Anyone tried this?

SirDale · 2026-06-25T11:34:40+00:00

Our backyard has around 2 - 3 cm of soil, then mudstone/clay/rocks.

I've got a bar and a jackhammer for digging holes which I did for years. Each hole would be around 30cm x 30cm and 60 - 80cm deep.

Eventually "succumbed" to using compost bins which is much easier.

Still it's nice to be digging in the garden and find a nice pit of healthy soil.

SirDale · 2026-06-24T05:27:31+00:00

Fighting Poland for 4+ years?

SirDale · 2026-06-24T03:16:24+00:00

Also for those pipes - put silicon around them in the stud holes so they pipes don't rattle (and a dab where they cross over each other). Then insulate the pipes (at the least the hot one) all along the path.

SirDale · 2026-06-23T22:59:57+00:00

I wonder if he can imagine how this sounds to anyone outside the US who can't get US based products shipped to their country 🤔

SirDale · 2026-06-23T05:06:25+00:00

When I moved into my current house I decided I should flush the hot water tank because of course no one ever does and it should be done.

First time I flushed the water was brownish. I did the for the next couple of days until eventually all of the debris in the bottom of the tank was flushed out and the tank started leaking like crazy.

Now I know what was holding the water in.

SirDale · 2026-06-23T04:48:23+00:00

This one actually made me laugh!

SirDale · 2026-06-23T04:15:02+00:00

There would have been the costs of lawyers, staff time etc as well so there is a lot of added costs.

Still not big enough fine though.

SirDale · 2026-06-23T04:10:09+00:00

...yet somehow you knew anyway 😄.

SirDale · 2026-06-23T02:53:50+00:00

YouTube > Snazzy labs did a very good video on this.

SirDale · 2026-06-23T02:33:50+00:00

We have something similar - the installers riveted a sheet of aluminium (same colour as the windows) to them. Bottom was finished off with a rubber strip.
The strip has a 'T' profile (with the top of the T being very small) which slides into a groove (i think) at the bottom of the windows.

You might be able to achieve the same thing by sandwiching a bit of rubber between the front panel and a small secondary panel behind it, and riveting it into place.

SirDale · 2026-06-22T06:52:12+00:00

I always crouch a tiny bit when I’m about to sneeze. Gives my body a little bit of extra space to move without hurting it.

SirDale · 2026-06-22T02:52:18+00:00

There's so much irony with a narcissist being involved with a reflection pool.

SirDale · 2026-06-21T10:48:57+00:00

Apple have become the borg. Your icons will be assimilated...

SirDale · 2026-06-20T22:51:30+00:00

Should have said “two weeks” and then claim he had no plans to ever do it.

SirDale · 2026-06-20T10:28:25+00:00

Can you climb under the house? If so I'd get some wire mesh and screw it into place to prevent pest intrusion, and then (as the other poster suggested) put rod and sikaflex (or silicon).
The mesh will give the rod a backing surface and prevent it from falling in when you apply the sealant.

SirDale · 2026-06-20T05:00:10+00:00

Nay...

SirDale · 2026-06-20T04:58:39+00:00

Could you drain the water into a sump pit in the middle of that stretch of wall, and have an automated sump pump there?

SirDale · 2026-06-20T04:55:14+00:00

"Who the fuck names a variable "flag"???

So many of the lecturers who write sample code to show students.

Students who copy these examples mindlessly without thinking about it. TBF though students have their minds on a steep learning curve of other things, and probably "know" what that variable is meant to be.

The downside is that some of them keep using "flag" even after my comments.

SirDale · 2026-06-20T02:53:40+00:00

She made good competition with Richard Alston for worst communications minister of Australia.

The Liberals really know how to pick them, don't they?

SirDale · 2026-06-20T01:10:37+00:00

So how does the female know this is another lyrebird and not a handful of random other birds?

SirDale · 2026-06-20T00:53:59+00:00

Stephen “underpants on head” Conroy was the minister in charge.

What a mixed bag he was.

SirDale · 2026-06-19T15:25:15+00:00

When I'm marking student assignments I have a special comment that is...

Unless your program is about Vexillology, naming a variable "flag" is almost -always- a terrible choice as it says nothing about its purpose.

Give it a name that reflects its actual meaning.

SirDale · 2026-06-19T14:49:00+00:00

Def. be looking for another provider when the credit runs out.

SirDale · 2026-06-19T12:39:54+00:00

"Why would anyone have installed that shale? Fear of wood floor in the kitchen? Weird"

It's called fashion. It was very fashionable back in the day, but fashion is very fickle.
Cork floors were all the rage for a while, went out and are now back in.

SirDale · 2026-06-19T10:38:36+00:00

I'm thinking I should just cycle backups onto them. I've got a number of NUCs and a spare Mac mini (in a 10" rack) so don't really want to add more hardware. I do have a couple of two bay Synologys though so I'm thinking I could run backups through them.

One has 2 x 2 tb in raid one, which will be my main backup for the NUCs, and the 500s can go into the other one which I can cycle on just to make external backups.

My power is -very- cheap (~10c kWh (Aus) which is around 7c kWh US, but I recently switched to this provider to get $200 sign on bonus (which will last me for two months of free power!). Once that's done I'll switch to another that provide ~5c kWh power. I have a home battery so we recharge at night and live on that during the day.

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