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Sam Lin

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  1. I understand and agree with the general message above to always book with the airline, as it does give you the most chance of getting a rebook or change if something goes wrong. However: Sometimes resale agents will buy up a block of seats at a specific fare. There are cases where you can get a much lower fare if you find one of the resale agents trying to sell their seat, esp if you book last-minute and they either sell it or lose it. This is a case where Skyscanner, Priceline, Kayak, etc sometimes can find oddball listings that you won't get on the airline's own site. The other reason to use an agent (that I've personally run into): many airlines require showing the credit card used to purchase at check in, if you are in a higher-fraud-risk country. If you are buying a ticket for someone else and won't be at the airport with them, it may be inconvenient to do whatever alternate authentication the airline requests (for example, I've had to go to the airline ticket office and sign docs and have them check my ID). If you book through a booking site/agent, the site/agent takes the fraud risk and the airline won't need to check anything. As most of you are US-based, probably not a big issue. This card verification can be very common in Asia.
  2. If you want to get really serious with specific routing codes and tricks, Google still maintains ITA Matrix: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/search It's supposed to be getting shut down as everything moves to Flights, but Flights has so much less functionality that they haven't killed ITA yet. Oops, Chopper mentioned it in the previous post, I just totally glossed over the address as it didn't URL.
  3. I would quite doubt that 100k is average. Probably closer to double that. It's pretty serious savings.
  4. "each the other's world entire"
  5. Just got the email for that. Fuck you Amazon.
  6. Red adzuki beans and green mung beans are very commonly cooked with syrup as dessert in Asia. This is a fancier red bean recipe, adds lotus seeds and lily bulbs. Other recipes will add dried longan. https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/sweet-red-bean-soup This is green beans: https://whattocooktoday.com/sweet-mung-bean-soup.html
  7. Why did you upload a pic of garlic and shit when there are rules?
  8. Sigh.
  9. Re: Tesla compared to other cars, whynotboth.gif It's pretty clear you've each made up your minds. The car market will make its own mind. FWIW my dad has a Tesla and it is a perfectly fine (fast) appliance. It's a very good choice for him. To G650 comment, I am also in automotive engineering, have multiple friends who have been engineers at Tesla, and I find Tesla's engineering to be amusingly shit. I was literally speechless when I found out that rain sensing wiper was still a "Beta" function - the Taiwan owner base describes the function as "mentally retarded." Some things have not changed since Tesla started and Sandy Munro did his first teardowns; incredibly advanced development in some areas and literal automotive stone-age in others. I have zero desire to own one at this point, they simply aren't a finished product yet. Based on my own experiences driving/riding in my dad's Tesla, the auto driving/driver assist is not ready to be on public roads, and I am honestly surprised NHTSA has not cracked down harder on Tesla.
  10. Browsed Costco and the prime ribeye looked amazing. Look at this marbling, esp the bottom piece. Dry brine, reverse sear, it was so so good. Nothing special about the seasoning or cook, the beef itself was just incredible.
  11. Not all stock the ribs, and the ones that do can sometimes be spotty. It's a bit hit or miss, you can always try calling ahead.
  12. Please don't waste good oranges, thx.
  13. A traditional scallion pancake is one of the great joys in life. Stripe of Lao Gan Ma crispy chili oil to take it to 11.
  14. I have a hard time believing the minimal gas savings justify the extra wear and tear, but I have no data to back that up. It's not there to save you gas. It's there to help the automaker meet emissions requirements on a standardized test cycle. My Mazda eats a battery every 2 years, and the battery needs to be a heavier duty partial deep cycle battery to survive the increase charge discharge cycles. The fuel savings definitely does not outweigh the battery costs.
  15. Don't attempt to explain this to wife, but most fuel pumps are immersed in the fuel tank and start running hotter if the tank gets low. You will increase your fuel pump lifespan if you never run the tank under 1/4.
  16. Actually, you jinxed yourself when you got married.
  17. I tend to put the twisty tie on the bag, not on the bread, but whatever works for you.
  18. It's a factor for me if it's a true abomination to use. I passed on a Ford because of Sync back in the day. I also won't buy a car that buries HVAC function controls in the infotainment.
  19. LC200 has a few Android HU options with Carplay as well if the infotainment is a hangup.
  20. But she thinks you're really thoughtful for filling the tank up, so you have that going for you.
  21. Refurb at least for Jabra means you get new silicone ear tips, so I wasn't concerned. $20 is $20 man...
  22. Both were wired identically (both Nest thermostats) - what I don't know is if the wiring in the wall to the air handlers is the same, though builder spec house, identical heat pumps, it <should> be. But one Nest worked correctly by default, and other cools instead of heat unless I switch that OB wire setting in the software, and then it just blows fan, still doesn't heat. But works fine swapped back to the dumb Trane TCONT800 thermostat that was originally there.
  23. I swapped the two Nests and got same results, so it isn't the thermostat. I swapped the finicky thermostat back to the original "dumb" Trane thermostat and everything (heat/cool) worked correctly. Will throw the Nest on a shelf and try again in the future when I have more time. Very confused.
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