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[quote=La Jolla Renter]
The best part about driving a big truck is that you don’t have to tolerate drivers that speed up when you politely and timely turn on your blinker to change lanes. You just keep going.[/quote]

LOL. Same technique I use when driving the my K30. I also tend to ride the bots-dots on the right when someone decides to drop into my blind spot on the right and just sit there.

The only downside is that it tends to be thirsty.

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[quote=harvey][quote=moneymaker]I apologize as I am responsible for higher medical prices, don’t have a doctor or take medicine so they have to get their money from other people like you. If people boycotted doctors and drugs do you think prices would go down or up? Obviously I don’t have an MRI machine at home or do surgery on myself so I’m also at their whim. My brother got an MRI recently and was charged $2900 just to interpret it, ridiculous![/quote]

Soon your brother will be able to haggle for a better price!

Pro tip: Stay conscious during any medical procedure. General anesthesia can hamper negotiating skills.[/quote]
I negotiated mine… $610 for full upper body (guggle to zatch).
They obviously preferred cash.

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[quote=plm]
Home depot had what I needed. 100 psi and the pressure didn’t change when I loosened the screw. Now it leaks as well so definitely need to replace the regulator. Only lasted seven years. Thanks to both of you for your help.[/quote]

Where is it leaking from. The adjusting threads? If so, the diaphragm is broken. On some of them, it is possible to replace the diaphragm. It is much like the diaphragm on automatic sprinkler control valves.

Find the make and look it up. It might be something like: this

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[quote=Hobie]
You might keep an eye on the gauge when someone in the house turns on faucet. Should be same pressure. If it drops=bad regulator.
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Not quite. It will drop proportionate to the flow because the pressure differential is used to control the size of opening on the valve on the regulator. The design that does not drop much if at all as flow increases is the ‘servo’ design, two stage design or hydraulic servo design like:
https://www.zoro.com/watts-pressure-reducing-valve-6-in-flanged-115-6-fl/i/G1435497/?gclid=CKWwmo79ktICFZJefgodG04Oog&gclsrc=aw.ds
or
https://www.zoro.com/watts-pressure-reducing-valve-8-in-flanged-m115-8-fl/i/G2183885/?gclid=COOh36v7ktICFUlNfgodsUkItQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

To determine if a bad standard household regulator is bad, check if pressure can be adjusted up and down – check with slow water flow on the controlled pressure side. This will verify that the diaphragm and internal spring are working.

Now have someone shut off the slow water flow and watch the pressure – if it creeps up to match street pressure, the seat or seal on the valve is bad – or there is dirt caught in/under the valve seat.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]
I know people who still run at least 6 100w incandescent lights in their kitchen. Imagine all the heat that generates. I run my whole apartment on much less and I have all the lights on.[/quote]
Imagine the additional AC load due to those bulbs in the summer.. Using energy to get rid of the waste energy from inefficient bulbs that use more energy than needed to light the place. Take that a step further, using energy running the AC to get rid of energy that is falling on the roof and turning into heat, heating the house.

I have been doing the replacement ‘piecemeal’. As a bulb dies it gets replaced with a ‘new’ type. All but 1 reflector flood in the kitchen and 1 reflector flood in the high ceiling area near the stairs are Compact Florescent. Those were the only two tungsten floods (as of last year). I left those as tungsten for safety – so I would get a usable amount of light as soon as the light switch goes on, while waiting for the CFs to brighten. The last two have recently been replaced by LED reflector floods (the tungsten bulbs died), and as CFs die, the plan is to replace those as well with LED. My estimate on diffs of light efficiency comes in at about; CFs 5x more light efficient than tungsten/incandescent, LEDs are about 2x CFs or about 10x tungsten/incandescent. This is not including how long they last. The CFs are hard to estimate over tungsten because of the variance. Some of mine died surprisingly fast, others seem to have a life of about 3x the tungsten. Not enough data for the LEDs yet.

I figure the progressive ‘roll-in’ is probably the most cost effective and least wasteful way to do the change over. Each new bulb is the most ‘modern’ and most efficient available at that time, and I avoid new tech ‘glitches’ on designs. The energy consumption in the house has gone way down – not that the SDG&E total $ bill reflects that. The last bill kind of pissed me off.

The biggest difficulty has been in matching the color temperature between the incandescent, CF and LED bulbs.

