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I'm watching the Components series by Tim Hunkin on Youtube, and he absolutely loves lovely fluxcore mig welding with his bare hands right next to the torch.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1oKkvCQUg&t=1520s
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Modus Man posted:I keep having a reoccurring nightmare that I’m in a college classroom and I realize that it’s a class I forgot I was enrolled in and I haven’t attended in a while, and there’s a test today. It never gets to the test, I always wake up right then when the dread and the panic set in. Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDFJVUaXUI
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Almost as iconic as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7EAzbzCNE
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shy boy from chess club posted:So it is working. Putting out 9.5vac and 4.7 on the correct pins. Are you talking about the original C64 supply? If so, it might be working, but they are a ticking time bomb, even if very rarely used. When it fails (they all do), it will take the PC with it. Get a new modern supply to be safe.
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The Door Frame posted:And as degrees become more common, job listings are able to put ridiculous degree requirements for entry level jobs that pay <$30k, further driving people into the college system and into debt that they usually don't need Yeah this is troubling to me. Fortunately I do not have any student debt and a bachelors degree in psych. In the baby boomer generation something like 16% of the working population had a college degree. Now almost 40% of the population has a college degree. It's kind of a bummer because it seems like you pretty much need to have one in order to even get in the door with a halfway decent job. Hell I went to a top 50 college and a lot of the kids I graduated with are still like managing retail stores or selling life insurance. I'm 26 (for reference) and honestly I always just figured the cost of tuition was always kept artificially high so the military would have a predictable and consistent recruitment base. Either that or so companies can just get more H1Bs and save money on what would be very expensive labor. CerealKilla420 fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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T-Square posted:4/5 people on my team including me were hired on last year to run payroll for a lot of people and assist with the transition to a new payroll platform which is happening at the end of this month, and so far throughout our training that has been mostly useless, it seems like a lot of our responsibilities are being farmed out or automated. The last like three weeks our group chat has been everyone stressing out about getting laid off. I’m trying to stay positive, but man, whatever it is I did to whomever to deserve all of this poo poo, I’m fuckin sorry okay, can I have like one singular thing in life go well? TIA. I hope things get better for you soon man, not sure what else to do or say. Keep on keeping on.
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slidebite posted:Are you talking about the original C64 supply? Yea the original one. I didn't realize there was supposed to be AC and it is working but probably not going to chance it. The computer looks brand new inside so if I don't have to swap chips from blowing them up the cooler
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rdb posted:My day: Yup. They use bare neutral with ground rods wherever the tweakers haven't stolen the lowest 8ft of 6awg copper. They don't have to follow NEC rules on conductor sizing either, forget what standard they use instead. Dementia blows so drat hard, I'm sorry dude. It took my grandfather one tiny bit until there was nothing left. Watching that happen - it took years and was horrible for all involved - is why I swear if I get dementia I'm having someone I trust hook straight N2 to a cpap mask on the porch the second I stop having any real lucid moments. I don't wanna go through that and I don't want to burden my family with watching me fall apart in a nursing home either. Rather go out peacefully on my own terms.
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Modus Man posted:I keep having a reoccurring nightmare that I’m in a college classroom and I realize that it’s a class I forgot I was enrolled in and I haven’t attended in a while, and there’s a test today. It never gets to the test, I always wake up right then when the dread and the panic set in. I have this so often it almost doesnt affect me anymore. If it's not uni, it's repeating the last year of highscool, despite being in my mid 30's.
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kastein posted:Yup. They use bare neutral with ground rods wherever the tweakers haven't stolen the lowest 8ft of 6awg copper. They don't have to follow NEC rules on conductor sizing either, forget what standard they use instead. Yeah, I'm kinda hoping to go out like a cook I knew. Was doing fine, walked out of the kitchen to fill a bakery case, and had a massive coronary. Dead before he hit the ground, not even reflex to get his hands up. I ain't afraid of being dead, but dying slow's not on my to-do list.
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meatpimp posted:Hey Rhyno -- I think the DC Universe takes itself too seriously, and that makes it less enjoyable than Marvel... what say you? I agree. But Snyder makes the best looking super hero films.
