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Liquid Communism posted:Well, it's the 183rd day of March here and I'm to exhausted to function. Same but also the battery in the Honcho just pulled its second miraculous recovery from total death so I'm naming it zombie Jesus and did burnouts on the taxiway  Really glad because I can't particularly afford yet another battery right now, but I'm gonna have to carry jump cables and my half dead battery I use for jumping shitboxes now...
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Is there anything more trivial and maddening than a wireless connection just flaky enough to troll you every single time you try to do anything, but just functional enough that you still try to use it? Good Christ. I'm about to shotput this phone into low Earth orbit. Literally every time I try to Google something instead of dicking around on Facebook it trips on its own rear end in a top hat.
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Sep 1, 2020 08:22
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Liquid Communism posted:Same thing only cell service. For some reason it's flakier than my shortcrust pastry in the building at work. Bonus mine was doing it with both WiFi and cell at the same time. I get 1 bar of 4g in this hangar in one spot and the WiFi is flaky as gently caress for other reasons. It's loving great. It took me like 2 hours to get some basic research done on rockauto.
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Sep 1, 2020 14:52
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nm posted:I have my wifi set up to just be strong enough that it works in my bedroom (pretty far from my router). However, my goddamn phone keeps latching onto it when I leave. My car is parked just far away enough that my phone thinks it has wifi, but it actually doesn't. So if I want to stream music or do google maps, I have two choices. Mine is "smart" enough to turn the WiFi on automatically when near a remembered network. You know like the restaurant 3 buildings down that is at 0.75 bars and simply drives my TCP/IP stack insane. It does it every time. It's also really really good at consistently choosing the busted network to try and use. 2 bars of 4g and busted rear end wifi? Guess everything is using the wifi! Oh the wifi works better now? I'm going to try and use the 4g... Oh it just went to no service *page load explodes because the web devs never conceived of the fact that a JavaScript function call can fail*
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Sep 1, 2020 19:54
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You live in the bay area and you're looking at spending 5 figures on a rusty 17 year old passed around car? At least spend stupid money on a not-rusty 17 year old not-passed-around car. You live in the land of ageless cars, why would you ever settle for crusty clapped out garbage?
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Sep 5, 2020 07:19
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everdave posted:Hey a lot of people think I’m a piece of poo poo and I disgust them because I asked about wiring. Please ban me from SA after over 15 years I have very few friends and thought this was an OK place y’all continue with your gate keeping. I promise I own more cars than anyone here but I’m not AI enough. Bye. Ok, now I'm confused. I have certainly not thought that, what happened dude?
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Sep 7, 2020 07:21
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The idiot yokels on the key peninsula groups are all hot and bothered about that too. Yeah I'm sure it'll be antifa driving hours to burn down your chicken coop, not your exploding meth lab, you toothless tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist who also thinks 5g is a secret plan to depopulate an area that has like no people and gets 1 bar of 4g on a good day.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:30
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They seriously think a sub 100 watt (hell, mostly sub 10 watt) 5g tower hundreds or thousands of feet away with a 60+ degree beam pattern is "causing covid" by burning up the o2 molecules in the air so you can't breath, because 5g = 60ghz which is the resonant frequency of o2 molecules. I literally just stare and break out in sarcasm at that point because there's literally no point in trying to fact check that kind of wildly wrong nonsense when they'll just deny it and drop more bullshit again the next minute.
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Sep 12, 2020 22:18
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The Door Frame posted:I'd ask about the other, non-respiratory symptoms and bizarre after effects, but I'm stuck on "burning O2 molecules". What does that even mean? Are they breaking the molecules apart or are they somehow causing fission? Shouldn't every plant in the area spontaneously combust because they spit out so much O2 that's being burned?  They never have anything useful to say when I note that this is why microwave ovens clearly burn water and turn it into something else via exactly the same effect.
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Sep 13, 2020 01:10
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Could be as simple as a starter capacitor.
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Sep 13, 2020 22:09
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My favorite part is when the corporate head dickheads don't allow enough recs to be opened to hire enough people to do the work, so managers get to make puffed up stupid speeches to their teams about how we must rise to the occasion and put in extra hours and such. gently caress you, hire enough people, we saw those corp quarterly earnings statements too. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this is a problem they created and they can solve without loving over my personal life.Rhyno posted:I work with a guy who has been abusing FMLA frequently and bragging about it. It's all gonna catch up to him when he doesn't have the proper paperwork to validate the days he's missed at the end of the year. I feel like I said something about HOAs before...  But then again it goes basically like this quote:No one:
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Sep 15, 2020 05:21
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Rhyno posted:And I explained you can't live within city limits without one. Why would I let facts get in the way of a perfectly good anti HOA rant
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Sep 15, 2020 07:24
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Dagen H posted:The 20something construction worker who takes out a huge note on a brotruck and needs OT to pay for it I can understand it if you get overtime, but I was being a stupid corporate slave because I was on salary and doing stupid amounts of overtime. I only do that if I feel like I'm late on a project because I slacked off at work for too long now. As long as my conscience is clean on how many days it took me to get it done, I'm going the gently caress home. Really, I should slack off less so I can just count hours, but where's the fun in that? My last company was actually pretty drat good about raises. I threw a higher number out when getting headhunted than I actually made, the recruiter told me they could definitely beat that by at least x, they actually beat it by x plus like 5 or 10 percent, then I got a decent raise pretty quickly and bonuses easily 5x larger than I've ever received anywhere else. It was a great gig pay wise right up until the moment when they decided to save 30m by laying off or not backfilling about 300 positions.
