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  1. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    $7500 to do one of those trenchless sewer line re-sleevings. Anyone have experience with these? They seem like the thing to do these days. Cheaper than digging up the whole damn thing and redoing my driveway, probably. Sigh.
  2. Captain Suave

    Chess

    Won a team state chapionship in JR high. Can confirm.
  3. Captain Suave

    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Better than some. (Wtf this backwards server can't handle .webp?)
  4. Captain Suave

    Dragon's Dogma 2

    18% off at GMG https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/dragons-dogma-2-pc/
  5. Captain Suave

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    I dig it. I've seen some criticisms that it's too on the nose for the 90's sound, but I think enough time has gone by that there's room for an honest revival. That sound is "classic rock" to my kids. Nirvana's Nevermind is now older than Led Zeppelin IV was when I was in high school.
  6. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Fuck, man. Passed out in a fire going back in a THIRD time to save the dog. /salute "In August 2023 [Coleman] posted a picture with his dog on Instagram, writing, “Young Hammer getting big. I can’t believe how much I love this dog. I try to be more like him. He’s nice and calm and patient.” "
  7. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Clay
  8. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Tried to take a shower tonight only to have the drain back up. Immediately shut everything off and called a buddy who has a sewer cam and a 75 ft auger. Found a giant fucking tree root in the line, and of course it's smack in the middle of my concrete driveway, auger not powerful enough to clear...
  9. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    He almost lost that by insisting on those guillotines, though.
  10. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Fair. Just take my experience as a cautionary tale. We had similar noises made by people in similar positions during our acquisition and ended up vaporizing $250k within 5 years.
  11. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Why? In my experience textured walls just collect gross amounts of dust and are a pain to clean.
  12. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Usually the only problem with cauliflower is inability to use earbuds or headphones. That does look like staph. Not only do I wonder about the fight, but why in the fuck would they not photoshop that out for a public picture?
  13. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    My wife's company went though something similar a few years back. If you're getting a check it counts as income and you have to pay tax. Make sure you have some idea what your original basis was and declare it as a long-term gain. The taxes shouldn't be too bad. (This is assuming you owned stock...
  14. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  15. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/12/29/24018925/ufc-releases-full-details-new-anti-doping-program-launching-in-2024-after-cutting-ties-with-usada
  16. Captain Suave

    What vehicle do you drive?

    My wife just got an AWD/Long Range + trim Model Y for $44k all in. That was a pretty lucky find with a price reduction and a couple other deals stacked up. Other than a loose bolt rolling around in the rear hatch it's been a good ride.
  17. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Neat. "When Martian storms become particularly strong, the friction between dust grains causes them to become electrified, transferring positive and negative charges through static electricity. According to research led by planetary scientist Alian Wang at Washington University in St. Louis...
  18. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    I'm surprised that works at all without blast processing.
  19. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Journalism!
  20. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    I always wondered how these were made. Old-timey craftsmen were really something else.
  21. Captain Suave

    Genetic Testing & Family Tree Search Engines

    This was true in New England when I was growing up, too. My great-grandfather was the Episcopal presiding bishop of the US and my grandfather was also a bishop, so I got a lot of church exposure as a kid. While the chuch was progressive in terms of policy and welcoming to new members the...
  22. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I've done it. Difficulty depends entirely on your tolerance for digging through your walls, attic/crawlspace access, and whether you're installing the box at an entirely new place or piggybacking on existing runs. None of it is hard, but can be messy/annoying and require a few specialty tools...
  23. Captain Suave

    Post Your Pet

    Behold! The unbridled ferocity of a Golden Retriever defending its home against unexpected guests... She lay like this for half an hour and was sad when they left.
  24. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Does science also render aliasing effects on the power lines?
  25. Captain Suave

    Enshrouded

  26. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I made a wooden war set for mine back in 2020. Crossbow has a medieval lever-action trigger, hard to see in this photo.
  27. Captain Suave

    No Rest For The Wicked - A Souls Like ARPG

    I haven't watched the videos yet, but I'm in until proven wrong. The Ori games are amazing.
  28. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I'll revise my statement. You can TRY to do sophisticated stuff in Excel.
  29. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Excel is also impossible to do anything really sophisticated in. My entire business of the last 20 years is helping industrial companies move from Excel-limited ad hoc analyses to modeling tools that are efficient and scalable.
  30. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is just from the last two pages in the ChatGPT thread.
  31. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This dissonance between threads is weird. In the AI discussions you're perpetually shitting on LLMs as wastes of electricity and silicon that do not and will never accomplish anything novel or useful and we're all fake and gay for thinking otherwise.
  32. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    Your tax bill is owed at the time of filing and penalties can start at 0.5% per month (there's a bit of a grace period if you are mailing payment). When we talk about not giving loans to the IRS that means reducing withholding and estimated tax payments during the preceding tax year.
  33. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    So apparently I'm just clueless and Lynch Syndrome was on the radar when my mom was sick. She and my sister both tested negative. I may still get a test just to be 100% sure. She died at 53 after several horrific years of suffering and I'm totally disinterested in that outcome. It seems...
  34. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    My 12 year old wanted to be able to browse the web on a device that wasn't his school-provided chromebook, so I got him a monitor, a Pi, and a manual for how to install linux. That sorted itself out right quickly and now he's doing CAD modeling to 3d print parts for homebrew nerf guns.
  35. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    What the fuck, man. She's not catching any breaks. Sending good vibes your way. Huh. My mother died of simultaneous and independent colon and biliary cancer, which are indicated by this. I should get tested.
  36. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    "just" ROFL
  37. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    YouTube drummer forms his own band. I dig it. https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/6QxCFUl7u9Vzk8ALN8m3bf?si=7a19e4aa95e94838&nd=1&dlsi=68eafa945bfb4dca
  38. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah I'm sure those aerospace engineers never thought of any of that. Or maybe space is a fucking difficult and hostile environment to design for, with a lot of cost, weight, materials, and performance restrictions you can't fit on a napkin.
  39. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    That's just a general life rule.
  40. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/how-strong-is-nintendos-legal-case-against-switch-emulator-yuzu/ Doesn't sound like they've got a slam-dunk legal argument.