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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:This is a deliciously gritty and low-tech solution. Plus you can use them as keys to giant doors!
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Varance posted:That's not just an Atlanta thing. Most transit TVMs give change in $1 coins. I love dollar coins because I keep my change in my pocket and a few of those can get me a coffee or a taco or whatever if I forgot my wallet!
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Varance posted:Not everyone wears clothing with pockets. Some people like to stuff money in their smartphone, their socks, their bra, etc.. Now try sticking a dozen dollar coins in there. How do Europeans do it?
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I got an aftermarket deck and use my phone with aux in, and Velcro my phone between the a.c. vents (98 Civic) so I can use my audio controls and GPS on the go.
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Gromit posted:It's actually worse than that, so yeah - don't pair your phone with a rental. What do they do don't beat around the bush Australian spook guy
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Mar 10, 2017 15:03
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Didn't realize the canbus peripherals did so much logging, gonna buy another ancient car thanks for this ammo in my ongoing attempts to justify buying horrible vehicl edit do the manufacturers go along with this or are they just incredibly bad at security
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Light Gun Man posted:Hi IUG. Can probably stream it on your phone
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Mar 13, 2017 23:39
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Oh yeah took me a second but when days = 366 exactly it'd just keep while looping forever lol
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Mar 15, 2017 16:05
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Platystemon posted:Remember when the iPhone’s visual voicemail was A Big Deal? It's still Apple-only isn't it?
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Can you install Linux? (problem solved)
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KozmoNaut posted:Buying brand-new laptops is obsolete and failed, in my opinion. Let the corporations buy laptops and discard them after a couple of years, so I can pick them up for next to nothing. 5 hour battery life is obsolete, new laptops double or triple that Edit imo Arch is the Linux of choice for the discerning grognard in 2017
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Guy who mentioned Duracell Thinkpad batteries, are there actually aftermarket laptop batteries that won't catch on fire or die in a month or just be outright fake? I've never heard of any but maybe they're real
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Pro click. It cruises at 60mph with no noise, grindy gears, smoke or steam. What an amazing machine. If it's anything like a steamship the fuel economy is miserable
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Pokey Araya posted:My band uses the our atlas at least once a tour. Not much cell service when you take this route, but hopefully you loaded up on beer/snacks/an INFLATED spare. Oh hey does that go through Lakeview? The road up from Winnemucca is super desolate, and I'm sure the stuff in NV is too.
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If only car head unit stuff still mounted in a standard form factor like the 1 or 2 DIN stuff did, then we could just swap out Android touch screen mini computers all day
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Like all I really want is a tablet in the radio slot that handles media and gps and doesn't tie internet in with things like "steering" or "brakes" and then separate physical controls for whatever. The best thing about using the phone is that it's not on the canbus or w/e with safety critical systems so no one can hack my airbags
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It doesn't even sound like the Pi mode is emulation, much less the FPGA only mode
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Efexeye posted:do you know anything about what you are talking about The juicer definitely used some macerated rear end fruit cocktail in juice lol
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:That's partially true about CAT machines. They're a premium brand and sell for a premium price. A huge reason contractors will pay for CAT machines is the parts and service network. Those machines require a ton of maintenance and undercarriage parts as part of their regular service. When they do break down it costs the contractor a ton of money every second that machine is down. CAT offers guaranteed 48 hour delivery on most parts almost anywhere in the world. Not to mention they have every blueprint for every part for every machine they've ever made. So even if the part isn't available anymore, it can still be reproduced. Been working for CAT in parts distribution for almost two decades. They make a fine machine but when they do break we get the parts out there faster than any other brand. I don't know about the equipment side of things but this was very true with the marine engines, great parts network and everything was documented by serial number range. I wish I could get that level of clarity from other vendors - some manufacturers definitely make it hard to know exactly which poorly documented revision of a part you need. Doubly true for stuff built under license overseas.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I actually have one installed in my bus. I found guys arguing over this on some VW forum for a million pages and it's like oh my God get a less flammable car - posting from literally an oil tanker
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WebDog posted:The really old stuff had ashtrays mounted to the arms. Asian built ships still have stuff like ashtrays on control room consoles, very sixties vibe from that.
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Sixty million pounds minimum a minute buys you a lot better downtime solutions than that, sheesh.
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Scaramouche posted:I had to connect to a proprietary coffee vending machine. Was pulling my hair out until I realized it was expecting 7N1 Come now, I don't think shooting it qualifies as a fix!
