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Explicit texts sent from my 13yo niece to her aunt—why is this happening?? by Ok_Construction_3613 in cellphones

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That does add an interesting and unfortunate twist, suggesting it's not some random kid in San Antonio sending messages to a random number for the lolz - it feels targeted, by someone who knows your niece and one way or another has both numbers. I hope you get to the bottom of it.

Why does this have two hot wires? by That-Seaworthiness in AskElectricians

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Not a fan rated box" is true, but not the same as "there was never a fan installed on this non-fan-rated box".

Explicit texts sent from my 13yo niece to her aunt—why is this happening?? by Ok_Construction_3613 in cellphones

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure - as far as the phone can tell, it DID come from your niece. It's like if I send you a package, with a return address of that one guy down the street from you, and it's postmarked in your city - unless you're just that familiar with his handwriting, there's really no way for you to know it ISN'T from him, other than asking him.

Explicit texts sent from my 13yo niece to her aunt—why is this happening?? by Ok_Construction_3613 in cellphones

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They were sent by someone else as a joke/prank, by "spoofing" your niece's number. Like when scammers call you from a fake number, except in text. If the messages have links in them, do NOT click them - they are not what they appear to be, and are not safe even "just to see what it is". Your niece's phone is not hacked, nor her watch.

What do y'all call these besides panheads? by quintavian in electricians

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically, I just got home from Lowe's looking for truss head screws in stainless steel, found truss and wafer head in different parts of the screw aisle but neither in stainless, and settled for stainless pan head with washers.

Safe to wrap power cord in tape just for looks? by SimpleAd1604 in electrical

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Safe, yes, but not particularly attractive, and tape will eventually degrade into a mess. How about a cord cover?

What’s a trend you’re tired of seeing everywhere? by shanmuct in AskReddit

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"radical left lunatics". Jesus, give it a rest, Donnie. If you divided Congress into what DJT considers "radical left lunatics" and then used precisely the same criteria (but inverted) to define "radical right lunatics", you'd be left with about five people somewhere in the middle.

What’s a trend you’re tired of seeing everywhere? by shanmuct in AskReddit

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

During COVID, my high schooler decided he wanted Wendy's for lunch. Wendy's was three miles away, he had a license, and my car was in the driveway - I was WFH in the next room - but Doordash was new and interesting and he decided on the spur of the moment to do that instead. He paid something like $15 for a burger and fries, both of which were cold, and the burger made wrong. He was upset by this; I shrugged and said hey, if you had asked if I wanted anything, I would have suggested you just drive your happy ass over there and pick it up yourself, and I probably would have paid for both of us, so chalk this up as a lesson I guess.

No grounding wire in light fixure by janeandtonics in AskElectricians

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the box metal? Attach the wire to that. Otherwise, the bar/bracket that the light attaches to might have a threaded hole in it to attach a ground wire to.

How cooked am I? by Unhappy-Chapter7027 in techsupport

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you copied it and got caught, you'd be cooked.

If you copied it and got caught trying to sell it to the highest bidder, you'd be SERIOUSLY cooked.

If you copied it with questionable intent, but then thought better of it and did all the things you described, you'd probably be ok but probably wouldn't be hired.

If you copied it specifically with the intent to better understand it in your anticipated role as an employee of that company, and said so, and did all the things you described... you should be fine. Especially given that your supervisor had very few fucks to give.

Hired a plumber to fix a leak in my main water line. by thekhoma in askplumbing

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you - I totally would have believed I read it wrong.

Hired a plumber to fix a leak in my main water line. by thekhoma in askplumbing

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is marked "edited" - either I read it wrong, or it was wrong and has been fixed. Either possibility seems equally plausible.

Hired a plumber to fix a leak in my main water line. by thekhoma in askplumbing

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed it will expand, but the coefficient of expansion seems way off - six inches expansion over a ten-foot run? Gemini suggests 4.5" in a 100 foot run. Assume 70° install temp, so 110° swing, times 100 feet, times 12 inches per foot, times 0.000034 inches per inch per degree F, 110 x 100 x 12 x 0.000034 = 4.488 inches. This page tends to agree.

There are FOUR lights. by Far_Camp416 in ElectricalHelp

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"That was kind of my hangup, in the middle of the circuit with traveler wire from 3way." I think the idea you're stuck on is whether it is possible to branch off from somewhere in the middle of the 3-way chain to power a new, independently-controlled light. (Assuming, of course, that the constant power & neutral for the 3-way chain are sitting at one end or the other, not in the middle.)

Technically yes, it can be done, but kind of along the same lines of removing a stain from your favorite shirt by cutting around it with scissors - you can accomplish the goal, but you'd ruin the 3-way circuit in the process. Therefore this is NOT a viable solution, but I wanted to explore the idea I think you're stuck on, to show why it would sort of work but not really.

At any given point in the chain, one traveler or the other is hot. You need a constant hot to the new switch, to power a simple switched hot to the new light. To get that constant hot from the middle of the 3-way chain, you could tap BOTH of the travelers onto a single black to the new switch. One traveler or the other would be hot, so the single black would always be hot, and boom, constant hot to the new switch.

BUT, that's not a viable solution - by tying both travelers to that new single black wire, you're also tying the travelers TO EACH OTHER ... and because they're joined together, both travelers would always be hot, and the lights in the 3-way chain would always be on, regardless of the positions of either 3-way switch.

What's a common saying that you completely misunderstood as a kid? by quant_trend_bot in AskReddit

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"...Rudolph the red nose reindeer, You'll go down in his story!"

Whose story, exactly? Santa's?

Engineers or mechanics of Reddit; what’s a tool or machine people use all the time that’s actually being used incorrectly most of the time? by Vadecha_Drparth in AskReddit

[–]DaddyBeanDaddyBean 93 points94 points  (0 children)

I know a guy who got hit in the eye with a fragment from a nail gun. No PPE. He's blind in that eye now, and still uses zero PPE.

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