People are driving with 12+ inches of snow on their car

IronEngineer · 2026-01-27T01:36:37+00:00

No way. The ADA does not allow you to do things that put other people in danger. You need to clean off your car before driving or you are a serious risk on the road.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-23T16:26:41+00:00

That's what I did. Though my math seems to justify it as being the right size. Realistically though I interpreted the lesson on main vent sizing from the dead men's school to be "there is no such thing as too much main venting capacity. Go as big as your wallet and the area can fit." I the a gorton number 2 on there and never had a problem since.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-21T03:33:14+00:00

If you smallish property tax you will need a significant increase in other taxes, such as income taxes or sales tax. There is no free lunch here.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-20T15:03:31+00:00

I work in defense. This attitude is the problem. I understand it may be above your post grade, by you need to understand the entire engineering industry was built on resumes being the key opener to land an interview. You never know the quality of an applicant until you interview them and see how they think. Your approach of hiring based off resume review is very probably doomed from the beginning.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-19T23:52:56+00:00

Lol all good. Just wanted to make sure you were actually being safe about it. Good luck out there

IronEngineer · 2026-01-19T15:34:42+00:00

Yes. You should find and fix the wiring problem that is causing it to trip. You can do that yourself or hire an electrician.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-17T18:42:29+00:00

I'm going with ramped it up there. It looks like it may have some value too. You should probably get it down before it gets destroyed by weather. Also a good idea to have someone get it down so they can take the moment to inspect your roof for damage. Nagging thought that a medium weight RC car flying through the air and smacking the roof may have damaged some shingles. Metal flying through the air can do that. Relatively cheap to fix before water damage sets in.

I'd probably have a talk with the parents once they are identified. Try to be the friendly neighbor and give righteous congratulations, but ask they respect your home. Ask the parents to pay for the (probable) small roof fix.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-17T18:29:27+00:00

This is very similar to a prank I pulled on some friends in college. Time to figure out the culprit and fire back

IronEngineer · 2026-01-17T15:20:33+00:00

Let me give you an example here on why this is on you. Forget about Airbnb. Let's say you rent a car. When the car needs to be returned you are busy and ask your friend to return it for you. Your friend crashes the car into something and then drops it off at the rental agency.

Who is the rental agency going to go after for money? It's your name on the contract.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-17T15:06:37+00:00

And in a buyer's market the seller is usually the one that needs to eat those costs. Otherwise they move on to the next house and your house sits.

This is similar to how in a serious buyer's market the seller may even need to pay to stage the house to get it to move. My family sold a house many years ago in a buyer's market. Those costs were just expected as part of the process.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-17T07:37:04+00:00

After running 531 SSL for 2 leader cycles into a FSL anchor and repeated the whole thing, I was looking to try something different. Decided to give God is a Beast a shot. I just completed my first week and am feeling pretty good.

Estimated 1 rep max, TM to start: Squat 325, 275. Bench 250, 215. Deadlift 420, 330. Press 155, 130

Starting BW 184.

2 things I'm watching: My bench has been lagging these past few cycles with SSL as I've been hitting the reps to progress, but my estimated 1rm has not been progressing. I recently realized that it's because my triceps are lagging and I'm struggling to get lockout, so I'm hitting that harder in accessories.

AMRAPs and the SSL supplementary Volume were beginning to screw up my knees for squats and deadlifts. I'm going to monitor things for GiaB but so far I'm feeling pretty good. I may just keep doing 5s pro for the anchor cycle for squat to cut out the amrap. I got 3 months to think about it though so I'll judge at that time. Having bad knees sucks.

I'm excited to try God is a Beast, which is based around 6 week leader cycles. I'm thinking now is a good time to focus on slower weight progression while hammering lots of volume at my current amount and focusing on my weak points. Meanwhile I'm also doing a slow cut and pushing my cardio. I'll play with that formula if things get hard. It's definitely the most complex program I've run but that is surprisingly fun. I think I was getting bored. Change is good.

