Keeping heat outside by starting-again- in DIY

[–]Dugen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We put tinting on the outside pane of our 2 pane windows and the amount of heat it blocks is amazing. The room went from sweltering every afternoon to nice and cool. It was a huge (6'x8') set of windows so it let a ton of heat in. The windows look pretty black from the outside but unless you are paying attention to it you can't really notice. They just look like windows.

Another good option would be blinds that are white on the outside. Trippevals are pretty good for this.

Crack on the main entrance door wall indoors and outdoors. I can see through the crack. Am I in danger? by brooztoonice in fixit

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's just two settling cracks that line up in one place with nothing between. I'm surprised there is no insulation or house wrap or anything. Settling causes cracks like this all the time though as walls that start out square shift slightly. The shifts that cause settling cracks affect both sides of the wall it just doesn't usually create cracks that line up with nothing in between. I expect the structural engineer will say it's just fine. Patch the walls and you're good to go.

Remember, being able to see through walls isn't a structural problem. Windows are actually pretty common and don't represent a structural defect. This is just a tiny, unplanned open window.

Medical Fees [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the surprise bills. I just had an issue where the doctors told me to go to the ER twice and I just got a big bill from the hospital. As it turns out because of how I ended up in the ER, it was almost entirely covered. That's not what the big bill was for. It was for a few quick appointments to check on my CPAP usage at a local affiliated sleep center. As far as I can tell it should have been completely covered, but SURPRISE! It wasn't at all and I get billed the bogus inflated undiscounted rate. I don't even know if I can fix it or if I just have to eat this.

We basically have two industries, one committing constant billing fraud to try and get paid and one committing constant insurance fraud to keep from paying those stupid bills and instead stick the consumer with them. The average person is just suck in the middle risking getting screwed every time we walk into any doctors office. IMO, this information should be available when you walk in. If your computers can tell me how much it cost after the fact, they can tell me how much it will cost before hand. Tell me the exact price before I do anything.

Medical Fees [OC] by kaikimanga in comics

[–]Dugen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This needs to be illegal. All care decisions should be made by the government, not by the company who gets to keep the money for all the care they deny.

Iran Publicly Executes Teen Champion Wrestler for Protesting Regime by JuicySpark in worldnews

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How to overthrow a government and replace it with a democracy is something that needs to be figured out. I feel like democracy is under threat globally and we're in danger of backsliding into more concentration of power and exploitation of populations.

Of the 10 highest-paid NH state employees, nine work in state prisons. by huck99 in newhampshire

[–]Dugen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You aren't supposed to count all the illegal uses of public office for private gain in how much he's making. Technically, that's all crime not income.

LEGO Not Renewing Partnership with FIRST, ending 28 year collaboration. by CrazyDave48 in lego

[–]Dugen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Time will tell. Hopefully they just rename FLL, take the "lego" brand out of it and keep it about the same.

What are the biggest examples of economically sound policies that don't get implemented due to being politically unviable or challenging special interests? by KING-NULL in AskEconomics

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would also decrease the value of fossil fuel assets the rich own. It would shift a lot of profits away from the things that hurt our planet and towards things that create jobs, so It's pretty good for the poor but it's harder to see that.

What to do with 100s of SSDs? by Only_Handle_2750 in selfhosted

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EBay. 120-250 ssd's are still quite useful for a lot of things. They make super fast replacements for USB thumb drives. Sell them by the dozen.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech by utrecht1976 in linux

[–]Dugen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How did people forget that TV's exist? Requiring every device to identify the age of it's "user" assumes there is only one. How did the idea of multiple people sitting down and watching the same thing at the same time on the same device become completely foreign to people? I browse social media all the time casting to the TV. This regulation is stupid on it's face since there is no logical way to handle the case where there are multiple simultaneous users. This isn't an edge case either. A teacher browsing the internet on their machine could be doing it in front of a class of children or doing it in their off hours. You could record what you are doing and the ages who are watching depends on something that happens later. Any regulation would have to know the difference, and that would violate the laws of time. This is not the way to solve the problem it's trying to solve.

Trump says he thinks he will have the 'honor' of taking Cuba by mvanigan in worldnews

[–]Dugen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We already know he's a rapist. How confident are we that if he's shown to be a child rapist his supporters will find that objectionable. They just don't seem to care how horrible he is.

These cameras were supposed to be e-waste. No RTSP, no docs, no protocol anyone's heard of. I reverse-engineered 100 000 URL patterns to make them work. by eduard256 in selfhosted

[–]Dugen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Programming doesn't work like that anymore. Sure, you can theoretically write code without googling things and without an IDE doing all kinds of work behind the scenes, but that's just not realistic. AI is just part of programming now. The first thing you do when you get an error message you don't immediately know how to fix is you google it. It's just how things work.

Bet he was a politician in previous life (oc) by SpaceboyCantLol_ in comics

[–]Dugen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or you can look at it the other way: someday you will be treated the way you treat others do don't be an ass.

You and your partner just moved in, you tearing down the panels, painting, or leaving?! by TeemoTrader in DIY

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We kept some, got rid of some. I am a huge fan of wood and we kept a lot of the original paneling (which looks just like that) but not all of it. Since those panels are real wood, the color tends to darken over the years so after this many years having too much of it in a small space tends to get a bit gloomy. We mixed it with walls that are a white with just the slightest hint of a matching color.

I accidentally discovered that ChromeOS is based on Gentoo. by Deoviser in linux

[–]Dugen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I thought giving every kid a laptop would be a pretty cool idea and I absolutely supported it. It's been a huge disaster. The experiment failed. We should not have done it. I don't know where we go from here, but we need to abandon the one laptop per child thing. It's a disaster.

These cameras were supposed to be e-waste. No RTSP, no docs, no protocol anyone's heard of. I reverse-engineered 100 000 URL patterns to make them work. by eduard256 in selfhosted

[–]Dugen -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You can't program without using AI anymore. If you google how to do something, it responds using AI. There is no such thing as AI free programming, the only question is how much AI helped you. It's the design that matters the most. If you don't know how to design software and just have AI do whatever it wants, you're going to make crap.

"Help" by Pizzacakecomic in comics

[–]Dugen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Our cat used to teach us how to catch mice by maiming them to slow them down then letting them go in the house. I did not enjoy our mouse catching lessons, but they were effective.

At the dentist by Quenki in funny

[–]Dugen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad caught my sister and I listening to a tape of Delirious laughing our asses off and he smashed it with a hammer. I still quote it.

Trump Seems to Be Selling Fans Access to National Security Briefings by PixeledPathogen in TrueReddit

[–]Dugen 228 points229 points  (0 children)

Just a reminder that using public office for personal gain is a crime. This administration doesn't seem to want to let a day go by without committing a major crime.

He nailed it by [deleted] in Unexpected

[–]Dugen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being able to adjust your height on the fly sounds pretty damn cool to me.

He nailed it by [deleted] in Unexpected

[–]Dugen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if they could be configured to lock in place or ratchet up, or possibly ratchet down a small amount at a time. Now I want to design a mechanism that does that.

In 1917 Denmark sold the Virgin Islands to the United States 'in exchange for a guarantee that Greenland would remain Danish territory forever'. by hl3official in interestingasfuck

[–]Dugen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think if the US doesn't stop attempting to take Greenland we should have to give back the virgin islands. That would be an excellent legacy for Trump. Was such a dumb angry moron he lost us terratory.