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I don't know where you live but I can't get a repairman to come to my house for that much, never mind actually do anything like procure or install parts. At my last rental the dishwasher pump failed (3 years old) and it was $250 just for the part and more than an entire replacement unit to have...

My wife has a MS in physics and is working as a data scientist and can't do arithmetic to save her life. Calculus, stats, no problem. I don't get it.

Sounds like this?

Enjoy your norovirus! Starlink is great. My dad in the FL panhandle has been using it for a couple years now.

Yeah. I recently rented 2 single family homes over 10 years. I had to provide my own washer/dryer in the first place, which was fine, and I took them with me. Maaaaybe I'd do the same with a refrigerator, but that gets tricky fast because they're less standardized and not every home has the same...

Jus saw a new book out today. I haven't read the first one in this series yet.

It sure seems like this is the kind of thing an insurance company should litigate once to get precedent on the books rather than paying out over and over.

Imagine having a variable schedule, travel, or responsibilities that can require working at night...

Maybe they don't think Amazon will be competitive and SpaceX will cash the checks until they fail. Starlink has first mover advantage and will always gets launches at cost.

Design failure there. That's what sill plate anchors are for. Of course then the truck would have plowed through the house instead of pushing it...

Worst professor I ever had was a Nobel laureate.

Ahh. Well, anyone who banks on that is delusional. That's like playing high school basketball expecting to make it to the NBA. Cutting edge research physics is some super fucking rarified action.

Physics is basically just applied math, and both have a ton of skills overlap with computing. My wife has a physics BA and MS and currently runs a data science department. No one classifies that as some kind of failure mode of the degrees.

Me too, but it's a different experience if you're doing it to pay rent vs movie tickets and beer.

Everyone should work low-end jobs for a couple years before higher education, if only so that they're inspired to get and keep their shit together. College would be a lot better if the students had some actual life experience.

The high seas have every incremental edition of whatever you want. Just saying....

Pretty good deal on Bessy parallel clamps. I bought two sets for an upcoming project. If you get more than one, split it into two orders so you can apply the $25 off coupon twice. https://slickdeals.net/f/17135026-bessey-k-body-revolution-parallel-clamping-kit-with-kbx20-extenders-155-rockler

She doesn't, the food was from her friend's house.

I've used aluminum based anti perspitants since I hit puberty basically. I sweat a lot and smell quickly. I've tried everything and it's the only shit that actually works for me. Like a civilized person I shower at least once a day, twice if I work out in the morning. Never had inflammation or...

It was cheaper for me to buy a bigger house than to put shit in storage.

This kind of shit is why I often pirate and store locally media I've legitimately bought rights to.

I had the same problem and had to open the lever arm and install the locking pin to access the hole for the top center lag bolt. I ended up installing the brackets shifted 2 inches to the left of center and put the mount arm on the center stud. It offends my OCD but you can't see it behind the...

I consider it validation that I am spending my attention responsibly.

I remember reading a while back that self storage is the highest revenue per area in real estate. Prices are fucking bananas. Near me it's over $450/mo for anything big enough to park a car in.

Yeah. My old TV was just sitting on the ~5 ft mantle and it was at a bad enough angle I'd get a crick in my neck watching a movie. This drops down something like 18'' below the mantle height now. Much more comfortable.

I ended up getting a 65'' Hisense U8 on a Black Friday sale. Couldn't quite bring myself to spring for the OLED. Put it up with a Mantle Mount and I love it already. Only hitch was that I have a metal lath plaster wall and it was a bitch to find the studs. Mount is super sturdy. Four lag bolts...

That's not necessary, the whole value of the technology was that you used the perpendicular pairs of wires passing through each bit node to set/read magnetization induced by current. For the time it was blazing fast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

I have an array of magnetic core memory from an early 50's computer my grandfather worked on. Basically the first RAM. This is half a kb.

How long should that take, and does it involve just skipping everything for several hours? I'm too old with too little time to spend 5-10 hours skipping a game just to get to the "real" game.

You could do everything on the video pretty straightforwardly on a CNC if you were willing to clean up the inside corners with a chisel. That spring joint is sexy for sure, though.

I don't mean the moment-to-moment gameplay. It just seems to take for fucking ever to make progress. On my last attempt I put in maybe 30 hours before I burned out and wasn't particularly close to the endgame. Reading around online it seems like the "right" way to play is to skip everything and...

I really, really want to like GD but the game just feels like such a fucking slog. Am I just playing it wrong?

A rotated version of a planer sled for jointing. This had never occurred to me before. A bit fiddly and you obviously need a calibrated bandsaw + fence, but neat idea.

Only if your savings are in cash.

What software do you guys like for modeling projects? I'm looking for something both for a set of small cabinets and a bed that I could use for planning, bonus points for generating a cut list. SketchUp is the obvious one, any other suggestions?

Tommy Emmanuel playing Johnny Cash

Until 12/4 you can get $200 for signing up for the Amazon Prime card. I just got it. I like my Costco Citi card for everything else, but it's hard to beat 5% + $200 on Amazon.

I'm not going to tell you to potentially escalate the relationship with brother 3, but in your shoes I'd be sorely tempted to just schedule the test quietly for a time he's not going to be there, keep your mouth shut if the results are benign, and if they're bad send him a copy by certified...