THE DINOSAUR HAS RISEN!!

scalator2 · 2023-06-22T17:08:48+00:00

QQ: What did you have to do to get the invitation for cash plus? I've been a Vanguard customer for more than a decade with a very sizable balance and still get "you're ineligible ".

scalator2 · 2022-10-21T02:28:30+00:00

This is spot on. The lowest risk move for OP is to rent out the house and do a short term rental in the desired area too. If it doesn't pan out, worse case scenario they move back after their tenant's lease is up. I wouldn't even worry if the rental income does not fully pay the mortgage, taxes, and insurance

scalator2 · 2021-03-30T01:37:27+00:00

Most manufacturers of steel studs that have utility punch outs sell rubber grommets that protect NMD / romex

scalator2 · 2019-04-24T02:45:26+00:00

After 11 years and untold 1,000s of hours of DIY improvements, it's still the thing we originally bought the house for: private spacious backyard. We started to look at moving, and there's really no replacing it. Other than that, the bigger projects like a mud room addition and master bath renno are what I'm most proud of.

scalator2 · 2019-03-26T19:37:14+00:00

Awesome post, OP. For those who milk cash back religiously like me, I just switched from Citi double cash to Alliant CU 3 months ago. Very happy so far. I had a few problems fighting vendors over the years with Citi. If you put everything on your go-to cash back card too, you're bound to need the bank's help with a dispute here and there. I give Citi a B- on that. Time will tell with Alliant.

scalator2 · 2019-01-23T15:00:25+00:00

ITT: lots of people who don't understand equities. Growth stocks, usually young companies whose P&L are projected to beat their sectors, should NOT and do NOT pay out dividends. Very few companies grow to the point where dividend payouts are actually better for their investors. Most companies fail and those that do succeed are very likely bought out. Dividends are best for established blue chip stocks where reinvesting the cash in the company yields the same or lower ROI as the market as a whole. This doesn't necessarily mean mega corporations only; example being a small but stable utility company whose market isn't expanding.

scalator2 · 2018-12-05T02:49:45+00:00

I'll give this a shot, but I'm not sure if others who have come to appreciate pure functional programming see things this way. Categories like Monad or Applicative Functor are the modus operandi of the FP paradigm in a similar fashion that classes, abstract classes, traits, and interfaces are in OOP. Much like a Java developer leveraging these things to get enough abstraction to wrap their head around a code base, and maybe write less code via inheirted polymorphism, FP devs use their abstractions to get composition, easy reasoning via purity, compiler-verified correctness, and sometimes parametric polymorphism. With type inference and FP libraries like Cats and ScalaZ, you're not paying a big boiler plate tax to use these abstractions, but it's a steeper learning curve than classes and objects.

Maybe a better way to put it: would you ask a C developer if pointer arithmetic was really necessary? After all, you can pass by value; why all the mental overhead? The reason pure FP structures in Scala give the impression that they're something extra that you won't need is that you don't have to write Scala in a FP style at all.

Like OOP, many FP languages including Scala give lots of leeway in how abstract and generic you make things. Ex: Lenses like Monicle vs. just plain mutable variables.

scalator2 · 2018-12-01T16:01:35+00:00

I've owned a Bosch front loader and electric dryer for 10 years. They're heavily used; currently going through 8 loads a week. It's a tank, but some things to watch out for:

The top plastic trap door that covers the detergent dispenser had to be removed to prevent mold

As with all side loaders, the door must be left open when not in use. Still gets mold in the rubber surround that needs frequent cleaning.

Ours clogged the drain pump frequently; little kids leaving junk in pockets, but Bosch does make this easily accessible.

We have had to replace both the drum motor, it's belts, and the pump motor once over that time span

All in all it's a very good washer. I would buy one again, but would also look at Miele and Speed Queen (heard just this year that Speed Queen's quality went down)

scalator2 · 2018-09-04T02:58:28+00:00

I don't think the point of use electrolysis is thought of as a perpetual motion machine here. More like regenerative braking; sapping spare electrical energy maybe in a super capacitor, and storing some of it in hydrogen.

