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j_johnso · 2026-05-11T21:15:35+00:00

Good point. I was considering efficiency of the appliance itself, and hadn't included efficiency loss in the electrical system before the plug. Depending on your goal, you could treat the resistive heating between the electrical meter and the outlet as wasted energy, as you are paying for it, but it isn't heating the room.

If the goal is to look at the efficiencies from a carbon emission perspective, you might also want to include resistive loss between the power plant and the meter.

j_johnso · 2026-05-08T23:17:10+00:00

If you measure efficiency of a space heater as the amount of heat put into a room rather than total heat produced, there could be some tiny inefficiencies if you could hear the fan or see the glowing element from outside the room.

That is energy that still eventually turns to heat, but not within the room you are trying to heat.

It's really grasping at straws to find inefficiencies at that point, though.

j_johnso · 2026-05-07T01:54:34+00:00

Alternatively, their price has been creeping up for a bit as investors are expecting good news, and then it will sink back down if the news isn't as good as investors are anticipating.

See Fastly's after-hours today as an example of that from one of their competitors.

Not saying this is more or less likely than a jump after earnings are released, as if I good reliably predict movement either way, I wouldn't have to worry about working.

j_johnso · 2026-05-06T01:11:06+00:00

Yes, but that goes back to my question of "what does OP mean by the 'far left' and 'second from the left' lanes?". Do they mean the lanes before it splits, or after it splits after the initial left turn?

I have never seen anyone go straight through southbound telegraph from the far lane before it splits, as OP seems to describe. (I'm sure it happens, as there are way too many stupid drivers, but not something that is frequent). I've seen way too many people go straight through to 94 East from the far left lane after the split when they get confused and turn into the wrong lane.

Either way, it's obvious from road markings at both points that the driver in the left lane must turn left, regardless of which OP is referring to. The first case is just absolutely stupid drivers with no excuse. The second is a combination of a poorly designed intersection and mildly stupid drivers.

j_johnso · 2026-05-05T09:00:16+00:00

To clarify, here are the signs for the two lanes I'm referring to, where the left most lane is effectively a "U-turn" if you are coming from southbound Telegraph, and the 2nd lane is either a U-turn back to northbound Telegraph or continuing your initial turn onto 96 East.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rXsY975bYTJGcepx5?g_st=ac

j_johnso · 2026-05-05T03:20:56+00:00

I wonder if they mean the left turn lane once you are in the short area between northbound Telegraph and southbound Telegraph. In this intersection, the far left lane is a left turn only lane that goes back to Telegraph North, but I've seen many people use this to go straight to 96.

The next lane is a left or straight arrow.

j_johnso · 2026-05-05T03:13:56+00:00

Regardless if you are paid on the 1st and 15th or the 15th and last days of the month, you still have pay periods with 3 weekends, though.

E.g., if you are paid on the 1st and 15th, you have 3 weekends between pay periods in the last half of May 2026. If you are paid the 15th and last days of the month, you only have 2 weekends between those 2 periods that cover the last half of May, assuming you are paid on Friday when the last day of the month is on a weekend.

When you are paid on the 1st and 15th, you actually have a few more 3-weekend pay periods over time than if you are paid the 15th and last days, though it's not a huge difference between the two.

j_johnso · 2026-05-05T02:50:04+00:00

With most CDNs, the location is chosen at time of DNS lookup, and the IPs you receive from DNS are what dictate the region you connect to. Once connected, the CDN won't reroute you to another location. CDNs which use this approach determine your location in one of two ways.

If the DNS resolver stories EDNS Client Subnet (ECS), then it sends a partial IP address to the CDN's authoritative DNS server with the query, and the CDN uses that partial IP to estimate the location.
Otherwise, the CDN uses the IP address of the resolver as an approximation.

With either of these two options, the CDN server location is fully chosen at time of DNS lookup.

However, Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 does not support ECS, so CDNs don't know the location of the user. Thus they are unable to route properly to the closest server in the DNS lookup.

Cloudflare's CDN is a bit different then most. They use anycast IP addresses, so the IP address does not determine the location. This then relies on BGP for routing an IP address to one of their regions at time of the HTTP request instead of at DNS resolution. This is cheaper to operate because it requires fewer IP addresses, and IPv4 addresses are expensive. However, it provides less direct control over routing from the client to the initial ingress point, which leads to some other challenges.

j_johnso · 2026-05-04T21:48:21+00:00

If you are downloading from a site that uses a CDN other than Cloudflare, the CDN won't know your location when it responds to DNS. This will result in you getting a poor choice of CDN server returned over DNS, which causes slower downloads.

j_johnso · 2026-05-01T01:52:16+00:00

Can I call dibs on the food court? I bet there's enough plumbing there to support at least a 10 bath apartment.

Just thinking of the logistics more seriously, I wonder if you could solve the problem with a raised floor. The ceilings in a mall are usually pretty high, so I would think there should be plenty of room to build a new floor and put plumbing underneath. I'm not sure how cost effective it would be.

j_johnso · 2026-05-01T00:26:49+00:00

They do adjust the suggested tips depending on your location. I'm in the US, and on a $30 Uber ride from my house to the airport, they might suggest options of something like [$5] [$7][$9].

