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  1. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Any kind of work is fucking bonkers expensive. I had people wanting $12k for a plumbing rough-in on a bathroom and $150k for a 50x5 retaining wall.
  2. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Super interesting. I've done various kinds of simulation modeling that touch on future population structures and the specter of the demographic transition has been looming on the horizon for decades without people really talking about it. Now it's here and I hope everyone is paying attention...
  3. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    New hottest pepper in the world. 2.6 million Scoville.
  4. Captain Suave

    3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

    Up next, background checks for pipes and welders.
  5. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    I went to Idaho to see the total eclipse in 2017. Well worth it. The totality was so far beyond the experience your brain is calibrated for it just cuts out for a while. I'm going to Indianapolis for a mini family reunion to see the one next year. As some astronomer said, the difference between...
  6. Captain Suave

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I'm digging Enshrouded, too, but holy hell does it run like dogshit. Needs serious optimization work.
  7. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    This? Despite there being a picture of leg mounting, my gut says this type of fastener wouldn't be robust enough enough applied this way. Does your table have aprons? I'd just use a more traditional diagonal bracket along the lines of this:
  8. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I imagine he'd prefer to maximize his chances of winning the fight. As it stands he can fight again in a few weeks so it's not like the payday is lost in perpetuity.
  9. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    My grandmother lost her family farm in the Depression and was borderline homeless for a while. She was comfortably wealthy late in life and still carefully saved and reused Christmas wrapping paper. Those scars are so deep I even have some of them.
  10. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, my mom died at 53 clipping coupons so that she could take that three-month, five-star European tour when she retired. Get your financial situation straight so that you wouldn't regret anything with a random shitty ending.
  11. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Was he? He had surgery right afterwards to remove a bone chip in his elbow, but that's an easy recovery.
  12. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Volk was definitely had the momentum and was winning by the end, though he clearly lost under the 10-point system. (That 49-46 was bullshit, though.) Islam was all banged up and Volk was barely scratched. Under Pride rules he'd have won.
  13. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Hyped for this. I think Volk can push things enough to beat him this time.
  14. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    They're pop-up chinese companies that just fold and rebrand if anyone complains about anything.
  15. Captain Suave

    Grooming Hair and Facial Hair thread

    I use a Wahl Peanut. My wife hates daily sandpaper stubble but my beard is pathetic so I keep it long enough to be softer but short enough not to look like I'm trying too hard - #1 on the face about every 5 days. It's a small form factor so it works fine for other areas.
  16. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I've had two meniscus repairs and four menisectomies. Happy to answer any questions if you have them.
  17. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    That number seems high by a factor of 5, if not 10. I think you're thinking of the total number of illegal immigrants living here, not the annual flow. Re-ruralization of the population is not happening. There's insufficient infrastructure, housing stock, anyone to build the housing, or...
  18. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Yeah, let's blow up a quarter of our national wealth. What could go wrong? I understand that there is a problem with housing affordability (I just bought one myself earlier this year and it hurt), but completely ass-fucking everyone who currently owns real estate is not the answer. Fixing...
  19. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  20. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I have a friend who is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in shoulder replacement. If that's really what Dillashaw got (and not some kind of exotic repair/reconstruction and he's using words sloppily) he'd be a fucking moron to try to fight again. Shoulder replacements are not remotely as good...
  21. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    You could try Kwikset hardware. You can re-key them in about 10 seconds as long as you have the current key and their little reset tool.
  22. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    We've been told is this is treated as a contract dispute between the insurer and the in-network hospital (no balance billing). The insurance company, hospital, and surgeon have told us that our part is done. The letter the insurance company sent says clearly that the hospital is not allowed to...
  23. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Insurance is so fucked up. I just got a notice that they're trying to deny payment on the 18 hr inpatient stay for my wife's appendectomy. They say she should have been sent home despite her getting out of surgery at 9 pm and being on IV morphine until the next morning. We were home by noon as...
  24. Captain Suave

    What did you just read?

    I remember liking this a lot, though it was probably 20 years ago and I hardly remember anything. I'll have to re-read it sometime. My son is on a mysteries kick, and while he's reading middle school stuff it's given me the itch again.
  25. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Those aren't mountains, they're clouds. This took one second of critical thinking and five seconds of google searching to establish. A thorough debunking of that specific picture:
  26. Captain Suave

    Home Network Advice

    I built my own 16 TB FreeNAS server (now upgraded to TrueNAS Core) a few years back and it's been great. I run Plex, Sonarr, NZBGet, NextCloud, Transmission (restricted to VPN access only). I'd just head over to their forums and see what people are recommending these days for hardware. If you've...
  27. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Reset your brokerage account and registered email passwords to some random garbage you can't remember. Problem solved!
  28. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    @meStevo Have you taken or considered taking any grappling training for yourself? If you're dealing regularly with potential physical violence from someone within a dangerous size range of yourself, I think it'd be worth learning to be able to control them safely. Six months or a year of jiu...
  29. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Detailed breakdown and testing of finishes vs various kinds of liquids, plus some surprising/important info about VOCs.
  30. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This is a light day for me.
  31. Captain Suave

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (2022)

    Just watched this, mix drove me nuts. Maybe I'm going deaf but I borderline needed subtitles. Someone watched Tenet and decided that was a good idea... Other than that, enjoyed it, didn't notice the "easter eggs" at all.
  32. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    JFC the hand strength and endurance this must take (in addition to the obvious dexterity). And the voicing is unreal.
  33. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Edit: FML I keep posting here by accident instead of the video thread.
  34. Captain Suave

    No Man's Sky

    Well this is a first for me. The two planets really do overlap, and physics get really funky at the interface.
  35. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It's also common that the objective of the acquisition isn't really to operate the smaller company on its existing trajectory as much as it is to bring technology, IP, employees, customers, or other resources that can be integrated into the mothership. A friend of mine founded a company that was...
  36. Captain Suave

    AI music

    There's some definite wonkiness to some of the sounds. The "Death Metal" is pretty much just pitched noise with a drum backing. My wife (runs an AI/data science department and is a serious violinist) has played with it some and says it's awful for classical music. No doubt it will improve, though.
  37. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  38. Captain Suave

    AI music

    https://stability.ai/research/stable-audio-efficient-timing-latent-diffusion?utm_campaign=The%20Batch&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=275114737&utm_content=275114737&utm_source=hs_email
  39. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Get your kids a Thomas the Trolley Problem playset!
  40. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Edit: Oops wrong thread @Amod please delete.