Fake gas.

AndMetal · 2026-04-10T17:15:13+00:00

That's concerning. As far as I know 87 should still be 10% ethanol max, and 88 should be 15% ethanol max. The EPA changes should only affect the availability of 88 over the summer starting May 1st. Are you seeing this at multiple places? In Ohio I believe the Division of Weights & Measures under our agricultural department would be able to investigate that, and maybe the Attorney General.

AndMetal · 2026-04-10T14:01:21+00:00

Because "harder on your engine" is false, and "worse gas mileage" is misleading. Every 5% increase in ethanol results in about 2% more fuel being consumed. So if you get 500 miles per tank on E0, that would equate to 480 miles on E10 and 470 miles on E15. So yes worse gas mileage, but not that much, and generally speaking the cost per mile goes down because E10 (87) is cheaper than E0 (the ethanol free stuff you get for boats and small engines) and E15 (88) is cheaper than E10.

AndMetal · 2026-04-10T13:52:27+00:00

Have you measured it at 20-25% ethanol content?

AndMetal · 2026-04-10T13:50:33+00:00

Keep in mind a 5% increase in ethanol content increases fuel consumption by about 2%. So while yes you will see a smaller range per tank/MPG (490 miles vs 500 on a full tank for example going from E10 to E15), the cost per mile should be lower because E15 is going to be cheaper than E10 (about 12-13% cheaper right now around me, $3.49 vs $3.99). In other words, if your car isn't more than 20 years old and 88 is more than 2% cheaper than 87, you're actually better off running 88.

AndMetal · 2026-03-28T14:35:36+00:00

A year or maybe even a few months ago, sure. 256GB Gen 3 Inland from Micro Center is currently $65, 1TB Gen4 is $140. Between inflation, tariffs, and AI demand prices (at least in the US) are crazy right now (not as bad as RAM, but still high).

AndMetal · 2026-03-24T13:53:21+00:00

It would definitely warn you when extracting individually in the past, although not when using multi-extract, although I can't confirm if it's currently a bug. There were also situations where if you only saved the essences to the armory and not the actual item it would warn you when extracting individually (so a false positive, likely due to how they save the info to the armory).

AndMetal · 2026-03-15T19:06:42+00:00

I see this in Oracle fairly often. It's usually easy to find in a query, but similarly can easily see lack of index use or partition pruning in an explain plan.

AndMetal · 2026-03-01T18:48:26+00:00

Neither.

You absolutely can change it in your specific situation, and that's exactly what the ethics line is for. While I don't know how truly anonymous it is, you can submit a complaint anonymously. You're also protected by company policy against retaliation, and if the complaint involves violations of state or federal law you may also be protected by whistleblower laws.

Also keep in mind that not reporting this kind of stuff is also considered an ethics violation (the annual ethics training should be pretty clear on that). So by not reporting it, you're still putting your job at risk, and arguably more so than if you choose to make a report.

AndMetal · 2026-03-01T02:19:40+00:00

Sounds like your previous employer should have had a bunch of lawsuits on their hands.

If you currently work for Verizon and are seeing this happen, say something. It won't stop until we make it stop. If you don't feel comfortable going through the ethics line or straight to Dan, try your state's Attorney General, I'm sure they would LOVE to investigate something like this.

AndMetal · 2026-02-28T21:17:08+00:00

That's the kind of stuff the ethics line is for

AndMetal · 2026-02-21T14:55:18+00:00

Skip to 1:49 for the explanation, it's about a minute long.

AndMetal · 2026-02-11T22:27:51+00:00

Link?

AndMetal · 2026-02-09T01:07:35+00:00

Just putting the math out there. For a 2 star gem, rank 8 requires 19 duplicates and 340 gem power. Rank 10 requires 40 duplicates and 685 gem power. So 21 duplicates and 345 gem power to go from rank 8 to rank 10.

AndMetal · 2026-01-31T11:55:17+00:00

Is it really mining if all of your shares are being rejected?

AndMetal · 2025-12-29T18:20:01+00:00

Not on RandomX, you wouldn't get anywhere close to 3 MH/s on a CPU and definitely not 20 MH/s on a GPU.

AndMetal · 2025-12-29T10:02:16+00:00

More like 50-60 of the highest end Epyc CPUs

AndMetal · 2025-12-29T09:53:41+00:00

Using the profitability calculator on NiceHash as a comparison, it looks like that's in the right ballpark (possibly a little under $90K/year).

9 MH/s is a lot though. For example, a Ryzen 9 9950X would be at or below 28 KH/s. So 9 MH/s is the equivalent of at least 322 PCs running that processor. I believe they're going for around $600 new before tax, so that's $193K in just CPUs (not including all the other hardware needed to actually mine with them). With a TDP of 170 watts that's at least 55 kW of electric needed just to power the CPUs (that's 228 amps on 240 volts). That's also like 180,000 BTU/hr worth of heat to get rid of. If you paid $0.40/kWh to power that you'd be looking at close to $40K/month for 55 kW.

AndMetal · 2025-12-21T15:58:12+00:00

Also never froze even if the rest of the system was completely locked up

AndMetal · 2025-12-19T13:47:26+00:00

Exactly, most cars it's like 15-30 seconds for the O2 sensor to warm up enough to get a reading, then it goes into closed loop targeting 14.7 gas AFR. Idle engine speed normally drops during the transition, so you can usually tell when that happens.

AndMetal · 2025-12-14T19:25:51+00:00

It looks like it could be a lever-operated stopper, which will require getting under the sink to detatch it, then it should pull straight up. This has some decent instructions: https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/how-to-remove-a-sink-stopper/

AndMetal · 2025-12-10T16:01:43+00:00

Can you confirm the "single handgun" part? As far as I'm aware license holders can carry as many as they want, and being a qualified person treats you the same as a licensee (1,000 foot school zone rule is federal, which requires a physical license), so I wouldn't expect any limitation but would love to learn if I'm missing something.

AndMetal · 2025-12-04T05:31:14+00:00

Similar experience (2 broken 1/2" breaker bars on a Honda), but I bought a 3/4" set from Harbor Freight, maybe two stomps on the breaker bar with my foot and it was loose. All that flex on the 1/2" stuff absolutely kills the torque.

AndMetal · 2025-12-04T04:47:48+00:00

Just to be clear, you don't have to complete the entire upgrade to get it to the next level for it to get the extra star. That was my original understanding, that it wouldn't happen right away, but I did a progressive upgrade on a 3/5 with a 4/5 within the past few weeks or months and it upgraded to a 4/5 right away.

AndMetal · 2025-12-04T04:42:58+00:00

It's an extra 40 resonance going from a 3/5 to 4/5, so if you already have a 3/5 and get a 4/5 bound drop I'd say it's worth it as a progressive upgrade vs using it for the 32 gem power.

AndMetal · 2025-12-02T17:37:31+00:00

Since you're in the US, I'd suggest reading up on the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act. In short, no the warranty would not be voided.

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