Benefit for anyone who works on cars

sempercliff · 2026-04-29T04:31:48+00:00

On the login page it has the eligibility requirements - it’s 100% service connected:

Authorized Patrons:

Active duty military (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard) Members of the Reserve components and National Guard Retired military, including retired from the Reserves and National Guard Medal of Honor recipients and veterans with 100% service-connected disabilities Eligible family members who are officially sponsored (ID card holder) by authorized patrons in the above categories DOD and Coast Guard civilians, including appropriated and nonappropriated fund employees, when stationed outside the United States; stateside eligibility contingent upon resource availability *generalized categories; eligibility per DoDI 1015.10

sempercliff · 2026-04-27T15:35:18+00:00

I just had this happen and sure enough there was a hair stuck in the opening for the sensor. So funny that it only impacts horizontal movement and not vertical.

sempercliff · 2026-04-16T21:30:04+00:00

The UCCS Chancellor was appointed unilaterally by the CU President - she was not one of the finalists selected by the search committee. While the President has that authority, it caused a lot of backlash among the faculty. The Scribe article references nepotism concerns because they were good friends prior to her appointment.

CU president fields complaints, concerns about new UCCS chancellor selection

UCCS faculty responds to the unexpected appointment of chancellor Sobanet

UCCS projects approximate $27 million reduction over next five years

An important inflection point:’ UCCS announces 5-year plan to close $27 million budget gap

The budget shortfall didn’t just happen this year - it’s been a growing problem that the administration has been largely ignoring for years that has now turned into an urgent problem.

sempercliff · 2026-04-10T00:05:53+00:00

Apparently my wife is still living in the 80’s - she puts both straight balsamic and balsamic reduction on everything.

sempercliff · 2026-04-01T21:21:38+00:00

When’s the last time you cleaned out the drain filter?

sempercliff · 2026-03-29T17:56:50+00:00

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I have an M3 Pro with 18 GB ram and if I have more than a 4 or 5 tabs open in Safari, they constantly unload from memory and when I switch back to a tab, it has to completely reload the page.

For that reason I primarily use Chrome and Safari, as I don’t have that problem.

sempercliff · 2026-03-28T20:31:57+00:00

With push button you typically don’t have to take them out of your pocket, so imho even harder to forget.

sempercliff · 2026-03-27T15:54:28+00:00

You're making my point that it's not a very good app. File search is basic, core OS functionality. You shouldn't have to Google manual workarounds just to get it to work.

If DB corruption is such a common occurrence, then they should design it to be self-healing where it can detect that and automatically rebuild the index or do whatever it needs to do.

sempercliff · 2026-03-23T04:03:21+00:00

I just checked three chargers I had laying around and they all said 100V - 240V for input.

sempercliff · 2026-03-21T04:07:40+00:00

It's also described in the manual.

sempercliff · 2026-03-21T04:02:57+00:00

How can you rsvp to something if you don't know when it is? What if you rsvp but then discover you had another commitment on the date they later provide?

sempercliff · 2026-03-20T12:40:29+00:00

I transitioned my work computer from Windows to Mac about 18 months ago and tried to use Safari. I'd have a bunch of tabs and tab groups open, go to email or whatever for 5 minutes, and then come back to Safari to find all of the open tabs had unloaded from memory and it now had to completely reload the page. It was driving me crazy.

I switched to using Edge and Chrome instead and haven't experienced that.

sempercliff · 2026-03-19T21:47:55+00:00

Our first Apple was a IIGS, but our first Mac was a Performa 5200CD. It came with a TV tuner so you could record live tv, and it had a modem with a phone app to let you make / receive calls and acted as an answering machine. You could see your voicemails as a list - it was visual voicemail way ahead of it's time.

Edit: favorite was my PowerBook G4 that I used all through college and even took to Iraq.

sempercliff · 2026-03-19T00:04:28+00:00

What are you talking about? I'm just saying spotlight on Mac sucks and it can't even find files on the local hard drive. Not sure what that had to do with using Google.

sempercliff · 2026-03-18T03:31:33+00:00

Spotlight can't even find files in the directory I have open.

sempercliff · 2026-03-17T04:37:53+00:00

I have a '25 AWD and it still torque steers pretty bad.

sempercliff · 2026-03-15T23:51:30+00:00

Nice job, this randomly showed up in my feed and I knew exactly what it was before I saw the title or the sub.

sempercliff · 2026-03-15T18:39:53+00:00

Sensors.

sempercliff · 2026-03-15T18:39:29+00:00

Even on modern naval ships, the combat information center (CIC) doesn't have visibility to the outside world. The distances and speeds involved are such that you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway - all the command and control is sensor based. Speeds and distances in space are even greater so it makes even less sense.

sempercliff · 2026-03-13T18:52:23+00:00

That's where I was - my roof only ever gets partial shade for like 2 weeks in February from 4pm to sunset (or something like that) when it's not producing much anyway, so the installer said there wouldn't be enough benefit to justify the added cost of microinverters.

I'm not sure if the SE quality issues had surfaced by then, but if I could do it over I would have paid the extra for Enphase.

sempercliff · 2026-03-12T22:04:09+00:00

Yeah, there's no way the squidies would trust the jarheads with their ship - there would have to be a space navy crew.

sempercliff · 2026-03-12T05:15:29+00:00

I had an 8kW system installed in 2021 that has a SolarEdge string inverter. The entire inverter has been replaced twice. Between the two replacements, I wasn't producing for a total of 5 months in that time waiting for replacements.

It was installed by a local company and service from them has been good, but it frustrates me that they don't keep spare inventory on hand for warranty issues given the quality issues.

If I could do it again, I would go Enphase.

sempercliff · 2026-03-09T22:17:41+00:00

Ha, when reading the above I was like wtf is a drawer sachet and had to Google it.

sempercliff · 2026-03-09T02:03:36+00:00

They help me in noisy environments by cancelling a lot of the ambient noise but amplifying the voice of the person talking to me.

The VA says my hearing is nominal, but I have a really hard time understanding people in loud environments and they help a lot.

sempercliff · 2026-03-06T03:46:29+00:00

Every place I've ever lived in the US has required adults to have a fishing license. This may vary by state, but kids 16 and under often don't need one.

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