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So I started a new commute and I won't be able to store the bike indoors for the 8 hours of my workday. On my HSD, I'm left about 3-4 miles in warm weather at the end oof the day. Now, that the colder weather is setting in (today is the first colder day), I'll see how it will change the range. I'm wondering if I bring up the battery to the (warm) office, will it have a meaningful effect on the range or using it in the cold is the biggest factor? I'm asking as I'm hoping to avoid bringing the charger to work/buying a new charger.

For the next 10 months, I'll be commuting to work and as far as I know, the bike will have to stay outside. While it has a belt drive, I still don't necessarily want to leave it out in the rain on hours end. I used to have a rain cover for my road bike but I can't find it. Does anybody has any experience with a good rain cover that works with a HSD?

I'm new here, so I hope it wasn't covered before. We've had some water outage in the area earlier this year, so I stocked up on water and it came really handy when we experienced the same for 72 hours a few weeks ago. The only problem is that big cans of water are quite an ungainly sight in the house and I would be keen on storing them outside, in the garden. Would it be the worst idea if I dug a hole in the ground and keep things there (bottled water, canned food)? I guess I would need to somehow make sure it stays dry/covered - or is it a really bad idea?

A bit of a background first: used to do sports photography, mostly cycling for well over a decade, walked away from it due to family reasons and haven't really done shoots in a high pressure environment for 5-6 years now. Last year, an old acquaintance reached out, he started to work a big agency and hired me for a job, then twice more this year, all paid really well and all very low-key stuff. So far so good. It looked like I was on their good books, though work was sporadic because they do mostly video stuff.

Here is the TIFU part. They hired me for this event of one of their clients which was higher profile than anything I've ever done. The day was divided into four parts and the first one was a few people arriving at a location. We were told about 5 minutes before people arrived that 'oh, by the way, a Netflix crew will be following them around as well, so be mindful of that', which wasn't great because we didn't have any rules or guidelines agreed where I could or couldn't shoot. This all got me a bit flustered. It also didn't help that outside, where the arrivals started was super sunny, then we went into a dimly lit corridor.

Long story short, I kinda flunked this first part of the day, the client gave instant feedback, they didn't like some of my framing and some images weren't sharp enough/there was motion blur. The first part I didn't agree with it and that could be up for interpretation, however, the latter part was true indeed and that was my f**k up. The rest of the day went well, but I feel like I've blew the goodwill towards me at the agency, because the reason you hire a pro is that there are no surprises.

Anyway, I would be keen on hearing some stories how other people moved on from something like this, were client relationships hurt or restored, etc.

EDITED: I meant to say why can't I just PAY with card?

Let me preface this that we rarely do long trips with our EV, so we very rarely use public charging points and I don't have any charging apps on my phone. We did go to Devon this, however, and what I can't quite understand is why are there SO MANY public chargers that request an app to use them? At one point, we were out of juice, so we tried to find a charger.

The first lot was just built and was still inoperative (even though the internet claimed they were working). Second lot was fine but it required to use an app. Except there was no internet at the charging station, so I had to wander around to find a spot where there was enough 4G to download the app, register and then finally start charging. It's almost beside the point that the app wasn't working, so while it claimed to show me how the charging was going, we were still on 0% after an hour.

Next day, we found a charger in a Tesco car park, similar story, this time the app didn't 'see' the charging session, so it wasn't obvious how to end it.

Finally, we found a Lidl charger that was fast AND all I needed to do is to swipe my card.

Is there any legit reasons for making us jumping through these hoops?

On my road bike, I have SRAM hydraulic discs, so I have those bled every 6-8 months, because they use DOT fluid. However, the Maguras use mineral oils, so they don't need that kind of intense bleeding. That being said, how often are you supposed to bleed the Maguras?

I gave blood the other day and that got me thinking. They get 5-600 ml blood out of you, you're a bit tired for a couple of weeks until your body replenishes the blood and that's that. The cardiovascular system can work with around 10% bloodloss and I can totally see the evolutional use case for this: you have an injury, you lose a lot of blood but you need to stay alive somehow.

Enter blood doping, you go up to high altitude, acclimate and draw the blood and put it in a bag and then in a freezer. So far so good.

But what happens when you put it back in your body a few days before the big race? Why and how does your body tolerate the excess blood, how come it doesn't cause some kind of a collapse, given that getting extra blood in your system is not something that can occur naturally and therefore why doesn't that cause extra problems? Or do they draw some blood before they pump in the stored blood?

Obviously, I'm not after some illicit way to boost my paltry cycling performance, I'm just interested in the mechanics of it.

Last night, I played Sky Team for the first time. It was good fun, enjoyed it as an aviation enthusiast, it got the 'we need to decrease speed to be able to land gradually' thing is quite nicely integrated into the game. However, if you ever watch a video about aviation safety, crew resource management comes up all the time and how it's incredibly vital that the captain and the first officer have great communication.

It makes me think the whole 'landing a plane' theme was tacked onto a great mechanism. I do appreciate that gameplay doesn't necessarily have to follow very closely the theme (eg Ticket to Ride has nothing to do with trains and it's still a great game), but it feels like this one thing invalidates the theme's relevance.

We've all seen the sad images of a crashed planes bits laid out in a huge hangar or warehouse. But what happens once all the inspections and investigations have ended? All this occurred to me as the AF447 case seemed to have concluded. Do they keep storing the pieces for a set amount of time or are they simply disposed of?

After yet another super close call today, I decided to bite the bullet and buy a camera. Cycliq was the first thing that came to my mind but the reddit sub is full of complaints. Is that just survivorship bias (lots of happy owners don't even know problems exist) or is it indeed not a great option? If so, any input on the Garmin Varia Vue (of which I've also read not great things)? I have a gopro, but the battery is not great and it's not really designed for this.

I recently discovered Super Productivity and I think it has everything I need but one thing that is driving me mad is that in schedule view, you can't easily mark tasks as done, only if I right-click. It's a small thing but it's driving me mad. Is this correct or am I doing something incorrectly?