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dupersaurus posted:Mushroom clouds are a thermodynamic effect of a very strong heat source rising into the atmosphere, and a lot of things other than nukes make them Xenoborg posted:Mushroom clouds form because the air around and explosion is very hot. Since it’s hot it both rises and expands at the same time so the cloud will be large at the top. Any concentrated explosion (ie a bomb and not something more dispersed like a gas explosion) can make them, even hand grenades can a little bit. That's really cool, thank you guys!
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A bit of an odd social/cultural question. I've been working at my job for about a year now. My immediate supervisor has invited everyone on his team to a graduation party for his daughter. I'm not close friends with him, and I've never met his daughter, and even if I had, it seems weird to attend a graduation party for someone I'm not friends with. That and being 20+ years older than the guest of honor is also weird. From the perspective of the daughter, I think back to my high school graduation, and if my parents had invited their co-workers/subordinates I would have felt kind of put out. And also, this is not just some backyard barbecue style event, but it seems that they are renting out a local country club for a few hours. The part I didn't mention is that my boss' family is from India, and I seem to recall hearing that in that culture, throwing large, elaborate, lavish parties where everyone is invited, is just how things are done, but especially for milestone events. I remember being invited to a co-worker's wedding in India, and the invite itself was the most extravagant ink and paper I have ever seen. And again, this was someone who I only kind of knew (same team, different building). Is this a common thing in Indian culture, or have I misunderstood?
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May 31, 2023 17:37
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are the other people on the team going? i wouldn't go if i was the only coworker showing up but if other people from work are going to be there, hey why not. i dont know how common it is in Indian culture but i do know that Indians tend to throw extremely good parties, whatever the occasion
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May 31, 2023 17:49
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CzarChasm posted:The part I didn't mention is that my boss' family is from India, and I seem to recall hearing that in that culture, throwing large, elaborate, lavish parties where everyone is invited, is just how things are done, but especially for milestone events. Anecdote: my inlaws invited SO MANY people to my wedding including friends of my spouses parents that my spouse didn't _really_ know.
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May 31, 2023 18:17
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Yeah, if other folks from work are there it's not a big deal. Sometimes people just want to put on a big to-do with everyone they know. Also, sometimes people look up and realize their poor work/life balance means their co-workers are everyone they know.
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May 31, 2023 18:22
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India's a big and culturally diverse place and it's kinda hard to make generalizations, but really big parties aren't all that uncommon in some parts. One of my former coworkers had a family wedding that had something like 400-500 guests.
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May 31, 2023 18:25
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CzarChasm posted:A bit of an odd social/cultural question. I've been working at my job for about a year now. My immediate supervisor has invited everyone on his team to a graduation party for his daughter. I'm not close friends with him, and I've never met his daughter, and even if I had, it seems weird to attend a graduation party for someone I'm not friends with. That and being 20+ years older than the guest of honor is also weird. From the perspective of the daughter, I think back to my high school graduation, and if my parents had invited their co-workers/subordinates I would have felt kind of put out. And also, this is not just some backyard barbecue style event, but it seems that they are renting out a local country club for a few hours. gently caress yeah I'd go for the food alone!
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May 31, 2023 18:32
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On the one hand, yes free food, absolutely, and Indian food doubly so. No problems there. My wife and I recently discovered Indian food for ourselves, and enjoy it a lot. The biggest issue is that from asking around none of my other co-workers are planning on attending. I can maybe congregate with a few other people at my level, but if the only person I know at the event is my boss, that's an uncomfortable level of awkward. I'll double check with everyone else, and see if any of my work friends are going. If so, then sure, I'll attend. If not, I'll make some other plans and politely decline.
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May 31, 2023 21:44
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i like indian food a lot but the music they play at parties is even better than the food. but yeah it would be weird if you are the only one there from work
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May 31, 2023 21:58
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I have an HSA, and I'm trying to get an estimate of how much have the HSA saves me on my healthcare costs vs. not having one - I've seen HSA calculators but they are all for future HSA growth, not what I'm looking for. my maximum OOP per year is 3750, which I can safely assume I will meet. Does this mean my taxable income will be decreased by 3750, if that cost is all paid out of my HSA?
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Jun 1, 2023 02:00
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If I'm sitting on a https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/matchspel-gaming-chair-bomstad-black-50496946/, and my back and/or stomach are getting sore, does that mean I have crappy posture and the chair is correcting it whether I like it or not? Or do I need to adjust it differently? Or is it a bad chair? Or just not the chair for me?
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Jun 1, 2023 05:14
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Hyperlynx posted:If I'm sitting on a https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/matchspel-gaming-chair-bomstad-black-50496946/, and my back and/or stomach are getting sore, does that mean I have crappy posture and the chair is correcting it whether I like it or not? Or do I need to adjust it differently? Or is it a bad chair? Or just not the chair for me? You can have bad posture in any chair; chairs don't magically force you to have good posture. Even if you were strapped into something that forced your body to be in a "good posture" position, if you weren't engaging the right muscles it'd still be bad. Look up what good posture looks like, and do your best to match that. You may need to change the height of your chair, desk, and display(s) as part of this. You also should not be spending more than an hour or two sitting at your desk continuously. Get up, more around, drink some water, and look at something far away to give your eyes a break. It's worth taking posture seriously. The alternative can be living in pain for months or longer because you hosed up your back and have to do extensive physical therapy.
