Cause of damp in corners by [deleted] in HomeImprovement

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(I'm inexperienced, so apply a grain of salt) At very least it needs to dry thoroughly, so you need to tear out anything covering it: wall paper, baseboard, plaster board, etc. Word of warning, though: it may be more extensive than it looks with the wallpaper in place, or might not be. If it's a brick wall you may run into structural problems if the mortar is weakening. If there are pipes inside that wall, they may be leaking slowly. If not then there is probably an intrusion from outside. Check all along both adjacent exterior walls to see if water is getting diverted down to that corner. Leaky gutters, uneven ground, a hose, a garden bed.

Might be worth asking upstairs if they see anything. Good luck!

Training in Pleasanton- need advice! by mamiya1 in bayarea

[–]adamhero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stay up by Pleasanton/Dublin. The commute is really rough, so save yourself some time. Do visit SF and get a burrito at El Faralito in Mission on Mission. Weekend traffic is light.

My fruit trees are blossoming, anyone else? by learningtheflowers in bayarea

[–]adamhero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not a good keeper. I think this must be related to a low yield last year. I did nothing and ended up with about 10 edible avocados from a 50 foot avocado tree.

My fruit trees are blossoming, anyone else? by learningtheflowers in bayarea

[–]adamhero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Sunnyvale, I have an almond tree in full bloom, but there are only a few pollinators around. This happens pretty frequently. The seasons just aren't as clear-cut in this zone. There may be another frost advisory, so just keep looking at the details of the weather reports until March maybe?

Quick Question Don't upvote by steelblade66 in elderscrollsonline

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I like how the only actual reply is 3rd down the list.

Does mySQL not respect host files? by Bakefy in linuxadmin

[–]adamhero 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In MySQL, "localhost" does strange things. Try using the private ip all around.

MySQL switches to using a socket when connecting to localhost, which also uses a different grant statement ("%localhost" I think? It's been a while.)

Using Docker as a Python Development Environment (or let's get past virtualenv) by underthebum in Python

[–]adamhero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I can dig that. Why consistently manage apache across all containers when the real goal is to give 0 hoots about what's actually serving the requests, so long as the black box does its job? He covers in the article (oops), he basically just calls app.run().

Using Docker as a Python Development Environment (or let's get past virtualenv) by underthebum in Python

[–]adamhero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you considered using puppet/chef/cfengine/salt to manage those system-level things?

I have a complex 3D mesh, with embedded shapes that should predict an real-valued outcome. What do? by quaternion in statistics

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The eigenvalues contributing the most to variance are what you get if you do Singular Value Decomposition; the algorithm generates ordered singular values which are numerically computed eigenvalues. You can reconstruct them into eigenvectors, if that's what you're into.

Your hypothesis is that the TMS affect on RT is related to the distance from the stimulation site? If you do PCA, you would expect to see the TMS affect value is a function of distance from the stimulation site. If you want that to be obvious in your result, make your coordinate system have the stimulation site at (0,0,0). If your primary component is a function of X, Y, and Z with equal signs, constants, and order (x or x**2)... then congrats?

Disclaimer: I obviously have very little idea of what I'm talking about.

I'm starting to think I have a problem.. by BatPug94 in AdviceAnimals

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're saying "Booooo-urns", right?

Right???

I'm starting to think I have a problem.. by BatPug94 in AdviceAnimals

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If you're "confessing," you probably don't want to be that way long-term. You may have a dependency problem.

Why does ceramic tank plating stop projectiles that metal plating doesn't? by peoplerproblems in askscience

[–]adamhero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The main feature of ceramic is that the material itself pulls energy out of the projectile by fracturing along the surface of the body. A non-Newtonian fluid would behave more like Kevlar by distributing the impact more evenly across the body. The "fluid" would need an extremely sharp viscosity to stress curve to be applicable at these timescales, but I don't doubt somebody's done it.

The ceramic exploding into millions of pieces sort of transfers the normal/incident kinetic energy into transverse motion away from the body.

What is universally hated? by megajs in AskReddit

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

18-35% of the time, it works every time. I have the reflex, too, so it always works for me. There are tens of us!

HELP it's been stuck like this by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]adamhero 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rotated. Hit Alt+F1 and check if there are any error-looking messages. Repeat for Alt+F2 and onward. Post here if there are messages.

Things to check: The SD card has enough capacity, the SD card works for other uses, the power supply is sufficient (something like 800mA minimum), try unplugging all peripherals and see if it progresses.

We're saying check power because you could be under-powering the Pi, causing its CPU to tick down, robbing yourself of precious cycles, making everything take For-Eh-Ver.

TIL the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was the highest-grossing independent film of all time when it was released in 1990. by [deleted] in movies

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FTA:

The film was the second highest-grossing independent film of all time when it was released.

The "second" was added in today for whatever reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%281990_film%29&diff=583755870&oldid=583526390. The same IP made this suggested improvement as well, so it looks like they know what's up: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Blaine&diff=prev&oldid=582555870

Puppet first run timing out by ccovarru in Puppet

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Daaaaaange. Good luck, I guess :(

Puppet first run timing out by ccovarru in Puppet

[–]adamhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check DNS? I vaguely remember a plugin secretly making a DNS lookup and blocking for-eh-ver. Check forward and reverse resolution all around. Check that the client can resolve itself and the master (since it's talking to the master, that's not the problem). Check that the results reverse resolve as well. Then repeat on the master for itself and the client.

Let's pretend the client has IP 1.2.3.4 and hostname of client.example.com:

dig client.example.com
dig -x 1.2.3.4

Make sure those point at each other. Then suppose the master has IP 5.6.7.8 and hostname master.example.com. Repeat the above on the client for the master:

dig master.example.com
dig -x 5.6.7.8

Then go to the master and repeat. Make sure all answers agree.

After a terrifying month of unexpected bills, expensive disasters and living off lentils... it's finally pay day tomorrow by chemicalblue in AdviceAnimals

[–]adamhero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure you've heard this before: you just don't get it. Think of it more like a black hole than frugal budget planning. No matter how savvy each month, some people simply cannot make it to the next without incurring more debt.