Seconded! I recently built a large 50" x 90" work surface in my garage and used MDO sign board (another phenolic resin product, not much more expensive than MDF and available at many construction-oriented lumber yards) for the top surface over top of a hardwood plywood subsurface and heavily milled Douglas Fir legs and trusses, all doweled and glued together. I've been quite happy. It was easy to use a router on to make channels for t-tracks, and has been quite stable for the past 6 months or so through the fall, winter, and spring weather changes with only an oil-filled radiant heater to keep things from getting too frigid.
They're _excellent_ for wiring devices into junction boxes in construction; particularly when connecting the higher gauge luminaire wires of an overhead light to romex.
For some reason they're polarizing among electricians in the US (they carry all necessary listings for use in the US...). By contrast, they're widely accepted and used elsewhere.
> For some reason they're polarizing among electricians in the US
They’re 8x more expensive and take longer to install than a wire nut, and they take up more space inside the device box. They’re also difficult to unterminate without damaging the lever nut or conductor.
It’s not hard to splice #14 solid to #18 stranded with a wire nut, you just extend the smaller wire a bit beyond the end of the larger wire and twist.
I’d recommend wago lever nuts to homeowners doing their own electrical work because homeowners are terrible at electrical work and the less chances for electrical fires, the better.
I’m a commercial electrical project manager in the US.
but seriously, what kind of junction boxes are used outside the US that these would fit?
as far as connecting a larger device wire to a smaller mains line seems odd to me. granted, i'm not an electrician, but it is pretty much opposite of all of my experiences with wiring commercial lighting and home lighting
These infections are a huge problem. My neighbor missed 2 _years_ of college recovering from a C. diff infection. And you are correct: fecal transplant is the way, for now.
Per the article, these bleach (sodium hypochlorite) resistant spores are a HUGE problem. At my office, we clean surfaces with quaternary ammonium compounds, and those are supposed to be superior against spores. But still, if the required contact times to disinfect surfaces keep increasing in healthcare settings, we are going to have a major issue where only the most resistant spore-forming bacterial strains survive (basically, we'll be selecting for the strongest... you know, evolution).
> basically, we'll be selecting for the strongest... you know, evolution
Fortunately TANSTAAFL[0] applies to evolution as well, right? Specific adaptations come with increased metabolic cost, so e.g. strongly bleach-resistant bacteria should eventually start losing resistance to other antimicrobials/antiseptics. Right?
Here's the relevant legalese from Toyota:
"By purchasing or leasing a vehicle equipped with an active Connected Services system, you specifically consent to our electronic collection and use of your account information and vehicle data and our storage of such data wherever we designate."
Does the new owner of a used vehicle have to sign this too? And if this was skipped during the selling process, is the data now collected in the name of the previous owner?
Yours is the correct answer (B&W laser). Ours reports 8,620 pages successfully printed. The laser cartridges last an absurd amount of pages, and they don't dry out.
I've had to replace our Brother printer's feeder cam lever (part #LY2579001) twice. I expect I'll have to do that a few more times before I'm done with this printer. But, what do you expect after 12 years?
Brother DCP-8155DN multifunction, 10 and change years old,
- Pages printed: 18151
- Total Paper Jams: 5
- Toner replacements: 3
Working like a charm EXCEPT that on the last toner replacement I must have spilled some toner and haven't finished fixing it, so I have a few speckles on the first page that prints. But happy other than that and has been going strong for years.
Five paper jams in 10 years is simply amazing to me (and it's accurate).
Am I the only one who never gives out their real phone number? I give the same fake one to every single business that asks for it, including CC verification stuff on websites. Never had a problem, and really seems to cut down on junk calls...
I stay in a lot of hotels. I’ve never once been called. They will send an email to my “hide my email” protected email address or once I am 24 hours from check in or during my stay, I communicate with them via chat on the app.
On the other hand, I really don’t have a problem giving my real number to hotels, airlines or any other business that I deal with regularly.
99% will not get called, but having worked in hotels, guests have to be contacted all the time. Maintenance issue, plumbing leak, dog is barking too loud, overbooking, room type change, and the list goes on.
At franchised hotels in the US, which is almost all chain hotels, the employees at the front desk do not have the ability to email you, or even know your email address. The phone number is often the only way to reach you.
Hilton does have the chat app, but I do not think it works for hotels trying to reach customers with time sensitive information.
I also like digital keys and whisking myself to a room. But I would also rather know about my relocation (or any other issue) before I get to the hotel rather than after I get to the hotel.
When I worked, we used to have to often change room types from rooms with 1 queen bed to a room with 2 full XL beds (full XL is 6 inches narrower than a queen).
Of course, technically, this would modify a guest’s reservation and give them an inferior bed than the one they reserved, so we would go down the list of people who had reserved a room with 1 queen bed and ask if they were willing to change to a room with 2 full XL size beds, and as a thank you, offered a few thousand points.
Obviously, all the single business travelers had no problem accepting a couple extra thousand points for a bed that was 6 less inches wide, but if they did not have a good phone number on the reservation, they were not offered.
Not really, it was a hotel with kitchens in the room that was 90%+ occupied at all times, with 50%+ rooms occupied by long term stays. When operating at such margins, overbooking certain room types is inevitable as people extend their stays or cut them short.
