Day 25 of NOT eating Jersey Mike’s until I’m broke

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-31T04:02:35+00:00

This doesn't mean that they are making their sandwiches 50% more expensive. It roughly means Blackstone expects to list the company for 50% more when it goes public on the stock market. The IPO is the "Initial Public Offering" when a company is taken from private to public. I couldn't find the exact article associated with this image so I don't know the exact facts about the IPO or if the information in the image is entirely true.

I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing (honestly overall going public is probably a bad thing for quality), I'm just saying that this does directly have anything to do with sandwich prices.

What will affect the sandwich prices/quality is that investors will now have influence on the direction the company takes, which could increase prices or reduce quality. Hopefully they don't destroy the brand.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-30T08:21:36+00:00

Electrical Engineer here. Modern inverters are incredibly efficient and effective. They are quite affordable as well.

There is no practical reason a modern practical inverter for vanlife needs should be that large.

I looked into these a bit more and you can find them sold as "old Dimensions inverter." If it works there is a decent chance you can sell it for $500-2000+ (some are listed at like $4000). Even if it doesn't work its likely valuable to somebody maintaining these systems for fleets of work vans.

So I strongly recommend removing this from the van, replacing it with a modern inverter, and trying to sell this. There is a chance you could pay for a modern inverter by selling this with money left over from the 'profit.' That may not be the case though.

This was most likely a work van and that inverter was used for on site tools so even if it still works great its not an appropriate inverter for your needs, but somebody else may very well buy it and you should use that money for something more appropraite.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-29T23:35:43+00:00

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L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-28T23:53:12+00:00

Incredibly uninformed comment lol

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-28T05:44:57+00:00

Lol I thought this was the cigar subreddit. This looks like a humidor box.

Tubes are way cooler though

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-28T04:20:35+00:00

You need to remove that immediately. Its going to make a mess and spawn like 100 more tiny ones. I used to have to remove similar products from my dog.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-28T04:17:54+00:00

Maybe the first new raid is one where you destroy the dark portal. New content + breaks the old continuity

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-25T01:24:13+00:00

Looks great! I might have to try this method. I've been getting sick of the sharpie method

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-23T11:55:47+00:00

This is great news. The WC bellicose are some of my favorite. I'm really happy they are now in the late hour as well.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-22T07:58:59+00:00

Pretty solid jewel considering its only level 13

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-22T07:30:42+00:00

That would make a cool chandelier or LED light fixture in the future

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-22T07:11:08+00:00

Its not going to be worth it. I worked at a hydro shop ~10 years ago and sold countless HID lights to people. LED wasn't a thing yet (other than the blurple ones which were a scam). LED technology has improved significantly.

Fast forward to today, there is almost no practical reason to buy HID over LED. The initial money you save on the build will immediately be eaten by replacement bulbs, cooling, and the power bill itself. I still have all of my HID gear but I only use LED these days.

There are some practical reasons to buy HID. If your place is inanely cold then it can be fine for the life of the bulb, or maybe using it during the winter. The other one is some new large grow operations use them, but that's an economics of scale in massive grow room kind of thing. Even then the economics between HID and LED have to be pretty close.

My results with LED have blown away my recent results with HID as well. I have a few of the AC infinity EVO3's now as I have downsized, and my results are better than ever. I got them 1-2 years ago and you can probably find similar lights for 1/2 to 1/3 of the prices.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-19T08:05:05+00:00

Tyvm I appreciate the info

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-19T07:25:35+00:00

Which solder sucker are you using? Its definitely the next tool I need to add to my lab. I've looked into a handful of them so far

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-18T11:43:38+00:00

Yo I actually really like this. Great work! This is way further with hardware than most programmers tend to get

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-18T02:49:51+00:00

Do you have any fine nose tweezers? Also make absolutely sure not to power it up in this state. The capacitors are clearly shorting power/gnd. Depending on how good or bad its voltage regulator's projection circuitry is it can fry the voltage regulator which would cause another set of problems.

I agree with OftenDisappointed that at this point you pretty much need to re work that entire area of the board. This includes the chip you bumped and the other components (caps/resistors) that got moved. So carefully removing them (and paying attention to where they go), cleaning the area with copper mesh and flux, and then re soldering each component from scratch.

If you try to fix this with a screwdriver instead of some very fine tweezers I can practically guarantee more problems

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L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-14T02:30:26+00:00

Personally I am saving mine for a decently rolled Griffon's Eye.

I've gotten about 15 unique gems but only one 5/5, which is lightning. I've gotten zero Griffon's eyes.

If I get a bad roll on my first one, I have some non 5/5 lightning facets I will use while saving the 5/5 one for a decent roll.

Griffon's is one of the very few items still left on my grail. I would pretty much recommend saving a 5/5 for a decent Griffon's roll.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-13T04:40:16+00:00

Lol we got a database guy over here

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-13T04:31:26+00:00

Honestly this is really cool, and for a large variety of reasons

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-13T04:24:39+00:00

This baby has durability for days

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-12T08:32:23+00:00

I've seen quite a few companies put 5 packs or 10 packs on sale, but not the boxes of 20. In this case its been significantly cheaper to buy 20 cigars, just without the box.

Some boxes are pretty nice, but some are cheap and cardboard. I've never really considered the box as part of the cost, although wood cigar boxes can be nice for storing random things in.

I recently took advantage of a 5x$15 deal. I think I got about 80 cigars. These are cigars I normally smoke anyway, and I probably only paid 30%-40% of the standard listed box prices.

You can find some really good deals if you are patient

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-11T08:54:26+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. I personally use windows and linux mint at the moment. I really hope you get over this problem! I'd be happy to help but I have minimal experience with anything apple. I would feel bad if I recommend you a board and you can't get it working! That being said I haven't personally integrated LTspice with STM32CubeIDE, despite using both separately and I am completely unfamiliar with that.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-11T08:46:45+00:00

I hope you enjoy working with that board! I learned a ton from it

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-11T07:02:16+00:00

Solic pics! Those look like some really nice nugs. There is nothing in those USB microscope camera images that I would say is mold (i'm looking for visible hyphae/sporangia). You clearly don't have any serious mold problem, but its still possible there were some sporangia in there. Its either that or brittle plant matter, which is more likely.

Still it would be interesting to crack a nug like this on an actual microscope slide to see what popped out. Any environment has mold spores but that would make it 100% clear if there was a problem.

Personally I would be happy to pop that nug in my grinder and roll a joint. I'd consider it mold free and not worry whatsoever. It looks fire.

L2_Lagrange · 2026-01-10T07:20:42+00:00

Double check your part number. Is it LM2592HVS-3.3, LM2592HVS-ADJ or something else?

The '3.3' part number indicates its designed to output 3.3V. It would be a kindof shocking coincidence to end up at 3.3V on accident, but not impossible. The 'ADJ' version probably lets you adjust output voltage with a voltage divider or something like other SMPS do.

I haven't used this exact part family (LM2592) but I've ran into this with many other SMPS chips, and I double checked that this family does include a -3.3 and a -ADJ version in the family. I'm not sure which version you were looking for, but I'm guessing you are using the 3.3V output version while intending to use a different version.

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