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Sam Lin

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  1. Thanks for the pics, looks incredible.
  2. Don't worry, work already knows about you.
  3. I know you say all genres, but still, what music hits your playlist the most frequently? And what volume do you generally listen at? Finally, what is the listening room? Size, wall finishings, shape and openings.
  4. Man. RIP. Hell of a storyteller.
  5. What do you have available at fish camp? Big pot of water on a fire is a sous vide, just stick a thermometer in it and move it away from the fire until it maintains just a moderate warmth.
  6. Teslas
  7. ^this. It isn't just about protecting your own kid, though that's certainly your priority. The fact that the other kids and families are kept in the dark about the real reason prevents anyone else from being able to look for their evidence of similar grooming. This is exactly how people like this can continue to do it after being caught. For others' sake is why you go to everyone possible, to get this on record(s).
  8. Just click Decline. They'll understand.
  9. How is that a problem?
  10. No. Literally none. Carry a small powerbank. It's like the rollaboards that have battery and charging built in, why the hell would you want to build obsolescence in??? Battery eventually won't hold a charge any more or the USB standard changes, and your fancy luggage becomes dead weight luggage. Now as mentioned, many newer luggage has a little pass-through hole for a charge cable to unobtrusively come out; I had a Kelty backpack with a hole for headphone cable to come out, and that was 20yrs ago. And is still usable today, and the hole works great for a charge cable. Smart future-proofing.
  11. Seconded. Tried Brondell, tried Biobidet, nothing matches the Toto Washlets for refinement and control. Brondell just felt cheap and less developed/engineered. Biobidet was annoying in that the seat occupancy sensor was really finicky, move my ass one way and it'd think I wasn't on the seat any more and shut off the spray. Their customer service by all reports is quite good, I just didn't care enough to try calling. Swapped it for a Washlet. I prefer the Washlet models with the fixed side controls though, I hate having to worry about a remote and batteries for something that really has zero benefit from being remote: https://www.amazon.com/TOTO-SW3074-01-Electronic-Elongated/dp/B08S4646QQ/?th=1
  12. Thank you! A bit of this homework was done back when I first bought the property, with thoughts towards building just a large garage/workshop at that time. The change now is to consider adding living space: The limiter for size will be the "cannot occupy more than 30% of rear yard area," and leaves plenty of space. Total plot is .75acre. No HOA, and zoning is "horse property" which allows 40% coverage. Would be adding this as "Guest Quarters" which has the "no built in cooking facilities stove/oven" restriction (see bottom of right hand column of chart below). Is this something as simple to get around as just leaving a dummy cabinet there and yanking it out and dropping in a freestanding range after the inspection is done? Property is supplied by city water but septic sewer. Increasing septic is a potential large issue if it'll occupy a bunch of land for leach field, or add cost if need to add pits. I don't know where the current leach runs, which is a problem. Other known obstacle is that they only allow one accessory building per property, and it already has a freestanding garage. The thought is to connect the existing house and garage to make it "one" building. Unclear yet how they define it, whether shares a connected roof or needs enclosed walkway or what. If that's not really feasible, then I'd demolish the existing freestanding garage. When I bought the place I already upped the power main to whatever the largest the city would allow, and ran a conduit for future "shop" subpanel across the house, to prepare for eventual workshop build. Here's an aerial view of the property and concept. The new building is intended to be a huge garage/workshop. Just adding 1500sf of guest house in it.
  13. TL:DR, what are the process steps to build an additional house on current property, and how to execute those steps? Searching old posts, bumping up this old thread. Just starting to contemplate building a big workshop/guest house on existing land next to existing house. Timeframe is next few years, not anything urgent. This is in AZ. Have a general question regarding the process steps I should follow. Who do I talk to first? Architects? How to find good ones? I browsed some architect sites and saw they list some accolades they've gotten, some listed Houzz "best of" - so I browse Houzz, I find architects in the area that are voted "best of" each year that have done projects I like. Is this an ok way to find architects? I also see in another post above where you mention having a contractor recommend one - how do I find the contractors to ask? Once I get a list of architects, how do I go about vetting them? Then I talk to them about what I want, they draw up some models and plans. Does their scope include interior design and engineer? Or do I need to also find those later? I take the plan package they give me, and I shop it to some builders. I assume they will have some builders they have worked with and recommend. Where else do I search for builders? And again, how do I vet the builders?
