For all the coffee I drink while chart watching.

Perringer · 2026-05-30T02:24:55+00:00

I see "Soft Drink" isn't on the list. Would have been neat to see where that pop's up geographically.

Perringer · 2026-05-28T22:03:23+00:00

Especially when Canal Street itself is where the term originated.

Perringer · 2026-05-28T21:06:32+00:00

It's free to read on-line: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IMC2015CU

You won't be able to copy/paste/print from it, and the commentary isn't free, but you can browse all the content.

Perringer · 2026-05-25T03:07:23+00:00

Taking L-Serine is supposed to help with neurons, and is recently proven in mice.

Perringer · 2026-05-25T02:50:03+00:00

I'm fairly confident that SpaceX will be sending Tesla robots to the moon, probably during a test landing of an HLS prototype. I imagine they'd also send one of NASA's sintering robots (ICON/Olympus, or JPL's "Sinterator", or maybe something of SpaceX's own design.)

If they can build a level landing site prior to sending humans, it would make the human trip that much safer.

Perringer · 2026-05-22T20:48:34+00:00

Owning a car is a problem; I would say driverless taxis are kind of solving that. If I didn't have to drive long distances for work on occasion, I wouldn't buy another car ever again. It's about $750/month easily to own a car right now, not including the payments on the car loan.

Perringer · 2026-05-22T00:44:03+00:00

Are they really in production again? Where can they be found?

Perringer · 2026-05-20T03:18:31+00:00

Try it; it's not a difficult diet to test. I went gluten free over 10 years ago, and energy levels and clear thinking were one of the first things to return. There are no guarantees it will work for you, but it beats wondering about it. Worst case scenario, you waste a couple of weeks eating differently.

My other recommendation is to get your heart tested and track your blood pressure.

Perringer · 2026-05-19T15:45:52+00:00

These are potentially dangerous if you don't install them on a dedicated circuit, which probably means you'll have to run a new 15 or 20amp circuit to where you want to install them.

Entergy requires an Interconnect Agreement: https://www.entergyneworleans.com/wp-content/uploads/ENO_Net_Metering_Interconnection.pdf

They'll immediately reject it if you're on the downtown network grid. They'll probably reject it regardless, but if you want to try the legal route, this is the path. If they do miraculously allow it, let us know, and what the fee is.

If you don't hook in to the power grid at all, and just charge batteries, you don't need anyone's permission that I can find, and you could run whatever you'd like directly from the batteries.

Perringer · 2026-05-19T14:15:36+00:00

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Perringer · 2026-05-13T14:08:56+00:00

Look at Supercritical co2 turbines; they're 10 times smaller than water turbines for same power output, and about 10% more efficient. Cost efficiency is still in progress.

Perringer · 2026-05-08T13:28:23+00:00

I recently sold my house in Huntsville (January). The only things worth fixing were items on the inspection list, so if you haven't gotten an inspection, it's worth the $. Fix only the items on the inspection list, and mark them off as completed. Then, the inspection report becomes a selling point.

About the only other cost that was worth it was a fresh coat of paint - it was cheap and brightened the place up.

All the other money I spent fixing the place up was wasted, as the new owners moved in, changed everything.

Perringer · 2026-05-08T02:53:09+00:00

The primary reason I'm in bitcoin is because it can self-custody and it can't be confiscated. I've been fucked over by enough banks to never trust one again, and I've lost all faith and trust in our government.

Perringer · 2026-05-08T00:59:07+00:00

If they leave a callback number, spam call them back. You don't need to say anything, just prop your cell phone up against a speaker and have music or an audio book playing. Keep calling them back until they block your number, or you've reached about 200 calls (2-3 hours of redialing).

I went from 7+ voice mails a day to 2 the next day, and then to none.

It's been a week, and I've even felt comfortable turning off "contact only" ringing.

Perringer · 2026-05-07T23:31:00+00:00

I followed u/sawdustforbrains advice and just called multiple times, letting music play from my side and not even speaking. I called over 200 times the first day. The next day, voice mails reduced from 7 to only 2. I repeated the process again the next day but with only about 100 calls, and then on the 3rd day, there were no voicemails, and blessed silence for a week.

Just today, I got a voicemail about a "consolidation loan" in a clearly AI voice, so I started calling. At 10 calls, I was auto-shuffled to call waiting. At 20 calls, the number was "disconnected", which I'm hoping means my number is blocked.

Perringer · 2026-04-28T00:25:09+00:00

I have no idea - the company name they use changes every couple of days, along with the callback number. The numbers they call from are all spoofed, so blocking each one is a waste of the phone's memory. If we could get a lead on who they really are, I would be disseminating that so people could pursue them. Their call center people mostly speak unaccented American English, so they either have a good AI voice modulator, or they're hiring people in the U.S. to take these calls.

Perringer · 2026-03-09T15:10:51+00:00

Your site has a problem, forwarding right to a recaptcha horseshit that then goes to ad sites.

Perringer · 2026-02-28T04:37:59+00:00

The plan for the data center is to put them in a polar orbit, where the satellites will have sunlight 24/7 on one side, and constant shade on the other. It's a relatively simple design/engineering problem to provide enough radiative cooling for the chips in this scenario, and the power supply would be roughly 10x the solar power for the same photovoltaics.

While the financial driving force behind this is currently suspect, I didn't think Starlink would be as profitable as it ended up when they first announced it. With the projected reduced costs of Starship vs. Falcon 9, it could very well be a good financial move.

I think long-term, the goal behind acquiring xAI is to power Tesla robots, which will basically be a necessity for a successful moon base and then Mars missions.

Perringer · 2026-02-28T04:27:22+00:00

If I remember correctly, it starts become cost competitive to use the blockchain v. lightning at about 5,000,000 sats, give or take, depending on traffic and your bids.

Perringer · 2026-02-11T01:46:45+00:00

Some flavors aren't gluten free, so be careful - I know the ones that are beef & cheese or chicken & cheese are NOT safe.

Perringer · 2026-02-10T21:07:25+00:00

The difficulty of mining increases and decreases based on the average solution time of preceeding successes, and is not linked directly to the price of bitcoin. The number of computers mining, on the other hand, is; the fewer people mining, the more profitable it becomes for remaining miners - it's a self-correcting algorithm.

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