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The ones some professors create is just insane. Not only whatever acronym salad they think is important but also all the 'named' positions they've had (aka "The Sally Smith Professor of Excellence in Basket Weaving fellow at UC Berkeley") AND every paper and book publication they've ever...

Ooof its tough to lose any of those old dependable appliances or electronics (looking at you HP printers from the late 90s). I have an alarm clock I've had since I was a teenager and I think I might need a day or two off of work to recover from my loss when it dies

I put together a rather substantial summer trip for my wife and myself and burned through quite a few miles on our flights. I purposefully routed us through the UAE as there was award space on Etihad's A380 in First Class. I contemplated the additional cash cost to upgrade to The Residence but...

Yeah ok I guess some context around the flights would be good. Any flight over 2 hours is in business class or international (not domestic) first class. And usually on flight operators like Singapore Airlines that does a bit better in terms of customer service and food. For example this is our...

Oh for sure - we've got a number of fans and can also move to the basement if we need to. I mean heck I could even get a really efficient window unit if it became an issue. Thanks although our electrical use is pretty minimal all things considered. We can see all the bumps from running the...

Update: They've been pretty awesome. Zero electrical bill for the past two months. And we've had two more power outages and I could just keep working from home instead of having to head into the office like my neighbor. The AC sure does drain the battery though. We knew that going into this all...

My work is centered around higher ed IT. JFC its been a year. The assault against them by the federal government is just incredible right now. Lawsuits left and right. All kinds of schenanigans with international students, federal grant changes, funding cuts etc. All the institutions I know are...

Good luck with the install! Yeah the smug feeling will probably be pretty strong when that happens And no real maintenance to speak of. No oil to change. No issues if I can get gas or natural gas can't get to my house for whatever reason

Thanks Zim! :beercheers:

We already had our first power outage. The weather was fine and the system is so new that when I got the alert from my system that I was "off grid" I was wondering if it wasn't working right. Went to DTE's website and they said there were no power outage issues which made me worry more about the...

Right. And this kinda matches what I said in another thread about enterprise IT purchases. There's going to be a rush to complete a lot of orders now but after that a whole lotta people/companies are just not going to be spending $ anywhere

I had a friend buying a camper from Canada. Put the order in almost a year ago with a delivery date of Q1 this year. He spent the last 2 months worried he'd have to either pay a $9k cancellation fee or an extra $15k in tariffs. Fortunately he was able to take possession but even then it took the...

On the enterprise IT side its just fucking bonkers right now. Hardware quotes are all over the place as companies try to figure out what the constant back and forth on tariffs actually means. What you price out today could be 40% more or less in a couple weeks. Orders are all over the place too...

We made large changes in where we buy. No more Amazon or Walmart at all. Costco is inconvenient for us to get to but we bought a membership after they took their stand. Now we have a kinda weird date night where we make an evening of heading to Costco on a Monday or Tuesday, buy a bunch a stuff...

The Ioniq 5 is either RWD or AWD so its more than just advertising - its a notable change in driving characteristics that I don't feel like adjusting to having test driven both