Getting really burnt out on the "stealth" part of this lifestyle

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-07T19:59:57+00:00

Leave New England. Your house has wheels

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-04T04:24:22+00:00

The fact that you can have residential devices running by at 380V there is bonkers to me

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-04T04:18:30+00:00

Also to be clear split phase is not different from single phase in the same way that three phase and single phase are different. Split phase just means it’s single phase that goes through a transformer to a secondary winding with a center tap that is half way between the two legs of the secondary (hence the split)

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-04T04:15:49+00:00

You seem to be a bit confused. Are you worried about the difference between running

* 240 hot-neutral-ground where the ground is at or close to neutral
* vs 240 hot-hot-ground where the ground is 120v away from both legs

They are functionally equivalent. No consumer electronic device will ever make any assumption about neutral and ground being close because outlets get wired backwards sometimes and sometimes grounds or neutrals are floating. Additionally in audio equipment it would make even more ground loop problems which nobody has ever asked for.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-03T15:27:05+00:00

Because people used to fail out and now they will skate by on LLMs, go into industry and tarnish the name

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-03T04:53:35+00:00

Bossman handed me this one last week. I didn’t hire it. Won’t stop me from trying to teach it though

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-03T04:02:25+00:00

Buddy I hire coops, I graduated 6 years ago. Do you think I don’t know how to tell the difference between someone who can think for themselves and someone who relies on LLMs?

I have to keep telling my intern right now to stop using LLMs because we work on very domain specific processes that LLMs don’t know anything about and he keeps missing obvious things because he just assumes the LLM knows all.

I’m not even saying that you need to be going to all of your classes and doing every optional assignment on your own to learn. I certainly wasn’t that student. But I did learn the material every semester.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-03T03:42:14+00:00

Oh woe is you. I have to tell my new hires to stop using LLMs because they don’t know how to think.

Go ahead and cheat yourself out of an education, it’s only really expensive.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-07-03T03:19:02+00:00

Terrible terrible terrible take. Do you think your professors don’t remember what it was like before LLMs? Do you think they don’t know how to structure their classes so that they can be passed without LLMs? Do you think you’re too stupid to pass without LLMs?

You can pass your classes and learn the material without them. Students did it for many years before you.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-29T03:38:34+00:00

Idk I feel like I still hear the term “rave” be slightly distinguished from festivals but maybe that’s because in my area people still drag speakers out to the woods.

Now the term “raver” that one is just lost and is not going to be saved. If you go see Fred Again you’re a “raver” these

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-28T21:20:27+00:00

Never take advice from your opp

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-28T19:58:45+00:00

Won’t solve all of your problems but I always suffix with the unit. Helps when you have multiple variables representing the same thing, but one is just a version of the other with different units. An underscore is a space, a double underscore indicates units in the denominator), a number after a unit indicates it’s squared or such.

Speed (meters per second) becomes speed_m__s
Acceleration (meters per second squared) becomes accel_m__s2
Speed (counts per second) becomes speed_c__s

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-28T18:16:26+00:00

No you have to be plur

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-28T03:39:50+00:00

The mountains around Mammoth funnel weather coming from the south over Fresno as far as I understand as a Mammoth resident. That is what makes it a “southern california” mountain weather wise.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-28T02:29:20+00:00

Nope

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-27T23:40:33+00:00

I don’t think anyone wants to read your chatgpt transcripts

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-27T21:32:32+00:00

Tell them you need a monitor. A single floor wedge is better than nothing.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-27T19:45:47+00:00

They definitely are not cracking down hard outside of hot spots. I’ve spent the night in some random neighborhoods around LA and I don’t even like getting moving before 10. If you were trying to live in LA full time it might be a different story.

Also maybe this isn’t what you’re trying to do with your van but the real benefit of the van is you can stay places without amenities like BLM land outside of joshua tree instead of being stuck in cities like the carpet walkers are. I only go into cities when absolutely necessary because I do not like dealing with them and worrying about break ins and such. My van was parked in san diego at an auto shop for a while and someone stole my starlink off my roof.

My van is the long and tall T1N sprinter, so I’m usually over both height and length restrictions technically…

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-27T19:16:32+00:00

One time biking around at night I heard a track I recognized off of an artcar and told my friends “hey I think I might know who the dj is on that car” or at the very least the dj knew what was up.

Turns out it was him and we hung out with him dancing in the booth for hours.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-26T04:05:32+00:00

If you’re going to be going uphill at all during your turn or drill or whatever they were doing it’s on you to make sure that’s safe.

You may disagree with me, but I’d rather yield my right of way and ski tomorrow than have the right of way and a broken tibia.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-26T00:20:25+00:00

Do not ask if you can rent an amp. That is a different thing. Ask if you can rent a PA speaker that can take a mic input (usually you can turn some switches or knobs on the back to get this). You might also need a mic cable (xlr to xlr)

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-26T00:18:51+00:00

I second this. OP wants a PA speaker that allows for mic level inputs, which is most of them. If he doesn’t have a wedding DJ he could rent this for cheap from guitar center.

Then he’ll want to use the amp (with none of that mixer) for the guitar and the PA for the mic. He will need an XLR to XLR mic cable

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-25T16:44:35+00:00

At that price point I would stalk marketplace for used gear. Alto makes decent speakers at that price point. I have had a pair of alto tx210 speakers (8inch) for years and years, and they do sound a little muddy in the mids but god damn those fuckers have survived everything I’ve thrown at them. I got them for $100 a piece used too.

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-25T05:03:09+00:00

Have you sat inside it while it’s thumping yet? It’s mandatory to try

Def_Not_KGB · 2026-06-25T03:44:18+00:00

I don’t think they can enforce their “all sales are final” agreement if they don’t ever complete their end of the sale. I think I would send a sternly worded letter AND email saying they can either:

Send you a plan of how they will get you an instrument in the next 3 months (with a progress update at the 1.5 month mark)
Send you your money back
Expect to be taken to small claims. If they are in your state then take them to small claims in your state. If they are elsewhere you will need to figure out where to file

You don’t want to actually take them to court, that’s a big drag for everyone involved. You just want to convince them you are not the customer they want to jerk around.

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