I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm

If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.

Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.

What the fuck did I just read?

Am I having a stroke?

“MORE!”
believe it or not also Kylo Ren

We’ll just do what trains do.

Replace the battery with a massive diesel generator. Run that to get power to the electric motors.

Best of both worlds!

This was a different person. They’d taken a username of someone popular in a number of communities on Reddit and were purporting to be that person.

There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.

Bullshit

The ad read is never that short

Except it’s a Tesla.

I have something similar for my Subaru but it’s only 4 dollars a month.

It’s a fee I gladly pay to be able to start my car and set the interior climate from my phone. I imagine there’s some cost the access a network to have that functionality and I don’t see a problem paying for it.

The old style that started from a key fob required you to be a lot closer to the vehicle to start it. Right now I start it a few minutes before I leave my building a quarter of a mile away. I could start it from a different country if I wanted to. Needing to be within a few hundred feet would be pretty useless to me.

I’ve never read so many words I know and been so confused by how they were used before in my life

Edit: oh this is a Linux gaming thing, didn’t see where I was. I thought I had all the Linux communities filtered. Oh well ignore this

I read this in Majel Barret’s voice and you can’t take that away from me

Computer, can you expand on the last point please

ITT: people who have no idea what communism is

Apparently it’s actually a thing. God knows how but they do exist

An electric Jeep

I’m a keto vegan CrossFit guy who uses arch. You wouldn’t get it