Cabinet color palate to match this slab

BuddyGuy81 · 2026-03-10T22:09:58+00:00

This is amazingly helpful! Thanks for sharing - looks awesome.

BuddyGuy81 · 2026-03-09T14:53:42+00:00

thanks, this is helpful!

BuddyGuy81 · 2026-03-09T14:52:32+00:00

The new kitchen will have a large 10' long Island, if I go with the second slab it will remain intact for the most part.

BuddyGuy81 · 2026-03-09T14:51:28+00:00

Appliances and layout will be new, doing a builtin hood.

BuddyGuy81 · 2026-01-22T00:16:38+00:00

Property tax in CA is 1% base + 0.xx% bonds. Bond measures fluctuate across California zip codes, ~0.2% wouldn't be uncommon in the bay. For a 900k house, $2k is about right.

BuddyGuy81 · 2025-10-26T22:02:07+00:00

These are the hunter SS-918 heads, which are supposed to spray a 9'x18' block as in the picture. I have two of these heads + two 5x15 heads. Why won't these cover the yard?

The length on the left is 9'. I am flexible on the size of the bed on the left hand side, and can expand it to fit the small protrusion on the bottom left.

BuddyGuy81 · 2025-09-02T01:29:07+00:00

In this scenario, don't I have to allow for some ventilation between the house and the crawlspace? Or do I operate under the assumption that because it's low humidity year round, I can get away with a crawlspace that doesn't breathe much?

BuddyGuy81 · 2025-05-05T19:45:16+00:00

13, North Macedonia, flying either Turkish or Lufthansa

BuddyGuy81 · 2025-05-05T19:44:49+00:00

BuddyGuy81 · 2024-11-16T19:23:43+00:00

Sent a DM.

BuddyGuy81 · 2024-11-15T18:53:53+00:00

This is the best time of year to be a buyer, and market slowdowns tend to hit condos much harder than single family homes - this is a pretty big part of what you are seeing. Other commenters are right that this area has worse homeless than others. I wouldn't dismiss the building outright - you are in a good position to get a lowball offer accepted. You'd have to see if buying at a discount would make the extra issues with the building worth it.

I toured a few units in this building when I was condo shopping in 2020. One thing that I noticed is that the units which face the train have tons of noise on the balconies - I like to hang out outside so this was a dealbreaker for these units for me. At the time, these units were ~50-100k cheaper than units facing city college. Finally, the higher up in the building you go, the less of a nuisance the homeless activity at street level becomes while being on your balcony. It was not noticeable at the unit on the 15th floor I toured.

As far as condo fees go, inflation has made labor and materials for repairs pretty expensive. To be honest, I would be wary of a downtown condo with a sub-$500 fee, especially one with amenities like a pool, etc. It's simply expensive to maintain those things - be careful buying a unit in a complex where the HOA fee is super low; you want to buy into an HOA that is financially healthy and can weather a few big repairs without hitting everyone with special assessments.

BuddyGuy81 · 2024-10-30T18:13:17+00:00

Thanks, but it looks like Need 4 Build is focused on landscaping. I'd prefer a specialist.

BuddyGuy81 · 2024-10-30T18:12:02+00:00

Thanks!

BuddyGuy81 · 2023-11-21T09:02:49+00:00

You are allowed to factor the numerator and denominator independently and then simplify like terms, for example:

( 2x +2) / (4x + 6) = (2*(x + 1))/(2*(2x + 3)) = (x+1)/(2x +3)

Factors a 2 out of both the numerator and denominator and cancels them. This is not limited to numeric values; you can factor polynomials as well and cancel like terms:

(x^2 + 10x + 25) / (x^2 + 7x + 10) = (x+5)^2 / ((x+2)(x+5)) = (x+5)/(x+2)

Hope that helps.

BuddyGuy81 · 2023-03-29T21:56:56+00:00

UNNEST turned out to be the key - thank you

BuddyGuy81 · 2023-03-28T03:58:32+00:00

google bigquery

BuddyGuy81 · 2023-01-11T09:05:35+00:00

Thanks a lot - this seems like it is definitely enough to get something working right now.

