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PittTheElder posted:Yeah the anchor isn't even bolted onto the wall, so really those ties are just holding the anchor in place, not holding the beam up at all. It’s got to be bolted on the other side or that’s some Wile E. Coyote physics.
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So Math posted:Misplace your soldering iron? Simple! Just plug an ordinary pencil into the wall. I want to beat this person into a amalgamation of youtube tropes purely for their awful solder technique. E: you don't let it blob like that, that means it's too cold to bond to anything even itself. When it wicks, it's warm enough. spookykid fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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Bit of light-hearted OSHA stuff. https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/1116737486280114176
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lol if you don’t have a few of these dogs kicking around in a drawer: Maybe the LASER needs that n‐key rollover.
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So Math posted:Misplace your soldering iron? Simple! Just plug an ordinary pencil into the wall. I love the fact that someone in Asia thought GERMANY was the relevant part in branding a pencil. e: While also having no idea what "sepia" means.
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So Math posted:Misplace your soldering iron? Simple! Just plug an ordinary pencil into the wall. I actually used the pencil soldering iron trick on a job site about twenty years ago when stuck on a mountainside working on a crapped out remote cell tower power management system and salvaging parts off other broken gear that had been left behind when things were upgraded. I felt like I was doing some post-apocalyptic poo poo.
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Platystemon posted:lol if you don’t have a few of these dogs kicking around in a drawer: It's pretty safe to say if your device didn't ship with one of those adapters it won't work with one.
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It's not like you can't still prime now a ps2 keyboard
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Memento posted:Bit of light-hearted OSHA stuff. https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/1116739381090406405 Phil Plait 
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https://twitter.com/fastbreakbreak/status/1117103565242290176
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Jerry Cotton posted:I love the fact that someone in Asia thought GERMANY was the relevant part in branding a pencil. My favorite is the third one: spend an hour building a contraption that explodes alcohol to save yourself the trouble le of walking 30 feet to litter.
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EKDS5k posted:My favorite is the third one: spend an hour building a contraption that explodes alcohol to save yourself the trouble le of walking 30 feet to litter. I see you're not in software development.
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EKDS5k posted:My favorite is the third one: spend an hour building a contraption that explodes alcohol to save yourself the trouble le of walking 30 feet to litter. What if the sea is 30 feet away and you attach a car battery to the bottle?
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wolrah posted:Those don't actually work with most modern keyboards/mice. They're just dumb wire adapters that connect PS/2 signals to the USB connector. As a result the keyboard/mouse itself must be able to speak PS/2 over its USB connector. I knew that that’s how they worked; didn’t know chips had dropped support for them.
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I once saw some scientists order those adapters in the hope that they could plug in a USB drive to pull data off of an old computer (this was probably 2017).
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Dr. Despair posted:I once saw some scientists order those adapters in the hope that they could plug in a USB drive to pull data off of an old computer (this was probably 2017). They thought the keyboard port would work like a USB port?
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Dr. Despair posted:I once saw some scientists order those adapters in the hope that they could plug in a USB drive to pull data off of an old computer (this was probably 2017). 
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They call it the Sega Genesis Maneuver.
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Origin posted:They call it the Sega Genesis Maneuver. 
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hahahahaha Those of you who have ventured into the BFC subforum at any point in the last decade will be familiar with the poster child for Bad With Money, zuarg. zuarg is knowingly buying a condo with federal pacific breakers.
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shame on an IGA posted:zuarg is knowingly buying a condo with federal pacific breakers. That thread is gonna be fire
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shame on an IGA posted:hahahahaha What does replacing that poo poo entail?
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Depends on the local authority but most of the time replacing the main panel requires bringing literally everything downstream to code.
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shame on an IGA posted:hahahahaha What
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Dr. Despair posted:Yup, why else would that adapter turn it into a USB port wowza
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Captain Foo posted:What quote:If your home was built between 1950 and 1990 and is equipped with a Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) circuit breaker panel with Stab-Lok circuit breakers, you run a significant risk of breaker malfunction and fire.
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It's estimated that a dozen people die and the fires cause an estimated $40 million due to stab loks each year. The design is so bad that even turning the breaker to OFF doesn't always work.
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80 breakers, 20% labeled, all stab lok truly a cursed image Burt Sexual posted:Kinda surprised at the naïveté at stab lock itt. Yah. I could have sworn I've posted about it before but it must have been in the crappy construction thread. To anybody that hasn't clued in yet: Seeing a Stab-Lok, Federal Pacific, American Circuit Breaker Corporation, Challenger, Thomas & Betts, or Connecticut Electric/Unique Breakers, UBI panel/breakers is a HARD NO. Do not buy, do not rent. If you can even **get** insurance on a place with stab-loks they'll probably have wording in your policy to deny your claim in the event of a fire. They spent decades falsifying test results and they're unbelievably bad. 1 out of every 3 breaker is defective. There's no point in having an electrician come in to "evaluate" the box: it has to be replaced. The thing that's explicitly designed to prevent your home from burning down shouldn't be one of the big causes of homes burning down. Buying a place with Stab-Loks is like owning a fire extinguisher that's known to occasionally burst into flames and kill a bunch of people.
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Here's your yearly "Worst home inspections photos" from StructureTech, a home inspection company that realtors hate. https://structuretech1.com/top-20-home-inspection-photos-2018/ Pretty tame this year BeatmasterJ special:  Uhhhh  "Would you walk on this? We didn’t." 
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MisterOblivious posted:Uhhhh Stab-locked! 
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MisterOblivious posted:80 breakers, 20% labeled, all stab lok Awesome, it would be like living in star trek!
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My place solved this by just painting over the entire box up to the breakers. Just make it hard for anyone to see it, problem solved.
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