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Sep 15, 2020 17:01
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the spyder posted:Speaking of HVAC. Trying to figure out doing a multi-zone minisplit in a 1890 house is a pain. Yup. I had a ton of fun fabbing up my ductwork for exactly that, except single zone because I didn't have space for multiple units. What units are you going with? I think ducts would have actually been easier for multi zone... No such thing as a free lunch.
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Sep 16, 2020 05:28
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You're right, I'm a dumbass E: what's the hard part with minisplits? Routing the refrigerant lines shouldn't be too bad, maybe the controls?
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Sep 16, 2020 05:41
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I want one of those so bad but I'm not buying till I've moved.
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Sep 16, 2020 22:21
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tell the aunt she can go drown in a porta potty fire for all you care e: I prefer to instigate the trumpers until they remove/block *me*, giving me the last laugh. It's happened several times just in the last few weeks.
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Sep 18, 2020 01:08
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Looks like a decade to me... well, hopefully it lasts that long I guess.
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Sep 18, 2020 18:49
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The loving PawSox stadium they're building in Worcester right now is projected to cost 132 million, which I thought was a ridiculous boondoggle before hearing about your 5 billion dollar handegg basket. What the gently caress? I mean, 132 million is still stupid, especially for a minor league team, but at least they're unfucking (or possibly turbofucking, won't know for a while) a bunch of terrible intersections nearby in the process of building the stadium.
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Sep 20, 2020 22:11
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I dunno where I stand on rent. Excessive rent is just loving evil, and as far as I'm concerned, it's highly excessive in many areas even at market rate. When I go to move, I've debated either renting it at what I feel is a reasonable rate to someone who needs a leg up, or renting at market rate but putting the extra into an interest bearing account as a buffer in case they can't pay at some point, and either giving it back to help with a down payment when they leave, or offering to cut the entire amount they paid in rent (minus actual maintenance costs) off the asking price if they want to buy the place. I hate the very idea of being a landlord, but if I can't find a buyer at a good price... I'll be damned if I let a decent house sit empty when there are unhoused people. I was lucky, my landlord before I bought my place was pretty reasonable and also let me do repairs and improvements and take it out of the rent. I know I was basically working for free, but it was cheaper than going to every trade school to learn, and good practice for the house I've got now. Darchangel posted:10 year warranty, so suits, I guess! I dunno what your budget is, but windows are pretty easy to diy even if you've never done it before.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:24
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I don't think I paid over 500 for any one rectangular flat window in my house for comparison sake. If you want I can get a list of sizes and prices I paid together. I think most were in the 200-300 range and that was for fairly large windows.IOwnCalculus posted:Hey Kastein: Ok you have my attention (Bed still really needs to be longer, but oooooooo... They're halfway to my desired feature list improvements!)
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Sep 22, 2020 18:00
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Olympic Mathlete posted:So I work at a nice university in the UK. Term is due to start in like 2 weeks and we still don't know what sort of teaching is going to be happening here. We seem to be going for a hybrid in person/recorded set up with massively reduced capacity in teaching spaces. We have a 500 seater lecture theatre which is down to 43 usable seats going by standard 2m social distancing regulations. Other rooms have been basically reduced to tiny groups and they're going to put queuing systems in places that weave in and out of the buildings. Around campus dudes have been putting stickers on the floors and walls turning buildings and walkways into a one way system, we're enforcing masks indoors. It's airborne for hours indoors unless the HVAC has really good filters and does a ton of air changes per hour, and the 6 foot rule is a bare minimum for when you can't employ more effective methods, which everyone seems to have forgotten. Under no circumstances would I open that school, but apparently that doesn't matter. Open the shark beach and jurassic park back up too.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I am beginning to deeply hate trying to find SOMEONE who will transport an engine fromBrisbane to Sydney I mean making a crate is like a 1hr project, but that's rather annoying. Can you get it to the dock at work maybe?