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Im at a train station called Blacktown and theres a group of First Australians spitting red hot raps about ACAB. Freestyling too. Dont think the cops like it but theres enough phones recording
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Im at a train station called Blacktown and theres a group of First Australians spitting red hot raps about ACAB. Freestyling too. I am digging the image of that which I have in my head.
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shy boy from chess club posted:So it is working. Putting out 9.5vac and 4.7 on the correct pins. Don't use the original PSU. It will kill the computer, might not happen immediately but it will happen.
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Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow. I live in the mountains. How much rain are they expecting?!?!?
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I had an interesting occurrence in the grocery parking lot last night. It's urban, tight parking, etc. I'm tired, mentally distracted with everything going on. A truck parked close to me on the passenger side, and as I was backing out I was paying a lot of attention to not hitting it instead of what was going on behind me. I hear/feel a thud and all kinds of lights on the dashboard and windshield - BRAKE! BRAKE! BRAKE! I get out and find that I in fact did not hit the car behind me. I could stick my fist between our bumpers. I pulled out a flashlight to confirm - nope we didn't hit. It was the rear collision assist kicking in - so forcefully it felt and sounded like a collision. I guess it paid for itself  ? Either way I was glad to not have to deal with a wreck on top of everything else.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow. at least where i grew up in the mountains we got totally owned by a very heavy rain (like, the town i grew up in had to have the National Guard helicopter in potable water) because there's not very much topsoil to absorb moisture and very heavy rain over a brief period of time overwhelmed all of the streambeds etc, which coincidentally tend to be where the roads go it was like 2-4 in of rain over the course of a day or so
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Goober Peas posted:I had an interesting occurrence in the grocery parking lot last night. A good technology anecdote? Awesome. What were you driving?
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ZS Justice League is good. Its incredible how awful Joss Whedon did and the newly added Cyborg/Flash stories were great. Seeing how pumped Ray Fisher has been lately has just been plain ol awesome.
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Liquid Communism posted:I ain't afraid of being dead, but dying slow's not on my to-do list. Probably getting a new PICC line placed today followed by discharged so that's cool to go home in time for the weekend. We picked the tiny hospital 10 minutes from the house this time and it was a very good call. Had one really questionable 1:30am room move but otherwise everyone has been great and the doctors actually loving listen to what we're saying.
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Fermented Tinal posted:Don't use the original PSU. It will kill the computer, might not happen immediately but it will happen. Im not going to, I chose the one I did on eBay because it said untested so I knew it hadn't been plugged in. I ordered a new psu for it last night along with a fast load and music cartidge. E: I've also left the PSU plugged in for the last few days so I can keep testing it out of curiosity
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow. Is that maybe the case?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow. Remember, the higher you are, the safer you are. Unless you wanna get out! Shore up or dam all your uphill areas, but I'm sure you know this already. Make a path to the nearest pub at least 
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NitroSpazzz posted:Being mentally competent stuck in a failing body is my biggest fear but unless I die of some freak accident or just drop dead one day it's what's going to happen. I used to think the same thing but I don't know now after watching my mother in law suffer through dementia. At 83 she's relatively healthy but her mind is completely gone and there's almost no reality left, she pretty much lives in another dimension now.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Being mentally competent stuck in a failing body is my biggest fear but unless I die of some freak accident or just drop dead one day it's what's going to happen. This latest hospital stay has really done a number on my head, combined with massive steroid doses I've spent way too much time laying away wondering wtf I'm going. So you're saying you don't want a robocop body? drat.
