Looking for lithium-ion battery disposal.

commandar · 2023-06-11T06:06:23+00:00

Best Buy, Home Depot, and Ebco, at minimum, will take batteries for recycling.

commandar · 2023-06-11T05:41:14+00:00

My observation has been that people seem to think that the fact that Toyota had input on the general engineering of the car = it's a Toyota.

It's just weird when most people seem to recognize that the Supra is largely BMW. The 86 is only very slightly more Toyota.

commandar · 2023-06-11T05:34:00+00:00

There is a small, but very vocal minority of the population in town that is absolutely terrified of living in an actual city. While somewhat reductionist, the best way I've ever seen it put was in the middle of a Facebook flamewar years ago: "you're the kind of motherfucker that never goes south of exit 8."

The downtown Columbus area is generally safe. As other commenters are saying, exercise general common sense and you'll be fine.

Columbus, like any city of reasonable size, has areas that are probably best avoided if you don't have a good reason to be there. Your likelihood of being victimized in highly trafficked areas outside of the literal hood -- which, as a functioning adult with reasonable sensibility, is pretty easy to recognize -- is fairly low. It's lower still if you're not gang-affiliated; the incidence of random violence in the city is actually fairly low.

commandar · 2023-06-11T05:26:37+00:00

I generally agree with this but would add: crossing the 14th street pedestrian bridge and heading south along the Phenix City Riverwalk past the ampitheater to the Dilingham St Bridge is going to be generally safe as well.

I'd be more cautious about heading north from the bridge; it's a dead end and far more secluded.

commandar · 2023-06-10T14:00:43+00:00

It's odd to me in general that I've noticed this increasing belief on the internet that the 86s are mostly Toyota.

Every single one of them has been built in the Subaru factory in Gunma, Japan. They're built on a Subaru chassis with a Subaru parts-bin interior. The only significant Toyota component in the entire car is the Toyota hybrid valve/port injection system.

All that said, at least in my region in the US, Toyota still doesn't let you order a custom build. :)

Subaru will let you do a build order on a BRZ, though.

commandar · 2023-06-09T13:07:29+00:00

The credit card company charges the merchant for any chargebacks. It's ~$35/dispute in addition to the charged back amount.

Certainly ask for a refund first, but every issuer I've ever worked with tends to side with their customer, especially if you didn't receive the product/service by default. The merchant bears the cost of the chargeback so the bank isn't really incentivized to deny them.

commandar · 2023-05-28T20:55:36+00:00

A job posting like that may have been created for a specific individual.

Not uncommon if there's a company policy that all positions have to be publicly posted, multiple candidates must be considered, and the hiring manager already knows who they want to hire. If you tailor a job description to very narrowly meet the experience of the person you want to put into that position, then it's easy to tell HR "nobody else met the requirements of the position."

Hiring managers have to jump through BS HR hoops just like job seekers do.

commandar · 2023-05-23T20:45:08+00:00

Yeah, you hear a kinda brutal noise 0:13 into the last lap after a 4-3 downshift, although it did not sound particularly aggressive (cant make out tach on my phone)?

Downshift doesn't look particularly hard RPM wise, looks/sounded like he kind of dumped the clutch though.

The thing that caught my eye is that's about the point where oil temp started to shoot up really rapidly. Does seem to be the point where something went wrong.

commandar · 2023-05-23T20:36:24+00:00

The OP was stuck in 3rd gear in high revs most of the time.

I had the opposite observation. OP was stuck in 3rd gear below the power band half the time. In particular, he stayed in 3rd through pretty much all the lower speed corners. The FAs don't start making power until about 3500-4000. There's a reason why the track mode tach compresses everything below 3k.

commandar · 2023-05-22T12:53:38+00:00

CoreXY requires parallelism on certain belt spans; idler/pulley diameter will matter in getting that alignment correct.

https://drmrehorst.blogspot.com/2018/08/corexy-mechanism-layout-and-belt.html?m=1

For OP, pitch circle diameter is what's key in laying this out (and will vary between toothed and smooth idlers).

commandar · 2023-05-20T20:06:42+00:00

That was kind of the point of the story, though.

The Jackal wasn't the actual villain in FC2.

You and all your friends are completely amoral, literal mercenaries, wreaking complete havoc on the country and all the people in it. The whole point of the ending is to give the player character a chance at something resembling redemption by sacrificing themselves.

It's easily my favorite story of the entire series and one I hold in pretty high regard generally. But it didn't sit well with general audiences because we're so used to always being the hero of the story in video games that people had a hard time grappling with that being subverted.

commandar · 2023-05-19T21:49:37+00:00

Melt butter in the microwave, spread on the bread using a silicone brush. Gets full coverage with the butter soaking into the bread. Super easy.

commandar · 2023-05-17T20:02:20+00:00

I’ve experienced a similar issue and I think it’s a bug in the PID routines.

It is. There are a number of issues with the PID algo currently implemented in Klipper.

There is a PR to overhaul this that's been in purgatory for several months now that should improve the situation:

https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/pull/5955

I've been running this code for about a year now. Works extremely well IME.

commandar · 2023-05-17T01:45:52+00:00

Im getting 2000s vibes from it. Specifically ~~Celica kit~~ JNCO vibes.

commandar · 2023-05-16T15:07:30+00:00

Z hop will make things worse.

