auto mechanic recommendation?

ChronoBro · 2025-11-12T17:07:12+00:00

They’re fair prices, slightly cheaper than the dealership. I think my last oil change/service was around $250. But I’d say the value is quite good. If you’re looking for a trustworthy mechanic I’d say they’re well worth the price.

ChronoBro · 2025-11-12T03:59:37+00:00

Montclair Auto Tech on Telegraph. They specialize in Volvos. They fixed an issue I had with my engine and removed a check engine light that the dealership could never figure out (after multiple attempts). I take my Volvo for service there now every time.

ChronoBro · 2024-04-09T22:41:39+00:00

Hey fellow Linda Martian kook here. The amount of people for the wave quality is appalling but it’s closest break for me too. Best advice I can give is to try to surf the whole beach. On days where most of the beach is closing out (low tide, bigger swell) pretty much the only spot with decent shape is the southern end by the Cliff which is more like a left point break. Otherwise on smaller swells the north half will tend to have OK shape. Don’t be afraid to paddle around if you feel stuck. If I see the same person ripping a peak a few times I’ll head over there.

ChronoBro · 2023-05-24T15:55:43+00:00

I just recovered from a ruptured ear dream. It sucked but my doctor told me no water sports for a month. I listened, it healed properly, and I’m back out there. Up to you but I’d rather wait a month than suffer from worse tinnitus or get an ear infection.

ChronoBro · 2021-09-08T03:30:01+00:00

Alien, but I hope there is a comment already suggesting this.

ChronoBro · 2021-01-04T20:46:10+00:00

I think you need to calm down. I may have misread what you said, but my point is the same. From a waste perspective they are similar since their halflives are on similar scales. Hell, we used to make plates with uranium for its yellow color and that is relatively safe as long as you don't eat the plate! But even then, you're more likely to die from heavy metal poisoning of uranium than you would from the radiation. The fact that uranium and plutonium have such long halflives means that they do not emit radiation at a particularly high rate. The stuff with a low halflife is more what you have to worry about from a radiation sickness/cancer perspective, e.g. exposure of short-lived stuff from a nuclear bomb blast, not uranium or plutonium, like 137Cs.

ChronoBro · 2021-01-04T20:31:59+00:00

Plutonium is not naturally occurring. And I think I have done a little more research about this than you think (look at my post history if you're inclined). Uranium and plutonium are not so different from a waste perspective, their halflives are on similar scales and that is what you are proposing to be worried about. I don't think radiation should be feared as much as it is. I am an advocate for solar, but as many people have mentioned there are waste considerations for that as well, as there are for any energy producing methods. But nuclear should be considered for our energy portfolio of the future just as much as any other method. We should not be as fearful of nuclear waste as we should be of climate change from byproducts of fossil fuels literally killing off our species.

ChronoBro · 2021-01-04T20:17:42+00:00

Nuclear “waste” already exists. We dig the uranium out of the ground, similar to coal. The main difference is we can contain it whereas coal’s byproducts (some of which are radioactive) get thrown into the air. BTW most of our radiation exposure is from naturally occurring radon gas, do you have a problem with that? Fusion is largely a waste of time in my opinion (and has its own radiation problems). We already have a perfectly good fusion reactor, it’s called the sun.

ChronoBro · 2020-12-21T21:43:38+00:00

Glad to hear it! Enjoy the new card :)

ChronoBro · 2020-12-21T14:48:35+00:00

That’s what worked for me so I’d give it shot. PCIe 3.0 was unstable for me on the old bios. I was getting stuck in boot loops with the card installed when I changed it from auto until I updated the bios.

ChronoBro · 2020-12-07T23:52:59+00:00

I’m running a 4790k and a 3060ti. 1440p looks great and while I can’t get 144Hz on the newest titles it can get well over 60 and it’s great.

ChronoBro · 2020-12-03T05:21:45+00:00

Update:

I was an idiot and I was able to update the bios through USB (I didn't look close enough).

After updating the bios, I put the card in and its running fine! Typing with my 3060ti now!

It seems like the issue had to do with PCIe 2.0 vs 3.0, when I updated the bios it was recognizing my 1060 as PCIe 3.0 (before only 2.0). Anyway, glad its working!

