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I am a believer that "bumming" comes with a psychological cost, either in terms of others dislike you because they felt taken advantage of, or you feel like you owe others something and have to burden yourself for not making the others unhappy or do others favor even if you don't want to. Plus...

I am always concerned that what they send to pass those UL test is not actually what they spend on quality control for. Often times I see things popping and smoking because they have quality control issues instead of not designed safe. To me the only way I know for sure is to search online to...

I would not pay for $91 OEM if Brembo is $40. But for people who insist OEM then $91 isn't too bad for 11 years 112k miles either. It is not like you have to do it every 2 years.

Agree with all except the "battery problem". I am pretty sure they will find a way to make replacement battery at a ridiculous price to skim future profit from the collector by rebadging LG or Panasonic.

I remember a few years ago the strategy of Ferrari is to produce slighly below demand so they can keep the price up and the rarity. This is what a lot of luxury bag makers do as well: destroy the unsold inventory to keep the second hand price up. As a result, don't believe in BS that says "they...

I think they may only sell this to the fashionable crowd and limit the production to so low that people buy it for speculative future appreciation reason only. Sort of like the Trader Joe tote bags.

This hood bent look like my crashed Integra. Now you are making me feel sad junking that car already. Maybe I should just cut a slit on it and seal the side gap and follow the new trend.

I thought there's some Doberman and Beagle in Penny. Wasn't expecting Chow Chow at all.

I am sure they have done their research and see what is a simple way to make people happy. I have family members who are used to sleeping on straw mat on plywood boards. I grew up till 4th grade sleeping on them in the summer as well, but I know I don't expect a hotel to offer that when I...

About 20 years ago, I have put on a set of KYB GR2 on Corolla and it rode ok, as in it is not Toyota like new quality but good enough to not bottom out or bounce too far. I have also put on a set of KYB Excel-G on Camry V6 about 16 years ago and it rode pretty well till the car was sold. I have...

If it is your only car I would be concern, but if it will be just another extra car you can afford to take risk on, probably ok. 15 year old car with 200k miles in NY area? I would imagine rust also?

It is likely inventory control that they have too many single box left they want to clear out. In theory a low inventory just in time system can eliminate that and make them all equal, but reality is always reality. I have also seen buying a set of 4 tires from Walmart end up having 3 sent...

I don't think Honda is the same Honda ever since they started putting in turbo. Their strength was always the higher rpm engine with way over build internals, like a 140 hp engine that would be fine running up to 8psi boost with stock internal, and up to 300hp if tuned well. I think a lot of...

In the future I think they may have design meeting before they just keep running trial and error to let AI burn through token. In the hardware world people don't just throw changes out there for tape out that cost $1M without validation first. The same would go for AI if it cost too much.

I will tell you what I think might be the reason: It is too risky for a small company to build something that cost hundreds of billions unless they know there is no risk. If someone already build it, and is not your competitor, then it might be a better idea to "license" or "rent" from them to...

Let's say, you buy an item for a friend on the other side of the same country (i.e. East Coast) using Amazon Prime, then you change your mind and return that at your home area's Whole Foods. Is it going to cause any problems like flagging it as abuse? Anyone tried that?

Is it safe as in is it food grade? I would be a bit concerned of that.

The spec for AI data center is a lot more heat dense and typically need more weight support for liquid cooling than air cooling. Most if not all the recent data center build are for AI. Chips like DDR and NAND, even HDD now are going up so high people don't suddenly build a bunch of web servers...

Is it really that much? I remember someone on Lexus forum said walnut blasting is about $700 a few years ago.

AC compressor is a pump just like PS but I guess different. I had a water pump that at the end of life gradually sound like that. I originally though it was just my stuck piston ring but it turns out to be the water pump, took my mechanic a few hours to figure out. Bad bearing don't always...