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Well thank gently caress, senior design request form got posted... at like 8pm last night. And it's due at 4, in person at the professor's office. If this is supposed to be some kind of meta-lesson "sometimes your real boss will be behind the ball but still expect you to meet the deadline" poo poo, thanks but no thanks, I can do without that one. E: These dorks at the table next to me are very loudly trying to figure out a project that will have the acronym MUMMY. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Rhyno posted:Went to the Auburn Douchenberg auction today. So did you buy it or what?
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So you're wire brushing the gently caress out of the other lugs/studs to make sure they don't follow suit right? Doesn't really matter, Irma gonna flood the whole state next week
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Sep 5, 2017 05:12
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BRB getting gill surgery to prepare for my new underwater life.
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Sep 5, 2017 18:00
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Well, in non hurricane news, I got my top pick for senior design: a hybrid rocket.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:41
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Classes canceled starting tomorrow, campus is closed between Friday and Monday, possibly longer. I'm lowkey starting to freak out. Which is dumb, not like I'll starve to death, but still.
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Sep 6, 2017 23:47
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Apartment management says no boarding, and my mom has a gas stove, so I may head over there if the storm crosses Orlando significantly.
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Sep 7, 2017 21:42
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ExplodingSims posted:I would start making an exit strategy. Latest Euro models seem to show it shifting west and going more or less right down the middle of the state. Faaaaantastic, sports fans! Should we look at evacuating altogether? We sat out Charley, but that storm blew through pretty quick. E: Mom's place is concrete block outer walls, so it's plenty sturdy. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Well, my dad's staying in Melbourne; yesterday I'd have chewed him out, but with the tracks consistently shifting west he's probably fine. Mom in Longwood won't leave, mainly because her mom won't/can't leave. That leaves my sisters and niece, I dunno how they feel about packing up and leaving this suddenly. Plus with the traffic already on all routes, it's at least a day or two to get out of the state. If it was just me I'd throw some clothes in the car and GTFO, but as things are idk if I'd feel good leaving them all there. I'm honestly scared of this storm, guys. Just got a bad gut feeling.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:53
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I dunno man, these tracks keep shifting farther west, while the wind field remains massive. I'm not so sure this storm won't be able to keep sucking in Gulf air to sustain itself all the way up the peninsula.
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Sep 8, 2017 23:22
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In case I haven't made it clear, I am loving Scared of this thing.
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Sep 8, 2017 23:28
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Babies in the GBS thread think Turkey Point is gonna melt down, and that that's our biggest concern in all this. I'd say "paging commieGIR" but there's already fpl nuke guys in the thread, being ignored.
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Sep 8, 2017 23:55
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CommieGIR posted:LOL. The Nuclear plant is the one thing that I'm not worried about. Those things are fortresses. But the reactor is only 20 feet above sea level, and there's 21 foot waves! Don't you know MATH!???!?
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Sep 9, 2017 00:05
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Seminal Flu posted:Hey, I want to buy that '64 Ferrari GTO... any way you could knock a few million off of the price? It will be rebuilt, and now it's got additional race history. Price might go up.
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Sep 9, 2017 16:09
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Rhyno posted:I thought this storm was FOUR-HUNNERT miles wide? The circles aren't the storm size, they're the error circles for where the eye will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SblsE85krZk Storm still big.
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Power was flickering, just watched our transformer blow. Looks like we're dark for the long haul here in Longwood. Lights are still on down the street for now, so hopefully it'll be a quick fix once the storm passes. We've got lots of aux batteries, including my bigass laptop battery, and the stove is gas so we can still cook. I'll mostly be in ultra low power mode on my phone but I'll check in periodically. Catch you on the flip side.
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Status update: power started flickering back on right as we were getting settled. Must be blowing power lines shorting together and bypassing the transformer. I sure as gently caress don't trust that to pass a clean waveform, so all breakers are now off for the duration.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:25
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Well it was definitely either a transformer or line breaking; I saw a bright shower of blue sparks at the exact moment the power went out for good, so it wasn't just a breaker opening or whatever. It had been momentarily going out, with an associated loud 60hz hum from outside, in the direction of whatever blew. Heard the same hum when the lights started flickering back on, so I doubt it was anything commanded.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:52
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Was about an hour between going fully dark and trying to come back on. Storm's curving farther east,gonna drag the bubble of Hurricane-force sustained winds right over us, which I'd hoped we would avoid. Peak danger doesn't pass for another few hours. Niece is now asleep, but me, mom and sister are all watching weather chanel on the ipad. I'm getting scared again, yall.
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Ugh, what a night. House seems okay, curfew was lifted so I need to get over and check on my apartment.