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Darchangel posted:Meant to reply to this yesterday, 100% of mine have come from home depot. You go to the millwork desk with detailed dimensions of every rough opening you need a window for (if you're replacing the whole unit, if you're only replacing the old single pane window you can usually get retrofit ones that screw into the old casement, it really depends on your plans and existing setup) and spec out the glass, gas fill, grille configuration if any, screens, safety locking devices, size, nail flange and siding channel options, etc etc. Put the full order together and get a quote, if it's over a certain amount have them submit it to the bidroom (I'm sure Lowe's has an equivalent.). You'll get at least 15% off probably. Ask if they have any big sales coming up, every month or two they'll run a special on windows where you get a decent discount just for buying then instead of when you planned to. If you want to do it on the installment plan, just pull a permit and ask how long it is valid for, I can't remember how long mine are good for but my town has never given me grief over it. Then just buy em as you can afford them and install a few every time they show up (takes a few weeks for custom sizes.) I spread my 14 windows over something like 5 years. If you're careful you can plan your window purchases in small enough chunks to be wallet friendly but big enough to be able to go through the bidroom for a discount. IIRC the cutoff is 1500 bucks an order but I'm not really certain of that. The only thing that might be a hangup is I have no idea how your existing windows are put together - you might be able to retrofit easily or you might not. Take detailed pics open and closed of the jambs and sashes along with measurements and bring them with you, hopefully they can find an easy way. E: yeah it's 1500 minimum. https://www.homedepot.com/c/Pro_VolumePricing E2: oh yeah DO NOT TAKE YOUR OLD WINDOWS OUT TILL YOU GET THE NEW ONES HOME AND READY TO INSTALL, SITTING NEXT TO THE PLACE THEY GO. It's stupid easy to break them loading or unloading if you're clumsy, though I've been lucky, it's been close a few times, like I nearly fell down a ladder with a 40x69 window on top of me in 2018. And very carefully check over your specs before submitting the order, especially regarding grilles if you want any, there's a bug in the software and if you ask for the wrong kind of glass you can't spec grilles at all and they won't show up in the spec list and you might forget you wanted them at all until they show up grille-less. And very carefully check your windows before signing them out at the store because the delivery truckers are dipshits and like to drag them on the nail flanges which sometimes shreds them or snaps them off (probably won't be an issue for you since you can't use nail flange ones) and also gently caress up the screens and screen frames, and once they even managed to break the glass on mine. And once you sign them out, you are SOL because they'll say that was your fault loading them in the parking lot, so... Get out the fine tooth comb. kastein fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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Well it looks like I'm flying to Seattle to get our well drilled next week, I'll probably be there Monday through Friday if anyone wants to burn poo poo and drink beers on 5 acres of blackberry in a socially distant manner. Warning, I am likely going to be sleeping in the back of my rental car the entire time so the later in the week people appear the more distant you will want to remain.
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Sep 25, 2020 03:47
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cursedshitbox posted:On my way to poo poo up your property values Given the neighbors and, well, me, I think you're kind of threatening to open a barn door that doesn't even exist here
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doublepostin' Anyone know offhand of any old vehicles that people still like tuning, that use 27C64 style (JEDEC standard pinout, 8k x 8 ROM) tune chips, that people would be willing to pay for a socketing service, wirelessly tunable modchip, and android/iphone app for tuning for? I can entertain 27C128 and 27C256 (16k x 8 and 32k x 8) as well within a reasonable hardware budget. I'm already looking at designing exactly this for a family of vehicles that zero companies offer tuning for right now, but figure I might as well cover any other vehicles that are out there using this stuff while I'm at it, or at least have a list of platforms to add in the future. e: it looks like B series Honda is 27C512 (could probably support that), D series may be 27C256? kastein fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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It looks like those use a pair of 32-lead PLCC 1mbit EPROMs. I am not sure how to support those in the way I planned to, but I'll have to think about it now that you brought it up. Those are also substantially larger than I planned to cover, and might require a hardware design change since the approach I was planning to use will cost at least 130 dollars just for the two memory ICs.
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Sgt Fox posted:Only if you support mspaint fuel maps It'll have a web interface basically
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Rhyno posted:Yeah it's a recent development. He's a mess lately. Divorced, one kid from that marriage, his new wife has one from a previous relationship, they have a third together AND he is still taking care of his ex wife's first child because she's a goddamn monster and threw her own kid out when he announced he was trans. So aside from his dumb issue he's a good dude and the best dad I know. He just needs to be less dumb about who is making the money. Basically deadname and previous gender do not get used for any reason unless they tell you to. The only thing I'm not really sure about is telling old stories from pre transition, I should have asked my bro what the preferred practice is 20 minutes ago. I try to avoid it right now, especially if it's a story I haven't thought about in a long time and I think I might screw it up.
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rdb posted:I bought a harbor freight sds max demolition hammer last week to sink some ground rods. I needed to do 15 of them to start. I can normally do 3 in a day with a post driver and sledge before I am done. With the hammer I had them all done within an hour. I got a rotary hammer on eBay as a refurb years ago and I can't believe I lived without it. With a ground rod attachment it's amazing.
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Assuming I finish my poo poo up getting my well drilled, I'm down to come rip things off your house for a while before getting back on a plane apparently I get to borrow an excavator from the drillers to clear blackberries tomorrow so it may take less time than I was expecting. And yeah finding out people you know and care about are Nazis sucks. I've been pretty surprised by a few recently, though the rest I knew already.
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My dad still thinks 3 million illegals voted in 2016, you think even a landslide is going to convince his ball garglers of anything? Ha. I ragequit the debate at like 15 or 20 minutes. I can't even with this loving clown show.
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I have to say, so far the best part of the Biden campaign platform by far is "will you shut up, man?"
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