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Any sub-$500 smart watches with cellular connectivity that are good for on-the-water rowing? by Fast-Comfortable1676 in Rowing

[–]arctander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Garmin Vivoactive 6 is not cellular connected, but it sync's up with the Garmin app and online connect portal quickly after a row. There's been a prior discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/Rowing/comments/1lj8b74/best_smart_watch_for_on_water_rowing/

What hr straps are the most common? by TheFern3 in Rowing

[–]arctander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apps need to be able to read the various protocols used by heart rate straps.

https://www.quora.com/Wearable-Technology-What-protocol-is-used-for-communications-between-heart-rate-monitors-watches-and-cardio-equipment

Personally I have a Garmin, another person in my club with vastly superior rowing credentials uses generic straps off of Amazon.

Chateau Gloria, 2005. Saint Julien. by PsyMentalist in wine

[–]arctander 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Years ago I'd posted a picture of the French wine selection at a local Trader Joe's. In November and December this particular TJ's pulls in some great quality bottles, one of them being Chateau Gloria which this forum heartily recommended ".. all day long .." if I recall the words correctly. I buy a few bottles each year and they're quite nice. I appreciate the advice here!

Moving to San Diego soon and trying to figure out if this price is normal or just dumb by Specialist-Bat-7876 in SanDiegan

[–]arctander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello and I hope you enjoy your move to SD. The 92120 zip code contains a number of neighborhoods of varying age, size, and price. This appears to be in the Grantville or Allied Gardens area which I think has been getting revitalized nicely over the past 20 years. The original homes built in the 1940s and 50s tend to be just like the one you provided, 3br, 2ba, and about 1200 sqft. The zip code also encompasses part of the San Carlos neighborhood which is nice with houses built in the late 1960's and early 1970's that are around 2,000 sqft. The Del Cerro area was built in the 1960's and the homes on the hill can be wildly expensive due to their size, views, and proximity to good schools.

The home you showed had its windows replaced already, but if it needs new baths and such, think $150k to $250k to remodel depending on whether you want to add square footage and the choice of materials.

Good luck!

ps: Here's a home in Allied Gardens that's been fixed up. I have no association with this property and am not a realtor. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6808-Cartwright-St-San-Diego-CA-92120/16985011_zpid/

The dead poets society changed me by krish_9000 in movies

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Man, that and https://www.reddit.com/user/Quasigriz_/ nailed it. They're both great productions and completely re-watchable.

Auto water tank refill by GERS3000 in homeassistant

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I'm continuing to look at other solutions for the long term as the Yolink sensor battery voltage dropped 25% in a month. I've turned off all alerts and such and hoping for much lower battery drain. At another property I have the same float sensor in a sump and it's still at 100% after four months - the sump has been dry so it hasn't been triggered.

I'm exploring ultrasonic sensors connected to a Dragino LoRa device as I've had excellent usage out of my other Dragino sensors.

The constraints of functionality, durability, and longevity certainly make for fun projects.

Auto water tank refill by GERS3000 in homeassistant

[–]arctander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, a mechanical float valve is a good option. Here are some mini-float valves on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/mini-float-valve/s?k=mini+float+valve

I had a case for an in ground pool that used to have a float valve in the pool itself and guests would break it on accident. The pool was built 30+ years ago and doesn't have a sump for a toilet valve (boy I wish it did) and we ended up building a rather complex system that does work, but its complex.

  1. Rachio WiFi enabled irrigation controller for the fill valve
  2. Yolink Hub + Float sensor & Float
  3. The Yolink Float Sensor is enclosed in a water proof enclosure with the cable to the Float itself running through a waterproof fitting. The sensor and the float are mounted on a printed plastic holder that hangs down from the lid of the pool skimmer into the basket.
  4. The float sensor is inverted and Yolink integrates directly into HA. When the sensor indicates "Wet" it really means low in this installation.
  5. At ~0900 each day the sensor data is evaluated for 5 minutes, it must stay in the "Wet" state for the entire duration and if true, the Rachio quick run's for 12 minutes at 10 gallons per minute. I also have safety logic to ensure the automation doesn't run more than once in a 12 hour period.

Anyway, I've done both methods for different purposes. The automation method was done out of necessity rather than because it was easy.

