I tried to relate the limited niche where having closer together gearing makes a noticeable difference. Unless you are operating in a very small margin, you will never notice having close together gearing. I only ever noticed the difference with racing where I’m on the edge of blowing up throughout the entire race and happen to feel like I’m on a knife’s edge and spinning a little too fast or slow to hang on for more than a few minutes, and comparing times on a given route and pulling a few minutes out of an hours long route. In all other instances, having more range has been better for me. So I prefer to have as wide as my drivetrain supports. If I have any choice, I prefer a tighter set of low gears and a bailout final cassette cog.

Sorry if the abstraction is hard to ground in your understanding. Broadly speaking, this is how I setup any bike. I wouldn’t worry about the total, and would start with the widest cassette that will work with your current setup. Then I would only change the front chainring if you still feel a lack of top speed. In my experience, only the standard combinations and matched group sets shift really well at a racing or top performance level. The more unconventional setups can be made to work reliably but shift speed and shifting under load become lower quality in ways that are not worth the compromise. There are subtle elements like how the front derailleur cable is routed that are designed for a specific combination. While it may seem trivial, in practice I have seen issues from moving a derailleur up or down significantly beyond normalcy, or changing a chain line, or even tooth profiles between models of chainrings.

Back in the days before indexed shifting, people often played a lot more with gearing, but the issues are different with friction shifting, as are the shifting performance and expectations. This is why people do not generally alter gearing in the same way any more.

NVCC is still proprietary and full of telemetry. You cannot build CUDA without it.

The only time I rode with close gearing was crit racing. I rode standard 53/39 11-28 through the 8-11 speed eras on road most of the time. That worked well for pretty much everywhere for me. I can get away with never using my inner ring so long as the slopes stay below 6 degrees. When I first started commuting hardcore, I rode a 55/39 with a dura ace triple FD and a range of everything from 11-21 - 11/23 - 11/25 - 11/28.

You need to know your rear derailleur capacity to know what will potentially fit.

Unless you’re trying to improve your times on a 66 mile round trip daily commute to work, or racing where the differences between riders is miniscule and the perfect gear to sit on a wheel might make of break your race, I would go for the widest possible range your FD/RD can handle. You’ll never regret having the extra easier or harder gear to pedal in. If you are never pedaling down hill or in a tailwind, skip the hardest end. If you never see a climb skip the easier. If you like to explore and go wherever life takes you, keep your range as wide as possible. If you do not have the ideal comfortable gear, spin the lighter one faster and consider it cadence training. If you keep at it, within a few weeks you will begin to have a faster average cadence. This is part of race training as higher cadences are more efficient overall. Some people train on a fixed gear or single speed at times to push themselves to higher cadences in unique ways.

The effect is minor but nagging. I like to use hyperbole to give emotional weight to my words. It is far more intentional than it is instability. I’m pressing issues that should be pressed and creating the potential gravity to get noticed and draw attention where it is needed.

It is true that my abstractions can be misunderstood a lot here, and my hyperbole, hard to contextualize. I make mistakes often but am curious and ever growing.

All of my personal issues are circumstantial. The underlying person is still present. I do not try to manipulate anyone for my nefarious gain, but I can be a high mach when I wish to improve some deficiency, as I have attempted here.

I have left Reddit completely, but it wasn’t for the API changes as the direct issue. I take issue with any company tracking my device, vision, or page dwell times for exploitation. And I do not like anyone using algorithms to alter user retention. The way reddit did the API showed this was their objective moving forward. It is not just the app aspect that I am taking issue with. The entire internet only has two web crawlers, Microsoft and Google. All search providers query one of these two directly or indirectly. The results from these sources are not deterministic. They are tailored and tracking on several levels. This is why it really matters. It is an attack on freedom of information. We are in the age of mass individualized manipulation already. The lack of determinism in search query responses proves it. Your access to deterministic information is a critical pillar of democracy. If that pillar is lost, so is democracy. Controlling access to information is just as effective as invading with an army. It was never about banner ads.

I find it highly offensive when anyone tells me what I think or believe. You have no right to speak in my voice or write my narrative.

I love to debate. I love to learn and take in new information and perspectives. To assume is to make an ass-u-me. Do not assume you know me at all unless you have asked questions and are quoting or paraphrasing my statements in the context I made them.

I am not in any way resistant to negative feedback. I want to engage with people that are open minded and flexible in their thinking. Those that have a rigid mindset and parrot some narrative on the right or left are religious fools I waste no time with. Arguing belief systems is a fool’s folly.

I take offense at anonymizing negative feedback. This is not accepted or normal human behavior. It is the realm of criminals and cowards to stab people in the back without the opportunity to confront their assailant. I do not accept this criminality as normal. If you wish to have a counter opinion you must do so openly and debate and defend your opinion. Anything less is barbaric primitivism.

