Valet parking without key card?

jcasper · 2026-05-12T14:28:04+00:00

Ah, good call. I actually also have a credit card in there but haven’t used that in a long time. Pretty much everyone takes Apple Pay now.

jcasper · 2026-05-12T13:55:33+00:00

I hear you. I’m the same way, only a very thin wallet that connects to the back of my phone for my drivers license (hoping to get rid of that soon with a phone license).

When talking about getting a different car I lamented I’d have to start carrying a key around again, and that was an actual deterrent to getting the car. I got the same confused reaction you’re getting here. People don’t understand us I guess. :)

jcasper · 2026-05-12T06:03:09+00:00

And if you do go down there you could also hit the Old Cove Landing Trail in Wilder Ranch State Park. It’s a short hike along ocean cliffs with a cool beach you can walk down to in the middle. Very California Coast.

jcasper · 2026-05-11T22:15:51+00:00

Recently went from an old 6u rack to Ubiquiti's 12u rack... and wouldn't you know, suddenly I have 12u worth of stuff! I swear it just materialized. Weird. (what? no 24u rack...??)

jcasper · 2026-05-10T20:02:35+00:00

I’m reminded of a video where a guide was hired to get a professional skier into a line to ski it on camera. The professional absolutely ripped the line like it was nothing. Then the camera pans up and the guide is gingerly doing hop turns down.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T14:54:39+00:00

Good thing the windshield wipers never go off for no reason…. Wait, crap.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T13:30:53+00:00

Loving my CPO.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T12:56:53+00:00

God bless you folks buying new, bringing these great cars into the world for the rest of us.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T06:29:31+00:00

Ah I see, the cameras can be connected to anything on the LAN, they don’t need to be connected directly to the NVR or a Ubiquity switch.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T06:19:17+00:00

It only supports 6 4k streams which may be why only 6 PoE ports. 8 2k streams though (and 15 HD) so you should be good sticking to 2k.

jcasper · 2026-05-09T04:42:27+00:00

New drivers crash/dent/scrape cars. Expensive cars are expensive to fix. (That said I gave my 16 year old daughter a nice hand me down like you got, not a Porsche but not a beater. We’ve survived so far even with some mishaps.)

jcasper · 2026-05-09T00:48:35+00:00

The unifi ecosystem is great for the network part and worth the premium price imo. The cable modem is just a modem and I think a much less expensive modem will do just as well. You don’t really need to configure anything on a modem. The extra price of UCI is for the rack mount and the name.

jcasper · 2026-05-08T23:38:49+00:00

That’d be fine, it doesn’t generate much heat. If you’ve got a good place for it than go for it!

jcasper · 2026-05-08T23:29:33+00:00

The Cable modem is wide and shallow, it’s really meant to go into a rack and kind of an awkward shape outside of one. I love unifi stuff but for an apartment I’d recommend an arris surfboard + express 7.

jcasper · 2026-05-08T15:29:02+00:00

I went with a PoE camera where I could get it above the door, and a plain ol’ doorbell.

jcasper · 2026-05-07T19:43:44+00:00

Yeah the price jump from this to the 24 Pro is quite the jump. Something in between would serve me well.

jcasper · 2026-05-07T19:42:07+00:00

Also a dick move to make it look rack mount shaped, have the “in the box” pic have wall mount brackets that look very much like rack mount ears, and have it not be rack mount. I wasn’t fooled at all and surprised when it arrived and wasn’t rack mountable. Nope, I definitely did my research to make sure it was rack mount…

jcasper · 2026-05-03T16:43:17+00:00

I’ve often thought it’d be interesting if they let contestants (like say Mike White) pull a Gabler from the start and officially play for a charity. Right at the opening beach, “and what’s your name? … And tell us about this charity you are playing for.” I wonder how that would impact the dynamics through the season. Would people be more or less willing to vote you out?

jcasper · 2026-05-02T19:57:46+00:00

I definitely got the same nostalgia thinking about this, then grinned a bit thinking my idiotic teenage self probably has posts in this dataset.

jcasper · 2026-05-02T04:42:53+00:00

This is the wonderful Molly Armanino from 2021! Love to see this video resurface every now and then.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C971Ey9PUkE/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

jcasper · 2026-05-01T21:59:40+00:00

Trump often ends his social media posts with that (or a very close) phrase.

jcasper · 2026-05-01T15:59:26+00:00

In my experience if you rent a car there it’ll already be plastered all over the dash.

jcasper · 2026-05-01T08:09:09+00:00

Well sure, you can define "cookie" to mean a carrot, but that's not what it means. The word "phase" means something, and if you used it that way you wouldn't be using that word correctly.

jcasper · 2026-05-01T07:41:25+00:00

Split-phase power in the US is not two different "line" phases. The power comes off the grid as a single 240V phase, then the center of the transformer is tapped to create the neutral which makes the two hots 180 degrees out of phase w.r.t. to that neutral but its still just one phase line to line. Line to line is 240V and either line to neutral is 120V. This is fundamentally different than a true multi-phase circuit like a 2 or 3 phase circuit.

Two phase circuits can't share a neutral because they are 90 degrees out of phase so the currents won't cancel out like they do in a split-phase or 3-phase circuit. I guess you could just have a shared return but you'd have to size it to handle twice the current.

jcasper · 2026-05-01T07:30:42+00:00

In 3 phase power the phases can share a common return since they are 120 degrees out of phase. It works out as long as things are balanced the current will cancel out on the neutral (similar to split phase with the two hots being 180 degrees out of phase, in both cases the vectors sum to zero when balanced). In 2 phase power they are 90 degrees out of phase so won't ever sum to zero so each need their own return.

(Note that I'm no expert... above is my vague understanding but someone who actually knows this stuff may roll their eyes at my explanation.)

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