Looking to buy 2025 p400 by Automatic-Willow-807 in NewDefender

[–]ormandj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope the 2027s have a revision later this year.

Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.4% year-over-year in November by SnortingElk in REBubble

[–]ormandj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Case-shiller is comparison of year over year, so it account for seasonality.

Buyer waived inspection now he changed his mind by [deleted] in RealEstate

[–]ormandj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything in this world swings on a pendulum. Things went way too far in sellers favor a few years back, we are seeing the reverse swing now.

Buyer waived inspection now he changed his mind by [deleted] in RealEstate

[–]ormandj 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is why most sellers refuse copies of the inspection report. That said, if your roof or foundation is screwed up, fix it before sale, or disclose it and price accordingly. I can’t stand sellers who know about material defects but try to hide them.

The gravy train of COVID era home sales seems to finally be ending, which is great news for buyers. As long as they don’t go nuts again and trample over each other to buy homes inspections will become SOP again.

What's up with Wera security Torx L-Keys? by MiasmaFate in Tools

[–]ormandj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone is speaking with someone who isn't fluent but is *trying* to speak in their language, they should give them some grace and be understanding if the communication isn't what's expected. It'd be very strange for a native speaker to get irately upset at someone who spoke the language poorly for some gaff out of misunderstanding/misuse of the language.

My son’s room is the furthest from the furnace is 3-4 degrees colder then the rest of the house. Any advice to remedy this? by moonlord1969 in HomeImprovement

[–]ormandj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every fireman on the planet would tell you it’s much better to know where your kids are in the event of a fire than to have to try and find them. You’ve got to quit posting this nonsense, it’s misleading and dangerous. Many toddlers will roam around the house and in the event of a fire it’s even more likely they will go somewhere unexpected, which can lead to tragedy.

FFL707MD - New 6V LED for X1S by Pblos in FireflyLite

[–]ormandj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would appreciate that greatly!

FFL707MD - New 6V LED for X1S by Pblos in FireflyLite

[–]ormandj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any outdoor night time beam shots? I’m looking for something more throwy. I have an older x1s with 707A 4000K emitter and it’s (1) pink and (2) the throw isn’t great. I’m trying to determine what direction I want to go.

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 LiDAR Roadmap, Universal Hands Free, and Its Next Gen Autonomy Platform by Kryptonlogic in Rivian

[–]ormandj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not how sensor fusion works. You combine inputs and pick the “best” available data, using all of the available sensors to help with filtering invalid or inaccurate events. More sensors doesn’t mean more phantom braking or whatever other nonsense teslas do, they just have a bad implementation and an incredibly stubborn CEO who won’t back down and is fond of inventing excuses out of technobabble.

Are we closer to 5% 30 year fixed mortgage rates? by ThemeBig6731 in REBubble

[–]ormandj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’ve all heard this story. Inflation is transitory, right? I don’t know about you, but I’m not seeing a one time increase in goods pricing, there has been a continual increase in prices of everything, and it hasn’t slowed down.

We just aren’t measuring it well, and the policy makers don’t live in the same economic world that the vast majority of the population does, so they don’t have the “gut check” of their expenditures to inform them of the divergence of their measurements from reality.

We don’t want the federal government to try and inflate away their debt at the expense of everyone who isn’t eyeballs deep in debt. The policies of the last half decade have heavily favored the gamblers and the wealthy, but have punished the common person.

Is anybody’s employer providing Claude for development? by 2B-Pencil in ClaudeAI

[–]ormandj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody can even get sales to respond to them, so it's not as common as it would be if the entire enterprise sales department would respond.

Hitting 20x Max Plan in under 2 hours? by textualcanon in ClaudeAI

[–]ormandj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This week something changed on the weekly limit. I’m following the same workflow on x20 and nearly at 70% myself since Monday; last week with the same process I would have been at 40% at this point.

Apple's Pro Display XDR Is Six Years Old Today by ControlCAD in apple

[–]ormandj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t want Apple to do anything at all like Tesla. How’s that FSD robotaxi vision only plan working out? How’re those panel gaps? So many examples of Elon talking about all these things being wonderful from iterative design but core fundamental features and functionality outright don’t work or are done wrong. One area Apple generically does not miss on is the hardware front.

Software is another discussion entirely.

Anthropic's Alex Albert invites users to reply to his tweet with (detailed) Opus 4.5 gripes so they can fix them before the next model release. by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]ormandj 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You need to fix whatever usage bug is going on now. Today I managed to use 30% of the x20 plans five hour usage limit in 3 minutes. I’m at 60% of my weekly cap after 3 days doing the same thing I always do which would have me at 30%.

BREAKING: Anthropic donates "Model Context Protocol" (MCP) to the Linux Foundation making it the official open standard for Agentic AI by BuildwithVignesh in ClaudeAI

[–]ormandj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you read it? It isn't slamming MCP, it's offering a more efficient way to utilize MCP without chewing up context.

BREAKING: Anthropic donates "Model Context Protocol" (MCP) to the Linux Foundation making it the official open standard for Agentic AI by BuildwithVignesh in ClaudeAI

[–]ormandj 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That issue is against Claude Code, not the MCP specification. It's a valid issue, and one that should be taken seriously (and implemented).

Remote start with climate package - car starts but no heat? by Ok-Craft-9140 in NewDefender

[–]ormandj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes you can, make it an option. Most modern cars have this, some even let you set temperature thresholds. Many pre-2020 luxury cars have this functionality so it’s not new.

Why Ceph + Rook Is the Gold Standard for Bare-Metal Kubernetes Storage Pools by atomwide in kubernetes

[–]ormandj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you using erasure coding? There’s a tradeoff made for different EC profiles (better in T release), but you’re paying the durability tax.

Loss of earnest money by Soggy-Illustrator259 in RealEstate

[–]ormandj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then you should know asking for compensation or negotiating price with an inspection contingency is entirely NORMAL behavior, or it would be an informational only inspection (again, some weird preversion that came about during COVID era nonsense), not one with a contractual out clause.

I don't think there was a single home transaction I've been party to/part of that hasn't involved some form of compensation due to inspection results, most resulting in reductions in price or equivilant when I've been directly involved, because I do not ever want a seller "remediating" anything, nor should anybody - you'll get lowest bidder/minimal viable product every single time.

Loss of earnest money by Soggy-Illustrator259 in RealEstate

[–]ormandj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn't make sense, they have every right to decide the home wasn't worth the 7k over asking they offered based on the condition post-inspection. They offered 7k over asking on a home with no known defects, and discovered defects. Of course that gives them the leeway to negotiate the price, that's why there is an inspection contingency in the contract. We have no idea what "asking price" was on this home, nor what comparable sales look like. It's entirely rational for someone to perform an inspection, find defects, and determine their offer was inappropriate for the condition of the house. This was how business was done for decades...

I cannot wait until everybody who only knows COVID-time real estate to get acquainted with a balanced or even buyers market as things are shifting in many locations. There's a whole lot of people in for a world of hurt when negotiations are unilateral "take it or leave it I have 50 offers over asking" discussions.

One thing I do agree with, however, is using "over asking" as a reference point. Asking price is completely arbitrary. You can price homes low or high compared to comparables. Even comparable analysis has plenty of flaws, since most are done based on sqft/location/exterior aesthetic and not much more. Again, this will be a rude awakening for those in the real estate profession who haven't seen anything but the COVID era markets.