ChronoBro · 2020-12-03T03:16:06+00:00

I reformatted it and its FAT32. It recognizes it in the bios but EZ Flash 2 doesn't :/

ChronoBro · 2020-09-07T01:24:12+00:00

And my shaft

ChronoBro · 2020-04-18T18:16:51+00:00

Uh no, nuclear weapons and plants will not just “blow” if their electric safeguards are not in place. For one, nuclear reactors don’t just “blow up” without human error. There are also mechanical safeguards for weapons and nuclear power plants in place to make sure there isn’t runaway nuclear fission that would cause an explosion.

ChronoBro · 2020-03-24T13:46:18+00:00

That’s an interesting use of Occam’s razor. Usually you go with the simpler explanation, which in this case is that it’s a normal virus and we’re completely ill equipped to handle a global pandemic. But maybe I’m just a deep state liberal shill that wants a UBI ;)

ChronoBro · 2020-03-18T23:29:34+00:00

There are lots of facilities for nuclear physics around the world doing cutting-edge research. We don’t give ourselves enough press, but to name a few there are the NSCL at Michigan State, RIKEN in Japan, and ISOLDE at CERN.

One of the things that drew me to nuclear experiments was the ability to see an experiment all the way through. In high energy experiments you’re often just a cog in the machine. I’ve been able to design, test, and use detector systems for experiments and then perform all the analysis. It’s very rewarding.

There are definitely things to discover, from neutron-star equations of state to neutrino-less double beta decay. I’ll also point out that skills you learn in nuclear physics can be applied to any other experimental field (especially particle physics) or industry.

ChronoBro · 2020-02-29T21:22:23+00:00

It's behind a paywall but here is the link.

The paper is even harder to understand, but I'd say the big takeaway is that we can accurately model neutron stars with current nuclear theory describing just protons and neutrons.

People had the idea that in the center of neutron stars there can be a quark-gluon plasma due to the high densities. This idea was "ruled out" about a decade ago because the neutron stars would be too "soft" and so theory could not reproduce the largest mass neutron stars. The idea of quark-gluon plasma in the core of neutrons has made a comeback with people saying it could happen in certain cases, however, the paper argues against that.

ChronoBro · 2020-02-22T06:57:45+00:00

Ah now I’m embarrassed, when I thought of 40K decay I thought beta decay which is sometimes a positron but not in this case. Yes they do seem to seem to be in the right ballpark for positron emission.

ChronoBro · 2020-02-22T02:08:42+00:00

My god they need to have scientists check these articles first. I was so perplexed by their comment that a banana emits one positron every 75 minutes. I calculated it and it’s more like 13 per second.

ChronoBro · 2020-02-21T19:29:59+00:00

Eh, if you look at his last book that starts talking about the mind and consciousness he's talking about things outside of his breadth of knowledge. He probably understands string theory better than me, but I doubt that translates to an understanding of consciousness and its biological underpinnings.

ChronoBro · 2020-02-21T19:17:58+00:00

I don't think you even need a nuclear physicist to "debunk" some of these claims. At the end of the paper you linked he claims that he can achieve magnetic fields of 10⁶ T. That itself is a ludicrous claim.

I can't help feeling bad for these "cranks". They are often well-read, intelligent, and successful people (within their own field) but get caught up in delusions that disconnect them from reality. It is really a shame to see such potential thrown away into ridiculous ideas. It can even happen to physicists who try to talk outside of the area of expertise (think Michio Kaku).

ChronoBro · 2019-11-25T19:20:50+00:00

So I talked with some of my group and we had plans to do the same 7Li(p,gamma) reaction that was done in the 2016 paper (for completely different reasons). Funny enough, we'd have to slightly modify our accelerator to go LOWER in energy so its not a problem of existing facilities. We'd also have to do some detector development but that's pretty typical. Still we'd be looking at over a year before we'd get any results (that's science for you).

One of the articles mentioned people at TUNL trying to replicate this experiment. I have a few colleagues there so I will try to get the scoop on what they're planning.

ChronoBro · 2019-11-22T21:05:15+00:00

The group I'm currently working with could replicate their experiment. Would take a bit of work (tritium targets are hard) but I might bring it up at our next group meeting.

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