FuglyDuck
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- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 day ago:
It’s funny. You skipped to the end without reading the bit about legal liability on a seller…a point I wouldn’t have made if I didn’t read your comment.
Yet here you are pissed enough to block me…. /sigh.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 day ago:
Everything was done by licensed contractors, just small town bullshit where people do what they want. Especially when a house hasn’t been sold for 50 years, small stuff like that adds up until a sale happens.
Could she have updated everything that was like that before the sale? Sure, but it would have been a huge hassle and in today’s market she could just sell “as is” with no hit to price.
First off… depending on how the dimmer switch controls speed, that could be a great way to burn out a fan- most switches are for lights and adjust voltage. Fan motors expect a certain voltage and instead use amperage to adjust speed.
That’s why typical dimmer switches violate code.
It’s not something virtually any inspector is going to gig you harshly on (compared to say a severe gas leak.)
It’d also something you’re going to want to know about if you ever have to remodel or potentially sell.
As a seller, there are usually mandatory disclosure laws. Failing to disclose something that’s found after they move in- even in “as is”‘contracts can potentially lead to massive legal costs. The kind that, even if you win, you still lose.
But the OP’s perspective is as a buyer, not a seller and the games you’re talking about playing… yeah. That’s exactly why buyers should always make it contingent on inspection.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 day ago:
Always make the sale contingent on an inspection (and also on the sale of your current house,)
A full inspection covers all sorts of things, many of which are regulated and mandated in specific locations. Here’s a basic article on it
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 2 days ago:
His shock. Doc’s shock. Either way. Shock.
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 2 days ago:
I believe the technical term you are looking for is a “vivisection”.
And if you ask a surgeon to do it… “just to see” expect there to be some amount of shock. And maybe some very unfun drugs. Maybe a straight jacket…
- Comment on Automatic Fire Extinguisher for 3D Printer Cabinet 2 days ago:
Eh. when was the last time a mosfet melted on anyone? not saying it can’t happen, but mosfets are at fairly reliable. as long as you’re not trying to push wayyy too much power through them; and also proper surge protection to avoid things like bad power in your house frying them.
- Comment on Automatic Fire Extinguisher for 3D Printer Cabinet 2 days ago:
It was a significant problem in early machines. Most now have thermal runaway protection. As long as your wires don’t short out, it shouldn’t be a problem.
And the only wires that have enough energy to be a problem are the heaters- hot ends, heated beds/enclosures.
The firmware keeps track of how much energy is going to them and will shut the printer down if the energy is inconsistent with the reported temperatures. (Aka thermal runaway protection.)
You can also usually add secondary thermistors and if they deviate too much, triggers the same result. (And the machine will usually start trilling to get attention, etc,)
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 4 days ago:
It’s basically regurgitating things.
It’s trained on an immense amount of data and m led that 89% of the time when someone asks the phrase “what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, everything?” It’s “42”, with an explanation that it’s a reference to Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
So, when you ask that… it just replies 42, and gives a mash up of informstion mostly consistent with the pop culture reference.
It has no idea what “42” is, whether it’s a real question or real answer, or entirely a joke. Only that’s how people in its training data responded.
(In this example, 11% of people are either idiots who’ve never read the book- losers- or people who are making some other random quip.)
- Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality? 1 week ago:
Not nearly on the same level as what China does.
Or as pervasive.
- Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality? 1 week ago:
Something about freedom of the press. (Or online at all)
You still can’t talk about the Tiananmen Square inside China.
In fact, this picture is banned because it was meant to get around the censors:
There’s other things, too, like Winnie the Pooh (guess why?)
Also, our protesters might get brutalized and slapped with some petty charges. Theirs disappear . After and during which they’re brutalized, too.
- Comment on Chonky nozzel + decent amount of material = opportunity for lots of spaghetti 1 week ago:
It could be layer adhesion being hampered by bed temp. What are you printing in? Does it have a lot of warping at the corners?