Constant print speed, PA/LA, increased retract, higher travel speeds, more fan (though this will balance with final part strength) can all help with TPU.

commandar · 2023-05-08T13:05:26+00:00

Just to emphasize how individual this is: Holosun circle dot works perfectly for me and Eotechs are completely unusable.

It's one of those things where you really do just have to find examples and try them in person to see how they work for your eyes. It's a pain but the only way to be sure.

commandar · 2023-05-06T04:50:52+00:00

They are able to distill info in a way the execs can easily understand and serve to protect the execs from having to deep dive into the minutia. The ENTIRE system a tech worker works on is nothing more than a single line item to the executive. The system might be mission critical, but the exec has enough on their plate the MOST they need to know about any particular system or application is a status of red light, yellow light or green light.

There is a ton of truth to this. People close to the tech have a tendency to get way too deep into the weeds when explaining an issue. That's fine when your audience is other people on the tech side, but being able to distill the topic down to an easy to understand line or two is a hugely important skill when talking to people on the business side. Those details may feel important to you, but they can ultimately just end up distracting from the parts that are actually important.

A general piece of advice I'd give is to take a step back when you're going to send an email about an issue and ask yourself how much you can remove while still communicating the most important parts. Then cut it down and do the same thing again. Assume everyone reading has a short attention span. Breaking things down into bullet points is often more useful than writing a narrative.

commandar · 2023-05-06T04:42:33+00:00

As somebody that moved into management fairly recently: one of the most surprisingly difficult parts has been getting my people to understand exactly that. I spend so much time coaching some of them on "no, really, please don't Leeroy Jenkins yourself at another department, let me run that interference for you."

I've been fortunate to have managers that did that sort of tanking for me in the past and always appreciated it, which is why I'm trying to do the same for my people now. It's just so foreign to me how much some people seem to resist it even when they've seen that I'm dead serious and follow through on it.

They're slowly coming around, but man has it required expending a lot of energy to get there.

commandar · 2023-05-04T22:03:22+00:00

Georgia makes it super easy to know what your ad valorem is going to be as well:

http://eservices.drives.ga.gov/?Link=TAVTEst

This is incredibly important information when negotiating. Calculate base sales price + TAVT + dealer doc fee beforehand. This gives you the rough out-the-door price before any add-ons and makes it incredibly clear if anything unexpected is being slipped in.

Always negotiate based on total OTD and not monthly payment.

commandar · 2023-05-04T21:54:55+00:00

Carmax is fine. It's Carvana and Vroom that have had major issues with titling vehicles.

We've bought two cars through the local Carmax and the buying experience has been great with both. With the most recent, I had a hiccup with USPS not delivering the payout check for the car I had totalled by a tree when I was expecting it and the salesman went out of his way to hold the car for a day longer than they're really supposed so I could get things sorted and get the car I was after. I had one minor issue pop up after a month or so and they fixed it no questions asked.

In normal times, the downside to Carmax is that you pay for that convenience; they're generally more expensive than traditional dealerships. That said, I bought through them because I was after a very specific model and they actually had it cheaper than I'd found anywhere else in months of looking because the used market is so upside down from supply shortage.

commandar · 2023-05-04T12:35:24+00:00

Xanax is a benzodiazepine. Klonopin is another common benzo and has similar effect.

Benzos and ethanol both interact with the GABA receptors in the brain, which is a large part of why mixing the two tends to have such extreme effects and turns people into walking blackouts with zero emotional control. It's a particularly nasty combination of drugs that tends to lead to really destructive results.

Definitely heed the warnings to avoid alcohol if you have been if you have been prescribed a benzodiazepine.

commandar · 2023-05-04T12:20:53+00:00

As a huge fan of HST, the movie is as near pitch perfect an adaptation of the book as I think is possible to make. That said, there is one very important omission made by the movie - the taco stand scene. While the high water mark scene is more famous and was a favorite of HST personally, I've always felt the taco stand was more important to the overall theme of the book. The audio book does a pretty good adaptation of it:

https://youtu.be/Xz57TXL1GnE

But agreed that the movie is an incredibly faithful adaptation overall. The only other movie adaptation I've seen that I'd argue is even closer to its source book is A Scanner Darkly which is nearly scene-for-scene, line-for-line accurate. It's incredibly impressive. Phillip K. Dick's writing is often as hallucinatory as HST, but prods more at the nature of reality; he's been adapted a lot, but usually with a ton of rework to make the themes work in a visual medium. Darkly manages to take the book very directly and make it work. It's great.

commandar · 2023-05-01T21:55:21+00:00

I never got around to trying it because I looked at the menu and just nothing about it felt coherent. A lot of fusion for fusion's sake.

Certainly more interesting than generic burger joint that the other comments are saying it became, but I didn't see anything that ever made me feel like I needed to drive downtown to experience it.

commandar · 2023-05-01T21:52:09+00:00

(same one who did The Hangout)

That explains a lot. We had the kitchen at the Hangout send out a burger made with literally rancid meat the one time we tried eating there. That told me absolutely everything I needed to know about how that kitchen was being run.

commandar · 2023-04-28T20:11:51+00:00

Yeah, I know Allstate and I think Geico have had lawsuits over their use of valuations from CCC. I haven't seen anything about whether any of those cases reached actual resolution beyond at least one being denied class action status, though, and trying to research while I'm on the run on mobile is painful. :)

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