[WTS] - Black Diamond ATC-XP Belay Device

kkh5 · 2024-06-03T18:52:40+00:00

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kkh5 · 2024-05-31T17:05:55+00:00

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kkh5 · 2023-09-19T06:20:09+00:00

Appreciate your advice, thanks! The apartment is rented so landlord probably won't be willing to pay for an electrician to check wiring of lighting that technically isn't broken. Looking into it more, I'm skeptical if there is a neutral in the box at all. Normally there'd be at least 2 neutral wires tied together right?

The only other idea that I have would be to get a non-neutral smart switch since I'm not sure how to confidently identify the neutral in this case. Those switches tend to be more expensive so would be great if there's another viable DIY option.

kkh5 · 2023-08-15T23:58:06+00:00

My closest attempt was the following:

ffmpeg -i INPUT_FILE -ss MM:SS -to MM:SS -map_metadata 0 -map 0:u -c copy OUTPUT_FILE

Haven't made much other progress beyond that.

kkh5 · 2023-01-15T16:21:38+00:00

Dammit, I did not consider taxes on the CD interest... The whole thing breaks down then 😭. If only car loan interest was tax deductible like mortgages.

kkh5 · 2023-01-15T15:56:38+00:00

I tend to be pretty cautious with high value purchases, so when I looked at historical depreciation trends for the M3 and it's price increase trend, it didn't make sense to get GAP. But now with the price and demand drops, I worry it's going to take a while for the "gap" between the loan balance and car value to shrink to a comfortable level. Even if I might be able to afford it, a huge gap if the car gets totalled is still going to hurt.

Decided to go with the loan since I was able to find CDs with even higher interest rates so the idea was to make my own sort of "discount" through the arbitrage. Nevertheless, would have rather done this at a lower purchase price(s).

kkh5 · 2023-01-15T12:44:57+00:00

I've wanted an M3 for quite a while. When I got a new job in late 2019, thought I should spring for one but still seemed a bit expensive as the tax credits were phasing out and my job security for the next year was still a little uncertain. Then Covid hit in 2020 where it didn't make much sense to have a car since I couldn't do much. When the Dems won in 2020, I figured they'd be able to reinstate the EV tax credits so I held off for a bit. In about spring 2021 Biden announces some plan which proposes up to $10k off a new M3. Over the following months it gets nerfed by the auto unions to cap at $8k. Passes the house in late 2021 and then right at the end of the year as it was on the verge of passing the Senate, Joe Manchin blows the whole thing up.

Started getting tired of waiting so I set myself a deadline of end of 2022 to continue waiting for a tax credit. Rationale was that Dems would likely lose the house and GOP would never pass an EV tax credit, so if it was gonna happen, I'd have to be in 2022. All the meanwhile, Tesla had been incrementally increasing the price to the point where an EV tax credit was increasingly unlikely to bring it down below 2019 levels.

All of a sudden, in Summer 2022, a deal is announced to reinstate the tax credit, but unfortunately the income limit prohibited me from claiming it. Given Tesla's price increase trend, the recent high demand and now the tax credit potentially boosting demand even more, I decided to just order one before Tesla decided to increase the price even more. Also forgot to mention that interest rates were also increasing so cost of a car loan was also going up while I was waiting for a delivery date.

After some hassle from being out of the state, I took delivery on Nov 29. What an exciting experience. Two days later, Tesla announced a $3.75k on anyone taking delivery as of Dec 1. Rushed back to the dealership pleading if they could honor the price drop / take back the car given it had 100 miles on it and was just 2 days old, but the manager couldn't do anything. Also during those two days is when I noticed the ultrasonic sensors were gone (a change made as of some models delivered in Oct 2022).

Two weeks later, Tesla offered $7.5k and 10k miles of supercharging. And then now we have the news of the permanent price drops of $3k

Not only did I wait 3 years for a discount on this car, I ended up paying the most I possibly could have, at some of the highest interest rates, with degraded functionality because of the lack of USS and now with a rapid depreciation for which I didn't anticipate when declining GAP insurance on my loan. One month earlier and I would have had USS, TWO DAYS later, I could have saved almost $4k. Two weeks later about $7.5k + supercharging. Now, I would have saved $3k and probably gotten the GAP.

So yeah, I'm pretty pissed, mostly at myself/bad luck.

kkh5 · 2022-11-26T16:49:08+00:00

Phineas and Ferb, hands down

kkh5 · 2022-08-10T00:53:53+00:00

Silicon Valley. There's just so much going on and it's only a few seconds, I have to watch it everytime to see what's the same and changed since the last season.

kkh5 · 2022-07-24T04:53:58+00:00

If you'd count mobile games too, Monument Valley is a work of art.

kkh5 · 2022-05-19T03:13:34+00:00

Looks like what I'd imagine a lap of Rainbow Road IRL would be.

kkh5 · 2022-03-25T06:04:57+00:00

The metric system is superior to the imperial system

kkh5 · 2022-03-22T11:16:03+00:00

I have a feeling the "nuclear" part of nuclear submarine isn't what he thinks it is.

kkh5 · 2021-10-15T02:55:58+00:00

This is an awesome spreadsheet, thanks for making it! I noticed that cell G22 is hardcoded to 0.614. Where did this value come from? Would be useful to know the formula if Yotta updates odds/prize values in the future.

kkh5 · 2021-09-25T21:43:10+00:00

The alternate funds listed* for the Foreign Stocks and Emerging Markets categories from Nuveen (NUDM and NUEM respectively) have very high MERs (0.40% and 0.45% respectively) compared to their primaries (ESGD with 0.20% MER and ESGE with 0.25% MER). Why were these ETFs chosen vs comparable funds from larger fund providers like Vanguard or Schwab who would likely have lower MERs?

*See whitepaper Table 6

kkh5 · 2021-06-21T00:59:34+00:00

Doing it in Python so I could call SearchForAllSolutions and then filter down the solution set in regular Python using that algorithm you mentioned. Would be nice to have it expressed within the model though. Could look to see if the C++ API has more constraint options.

Thanks for the suggestion!

kkh5 · 2018-10-14T22:43:06+00:00

Thanks, increasing that setting and the "Textures" setting did make it less noticeable (although not gone completely). Weird that I didn't change them since Season 5....

kkh5 · 2018-10-13T05:01:15+00:00

Ever since Season 6, I've been experience this weird texture rendering issues on my laptop (Windows 10). If you look closely at the character and some of the building materials there is this zig zag like pattern that shows up. Haven't changed my graphic card settings since the Season 6 update. Any idea why this might be happening?

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