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  1. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    At least 25 yards by however many lanes you want, min 8 feet wide. Any shorter than that and you spend all your time on the walls. I've seen two personal lap pools around me. They were built for $1.5-2M houses on shallow lots where the back yard didn't have enough area for a normal pool. No...
  2. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I think the fact that the post volume in this thread dropped by 90% means most people are too busy playing to come back here.
  3. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Not MMA, but this goes firmly in the "fuck around and find out" combat sports museum. Some guy just tried to break into 6'3'' ~215 lbs professional grappler Haisam Rida's car. It did not work out well.
  4. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    By accounts I've read they're on the top of the endgame, though.
  5. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    It's a login server timeout error, happened during beta.
  6. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    I can't vouch for the source; this is just something I came across on google. Lots of data about the recent history of housing supply and demand which will require nuanced reading. The conclusions at least pass my sniff test...
  7. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    It is a LOT harder to install a router bit backwards...
  8. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    So I just replaced my old single-speed pool pump in the interest of energy savings. The old one worked fine and I now find myself with a spare 1.5 hp 3450 RPM motor. Anyone have good ideas for a Mattias Wandel-style shop project for the motor? Thinking maybe a big dust collector?
  9. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Not early-game focused, but it's about as good as we'll get now:
  10. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Don't worry, inflation will take care of that.
  11. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I do think it matters when the numbers are so high and out of everyday experience that it's hard for people to to evaluate them intuitively when they're flying all over the screen. I agree that having things flat would be boring, but the progression could easily have been linear-ish vs...
  12. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That took me surprisingly long to see what was wrong, lol.
  13. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    The damage numbers are all arbitrary. If the designers wanted they could have attack values and defense values interact so that overall damage does whatever they want. There's no reason it HAS to be exponentially increasing damage countered only by absurd HP pools.
  14. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Yeah, the time zone for England spits Ireland to the west and Germany to the east. Blizzard's line at the tip of Greenland is nothing and is in the middle of UTC-3.
  15. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I'll reiterate the need for conduit, having had direct experience with a bad subterranean run. If anything compromises the line you can end up with a leak that can be all of a) hard to detect b) expensive, and c) dangerous. For the cost of some pipe and a small amount of extra work it's well...
  16. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    It's more because beta was only the first 2-3 hours of the game and we don't know enough to do any of that.
  17. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  18. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    My dog just lost her shit when I asked my wife if she would like to "accompany me on a perambulation with the canine". WTF. It's worse than trying to talk about dessert in front of kids.
  19. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I would definitely bury it right and use conduit. The last rental I was in before buying my current place had a circuit run from the house to a receptacle by the pool. I got a MASSIVE power bill one month, and after some troubleshooting determined that the underground wire was compromised and...
  20. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    I've seen above-ground pools fully buried for years without issue. Edit: You're right, there are specify types of pools designed to be fully or partially buried. https://blog.royalswimmingpools.com/is-it-safe-to-bury-an-above-ground-pool
  21. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Welp, that didn't take long. https://news.yahoo.com/chatgpt-us-lawyer-admits-using-222004701.html
  22. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    Einstein was literally the twu No, that's very much not what Einstein's work says. Modern physics is very clear that time passes differently for different observers due to the local shape of spacetime. That's the foundational point of relativity.
  23. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    No, the mathematics of physics is quite clear that the two observers are experiencing time differently. "t" is right there in the equations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation We're interacting with the signals that come from those objects experiencing time differently than from our...
  24. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    No, that's not true at all. If you take observers and subject them to dramatically different speeds they will have experienced different amounts of time when reunited. GPS doesn't work without accounting for the fact that time literally runs slower for the satellites than it does here on Earth...
  25. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    Last comment because I think we're taking in circles around each other, but I don't think that being able to react to or detect events in finer intervals is the same as time running more slowly. One minute of experience is still a minute if in 30 fps or 60 or 150. I don't think it's safe to...
  26. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    My base assumption would be that time perception and reaction times are independent concepts. Time has to do with the propagation of causation and not biology. I understand why biology would influence reaction times, as having a larger and more complex brain lowers "clock speed" just based on...
  27. Captain Suave

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    I've seen a bunch of this research and never been convinced of the equivalence between detecting higher-resolution events and the actual experience of time at a different rate.
  28. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    You need a pretty massive shade footprint to consistently cover a pool at different times of day at different times of year.
  29. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Good analogy; I also hate talk shows.
  30. Captain Suave

    Stay at home dad advice

    This is also how helicopter parenting goes off the rails. You need to model being a well adjusted adult with independence so that your kids can become one.
  31. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Maybe I could, but why? Plenty of that kind of stuff on YouTube in a condensed and searchable format. I'm obviously missing something since it seems to be an activity sustainable enough to run a platform around. As I said, I'm probably just old.
  32. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Maybe I'm just old, but the phenomenon of streamers in general is baffling to me. I'm supposed to spend my time listening to some fuckwit doing solo performance art for a camera while playing a game I can play myself? From the clips I've seen, half these guys are high off their minds on...
  33. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    Depends if you have kids or not. Mine are fish in the summer and spend basically all of their time diving in and picking toys off the bottom of the deep end. When I swim I like the peaceful feeling of drifting through deep water. Amusingly, even in shallow water I always tuck my legs until it's...
  34. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    Buddy working on my house right now used to run a demo company. He says +/- $5k for the job, if they quote close to $10k you're getting screwed. Break down the top 18'' of the rim, punch 6'' holes every 4 feet the bottom, throw the debris inside, and fill and compact.
  35. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Higher chance of methed-up carpentry, though. In my bathroom remodel we found a bunch of floor joists that are an inch out of square over the length of the room. We weren't quite sure why until we found a stash of beer and whiskey bottles behind a retaining wall.
  36. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    The days are slower, but the years are faster.
  37. Captain Suave

    Torchlight: Infinite

    But only in an abstract mechanical sense. There's so much shit going on that whatever ends up killing you is usually happening inside of human reaction/processing time.
  38. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    I just had ChatGPT write a 1000 word promotional blurb for my business partner's industrial blog. It took 30-45 minutes of noodling around and refining to get exactly what I wanted, but it was FAR, FAR easier than writing it myself and the end result is of higher quality than what I would have...