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Ohemgee so you did!
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I’m trying to improve my skill at cribbage and I think I’m at the limit of where I can get just by playing over and over again on my phone, even against a “perfect” AI opponent. Most of the advice and guides I find online are pretty basic, like “don’t lead with a 5” and “runs are better than pairs” which aren’t that useful to me. Is there a good intermediate/advanced guide people recommend for improving play? Would this be a better question for the TG Board Games thread?
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 00:32 |
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Why are some of my bookmark threads in the Awful App purple now?
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 04:09 |
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AlbieQuirky posted:I would buy old ones on eBay. I took this advice and found a lot of cool jabo marbles with swirls and bought it. Thanks.
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FreshFeesh posted:I’m trying to improve my skill at cribbage and I think I’m at the limit of where I can get just by playing over and over again on my phone, even against a “perfect” AI opponent. Can you track your average score from pegging, hands, and cribs? I suspect that would be telling - if you're averaging lower points from crib than opponent that'd be a clue what to adjust, etc. My general crib advice is to focus most on pegging, since I think that has the biggest difference in player skill.
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 08:35 |
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Unfortunately the program doesn’t give me a running average for hand/peg, only at the end of that specific game. Those are my two 29-point hands; I don’t recall the computer ever getting one. If memory serves a I’ve had two 28s as well. Alternatively, is there a mobile cribbage game that would be recommended over “Cribbage Pro”?
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StrixNebulosa posted:I took this advice and found a lot of cool jabo marbles with swirls and bought it. Thanks. Yay! Old marbles really are fantastic. The amount of care they put into making them is amazing.
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 20:38 |
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Let’s say you throw up a bit in your mouth. Just a thimbleful. Do you swallow it, or spit it out? Just curious because someone was disgusted by the idea of swallowing and I’m just like “eh, back whence you came”.
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Okay, so, weight benches already have those little arms where you can put the weight when you're done, why don't they have a second, lower set down at neck level, to catch the weight if the guy working out drops it, so he doesn't asphyxiate if he's alone?
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 23:21 |
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Probably because it would mean a more expensive rack that also opens the manufacturer up to potential lawsuits when someone screws up and hurts themselves because they were pushing to exhaustion because they got complacent with the safety measure.
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 23:36 |
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They exist. Search “weight bench spotter arms” or “spotter stand”. Some get creative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcugxNtMH4
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# ? Jul 4, 2020 23:43 |
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Ehh, then they would need extra shelves in different spots in case somebody managed to drop a bar on their face or chest as well. Or some other goofy mistake. I think the easiest solution would be to attach the weights to some kind of fixed structure so they could only travel in one direction.
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EclecticTastes posted:Okay, so, weight benches already have those little arms where you can put the weight when you're done, why don't they have a second, lower set down at neck level, to catch the weight if the guy working out drops it, so he doesn't asphyxiate if he's alone? The rack? Are you talking about a safety bar/catch? Because, uh, they do. The reason you almost never see them is because overdoing it with a weight isn’t really as dangerous as immediately dropping it on your throat. You usually fail onto your sternum area (like the bar doesn’t get lowered onto your throat wtf). And when you’re failing, you don’t just lose the ability to bear any weight, you just only produce like 95% of the force needed to move the bar. So it sits on your chest where the bar can be safely plucked by someone nearby or unloaded by tilting the weights off one of the sides. This is also why you don’t bench with collars that prevent the weight from sliding off*. Those catches also gently caress with lifters who aren’t the ideal size. So if my wife and I both want to use the same bench, it’ll be a problem for one of us, or ineffective as a safety mechanism for both of us (too high for her, too low for me). If a lifter knows they’re going to be needing some kind of safety catch, they can also just use a power cage where the height of the catches and rack can be changed to suit the lifter. *this doesn’t apply if you’re pressing such huge numbers that the bar bend requires collars. But if you’re doing that, you have spotters and poo poo.
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tuyop posted:The rack? Okay, see, I was Googling, but not using the right words to get "safety catch" (I do not work out much). Good to know, I was just curious if anyone had thought about it, since all you ever see when people benchpress in pop culture is how they end up nearly dying when it drops right on their chest/neck, and it seemed like an easily preventable hazard, but I can see how the geometry of it could be difficult to get right.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Let’s say you through up a bit in your mouth. Just a thimbleful. Do you swallow it, or spit it out? Just curious because someone was disgusted by the idea of swallowing and I’m just like “eh, back whence you came”. hmm well it would depend how it tastes now wouldn't it
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 02:32 |
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Say you're living in Vienna in the late 1960s and want to make an international call to Dublin. How would you go about it? How expensive would it be? I'm guessing you couldn't do it from your house.
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Karenina posted:Say you're living in Vienna in the late 1960s and want to make an international call to Dublin. How would you go about it? How expensive would it be? I'm guessing you couldn't do it from your house. In the US, international phone calling from home wasn't available widespread until the 70s I believe, so it would be unlikely for the two cities you mentioned in the 60s. The way to make a phone call if you had to is to call from a hotel that has international calling to another hotel. The price would be very high, say 50 dollars for a 3 minute call in 2020 money (just guessing, but I'm sure I'm within an order of magnitude).