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Sep 11, 2017 16:46
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WE HAVE WAFFLE HOUSE I REPEAT WAFFLE HOUSE CONFIRMED IN CASSELBERRY EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE OKAY
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Sep 11, 2017 17:43
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Well just checked my apartment,power's off but other than that looks fine, no busted windows or water intrusion. Luckily it's just north of the orange/Seminole county line so no cops to hassle me over curfew stuff. The normally bone dry drainage ditch by my door has like a foot of standing water even with a drain grate in the middle; it did its job well.
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Got a text last night from management "good news, our apartments have power again!" Halfway home from mom's: "whoops seems like a couple buildings are still out!" Guess whose building (along with like 4 others) is an island of darkness surrounded by powered apartments on all sides, including the neighboring complex and the shopping center across the street? Yeah. P71 is topped up and currently paying dividends as a mobile air-conditioned couch.
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Sep 12, 2017 16:13
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Cell signal is miles better than it was this morning/last night, when I couldn't even get anything to load, let alone post from home. If the cell tower by me just came back online, hopefully that means I'll have power soon. REALLY hope I get my WiFi back with the power, too. I got classwork to finish. 
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Sep 12, 2017 19:02
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Someone tell me how to sleep in my car's a/c without dying of random fumes, getting carjacked, running out of gas or getting hassled by cops Alternately how do I rig up a generator to run on pure rage at the heat
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Yeah I'm still without power, I've been living in my car during the day and sweating balls at night. The two exposed walls of my apartment, that have windows, have windbreaks (a line of trees/the neighboring building, respectively) so airflow is fuckall. It would be easier to keep perspective if everyone was without power, but the front half of my complex, the apartments next door behind the trees, and the shopping center across the street all have had power since Monday night. It's a bit more frustrating to step out of my dark, hot apartment and see lights/hear air conditioners for 360 degrees around me. Apparently just the 10 buildings on the back road of my complex are on a different line, and require a replacement fuse instead of flipping a substation breaker or whatever. So since it needs a replacement part, I can probably expect power back around.... oh, February maybe? (They say by Sunday but it's a long 4 days)
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Sep 14, 2017 16:31
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My future forever home will have a whole house generator running off a natural gas line, a stirling generator with groundwater heat sink to power a few box fans if that somehow fails, and large windows and doors so I can get a decent draft though the house from any angle.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:FWIW, at least around here, power companies overestimate repair times. They'd much rather get it back on a lot sooner instead of missing the "should be on by" time/date and having their phones blow up. My worry is that if they're prioritizing getting south FL back up and running, they might be sending all their local stocks down there, meaning up here would have to wait on shipments from out of state. All I know for sure is that despite seeming like a simple fix I've yet to see any repair crews anywhere around the complex.
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Sep 14, 2017 19:59
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Oh, the other cool thing about the blackout? The complex's one and only trash compactor is on the side with no power. Currently it's piled so high, even my 6'5" self would have to toss bags up onto it. I dunno if they can even empty it without power.
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Sep 14, 2017 20:36
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As a floridian I will never ever get the appeal of heated seats. Now, chilled seats, on the other hand...
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Seminal Flu posted:
that thread is a work of art to surpass the dragon
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Sep 15, 2017 00:50
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the dragon.
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maria amria armia arima airma a Irma confirmed, it's happening again
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Isn't a 2 "hold my beer" territory? Assuming it doesn't get any stronger. And a cat 2 can still blow power lines down.
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Ahaha my senior design professor has spent the first 20 minute of this class just roasting the gently caress out of a guy who was on his senior design team however many decades ago, and who was apparently just an absolute fuckup in every way. Was on two separate design teams, lied to them both re conflicting meeting times, contributed a couple paragraphs to a 150-page report, completely hosed up the group's presentation, you get the idea. "Jim somehow graduated, in spite of our 5-page comments on his peer review. I firmly believe that his greatest contribution to the entire engineering profession is this story, his example of exactly what NOT to do in this course."
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Sep 18, 2017 14:56
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Maria's a loving cat 5 out of nowhere lmao
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Sep 19, 2017 03:27
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spog posted:Stick a ring on a woman and she becomes invisible to men. I know several women with dozens of stories each that would imply otherwise.
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This heat transfer class, professor showed a table from the book listing surface roughness for various materials. The metric column listed it in mm, usually tenths of mm or less. Cool, makes sense. The other column, for imperial units, listed the same roughness values... in decimal feet. Like, "polished steel, 0.000004 feet" 
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Going from 95F to 50F increases air density by 10%. Not only are you physically getting more air/fuel mass into the cylinder (so 10% more more heat, more power), but since it's colder to start it's a little less prone to preignition. Modern cars can adjust timing etc on the fly to take full advantage of this, but even carb'ed engines will automatically run a little smoother and put out more power. E: Turbo cars really love the cold. Not only do you get denser air at the same pressure coming in, but that extra 45 degrees of delta-T makes a huge difference in how much heat the intercooler can dump.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Sorry that is happening, TT. Bad string, but you're a good person to the dog so you'll know what's best either way. Oh hey I recognize that case  So glad I got rid of my full-tower monstrosity.
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