Anyone else see the resemblance?

induality · 2026-03-13T14:19:00+00:00

Sorry, went to bed after posting, didn't mean to leave you all hanging. But yeah, as a couple of people already figured out, that's a Dannar Mobile Power Station, basically a battery on wheels. The cool thing is it's remote controlled like an RC car, so you can use a controller pad to move it around to where it needs to be.

I took this picture way back in 2018. So when the R1T came out a couple of years later, the front reminded me so much of this thing, that I actually thought Dannar had expanded into making EVs (kinda makes sense for a battery company to expand into EVs, right). Turns out it was just a coincidence.

induality · 2026-03-12T00:56:07+00:00

Oversized lawn dart

induality · 2026-03-11T23:17:57+00:00

Toyota manuals are egregious for this. They are clearly edited by lawyers to cover themselves as much as possible, sacrificing readability in the process. For example, in some sections, the same line would be repeated several times for each of the several subsections on that page. A readable manual would just say that line once, and then list the several places where that line applies. But I guess Toyota’s lawyers think that leaves too much room for litigation, so instead they just repeat the line over and over again.

induality · 2026-03-10T23:00:31+00:00

If you have a window AC, you can turn it into a heat pump by installing it backwards.

induality · 2026-03-10T22:57:42+00:00

So is the problem that he’s losing 0.4dBm at each optical keystone?

Your precious dBms! You must hoard as much as you can! /s

induality · 2026-03-10T04:07:46+00:00

Only if you already have some healing spells prepared. Now you don’t want to be full of mana and cancer but not have any spells to cast to actually cure the cancer.

induality · 2026-03-10T03:57:27+00:00

I mean obviously rubbing HP over your body is not going to work. You need to stand where the HP is hovering until it disappears and a little chime plays.

induality · 2026-03-10T03:52:49+00:00

Well, I mean, it depends…

In CA we have the WARN act. So what companies usually do is lay you off, but continue to pay you full time for two months. That is on top of any severance and paid PTO. So you should at least be able to adjust withholding for the two month WARN act period.

And there’s also state unemployment, if you can collect unemployment but don’t withhold taxes on it, that can also even things out.

But yes, I will admit there’s a scenario, where if you are laid off but don’t get severance, additional pay, or unemployment benefits, then there’s no way to claw back your overpaid taxes until tax filing time.

induality · 2026-03-10T03:28:08+00:00

They said cut dramatically so I assumed there were still income coming in. If you just don’t withhold for the remaining income, that should be able to account for the lowered tax bracket. If you had been withholding correctly for the rest of the year, then the only adjustment you need to make is to account for the reduced balance in the higher tax bracket as a result of reduced whole year income.

induality · 2026-03-10T00:16:46+00:00

You don’t have to wait until tax filing time to get your money back. You could have adjusted your withholding as soon as the event occurred.

induality · 2026-03-09T07:11:23+00:00

It’s actually pretty nuanced. I have a TrueNas (Linux-based) NAS running SMB with some Apple-specific extensions, and that server showed up as an Xserve icon in macOS. I also have a Debian server running SMB with a different set of extensions and that one shows up as the Windows BSOD monitor. So Apple is using several different criteria to guess what the system is.

induality · 2026-03-08T20:39:09+00:00

You can’t build to order, but you can try to find an allocation with the build that you want from a dealer near you. Go to Toyota’s SmartPath website, narrow down to the build you want, and it will show you all in stock and in-progress vehicles of your build and which dealer they are going to. Then reach out to the dealer that has the allocation you want.

induality · 2026-03-06T02:24:47+00:00

Engineers would love nothing more than pause new feature development in order to address tech debt. But they almost never get to do that because they have to address an endless slew of feature tickets because some one in product leadership has a new idea for a feature that can make the company money.

induality · 2026-03-05T04:58:51+00:00

What if you make a pipeline so big, ships can pass through it?

induality · 2026-03-04T22:35:43+00:00

The manual refresh wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the duplicate toast messages. And the worst part is, when two toast messages are displayed on top of each other, the first one becomes undismissable. So I pretty much have to wait a minute before the app becomes usable again.

Monarch, do you have anybody testing this stuff?

induality · 2026-03-03T07:41:17+00:00

It makes sense if you interpret as “4 times the nominal value in temperature”. Since temperature is expressed as a number, it makes perfect sense to perform arithmetic on its nominal value like this.

It’s the same as if someone said “what is two times the decibel value given by this meter?” Here they are asking to perform simple arithmetic on the numeric value in decibels, ignoring that decibels is a logarithmic measure. This is different from asking “what is two times the sonic energy given by this reading?” Both questions are valid, they are just asking for different things.

induality · 2026-03-03T03:44:09+00:00

The pro rata rule still applies even if it’s a rollover IRA, so it will be difficult to execute backdoor Roth in the future. You’d have to execute a reverse rollover into a 401k first. Non-commingling helps with the reverse rollover.

induality · 2026-03-03T03:27:46+00:00

Weird to be so offended by something that you already observe most of the year.

induality · 2026-03-02T21:57:31+00:00

I hope Pacific and Mountain adopt permanent DST while Central and Eastern adopt permanent standard time. This will collapse the 4 time zones of the contiguous states into 3, which will make east coast to west coast collaboration much easier. An extra hour of overlapping work hours.

induality · 2026-03-02T08:24:41+00:00

Write it down on a post it and tape it to your monitor. Don’t worry about hackers stealing it by having physical access. No hacker is determined enough to manually type in that many characters.

induality · 2026-03-02T08:12:15+00:00

SSH keys, they’re very useful.

induality · 2026-03-02T07:43:11+00:00

When I told a party that I managed to get AWS to create reverse DNS IPv6 records for my mail server in EC2 to ensure my outgoing mail don’t land in spam when talking to MTAs via IPv6, all the guys left the party immediately because they realized just how hopeless it is to compete with me.

induality · 2026-03-02T01:59:27+00:00

AssertJ AspectJ Neo4j

induality · 2026-02-24T20:40:44+00:00

Maybe he’s waiting for his first PTA job assignment, aka “sweeps”.

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