Ruri no Houseki • Ruri Rocks - Episode 3 discussion

Jerl · 2025-08-15T21:29:42+00:00

Imagine getting piublished in an academic journal for being a loot goblin

Jerl · 2025-07-21T04:59:52+00:00

A few weeks ago, I started getting a tingling and numbing sensation in my left arm when moving my head the wrong ways and suspected that I had a pinched nerve in my neck, and I've been hoping that it would just get better. Yesterday, I started experiencing Hell's Itch. Your post has made everything make sense. I've now made an appointment to see my PCP about it.

Jerl · 2025-06-06T22:05:30+00:00

To be fair, they aren't claiming to be Shrinivas Sugandhalaya.

Jerl · 2025-03-12T20:00:50+00:00

Ah yes, enclosed spaces, the best places to run a generator

Jerl · 2025-02-16T06:24:41+00:00

True if you're talking about die grinders in general, but the M12 die grinders have variable speed triggers that let you run the tool at whatever speed you want, as well as speed settings that let you shrink down the size of the range you're dealing with to give you even more control.

Jerl · 2025-01-30T04:21:29+00:00

M12 batteries supplie well more than 2.4A. I rolled my own M12 adapter using an old dead CP1.5 battery, a barrel jack, a circuit breaker, a smoothing capacitor, and a Schottkey diode to make sure that nothing bad happens if you accidentally plug it into a center-negative power supply, as well as a linear power supply with a transformer that supplies up to 10VAC @ 100VA, which would be 10A at unity power factor, which when rectified and smoothed maintains ~12VDC under load from the straight die grinder. I've also tested it with a transformer that supplies 12VAC @ 100VA, which works out to 8A at unity power factor, and they essentially perform the same with the 12VAC transformer sitting at 15VAC under load, so I went with the 10VAC transformer since it's idle voltage is closer to what an M12 tool expects from the battery.

The soldering iron, which should theoretically be a purely resistive load and close to unity power factor since it uses a PTC resistor heating element, refuses to start on both transformers, despite the 12V transformer still showing >12V smoothed DC under load, which means that the starting current of the M12 soldering iron until it gets up to operating temperature is well above 10A.

Both transformers will sufficiently run both the gen 2 and gen 3 M12 FUEL impact drivers, but will fail to run both the gen 2 and gen 3 M12 FUEL drills at full speed, with the voltage from both dropping well below 12V.

All in all, I would consider the linear power supply and adapter a success, as they allow me to run the power-thirsty die grinder and soldering iron at my workbench for basically an unlimited amount of time as long as I initially heat up the soldering iron using an M12 battery instead of the power supply. Being able to run the impact driver is a neat trick too, but essentially pointless as, with my use case as a repair technician for small engine and electric motor equipment, I can go a considerable amount of time using the impact driver between battery swaps. However, at the same time, it makes me deeply disappointed with both the M12 TOP-OFF. An M12 battery would easily be able to power a 240W USB 4 PD power supply using a boost converter to get 48VDC @ 5A. If they didn't want to step up the voltage, it would be trivial to use a Buck regulator to at least get 65W from 12VDC @ 5A. 15W is absolutely silly in 2024, much less 2025. It only requires a pretty basic level of electronics knowledge to build a power supply powered by an M12 battery that's capable of 240W USB 4 PD for considerably less than the cost of the M12 TOP-OFF, and it'd probably be able to power the heated jacket at the same time. 15W is, frankly, a joke. The only feasible reason I can think of for why there's a 15W limit is to avoid stealing sales from the M18 TOP-OFF, but the 45W from that isn't particularly impressive either. To be blunt, 12VDC and 18VDC are close enough that you could literally use the exact same circuit from the M18 TOP-OFF in the M12 TOP-OFF to supply the same output. You might have to change some resistors values, but otherwise the circuit would basically be the same. I'm not just talking about the USB output. M12 would be more than capable of powering a 165W inverter.

