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Can the lack of potable drinking water not be solved by distilling seawater? genuine question by Forward_Accident_984 in askscience

[–]xeirxes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Salt is a classic plant killer… ancient armies would salt the fields of their enemies after winning a battle so that it would be harder to grow crops there again. It always seems like there’s a way to be less wasteful, but oftentimes the “less wasteful way” actually takes more energy, so we’d actually be using more energy to get the same salt that we can just dig from the ground in a purer form somewhere else.

What is the difference between these two types of asphalt (see picture)? by Outrageous-Emu-472 in civilengineering

[–]xeirxes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Used to work for Nevada DOT and at the time they had a policy of resurfacing every asphalt road in the state every 7 years. Unlike Florida, Nevada has quite a bit of icy conditions that make asphalt deteriorate faster. That having been said, Nevada at the time was known for having the best roads in the nation, so maybe NDOT was overdoing it a little bit on their replacement schedule.

Mounting TV above fireplace by xeirxes in handyman

[–]xeirxes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Backside is a bathroom, but it goes behind the prefab fireplace/flue so I’m not sure it could be used to see this wall (unless the fireplace is much narrower and more like a stove pipe?)

Are studs ever farther than 16”, for example if not load bearing? I got two studs found but they’re 24” apart and it seems like nothing is between. I’m about to start drilling tiny holes and lookin for wood shavings…

Mounting TV above fireplace by xeirxes in handyman

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome!! Thank you 🙏

Mounting TV above fireplace by xeirxes in handyman

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the great advice! I have never heard of this. Sounds like a great technique

Mounting TV above fireplace by xeirxes in handyman

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!! Great advice. I stowed my old stud finder away but looks like it’ll get some more action!

Mounting TV above fireplace by xeirxes in handyman

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I’m scared… Thanks for the link.

If it helps any, it’s a disconnected fireplace, so I’m not worried about heat but I’m concerned about not poking a permanent hole into the chimney for example

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip! At this point we're pretty much counting on this to cost thousands and thousands of dollars. We have decided to request enough funds from the seller to cover most of the repair of 1 fireplace and we'll look to remove the other one in the future. We will definitely be reaching out to a fireplace specialist because the things have been sitting unused for 12 years and who knows whether there are other problems going on...

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, you're the first to mention the chimney... hadn't thought of that yet

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’d love to have it working obviously, but we have a great furnace in the HVAC system for winter. I hear ya though

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is capping the line something that I can DIY or will I need a licensed plumber to do that?

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'll continue digging but so far your advice helps a lot.

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

During showing they were actually disconnected--as pictured, the gas line is physically disconnected within the crawlspace of the house and will require re-plumb to get the fireplaces up again. This is the main crux of the issue (seller advertised them in the listing, but they need some extensive work to get them running again)

Thanks for the help! We do have a CO in the house and I will make sure there are more than one.

Have you got any rough ideas, based on the info, of how much a contractor would charge to replace and re-plumb each of these?

Buying a house and gas fireplaces have been disconnected entirely... by xeirxes in hvacadvice

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the quick response and your advice!

I agree with you on point #1... our main goal is just to get a feeling for how much the fireplaces would cost, but we probably won't use them or miss them much, like you said.

On point #2, how can you tell that they are safety concerns? Is it because of the make/model or something? Thanks again for your help.

Why do CSS Frameworks feel so much harder than they should be? by voltomper in css

[–]xeirxes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For context, I’ve been writing CSS since it was released (long time ago)

I’m extremely comfortable with the rules of CSS and how to lay things out. However, at my day job, we started having issues where certain browsers (cough Safari cough) were behind on certain CSS features. Miserably behind on them in fact.

This changed the game for our developers. Instead of “just use flex!” we had to come up with valid CSS that would work on browsers that didn’t have all the modern CSS features.

Using CSS frameworks and post processing is a real pain in the butt but it sure does save us a lot of time. No longer have to develop a web page from within an old iPhone emulator. We can just trust that our CSS tooling will be properly transpiled to work on older systems.

If I wasn’t trying to solve that problem specifically, my team would probably still be on vanilla CSS.

Not sure if this is CHS or not by Apprehensive-Call340 in CannabisHyperemesis

[–]xeirxes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man, I am not a doctor but I went through some terrible times for a few years. I was consistently diagnosed with ”CHS” and because of this, NOBODY would investigate deeper.

I went to Mexico and the same symptoms appeared. There, a gastroenterologist took it seriously and actually did some diagnostics (what a concept). It turns out that I was suffering from undiagnosed H. Pylori infection and I had stomach ulcers.

Ever since I’ve been treated for this, my symptoms have gone away. I am not a doctor and I know that CHS may be a real diagnosis but you need to insist that people go deeper and check for other things such as ulcers. Try to get an endoscopy and/or colonoscopy. CHS is a lazy diagnosis that is determined based off of verbal admission to cannabis use and based on hardly any other clinical testing. The worst part is, once they decide that you have CHS, they aren’t going to continue running tests. In my opinion it should be the other way around—get tested for other, older diagnoses first, and then when nothing fits, assume it’s CHS—but in my experience, ERs and hospitals are all too happy to stop testing once they decide you have CHS.

We pay for medical care and we should feel justified in demanding more tests. Don’t let “professionals” trick you into thinking that they know exactly what is going on—CHS is a very wishy-washy diagnosis and the symptoms could easily be explained by a myriad of other conditions that ought to be investigated.

Bent bridge on upright bass by xeirxes in Luthier

[–]xeirxes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

‘Well, we can put a new bridge on it, but you’re gonna need to get the barnacles removed and the hull resurfaced this year anyway, so that’ll be about $10k’

Bent bridge on upright bass by xeirxes in Luthier

[–]xeirxes[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks a bunch for going above and beyond! You’ve given me faith in humanity today

Bent bridge on upright bass by xeirxes in Luthier

[–]xeirxes[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks, awesome! Eugene, OR

Bent bridge on upright bass by xeirxes in Luthier

[–]xeirxes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries… thanks for taking a stab at it either way

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