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Collateral Damage posted:If your phone supports NFC you can put an adhesive RF tag in your phone holder and set the phone to perform tasks when it detects the tag, like unlock, connect to the phone's hotspot and launch Google Maps. I think you can set it to do stuff when it connects to a Bluetooth device too, like my phone launches the driving app when it connects to my car speaker
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JnnyThndrs posted:Yeah, I'm not a fan of touchscreen interfaces for automobile functions even if they were a 'good' design. I mean, CarPlay' s ok, but still could be a lot better, and there was a ton of work put into it. Yeah those are young techie professionals, you sell them the stereo attached to a $3000 option attached to a $25000 car attached to lucrative financing
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Not necessarily that ancient. My elementary school was using mimeographs into the early 2000s due to being poor and having old teachers who knew how to work the mimeo but not the xerox. Yeah we had purple copies, vinyl, and globes that showed the French Upper Volta in my elementary school too, and that was late 90s.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I wonder if I salvaged my dad's old flowchart ruler or not. Even if I did it's buried in one of the dozens of boxes in my attic AliExpress has all kinds of templates for everything from flowcharts to houses
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Libraries have tons of old stuff, it's like bro do you even ILL
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Boiled Water posted:If it’s for industry use why not just buy top of the line certified usb to r323 dongles? Yeah this is how a lot of this equipment's own control or interface pcs talk to it now even
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LifeSunDeath posted:Guys, at my new job in a newly built hospital, we have to use 90's pagers, no assigned hospital cellphones, loving pagers. It's legit the worst, sitting around waiting for people to call you back on a hard-line is the worst, i'm in hell. Probably to keep cameras out
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Humphreys posted:I used to love the 'no cameras' signs at industrial sites I would work for. I used to have to read a 14 page induction script verbatim to all visitors including our own people who had been to ten of our boats that day, it took over half an hour and they got it on every boat they visited, gently caress em for that policy. They said a video or audio presentation was out of the question because there was no way to get a sense of how engaged the visitor was with the process.
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Vic posted:My mother can't make a call without glasses and you're strawmannig the poo poo out of this. Ok Google, call Mom
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Vic posted:d'aww Touchscreens are the cheapest, laziest, most profitable thing. They will never die.
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I think at some point you just have to abandon a given mechanical fallback, and as discussed with planes eventually people stop missing it. I work with camshaftless engines a lot lately and talk about trusting your controls and instrumentation
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Tunicate posted:There's a reason planes have every individual nut traceable back to the manufacturer. Ships don't have that, and they have limited redundancies and obviously due to size very limited manual fallbacks
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Late, but I sailed on what one of these ships was rebuilt into. Crazy they made the sea witch engine room into the back of a chem tanker right
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Jerry Cotton posted:We have access to CNC and plasma cutters and a whole bunch of poo poo i don't even know what they are. Also it takes literally ages to make anything on a printer. But for a home scenario like that, sure. Had I known someone with a 3D printer I wouldn't have had to buy a new toaster last year. 3D printing is great if you need one-off plastic parts though, which in prototyping is like, a million percent of the time.
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Pham Nuwen posted:If that XP machine predates ~2006, it's not gonna have hardware virtualization extensions (AMD-V or VT-X), and without hardware virtualization support, QEMU is dogshit garbage even on my top-spec 2017 Lenovo (ask me about default-disabled virtualization options!) There are literally heaps of working $8 XP era thinkpads all over at least
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Exit Strategy posted:It's not even a "fun" thing most of the time - In professional IT, long practice is giving machines human-identifiable names so that whoever is using a set of servers can more succinctly identify problems to you and convey what they need. "Hey, Carbon's reading down but I can still ping it from Iron." is easier to work with than "Can you check 10.1.7.35? It's reading as down but I can still ping it from 10.1.7.36." Why not just the IT version of "Diesel Generator #1" which is human readable, professional, doesn't open you up to any liability for names from a problematic media franchise, etc
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Arivia posted:Much as Jerry Cotton is usually wrong, I’m pretty sure Intel was supporting the radiation-hardened 386s it was selling for critical applications at least until production ended in 2007. Products like that don’t go without support. Sadly it doesn’t seem to be on Ark to get the exact support status but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Intel would still support them now. They'll support anything if you're a big enough customer with deep enough pockets won't they?
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