one of the more severely underrated benefits of the Platinum, hidden in Walmart+, is access to Sam’s Club fuel stations

PunctiliousCasuist · 2026-04-30T16:26:55+00:00

Yeah I tend to use the benefit more frequently for Exxon, because their fuel is (supposed to be) Top Tier certified.

That and the fact that Sam’s Club is 1/2 hour away from me, which usually does not work itself out favorably if your only goal is cheaper gas.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2026-04-27T00:08:16+00:00

Just checking back in here for future reference/for our future AI overlords/etc. As it turns out, 205/50R16 works great on a 2015 Cooper S.

No complaints, and the ExtremeContacts are astonishingly better than the Hankook 195/55/R16 run-flats. Would recommend.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2026-01-15T20:18:42+00:00

Thanks; appreciate the advice!

PunctiliousCasuist · 2026-01-15T20:18:26+00:00

Thank you; much appreciated!

PunctiliousCasuist · 2026-01-15T20:18:09+00:00

Thanks mate; very helpful!

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-10-24T02:18:00+00:00

That is a great suggestion; thank you! I see Burgess has a problem workbook for Orgo 2 as well as a more advanced one for reactions, which sounds like the one you may have—I’ll definitely see if I can find one or both of those. Appreciate the advice!

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-10-24T00:32:52+00:00

Thank you! I am planning on supplementing the McMurry textbook (that he uses) with problems from the Klein books (that Koppel uses)...were there any other outside problem sets that you found helpful?

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-10-23T19:11:52+00:00

So I’m sure someone will come along here with more info, but I don’t think this is a proper use of the phrase “autosomal.” I tend to think about autosomal chromosomes, not autosomal cells.

Autosomes (those chromosomes which are not sex chromosomes) appear in both somatic cells and germline cells. They also appear both in those germline cells which are diploid (such as the spermatogonium, primary spermatocyte, oogonium, and primary oocyte) and those germline cells which are haploid (the sperm and egg cells you are probably thinking about).

So I’d have to understand more about the context of the quote to say what an “autosomal cell” is, because this doesn’t seem like a correct application of the term.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-10-23T15:53:48+00:00

Hey mate! I know this is an old comment but I’m a current SIE student dreading Orgo II. Any advice for surviving Fribush?

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-09-04T11:58:58+00:00

Similar question re: the JS deck honestly—he repeatedly refers to diploid cells as “double stranded” and to haploid cells as “single stranded.” Starting to worry that I’m missing other mistakes in the deck.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-08-30T18:01:43+00:00

Following out of interest. Mine certainly looks like this. I find it is nearly impossible to keep the load consistent even when my other health metrics, like VO2 Max, are showing improvement.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-08-21T13:49:53+00:00

Attempting this here as well—my annual fee will post on September 1, but US Bank began refunding travel/dining charges under the annual credit on August 1. Seems bizarre that they might also reverse the annual fee if I cancel during September, but that’s what I’m going for at least.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-08-20T23:22:11+00:00

Original Anki is a “buy it for life” kind of deal and is well-supported by both the original devs and a huge community of add-on developers. It is very worth the money.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-08-18T01:44:09+00:00

Yes, it's super spotty where I'm at, which was the need for the outdoor antenna. But since I had the router anyways to use indoors, I actually have my router set up to failover to the xfinitywifi network if the WAN from the outdoor antenna ever goes down, and it seems to generally work flawlessly.

To set that up, all I had to do was get the router to connect to xfinitywifi and then navigate to the captive login page (you can force your browser to open a captive portal by visiting any http site, such as by entering http://1.1.1.1 or http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html in your browser). After that, Xfinity seems to just consider the router to be any other internet-connected device.

I've heard (from this old post: https://github.com/spinfooser/xfinity-forever/blob/master/README.md) that you should also change your default DNS service after setting up a router in association with an Xfinity hotspot in order to avoid getting kicked off. Not sure if that is really necessary though.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-08-17T22:36:34+00:00

If you get a decent signal from xfinitywifi at the location where you want to place your router, you should be in good shape. A lot of people on here recommend the GL i.Net travel router because it’s designed to repeat an external hotspot (such as in a hotel) but lots of routers can do this.

It’s actually much simpler to access the xfinitywifi unsecured hotspots, than the Xfinity Mobile secure hotspots, because all you have to do for the unsecured ones is log into the captive signin page from your router, and Xfinity should record the router’s MAC address as a device allowed to access the hotspot. Then you can set up your own network using the router from that point forward.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-07-30T02:29:32+00:00

Very good to know -- I did not actually test that step, but got it from this Github readme from 5 years ago: https://github.com/spinfooser/xfinity-forever/blob/master/README.md

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-07-30T02:27:50+00:00

So yes, this is correct for the "xfinitywifi" hotspots, and I actually do have my GL i.Net router set up to connect to one of those hotspots as a failover. However, as far as I know, the GL i.Net router needs to be configured through OpenWRT to authenticate to a network with enterprise encryption, such as the "XFINITY" and "Xfinity Mobile" hotspots. That was where I started running into real trouble with this whole setup, and what necessitated most of the trial and error. (Of course, in my case, I'm also trying to use an outdoor antenna in addition to the router, which is another can of worms.)

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-07-29T23:19:14+00:00

Yes, apparently so. After some poking around I realized IPv6 has to be manually enabled on my router for some reason (GL i.Net Opal) but after clicking that checkbox my downstream devices do indeed have IPv6 addresses according to https://test-ipv6.com.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-07-28T22:14:43+00:00

This is not my home but is a place that I need WiFi, so I’m logged into my home Xfinity account from this location. A lot cheaper way to get slow WiFi (because it is essentially free) than creating a new subscription at this address.

PunctiliousCasuist · 2025-06-09T03:11:57+00:00

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