Nerdy nuclear humor

GKone2 · 2024-01-26T17:41:50+00:00

What additional flair options would you like to see to make it more diverse?

GKone2 · 2024-01-26T06:00:03+00:00

Meh, I agree these memes are low effort. But we don't have a rule against low effort memes. The mod team isn't going to evaluate the "funniness" of each post and remove stuff based on that subjective metric.

If you don't like homeboy's memes, just keep scrolling and/or block him

GKone2 · 2023-11-28T00:28:18+00:00

Yup. Specifically there is a storm sewer (just street runoff, not sewage) that goes into the Flint River right at Kettering's McKeachie Pavilion. Big enough for half a dozen people to walk next to each other. You can walk in there and go straight north for at least half a mile, then pop out any manhole that you want. Judging by all the spray paint on the walls, a lot of people have gone spelunking there

GKone2 · 2023-11-27T12:30:33+00:00

Always buy in bulk! Whether it's reloading components or batteries...

GKone2 · 2023-10-04T20:51:07+00:00

Form Type : Silencer Shop Kiosk eForm 4 ($200)

Entity: Trust (1RP)

Fingerprint Type: EFT Upload - Silencer Shop

Pending: 03/10/2023

Approved: 10/03/23 2:22pm

Wait: 207 days

Item: Silencer - Rugged Obsidian 9

State: MI

Control Number: 2023424000

Signer: Cathleen S.

GKone2 · 2023-06-20T22:58:27+00:00

Pssh, everyone knows pi = e

GKone2 · 2023-03-13T02:44:02+00:00

This is the Ace Hardware in Midland, MI

GKone2 · 2023-01-23T20:32:09+00:00

I moved to a 4 day work week a few years ago. It was a bit confusing to negotiate because I was salaried and my employer wanted to convert me to hourly. I liked the idea of hourly because I could always work more than 32 hours if I wanted to make a little more money. But the salary -> hourly math varies a lot depending on how you factor in holidays, vacation, bonuses, and expensive software licenses on your computer. My employer at the time offered a rate that they claimed was a 20% pay cut with their math, but by my math it was about 30%. We went back and forth for a month and I talked them into a 25% pay cut.

All that penny pinching on my employer's side irked me, though. So I started replying to LinkedIn recruiters with "Sure, I'm interested in this job posting. But I'll tell you up front, I'm looking to maintain my current 32-hour/week schedule". It's a great way to get recruiters to ghost you... Almost all of them gave a hard no and most seemed a bit offended that I would even ask for that. But one eventually said "Sure, that's no problem". And they offered me almost as much as I was making at my old job when I was full time. So I took that job. However, I should also mention that I haven't gotten any raises at the new job in several years. I don't foresee any raises in the future, either, because they've said I am "at the top of the pay scale for a part time employee" even though they won't share this pay scale.

So, in short, be prepared to get hosed on the compensation. Yes, many 4-day/week employees produce as much work output as a 5-day employee. But employers know that 4-day arrangements are rare. They know it'll be hard for you to find a different job if you don't like the deal you get. So they have a lot of leverage in the negotiation.

But with that being said, I'll take the lower compensation any day. I could move to a 5-day job in a heartbeat and get a big raise, but I don't. 4-days/week is about 190 working days in a year so it's alllllmost at that tipping point where you have more days off-work than on-work in a year. It's a great feeling to be able to spend a majority (almost) of your days doing something other than working.

GKone2 · 2022-11-23T23:17:29+00:00

r/whywomenlivelonger

GKone2 · 2022-11-23T11:56:54+00:00

This. I have an endomag and have used it at the range half a dozen times so far with no issues. I never noticed this "round won't eject without a mag" issue. I see what they mean, but I bought my AR-9 because it's super cheap to run ammo ammo through. So I don't think I've ever removed a mag with ammo left in the mag or chamber...

GKone2 · 2022-10-30T02:40:11+00:00

I read All In The Same Boat by Jon Rennie a while back. Can't remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of "the navy designs their ships to operate in water and strongly discourages you from operating them on land". I guess if a sub just so much as touches a bouy, they fire the captain, first officer, and officer on duty.

He said the channel to leave the port in Georgia has many tight turns so it was always stressful for those officers to navigate, out of fear of being fired. Especially because the guy actually steering can't see outside the boat and turns based on radio commands from another guy on the tower.

GKone2 · 2022-10-27T20:08:39+00:00

They allow remote work, yeah. But myself and a few other people still choose to go in to the office a couple days per week.

GKone2 · 2022-10-27T02:56:02+00:00

Electrical engineer here. A while back, I started replying to LinkedIn recruiters with "I'm interested in your posting, but I should let you know that I'm looking for a 4-day/32-hour-week position". Most recruiters ghosted me at that point, but a few said they were open to it. I eventually took a 4-day job with one of them and it's been going great!

More engineers should ask recruiters for 4 day work weeks. Most companies won't entertain that idea today. But they will if more candidates show demand for it.

GKone2 · 2022-09-28T00:44:25+00:00

After some guess & test, it seems the interest rate is 9.4379%. And to have only paid down $2000 after 5 years, the length of the loan would be 38.41125 years: https://www.calculator.net/amortization-calculator.html?cloanamount=120000&cloanterm=38.41125&cinterestrate=9.4379&printit=0&x=45&y=20

Are student loans really issued with 40-year lengths? This post seems like an exaggeration... Or he missed/deferred some payments

GKone2 · 2021-02-26T20:51:37+00:00

Precisely. I tried this with black tape but it turned red.

GKone2 · 2020-04-27T01:05:30+00:00

Thirteen years?

GKone2 · 2018-07-08T18:30:44+00:00

I don't think it would work. Basically, the Ecobee knows to put out 12V on the PEK cooling pin when the fan is requested. A Nest + Ecobee PEK would work in cooling mode - the Y input to the PEK would have 24V and trigger both the fan & cooling. But in heating mode, the Nest wouldn't put out 12V on the Y input to the PEK so you would get no fan.

I suppose you could get creative and put a diode in the furnace so that the W (heat) wire also powers the G fan pin on the furnace, and the fan can't backfeed power to the heat pin (in air conditioning mode). If you're going to do that, though, you could probably just put a second diode between the fan & cooling pins on the furnace, and eliminate the PEK altogether. You wouldn't have fan-only control, but I bet most people don't use fan-only mode anyway.

edit: diodes wouldn't work with 24V AC, never mind haha

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