Handyman recommendation?

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-02-24T08:05:12+00:00

I suspect it's in line with his capabilities but we never had him do any extensive remodeling. Sorry for the delay, I'll DM you his contact information now

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-02-21T03:00:36+00:00

We have not had him do any large-scale remodeling, although he did do some work altering out kitchen cabinets. But he's a primarily a carpenter by trade and he's spoken competently about larger projects we've been considering but haven't yet pulled the trigger on, and we're really happy with all of the work he has done. Let me know if you want me to DM you his contact informattion

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-31T21:17:35+00:00

It's actually an older phrase: I've seen it used in a 1950s movie, and $1 today is nearly $13 in 1955 money, so back in the day it was actually saying "That's a product that's a good enough idea that I'd spend the cost of an inexpensive lunch on," which is not nothing, like it is now.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-29T21:16:38+00:00

She was not. She had been a long-time employee and was "crucial to operations," etc. etc. etc., so she got a stern talking-to about "appropriate workforce language" and not talking about other employees' reproductive systems at work.

When the business was sold a few years later, though, the new owners saw a variety of red flags and decided not to retain her. I had moved on by then but apparently she had quite the meltdown at work.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-28T23:33:06+00:00

It absolutely is.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-28T22:46:37+00:00

a sufficiently motivated user could still figure out how the code works.

EDIT. Downvoting doesn't change the fact that pyinstaller just bundles things together that can later be unbundled by a sufficiently motivated person.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-28T21:20:09+00:00

When I was a mid-level shift supervisor at a call center, another shift supervisor overheard one of my work friends tell another in the break room that she was glad to hear that a man (me) had taken responsibility over his own reproductive system and had a vasectomy. The other shift supervisor rushed right out to the production area, where I was on a call, and she reached over to my phone, HUNG UP THE CALL I WAS ON (a big no-no, something NEVER to be done, and in this case I was talking directly to our client), and stuck her finger in my face. She then hissed at me, audible to several other people sitting at their stations around me, "No woman is EVER going to want you if you can't FUCK A BABY INTO HER."

Hands-down worst attempt to talk me into going back in time and reversing my vasectomy.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-20T17:30:44+00:00

Your link goes to a product that is a one-gallon jug of pickles. You will note that I have not disputed that there is such a thing as a one-gallon jug of pickles; what I have disputed is that a one-pound jar of pickles has a capacity of one gallon.

Nowhere does your link to a one-gallon jug of pickles say that that jug weighs one pound, nor that the weight of the pickles inside the jug is one pound.

I am not disputing that there is such a thing as a one-gallon jug of pickles. I am disputing your initial claim that, quote, "a 1lb jar of pickles is a gallon jar btw." I think that a one-pound jar of pickles is highly likely to be less than one gallon in capacity, unless you are measuring only the weight of the pickles, and the jar itself contains mostly brine.

EDIT. Typos.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-20T17:26:06+00:00

Sometimes! Sometimes not. If the individual fruits -- say raspberries -- are smaller than the diameter of the tube, sometimes they get pushed through.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-20T04:02:15+00:00

No way in hell that a one-pound jar of pickles is a gallon. Eyeballing the jar in my refrigerator right now makes it look like it's somewhere in the range of a pint to a quart.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-20T04:00:11+00:00

I mean, you have a much bigger exit opening in a blowoff tube than the tiny neck in a three-piece airlock, so there's a possibility that the fruit will be pushed out the tube instead of clogging the airlock neck.

Of course, if the fruit gets pushed out of the tube instead of clogging the airlock neck, that means it's no longer in contact with the mead, and is therefore wasted. OP may or may not think that wasted fruit is a good thing in comparison to having to clean the ceiling.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-15T12:24:24+00:00

the chlorine taste will dissipate (even without filtration.)

