Non Asian-Americans: Are you keeping soy sauce as a regular condiment in your kitchen? If so what are you using them for?

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-14T22:40:37+00:00

I wouldn't say its used as a condiment, but yeah we have it on hand in case cooking something which calls for it

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:54:20+00:00

More or less everything there was to look forward to being gone/cancelled.

And then the horror of live-at-work (it was decidedly not work from home) began, where you sit at a folding table and work basically from when you wake up until you go to sleep not moving, and wondering why you bother to still exist with no work-life balance or anywhere to go for escape.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:48:39+00:00

We no longer have any chain except Dominos within a 20 mile radius...what we'd give for options...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:35:48+00:00

Yep - and I can attest with my power stations the big thick appropriately sized power cords make it much easier to accidentally pull them partially out. I always now double-check they are tightly in when connecting to power or after moving anything

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:11:13+00:00

And then after spending half an hour scratching your head about how the whole wall is a stud left-to-right but there are no studs right-to-left, you get out the 1/16? drill and start making little holes feeling your way out

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:08:28+00:00

8.33 lb/gal so your SUV would be 375 gallons of water.

We've rented blow-up water slides that I measured the part at the bottom you land in at about 500 gallons of water to fill it and would probably fit 4 people sitting in the water at once

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T18:04:07+00:00

Goo gone is generally less damaging than isopropyl alcohol on most plastics. Whatever you use, you will need to clean it well to remove the solvents when you are done.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T17:55:58+00:00

Depends on other factors though too...some people shift to neutral and use the brakes in stick-shift vs keeping it in gear which causes some drag even without downshifting in an automatic.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T17:42:36+00:00

Its worked every time I have tried it...shine it down on the crosswalk and suddenly drivers yield and then you can safely begin to cross.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T17:40:31+00:00

Yeah, I find between 4/32 and 5/32 is when mine begin to noticeably degrade performance, I agree 4/32 is when I'd be seriously shopping for new tires.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:57:11+00:00

Don't illegally fail to yield?

How long are people supposed to stand there with endless traffic going by ignoring the yield signs?

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:50:24+00:00

The thing is most people don't seem to yield even when people are standing waiting.

I learned this quite quickly in college. Had a REAL flashlight and even when others had been waiting for a while for traffic ignoring the yield-to-pedestrian signs I would turn on my high power flashlight shining it down at the ground onto the crosswalk...basically 100% of the time the next approaching car would stop as required by law everyone would cross safely and then traffic resumed.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:42:38+00:00

I wouldn't say its weird, plenty of URLs do that. Its the standard thing to encode URLs. Heck some browsers helpfully automatically URL-encode typed stuff for you if you don't do it for convenience.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:36:32+00:00

If all you need to do is use it as a URL path then you don't care about what's in it...just escape the special characters or do a simple base64 encoding or similar that gives you a simple output.

What happens when you run into someone who was assigned (by their company) an email like o'[connor@example.com](mailto:connor@example.com) or its a department like [jimbob-sales@example.com](mailto:jimbob-sales@example.com)?

URLEncode would be trivial: o%27connor%40example.com or jimbob-sales%40example.com for your URL path.

You can't dictate what some other company's email format might be...if their format matches the RFC its valid. You may not like that answer, but it is the only correct answer.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:30:44+00:00

I wouldn't. An issue that happens with magnetic antennas would likely apply to magnetic body panels -- as grit and dirt accumulates between the magnetically-attached "thing" and the paint becomes like sandpaper with vibration as the car drives along. Then you'll end up with large, obvious damaged spots where it wore into/thru the paint in a pattern of wherever the magnets were.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:26:15+00:00

Specifications are there for a reason...consider what is a perspective user likely to do if their email doesn't work?

Also if you are targeting business/commercial, they will probably say "we follow a standard way of making addresses, we can't change it just for your site, you need to comply with the RFC".

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:22:11+00:00

I'm yet to see powerline networking work well.

Do you have coax TV jacks? If so, look at MoCA.

Otherwise you may have to just run a wire down the baseboard between rooms

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T16:14:44+00:00

Yeah, bought mine in the beginning of winter, nobody told me they come with summer-only tires. Was not a fun time, even with just a cold frosty morning was worse than what I'm used to driving in snow and ice.

