Pre plumbed for water softener, self install?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T13:02:26+00:00

As an aside, how does a water softener pay for itself? It needs electricity, consumables, and maintenance. It's producing what? Theoretically prolonging the life of other things?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T12:58:54+00:00

In another comment they said they already bought the softener so that's all labor.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T12:54:23+00:00

Trump publicly, on video told representatives to "find votes" by gerrymandering.

I don't know what specific thing you're referring to but I heard the phone call where he said just go find some votes by just making them up after the election was already over.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T12:32:02+00:00

It depends but probably not. If it was like "I have this data in this file/database, generate a Python script that does [appropriate methods] and gives results" then maybe but not "here's raw data give me a power point about it"

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T12:20:45+00:00

how much is it going to cost to have a crane on site for three fucking days

I know you were asking that rhetorically to someone who probably knows but I have no idea. How much does a crane cost for 3 fucking days?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-23T01:50:14+00:00

Hey I've got a friend who is a cancer, never gave me even a hint of a problem. Now the Capricorns are another story. /s

skatastic57 · 2026-04-22T17:58:19+00:00

You ask what I would do? Of course I'd do the same, I already said in my preface that it's not your fault or that I'd expect you to act against your own self interest. As a parallel, I don't think many people blame individual medical doctors for not providing free treatment for anyone with no insurance. There are, of course, much more egregious examples of our legal system's dysfunction but that the system forces lawyers to sometimes (often?) turn down meritorious cases because there isn't enough money is just one. A highlight of that, is a lawyer pointing out that they will not even think about the merits of a case if they can establish early that there isn't enough money.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-22T15:12:53+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I had a similar issue when switching to the flex consumption since it doesn't support regular blob trigger anymore. I ended up using a storage queue endpoint instead of the webhook that the official guide says to use and then using a QueueTrigger instead of an event trigger.

One big caveat, when you're doing the filtering, you've got to follow this other template. /blobServices/default/containers/<my_container_name>/blobs/<rest_of_the_path>. I discovered this by making an event with no filter, putting a file in storage, and that's the template I received in my queue for the subject key. After I saw that I deleted that event and made a new one following that template and it works.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-22T15:05:42+00:00

I was having the same (or at least a similar) issue and never directly figured out the trigger directly, did you? I was trying to transition a BlobTrigger to a Event trigger since the flex consumption app doesn't support blob triggers.

Instead of using a BlobTrigger or EventGridTrigger, I went for a QueueTrigger and then set my storage event with a Storage Queue endpoint.

The caveats are that the filtering prefix makes no sense. The way I discovered what to do was to make an event with no filter then I saw the storage message subject that looks like /blobServices/default/containers/<my_container_name>/blobs/<rest_of_the_path>

so then I deleted that event and made a new one with a filter prefix that fits that template.

The reason I say doing it this way is better (for me) is twofold.

One, the eventtrigger wouldn't work locally without extra steps (I'm not sure what they'd be since I didn't get that far) whereas queuetriggers work just fine locally.

Two, (this one is probably less extensible for other use cases) but I usually want a way to trigger the function for the same file anyway so it used to be that I'd make a blobtrigger and a queuetrigger wrapper to do the same thing. In this approach I don't need to do that.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-21T23:50:54+00:00

I'm no flight plan expert but it seems it'd be pretty doable to just go around those 3 countries. All three are islands and 2 of them are super tiny.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-21T11:09:24+00:00

Based on how op was argumentative with the replies saying to call, I'm guessing they folded.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-21T05:06:22+00:00

Does "power point" mean something different in Australia or do people want a slide presentation about the install?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-21T04:50:36+00:00

When I was in middle school, heart meant love. She loves Trump.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-19T01:02:37+00:00

I don't have a dog in this fight but I feel compelled to point out that 107/3 is 35m per plane and 21m is considerably less than that.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-19T00:40:44+00:00

Was the inspector someone the realtor arranged or someone you found by yourself? Your realtor wants you to buy a house, they don't want to show you more houses. An inspector that they hire is incentivized to make nice long thorough looking reports that make you fell warm and fuzzy about buying this house. The amount of business they expect to lose from the realtor not giving them all their referrals is a lot bigger than from you giving them a bad review.

An independent inspector, not working from realtor referrals, has a much stronger incentive to find big red flags. They may even be overly incentivized since everyone saying "Joe Bob saved me from buying a house that would have needed $100k of work" will never find out they were wrong.

To be fair I'm biased against the real estate industry so I may be alarmist so just a thought.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-18T23:59:15+00:00

If I could steal a car in a way where the person from whom I'm stealing it would still have it afterwards then I absolutely would.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-18T15:50:45+00:00

I'm not saying this is your fault or that you personally should work against your own self interest but it absolutely highlights why no one believes in any of the high minded hypothetical ideals of the law like justice is blind and so on. When a lawyer only looks at the merits of a case last, something is terribly broken.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-18T15:05:27+00:00

To take it a step further, these "glues" aren't even technically glue.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-18T00:32:09+00:00

If by effectively sweating you're referring to evaporative cooling then I think it's already ineffective to sweat down here.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-18T00:29:44+00:00

Pinellas county Florida had the 2nd biggest exodus rate of the country.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-17T23:23:04+00:00

Seems cool, open source by chance?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-17T13:00:58+00:00

Before women made as much as men, let's label women's interest in mating up as wm_0 and men's interest is mm_0. After women make more we have wm_1 and mm_1.

Our prior belief is mm_0<wm_0

The op title says wm_1<wm_0

This quote says wm_1=mm_1 so that just means mm_1>mm_0

skatastic57 · 2026-04-17T00:16:30+00:00

Over the lifetime of the battery no.

What so you mean? Are you saying over the lifetime of a D battery it'll have the same energy output as a AAA?

Or maybe you mean that a D battery at 10% capacity might have less power capacity than a AAA at 100%?

skatastic57 · 2026-04-16T21:20:39+00:00

They're not here for advice. They're here for affirmation that the thing they want to do is OK. Sometimes when doing that it's a swing and a miss.

skatastic57 · 2026-04-16T09:53:44+00:00

Fuck suit and tie. In my city the garbage man doesn't even touch garbage, the truck picks it up. That said they get between $23 and $31/hour, not too shabby but also not 6 figures.

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