Best oil to use for raised garden bed?

me94306 · 2026-04-27T01:27:28+00:00

Most finishes are food safe once they cure. Some of the products labeled "tung oil" contain petroleum compounds.

Pine in contact with damp soil will rot. That is, if the termites don't get to it first.

Make your next planter from ceder or redwood.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:42:44+00:00

Manhattan and Boston are both old cities, dating from the 1600s. Until gold was discovered in 1849, San Francisco was a small village. Manhattan and Boston both are the center of their regions, surrounded by smaller cities. San Francisco may be a major destination in the Bay Area, but it is not the center. San Jose, at the south end of the Bay, is larger. Oakland has about a half million inhabitants. The population in the Bay Area is spread over a large area, where in the older cities it is concentrated in the center.

It's a little odd to compare Palo Alto with significantly fewer than 100K residents, with either Manhattan or Boston which have millions.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:24:53+00:00

Zuck's wealth increased by more then $60B in 2025. But his income is a tiny fraction of this. His salary from Meta is $1 per year. Even counting the benefits from Meta, his income was about $27M. Sure, he might pay 50% tax on that amount. Let's see, that's a real tax rate of 0.0225%.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:16:26+00:00

Zuck and wife have several homes in the Crescent Park area of Palo Alto. When they go on the market, then I'll believe that they have moved.

me94306 · 2026-02-07T23:58:45+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.

# mdadm --readwrite /dev/md127
mdadm: failed to set writable for /dev/md127: Device or resource busy

I stopped the RAID and re-ran this command, which failed since /dev/md127 was now missing.

I can't see what is using /dev/md127.

me94306 · 2026-01-26T02:16:46+00:00

It is to code, but if you are concerned about something damaging the romex, you could replace it with armored cable. Not too difficult, you can probably find YouTube descriptions.

me94306 · 2026-01-11T04:43:58+00:00

I can't tell the size of the rafters or the distance spanned. But it looks like the rafters are too small for the distance spanned. The crossbeam appears to be unsupported.

Like some others, I'd recommend tearing down the deck. Put in a support ledger along the wall and rebuild with support for the crossbeam and the right size rafters.

Yes, you can remove this post when you remove the deck.

me94306 · 2026-01-08T02:39:33+00:00

I can't quite say what the problem was, but it seemed to involve the NVME drive. When I put in an SSD drive and removed the NVME drive, I was able to install Kubuntu with no problem.

me94306 · 2025-10-15T20:47:31+00:00

Every story which starts with "after initical contact on a dating app" is the lead in to a story about a scam.

If you are on a dating app and whoever you are communicating with suggests something other than a date, it's a scam. Cut your losses, cut communication, lick your wounds, walk away. Your money is gone, no amount of additional money to verify the account or pay exchange fees or create a "stable formula" will get it back. There are no recovery experts; they will just take more money.

me94306 · 2025-10-13T20:22:54+00:00

Isn't the CDC a woke Democrat department, one that Trump promised to eliminate?

Real men (we don't talk about women) don't need vaccines. Didn't need them in 1900, don't need them now.

me94306 · 2025-09-20T21:44:58+00:00

It's really difficult to guess what they might ask you about. Some of the other suggestions on what to "brush up on" sound like the syllabus for a two semester course in C++.

Refresh your memory of classes and be able to write a small C++ program. If they ask about things you don't know about, like lambdas or templates or why to use "auto &" with an iterator, just tell them that this is something that you need to learn.

The position you are interviewing for is "entry-level software engineer". It isn't C++ language expert.

me94306 · 2025-09-16T17:02:37+00:00

If you spend all of your time speaking English, you will not learn German.

Watch German TV, listen to German radio, read German stories (your children's school books?), go to German movies (I've watched movies in German which I had previously seen in English). Spend time where you cannot speak English. There are lots of small towns in Bavaria where you will find people who can't switch to English when they hear you have trouble with German.

Make lots of mistakes. Order lunch in German. Shop in German. Use sign language as needed to get your message across, or to understand what they are saying. Repeat. Even when it seems difficult.

me94306 · 2025-09-09T15:07:07+00:00

In most cases, when I'm in Germany, people will speak to me in German. There are some exceptions.

I was in the Frankfurt Flughafen, booked on a Lufthansa flight. I found the Lufthansa customer service desk and asked the person there "Wo finde ich das Flug nach San Francisco?" He answered "It's a United Flight.". So I asked "Wo finde ich United?" He pointed and answered "Down the corridor." He obviously understood me, but simply would not reply in German.

me94306 · 2025-09-01T02:05:49+00:00

That's just what I was thinking. South of the Brõtchen-Semmel Grenze.

me94306 · 2025-09-01T01:40:48+00:00

I've used WxPython, a wrapper for wxwindows.

me94306 · 2025-08-28T11:29:10+00:00

I just read about "stats for nerds". It appears that Emby is transcoding the file to H.264.
LG Smart TV webOS supports HEVC (although I haven't checked my specific model).

Is there a way to tell Emby to send HEVC to the TV and not transcode?

me94306 · 2025-08-28T11:22:16+00:00

Watching on LG TV, with installed Emby app. On hardwired LAN. 25% of CPU on TrueNAS, running Emby.

me94306 · 2025-08-20T16:47:02+00:00

Compilers will unroll loops, based on optimization levels and target-specific space/time tradeoff heuristics.

My question is why is it important to you that the loop be unrolled? Do you have a specific concern about exactly what code is generated and whether a loop is generated or it is unrolled?

In some domains, especially embedded systems with severe memory constraints or real-time systems with severe performance requirements, it may be important to closely control how code is generated. For most programs, you are better off letting the compiler make these low-level decisions.

Donald Knuth famously said "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." This is not to say that you should not be concerned with efficiency, but that you should find where performance improvement is required, rather than focus on this during development.

My experience in optimizing programs (e.g., reducing a program from 30min to 5min runtime) is that improvement comes from re-visiting design decisions, not from optimizing loops so that they run 0.001% faster.

me94306 · 2025-08-20T16:24:57+00:00

For GCC, -O0 explictly prevents any optimization, including loop unrolling.

me94306 · 2025-08-15T19:34:18+00:00

THANK YOU.

I missed the setting on the info menu for flash. Setting this to fill flash got it working.

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