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[quote=spdrun]Why not? I have electronic equipment that’s 20-30 years old with LEDs that haven’t failed yet. Solid-state devices can last for decades.[/quote]
The problem with the larger LEDs for lighting is getting rid of the heat. Small LEDs that don’t produce much light, don’t produce much heat. LED lights are still not 100% efficient, and what amount of energy does not go into light – becomes heat. Unlike old fashioned tungsten lights which run on heat, heat kills LEDs. Tungsten lights generally run at around 3500K, LEDs are under 373K and actually start dying above that temp.

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As cities go renewable, carbon fuels will stay cheap but will become less and less necessary. No need for wars in the Middle East.

That area is slowly running out of oil anyway. I think UAE is just about out. Saudi Arabia has gone through about 40% of their proven reserves. The US is currently imports most of its oil from Canada.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6

Solar is cheap now.

Except the installers are still gouging. Current panel cost are around $1/watt of production capability, but what many installers are charging is about $3/watt and up.
https://www.solar-electric.com/kyocera-ku340-8bca-solar-panel.html?gclid=CN-Zyo_jhNICFYJpfgodinYDcg

First Solar panels are even cheaper (but produce less power per square foot – less efficient because they are Evap Deposit design) They Kyocera panels are poly-crystalline which are more efficient at conversion. Mono-crystalline panels are used on satellites and the space station – and have the highest conversion efficiency- and highest per watt cost.

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[quote=flu][quote=no_such_reality]
HR usually don’t do recruiting except for interns. Recruiting is usually farmed out to recruiters. Either way, I have never met anyone in Hr or recruiters that have technical knowledge to ask these questions . If they did, they wouldn’t be in HR or a recruiter…
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What one company did that I interviewed for was interesting. They made candidates take an online test. Interesting idea.[/quote]
G.A. has something similar, but it is not online. Its in-house. First item in the door going for an interview for a job that might entail programming, is a programming test. Here’s the problem, here’s the computer, here are some books – tell me when you have it solved.

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[quote=poorgradstudent]
I don’t think the program is all bad, but I do think there is a lot of room to reform the abuses that occur.[/quote]
The solution is potentially easy. When the H1B was set up (about 1990), there was a minimum wage requirement. This has been effectively kept the same, though inflation has eroded the dollar. Solution would be to index the wage threshold to CPI and use a 10 to 15 year catch-up to the corrected value adjusted by inflation since 1990. Of course many tech companies are going to start whining and complaining.. cue the violins.

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It sounds like interviewers are going to have to come up with another test… One of the links you provided for the ‘FizzBuzz’ test had a bunch of solutions, and I could just believe someone not good with writing programs would try to memorize one of them in planning for a tech interview.

One of the things that does surprise me is how far some of these people get when there is no technical interview questions. In a previous job, I had to deal with someone who was supposedly senior to me working on the same project I was. The project was broken down into applications (C++ network comm/data processing and ‘rendering’ code for various parts of the system). The project this person was working on was not getting anywhere. The Proj Mgr put an additional senior person on the that particular application – and still no forward movement. I got thrown into the mix by the Proj Mgr to try to figure what the heck was going on and found out that the person who was supposedly senior to me was loosing track of code changes made by himself, was not coordinating with the other person he was to be working with, was not integrating the other persons changes (they were getting dropped on the floor) and that was literally having problems programming basic algebraic equations.

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[quote=flu]He didn’t know the difference between stack versus help wrto memory allocation[/quote]
I think you meant ‘heap’, not ‘help’. Took me a sec – was trying to figure out how stack and help were related… ;-P

I didn’t use the ‘reply’ function, so your post is still ‘editable’ – unless someone else directly replied to it.

I also think that part of the problem is the lack of concentration in the basics in computer systems from Universities in general. I saw that more recently the work done at UCSD classes were more oriented to building from libraries (ignoring that someone has to build some of the libraries and to use the libraries effectively, you need to understand how they are created).

BTW, if a person is largely working in kernel space, what the heck were they doing w/o knowledge of the difference between stack and heap? That is kind of like having a blind bull in a china shop.

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[quote=flu]
I’m not trying to bust anyone’s chop here. Just trying to understand what the heck is the difference between someone calling “top” 2 months ago and getting out for the sake of asset protection “just in case” something bad happens, and someone calling “top” right now, with the exception that one of us guessed right?

I don’t get it.[/quote]
Umm.. so you are now calling to stay in the market? I’m just a little superstitious.. I remember the market seems to have a way of moving contrary to your suggestions-actions. Almost like it was rigged specifically against someone.

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It just seems like we’re calling market timing as a decision that doesn’t go the way you thought it would go and as a result of your incorrect guess, that was market timing , a poor decision..