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 03:40 |
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does anyone know where I can buy this kind of rail? I know it is called "E" rail because of it's shape but I can't find anything like it online. I was going to try using it to replicate an ikea hack to add sliding doors to the besta unit. edit: all I could find is this thing but it's just cheap plastic https://www.homedepot.com/p/Knape-Vogt-2417-Series-72-in-White-Plastic-Door-Track-Assembly-P2417-WH-72/301011405 actionjackson fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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actionjackson posted:does anyone know where I can buy this kind of rail? I know it is called "E" rail because of it's shape but I can't find anything like it online. I was going to try using it to replicate an ikea hack to add sliding doors to the besta unit. I googled "aluminum sliding door track" and found something like it.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I googled "aluminum sliding door track" and found something like it. thanks! another question - I've tried my best to clean out my toaster but there's still some crud stuck down there, and if I toast something long enough eventually the fire alarm goes off. I'm not overcooking anything, it's just that the stuff down there that I can't get out burns a bunch. Should I just start over with a new toaster?
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Probably , but before you toss the toaster, take the housing off and give the guts (excepting electrical contacts and board) a cursory cleaning. It's probably held together with screws on the bottom. There's a good chance you can get it working again.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Probably , but before you toss the toaster, take the housing off and give the guts (excepting electrical contacts and board) a cursory cleaning. It's probably held together with screws on the bottom. There's a good chance you can get it working again. ok i'll try that thanks, I didn't realize that the housing could be removed.
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If it is just bread (not pop tarts), then that stuff will probably just eventually burn out anyway. Just give it a good shake for cleaning and most of it should fall out.
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actionjackson posted:ok i'll try that thanks, I didn't realize that the housing could be removed. you can take apart most things, and a lot of the time all they need is cleaned. like the guy a couple pages ago with the broken keyboard lol it's how i get most of my treasures
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 22:58 |
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If the toaster isn't salvageable, I'd recommend getting a flatbed toaster so you can make awesome sandwiches with toasted ciabatta bread or subs and stuff. Also they are way easier to keep clean.
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owlhawk911 posted:hmm well it would depend how it tastes now wouldn't it And on why you micropuked in the first place.
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 01:04 |
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Can I toss these things in the recycling?
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 01:31 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Can I toss these things in the recycling? Nahh you just post those through a slot in the drywall
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 01:38 |
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Does anyone have any experience with delivery driving for an Amazon subcontractor? I guess people's experiences are probably different depending on who the contractor is. Been unemployed for like 3 months now and I'm thinking about trying it out. Seems like an easy job to get with passable pay. All of the listings are very vague about the hours though. It sounds like they are trying to keep the wording open so they can work people like dogs if they need to. Every listing is like "10+ hour shifts, 4-6 days a week. and I'm like ok is this job 40 hours a week or 80 hours wtf? Thought it might be an all right job for now while I wait and see if my job returns in Sept. but gently caress working more than 50 hours a week.
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I applied and then never heard back so i think it depends on the company. I got picked up by a security agency like 2 weeks later so it wasnt something in my background check v0v
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I'm trying to remember the name of a website- I haven't been there in over a year but was distraught when I couldn't find it again. It was a collection of guides and very technical details about a handful of RTS games- Startopia, Homeworld 1/2, Total Annihilation, the first DoW games, and I think Age of Empires. Prior to that, it has been around since at least 2005. I mostly kept going back because of the excellent deconstruction of Startopia's systems whenever I replayed it. I know this seems silly, but the way it was written and laid out was really high quality- I've been looking for hours now and even the Wayback Machine is no help if I can't even remember the name of the thing. I know it had Strategy in the name, but that's not much to go on. Edit: Found it finally. https://web.archive.org/web/20160623012844/http://rakrent.com/rtsc/ Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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Would you describe ice as dry or wet?
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 11:37 |
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Dry if it's really solid, wet if it's starting to melt on the surface. Although your touch will start the latter already, but if left alone it should be quite dry.
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Dry Ice is generally what people call frozen carbon dioxide, since it sublimates directly to a gas without passing through a liquid phase.
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(This question is US only since I don't know how this works in other countries) Was buying cars directly from the manufacturer ever a thing, or has it always been done through dealerships? When did the ban (I think it's a ban) on buying directly from manufacturers come about?
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Can someone explain fog and water vapor to me in very simple terms? I am a grown-rear end man living an adult-rear end life and I still can't wrap my head around it. I swear I'm not stupid, it's just like my brain refuses to assimilate this particular piece of knowledge. Here's where I get stupid on the subject: water turns solid at 0c and into a gas at 100c, more or less depending on elevation and impurities and such. So how is there water in gas form rising from my front lawn in the morning? How is there a bunch of steam in my bathroom after a shower despite me not bathing in boiling water? How is there fog on a particularly spooky road trip? It's like water is a gas at every temperature and screw the rules.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Can someone explain fog and water vapor to me in very simple terms? I am a grown-rear end man living an adult-rear end life and I still can't wrap my head around it. I swear I'm not stupid, it's just like my brain refuses to assimilate this particular piece of knowledge. There are of asterisks in what you said, but the general idea is that in all of your examples you're not seeing gaseous water, you're seeing tiny liquid water droplets precipitating out of and floating in the air, because the air can't absorb any more water. Edit: Not needed to answer the question, but remember that temperature measures the average amount of energy within a substance. Individual molecules within that substance can have energy above the vapor point or below the solid point while the temperature is between the two. dupersaurus fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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dupersaurus posted:There are of asterisks in what you said, but the general idea is that in all of your examples you're not seeing gaseous water, you're seeing tiny liquid water droplets precipitating out of and floating in the air, because the air can't absorb any more water. How is the air "holding" water in the first place?
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Manager Hoyden posted:How is the air "holding" water in the first place? If the "drops" of water are small enough, i.e. on the order of a few molecules, then probably through Brownian motion
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It's holding it in the form of water vapor, just gaseous water (invisible, not the same thing as steam you see coming from the kettle). The air can have a certain amount of water vapor in it depending on the temperature and pressure at the time. When the temperature drops or more water vapor is added, it precipitates to form droplets.
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