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Jun 1, 2023 14:53
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My understanding is that any one posture isn't the correct one, what's more important is that you shift around a lot so you're not in any position for too long Like if you strapped yourself into the 'correct' posture and held that exact position for hours that'd be bad for you too
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Jun 1, 2023 15:02
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I love having a voice assistant to use in the car, but Google Assistant is broken and gives me rage. I want to use Google Maps, take notes, play music, and occasionally call or text someone. I'm having trouble with Alexa because of the way our family account is set up. Android, so no Siri. What's good, or where else should I ask? EDIT: If I could get Assistant to limit its contact list to certain labels, and to by default navigate to the nearest instance of a business (asking for CVS should take me to the closest one, for instance, without asking me to specify a location by street address), I could find my peace with it. Hungry Squirrel fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 19:14
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Hyperlynx posted:If I'm sitting on a https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/matchspel-gaming-chair-bomstad-black-50496946/, and my back and/or stomach are getting sore, does that mean I have crappy posture and the chair is correcting it whether I like it or not? Or do I need to adjust it differently? Or is it a bad chair? Or just not the chair for me? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3383243 will help you, but they may try to talk you into something expensive and fancy. They're usually right, though.
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Jun 1, 2023 19:16
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if you have a design within reach in your area sit in all the chairs there aeron crew but don't pay full price
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Jun 1, 2023 19:56
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actionjackson posted:I have an HSA, and I'm trying to get an estimate of how much have the HSA saves me on my healthcare costs vs. not having one - I've seen HSA calculators but they are all for future HSA growth, not what I'm looking for. Yes the taxes on the OOP max of 3750 will be your yearly savings on taxes. Note that this applies to federal and SS/Medicare taxes, as well as most (all? not sure) state taxes, so you could be saving 37% off of that alone. Do pay attention to differences in medical cost though, HSA plans will generally have you pay full price for most things until your deductible and coinsurance comes in: they don't have copays for visits/Rx and instead pay full price until deductible. They often have lower OOP max and since you said you will likely be hitting that, it does seem like it would be cheaper care as well. edit: If you are curious the mechanics, your HSA contributions will be a pretax paycheck deduction (like traditional 401k) which will directly lower your taxable income.
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In Audacity, is there a way to paste audio in the same place multiple times? Edit: Nevermind, that seems to be what Store Cursor Position is for. NotNut fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 22:25
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Xenoborg posted:Yes the taxes on the OOP max of 3750 will be your yearly savings on taxes. Note that this applies to federal and SS/Medicare taxes, as well as most (all? not sure) state taxes, so you could be saving 37% off of that alone. Do pay attention to differences in medical cost though, HSA plans will generally have you pay full price for most things until your deductible and coinsurance comes in: they don't have copays for visits/Rx and instead pay full price until deductible. They often have lower OOP max and since you said you will likely be hitting that, it does seem like it would be cheaper care as well. thanks and yep I pay everything up to 1750 deductible than 20% on most stuff until the OOP max of 3750.
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Jun 1, 2023 23:48
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Posting to find something
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Edit: never mind
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Jun 2, 2023 15:43
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actionjackson posted:if you have a design within reach in your area sit in all the chairs there I ended up going humanscale… but did pay full price!  well, almostTo sit in alot of chairs, I had to go to alot of show rooms.
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About a month ago I cleaned out the food trap in our dishwasher (~2019 Frigidaire). Ever since, it has done a terrible job cleaning plastic dishes on the top rack. Even a plastic bowl that just had Goldfish crackers in it or a cup from milk don't get clean. I took off the spray arm and ran water through it and water came out all the holes, so it doesn't look like there's any clog in that part. How much of the rest of it can I realistically check myself, and how should I go about doing that?
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Jun 3, 2023 17:52
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Way back in the day I used to make movies and animation using macro media flash. By using buttons and key frames I was even able to make a dumb little choose your own adventure game. It's now am obsolete program but I was interested in making more animation projects as a hobby. What program has replaced macro media flash?
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Jun 3, 2023 18:58
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Bioshuffle posted:What program has replaced macro media flash? If you're not looking to do web stuff, Unity's probably a good choice.
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Jun 3, 2023 19:10
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Bioshuffle posted:Way back in the day I used to make movies and animation using macro media flash. By using buttons and key frames I was even able to make a dumb little choose your own adventure game. There is no true flash successor. Strictly speaking you can do everything flash did with HTML5+javascript but I don’t know if anyone’s made an app that does what the flash editor did. Game engines like Unity and Godot are spiritual successors in the sense of shitpost creativity holes, but they don’t really do the same thing.
