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New comment by brenainn in "Honda is killing its EVs"

brenainn — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:31:02 +0000

Stark Varg or any of the electric motocross/enduro bikes? People love them.

New comment by brenainn in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

brenainn — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:24:42 +0000

My 64gb DDR5 kit started having stability issues running XMP a few weeks out of warranty. I bought it two years ago. Looked into replacing it and the same kit is now double the price. Bumping the voltage a bit and having better cooling gets it through memtest thankfully. The fun of building your own computer is pretty much gone for me these days.

New comment by brenainn in "Being poor vs. being broke"

brenainn — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:46:44 +0000

>No one "deserves" free time.

I do! So does everyone I like.

New comment by brenainn in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

brenainn — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:07:56 +0000

A good time to point out https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo.

I haven't tried it personally because my particular model of vacuum has some complicated and potentially destructive procedure to get the required access, but there's quite a few models where it can be installed easily.

New comment by brenainn in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

brenainn — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:33:31 +0000

I had my own reply, but using your analogy if I may: if I asked an apprentice carpenter to measure up and build some sort of structure in front of me with the tools provided, and they stumbled and made some awkward choices but the result was otherwise sound and they had other good qualities, yeah I'd consider hiring them. I think the scenario you describe though would be more equivalent to someone who flat out doesn't know how to even use a computer, which is a different case (I wouldn't hire that person).

New comment by brenainn in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

brenainn — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:26:59 +0000

I think going by that, for juniors anyway, isn't great. Remotely coding during an interview isn't a great environment to start with, and you're probably seeing a lot of people unable to achieve any sort of flow because their mental capacity is devoted to the interview. Some people also won't pick up more advanced tooling until they have to start coding day after day for a living, and until they have other people to learn from. That was my situation anyway.

New comment by brenainn in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

brenainn — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:24:48 +0000

I like lit. I'm not primarily a web developer and I've found it intuitive and easy to read and write. What I find more confusing than frameworks is building, bundling, ES modules, the whole NPM ecosystem.

New comment by brenainn in "Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself"

brenainn — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:20:43 +0000

I got more of a LinkedIn vibe. "I am good at sex, here's my take on Eastern philosophy".

New comment by brenainn in "Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)"

brenainn — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:51:59 +0000

In your experience, what have you seen that works?

New comment by brenainn in "Scientists shine a laser through a human head"

brenainn — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:29:53 +0000

Me too! Amazing that he's still alive.

New comment by brenainn in "Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market"

brenainn — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:04:16 +0000

As someone that's bought their first house in the last few years, it's hard not to take offense.

A car or a TV are much smaller investments relative to a house. Over a decade of savings is tied up in my home. If the ass drops out of the market, myself, and others like me, who have broken into the market without assistance at the peak of housing prices will be virtually permanently financially set back. And to call buying a house around this time a mistake is crazy. I would be as much a speculator if I continued to rent and pay someone else's mortgage, hoping that prices dropped so I could get a good deal. It's a home and this attitude of treating homes as investments or mere purchases is why we're in this mess in the first place.

New comment by brenainn in "Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house"

brenainn — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:43:17 +0000

Not uncommon for Australia. The housing market is very competitive so being a nuisance as a buyer, such as hiring someone for a thorough inspection, could hurt your chances.

What inspectors actually do also depends on who is engaging them and how much they get paid. For example, in the ACT it's mandatory for sellers to have an inspection done. This will generally go to the lowest bidder and they will put in minimum effort, e.g. the report will have things like "Roof inspected as far as can see from ladder placed against the house" and "furniture present, unable to inspect area". If you were the buyer and engaging an inspector, and the seller cooperated, you could have them inspect as much as you were willing to pay them for.

New comment by brenainn in "Chairs, Chairs, Chairs"

brenainn — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:19:13 +0000

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New comment by brenainn in "When flat rate movers won't answer your calls"

brenainn — Sun, 04 May 2025 15:18:47 +0000

The four times I've paid for removal, I've ended up doing as much lifting as they did on the day. I don't know who I hate more; the guys who showed up four hours late, pissed all over the toilet seat and asked me to order them a pizza (I didn't) or the guys who showed up four hours late, told me we had been underquoted by 75% and that there was only 3 hours to get everything in the truck or they would miss the freight cutoff.

From now on when I move locally I rent the biggest thing I can drive without a truck license. If I have to move interstate ever again I'm selling everything and starting over.

New comment by brenainn in "7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand"

brenainn — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:17:29 +0000

and PAGER: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s...

New comment by brenainn in "Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage"

brenainn — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:33:30 +0000

I read this previously and from memory it relies a lot on what Athens wrote about Sparta? I'm no historian but I was wondering if there's bias there, because they mostly despised each other and Athens kept records whereas Sparta didn't. It seems reasonable that you'd write a bunch of stuff about your enemies being inhumane and generally shit. Maybe the sometimes nicer things written about them coincided with periods of peace and alliance? Just spit balling, it's still an interesting and informative read.

New comment by brenainn in "Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]"

brenainn — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:37:12 +0000

I'll provide some background for people that aren't familiar with the game. It's an online vehicular combat game where you pilot tanks, planes, helicopters and warships. The vehicles range from pre-WW2 to modern. The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc.

For older, actually real vehicles, that information is more easily available. For modern, classified vehicles, and vehicles that were never actually produced, they have to make reasonable assumptions. Sometimes players get upset about these assumptions and how they impact the game balance, and post classified design documents on the forums to argue their points.

New comment by brenainn in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

brenainn — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:27:45 +0000

The Australian War Memorial has a volunteer program for transcribing old letters and diaries and such: https://transcribe.awm.gov.au/

I gave it a go but it was too hard for me! I write in cursive but I found most of it illegible.

New comment by brenainn in "Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes"

brenainn — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 04:42:57 +0000

The ban hasn't really changed much on the crime side of things. Nicotine vapes were already illegal and they continue to import them through the same channels. The organised crime is primarily tobacco. It's low risk and poorly enforced, and probably very high margins where a pack of Chinese or counterfeit cigarettes is resold for $10 to $20 or so. Vapes and nicotine pouches are part of that too but I would wager tobacco is moved in significantly higher volumes.

New comment by brenainn in "True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)"

brenainn — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:10:42 +0000

I read up about it after watching Deadwood. The most surprising I found is that they still exist in some form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency).