Rhaedas
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- Comment on Car repairs 1 week ago:
Even if you had to buy some tools it would save vs. the time and labor costs. If you can manage it. If you're doing it in a parking lot, then you're a bit more limited. But I replaced even the lower arms of my car (almost 300k now) a while back, and I only had to buy a large torque wrench to make sure it was on well. But I had a covering parting spot and some time... so, it depends.
Always buy the full assembled of parts, not just bushings or other joints.
- Comment on Car repairs 1 week ago:
Yep, two wrenches will do it for just aligning the existing. Two so you can break and tighten the nut without twisting the rod. Just make sure you fully understand which way you need to move it, like the article says each car varied (well, it's more where the tie rod is, front or back of the wheel). And move it only a little, it doesn't take very much to make a big difference. A quarter of a turn in or out might be all you need.
However, check the tie rods conditions themselves at the ball joint by the tire. If that's bad, that's certainly your problem, as that introduces lots of movement that shouldn't be there. Replacing it also isn't that hard, but to avoid a full alignment needed you have to try and match the new with the old in length as close s you can, and then are going to have to find where the old one was before the ball joint got bad. So a bit of trial and error and measuring there, more than if you just adjust the old. But it's doable. You're already ahead of a lot of people by knowing how to change your own oil.
- Comment on Car repairs 1 week ago:
Body work isn't high on the list, but you don't mention the engine or transmission. If those are still solid and the mileage is low enough, then investing in the framework is worth it vs. some of the risk with a newer car (that sounds crazy, buying something new shouldn't have risk, but here we are).
Is working on it yourself even in the picture? You can do a rough alignment yourself with a few basic tools, at least to reduce the pull to the side and making tire wear less. I actually corrected an actual alignment shop I paid because I could feel it was off, and the even tire wear over the years has shown I was right.
- Comment on DC UPS for router? 2 weeks ago:
How much loss is there for a converter? I always thought that for the most part they were pretty efficient. Unless you've measured and found a difference, you might be trying to solve an issue that isn't a huge one.
I've been very happy with my Cyberpower setup, and the smaller one is powering my router and monitors. It's still 650VA, so will roughly match the time the larger one would keep my computer alive. I'm not running a server though, so it might still be low for you, but 12V 5A doesn't seem like a large pull.
- Comment on Abrahamic religions make more sense when you consider... 3 weeks ago:
It makes even more sense when you realize that Yahweh's history of being a war god, under other gods until war (or actually lost wars) allowed his worshipers to claim the losses were because Yahweh wasn't being recognized as the true god. Politics and religion.
- Comment on AI helped create a drug that reduced patients' "biological age" by 6 years. How does it work? 4 weeks ago:
Graph Neural Network is probably what was used here. It shares some of how LLMs work, but each is designed specifically for its purpose. The broader term would be an Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI). Machine learning is even more broad. The LLM marketing ruined the use of just "AI" as a descriptor.
- Comment on I'm down with this 1 month ago:
My channels were niche ones with the same regular people. A safe place to hang out and talk about anything. It was my introvert version of going to the mall.
- Comment on I'm down with this 1 month ago:
Black Mirror’s San Junipero.
It’s interesting how so many virtual realities tend to offer the 80s-90s as the best world to be in.
- Comment on I really want people to learn that laws don't exist in nature 1 month ago:
Laws of physics don't exist either. What we have are our descriptions of the organized ways in which things seem to work based on our observation and experiment. But a hard coded rule doesn't exist anywhere, which is why we adjust our laws sometimes when we find new behavior through different or better measurements.
To get to your point, laws and rights are agreements within a society that things should be a certain way, and can be changed by the public or those who govern them, positively or negatively. As George Carlin said, you don't have rights, you have privileges. And those can be taken away, even the ones claimed as given by a creator. That's just core agreements, and even they aren't perfectly adhered to, especially if most people aren't paying attention.
- Comment on How do you filter out ai slop on Youtube? 2 months ago:
There’s different levels. Are you looking for a filtering to avoid seeing anything potential, something on the video to indicate AI, how to tell at the start it might be AI? The first is probably the hardest to do, and if there is a way to do it you’ll either get a lot of false positives (so miss real content) or stuff will still get through. Easiest is to weed out channels as you find them. Don’t rely on YT’s little AI marker, like everything else it’s automated and will tag anything remotely suggestive of AI (but maybe isn’t).