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It cleans up fast with a sanding block. Or just leave it for the artisanal look.

I've got a hole in my bathroom wall I need to patch exactly where the anchors for the hand towel holder pulled out. Fuck those things.

I've never seen a drywall anchor that didn't eventually fail. I don't trust them for anything more structural than thermostats. Studs or nothing. Pictures just need nails and hanging brackets. I've got a 45-lbs mirror hanging on a three-nail bracket and it's survived earthquakes.

This is a fair point. While this is an awful strategy from our perspective, asset growth is not necessarily the goal of a late-stage retiree. In my 70's and 80's I would definitely forego returns to be 100% bulletproof sure that I'd have enough money to last until I die. While the S&P has been...

Rofl I'm setting this up on my wife's car right now. Unrelated:

I initially got into furniture making because I had this problem and couldn't get an affordable, sturdy wooden bed frame that didn't have the mattress at either shin or chest height. Now after a five (edit: shit, eight? I'm old) years of learning on other projects, making one that was total...

I buy $500 12-inch foam mattresses and replace them every ~6-10 years as they start to develop valleys. My wife and I both have lumbar issues and they totally went away after moving from sprung beds. If you know someone handy with fabric you can cut up an upholster the retired mattresses and...

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...

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.

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...

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Shaka, when the walls fell.

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.

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.

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

Other than the automatic creation of 3d models from flat images?

Get a buckler and parry, works great.

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

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

The classic:

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.

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

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