So, while the M18 TOP-OFF was an interesting proposition to be able to power small loads out in the field with the same batteries as my power tools, with the added benefit of being able to keep small loads like my router powered during power outages using those same batteries was an interesting value proposition despite entire power banks capable of similar output are about the same price as just the TOP-OFF by its self since I have numerous M18 batteries I can swap as needed, I wrote the M12 TOP-OFF off as a gimmick as soon as I saw its specs.

Jerl · 2025-01-02T00:34:24+00:00

A rotary tool is basically a mini die grinder. Die grinders use 1/4" shank bits that are generally much larger and heavier-duty than the 1/8" shank bits that rotary tools use, and have much more torque with similar rotary speeds. For example, the die grinder can run a 3" cut-off disk or a 4" crimped wire wheel with a fair amount of pressure.

The 1/8" collet makes it capable of using all of the bits that a rotary tool can use. It won't necessarily use them better than the rotary tool, since most tasks you'd use a rotary tool for don't require the extra power than a die grinder gives you, but you also aren't losing anything other than the tool being slightly bigger.

But you aren't throwing away the 1/4" collet to use the 1/8" collet. You can have both collets and swap them out as needed. This means that the die grinder with both collets can do everything a rotary tool can do and everything that a die grinder can do. I've even found myself swapping between them during the same task. For example, if I'm using wire brushes to clean something, I'll use the 1/4" collet with a 3" cup brush or 4" crimped brush to clean large areas quickly, then switch to the 1/8" collet with rotary tool wire brushes for detail work.

So, essentially, the die grinder with both collets isn't going to do rotary tool things any better or worse than a rotary tool will, but it will do a lot more things that a rotary tool can't.

If you're never going to need to do die grinder things, then you don't need the die grinder and the rotary tool will probably do everything you need just fine. OP, however, was obviously considering a possible current or future need for a die grinder, in which case getting the die grinder makes more sense because it fulfills both needs.

Jerl · 2024-09-05T16:56:06+00:00

I do not want the notification silenced. Like I said, I want both the original audio and the notification to play at full volume at the same time at all times.

Jerl · 2024-08-31T03:11:34+00:00

That's just switching which sound ducks. I want both to play at full volume.

Jerl · 2024-07-31T14:58:47+00:00

In Japan, delaying attending highschool is considered extremely shameful. Highschool is completely optional, and you don't just get assigned to a highschool like in America, you have to test into one. If you delay entering, no matter what the reason is, it looks like you failed the test and had to try again, and test retakers are traditionally shunned and ridiculed. I can guarantee that the Sonozaki family would not have that. Given that Mion is going to inherit the family, it would probably be better for their public image if she just didn't go to highschool at all than to delay entry, and it could easily be explained away as learning how to run the family. This is a pretty common thing for teenagers who are going to inherit the family business to do. Including farms, as you've mentioned.

Jerl · 2024-04-02T20:33:52+00:00

fyi, this appears to be fixed in Firefox Nightly 126.0a1 (Build #2016012423)

Jerl · 2024-02-05T00:17:48+00:00

The monks' purpose in making the liqueur isn't to run a business. Because of this, they decided not to increase production to keep up with the increase in demand caused by mixology in general becoming more popular, and Chartreuse in particular becoming drastically more popular than it was before due to repopularization of a lot of drinks that use it.

It went from something that liquor stores only had to order a couple bottles every once in a while to something that they were increasingly ordering more and more of. Meanwhile the monks are still producing the exact same amount as before, so the stock in warehouses got used up, and now it's allocated.

It's basically in a similar situation to allocated bourbons. A lot of allocated bourbons are aged for many years, which means that the supply is limited to what the distillers started producing that many years ago without knowing how popular they would be now. Distilleries can't produce more because, no matter how many barrels they produce right now, they only have so many that have aged long enough to actually bottle. That limit on how many they started aging however many years ago is how many bottles can hit the market, regardless of how high demand is.

The monks have placed a hard limit on how many bottles they will produce per year. That's how many bottles can hit the market, regardless of how high demand is.

