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by briHass 3y ago
Always wear safety glasses when charging, disconnecting, jump starting, etc. car batteries (lead acid). The small amount of hydrogen generated can ignite from a spark, and it's enough to explode the top and shoot plastic scrapnel every
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by briHass 3y ago
Have a recommendation for a decent, cheap IR camera? I really want a FLIR, but can't justify the price.
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by briHass 3y ago
Yes, it's the amps that matter for wire gauge (at typical voltages). Regular 12/2 or 14/2 NM cable (Romex) is used for US 240v circuits all the time. The only requirement is to color the white wire at the ends black or red to
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by briHass 3y ago
Also, take note that out of pocket medical costs are only deductible on Federal taxes once they exceed 7.5% of your AGI, and of course, only the amount above that counts. Assuming an average AGI of 65K, the government certainly doesn't
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by briHass 3y ago
The key is consistency across the organization. Even with a complex (perhaps even over-engineered) standard template, it's nice to be able to open an application/service you've never worked on and have a pretty good idea how
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by briHass 3y ago
This is one of the nice things about Visual Studio: F12 jumps to the declaration (the interface) and Ctrl-F12 jumps to the implementation (the service) or presents a chooser if there are multiple implementors. I find that shortcut easy&#x2F
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by briHass 3y ago
I would add that energy balance (i.e. don't get fat) is probably the most important thing, assuming a reasonably healthy diet. Conversely, there's no diet that will save you if you're carrying excess pounds and/or are ga
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by briHass 3y ago
The thing that always bothers me about 'x is bad for you' arguments about food is: what is the alternative food that provides similar positive things without the supposed harms? I'm assuming the case here is against dairy in
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by briHass 3y ago
Do you own your home outright? If you don't, the mortgage issuer (i.e. the real owner) would likely not play ball with catastrophic coverage. I've managed to keep my premium low by increasing the deductible to the max and also not
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by briHass 3y ago
Those of us that work out, however, have been dealing with 'cheating with drugs' for a while: steroids. When you get close with enough gym rats, it's utterly shocking how many people with a muscular build use steroids. It&#x2
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by briHass 3y ago
Does the HA voice assistant support require HA Cloud or whatever they're calling it? The price for that $6/m felt a bit steep for what it provided, though supporting HA development is appealing. When I started to read through the
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by briHass 3y ago
The argument was about subsidies, which can be measured by looking at tax revenues and sources of funding. An esoteric argument about 'proximity to the city is the source of all wealth' isn't well-defined or falsifiable. One
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by briHass 3y ago
This depends heavily on the city metro being considered and the definition of 'suburb'. For example, in the Philadelphia metro, this is definitely not the case. The counties surrounding the city are far wealthier than the city cou
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by briHass 4y ago
If only the states held most of the power (and collected most of the taxes), you know, the way the Founders intended. Marijuana legalization is a good example of why this 'labrstory' model works: State A legalizes and collects ton
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by briHass 4y ago
What is cancer for team morale is that their coworker, Bob, was here yesterday and today he's gone. Was he fired? Did he rage quit? Neither one makes the employer look good or gives me confidence I should stick around. I've always
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by briHass 4y ago
This study found a correlation between VO2max and archery performance of 0.68 https://aassjournal.com/browse.php?a_id=897&slc_lang=en&sid=... As noted in the study, the largest influence they tested for archery perf
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by briHass 4y ago
The vast majority of common statins are off patent and extremely inexpensive. Pharmacies often offer them at around $5/month, without insurance, usually free with. The 'better' cholesterol drugs like the PCSK9s are expensive,
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by briHass 4y ago
It depends on the state and how the date is worded. You may have noticed some products list a 'best by' date, which really isn't the same as 'this will have gone bad by this date'. I think 'use by' is the
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by briHass 4y ago
I usually buy mine from Harbor Freight, because it tends to be cheaper than Amazon for small amounts. 0.3 oz tubes are $2 or the larger 3oz size is $8. If you don't use it frequently, don't buy the biggest size. Eventually, it wil
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by briHass 4y ago
My go to glue is almost always a 2 part fast set epoxy. It has better shear strength than SG, and it's better for filling in gaps. Almost everything I've used SG for has been a disappointment. It might be useful for a cosmetic fix
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by briHass 4y ago
There are various levels of 'suck' along a spectrum, but many of the trades you listed are no picnic, especially when you're low man on the totem pole. HVAC work involves hauling heavy equipment that has sharp edges and spend
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by briHass 4y ago
Anyone that hasn't done manual labor really has no idea how rough it can be. I worked as an office-furniture-mover in my early 20s (Summers in college), and some days were pretty tough. Granted, that's pretty low on the manual lab
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by briHass 4y ago
One of my favorite things about .NET now being open source (along with the frameworks like ASP.NET) is that I can easily 'peek under the hood' for various functions that I use for edge cases/details. For example, with int.Try
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by briHass 4y ago
How do you define 'small amount of capital'? Assuming you have to buy the processing from one of the big 3 (likely not possible to own the hardware outright), you're looking at 10s of millions of dollars per training run. It&
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by briHass 4y ago
Total Wireless used to be the easy answer here, but VZ just bought them (of course.) However, their plans (Total By Verizon, it's now called) are still pretty competitive: $30/m for 5GB data (2G speeds after that), unlimited T&#x2
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by briHass 4y ago
Can you provide any more details on the I2C interface on Midea units? I found some sparse documentation on Midea's (and rebadged units) Modbus-esque protocol over RS485 (aka XYE connectors), and I control it via an ESP32 on HA. From th
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by briHass 4y ago
If worried about security concerns, just provide a common port interface (RJ-45/RJ-11) on the unit with a simple, well-documented, serial-based protocol on RS485/RS232. You can sell an add-on device to bridge that to Ethernet&#x2F
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by briHass 4y ago
The answer to this, assuming the breakdown was actually honest, is exactly why they don't typically provide a breakdown. You would see an hourly labor rate that would make a lawyer blush. There's just something unpalatable to most
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by briHass 4y ago
Thanks for the link; I hadn't heard of them before. I can absolutely see a system similar to this being the future. With an additional water loop, when running in 'AC/cooling mode', the waste heat could be captured for t
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by briHass 4y ago
I'll wait for more reliability data on ZoomLock, but it could easily prove to be the optimal solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't help the DIYer, because the crimping tools are outrageously expensive, and clearly aimed at a pro doi

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