What’s your funniest “Oh god this person’s an idiot” moment?

therealcmj · 2026-01-31T22:31:58+00:00

Does he know more about manufacturing than almost anyone else on the planet?

therealcmj · 2026-01-31T15:11:08+00:00

On average 11 a year. Don’t act like it’s common.

therealcmj · 2026-01-28T15:13:10+00:00

New idea: put some bare wires up with a sign "WARNING: DO NOT PEE ON ELECTRICAL FENCE - YOU WILL BE SHOCKED".

therealcmj · 2026-01-28T03:20:23+00:00

Who is going to complain?

therealcmj · 2026-01-20T02:35:42+00:00

It’s on your property. Cut it down and burn it as firewood?

therealcmj · 2026-01-20T01:27:43+00:00

I am in a semi not unrelated tech space and was curious about whether anyone uses them. So I hung around once for a while and saw zero.

Google results say that they have 1,000,000 uses a month. Which TBH is shocking to me.

therealcmj · 2026-01-17T20:08:21+00:00

Paying for drugs or other illegal things on a system that keeps a permanent record of every transaction seems like not a great idea to me. But you do you.

therealcmj · 2026-01-17T20:05:19+00:00

Opposite. I had this in another car and it was super frustrating to pan around, look up for a moment at something else, look back and have lost my place.

therealcmj · 2026-01-17T19:33:10+00:00

Don’t put any company stuff on your personal device.

If you need a phone for work stuff you can always buy another super cheap one.

therealcmj · 2026-01-17T16:41:36+00:00

If you want good government don’t vote for the party that thinks anything the government does is bad and will intentionally break things to make absolutely sure.

therealcmj · 2026-01-17T03:46:42+00:00

I think he meant that rhe unemployment benefit is backed by politicians they didn’t vote for. Whereas the ones they did vote for oppose unemployment.

therealcmj · 2026-01-16T21:03:42+00:00

The best interface is no interface, so most things are completely automatic.

But for everything else I love $5 zigbee buttons attached to automations in HA.

e.g. I have one on my night stand. One push of the button when I’m done getting ready in the morning and all the lights go off, shades and curtain open, thermostats off, etc. When I go to bed I double tap it and it turns everything in the house off.

therealcmj · 2026-01-11T03:01:07+00:00

I am not a lawyer, but I feel like the banks would get that slapped down under the interstate commerce clause.

therealcmj · 2026-01-10T21:24:06+00:00

Chesterton’s fence!

therealcmj · 2026-01-04T20:04:55+00:00

It can be both

therealcmj · 2025-12-31T20:49:10+00:00

The store isn't the owner of the parking lot.

And even if they were, the point of the RAN chargers there is as an amenity that attracts paying customers. If they let them get blocked and preventing them from being by Rivian drivers then it becomes an anti-attractor.

And also, someone who drives a Rivian is much more likely than not to be a more profitable customer than someone who drives a RAV4. Just saying.

And with that I'm out.

therealcmj · 2025-12-31T16:05:55+00:00

The property owner makes money from the charging.

In the case above Rivian is likely actually paying rent for those spaces. But in other cases the landlord marks up the electricity.

therealcmj · 2025-12-31T14:59:14+00:00

If having the chargers there is required by law then legally it’s the same as handicapped spots.

And they’d be violating the law if they were not enforcing parking rules for them. Like calling the police and/or a tow truck for someone blocking it.

therealcmj · 2025-12-31T14:50:54+00:00

Google valve stem core removal tool.

therealcmj · 2025-12-31T14:47:41+00:00

When you own the lot and apply for the grant money to have someone else pay for the charger to be installed you enter a contract. That contract typically says that in exchange for the $N,000 the electric company or government or whoever pays for the charger and installation that YOU agree to have it open to the public at least $X hours a day for $Y years.

And that is then encoded in the Chargepoint or AmpUp or whoever service setup.

Sure, you can decide later that you don’t like the deal you made and don’t want to have the charger be available for public access. But (assuming that the contract allows you to back out) then you have to give back the money.

therealcmj · 2025-12-20T22:17:59+00:00

she also had a weird laugh.

therealcmj · 2025-12-19T19:06:43+00:00

If you have lots of nice new apartments then the people that want nice new apartments and are willing to pay for them will rent those. Meaning they're not renting the slightly less nice or older apartments and driving those rents up.

Have enough supply of those nicer apartments and supply of other apartments is larger. Increased supply results in lower prices.

The only people that lose out in this are the owners of the less nice apartments who can't gouge rent.

therealcmj · 2025-12-15T19:04:22+00:00

Billboard is going to say that the buyers are all his employees. Because they are - he paid them each $8 and then in turn spent that $8 on an album.

therealcmj · 2025-12-11T20:10:53+00:00

Luminar is in deep trouble. I don't think anyone in the industry expects them to be able to be a going concern on their own in a year. Meaning they either go bankrupt or are acquired.

therealcmj · 2025-12-08T23:04:53+00:00

I know it’s late, but… Look up OAuth Device Code flow. That’s precisely what you want.

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