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 week ago:
then there is that, to be sure. lawyers have ruined a lot of things.
in any case, I suspect there’s also logistics involved- getting the donated food to the shelter.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 week ago:
The fuck kind of world do we live in where we need to guard dumpsters?
In most urban places, an unlocked dumpster is asking for all sorts of things that normally cost extra to get dumped. Downtown Minneapolis, an open construction dumpster can go about a day without a mattress showing up (biohazard. Massive. Biohazard.) or shitloads of furniture.
In any case illegal dumping drives up the costs for people who do own the dumpster so most times, they’re locked at the very least.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Ding ding ding, got it in one, yes.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Yes. It was a salad made with left over carnitas, dried cranberry and a homemade vinaigrette. (Yes, I’m a little vindictive about it.)
She also tossed the front desk guys rice and beans because he included some impossible bacon.
(That was like the day before she got fired for other reasons.)
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Pointing out the consequences; the climate damage, all that is one thing.
Respectif conversation.
Actively tossing out people’s lunches isn’t going to convince anyone of anything, though.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Precisely.
Personal anecdotes, there was a particular vegan at work. The smell of cooked meat made her feel sick.
Instead of doing the rational thing and taking lunch at her desk; she proceeded to insist that the break room be meat-free. It escalated into all manner of preaching, “shame on you,”- including signage, nasty emails. Shaming with “don’t you care about me?!” All sorts of victimization.
The reality was any attempt at accommodating her was met with “not enough”. The entire office in the end, according to her, needed to be a complete vegan zone.
She didn’t last long for other reasons, but none of those shenanigans really helped. (let’s just say the attitude didn’t stop at being a vegan.)
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Usually it’s not veganism, itself. Rather, it’s the vegans.
Specifically the annoyingly loud, self-righteous, insists-everyone-must-join-them vegans.
Unfortunately, most people only really see this sort of vegan- rather than the more common, average sort of person who happens to also be vegan.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Not to mention it’s very unlikely that you have secrets on the phone as valuable as your thumb.
- Comment on I have amblyopia. Is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
So… I don’t know about with amblyopia….
But binoculars have an adjustment that brings the view through the two scopes together. If you see two circles (or two overlapping circles), you should adjust it.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
The sea people were climate migrants. Actually, we don’t know that much about them except to say Mesopotamia really hated them.
They may have invaded Egyptian time or two, but they really don’t known where they came from.
But it’s almost certain that the massive trade network that was highly specialized and crisscrossed the known world collapsed causing everyone to get isolated.
Tin, for example only came from one place and the mines just stopped producing.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s a good thing, and you should be proud.
But, they did get you to eat colored sand.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
Your kid seems smarter than you, hehe
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
do… I want to know what “rough” means?
hope they’re just nasty-tasting.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
that’s a good point, too.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 2 weeks ago:
Flinstone vitamins, maybe? Or any other kids gummy vitamins.
I would highly recommend talking with a child therapist before this becomes an ingrained habit.
- Comment on youth risky 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad you’re safe!
I’m risk adverse enough you’d never catch me on those death machines!
But like, he was afraid of stepstools where he was perfectly happy on 40’ ladders. There were a lot of things.
He was good at his job, and he was always polite and considerate. (Including some small but memorable gestures.)
- Comment on my humps 2 weeks ago:
Are… uh… furries, but with scales… a thing?
Almost afraid to ask.
- Comment on youth risky 2 weeks ago:
I knew an actuary once… their company specialized in various healthcare risks. this guy specialized in workplace hazards, and occupational health (the company itself was on the ‘what are the risks of xyz proceedure’, but they also had him for liability type things.)
a generally nice and decent guy, but he had some incredibly strange phobias.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
so, caught an article on NPR where they were interviewing an archeologist who specialized in the Sea Peoples (and the bronze age collapse). In any case, there were some points he made that stuck with me. The most pointed being that, the collapse during the bronze age (for those that lived in it,) wouldn’t have known it was happening.
It was slow, happened across generations. while the climate change and other factors was inexorably moving to collapse… the changes weren’t fast enough for people to notice, it was just the way things were their entire life.