Recent content by Kobayashi

I think those whole home arresters are a good additional step for most houses. That's probably as far as I'd reasonably go (whole home at service entrance, surge protection power strips for sensitive electronics). For convenience, your utility can even install them in the meter if they're not...

I get that, was more talking about stuff I've read about it like the submarine garage, the hospital with hyperbaric chambers, and the whole research wing that allegedly is on the ship. The stuff they focused on just seemed like generic yacht stuff - oh wow, they have a nice kitchen, who would...

Service entrance is where the power comes into the house - it's installed at the meter or in your main electrical panel on a dedicated breaker. If it's old, I wouldn't necessarily count on it to protect things and it might be worth replacing even if a status light is still on.

The metal oxide varistors in there degrade as they soak up overvoltage events. They typically have a thermal fuse in front to protect from bursting in a high energy event or overheating as their leakage current gets too high. If the light is off, my assumption is the fuse tripped and there is no...

Given how big he is into diving, I was disappointed how little they touched on that aspect of the ship. I hope that wall of names is the people who bought the most while playing the least hours.

So I didn't know anything about that JP Morgan boss lady thing when I read this. I still laughed because I always thought he dressed like a finance douche.

That stuff is great, I felt like such a sucker buying those tubs of spackle all those years before that. Don't forget to keep in mind the drying time is also affected by water temperature and hardness. My old place had pretty hard water, the first batch of 45 I mixed up was more like 10 or 15. I...

I guess it's too late to talk you out of getting boxwoods. I actually did the opposite of you, I ripped out boxwoods and replaced them with azaleas (granted in my case my porch is south facing and full sun). I couldn't stand the fucking bugs that hang around the boxwoods (boxwood leaf miners). I...

I think it was better unreadable.

A guy I work with thought he was being pretty smart and built up a little rental fleet of vehicles for Turo. He ended up losing his ass on the whole thing - one car got totaled and the rest absolutely trashed. They'd always come back reeking of weed and dirty, somehow treated worse than a Hertz...

Dumb thing to factor in for granite is it's typically very mildly radioactive. I don't think it's enough that it would ever matter, but for new construction, I'd avoid it. Reason being: in the age of alarmist Facebook bullshit, all it takes is one influencer dipshit to latch onto that fact and...

I'd look into a 2nd Gen Nissan Leaf - they've depreciated to all hell, so, you could probably find one for about the same price as that Veloster if you try. A commute like that would be about the perfect use case for the vehicle - you could even charge exclusively at work (except maybe in the...

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. John was a space...

I'd had a greenworks 40V mower since 2014, it gave up the ghost in 2024, but that was mostly due to my father in law smoking the bearings because he kept mowing early in the morning with dew still on the ground. Same experience, was maintenance free up to that point outside of sharpening. The...