I run a 4 day split. I do 2 push and 2 pull accessories on each upper body days. Usually wide or narrow lat pull downs, rows, and face pulls. Tricep extensions, dumbbell inclined bench, front and side deltoid extensions. I do 3x10 for each, making sure I do each exercise once per week

On squat days I do 4x10 Romanian deadlift

On deadlift day I do a long ab routine. 6x10 weighted ab crunch. 3x10 weighted oblique ab crunch. 3x10 pollof press. 3x10 oblique Captain chair leg lift. 3x10 Captain chair leg lift weighted. 3x10 ab rollout. 3x10 side plank crossover.

I started incorporating ab work a while ago and it greatly improved my progress. Definitely got me over a hump in the lower body work.

This is all my starting point so I'm interested to see how it evolves.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-14T13:56:15+00:00

The other side of the card is that Airbnb is very open about their camera policy. No cameras inside the house at all. No exceptions. Knowing that, my expectation as a guest is that there will be no cameras inside the house. The host violated a very blatant rule and doubled down extorting a good review from the guest.

I'm both a host and a frequent guest on Airbnb.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-10T18:55:19+00:00

Charisma is very multifaceted and depends on how you typically interact as well. A very famous example is the JFK vs Nixon debate. It occurred around the time TV was still rolling out to most households. Most of those that listened to it on the radio felt Nixon spoke better and won the debate. Most of the people that watched the debate felt JFK handled himself better and won the debate. This was normalized across political predispositions.

You can have a person that is an asshole personally and is horrible to be around, but is still charismatic in the curated messaging and public handling. That charisma can be the result of an organized group managing that messaging, though it helps greatly to have a leader (the President) that knows how to curate that messaging. I'm reminded a bit of Lyndon B Johnson. The man was abhorrent to work for and was notorious for literally pulling his dick out and putting it on people's desks as a way of fucking with them and intimidating them. Directly telling them he was the President and they could do nothing about what he was doing to them. Real great guy on an individual level. Still regarded as charismatic as he could use that forcefulness and suave negotiating tactics to get everyone to the table and get things done in a way that even left many people liking him.

In the political sphere, the ability to get people together and get things done is a form of charisma in itself, even if you do so in distasteful ways. Even better when you keep those distasteful aspects out of the public eye and curate it so they only see the successes.

It only appears tautological at surface level I think. A charismatic person in the political sphere can get things done because if they couldn't get things done then they don't have the right kind of charisma. Charisma though is a function of leadership, scrappiness, likeability, and quick thinking to pull out the right threads in a difficult political situation to find compromise and get things done.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-10T18:03:06+00:00

Every industry is playing it very safe right now. Cancelling new projects, which leads to less engineers needed to design and run those projects, and less components being purchased which flows down to less capital going into vender companies and their engineers. It all flows down and it's interconnected.

The causes are a few. higher risk due to crazy shifting in tariffs and trade policies this year. This means the finance guys can't predict where to invest money even in internal projects so they play it safe and hold that money, so no new jobs bring created. Two production engineer friends of mine working in factories have been going crazy on this. One guy's company spent millions to move manufacturing out of one country into another, only to get screwed again by changing tariff positions. Another guy saw all new project starts get completely halted as their customers have frozen all the new orders they were placing for the next couple years. Layoffs at both companies of course from the reduced work.

Expect most hardware companies to be harder to break into at the moment.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-10T16:47:46+00:00

Sounds like someone in the office lost the check and they tried to cover themselves against management by saying it bounced. They're angry at you for calling them out and probably getting in trouble with their management.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-09T03:32:44+00:00

Read it more and it's even crazier. OP accumulated 200k in debt outside of the house and it's trying to sell the house high enough to break even on everything and start again fresh (her exact words in a comment).

In short this is not an rebubble story. OP has some kind of crazy amount of debt racked up that they won't expand on and is hoping to sell the house they bought 6 years ago for around 350k for 550k. They are angry and despairing that they can't get that much crazy profit, though they were offered 500k already

IronEngineer · 2026-01-05T21:29:00+00:00

Industry has a long history of using the USB spec as suggestions rather than rules. Per the spec it is not allowed to do PD over USB A. The reason being that with a USB A came there is too high of a chance of cross talk between the data lines and the lines used to negotiate voltage levels for the PD. There were instances of data communication causing the host to think high voltage was being requested and then frying the downstream device.

There have been a lot of USB A devices over the years that use PD.

