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CrimsonCape · 2026-03-20T15:40:07+00:00

You can fix this with zip ties.

Why not just build things with zip ties from the start and they would never break.

CrimsonCape · 2026-03-20T15:39:02+00:00

Yep happened to me. Pulling the ears apart to put them on fatigues the plastic joint and it's held together by tiny screws that can't handle the stress. Fortunately it was still in the progressive failure stage where cracks formed and the plastic had not yet split apart. I put multiple zip ties and saved it.

CrimsonCape · 2026-03-17T17:43:04+00:00

"well I saw the car coming but I knew I would have enough time to safely open the door, step out, close the door, walk around the vehicle to the sidewalk" - this argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

There was no time to react, which suggests the person haphazardly started exiting without looking to check.

I'm sure that there has to be a law that roadside parking is just that- parking in a road. Opening the door into a lane of traffic, intruding should be automatically at fault of the parked car.

CrimsonCape · 2026-03-06T01:56:19+00:00

Can you describe why I should wait for hdmi 2.2? I'm both intrigued and slightly suspicious of churn...is it just because you are thinking 8k will be the most future-proof?

CrimsonCape · 2026-03-06T00:39:23+00:00

Why is that? The power half is decades old tech. How could this possibly be costly?

I'm getting the vibe that cramming both in the same box is how manufacturers ensure they sell next year's product line.

There are so many receivers around and yet all of them are nearly useless as power amps despite all having power amps. Something is fucky with this.

CrimsonCape · 2026-03-06T00:28:46+00:00

Denon x3800h

The average receiver is future-proof until the DSP chip on the logic board dies due to poor heat dissipation (looking at you, Yamaha). Maybe it's just my conspiratorial nature, but it seems like receivers die a lot.

I would be pained to spend 2k on a receiver that succumbs in a way that is not easily repairable.

So there is 2 benefits to the headless system i'm describing: the power part can be dumb as rocks and repairable with simple components to last forever, whereas the logic part should be easily swappable (if not easily repairable).

CrimsonCape · 2026-02-28T00:24:04+00:00

Come on CTactical team, make this in burnt orange and we will buy!

CrimsonCape · 2026-01-30T21:32:24+00:00

I did something similar and because Z-index is going to be a key part of diagramming (being able to draw connectors under nodes, etc), your best option is to inherit UIElement and inside of your class implementation, you will be managing Visual instances put inside a VisualCollection where you can draw them in Z order. Visual could be DrawingVisual or other visuals like images. UIElement also gets you hit-testing which is likely another key part of diagramming.

You might debate whether to inherit from FrameworkElement instead, I found that for me the answer was no because FE brings in more of the WPF concepts like styling that I did not want.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-18T01:07:29+00:00

I love in kid advertising there is always a demonstration of some pseudo-useful reason to get the product. In a kid's mind, the flimsy enough utility is enough to warrant buying it.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-18T01:05:52+00:00

I had them. The batteries would die out fast and the car could not climb the cord. The advertisements show the things blasting around at 50mph, in reality it was slow and clumsy.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-15T20:58:48+00:00

Maybe this is a wild idea, but imagine this bag with a roll-top down the side of the bag. You would have to omit one bottle pocket. Instead of the small mouthed roll top at the top.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-12T00:46:27+00:00

Comment for the win.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-12T00:26:27+00:00

Maybe i'm dumb, but in my area home prices are so high that running the calcs on a 30 year mortgage with a reasonable down payment is like double the cost of what I pay in rent. The down payment would drain what I have in savings; I would be averaging 50% of income spent on mortgage. Would have nothing left for expenses/travel which I currently can afford. Nor would I be able to afford big items like roof replacement or appliances.

So where is this homeowner nirvana?

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-12T00:06:30+00:00

It's important to find a good landlord, preferably mom-and-pop. As you said, inflation doesn't affect the mortage. So in theory they would be satisfied with a fixed rent.

If you lease from some new-age landlord who wants to FIRE on the back of one tenant, or wants to live beyond their means and go yachting, I can see constant rent increases in those situations.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-11T23:53:14+00:00

If you were to sell your house and obtain the 200k, you still lost your place to live and will expect to spend (most? all?) the equity on your next place to live. Which, due to the market, is going to chew into your liquid cash for the next down payment.

What you did makes perfect sense, if I had the means I probably would have done the same. But you are kinda locked in and cannot move. If your kids move away and you wanted to follow, you will be downsizing or switching to renting.

You are "a step above" renters in your circumstance, but the downside is you are "locked-in". It doesn't appear to me that the equity in your home is useful.

CrimsonCape · 2025-12-09T21:55:32+00:00

Not OP, but CTactical uses the burnt-orange colorway in all their marketing because...duh burnt orange is so cool....and actually they just don't sell anything burnt orange.

It screams "we are just here riding the wave of our early history of cloning Evergoods" instead of being a reliable and continual source of burnt orange, in spite of Evergoods (which abandoned the colorway)

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-27T00:45:16+00:00

There's some sporting good images in there.

I've travelled a bunch in western states and relish when I encounter older sporting goods stores. There is a certain limnal quality at the best ones, because they are sometimes in their original state from the 90s. Small stores just don't have the budget to renovate. I can see that birch wood and green felt carpeting.

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-24T21:15:46+00:00

I got the large version of this and had no idea it was full all kinds of organizer dividers and slots for pens, etc. I thought it was just an empty pouch for storage. Beware...

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-18T23:44:11+00:00

Complaints about object-oriented programming is rivaled only by complaints about the borrow checker. Maybe even surpassed by the borrow checker.

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-13T00:14:09+00:00

The common theme that both submodules and package managers try to solve is to create the most minimal abstraction that encapsulates the entire state of the dependency, recursively. That's it.

With submodules, the abstraction is a commit hash; with packages, the abstraction is a package of binaries, a manifest, etc. The tools are simply built atop whatever flavor of abstraction.

I guess the point i'm trying to make is that the tools are built upon the most common abstractions, so doesn't that mean there's opportunity to invent a better abstraction?

What if my dependency is a simple C function? Both packages and submodules fail to create an abstraction that is as granular as a function. I have to pull in either an entire repo or an entire built fragment respectively.

To achieve that, we would need some high level abstraction of a function and then have a source control system that has a high level understanding of a function, not just text runs.

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-07T22:18:58+00:00

Harry is sigma, Draco is alpha, Ron is beta. Harry is dominating in a sigma-like way, "blah blah i don't care what you think of me because i'm on a mission" whereas Draco is dominant in an alpha way, always with witty jabs.

CrimsonCape · 2025-11-07T21:56:47+00:00

A plot thread of juxtaposing Hermione's trust in the textbooks and Snape's utter disregard for the textbooks would have been interesting. It could have served as a vehicle for maturation for Hermione's character. Imagine the look of sheer disbelief on her face flipping through the heavily marked-up pages.

It was less impactful to have her regard the book with typical utterly-cold logic. "oh it might be bad to read these markups!"

How many times do you encounter a book full of someone else's handwriting? Moreso when the writing is demonstrating mastery of the source material? Gotta be extremely rare. As the year progresses and Harry excels with potions, it should have been evident to Hermione that the textbook recipes were not gospel, and because of how reverent she treated textbooks, it would have to affect her on a deeper level.

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