Recent content by Kobayashi

Dumb 19 year old me drove into Canada to drink and my first thought was: "Holy shit, gas is cheap here!" I proceeded to pull into a gas station and promptly remembered they were on the metric system when the amount in liters quickly rocketed past my tank's capacity in gallons. Probably a good...

It's good to see he's all grown up now. Added the missing caption.

It's hard for me to offer advice there - I didn't have any coursework, was just sort of thrown to the wolves and forced to figure it out. I know of some people that used The Learning Pit — LadderLab Temporary Sales Pause but it's currently down while they update the courses or something. I'd...

Have you considered something like industrial controls? I'm sure you could easily pick up something like Logix on an Allen Bradley PLC with your background. You honestly wouldn't be taking much of a pay cut if you got good at it.

Yeah, one. Try dozens. Women put out some of the dumbest possible signs. I went on a first date with a girl, she rebuffed any advances I made, but it went well (so I thought), ended with a pretty g rated kiss. She texts me and says it's not going to work out. I ask why, she says "after that...

My son is suddenly really into Curious George. I found an episode compilation on YouTube from the official Curious George channel. Turns out it's an edited compilation that only has the set up of George causing some issue, but never shows the resolution. The fuck is this bullshit? What kind of...

I googled this and was severely disappointed it wasn't an arm wrestling simulator set in the 80s. No sale for me!

That's definitely supposed to be a dick those people are dancing around, right? Oblig: GIS for dumbest outfit

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...