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kastein posted:Yup. They use bare neutral with ground rods wherever the tweakers haven't stolen the lowest 8ft of 6awg copper. They don't have to follow NEC rules on conductor sizing either, forget what standard they use instead. NESC. Gotta get those free air ratings, and sizes based on what you think a house will draw. Also how they get around fusing drops, utility distribution transformers are about the only piece of equipment that's not fused for equipment protection (it is fused to protect the upstream wires though) which is how you get sweet transformer fires/explosions. They also have really, really robust grounding networks at the substation, UFER trenches and buried copper plates and stuff, a few people have learned what happens if you cut those ground wires (you die) The Al neutral on triplex should have a steel reinforcing core, it will gently caress up your cable cutters if you try and cut it, I always go through it strand by strand with my dikes or linemans. Sorry about all the family/work stuff y'all are going through, that's tough poo poo to handle.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Just saw an alert the local Emergency Serivces are offering free sandbags for a rain event tomorrow. The rain has still gotta get down the mountain. I live on a hill and until I built a ramp across the end of my drive and added lots of drainage behind it heavy rain that didn’t soak away quickly would land above me and then try to flow through my house to get down the hill.
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gently caress. Looking more and more like I won't get my Kickstarted 3D printer. They've blown through all the money (over US$1.3M) redesigning the thing several times because they knew gently caress-all about creating a manufacturable design (after misrepresenting the state of the design in the KS), and have paid themselves 60% of the pledges doing all the redesign work. Must be nice. They're now trying to negotiate an investor, and failing at that so far. $665 down the goddamned drain. I should have just bought a Prusa. edit: now I want to back this one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ecubmaker/ecubmaker-toydiy2-4-in-1-3d-printer I'm less gunshy, since these guys already have a previous model, and went through all the design and producibility steps before Kickstarting, but... edit 2: eh, PLA-only. Would like to do ABS, too. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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a good rule of thumb is that if some dude is funding something on kickstarter that should be fundable via regular investment sources, that dude is probably never going to deliver on what they say they will. edit: still sucks, though. that's a lot of money. edit2: just buy the prusa man what are you doing to yourself
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:a good rule of thumb is that if some dude is funding something on kickstarter that should be fundable via regular investment sources, that dude is probably never going to deliver on what they say they will. The engraving and laser etching features are neat. edit: but yeah. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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cakesmith handyman posted:A good technology anecdote? Awesome. What were you driving? Lincoln Corsair. Now that I've been 4 months with software stability, I'm loving it. It does a lot of things really well, and nothing notable badly.
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kastein posted:So you're saying you don't want a robocop body? drat. Bring it on!
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NitroSpazzz posted:Bring it on! Do you want Scene 27? This is how you get Scene 27.
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Tomarse posted:The rain has still gotta get down the mountain. There was no offers when we got hit with 500mm (that was not a typo we legit got half a meter of rain in 48 hours) over a weekend last year. Sure the valleys and creeks were highly impressive but it never threatened even the lower lying areas where I live. Tonight is supposed to be when the rain bomb hits so could be interesting to go for a walk tomorrow morning
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My nana had really bad dementia, was in care for almost a decade. I couldn’t go see her any more, it was heartbreaking. My dad would get me going with him by telling me we were going somewhere, then throw in “oh while we’re in the neighbourhood...” until I had to beg him not to pull that anymore, threatening I would jump out of the moving car if he kept it up. Yes I was a grown adult at the time. On the plus side, most of the time she was either asleep or just “not there” but the brief periods she was lucid she at least didn’t seem miserable, she’d have the same big smile she always had once she recognised you and she’d really perk up for babies. She was 94 I think when she finally died, grandad was 86 but with diabetes and heart disease, other grandfather was mid 70’s of throat cancer (given 6 months, lasted 10 years, had a stomach feeding tube so long that just before he died they were having to figure out how to replace it which they had never done before, people usually died before it became a problem) and that grandmother made it to 93 but when she was 89 she was sick and couldn’t get out of the bath one night, spent the whole night in a cooling bath after she ran out of hot water and was only found cos she missed her morning doctors appointment which she NEVER did so the doctor got the cops to do a welfare check and found her. She was hypothermic but fine when I saw her that night, but net day she had a stroke. Mind was fine but couldn’t control half her body or speak properly, which did her head in because she was a very strong independent woman otherwise, having outlived her husband by 15y and both her daughters to cancer as well. So I guess I’ve got all that to look forward to, no wonder I don’t take particularly good care of myself!
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Mustache Ride posted:Made a few changes to the house this afternoon. At first I was concerned, but then I saw the sawzall and now I know everything will turn out alright
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