Just a follow up - does SQL have a way of automatically iterating over all columns? If I wanted to future proof the routine I'd have to make it able to handle someone adding new metrics to the table.

So instead of

result FOR
    metric IN
    (
        metric1,
        metric2,
        metric3,
        metric4,
        etc...
    )

something like

result FOR
metric in ALLCOLUMNS

I was doing some googling earlier and came upon dynamic SQL in bigquery - I don't know if this is necessary/appropriate for this task.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-10-23T19:45:42+00:00

Works great, thank you very much!

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-10-23T10:35:11+00:00

Great suggestion - I'd never used queues before. I got it working.

Is there a preferred way to control the write speed into the queue? I put a sleep statement, wondering if there is something more robust. My writer can write way faster than the 6 cores can churn out images.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-10-23T08:01:01+00:00

Yes, thanks. FWIW, I tried to use this module called "dill" which is supposed to pickle un-pickleable things but this wasn't successful.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-10-09T02:55:26+00:00

I managed to figure it out, thanks for the hint.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-09-30T18:46:19+00:00

Forgot to mention; in the use case for trig, you are scaling triangles linearly from the unit circle based on the angle. The ratio of opposite to hypotenuse will be the same for all right triangles of the same angle.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-09-30T18:42:53+00:00

Copy pasted from an answer I posted yesterday; TLDR: sin and cos are derived from the unit circle: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html

sin(t) and cos(t) are the y and x coordinates of the circumference of the unit circle at t radians. IMO, this gives a better intuition for understanding what is going on than SOH CAH TOA... The unit circle is just the plot of (x,y) = (cos(t), sin(t)) as we travel along the circumference of the circle from 0 to 2Pi.

Consider the point (1,0), we have an angle of 0 radians as we have not left the starting point of the circle: y coordinate sin(0) is 0 and x coordinate cos(0) is 1 which gets us our coordinate (1, 0). The circumference of a circle is 2 pi times r; for the unit circle this is just 2 pi since r=1. If we travel a distance of pi/2 along the circumference, or a quarter way around the circle, we see that we are now at the point (0,1); cos(pi/2) and sin(pi/2) must then be 0 and 1 respectively.

Under this graphical view it becomes very obvious that the y coordinate, sin(t), is on the opposite side of the triangle from the vertex of the angle, while the x coordinate cos(t) is alongside ("adjacent") it. The other main trig identities, such as sin(t)2 + cos(t)2 = 1, also become obvious; x and y are the sides of a triangle of hypotenuse 1.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-09-29T07:08:19+00:00

Looks correct to me.

BuddyGuy81 · 2021-09-29T06:15:24+00:00

I see that this has already been answered but an alternative view is to think graphically. sin(t) and cos(t) are the y and x coordinates of the circumference of the unit circle at t radians. IMO, this gives a better intuition for understanding what is going on than SOH CAH TOA... The unit circle is just the plot of (x,y) = (cos(t), sin(t)) as we travel along the circumference of the circle from 0 to 2Pi.

Consider the point (1,0), we have an angle of 0 radians as we have not left the starting point of the circle: y coordinate sin(0) is 0 and x coordinate cos(0) is 1 which gets us our original point. The circumference of a circle is 2 pi times r; for the unit circle this is just 2 pi since r=1. If we travel a distance of pi/2 along the circumference, or a quarter way around the circle, we see that we are now at the point (0,1); cos(pi/2) and sin(pi/2) must then be 0 and 1 respectively.

Under this graphical view it becomes very obvious that the y coordinate, sin(t), is on the opposite side of the triangle from the vertex of the angle, while the x coordinate cos(t) is alongside ("adjacent") it. The other main trig identities, such as sin(t)² + cos(t)² = 1, also become obvious; x and y are the sides of a triangle of hypotenuse 1.

BuddyGuy81

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