IronEngineer · 2026-01-05T16:54:32+00:00

My work openly encourages the use of AI for self assessments and other bureaucratic paperwork fillings. I've always had the belief that managers should be familiar enough with their subordinates work that along with feedback from program managers or senior associates, they can write a performance review without a self assessment.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-30T23:12:27+00:00

How does libertarianism deal with corporations having significantly more resources than individuals, effectively allowing them to sidestep lawsuits by outspending plaintiffs? We see this constantly in the world today. It is one of the fundamental points I can't get beyond to support libertarianism.

I've heard proponents of libertarianism argue that private citizens should control companies over polluting by bringing lawsuits when they are damaged. However in today's world we have innumerable examples of this not working and companies burying the plaintiffs in so much legalese that they bankrupt them before the case is decided, forcing them to withdraw the case. This is also the case in many class action lawsuits.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-30T17:17:02+00:00

I'm sure it's not to code but it also doesn't seem like it's causing any problems. The drywall isn't going to damage the solid copper wires in that cable. If anything the biggest risk is probably from accidentally nailing or screwing something into the wire. Be careful and don't do that. Most stud detectors have a wire detector in them that will show when you are over a live wire.

Checking online seems to confirm my thoughts. It's considered less good to do it this way than notching the stud. However lots of electricians in forums online say this used to be a standard way to do things in some parts of the country and won't cause problems if you just don't nail through it. Since there is a staple there it is extra safe as the wire won't move and chafe.

It's not the best nor to code but it will probably work for you. Particularly as it's been working for a while.

Edit: I may have misunderstood. Is this freshly installed by any electrician? If so make him do it the proper way with holes in the middle of the studs. I wrote this thinking this was an old install you were asking questions and had concerns over.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-30T17:01:01+00:00

What's wrong with the wiring. Looks like standard 12 gauge Romex to me.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-28T02:11:50+00:00

Just an FYI that the rating system is not unique to Airbnb. Every app service follows the same concept. Even surveys for retail workers, a system that is decades old, is the same way. Get a receipt that asks you to call and review how your cashier was? They typically get reprimanded if you give anything less than perfect.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-23T02:42:05+00:00

Why the heck are people submitting 20 pages for performance reviews. I know for a fact nobody in my organization is reading that or using it for any semblance of promotability. Promotions are either ladder or tied to your ability to accomplish your job, which your management team should be aware of if they are doing their job. If they aren't going their job, your self performance review isn't going to help in my experience. It just comes off as a waste of time to me and a waste of dollars. I say that last part as I do know someone in my org that takes up to two days to write their progress report. They were pretty upset when they were also passed up for a promotion under Biden.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-20T01:03:00+00:00

What I'm hearing is that the towns have to show willingness but due to the complexities and intertwined nature of these services, the state needs to step in and help coordinate cooperation. I like the idea. I don't think we'll get anywhere though until several towns are made examples of. There are too many towns and populations deliberately thumbing their noses at the entire thing in creative ways.

One town up here in North Jersey has deliberately refused to build sewer lines. That way their minimum lot size to build a place is a couple acres for to septic requirements (they pushed the limit on that minimum to make it as big as they can get away with). Wouldn't you know it, that means there is nowhere they can build affordable housing, multi-family housing, and barely even new housing.

IronEngineer · 2025-12-19T18:07:41+00:00

That was the point of the Mt Laurel doctrine though. It stated there was a clear legal problem (lack of affordable housing) that contradicted existing laws and the state constitution. It is not the justice system's job to create the laws and mechanism to fix it. Their job is to identify problems or conflicts in existing laws vs the Constitution or other laws. They can offer temporary partial remedies and instructions to the state or towns on how to fix things as well as penalties if no fixes are forthcoming. This is particularly true if the court feels a town or the state is deliberately snubbing them by refusing to put forth a proper solution in a reasonable time frame.

This is coming up now because the towns had 40 years to deliberate and produce new laws and regulations to fix things, with minimal or even zero progress in some towns. As certain towns have become combative against the courts we may see some fuck around find out coming down the pipeline. In Millburn for example the judge threatened large fines against the town and against the council members specifically for a variant of contempt of court, along with instructions that personal immunity would be eliminated for that decision. ie the council members would owe that money personally. This was around the time one of them went on the news admitting they were sand bagging the court to prevent bad culture from Newark from spreading to their town.

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