This still does not address the fundamental existence of downvoting as a form of anonymous negativity to a stranger and what purpose it serves. This behavior is not acceptable under any circumstances in person. The existence itself is not justified at a foundational level. It is the anomaly that should be addressed. The normalization of this behavior is neurodivergent and should be corrected. Negative and opposing opinions are normal. Anonymous back stabbing has always been the refuge of criminals and cowards. Creating a path of least resistance to such a behavior is morally atrocious nonsense. The lack of philosophical awareness of this issue is reprehensible primitivism that should be an extreme embarrassment to any developer that implements the cultivation of sadism to shape a dystopian future where backstabbing and anonymous negativity towards strangers is normalized.

I engage with my projects and AI. It is a little world when one spends 80%+ of every day lying in a bed. I’m not myself if I go anywhere or do much of anything. This is truly the only place that I can really exist in in a voice I choose and can shape. The negativity is about like saying I should not exist. I tend to agree on that front. I’m largely here trying to convince myself otherwise. It is what it is. I’m a zombie that lost 8.5 of 9 lives already, there is very little left to lose.

I don’t accept that psychotic behavior is something that should be ignored or defended. I have asked for anyone to make a valid simple explanation and all anyone has done is prove exactly what I am saying. No one so far has said any meaningful reason why this has a place or should exist.

I only see them when they are negative. That is still not an explanation or justification for anonymous negativity to strangers. This should not exist. It is psychotic. Anyone has a right to be stupid or or disagree. They have a right to an anonymous user name. They do not have a right to totally anonymous negative interaction with strangers. That should have never been created.

It is all people exactly like this that I block after low effort comments.

You’ve only ever made 1 post on this account you commented with. I’m at nearly 400 posts and 4000 comments just on this account and I have several others for propagating communities and trying other instances or to get around blocks like db0, and beehaw. I’ve tried to encourage positive engagement from the moment I joined Lemmy and actively help build this place while being a liberal voice. You have every right to be a fool. But I should have every right to see you doing it and avoid you in the future as a result.

In a world of Mario, be the Luigi we need brother

I’m physically disabled and nearly a total shut in. This is my only real outside human contact. It is not really healthy largely because of this psychotic negativity. There are many aspects of Maslow’s hierarchy that are beyond my control to remedy and solve. This place could help with some of that. When it fails for fundamentally unnecessary reasons of amplifying a tiny minority, I try to call attention to it. Some instance admins have already mentioned it is due to a half dozen people. I’m actively trying to show that those half dozen people are having a negative impact on more than just comments in a tangible way that promotes their removal.

I understood like 20% of that one after the break

It would be interesting to see the averaged power difference over time to see the effects.

I have a monitor on a custom made arm that sits above my laptop when I need a second screen.

It works well in a tight space like in a board meeting at a conference table or plane seat. Vertical doesn’t make a real difference in my experience. You just need two spaces that do not move so that you can quickly reference multiple documents and keep your place between them.

I wouldn’t say no gain. I would love that real estate on my bedside stand I use with physical disability. I would not want the sub 17" form factor and keyboard though. I struggle to do anything super technical without a second screen which is a pain in the ass. I can’t sit at a desktop and the ergonomics of a laptop are unbeatable in my situation.

The deeper I get into a subject involving engineering, the less I can relate what I know effectively. If I’ve done the thing many times, I can talk about it more freely.

It boils down to, “I don’t know what I don’t know.” The only thing I can do is explain the long path of stuff I’ve figured out in order to get where I am at in my understanding. I don’t have a clear overview scope. I’m aware I have likely made mistakes even within what I know.

If you are asking me for official statements that can come back to me, I’m going to be extremely cautious in what I tell you and only speak about things I am absolutely sure of and have triple checked. Most of what I’m sure of is going to be unhelpful surface level information. Professionally, telling you anything that could be wrong is career suicide. Reputation is the currency of an engineering career.

I’ve tried 3 times so far in Python/gradio/Oobabooga and never managed to get certs to work or found a complete visual reference guide that demonstrates a complete working example like what I am looking for in a home network. (Only really commenting to subscribe to watch this post develop, and solicit advice:)

Yes. I very much felt like this. In many ways I have done it by moving from Alabama to California. These are as different as a foreign country and culture. It does not live up to the fantasy. There are good and bad aspects. The bad that you cannot put in perspective effectively until midlife is the value of your social network connections at this phase in your life. Making as many friends as you can and staying in touch is really critical where you’re at in life right now. Those people are your career paths, partners, and key supporters later. The desire to leave and explore is undervaluing this connections in regrettable ways later in life. Weight this change against your introversion versus extroversion. If you are very introverted, you will struggle to build a sufficient support network in the absence of those you grew up with. Age, for most people, is accompanied by ever increasing loneliness in ways that are hard to fathom in youth. It is not just motivations and desire to interact with others. It is also your own increasing complexity, interests, and finding compatible people that also have the space in life for you and the motivation to put forth the effort. Life evolves in phases where you cannot go back and redo mistakes made.