Much like the person that has their 2FA app on their phone, and their backup keys burn down in their house and then is suddenly on HN begging for Google support to help them because they are in a catch-22 situation no one cares about the edge cases until they are being crushed under one.
Also a 1% failure rate is off the charts when you're talking about serving millions.
>> And so if a hotel is overbooked, or otherwise has an issue that would be better addressed prior to arrival, they have no way of contacting you?
> I stay in a lot of hotels. I’ve never once been called.
I've been called because of a travel issue, once. About a little more than a decade ago, I was scheduled to fly out of an airport that didn't actually end up opening for another several years. I believe the only heads-up notice I got about the change in my itinerary was a phone call about a month before my departure.
I stay in a lot of hotels. I’ve never once been called.
I get called by hotels all the time. But maybe because I stay in s a lot of "high touch" properties that pride themselves on providing exemplary service.
You're not going to get called by a Holiday Inn Express. But you certainly will get called when you're spending $800+ a night.
When I say “I stay in a lot of hotels”, I’m not exaggerating. My wife and I digital nomad 6.5 months out of the year staying in mostly mid range Homewood Suites and Embassy Suites and I also travel for work 6-10x a year where I also usually stay in Embassy Suites.
The other half of the year, we are staying in our own “Condotel”. They are individually owned condos that are rented out and managed like a hotel when we aren’t there.
When we first came to our condo in January, everyday they would knock on my door at the worse time.
The last thing I want in either context - whether I’m on a business trip, “nomadding “, at “home”, or vacationing is “high touch”.
I want to check in digitally, use my digital key and check out digitally. I put “Do not disturb” on my door the entire time.
>When we first came to our condo in January, everyday they would knock on my door at the worse time.
That is not really what high-touch means in the context of luxury hotels, $1000+/night places will generally do their best to not disturb you. Instead it's things like coordinating housekeeping based on reservations the concierge has made for you, or perhaps just quietly stocking your room with a beverage you seemed to particularly enjoy by the pool.
>I want to check in digitally, use my digital key and check out digitally. I put “Do not disturb” on my door the entire time.
I tend to prefer in-room check-in, a very common practice in luxury hotels. A front desk staffer walks you to the room, giving you an easy opportunity to raise any issues or ask any questions you might have regarding the room.
And in any case, digital check-in is unfortunately legally difficult in many jurisdictions which require hotels to scan your passport.
Apparently brand new accounts can't edit their comments, who knew. Edit: but seemingly this only applies to the very first comment you make
Regarding the phone calls, most people at this level use travel agents so the hotels won't have the client's direct contact information anyway. It's the travel agents job to communicate any preferences you might have regarding the stay.
If you're booking directly, it's common and useful for the hotel to reach out to you regarding your preferences and to see if you might need them to arrange something like airport VIP services or transfers. Nobody will be upset if you've provided a fake number and the hotel can't reach you, your reservation won't be cancelled.
Ditto. Even worse, I've tried to sign up for some services which reject the VoIP number and then send that number spam anyway. This has happened with a concert ticketing service and a food delivery app now.
I do the same thing as you. But it's worth noting that you don't know that you've never had a problem, since nobody can contact you about one.
I've only had problems that I know of three times. Once when a purchase from Ohio got mangled in shipping and returned to the company. It tried to contact me to let me know there was a delay, and when it couldn't get in touch with me, it put the order on hold. I found out about it when I called a couple of weeks later to ask what happened to my order.
Once when something I ordered from overseas had trouble getting through customs. Again, I had to call to find out what happened.
And once when I made a hotel reservation in Los Angeles. The hotel called to let me know that the upgrade I requested was available, and when it couldn't get me by phone it believed the transaction to be fraudulent and cancelled my reservation.
if you use the same fake one, then that is your number, its just pseudonymous. It does not matter what the info is, if it is the same often, it'll build a pattern on you.
You're thinking of the direct effects when you should be thinking about the tertiary effects. Your assertion is "I don't go around advertising that this is my BTC address, they'll never know it's mine"
does make me wonder about throwaway accounts (on reddit, for example); I wonder how many people regularly create them, but use predictable patterns doing so...
I have a burner phone that I never answer... only used for getting SMS confirmations and the like, and on silent or turned off altogether when I'm not expecting one.
Hmm. If you are saying we are all interconnected, relying on the diverse resources, products, and gifts from around this small planet to do the things we want to do, e.g. care for our sick, advance the common good, protect the vulnerable, provide stable sources of food _so that_ our global population can grow in a safe, equitable, sustainable manner toward lives full of fulfillment and wonder, away from subsistence living that steals time and health and hope from those stuck with no other choice, then, yes.
But if you mean the US should take credit, then, no.
The US has injected untold billions into the Indian market through off shoring phone support. India has made hundreds of millions of dollar scamming America's most vulnerable population.
US has not injected billions into India! Capitalist companies trying to find cheaper and disposable labour has done it. Of course the US Government police allows that but the policy is there because of these companies not other way around.
> scamming America’s most vulnerable population
Nothing from that goes to Government taxes or public benefits. These people are not out of poverty by scamming.
please try not to down punch some positive news from “Third world countries” if you don’t have any constructive criticism
Funny how this comment has not been flagged while the relatively harmless comment above has been flagged for driving tangential discussions (rather criticizing China's hard policies).