Versus a decision you make to get out of the market in whole or part at a time when the market directions goes the way you guessed. Then that’s not market timing.. that’s just wise financial decision making for asset protection.

I guess I am dumb and just don’t understand the difference.
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Both are market timing. The first one is unsuccessful market timing, the second is successful market timing. — also note the wording of ‘goes the way you guessed’. It could also be determined on what ‘inputs’ contributed to your decision.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Ucodegn, the US, like any other country can act unilaterally. That means going it alone and directly confronting another great power without allies/proxies like Phillipines and Vietnam, or Japan, South Korea, Australia who have core interests in Asia.
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Whatever happens in the world, the US is often asked to do something about it. Look at the response in Europe to the possibility that Trump is going to make nice with Russia/Putin. Besides, somehow you jumped stating that the US does not have standing, which I showed was not the case, to a strawman argument of the US going it completely alone.
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Ok, Trump alone can fix it. He will spend trillions more of our money. And in the end that will hurt the average American he claims to represent.[/quote] Further strawman.

[quote=FlyerInHi]
Plan B in Canada is not too bad. While we are closing ourselves off from the world, Canada is welcoming the world.[/quote]You don’t welcome the world by prostituting yourself to gain acceptance. It only gets you used. Sweden is learning some of it the hard way. The action on Australia was to stop prostituting ourselves for acceptance. Australia as an ally is important, but at what cost?

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Ucodegen, I hate to sound like I’m defending China. I’m not. I want our liberal democratic values to win, but Trump is clueless.

But the facts that you posted don’t give the US standing to get involved. Plus Philippines won the arbitration case against China, why don’t they enforce, and why is Duterte kissing ass to Beijing? Maybe if China is interfering with shipping lanes. But they are not.[/quote]
How are the Philippines going to enforce against China? Who has the stronger military force? The US does have standing in international waters. Read the case. Spratleys are considered ‘rocks’ because they are barely above high tide, if at all. See also the ruling I noted with regard to international waters, coastal waters etc. China is trying to make the entire area ‘their’ coastal waters.

So I guess your plan is to wait until there is a real international incident and then whine about it? China works on a long term plan – many moves ahead. They operate with more than a 15 second ‘sound bite’ style of concentration and planning.

[quote=FlyerInHi]
China has bilateral trade with North Korea. So what? If the US doesn’t like North Korea’s nuclear program, why is that China’s responsibility?

In countries around Asia there are pro US and pro China factions. So far, the pro China, authoritarian factions are winning because TPP is dead.[/quote] It is China’s problem because they are propping up their reckless ally. The US is not the only one concerned about NK’s behavior. Try studying some of their actions with respect to shelling an occupied SK island and torpedoing a SK destroyer in international waters – just to start with.
[quote=FlyerInHi]
Now Trump is creating a rift with Australia. Nice!
[/quote] Try reading the terms of the Refugee transfer that is causing the (so called)rift. Australia initially took Refugees from Syria (among others), then suddenly changed their mind after they were about to be settled in Aus – Obama signed (executive order I believe) that he would take them near the last year or so of office – (maybe he knew that he would not be around when the transfer actually occurred). Trump is saying hold on, wait a minute. You (Australia) picked them up now suddenly want to toss the ones you don’t want over to us? Why? The Aussie prime is now in a squeeze – with refugees that he wants to pawn off but can’t.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38837263

interesting note:

All of the occupants of Manus Island are male. By far the largest number are from Iran, followed by Afghanistan and Iraq. There are also sizeable contingents from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]
However, the Chinese official was precise. Sean Spicer is a moron who said the islands are international territories. Wrong. They are Chinese or maybe Malaysian, Vietnamese, … whatever.
[/quote]Precise maybe, but incorrect. The Chinese want to cloak their claims with legitimacy. I refer you to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which incidentally China signed up to – but is basically violating. I also refer you to the 2016 PCA Tribunal ruling per Philippines v. China.

[quote=FlyerInHi]
That just shows you that Trump and his people are not knowledgeable about policy. [/quote]
Predictable segway into anti Trump/Trump bashing.

[quote=FlyerInHi]
On Korea, Trump wants China to intervene. In negotiations, a person of average intelligence would react: “you want it, so do it yourself, or pay me to do it for you. But try first, then we’ll see how much the job is worth”
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China backs North Korea and starts sabre rattling whenever anyone else wants to deal with North Korea. Trump’s position is simple – if you (China) want(s) to back North Korea, you (China) take care of dealing with and the responsibility of any actions taken by your ally – or stop backing North Korea and we’ll take care of it.

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