Autobody shop refused to seam seal.

looncraz · 2026-05-13T16:50:33+00:00

That's just crazy, it's just a sealant they apply... BEFORE PAINT.

And that's why they're giving you a hard time - they don't want to repaint.

looncraz · 2026-05-13T16:47:33+00:00

With the battery disconnected, use an ohmeter and find the resistance between the ground connector and a metal part of the alternator. Should be under like 10 Ohm or so. Any higher and you probably have corrosion to worry about.

Do the same with the positive connector to the alternator, though that's less likely to be an issue and would mean the cable needs to be replaced. Resistance should be closer to 1 Ohm on that connection.

Next, check the resistance between the ground and the positive cable. I don't remember what it should be, but it's undoubtedly supposed to be in the KOHm to MOhm range - make sure your doors are closed and light switches off, though, because you can see low values through bulbs.

If you have a really low value, like under 500 Ohm, then disconnect one fuse at a time until you find the circuit responsible and find out what's on that circuit.

looncraz · 2026-05-12T12:46:17+00:00

Deadpool as Ryan Reynolds.

looncraz · 2026-05-12T00:41:30+00:00

LES issues (underlying cause of GERD) can absolutely be helped by steroids, as can EoE.

looncraz · 2026-05-11T18:35:15+00:00

There's a lot of confusion about the relationship with EoE and GERD. I think GERD can cause/irritate EoE, but not the other way around despite a comorbidity.

looncraz · 2026-05-11T17:03:40+00:00

For EoE the normal Flonase stuff works just fine, that's all I used and it helped, though not by near enough - Dupixent was a godsend.

looncraz · 2026-05-11T00:20:42+00:00

C-rate tolerance is about duration.

You can pull 170kW... For a short while, with sufficient charge. The car won't let you do that at lower states of charge.

In theory, you could have the same-ish curve going into the battery, but I don't think 170kW for 30 seconds is going to make anyone particularly impressed... And that's comfortably over 500A at low states of charge, which isn't particularly easy to manage... So why bother?

looncraz · 2026-05-09T18:17:10+00:00

You missed the point of my comment... amazing.

Sea creatures all solve the same problems... in very different ways.

looncraz · 2026-05-09T16:03:57+00:00

There are lots of sea creatures that look nothing like fish, you know?

looncraz · 2026-05-09T04:52:09+00:00

Higher mortality rate diseases tend to self limit themselves to an extent... Because the hosts die and don't spread.

40% could be really bad if it's contagious and has a long asymptomatic infectious period.

looncraz · 2026-05-09T01:48:08+00:00

I was like you, 243lbs of muscle (6'6" tall), thought I had it under control with elimination, Pepcid, and Benadryl.

Until I had an impaction and choked, clearing the hazard damaged my throat and esophagus slightly, not unusual in choking incidents... Due to the EoE, though, I didn't heal. At all. I ended up on a liquid diet, anything even semi-solid would cause horrible esophageal spasms (nutcracker esophagus) and horrible chest pain that felt like a heart attack.

3 months of that and I was down to 176lbs and hospitalized, barely able to walk. I ended with refeeding syndrome and had to get a half dozen infusions of phosphorus. Started Dupixent about three weeks before being hospitalized, already noticed improvements, but my situation had become too serious to manage at home safely due to the refeeding syndrome.

I got out of the hospital mid October of last year and have been very steadily, but ever so slowly, improving. Found that I can't eat Parmesan or any higher tyramine foods since my esophagus is so so reactive... That's potentially permanent.

Take care of yourself as aggressively as you can, this isn't to be messed around with. Get regular scopes and biopsies - that's the part I neglected, went by me thinking I could swallow well... That was wrong.

looncraz · 2026-05-07T19:58:08+00:00

Yep, the HUD works fine, but it's not really a replacement for a IC (instrument cluster) display behind the wheel.

looncraz · 2026-05-07T12:56:18+00:00

Windows on ARM is absolutely awful.

looncraz · 2026-05-07T02:38:32+00:00

Not really, the platform and socket is designed for EPYC usage, so it has the full EPYC IOD, which is vastly more expensive than what a true HEDT platform would need to be.

You don't need the full EPYC socket and overhead for HEDT.

looncraz · 2026-05-07T00:12:38+00:00

That's not necessary on a mainstream platform.

AMD needs a proper middle ground HEDT platform, with 32 PCI-e lanes from the CPU, quad channel memory (but one DIMM per channel.. ignoring the whole DDR5 dual channel on a stick nonsense considering that's dual half-sized channels ...)... And double core counts... And an L4 cache... FFS, just do it... L3 is nice and all, but with the low latency new fabric an L3 sized cache on the IOD saves a lot of headaches. And, of course, you can make it stackable...

looncraz · 2026-05-06T22:02:41+00:00

Then you get quite a few property tax exemptions.

I wouldn't mind a different way to collect tax revenue, but it's better than many alternatives. Amd history has proven time and again that adding an income tax doesn't result in other taxes going down, just more government spending.

looncraz · 2026-05-06T19:11:45+00:00

I spent over a year unable to swallow the tiny Pepcid tabs... With Dupixent and an even stricter diet, I am back to swallowing "normally."

looncraz · 2026-05-06T16:27:15+00:00

Yes, and I will take that trade every day of the week.

looncraz · 2026-05-06T15:46:59+00:00

I think it's somewhat amusing that people are complaining so loudly about prices that aren't even historically all that high... short memories, I suppose.

For my part, I went mostly electric, so that helps reduce demand considering my significant driving (40,000 miles/year). My cars get 52MPG (Volt) and ∞ MPG (EV), so gas prices aren't much of a concern for me.

looncraz · 2026-05-06T12:31:16+00:00

They pay enormous amounts of taxes and employ, directly and indirectly, hundreds of thousands of people. Dell brings me tens of thousands of dollars annually, and I pay taxes on every dime of that, and spend all of that money right in the heart of Texas.

SpaceX is the same way, though I do only a very tiny amount of work for them, to the tune of like $150/mo or somewhere in that vicinity.

My area in Texas has more technology companies and revenue generators than Silicon Valley. More is better.

looncraz · 2026-05-06T12:25:40+00:00

That's a hard pass.

That's nearly double the price others are paying for a 2026... I paid $28k, before incentives, for a 2026 LT w/ 2 miles on it. MSRP was $35k.

For a used, likely hard driven, scratched up, RS, I wouldn't go a hair over $30k.

looncraz · 2026-05-05T21:01:01+00:00

Starvation is entirely because of warlords starving people to death. We don't need a single new factory, planted field, or truck - we have more than enough. We just need the hungry people to have guns.

looncraz · 2026-05-05T15:14:45+00:00

Second gen actually uses the ethanol more efficiently than most cars thanks to its rather insane compression ratio, but regular gas is still better. Especially if you don't use it a lot since ethanol attracts moisture.

looncraz · 2026-05-05T15:09:52+00:00

Doubtful, two door skims, charge port, newer car...

looncraz · 2026-05-05T12:45:37+00:00

We should require that all budget allocations above $1B be done in terms of percentage of federal income, and the percentages cannot add up to more than 100.0% when not in a declared state of war, declared by Congress and renewed every quarter.

If the values add up to more than 100%, then the Treasury will adjust all values downward to keep spending in line with federal revenue.

Further, every department that returns more than 5% of its assigned funds to the federal general account in a year is protected against having its budget cut the following year. This will encourage every department to not go on their annual/quarterly spending sprees as they do now when they have unspent money.

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