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Thanks for the recommendations, I will look into NextDNS. I was hoping for a quick fix that didn't require a subscription, but it sounds like the pi-hole route would also require a certain amount of regular maintenance and the price on NextDNS doesn't look too bad.Inceltown posted:I do like how the solution for the "I'm scared of DNS" goon is "set up DNS". LOL, though when I say "intimidated" I don't mean unwilling to interact with it at all. More that it's not something I'm familiar with or find intuitive so while I could probably follow step-by-step instructions for a one-time setup, I wouldn't know where to start if any troubleshooting was required. hooah posted:About a month ago I cleaned out the food trap in our dishwasher (~2019 Frigidaire). Ever since, it has done a terrible job cleaning plastic dishes on the top rack. Even a plastic bowl that just had Goldfish crackers in it or a cup from milk don't get clean. I took off the spray arm and ran water through it and water came out all the holes, so it doesn't look like there's any clog in that part. How much of the rest of it can I realistically check myself, and how should I go about doing that? I have the same issue with the Whirlpool in my apartment. I tried all sorts of fixes a while back to no avail and have basically resorted to hand-washing everything and using the dishwasher as a glorified drying rack. One thing that multiple people have recommended is switching to Finish Quantum for detergent. It didn't help for me, but it definitely made a difference when my sister tried it so maybe it would for you as well?
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Atahualpa posted:Thanks for the recommendations, I will look into NextDNS. I was hoping for a quick fix that didn't require a subscription, but it sounds like the pi-hole route would also require a certain amount of regular maintenance and the price on NextDNS doesn't look too bad.
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I’m moving from SF to Seattle in by end of month for work. Do we have a thread talking about short-term rentals or other best tips for making a short-plan move like this? I don’t know if doing an AirBnB or long-stay hotel or whatnot is the better option while I look for permanent housing.
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hooah posted:About a month ago I cleaned out the food trap in our dishwasher (~2019 Frigidaire). Ever since, it has done a terrible job cleaning plastic dishes on the top rack. Even a plastic bowl that just had Goldfish crackers in it or a cup from milk don't get clean. I took off the spray arm and ran water through it and water came out all the holes, so it doesn't look like there's any clog in that part. How much of the rest of it can I realistically check myself, and how should I go about doing that? Have you ever run a cleaning cycle? Have you ever run a cleaning cycle with a dishwasher cleaner? I recently had this issue where my dishwasher has hit the 9 month mark and I didn't run a cleaning cycle at all. I started to notice my dishes weren't as clean as I liked, and they often had a slight funky smell coming out of the dishwasher. I ran a cleaning cycle but the problem still persisted. I then bought dishwasher cleaner and ran a cleaning cycle with that and all the problems went away. Dishwasher now cleans properly again, stuff comes out smelling and feeling great. Give that a go?
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FreshFeesh posted:I’m moving from SF to Seattle in by end of month for work. Do we have a thread talking about short-term rentals or other best tips for making a short-plan move like this? If you want to know about the area, check out the Seattle thread. For tips on moving, the Home Buying thread discusses it every now and then; or you could try the Business Travel thread.
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Qubee posted:Have you ever run a cleaning cycle? Have you ever run a cleaning cycle with a dishwasher cleaner? This, and also use rinse aid. I know it seems like a scam or waste of money but it is an incredible upgrade in terms of dish cleanliness and non-spotting drying. Seems to keep the dishwasher itself cleaner too. It's one of my "under $10 game-changer" tips, along with Stain Devils (little bottles of stain-specific clothes treatments that work way, way better than you might expect. They are magic. Spill red wine on a white shirt? Your kid marked up your jeans with crayons and ink? Oil splashes on your shirt while deep frying tater tots? There's a Stain Devil variant for each of those and it will work and your clothes will be good as new). E: also, dishwasher cleaner (and Nespresso cleaner, and washing machine cleaner) are just citric acid, you can probably buy it cheaper as a generic product and just go that route. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Jun 4, 2023 |
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I haven't run a cleaning cycle, but I'll grab some cleaner and do that. I do use rinse aid, mostly for the drying benefits. Well, I can't find any mention of a self-cleaning cycle in the manual. Great job, Frigidaire. hooah fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jun 4, 2023 |
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hooah posted:I haven't run a cleaning cycle, but I'll grab some cleaner and do that. I do use rinse aid, mostly for the drying benefits. Run it on the hottest and heaviest cleaning setting with the cleaner in it.
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I bought five pounds of citric acid powder like a decade ago, when I was experimenting with making sour candy. Turns out five pounds is a lot. I still have most of it, and it comes in handy shockingly often for cleaning stuff.
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Where could I pick up citric acid? It's not available at Kroger or Publix or Home Depot. I guess I'll go with the commercial product for now.
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Iirc the product "Lemishine" is just a citric acid dishwasher aid, I've used it before to good effect.
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Nighthand posted:Iirc the product "Lemishine" is just a citric acid dishwasher aid, I've used it before to good effect. Looks like Kroger does carry that. I'll keep it in mind for next time, thanks.
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hooah posted:Where could I pick up citric acid? It's not available at Kroger or Publix or Home Depot. I guess I'll go with the commercial product for now. I bought mine off of Amazon, probably something like this product.
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My Walmart has it with the canning stuff, surprised Kroger didn't have it.
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