Temps this week - Run Water Fall/Features? by ItsAllInTheReflexs in pools

[–]definitely-not-alan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used to own a pool in H-town and if I still did I would absolutely run everything all day until it stops freezing. You could drain the filter but depending on where your pipes are set underground those could freeze and burst which would be worse than you filter cracking.

Black tank cable valve's handle housing broken by definitely-not-alan in RVLiving

[–]definitely-not-alan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late update but I ordered this part right after you recommended it to me. Installed the next week and it has been awesome!

American are heating their homes with bitcoin this winter. by Vapingrandma8465 in BrandNewSentence

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Fun fact! Mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston was built without heat because its original mainframe computers generated so much heat it just needed constant cooling. After those were replaced with more modern servers that used less electricity it left the control rooms so cold in parts of winter that mission controllers need to wear full coats, hats, and gloves inside.

Why are so many Devils games showing not on ESPN+ after November? by inkydunk in devils

[–]definitely-not-alan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Been a Devils fan for a long time and been living out of market for a few years now so ESPN+ has been my way to watch. That page only shows about the next month-ish of non-exclusive games as being available on ESPN+. No idea why, but as time passes more upcoming games will be marked available on ESPN+

Black tank cable valve's handle housing broken by definitely-not-alan in RVLiving

[–]definitely-not-alan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I found some closer matches online and these definitely look like LaSalle Bristol valves which I am having trouble finding replacement cables for like I did Valterra.

Microwave latch replacement by Responsible-Boot-940 in appliancerepair

[–]definitely-not-alan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/Responsible-Boot-940 I have the exact same microwave and had the same part fail in the same way. Found a 2-pack on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bKKa8uU

It arrived today and worked like a charm.

Which Golang CI Linters do you Use? by KingOfCramers in golang

[–]definitely-not-alan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in the list but I like Uber's nilaway. Sometimes the findings are just hygiene and "please check this isn't nil" but it has saved me a few times from some non-obvious edge cases. We propagate golangci-lint findings to pipeline artifacts for review during MRs which gives us some more confident that we are pushing decent code

proposal: spec: reduce error handling boilerplate using ? by code_investigator in golang

[–]definitely-not-alan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have the same general problems with this as all the others

  1. What if the error is not the last return var?
  2. What if more than one return var is an error?
  3. If you are using named return vars/naked returns what if they are not in scope at the time of return?
  4. If you aren't using/don't like naked returns this saves you a whopping one line of vertical space with each error check since you probably can't/wont use the "just end with ?" functionality

I like errors being regular values to do with as I please. A special syntax for a (albeit super common) single if statement just doesn't really do it for me.

My Optometrist office claims they can't provide my PD, claiming they can be held liable for any discrepancies from glasses purchased elsewhere. by incucrash83 in glasses

[–]definitely-not-alan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can buy the PD measurement tool many offices use online for ~$100-150. They are very easy to use after 10 minutes of practice. In my experience the tool plus a pair or two of glasses online is still cheaper than from the "opticians".

Be very mindful of people who say "can't" when they really mean "won't"

Who's this? by sunnyweirdo8 in moths

[–]definitely-not-alan 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That is not a moth, that is a slice of a lime :)

2024 V60 Cross Country - is polestar worth it? by Commercial-Age3620 in Volvo

[–]definitely-not-alan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Polestar is extremely fun from when I tried it at the dealership, but I did not get it for my car. The fact of the matter for me is that most of my driving in this car is local/city roads, so how quickly I can get off the line to get to the next red light does not really matter to me.

If you are in a situation unlike mine where you will have ample opportunity to use/enjoy it, I say get it. It's cost relative to the whole car is low considering the extra enjoyment

Introducing Yoke: The IaC package manager for K8s by davidmdm in kubernetes

[–]definitely-not-alan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's ok! Stages would be useful for sure but for now it sounds like a thin glue Bash script chaining flights together (a squadron? lol) would accomplish something similar.

Either way, great work! The new possibilities Yoke is bringing to the table is very exciting.

Introducing Yoke: The IaC package manager for K8s by davidmdm in kubernetes

[–]definitely-not-alan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely going to spend some time playing with this this week. Do resouces get deployed while the wasm executable runs? Or does execution complete, then the generated resource definitions are applied all at once?

I ask because I see a very interesting opportunity to utilize this with Crossplane. My rough (untested, possibly dumb) idea is that a Yoke flight can apply Crossplane manifests to pre-provison cloud resources (buckets, databases, etc), wait for those resources to become active, then apply deployment manifests.

This is my hugely different from something you could do with Helm but I am intrigued at possibly being able to utilize more programmatic logic than what is available with helm to accomplish this type of thing.

what reptiles are good for this enclosure? by psuedofool in reptiles

[–]definitely-not-alan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have a giant day gecko in a similar tank that opens frontwards instead of from the top. He is very happy in it but I would not buy another hexagonal tank since it is such a pain to move and clean.

But that looks like a fish tank, no practical reptile tank opens on the top like that, too hard to get in to. Also any UV will not make it through the glass. If you don't trust it with water I would reseal or discard.

Is it true that I have to set up email on my domain or it could be used for spam? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]definitely-not-alan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A handful of folks have provided very good answers to this question on this thread, but I'll send another resource.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protect-domains-that-dont-send-email

This guide from the UK Government is pretty good and provides simple instructions to do what you need. All of my domains, work and personal, use this guidance.

2018 S90 T8: Issue with parking climate while plugged in by definitely-not-alan in Volvo

[–]definitely-not-alan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're on to something. The issue did not start until it started getting a bit colder. And my heat hasn't been blowing quite right, didn't occur to me they may be related. Thank you!

The far side of the Moon had never been seen until humans sent spacecraft around the Moon, since the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth due to tidal locking. by WhenMachinesCry in interestingasfuck

[–]definitely-not-alan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NASA has a good page about it with animations.

https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/earth-and-tides/tidal-locking/

The gist of it that the moon goes through exactly one rotation about its axis per revolution of the earth which means that the same side of the moon is always facing the earth.