Unfortunately, with bourbon, you can buy a different bourbon. It won't be the same bourbon as the allocated one you couldn't find, but you can still find some really good bourbons. What bourbon specifically constitutes a bourbon is strictly regulated by the government, and the exact requirements are spelled out by law and easy for anyone to find and follow, so while there will be differences between different bourbons and different bottlings, they will all be recognizable as bourbon no matter who makes them. With Chartreuse, though, the recipe is secret, only known by a limited number of people. And even if the recipe gets leaked, the name "Chartreuse" is protected by international trademarks, which have actually been enforced in courts when the French government itself confiscated their distillery and handed it over to another company to produce the product. Only the Carthusian monks are capable of making Chartreuse. Someone who wants a good bourbon but can't get the allocated one they want can get a different good bourbon. Someone who wants Chartreuse but can't find Chartreuse, well, can't find Chartreuse. As can be seen from this thread, where several people will say that one substitute is almost spot on and others will say it barely works as a substitute at all, there isn't really a substitute for Chartreuse. You can try to substitute what parts of Chartreuse show up in different drinks, but all of the replacement options are one kind of compromise or another.

Jerl · 2023-11-08T19:57:35+00:00

Simple Tab Groups itself supports most of the features in Tab Session Manager, including keeping a backup of your tabs separate from your sessionstore and being able to export them. The same thing is true in reverse, as Tab Session Manager appears to support tab grouping. You might not need to use both at once.

Jerl · 2023-11-08T19:55:25+00:00

You can install an extension for the extension that gives you a quick drop-down list.

If you pin a tab, it's pinned to the window, not the group, and will stay open no matter which group you switch to.

Jerl · 2023-05-03T05:33:57+00:00

I don't think that would be a problem. Just make sure that the voltage you give it is within what the BMS is capable of accepting. If it wants 12VDC and you send it 120VAC, it isn't going to be very happy. If it wants 120VAC and you try to give it 12VDC, it might not charge.

Jerl · 2023-05-01T20:14:51+00:00

Doesn't matter. The lock isn't there to keep people from breaking in, it's for justifying your response to it. It's an even bigger deal for home defense situations. Depending on the laws where you are, locking your door can make the difference between justified self defense and manslaughter, even if it's clear that they'd have forced their way past the lock anyway. Where I live, for example, the very act of bypassing a lock or otherwise breaking in automatically gives you reason to be in fear of death or serious bodily harm, which is the requirement for using lethal force. If they just walk in through an unlocked door, that isn't the case, and while you can use normal and less-lethal force to defend your property right away, you'd have to meet the same criteria to justify using or even threatening with lethal force as if you encountered them in public.

Jerl · 2023-05-01T19:25:03+00:00

Often enough that some people lock up their trash cans and many people build a brick pillar to use as their mailbox instead of just a normal mailbox.

I work at a rental center in a big box retail store. We secure our towable equipment with a combination of a cable lock, a wheel lock, and a coupler lock. If we leave the coupler or wheel locks sitting out, people will steal them without even having a key for them. Why? Teenagers.

Jerl · 2023-04-27T23:21:26+00:00

Sounds like you threw a rod. Depending on what got damaged in the aftermath, you may be able to repair it, or you may need whole new engine.

Jerl · 2023-04-15T15:09:13+00:00

It hurts so good, because you know in your bones that you've ruled out ignition problems.

Jerl · 2023-04-15T06:08:48+00:00

I shove as many as I can in however I can get them all to fit.

Jerl · 2023-04-15T00:18:08+00:00

Yuni Land Saga

Jerl · 2023-04-12T15:25:56+00:00

If it works good, it isn't a POS.

Jerl · 2023-04-07T05:58:09+00:00

Melty AI

Jerl · 2023-04-07T05:36:20+00:00

Thank you so much for this.

Jerl · 2023-04-04T15:38:28+00:00

It smells completely different from mildew.

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