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  1. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I just installed a few of the Rainbird. The YouTube handyman space seems to think that the green versions from your big box store are lower quality and it's worth springing for the upgrade. Bought mine from here at a discount compared to Home Depot...
  2. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Just eyeballing that, I think you're going to want a brace on those top corners. I don't see anything in that structure that is going to support racking forces. Those joist hangers are going to loosen over time.
  3. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  4. Captain Suave

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I bought a Model Y this spring and was charging at 10A until I got the 240V plug installed. It took maybe 12 hours to recharge 50% of the battery, which as you say is totally doable overnight if you plug in when you get home. As it stands, on the 240V/30A it charges in four hours, which we only...
  5. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    "Let's encase the fiber optics in glue and then walk on them! What could go wrong?" ---------- This motherfucker does a 27k run up a mountain and has a heart rate of 120 bpm.
  6. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Stone hands? Stone feet. (Edit: Maybe not, looks like it broke in the process.)
  7. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Mild sciatica symptoms, probably. I'd try changing positions (it might actually be the standing, not the sitting, if your posture isn't perfect) and a little PT you can find by googling.
  8. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Please stop posting this shit, you're going to give me nightmares.
  9. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    This is apparently real but from two years ago. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/37495/20220505/boeing-starliner-s-capsule-s-window-pops-off-as-it-finally-meets-ula-atlas-rocket-in-launch-pad-look.htm
  10. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    World's Strongest Man champion Eddie Hall fights MMA 2v1. Eddie has the UFC Performance Institute world record for hardest punch. No thanks.
  11. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  12. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Hoooly o'fuck did I jinx myself here. What a fucking day. Weather is hot and brother-in-law came over with my niece to swim. I was showing him the pool fill upgrade and he says, "Is it supposed to gush water out of the ground over there?" I see a geyser coming up not anywhere close to the valve...
  13. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    This is exactly my experience with plumbers and electricians. I had an emergency irrigation break that I didn't have the bandwidth to fix myself. The MOST affordable of the three guys who gave me quotes charged $120/hr to dig holes plus a flat fee for the fix. Speaking of irrigation....
  14. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    See if any of the bros in the woodworking thread are near your dad? Good equipment can always find a home.
  15. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I typically cool to 78. It's perfectly comfortable if you wear shorts and a t-shirt. 82 is when I start sweating while sitting down, even with a fan. My wife and I both work from home so these programs that want to raise the set point can fuck right off. Peak load hours from 4-9, you say? No...
  16. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    After getting sufficiently tired of manually filling my pool (old galvanized fill valve was rusted shut), I finally bit the bullet and dug up the valve and plumbing. Once I discovered that the galvanized valve was connected to PVC pipe, rather than performing a replacement in kind I put in a...
  17. Captain Suave

    The Boys

    I don't pay a ton of attention to actors and honestly had no idea he was the Sheriff in Banshee, either.
  18. Captain Suave

    The Boys

  19. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Just venting about being a dumbass: A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my thermostat. My house had old four-wire cabling without a common wire and I wanted wifi control, so I pulled the cable and fished a new one. Rewired the furnace, tested (not well enough) to see if the HVAC equipment turned...
  20. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Great points in the article comments. I don't think they understand D4 or D2. No one liked the immense grind to find the best items in DII. The odds were so staggeringly bad that you'd go hundreds of hours between drops of good runes. It's why duping and botting were so rampant. And the player...
  21. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    Shaka, when the walls fell.
  22. Captain Suave

    AI music

    Can you hear what he's talking about? I didn't initially, but after reading the comments I think I can. Sort of an audio version of excessive smoothness like in image upscaling.
  23. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    You can download the papers, models, and source code from links in the video. I expect it would be a year or two before this stuff starts popping up in commercial applications.
  24. Captain Suave

    The Definitive Escape Key discussion thread

    This is the way. If I need to clear everything fast the time cost of hitting the key 4-5 times is trivial.
  25. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Other than the automatic creation of 3d models from flat images?
  26. Captain Suave

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Get a buckler and parry, works great.
  27. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    tldw; Inverse ray tracing to generate 3d models and material descriptions from images.
  28. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    My wife is Cantonese. She says this is all true and nearly died laughing. Unrelated:
  29. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    The classic:
  30. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    3 or 4/2 or 3, 2500+, nice neighborhood, great schools, and you can get all that for way less if you're willing to live farther out. But yes, real estate here is stupid.
  31. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    Even in Los Angeles that would need to be a literal $2M house to be taxed that much.
  32. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I can feel my brain cells dying every time a Diaz brother speaks, and their entourage is even worse.
  33. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    My cousin wrote the failure case throttle control algorithms. He must have been sweating bullets.
  34. Captain Suave

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    Keep us posted if this improves. That's the kind of thing that would drive me batshit.
  35. Captain Suave

    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Some of it is just age. The days go slower but the years go faster.
  36. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  37. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    For this kind of bullshit, I'd rather not be.
  38. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    So that 85 Euro thing that goes on your phone is supposed to block EM radiation in a 20 foot sphere. I wonder how they explain the phone working, then...
  39. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  40. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Lower quality inverters are only +/- 80% efficient. If batteries have a lot of cycles on them they could have lost capacity. The batteries probably don't allow themselves to charge or drain to their full extremes, either, to prevent degradation. Most lithium batteries are designed to be "empty"...