  14. Just following up on this, went ahead and did the coding with RJ. Added the auto multibeam high-beam lights and the Distronic radar cruise. General note, the biggest pain was that they are in the UK so the time slots for coding are not convenient for US times. I wound up doing it with them at 2am, which worked out ok for me as I was awake from jet lag anyways. I think you can book roughly their 5pm to be your 7-8am? Wouldn't be awful then. The multibeam auto high beams are super cool. This car already had the best headlights I've experienced, and I was already impressed with how fluid and seamless the light movement into corners was as you turn the wheel. The high beams are just as seamless, they turn on automatically, you don't really know when they turn on and off (other than the indicator in corner of gauge cluster), but you never get flashed by any traffic. The only complaint is they aren't sensitive enough to road signs up high and sometimes they stay on and glare off the sign quite badly, but that sensor may be confused by my window banner tint (I am not sure where the sensor is.) For the Distronic, my GLS required swapping the button assembly on the steering wheel. Easy, clear instructions and YT video were provided, parts arrived from UK same week. I marred up the access hole on the back of the steering wheel when inserting a tool to remove the airbag, but it's something only I'll ever see and know about. The actual coding was super easy. They mail you a programming dongle, you provide a laptop with Anydesk (and obviously need to have some data security comfort in letting some random stranger take over your PC for a while and do shit that is invisible to you). Laptop needs to have internet during coding, so you need to park somewhere with wifi or tether a hotspot. But then you connect the laptop to the car OBD2 via their dongle, give them the Anydesk code, they connect, and you just sit there and wait. In my case I had to turn the IGN off and on for a few seconds at one point in the middle of process, and then I had to immediately take the car for a ~15min drive without shutting it off when they finished so the Distronic radar could recalibrate itself. I think the coding itself took 15min or so, and then the drive. Was home and done in 45min, after driving around a bit extra just to play with the auto high beams. Did a few other "usability preference" codes since they included some free coding credits with my Distronic, stuff like "remember engine stop-start setting" and "64color ambient lighting" - exciting stuff, I know. Here's the full list of coding options they can do, apply to most modern Mercedes Benz: https://rjautomotive.net/pages/coding-options
  15. Is Wally really Cramer? Details at 10.
  16. I want this in an audiobook.
  17. Fucking this! Screens are more than 1024x768 now!
  18. There is no fucking way I'd name my sock 'gurt' Jeezus
  19. Does look better than eating canned food for the rest of my life, tbh...
  20. Dumb and Dumber.
  21. I think we have different definitions of 'metric'
  22. No, mine sucks. My IBRX is at 12.91
  23. Re-ran it, I think I misread one of the "I would not mind if." Here's the correct #asian chart. Couple other questions that were ridiculous to me, and definite indicator that some people have never been hungry or poor, and that this test was created by Westerners: Banana with black spots?? That's how you know they're the perfect ripeness! Items that have had mold cut off? Must be nice to have the luxury to throw the whole piece away and get another one. Overripe fruit? I grew up with my grandpa, we would go to local fruit sellers and ask them for their overripe discard fruit because it was cheap/free. Chew irregular bits of meat? Pig ear cartilage and chicken knuckle cartilage are two of my favorite street foods. Nauseating to see a whole fish with head attached? Are you fucking kidding me? See my posts elsewhere about Vietnamese/Asian new year and the chicken MUST have its head attached. Fish is the same, always head to tail, complete.
  24. Suck it, #Asian. And I suspect the 3% I misread the question in haste. Some of these were genuine LOL questions. Sushi, raw meat, food from a stranger? What in the actual fuck?
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