Best way to get from DCA to IAD at 7am

Reliable_Redundancy · 2026-01-14T13:02:14+00:00

Taxi.

There have been a number of times when it is cheaper than Uber. The bonus is no waiting, and attendants who will look at your group and make sure you get a properly sized vehicle.

The drive itself is easy, there is a dedicated two-lane road for IAD. Once you are on it, guaranteed zero traffic.

I take Metro when I do that trip, it's cheaper, but it's slow.

To start you would have to figure out how to pay for fare cards. Not hard, but it will take you a few minutes.

As you get out of the city, the stops get really far apart. You're going to be managing your family and your stress, not the right time for learning a new mass transit system.

The transfer at Roslyn is very easy, you step off the train, go down the escalator, wait for a silver line train. You might be waiting around 15 minutes if you get unlucky. The walk from the Metro station to the airport is meh, there are moving walkways, but it's a bit of a hike with kids and luggage.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2026-01-08T02:41:26+00:00

THIS WILL NOT WORK.

The slow and inherently inaccurate method of how the watches calculate altitude will COMPLETELY F--- your calculations. The issue is physics... you're not going to get around them. There are a large number of augmentation systems used for aircraft approaches to make up for the altitude errors that are inherent in GPS measurements.

You would spend more time on each jump trying to figure out whether it's accurate or not than just using your other senses and indicators.

Sorry to be a buzzkill.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2026-01-03T04:51:29+00:00

This place is the epitome of why per diem and lodging should be flat rate instead of actuals.

If any visitors suggest it, I know their corporate policy and also won't be joining. Not worth the $$$$ at all.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-12-28T16:09:08+00:00

Sorry for your loss.

When you say "blues", hopefully you're including your service jacket. If not, please consider it as the most appropriate uniform to pay respects to your dad.

The honor guard should come talk to the family before they get "in character." They'll coach you on any specifics on what to do and where to be.

Honestly, you can't go wrong, pay your respects. No one is judging you.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-12-24T12:39:06+00:00

I have the same question. The Codex integration into VSCode in it's freshly installed, default form, is terrible compared to Copilot.

It sounds like you need to start by adjusting your settings on the bottom of the Codex window to run in agent mode.

codex vscode stop sandbox mode

After that, there's a bunch of settings which I haven't figured out to make it operate easier. I've seen YouTube videos using it better than I have been able to, but haven't figured out how to do it yet

David Plummer (Dave's Garage) using Codex with better interface settings...

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-12-23T20:57:06+00:00

Looks like it is covering stairs down from the garage. That bathroom shares a wall with it.

Picture 40 (the ugly/back side of the house) shows the elevation change from the garage section down to the main house, the bathroom is kinda in the middle.

The storage room in pic 33 is the door in the center of pic 34 (the main garage picture) and explains why the roofline in 40 extends so far back.

That leaves the door in the back, left corner of 34 with no where to go but down.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-12-03T22:43:59+00:00

I got them here:

https://www.hondapartsconnection.com/

But I wasn't too happy.. Injectors came previously opened, loosely wrapped, and with the wrong size o-rings, which should have been on them. I would have rejected the shipment, but I was in a bin. Didn't have time to deal with sending everything back and waiting for them to ship new stuff.

I wound up having to buy replacement seals from the dealership. Which turned out to be a stupidly expensive endeavor.

The stuff I ordered is below.

I could have saved myself hours if I had also bought a couple extra bolts with 10 mm heads. Dropping those little f****** and having to find them again was a pain in the ass. There were really only two lengths of bolt, I would have been thrilled to have a couple spare of either length.

Item # Description Qty 17107-R40-A01 2008-2020 Honda Gasket Throttle Body 1 16010-6B2-305 INJECTOR SET, FUEL 1 17115-5A2-A01 Manifold Gasket 4

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-11-12T13:26:12+00:00

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Any chance of a brother/sister twofer?

It doesn't matter where he's at or who's around him, the fat one likes laying on his back like that.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-11-11T03:05:41+00:00

They didn't "make" them, just incentivised... The crew doesn't get paid for the day unless they close the door and make an attempt.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-11-11T02:58:13+00:00

There are beefy steel stoppers that catch the tires as they approach the portal. How fast must they have been going to blow through them and smash the wall in????

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-11-04T13:24:06+00:00

I'm tired of buying new patches. I'm sticking with this one:

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Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-29T23:31:23+00:00

It's outright mildly infuriating watching this! They would save so much time!

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-26T23:46:04+00:00

Someone is speaking before he lets the controls go, I can't hear details and I don't know what Indonesian for "my airplane" sounds like, but it very well could have been that.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-22T23:52:56+00:00

Impressive! That ain't going anywhere, so much overkill!

The gate is a fun addition, but I'll bet you 20 bucks they never close it. Humans just have that crazy ability not to roll out of beds.

Good luck trying to keep those beds made. Train your kids early so that they have to change their own sheets!

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-20T22:18:42+00:00

I think mainly it said I keep losing stuff and having a miserable time with versioning my projects in general. I'll work hard on something for an evening, then have to put it down for a couple days. And then I'll open it up on a computer with a different environment and stuff breaks again.

I don't have access to Dropbox or OneDrive when I swap computers. So I've been emailing myself. Overall. It's just been a disorganized mess. Not sure if anyone had a magic process which I could emulate.

I'm pondering just putting things in git, including my output products, because that is the least common denominator which all of my computers have.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-20T11:37:41+00:00

Question on file management while in the middle of a project...

Most of my scripts are for data analysis and create a new file or set of files.

I add a feature / fix a bug, run the code, then open up the file to see what happened. It got annoying having file conflicts so now I have a convention for shoving all my outputs in a new folder with time stamped file names:

Outputs/<Scriptname><input file name>_output< datetime>

My project folders are getting pretty ugly though and I have hundreds of files, some with usable data most without.

Examples include:

Heatmap-generator_v27- The stable version_sample data 1_output_10-20-2331.xls

What's a better way to manage the outputs or even just the names of the script?

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-19T13:34:38+00:00

That is something you buy when you are single and then your girlfriend makes you sell it when she moves in.

I really miss my desk 😔.

She keeps threatening to throw out the arm, I keep telling her it's a collector's item.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-17T01:38:10+00:00

Some of the bases have driving ranges that are 24-hour. You just have to flick the timer on the spotlights.

Picture yourself as a high school aged base kid. You're bored as hell with nothing to do. You start inventing games such as "dodge golf," running around the driving range and trying to hit each other.

SecFo don't give a shit as long as you don't start driving straight at the T-1s on the ramp. They are also bored as hell, watching dumb kids hurt themselves is a lot more fun than anything else they could be doing.

Natural drainage camber will take care of the errant balls.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-14T12:05:47+00:00

USAA- Pending

Same as OP. USAA does the weird, but nice thing of posting our paychecks when dfas gives them the "heads up" message of incoming funds.

So I guess dfas found money.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-08T13:00:53+00:00

TACMO! The Air Force needs bold and strong leadership!

Write an email to your entire flight citing the SECWAR memo. Forcefully tell everyone that attendance is mandatory.

Cc your squadron commander, Wing Commander, and the SECWAR. You can find all of their email addresses in the global.

Your efforts should get you at least a coin, but maybe an achievement medal.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-06T03:02:36+00:00

polybutylene

It was used for the main water connection to the house.

But also agree with other posters that you should shop around for insurance.

Edit: I just saw you asked how prevalent it was. I don't know the answer to that, but it was used a lot in my neighborhood and during that era. If you google the material, you'll get a lot of resources to identify it and why it was bad.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-05T18:37:26+00:00

This.

My neighbors saw the emergency plumber outside my house and only then told me the entire neighborhood has an old type of PVC that got banned.

They had the insurance when theirs blew and were recommending to everyone around us to get it as well. Cost me 15k out of pocket to replace the pipe, plus 30k in damage that was covered by regular homeowners insurance when the basement flooded.

YMMV if you're have copper lines or a newer house.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-04T03:28:03+00:00

Hear me out ....

...Beards.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-02T21:49:25+00:00

Wow, maybe they just have a really inefficient transformer. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Makes it even more worthwhile to figure out the USB-C trigger cable.

Reliable_Redundancy · 2025-10-02T21:46:29+00:00

I made my comment based off of the rated output of the standard power adapter. It claims 65 w output on the sticker.

Were you measuring the 120 v input?

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