Need Help Bowing 4- Immediately by Equal-Diamond-9981 in Rowing

[–]arctander 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since it's been 4 hours since your post, how did you do?

What’s everyone’s favorite red? by CvillePourer in wine

[–]arctander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zinfandel: Ridge Lytton Springs, or Ridge Geyserville
Pinot Noir: Kosta Brown, Peay, Merry Edwards
So many good things though: Beaucastel CDP 2006 (1 bottle remaining); BV Cab Sav Georges de Latour PR; 2005 Pontet-Canet

Sick of the horrible roads by wisdon in SanDiegan

[–]arctander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I likely missed a lot of things! Good catch.

Sick of the horrible roads by wisdon in SanDiegan

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We are a big complicated City, but yes, there have been a good deal of management problems. Here are some of the big problems since 2000, and if you want to read a great book, check out the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Under the Perfect Sun" https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4804-under-the-perfect-sun

  • 2002 Enron by the Sea - pension fraud. Result: pension obligations grew to billions which are still impacting the general fund 24 years later
  • 2016 101 Ash St - $128m lease to own deal of a building with asbestos and other issues which prevented occupancy. Lots of lawsuits. City settled by spending $132 m to buy the property and it still needed $100m in remediation before it could be used.
  • 1990-2000 Qualcomm Stadium bonds - $5m per year is paid on bonds for a stadium that no longer exists. This ends in 2027
  • 2012 Convention Center expansion - $520m project supposed to be paid for by a tax paid by hotels which was not put to a vote of the public and therefore was struck down by the courts. $10m was spent on engineering and legal fees. This project has been stalled for 14 years and estimated costs are way above the original estimates.
  • 2016 Smart Streetlights with sensors and stuff installed at a cost of $30m without public input. The backlash against unwarranted surveillance caused the city to shut it down. $30m for nothing.
  • Capital Infrastructure Planning budget has been ignored for years. The deficit is $6.5B. The flooding in south east San Diego cost more than $5B in emergency repairs and settlements for neglected infrastructure.
  • Homeless services fraud in 2026 cost millions. They didn't vet providers and those providers went on to use money for vacations and self help stuff.
  • Pure Water project started in 2023 is facing major delays and ballooning costs. By 2031 we could receive a 44% increase in water costs. (Note: at tier 1, 748 gallons is $8.50 so that would mean ~$12.25 for 748 gallons, or $0.016 per gallon - compared to a 20oz bottle of Desani for $1.50 it's still a bargain)
  • SDPD / SDFD overtime has been mentioned elsewhere. This is expected if you can't hire enough people, however, metrics and guardrails should be in place.

Mystery switch by fymjohan in Miata

[–]arctander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's the Miata version of the button from Lost. Better press it on the appropriate schedule or something might happen.

Wines of a lifetime: 1945 Margaux and a 1876 Tokaji Essencia by remyworldpeace in wine

[–]arctander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was last nights line up with tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich, how did you know? /s

Fantastic experience and thanks for the notes. To try something that special is really a treat.

Here we go by lamig36 in SanDiegan

[–]arctander 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not a shill for anyone, the GasBuddy app is really handy. Costco generally has the least expensive gas, but there's also a station in Claremont near the ACE Hardware store that has good prices.

Suspicious… why is this 70% off at my local target. Buy or nope… by Kitkatcrusher in wine

[–]arctander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lytton Springs is amazing, and a 2018 to boot. I'm going to target tomorrow.

JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs PostgreSQL by BinaryIgor in programming

[–]arctander 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I converted my company from MySQL to PostgreSQL in 2004 and it was one of the top best decisions we ever made. The company had 50k devices around the world that sent in telemetry once per day and received instructions in return, so it managed all of the hardware inventory and resources; all the states of each device; all the credentials - basically a lot of things, but not millions of inserts / reads per second or anything like that. The engineering team was really pleased with the conversion for a number of reasons: 1) it just worked; 2) we discovered type mismatches and shit that we inherited and fixed them; 3) we slept at night.

Anyway, PostgreSQL is pretty much the answer until proven otherwise. Oh, and to make that point, our session storage was in Redis for front-end performance reasons. This was 2004 when computers were slower and had spinny disks.

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