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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • On a race car, some (not an absurd amount) of negative camber is needed because as the car leans into a corner, the outside tire gains camber. The car will have its best cornering performance when the outside tire is perfectly perpendicular to the road during a hard corner, because then the entire tire, not just the inside or outside edge, is gripping the road.

    Here’s a good example of what this looks like in practice: this car has about 4° of negative camber on the front wheels in order to achieve 0° in a hard corner.


  • Hook my beloved. I understand objectively why it is not a good movie, but having watched it 852 times throughout my childhood, I could not find fault with it on a recent rewatch.

    edit: I watched that movie so early and so often, that I can recite whole scenes not by word, but by phonemes and cadence, because my language skills weren’t fully developed at the time.


  • If you follow avherald.com for any length of time, you’ll learn that 1) the vast majority of aviation incidents are completely benign, and 2) the vast majority of injuries aboard airliners are caused by passengers not wearing their seatbelts. The seatbelts aren’t there for the once-a-decade crash; they’re there for the once-a-month strong turbulence event, which the airplane itself will barely even notice.