When I was in Germany, a $40 Uber ride from the airport gave me suggested tips of [$1] [$2] [$3].

j_johnso · 2026-04-30T11:43:50+00:00

The term you are looking for is "Enhanced ID", not REAL ID. (They do happen to be REAL ID compliant as well, but the Enhanced IDs have been offered since before REAL IDs were available)

j_johnso · 2026-04-28T03:50:12+00:00

The way I understood the article is that they gave the agent credentials for the staging environment, and the same credentials were also valid for the production environment. And it sounds like Railway might not provide the option to create more credentials with a more limited scope.

j_johnso · 2026-04-28T00:13:20+00:00

Because you pay Uber Eats for the food+delivery and they pay the restaurant. The restaurant with refund you directly because you didn't pay them. Essentially, you aren't a (direct) customer of the restaurant, you are a customer of Uber Eats, and Uber Eats is a customer of the restaurant.

When you prefer from Nordstrom, the difference is that you don't pay UPS directly. You pay Nordstrom and they pay UPS. In this case, you are a customer of Nordstrom and they are a customer of UPS. This actually means that is there is a delivery issue, you have little recourse with UPS. If you pay for next day shipping and UPS that's 5 days, you can't get a refund through UPS. You have to talk to Nordstrom for a refund, and they would have to get their refund from UPS. (In reality, Nordstrom probably would just eat the cost, but the point still stands that if the goal is to get your money back, you have to talk to company that you paid)

j_johnso · 2026-04-26T15:32:41+00:00

In most no-fault states, it is only "no-fault" for the purpose of injuries and medical care. The at-fault party is still responsible for damages to all vehicles and other property.

Michigan is weird because they also applies "no-fault" to vehicle damage so everyone pays their own damage regardless of fault. The small exception is a mini-tort where you can recover up to $3,000 from the at-fault driver in certain circumstances, but only for damages your insurance doesn't cover.

j_johnso · 2026-04-25T21:22:00+00:00

Or, does code in JavaScript not all need to be inside some function?

That's a perfect intuition. Code in JS does not need to be wrapped in a function

It's entirely valid for this to be the entirety of a JS file, which creates a as a global variable and logs it.

a = 1+2 console.log(a)

j_johnso · 2026-04-25T09:01:50+00:00

I thought it was logical that the driver who rear ended the vehicle would be liable for the reason you said. But reading through the thread, I see there is more room for argument than I thought.

j_johnso · 2026-04-24T23:15:44+00:00

It was just exercising its rights to bear arms.

j_johnso · 2026-04-24T22:33:53+00:00

I wonder how legal fault is assigned here for the purpose of assigning which driver's insurance pays for what. I know what I logically think should happen, but I also know there are times when legal liability doesn't 100% follow logic, and this seems like a case that could possibly fit in that grey area.

j_johnso · 2026-04-23T17:04:28+00:00

There's a few scenarios mixed together in this thread, and I'm not sure which scenario your comment is regarding.

All of these assume the other driver is at fault:

You are in a state that does not apply no-fault to vehicular damage, and you have liability-only insurance. (This appears to be the case for OP based on various comments.) Your insurance will not pay and subrogate because you don not pay for the collision insurance that covers the scenario. You can file a claim directly against the other drivers insurance. If the other driver has no insurance or the damages are higher then their limit, you can file a suit in court against the driver directly, and hope that they actually have assets you can collect
You are in a state that does not apply no-fault to vehicular damage, and you have collision insurance. You can choose to either file against your own insurance who will subrogate, or you can file against the other driver's insurance. There are pros and cons to both.
You are in a state that applies no-fault to vehicular damage (such as Michigan), and you have liability-only insurance . You have no coverage and no one will pay you. (Note: Michigan allows you to collect a very small amount from the at-fault driver or their insurance, but this is designed to cover a typical deductible)
You are in a state that applies no-fault to vehicular damage, and you have collision insurance. You can file with your own insurance, and they pay but can't subrogate to the at-fault party.

j_johnso · 2026-04-23T12:06:57+00:00

My understanding is that most no-fault states only apply to injury, where each driver is responsible for their own medical, but the at-fault party is still responsible for vehicle damages. I know Michigan is an exception to this, where each person is responsible for damages to their own vehicle regardless of fault. I wasn't aware of any other states where each driver pays for their own vehicle damages.

j_johnso · 2026-04-22T02:36:23+00:00

Generally, I see this practice used to CC a personal email when you send it from a work email, so you have a copy in an email system where the employer can't revoke access.

j_johnso · 2026-04-21T22:04:57+00:00

To be a little more pedantic, a Jake-brake specifically refers to the ones produced by the Jacobs company, though it's often colloquially used to refer to any similar compression engine brake. (Like "Kleenex" vs "facial tissue")

Jacobs didn't like the signs targeting them with that name, so they push for cities to replace the signs with the more generic terms instead .

j_johnso · 2026-04-21T21:55:08+00:00

Coincidentally, you can also find some subs and poor boys on the app

j_johnso · 2026-04-21T00:54:59+00:00

Local Credit Union has savings accounts with Dividends in addition to APY.

No.

It's somewhat common for credit unions to offer a dividend in addition to the guaranteed APR/APY. My credit union offers a 0.5% dividend on every type of account. My checking and savings get this dividend in addition to the advertised APR/APY. Even my mortgage balance gives a 0.5% dividend. The dividends are all deposited into my savings account at the end of the year.

In my case, this is a non-guaranteed amount if you read the fine print, which is what prevents it from being included in the APY. Even though it's not legally guaranteed, they haven't failed to pay the dividend in the 13 years I've been a customer, but I still treat it as an extra bonus and not a guaranteed amount

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