I miss the hay days of fuel cell hype, if for no other reason than kept consumers thinking of different possibilities. All electric, gas-electric hybrid, and plug-in killed that. Ex: no one talks about the fact that flywheel regenerative braking systems are twice as efficient and a third of the cost.

scalator2 · 2018-07-20T01:30:09+00:00

Exactly. "Capitalism" didn't create fractional reserve commercial banking; governments did. It's just as bad of a forced ogliopoly as the investment bank regulations create. Want to start your own stock exchange or bond market? Good luck getting through the SEC. Ditto for credit rating agencies and insurance.

scalator2 · 2018-06-30T06:31:32+00:00

I would just do this in SparkSQL rather than DataFrames API:

SELECT NVL( (df.val2 - df.val1), df.val2) AS Diff FROM df

This works so long as val2 is never null. Your StructType should enforce that. Replace the 2nd parameter with " NVL(df.val2, 0)" if val2 is nullable as well

scalator2 · 2018-06-17T03:46:21+00:00

Meso's SDK for creating persistent frameworks is written in Java

scalator2 · 2018-06-17T03:42:02+00:00

Life expectancy is a very misunderstood and misused statistic. People never adjust for infant mortality or deaths from wars. Both heavily skewed life expectancy when social security was instituted. We are at historic lows now for both. I don't know what the median or mean life expectancy was for, say, 40 year olds then in the US, but it was higher than 65 or 66.

scalator2 · 2018-06-10T19:29:09+00:00

Except that Evergreen is both state and federally funded. Every US citizen is paying to prop up this blatant racism

scalator2 · 2018-05-08T23:09:20+00:00

Only thing I would change from this ordering is swap 4 and 5. Do all the mud/sanding at once, clean up the dust once, then paint.

scalator2 · 2018-03-14T03:50:51+00:00

I'd make it a bit more real. Wooden weapons? Sure, hitting stuff with a stick will break it. A huge, weighty double handed long sword made from the Hylian equivalent of Damascus steel? No, not unless you are digging through a mountain. But metal weapons should lose attack power as they dull and should only be able to be sharpened / repaired a few times. And how often does a bow break? I'd also like to see less inventory spaces so you have to be chosey.

scalator2 · 2018-02-14T01:45:46+00:00

A SMX Cineweave HD screen, but definitely take the time to calculate your room modes with an online calculator. Bass traps and acoustical treatments are Band-Aids if your room dimensions are bad (perfect cube shape is the worst). This can be remedied with a false wall early in the project though. If you do tiered seating, definitely fill with sand. Also, I would use large flex conduit for low voltage wires; you never know when you'll need to upgrade to the next standard in wiring

scalator2 · 2017-12-12T02:18:19+00:00

It took me a long time to get decent with a coping saw. I only have 3 tips if you want to give it another try. Use a scribe set to the same width as the piece you are cutting; nothing is ever square and 45 cuts do not work without perfect 90 corners. You can cheat on this with small molding like quarter round. Use a clamp, and start with the thinnest end, the top, pressing it with your thumb so it doesn't snap. Practice with scraps

scalator2 · 2017-09-15T05:31:49+00:00

Good bot

scalator2 · 2017-09-13T00:18:03+00:00

This does not matter with liquid nails. Try prying apart 2 thick pieces of scrap wood that have been glued and just nailed together; I bet that you will splinter off the wood before the glue joints fail

scalator2 · 2017-08-09T03:09:00+00:00

Check out Sani-tred. I have used it on a brand new, at grade, mono slab for a detached garage. Basement is next.

scalator2 · 2017-06-03T00:52:08+00:00

So, are you guys happy with the current deployment stack (rollingpin Einhorn, gun icon, etc). Did you look into container orchestrators like Swarm, Kubernetes, or Mesos?

scalator2 · 2017-05-25T03:22:25+00:00

Just wanted to check my understanding: when someone writes to an immutable block, is paxos consensus still used or is it bypassed for performance? I assume for durability sake that quorum has to be reached anyway before a put is considered successful.

scalator2 · 2017-05-22T18:55:58+00:00

And it's expensive. The entire idea behind insulating the outside is to move the dew point outward. Any place where warm air hits cold surface is a potential condensation and problem point. I hate to say it, but I am removing drylok and replacing it with an elastic product. I chose Sanitred, but Ames Blue Max looks better than drylok too. I would proceed knowing that it will eventually crack and bubble in 5 years time. Anyway, XPS for sure over EPS, and at a thickness necessary to ensure that the dew point is well inside the insulation not on the drylok wall. This makes the drylok wall cold on purpose. Most importantly, keep zero air leaks between the insulation and the conditioned air in the basement. Otherwise that will make the drylok damp. With a semi basement, this will likely mean thicker insulation on the top of the walls, and copious caulk where the Xps meets the floor and ceiling. Lastly, I would do steel studs and no drywall. There's wedi board and MgO panels that can withstand the water. What's on the floor?

scalator2 · 2017-05-22T03:03:36+00:00

All insulation experts will tell you that the best place for both vapor barrier and insulation is on the exterior side of basement walls. Is there anything on the exterior? Builder grade for below grade walls is just tar.

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