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- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 10 months ago:
As a Model 3 owner of 5 years, it’s really a non issue, in my opinion. All the basic controls you need while in motion are on the steering wheel. The touchscreen is responsive and intuitive.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6 11 months ago:
A pull string is typically vacuumed though the conduit and left inside for attaching to and pulling wires through.
- Comment on When is it okay to drop out of college? 11 months ago:
Just understand if you want to get places in IT your going to have to climb the ladder, keep sharp on technologies, and make connections. It’s doable, but it takes effort. After a decade of cutting your teeth, your schooling should be largely irrelevant on your resume. This is my career path and I keep pace with my colleagues who all have degrees.
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 11 months ago:
Not that I’m aware of. Unless your referring to a mobile app. They do have that for other fidelity functions but you can just access it from a mobile web browser and it’s responsive.
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 1 year ago:
I moved to Fidelity full view awhile back. Close enough, maybe a few less features but they’re account syncing send to be a bit more reliable.
- Comment on Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers 1 year ago:
And now my basic Internet connection from the only provider in the area (who is also the TV provider) is $100/mo
- Comment on Tesla misses estimates for quarterly deliveries; shares fall 1 year ago:
Lotta hate in the comments here. I’ll speak to the car objectively. TLDR: it’s a great car, BIC and competitively priced, auto wipers are hit or miss. I’d buy it again given today’s options.
I have a 2018 M3 RWD. 50k miles on it. Maintenance wise it’s one set of tires, a couple air filters, tire rotations and brake caliper lubes in that time. There was one mechanical failure, lower control arms which were covered under warranty.
This excludes folks smashing into the parked car twice and related bodywork repairs.
I did pay out of pocket for new side repeater cameras that don’t have the blinker occlusion at night. I sold the old repeaters on eBay so it was basically break even. Little bit of hassle for something I felt should have been covered under warranty.
Software wise it was unstable in some of the early 2019 releases. Things like cellular disconnecting, backup camera lag, have all been sorted out now. Yes the UI changed a bunch over that time and not always for the better. But generally it’s advanced in a good direction. I’m considering these items early adoption issues and now that they’ve been resolved, do not factor into my opinion of the car.
My biggest issue with car is the auto wipers not functioning consistently. Very hit or miss and have to switch to manual mode.
FSD beta: I paid $5k for it. I don’t think it’s worth more than that. Did they deliver what was promised? No not really, it was over hyped. Highway driving is pretty solid I use it frequently though stop and go can be a bit rollercoastery at times. City streets has a ways to go still. Sometimes it navigates complexitys impressively well. Other times it fails on the most mundane task.
That being said it’s been an absolute blast watching it progress over time. It’s made massive steps forward, but every two steps forward there was always a regression elsewhere.
I don’t think FSD really influences my car purchase at this point. Do I regret buying it? No, not for the price I paid. If we exclude it for a moment, the M3 is still a best in class car in my option. I don’t see another model on the market with the same range and price point. Even when comparing it to say a Toyota Camry hybrid. It’s the same price with current incentives. And you don’t have to deal with a dealership their markups and high pressure sales BS.
- Comment on What are your tweaks to bring down POST times on new servers? 1 year ago:
Agree with this post here. Adding to this thought:
Outside of initial provisioning/firmware updates. This server should only need to reboot once a month for OS/firmware security updates and maintenance. Maybe less/more depending on your organizations security posture. OP said they’re running VM’s so I don’t understand the concern with the boot time. Once you provision the host you don’t really tinker with any setting unless your adding hardware to updating firmware/os.
If the boot time is really that big a deal, get a second host and setup replication/vmotion with your VM’s to eliminate the host boot time from affecting your uptime entirely.
- Comment on First time ever installing a water heater, or doing any plumbing... 1 year ago:
Electrical panel clearance may be an issue. Think you need like 30" width clearance which can be off-center to push it up to the panel edge. Looks tight from the picture.
Add some fire blocking on the wall penetrations if that is going to an interior wall from a garage.
Is your pex rated to handle the pressure relief valve temperatures and is the inner diameter equal to or larger than the valve opening?
Is there an air gap on your pressure relief drain? (can’t see where it terminates.
Might need an expansion tank is needed.
As others said: drain pan, straps
Had a nicer formatting post writen but lost it when trying to post during site outage.
- Comment on How would you fill these gaps? 1 year ago:
You have what appears to be a BX cable penetrating and indoor wall to a garage. This needs fire stopping to meet code.
Here is Hilti’s drawing showing the wall assembly and how it can be fire stopped with their products. The optional metal conduit pictured would make it cleaner but also require disconnecting the cable.