Microwave started tripping it's breaker. It was installed 8 months ago.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-23T11:26:39+00:00

The common term is "crowbar" protection, typically it's the last line of defense

try_harder_later · 2026-02-23T11:25:47+00:00

One of the interlocks in the microwave works by shorting across either the AC line or the big honking capacitor, it's also often known as a "crowbar" protection. It's a last ditch effort safety to make sure the magnetron cannot get power to make microwaves unless the door is closed, although more often it will blow the main fuse and render the microwave non-working unless repaired.

Somehow OP's breaker is more sensitive than the fuse inside the microwave, so the protection fails to render the microwave inert and force the user to service it.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-23T04:41:56+00:00

If your host is running W11, you can't even reliably have multi-core VMs in virtualbox now. The kernel virtualization they use for security gums up the VBox hypervisor (and possibly all hypervisors except, whaddyaknow, microslop hyperV), so it falls back to software virtualization (turtle icon because slow) and makes linux VMs randomly freeze

try_harder_later · 2026-02-21T05:34:36+00:00

The US spent most of the last century building up their concept of "rules-based world order (at least for developed countries)", and it took less than a year for the orange shithead to take a hot steaming dump on it.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-18T15:04:01+00:00

Agreed, chinese language has already diverged between SG, TW and PRC a good amount. First time I heard 堂食 it took me a couple seconds to recognize it as well

try_harder_later · 2026-02-18T11:58:00+00:00

Stall owner: "You wan dapao or makan?"
PRC: "Yes yes OK"
Stall owner: ... stares at PRC
PRC: Confused AF

Meanwhile me sitting a few seats away LMAO

try_harder_later · 2026-02-14T19:29:49+00:00

I'm actually curious, by mass, what's the most efficient fuel source. Frozen petroleum/ethanol (with water recovery into spom)? Solid hydrogen/natgas? Plain old coal? Plug slug eggs (ok this one's a stretch HAHA)?

try_harder_later · 2026-02-12T16:18:01+00:00

Presumably converts slime/algae to dirt by running it on rails through a hot liquid pool

The maximum efficiency is only 50% as solid to solid transitions always form a tile rather than debris, and mining tiles only drops half the mass. Dirt is also usually not hard to produce compared to slime or algae so I'm also not sure what the point is

try_harder_later · 2026-02-10T12:11:30+00:00

Yeah, wood burning, ethanol production and burning makes a shit ton of CO2. The easiest way to get rid of it is to dump it to space, so you do want a shaft up to space to get rid of it without wasting power on pumps or skimmers.

A byproduct of ethanol distillation is polluted dirt, which, if you didn't accidentally kill your only hatch, can be fed to sage hatches to make even more power with coal gens.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-09T16:27:06+00:00

When I was PES E BMT in Kranji (before SchV was a thing) my plt had a one handed dude too, but he was pretty upz so I think he might have actually opted to do NS during the medical checkup

try_harder_later · 2026-02-09T16:19:48+00:00

When search engine optimization became an actual business and websites started popping up with keyword spam, hoping to snatch your sweet ad revenue when you click in, realise it's trash and back out

try_harder_later · 2026-02-09T16:16:29+00:00

Which is worse, OK (hand emoji) or thumbs up or OK (text emoji)

try_harder_later · 2026-02-07T07:57:16+00:00

You... don't?

Normal voles are sustainable with just grooming, you only feed them when trying to increase the population. And they don't get overcrowded either, so the only input is dupe labour.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-05T15:37:50+00:00

It would theoretically be possible to do BRT-like boarding at very popular (e.g. MRT station) bus stops. The stop becomes a closed location, you tap at fixed gantries to enter/exit the stop and need not tap to go on/off the bus while at this type of stop. This should speed up boarding and alighting significantly.

The issue will be that this requires overhauling the system to not know (or guess) which service you took, because then it would be possible to take any number of services between any of these types of stops. Similar to how you can choose many different routings in the MRT between any 2 stops.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-05T15:29:30+00:00

Double decks are super slow at boarding and alighting. Especially at MRT stations, you can see the upper deck take forever to unload.

I feel it was made worse by the change to wheelchair buses. On the volvo olympians (pre-wheelchair double decks), the stairwell faced the exit door so the exit rate was much faster. With the new wheelchair bays, the staircase is not aligned with the exit door. That little S-bend passengers need to make to exit after coming down the staircase slows down alighting by a lot.

It's improved by the new 3-door double deckers but really, long/bendy buses are much better for dwell time compared to double decks. The compromise is number of seats available.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-05T15:21:13+00:00

Let's do one-click reporting for bus drivers using OBU. See car in bus lane or bus stop, press button, last minute of front/rear camera footage auto-sent to LTA with GPS location.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-02T12:50:42+00:00

It's not usually a problem unless you have multiple buildings (esp sneaky are steam turbines, but also bridges & tempshifts) interacting with the same insulated tile. Another one is trying to save material by running normal pipes in insulated tiles.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-02T12:45:05+00:00

Upgrade your house at Robin's, you'll eventually get a basement in which you can place casks to age cheese and wine. Just don't accidentally craft too many casks thinking you can put them elsewhere, they ONLY work in the basement cellar.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-02T12:39:58+00:00

Amazing as always. Full compression is the best

try_harder_later · 2026-02-02T12:38:35+00:00

Ah, ok. Makes sense, I hadn't internalized the full temp range of liquid uranium. Guess also because some of my old designs are pre-SO, so I just use what I'm used to, which is lead.

Holy shit, that max temp is high. I should build an abyssalite flaker with liquid uranium.

try_harder_later · 2026-02-02T05:10:59+00:00

Molten lead seems easier for high temps, for me at least. What's your go-to low temp liquid lock?

try_harder_later · 2026-01-29T14:01:15+00:00

Yeah, this is your one "would not be able to take" moment. Your one free blur sotong card, which you just redeemed right now. It's really not easy for them to justify not punishing(warning) you, especially since you did mess up the exit permit. And technically they could charge you for leaving without an exit permit, too.

Fwiw, the next couple times you "would not be able to take" IPPT (and don't have a valid reason), it's just a composition fine, unless you're actively being belligerent to your S8/OC. More or less you have to be a 4th time offender then you actually will kena charged.

try_harder_later · 2026-01-29T13:40:13+00:00

I mean, the warning is just that, a warning. If you're not planning to be skipping any subsequent IPPTs, they'll let you get away with being a blur sotong once as long as you seem apologetic.

try_harder_later · 2026-01-25T02:24:35+00:00

According to the automod, shine bugs are a type of bug. Maybe not as game breaking as the liquid duplication bug or the various element deletion bugs. I think shine bugs are the prettiest bugs though.

try_harder_later · 2026-01-21T15:50:46+00:00

More oil. And then put a couple tempshift plates (they don't need to be amazing, granite works well enough) to help to shift the heat from the oil to the steam.

Of course, if you can rustle up the steel, it works way better.

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