times until your foot and your ear know what it feels like

  2. Put it in gear without moving – gas off, clutch in and put the car in first gear.

  3. Gas on, steady at 3000 RPM, slooooooowly let the clutch out until you can just barely feel the clutch is engaged. Engine revs down a little bit, car starts crawling forward. Practice that a couple times, just let the clutch out until it barely starts doing anything, then put it back in, until your foot knows what it feels like.

  4. Now do it again, engine held at steady revs, clutch out until just barely engaged, then let the clutch out just a little bit more, so the car wants to crawl, and hold the clutch there. Car starts crawling. Keep the engine steady like you’ve been, let the car start crawling, don’t even change anything, just let the car crawl. It will slowly accelerate until you’re moving at some steady 1st-gear speed. Once it’s come up to (slow) speed you can let the clutch out the rest of the way.

  5. Congratulations you moved a car

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not difficult to understand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  <chef’s kiss>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not difficult to understand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REVENGE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people with $20K lenses excited about kildeer?

  I spent a couple weeks at a Southwest Pennsylvania RV park that had kildeer running around all through the greensward in the middle of it. Was I seeing something more remarkable than the usual run of things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  only going after overt political dissidents and brown immigrants

  They seem to have detained some white tourists lately as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I Was So Surprised and Shocked": Shohreh Aghdashloo on How Devoted 'Expanse' Fans Manifested Her Casting in 'The Wheel of Time' Season 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked season 1 a lot as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hey hey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First I was afraid, I was petrified I didn’t know if I could live with silica inside But then I spent so many years buried under all those layers I grew strong I learned how to be a stone

  And now I’m back From underground I don’t erode so fast as all this crumbly sandstone all around I’ve been transformed by all this waiting into something that could last You just hang a sign around me and you send those tourists past

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other guy was more affirming but I’m gonna say yes you’re crazy. Anybody who likes what I hate so much has to be crazy, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Refrigerated fresh vegetables are much better than canned. Somewhere in between the '50s and today refrigerated got common and cheap and there was no excuse anymore for buying that soggy canned shit. I would’ve said the '90s were well after that point though. Anybody using canned green beans as a side in the '90s was just coasting on momentum and bad choices I think.

  (There’s reasons to use canned – they make a good soup ingredient if you’re going to boil it to death anyhow, and they store better in your disaster prep bunker. But as a simple side for dinner, not a good choice.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so easy to Ignore what you know.

  Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss.

  I follow the news until I can’t take it any more, and take a break until I can again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new language is easy!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  American here who studied German for eight years, graduated with a minor in German, and lived there for one year:

  I’m not sure how to properly translate this children’s book.

  The long word breaks into easily-understood pieces:

  “help-ability-extinguish-group-travel-thing”

  But in order to get a proper concept back out of it you need to know what order the pieces go together in and I don’t know that.

  travel-thing is a vehicle.

  help-ability is emergency services

  Beyond that I have to guess — Is group-travel-thing a crew vehicle, making this a crew vehicle for extinguishing?

  Or maybe extinguish-group is a fire crew and this is a vehicle for fire crews?

  Either way I feel like the author is using a lot more word-parts than they should have to for what is (clearly in the picture) better described as a pump truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Say it out loud.

  I am almost 50 years old and understood for the first time this month that the reason my wife doesn’t like going out alone to explore new places is fear of men and not fear of getting lost etc.

  For mumble-mumble years it has never occurred to me to wonder about this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Worth It...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This image appears to have been color-enhanced, in case anybody is concerned with reality. A brief image search (which will no doubt do wonders for my reputation with the CIA) shows cheetah testicles range from tan to slightly-orangish-tan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do deaf people play media with sound on?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is that the people writing the captions don’t understand and can’t write it down.

  Obviously the producers could fix that but it would be a process change, which would take some attention from a powerful person who cares about the issue. As you imply, that seems to be in short supply.