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  1. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Anyone have pool nets they really like? I bought a cheapie from Walmart and it lasted one season before the net was full of holes. I'd be open to getting two - one coarse for leaves and larger debris and a fine mesh for crumbly organics that my trees like to dump in.
  2. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    The only thing I wouldn't hate is a 2D-HD glam-up that keeps the original pixel aesthetics, and maybe some very minor QOL. No 3d, and for the love of god don't fuck with the music.
  3. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Follow-up on this post from last year. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get around to modifying my plane to accommodate this grip (it requires drilling a single stopped hole). Having done so now, it works brilliantly. It's miles more comfortable than trying to grab the edge of the frame...
  4. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Not calling you out, but I was trying to parse that chart and it didn't help me arrive at the highlighted conclusion at all. Turns out the axis labels are off by a factor of 1000. (What's three orders of magnitude between friends? Demerits for sloppy presentation.) For the curious here's the...
  5. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Endurance exercise can raise this significantly. Colonoscopies suck but let me tell you they're better than cancer. My mom died at 53 and that is not an experience I am going to allow myself or anyone around me to go through on my account.
  6. Captain Suave

    Wills and Estate Planning....

    You could always make your wife the executor. It doesn't have to be a neutral third party. My wife and I have an A-B trust set up where we are each other's executors.
  7. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I have a Tesla. They give me free trials of FSD for several months a year and I still don't use it because it doesn't work well enough. I'm not saying it won't ever work; the tech is obviously possible and inevitable on a medium timeline, but it's not there now. I'd LOVE a Robotaxi that really...
  8. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    15% FSD purchase rate at $8k / $99/mo seems... optimistic.
  9. Captain Suave

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    They learned that modders will fix it so they can sell copies without putting in the effort.
  10. Captain Suave

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    IMO the relative isolation is more immersive. I couldn't possibly give a shit about the 10,000 other players lagging me with MTX armor while we all ignore each other doing the same NPC interactions in parallel.
  11. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    Controller feels great.
  12. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    It's great for highway cruising. I had it drive 200 miles through traffic ranging from speed limit to stop and go, clear to heavy rain. It feels really janky for anything more exotic, though. Changes lanes aggressively and unnecessarily, and on surface streets I feel like I need to intervene...
  13. Captain Suave

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    With no will you'll have to go to probate, which is a PITA. The medical creditors will certainly come to collect.
  14. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Based on my experience with "FSD" trials in my own Tesla and having been in a Waymo, I'd put my money on Waymo. Tesla's tech is just not a good experience outside of single-lane highway usage.
  15. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    Thanks. Guess I should pay more attention.
  16. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    They need to provide alternatives for the quests that give passive points and idol slots, then. Or did I miss that? I agree. I think it's our fault as gamers because we complain that there isn't an infinite amount of content to be consumed whenever we want it. You can't have both that and a...
  17. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    My main complaint with the campaign is that I spend 3/4 of my time looking at the minimap beelining to the objective markers. I just finished the final boss at lvl ~55 and I don't think I stopped running the entire time.
  18. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    Currently playing with a controller. New 1.2 targeting feels really good. Less carpal tunnel irritation for me.
  19. Captain Suave

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Be careful with this. There are clawbacks against the recipient's estate that extend back five years before delivery of first service and can easily wipe out the value of a home, etc. There are irrevocable trusts that can protect assets.
  20. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I assumed this was bullshit, but it seems not. TIL. https://realchernobyl.com/en/map-of-pollution
  21. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dude. Fucking doctor ASAP. Systemic rash is a possible sign of large-scale death of your red blood cells. Tissue necrosis is no fun. My dad was bitten as a kid, was on IV antibiotics for days and needed surgery, has a chunk out of his thigh that looks like someone took an melon scoop to it.
  22. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dosimetrist? My wife spent 5 years as a medical physicist. I'll third that radiation oncology is a significantly siloed practice, even from other specialist doctors working on the same tumors on the same patient. There's also a lot of art and differing risk tolerances in treatment design, which...
  23. Captain Suave

    RuneScape: Dragonwilds

    Initial impressions seem good. I'll probably get this over the summer and play with my kids.
  24. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    $550B according to this estimate. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-now-worth-much-550-141144886.html
  25. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    How much experience do you have doing this work? When I was fresh in the work force (not in the trades) I expected projects to take as long as I thought they should take. About 10 years in, I started doubling my estimates by default. Now to deliver a fully refined project I'm at 4x my gut...
  26. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    I posted a bike for sale here and immediately got hit with a dozen attempts at phone scams. Never was able to find an actual customer.
  27. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    Facebook is fucking cancer. They're trying as hard as they can to make it unusable. The other day 25 of the first 30 items in my feed were ads or "suggested" meme farms. If it weren't my only contact to family living abroad I'd delete my account entirely.
  28. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    The H20 chips were already specifically downgraded for the Chinese market to reduce AI performance. H100+ were the subject of the real export controls. The new restrictions also impact more markets than just China.
  29. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It absolutely is not 4. Jesus fucking christ. PEDMAS. There is no P or E. 25 * 0 first, then add the rest.
  30. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    You might as well give an example where it's actually wrong (yes, steps 1 and 2 should be reversed but the result is the same). The error I referenced: (138,888^2 = 1.93 x 10^8, not ^10)
  31. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Edit: Lol, I should have known better. I went back and checked and about halfway through it miscalculated a velocity figure by two orders of magnitude.
  32. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's km/h, not km/s. 800,000 km/s is over twice the speed of light. As far as getting that high, it's "possible" but not realistic. Some napkin math says that it would take about 15 years to accelerate to that speed, assuming the impulse is equivalent to other plasma engines. Double Edit...
  33. Captain Suave

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Clearly inspired by me playing Skyrim. Edit: I expect the series to end when Carl finally exits the dungeon and his inventory dumps onto the ground, causing a gravitational singularity.
  34. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I'm pretty sure Connor just did some math and peaced out after deciding he had enough money to keep himself in booze and coke for the rest of his life.
  35. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    This site is has aids.
  36. Captain Suave

    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

    Dude, they've had Michelle Monaghan, Rebecca Ferguson, and Hayley Atwell. Not your standard mindless T&A, sure, but that's some all-time eye candy.
  37. Captain Suave

    Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

    Depends what you mean by good. The first one was actually a noir art film, second was 90's John Woo that was only ok and hasn't aged too well, others are fun heist/action flicks. I'd say the Rotten Tomatoes rankings are at least directionally accurate...
  38. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    We abandoned the gold standard in 1971.
  39. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    I'm surprised it's that cheap. Blacktail Studios sells epoxy slabs for >2x that.
  40. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm 46. I do economic modeling and optimization for heavy industry (capital investment, etc.). Noodling about the future is a professional requirement.