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  1. Captain Suave

    Weight Loss Thread

    Testosterone is a steroid, and essentially universally used. Anyone taking stronger stuff is also taking it. You can restart your natural production, but the difficulty and restart period is more or less directly proportional to how long you were taking it exogenously. At least in combat sports...
  2. Captain Suave

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    Fair. I'm still reticent to pull the trigger on OLED because 95% of my screen time is on work software with necessary static elements and I'm not going to jump through a bunch of hoops to dodge burn-in.
  3. Captain Suave

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    Shit, that's tempting. I have a mismatched 1440p main monitor and random 1080p as my second. Would be nice to have a matched pair and kick the old one down to the kids. I'm assuming tech has improved enough that this is better than my 2017 XB270HU? You find the contrast good? That was an...
  4. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Food for thought, @Bandwagon. The danger of infrequently used surfaces becoming permanent clutter catchers is quite real.
  5. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Because what you're claiming is confidently incoherent and facile.
  6. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Right, so like I said before you're claiming that the entire investing world is willfully passing up a high-return low-risk strategy, which is a choice that loses money, in order to not lose money.
  7. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    So are these trivially accessible increased returns low risk or high risk? It sure seems like you're advocating to adopt more risk and only counting the upside. That's the kind of strategy that works great until it doesn't.
  8. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    You're saying they intentionally lose client money by willfully foregoing reliably available returns in order to keep from losing client money?
  9. Captain Suave

    Router Questions

    You should be fine with your current router if it currently meets your needs for features and reliability. Its rated bandwidths are at least double what your provider delivers.
  10. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I've used one. They get a lot of dirt out of fabrics and rugs but don't remove stains as well as you'd want. Might be more effective with hot water and soap in the reservoir, but I've never gone that far. Handheld versions take forever to clean any appreciable area.
  11. Captain Suave

    Desktop Computers

    Lol, WTF. 4000 nits is literally <10x my current monitor, which I already set to 1/4 brightness so I don't go blind. Edit: I guess it's for HDR and not to permanently burn an Excel grid into your retina.
  12. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    It's typically a five-year clawback period.
  13. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Dude's gross pay is in the neighborhood of $165k. He apparently just can't do the basic arithmetic to understand how much house he can actually afford and/or what lifestyle he can afford given his house. Plus he's a moron for buying a house at 30-50% more than what it apparently costs to rent...
  14. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    How many kWh and where are you? That's close to double what I pay during non-AC months in Los Angeles for a 2300 sqt ft 3/2 with a pool and an EV.
  15. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Your preference. If you want the cleanliness of a table saw you can do partial cuts there and finish on the bandsaw or with hand tools. Or just the bandsaw is fine to save steps.
  16. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Derp, you're right. I meant to say that it had enough energy break bonds in DNA. If UV were truly ionizing the world would be a veeery different place. If it makes him feel any better, my wife laughed.
  17. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    That chart is entirely consistent with the standard medical narrative on sun exposure. Skin cancers, like many other types, take multiple decades to manifest. In 2024 the average melanoma patient is 66. Their primary exposures would have come in the 80's and earlier. People who were born post...
  18. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    I was sub-30 Vit D despite swimming laps outdoors for ~3 hours a week and sporting a decent tan. Supplements brought me right back to normal. (Not that I can say I really felt a difference.)
  19. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Yup, that would do it. Some quick googling says 6-12 months, unfortunately. I'd stay the course and get tested later in the year. You didn't mention sleep, but I'd make a serious point of getting at least 8 hours a night. Sleep is probably the most important health lever that people regularly...
  20. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Sleep, stress, exercise all on point? Alcohol? Fucking up those can tank your hormone levels pretty reliably. Also, 2023 - 2017 = 6 years. Brain fog indeed.
  21. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Then get vintage tools made with real steel and iron (knowing that they may require some refurbishment and maintenance) or go mid/upmarket new. Many of the big box and budget brands are all repackaged output of the same factory and share the same problems. I went low/mid range on my first saw...
  22. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Budget is probably the biggest factor here. For new, premium gear the influencer space seems to gravitate towards SawStop and Harvey recently, and while I've not seen anyone complain about quality you have to assume that's largely driven by $$. If/when I upgrade I'll still consider SawStop...
  23. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    They tried to fuck me like that too when I was in Atlanta. A bunch of neighbors and I got together and complained and they ended up reducing to like a 4% increase. Don't take that shit lying down. It sucks but the assessors have incentives to throw out bullshit and see what sticks due to owner...
  24. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    That's not even the disturbing part. I'd rather have ground fresh pigeon in my grain than who knows how much pigeon shit from the ones that didn't get sucked in.
  25. Captain Suave

    Ghost of Tsushima

    I am enjoying this very much. Running buttery smooth with DLSS at 1440p on my aging 2070 super.
  26. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Pretty interesting test of sawhorse strength. Friction on the base of the legs makes an order of magnitude difference in how much weight they support. You can pretty much park two cars on a good one scaled up, which surprised me.
  27. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I've had good luck with the CitriStrip paint remover you can get at any home center. Just make sure you ventilate your garage in the process. You can also try using a heat gun to warm up the paint and see if it will peel off.
  28. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    From which we can conclude very little, other than that there is a broad range of diet that supports elite athleticism. We're talking across each other here. I agree with you that the current state of knowledge is uncertain and that we already know enough for most people to make significant...
  29. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Meh. Nothing that broad is that simple. Are some whole foods better than others? In what combinations or proportions? For everyone, doing every kind of activity? Are there tradeoffs between performance, domains of health, and longevity? Etc.
  30. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    No, I'm saying that it's possible to make statements that are true enough to be useful in improving people's lives. It's hard and we've not done a great job of it yet, but that's not a reason to stop trying. Actually understanding how the human body works and giving us the ability to improve...
  31. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    It's not impossible. If you get a sufficiently large study population (say, thousands to tens of thousands) those factors will either wash out or can be accounted for in the analysis. Of course, when making a recommendation to an individual on the basis of research you need to be aware that...
  32. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    With large enough samples, well-designed studies over long enough periods of time, and a careful and cautious interpretation of the results, of course it is. It's just really hard and expensive to do and requires enormous patience, so we haven't had great information yet.
  33. Captain Suave

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    No, the map should regenerate the Ashlands portion of your existing world according to the new update. This can obviously have negative effects if you've already built something there. If they changed the world generation algorithm you'll get your old world with the new features, but it might...
  34. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    In fairness, being able to survive on damn near any diet is not the same thing as proving what is the longevity-optimizing diet. The science is a confused mess, obviously (mostly around the policy and messaging, the pure research itself is generally appropriately caveated), but that doesn't mean...
  35. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    We need this with courses in three dimensions.
  36. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I'd add 3) clamp and drill the hole while the part is still rectangular, then be careful to make the taper cuts to the hole is centered at the end.
  37. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I'd just eyeball and do it by hand with a drill. It won't matter for leveling feet if you're off by a couple of degrees over three quarters of an inch. I might invest in a forstner bit set over a spade bit. They'll jump around less. A classic bit and brace would do it too with perhaps more...
  38. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    Did you initiate the appointment or did they?
  39. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    That at least I understand, but I've had multiple tradesmen come to my house, spend 30-60 minutes talking about the job, and then never deliver an estimate despite multiple follow-ups. WTF, why waste everyone's time?
  40. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Relevant sticker on left at 5:29 (timestamp not working properly)