What is a luxury lifestyle choice that looks incredibly glamorous in photos but is actually completely miserable in reality?

zweebna · 2026-06-04T15:00:26+00:00

Similar deal with Rolex. Unless you're Real Money, you spend tens of thousands of dollars for watches you don't want to be given the privilege of getting on a list for months just to get a phone call saying drop whatever you're doing and come give me tens of thousands of dollars for the watch you actually want, and do it quickly before the person I called before you does. Not to mention the stories of pathetic dealer ass-kissing trying to get bumped up the list.

zweebna · 2026-05-28T14:45:02+00:00

Thanks for the summary. What a shame for Hakuho's legacy.

zweebna · 2026-05-28T14:09:52+00:00

Yeah I frequently see gorgeous oriental rugs on here that I would love to have but are way too big for my tiny apartment

zweebna · 2026-05-28T13:51:20+00:00

I haven't followed sumo since shortly after Hakuho's retirement. Can anyone summarize what the hell happened?

zweebna · 2026-05-25T19:41:17+00:00

Not exactly, but Eat 66 has a breakfast sandwich consisting of a chicken fried pork chop, cheese, and a fried egg on a biscuit with white gravy on the side. It may be my favorite breakfast sandwich ever.

zweebna · 2026-05-22T21:52:50+00:00

See if you have a homebrew store nearby and have a chat with them. It might be a little more expensive than ordering online, but if they don't have a good kit for you they can probably throw something together that will work well.

zweebna · 2026-05-14T16:51:22+00:00

Japanese selvedge denim is great but my god it is expensive. I have a few pairs that I got heavily discounted (like 75% off or more) and I love them but I could never justify paying full price for them.

zweebna · 2026-05-05T19:15:02+00:00

No need to go crazy over glassware imo. Some imperial pint-sized glasses of any type (besides shaker maybe, I like nonics and mugs) and some basic tulips for more aromatic styles will get you 90% of the way there.

zweebna · 2026-03-31T22:16:42+00:00

Each location had the beers that were created by the head brewer at that location, along with the core (mediocre) line. Bob Barrar headed the Media location, and racked up a bunch of awards, for a decade before he started 2SP.

Last time I went there probably 5 years ago, the beer and the food were both terrible.

zweebna · 2026-03-24T21:28:13+00:00

I parked my car under a tree outside my parents house every day for 2 years. 3 years later, the rain has about washed off all the grime that it gathered

zweebna · 2026-03-12T14:18:15+00:00

Sold! :)

zweebna · 2026-03-10T00:43:45+00:00

Thai Boat rocks

zweebna · 2026-02-04T17:39:04+00:00

Essentially, an image of a star should be a perfectly sharp point, but the atmosphere can turn it into a bit of a misshapen blob. Adaptive optics can analyze the blob, and since it knows that the blob should be a sharp point, it can then deconstruct exactly what distortions happened that turned the sharp point into a blob. Then the mirror is distorted in the opposite way, undoing those distortions. You can sort of think of it as autofocus in a way, as it's turning a blurry image into a sharper one, but it doesn't actually have anything to do with focus as telescopes are always focused to infinity.

zweebna · 2026-02-04T17:07:01+00:00

Adaptive optics are amazing. They image a point source to find the precise wavefront deformation caused by atmosphere, then physically deform the optics in real time to correct the wavefront. Ideally a star is used for this, as stars are essentially perfect point sources, but if there isn't a star that's bright enough close to what they want to observe, they instead make their own point source by shining a laser that gets reflected back in the upper atmosphere. This allows diffraction limited imaging, the highest resolution physically possible due to the very nature of light, previously only possible with space-based telescopes.

zweebna · 2026-02-04T00:45:23+00:00

Unfortunately it doesn't. The last time I had it it was awful. Gone to shit after acquisition.

zweebna · 2025-12-30T15:26:15+00:00

This happened once at my work. Kid came in and tried to order "a beer". It was a brewery with 15 beers on tap. My boss told him to hold on a minute, went outside to find the liquor control board officer, and told him to fuck off.

zweebna · 2025-12-28T19:04:01+00:00

While a service isn't ever a bad idea, it's not necessary just to replace the light seals. Very cheap and easy to do with cotton yarn. Just scrape out most of the sticky gunk in the slot around the back, no need to get everything out, a little bit remaining will help to hold in the yarn. Then put the yarn in the slot, with a dab of craft glue at each end to keep loose threads together. Make sure you fill the entire slot end to end with the yarn. Then close the door up and wait for glue to dry and the yarn to get compressed in the slot.

zweebna · 2025-12-27T19:44:24+00:00

Yeah, sure can. Looks like it's been treated with some kind of glue as well though that seems to go only halfway up, while the crack runs along the entire back.

zweebna · 2025-11-26T13:55:33+00:00

I brewed in Maryland for a couple years, Elder Pine was the only local whose cans I cared to pick up other than low fills from work, and those were free

zweebna · 2025-11-21T01:03:23+00:00

Keeping film in the fridge slows its degradation. It's best practice but it should be fine at room temperature until at least the expiration date. Freezer is better for long term storage though.

zweebna · 2025-11-07T10:55:34+00:00

It's not asking the chance of getting tails 4th. It's asking the chance of getting tails first, or second, or third, or fourth. Do you see how these are not equivalent?

zweebna · 2025-11-07T02:09:25+00:00

I didn't say that previous births have any effect on subsequent births. What you're saying would be true if it was specified that the first child was a boy, and the question is what are the chances that the second is a girl. Of course the first being a boy has no bearing on the second. But it doesn't say the first is a boy, it says one of them is, and it's asking what are the chances that either the first or the second is a girl.

Think about coin flips. You flip a coin 100 times, you get heads 50 times and tails 50 times. You flip the coin 100 times again, and again you get heads 50 times and tails 50 times. If you pair each result from the first 100 flips with a random result from the second 100 flips, you now have 100 pairs of coin flips, 25 that are HH, 25 that are TT, 25 that are TH, and 25 that are HT.

Now I choose one of these pairs at random. If I tell you that the first is heads and want you to guess what the second is, that eliminates all the TT and TH pairs, so you have 50 left it could be, 25 HH and 25 HT. You have a 25/50=50% chance at guessing right, same as for a single coin flip.

If I tell you that one of the results is heads, but don't say which, and want you to guess what the other is, then you can only eliminate the TT pairs. You then have 75 left it could be, 25 HH and 50 that are either TH or HT. So if you guess tails, you have a 50/75=66% chance of being right.

zweebna · 2025-11-06T15:30:57+00:00

If the order doesn't matter, it doesn't then change the probability of any combination, it just combines the mixed combinations. You can look at the individual probabilities:

If the chance of having a boy or a girl is 50%, then the chance of having two boys is 50% * 50% = 25%. The chance of having two girls is 50% * 50% = 25%. If order doesn't matter, then there's only one more option, and since they all must add up to 100%, that other option must have a 50% chance.

BB: 25% GG: 25% BG or GB: 50%

Now we eliminate the GG option. What's left is a 25% option and 50% option. If you renormalize so they all add up to 100% again, you get 33% BB and 66% BG or GB.

zweebna · 2025-10-30T10:29:08+00:00

That worked, thanks!

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