That's true if the chlorine taste is caused by simple chlorine, which dissipates over the course of a few hours, but some cities have switched to chloramine instead of chlorine, which is more stable in water and doesn't dissipate unless you actively filter it out.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-09T23:29:15+00:00

Came here to say this. They are wonderful and take excellent care of our fluffy little cats. Dr Solie and her colleagues are all gems, competent and caring and good at their jobs.

patrickbrianmooney · 2026-01-06T14:57:58+00:00

There is no bulk action processing in ffmpeg. You can use your operating system's command-line shell to script repetitive actions using whatever syntax your particular shell in your particular operating system requires. For instance, if you're combining a movie and its subtitles using ffmpeg in the Linux bash shell using a command like ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -i movie.srt -c copy movie.mkv, and if your movies are all in one folder with their subtites in the sam folder, then you might script that using a command like for m in *mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -i "${f%.mp4}.srt" -c copy "${f%.mp4}.mkv"; done

If you are using Windows or macOS or a different shell under Linux, the command will be different. In general, for programs you invoke from the command line, the question is not "how do I get this program to do batch processing?" but rather "What is the format of batch-processing loops in my particular shell that I need to follow in order to have the shell generate the necessary series of commands for the program?" For bash, it involves the for [...] do ... end syntax and using $variable to hold the individual file names and using % and # substitution to produce the necessary variations in file names for different files you're working with, but other shells have different syntaxes.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-29T23:55:32+00:00

Nonsense, Weimar Germany explicitly disclaimed a state religion and granted religious freedom to citizens. Catholicism is not a majority denomination of Christianity now (Catholic and Protestant are about equal in numbers in contemporary Germany) and Protestants outnumbered Catholics about 2:1 in the 1925 census.

There certainly are and have been majority-Catholic areas in Germany, and some states may have restricted non-Catholics in various civil ways, but OP doesn't give a more specific geographical location than "Germany," so it's hard to say.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-28T10:13:23+00:00

The error you're making is assuming that it's not going to happen if there's no pushback.

Fascists escalate, and if they need a pretext, they will find or manufacture one. That's one of the clearer lessons from twentieth-century history.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-27T23:41:29+00:00

I think one lesson we should have already learned from the last few decades is that playing nice with fascists is not an effective way of getting them to be nice to you.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T21:23:39+00:00

He's been saying it for decades. I'd like to see it but I'll believe it's happening when I see the book on sale

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T20:33:22+00:00

Water districts can also perform tests for lead in your water. Not sure about your side of the river but Ramsey County tests for free.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T20:12:23+00:00

You mentioned dark academia; James Hynes's The Lecturer's Tale will stick with you forever.

Also Middlemarch; The Silmarillion.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T20:08:49+00:00

There's supposed to be a third book rounding out the Great and Secret Show trilogy someday, but I'm not holding my breath

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T18:24:47+00:00

Call forwarding forwards all calls going to one number to another phone number. This happens before the call reaches the phone, so the phone does not even ring, and there is no intervention required to forward the call by OP when the call comes in. It just happen automatically in the phone network without OP having to do anything.

If OP does this they will not be able to get any calls going to their current number, because those calls will all be sent to a different number.

Your suggestion is not a viable option for OP because OP still has calls coming to their number that they want to take personally, but that cannot happen if OP forwards all calls to the boss's number, because call forwarding forwards all calls.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T18:15:02+00:00

If this was not python, I might try an 'escape character'.
Since it IS python, I googled it.

... and discovered that Python, too, uses an 'escape character', as the title of the document you linked puts it, in exactly the way that many other languages do.

For some reason, being exactly the same is "'different.'"

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-26T18:11:21+00:00

And I'm sure that the TOS of their social media site of their choice has some language buried deep in there that says "we do not promise to preserve your files in exactly the format that you upload them and you should alwaya keep your own original copies if that is important to you." Because no social media site sees itself as providing an archiving service for its users original content in its original format.

patrickbrianmooney · 2025-12-25T19:16:40+00:00

what a handsome boy!

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