dual_sport_dork

dual_sport_dork , 24 days ago

How is bird so smol, but also so tall.

dual_sport_dork , 1 month ago

Right alongside the entry that shows I threw a paper airplane at Mrs. Fitzgerald in 4th grade? I'm just shaking in my boots, I tell you.

dual_sport_dork , 1 month ago

That sounds like you're not being a team player. It is absolutely vital that we maintain a skeleton crew because your manager's bonus is dependent on cutting payroll to the point of nonfunctionality.

dual_sport_dork , 3 months ago

Yeah? You ought to try buying a house that used to be a rental. Everything is done wrong and jury-rigged, because PO was a landlord who refused to spend money on anything. You never know what gremlins or structural issues you may find lurking under half an inch of spackle and 67 layers of cheap paint.

dual_sport_dork , 4 months ago

Also, the NIST goon squad there is only 84.48 feet off from the perp’s location…

dual_sport_dork , 5 months ago

Are the cracks just in the paint, or do they go all the way through to the drywall beneath?

Drywall joint compound has no flex. These cracks were caused by the wall moving via some means. Either thermal expansion and contraction, the house settling, or some other construction putting torsion on it. Therefore, if you fill it with joint compound it’ll just crack again. The “correct” method I suppose is to notch it out and make a joint over it with seam tape and joint compound, then sand it flat, touch it up, sand it flat again, etc.

Here in reality, though, I had several of these in the walls in my house (particularly in the corners) and I just filled them in with painter’s caulk – which does flex. Screw it. It’s getting painted over anyway. I’ve had no issues, and I probably avoided taking years off my life not only in aggravation but also in not breathing yet more drywall dust.

dual_sport_dork , 6 months ago

Fine, fine. Then I don’t want to hear any bitching by code inspectors or anybody else about how I have my backup off-grid power tied to my house. And I sure as shit don’t want to hear any whining along the lines of, “But it’s illegal to disconnect from the grid.”

If you disavow responsibility, so do I.

dual_sport_dork , 6 months ago

Yes, you should for reason and probably others.

You can get gadgets to do this for you. Or you can just remember to shut off your main breaker before starting your generator or flipping your giant Frankenstein style knife switch to your battery bank or whatever, and turn it back on only after you’ve disconnected your backup.

dual_sport_dork , 6 months ago

The correct answer, of course, is a transfer switch that physically decouples the backup power and the grid power from the building, and does not allow them to be connected at the same time – no matter how the operator might manage to fuck it up.

dual_sport_dork , 6 months ago

power to you

I see what you did there.

dual_sport_dork , 6 months ago

Yes, but allow me to present this compelling counter proposal:

Dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka…

dual_sport_dork , 8 months ago

You know, I’ve never seen someone buy one of those Whirlpool low profile WML55011’s in any situation where they had the option not to. It almost feels weird to see somebody finally mount one at the correct height, too.

dual_sport_dork , 8 months ago

Fair. That’s why they make all kinds.

Whirlpool has a new “flush mount” over-the-range now as well, which is taller but only 12-7/8" deep to the face of the door. That one is taller than a typical OTR but shallower. They allege it doesn’t “need” a turntable and it hasn’t got one, but I remain skeptical.

I do dig the rustic plankwork above it. Goes well with the butcher block countertops. I’m trying to talk the missus into letting me do butcher block when we redo ours. Everyone is all starry-eyed over granite nowadays, but granite is a pain in the ass and if you fuck it up that’s a $5k replacement. But I can work with wood any old time, all day long.

dual_sport_dork , 9 months ago

We would not see it until (if) it hit us.

Observation cannot travel faster than the speed of light. No matter what it is you’re using to observe: Photons (light and radiation), measuring gravity, heat, anything. No matter if the phenomenon’s expansion were traveling at the speed of light, the changes to the universe being made as well as our ability to observe them are also traveling at the speed of light.

If the phenomenon were very far away, we would not be able to observe anything it was causing until its leading edge caught up to us. Then we would be destroyed at exactly the same time. This is because in your example it is expanding at exactly the same rate as the universal speed-of-light constraint allows us to receive any indication of its presence. Any evidence of, e.g. a far away star being destroyed would take X amount of time to reach us by its light no longer arriving. However, in that time the edge of the space-destroying phenomenon will also hit us, because it will also take exactly X amount of time to reach us, at the speed of light, from the point where the star was when it was destroyed. The distance is the same, the speed is the same. We would continue to receive light from that star in the meantime, as we already do. (The light from the stars you see in the sky now is already tens/hundreds/thousands/millions/etc. years old depending on the distance to the star in question.)

If the phenomenon were so far away that it is outside of our observable field of the universe, it will never reach us and we will never have any indication of its presence. That’s what “observable universe” means. Anything can happen anywhere outside of the observable universe and it is objectively meaningless to us, because we will never ever be able to reach it, record it, have it influence us in any way. This is, however, predicated on the theory of the perpetually expanding universe being true (which it probably is).

If you want to actually see the stars in your sky winking out over the millennia, I suggest building your universal destruction bomb such that its shockwave travels at, say, half the speed of light or some other suitable fraction.

dual_sport_dork , 9 months ago

Bucket mud going rancid after sitting I can attest to. Crack open the lid before you buy it. My local Despot had an entire pallet of the stuff that’d gone bad from sitting around god-knows-how-long, and then tried to give me shit for returning it like 15 minutes after I bought it.

I always use the green lid USG “all purpose” stuff. I am likely inept enough not to notice the difference between that and other options, and it’s always done fine by me. I can tell you from my own observation that the “dust control” moniker on the USG blue bucket stuff is horseshit. And yet, it costs twice as much as the normal stuff.

dual_sport_dork , 10 months ago

Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:

• A programmer with a soldering iron.
• An HVAC tech with a software patch.
• A user with an idea.