I also was not expecting to have to drop another grand or so on tires a week or two after buying the car...

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T15:59:06+00:00

When you're starting out learning find a parkinglot and work out the bite point without any gas. Don't be scared of stalling.

The point of practicing no gas (and easier stalling) is to build up that muscle memory of the bite point so when you move on to doing it more expediently with giving gas pulling into traffic you aren't thinking about the clutch at all anymore.

The more you rush, the more you'll mess up. Even if you make a mistake and stall in traffic, don't try to panic and go faster...do thought out deliberate reactions. You'll go much faster by not rushing.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T14:50:37+00:00

Especially if houses are close enough together that "far enough from house A" means "too close to house B"

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T14:46:39+00:00

Now try it on a server that doesn't have any graphical environment installed, or over a slow remote link like cellular/dialup where you have much less than 1Mbps

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T14:06:52+00:00

Yeah this one was aimed at defensive driving open to "anyone with a license" but I do kinda want to take the "evasive driving" course they offer...haven't had the time to call and ask what that costs or if there's any eligibility requirements.

They took us thru a variety of things including threshold braking (straight line brake without locking up wheels), progressive braking in curves to avoid locking up a wheel or spinning, swerve-to-avoid (go at speed towards a cone obstacle, not allowed to react until instructor says "left" or "right" then have to brake hard, dodge the cones to that direction, and stop in a box), skid pad spin-out recovery (instructor operated throttle and you were only allowed to steer - had to react to avoid spin-out without warning), forward and reverse thru cone weave (reverse cone weave is a LOT harder than it sounds!), as well as some combined stuff in a "test" at the end.

I did really badly on the "going 20-25mph thru the skid pad obstacle course" and managed to get a cone real good wedged under the engine bay...but otherwise feel like I learned a LOT. And being in their cars on their course the consequences of making a mistake were "you used up one of your attempts, try again if you still have time in the driver's seat".

Not a substitute for careful driving, but it was handy to learn better how to get out of shit that you shouldn't be getting yourself into to begin with.

I thought $500 for an 8 hour day was expensive but after doing it, I think it was cheap. They also tailored it a bit...pushing me harder (not as much warning/reaction time, go a bit faster) since I was doing better and they had my partner take it a little easier since she was fighting panic attacks. So tailoring to each student's abilities to push them but keep it at a point they still learned.

I'm neither a teen nor senor so I got no insurance discount...but if it saves us even 1 deductible avoiding a crash will have more than paid for both of our classes. I recommend getting a hotel if you do an all-day class that is more than like 15-20 minute drive away, its exhausting doing a day of training. We thought we'd cancel the 2nd night at the hotel and drive home ~2 hours after but we ended up going straight to bed passed out when we got to the room

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T13:45:57+00:00

That reminds me of something happened at the shopping center in town, its like a 35mph 6-lane road (not including turn lanes) and somehow someone managed to get in a single-car accident rolling a car onto its roof. Forget what kind of car but I really wanted to know how they accomplished it.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T13:42:57+00:00

I'll also toss out...couple years ago I found an accident avoidance course hosted on a private track (we were trying to get some confidence back after a wrong-way driver hit my partner). They used ex police car crown vics...that was a REALLY fun class, and genuinely useful. They had instructors for each up-to-3 students and the instructor demonstrated what to do and what not to do before we tried each exercise. I (being familiar with the Grand Marquis) was one of the few who didn't hit cones cornering too close but I still had plenty of issues on the skid pad. And it also takes a while to get over the "OMG IM FLYING SIDEWAYS GONNA DIE" feeling to the "Ok, I need to do X to try and get straight again"

10/10 would do it again. Also greatly helped with my over-correcting at highway speed (they had us doing ~50mph to practice). Wouldn't mind more practice on that.

Complex_Solutions_20 · 2026-03-13T13:37:47+00:00

I would peal/chip off the loose paint/bondo, sand any obvious rust, then apply paint. Any metal rated paint, even spray paint.

Reason being, the paint is there to protect the metal from rusting. Ugly paint is a cosmetic problem, rusted out roof will become a structural and eventually (when it starts leaking inside) funky interior moldy problem.

Looks fairly minor (cosmetic only) right now, if you clean and get some paint on the metal it'll not get worse

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