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eh its a complicated topic but when you scale past like 50+ locations globally it becomes a math game. no worries friend   one or 2 locations totally doable.
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Still engineering, in my book. I have a cousin who interned with a group developing better prostheses, which inspired her to go after her Ph.D (in a different field of engineering, but still).
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^^^^that probably would have been my dream if I'd pursued a PhD instead of just getting hammered all the time. I did get offered one, just not in something I actually wanted to do! I actually briefly thought about studying this, or similar, because my mecheng masters was related to it but I didn't get my poo poo together then got offered job touching computers and decided to be a highly paid drag on society.
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Post some hosed up houses
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titty_baby_ posted:Post some hosed up houses
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titty_baby_ posted:Post some hosed up houses 
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Hurricane Ida, 9-1-21. Southern New Jersey. One side of the street was in the tornado's track. https://i.imgur.com/liUsvel.mp4 e: there were houses behind that bank of foliage/tree crowns
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwlwzhZwuKw Sure the scenery is nice but I don't think I would have chosen to live up there. He crawls the ledge at 10 minutes part and more drone footage at 14 minute.
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Mmmm, I love organic food
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Better than hucking a piano into a landfill.
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If you were going to hang it like that you could yank all the copper and sell it to a scrapper, too. It would be a lot safer, even. I don’t fully hate it.
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Mar 18, 2024 21:54
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There’s not that much copper in a piano. Anyway, iirc from years ago, it’s just the wood exterior with a vent hood inserted
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full size pianos have a gently caress off huge iron slab and the rest is of minimal value if it's damaged/worn, especially if the pin block is shot. the iron and its ability to hold a tune are the only valuable parts.
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Love catching my shoulder on the legs repeatedly while moving from the stove tot he counter and vice versa.
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`Nemesis posted:full size pianos have a gently caress off huge iron slab and the rest is of minimal value if it's damaged/worn, especially if the pin block is shot. the iron and its ability to hold a tune are the only valuable parts. If it's old enough it could be a wooden frame piano, so neither of those valuable parts would be present.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:if you OWN your own fiber maybe. even leasing it becomes prohibitively expensive. id ballpark my spend for leasing shadow fiber at like eh 1.6 million a year and goes up like 7-10% a year conservatively I am kinda amazed how expensive running fiber is. We have generation customers who want to split transmission lines and put a new substation in the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere, IL. All so they can connect a new wind farm. The utilities stance is you want to connect out in the middle of nowhere, then you need to get a fiber connection out to the new substation for communication and control. At this time, fiber is the only standard the utility recognizes, and is trying to sunset all the random old crap they may still have left. Always fun to learn that the fiber run will almost double the cost of some of these wind farm projects. But 50-60 miles of fiber will do that.
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This kitchen needs one of those 3d printed source engine error models: 
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That's just a standard Japanese grounded outlet? It's safe, but inconvenient. I've actually seen power strips like that in the US from decades ago.
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Iirc this pic gave the interior decorating thread the title "the piano of Damocles."
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Orvin posted:I am kinda amazed how expensive running fiber is. On the west coast of Norway, they pull fibre alongside the power line for long stretches across fjords etc. Is that not an option there?
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Yes if it were new lines being run they'd probably do that at the same time but as they're existing lines then there's likely no existing fibre run and a new one is needed which is a fairly big project given the location/distance I'm guessing.
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Just got a glass hob replaced on insurance as it got chipped and that extended into a big crack through it, when the fitters finally came they discovered that it was *glued down*, chalk up another one to the clowns the PO got to do parts of their downstairs remodel. They had to smash it to get it out, fortunately the work surface is resin cast whatever so there's no visible damage. Then they chipped the corner off the new one somehow  .
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Wibla posted:On the west coast of Norway, they pull fibre alongside the power line for long stretches across fjords etc. Is that not an option there? In the US the power utilities are generally required to allow the other utilities to share the poles at a municipal level, but not on transmission towers. At no place do the power utilities actually want the telecom stuff anywhere near their infrastructure.
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MrYenko posted:In the US the power utilities are generally required to allow the other utilities to share the poles at a municipal level, but not on transmission towers. At no place do the power utilities actually want the telecom stuff anywhere near their infrastructure. In this instance, it's the power utility's fibre. Not a third party/telecom...
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Wibla posted:On the west coast of Norway, they pull fibre alongside the power line for long stretches across fjords etc. Is that not an option there? Generally, the utility fiber runs in the US are in a couple of places. They are run on distribution utility poles, which have a shorter spacing between them. Or if they are running with the transmission structures, it will be on top as a bundled static wire with fiber (usually referred to as OPGW). The problem here, is that the utility I work for has some long EHV (345kV) lines that go way outside our distribution service territory. They were built decades ago to connect to some mine mouth power plants (didn’t work so well when those coal mines had sulfur coal). And those long lines in the middle of nowhere (specifically another utilities distribution footprint) don’t have any of our fiber nodes anywhere near to connect into. Nor do they have that OPGW on top to just splice a node into the middle (I don’t think that would be particularly viable, but maybe). New construction inside our distribution footprint typically gets the OPGW, or gets short runs on distribution poles to existing nodes. And the company is still working on getting fiber to all the distribution stations spread around the territory. It’s what’s so fun about having a 100ish year old electric utility. There is some really old stuff floating around still. Some of it was really built to last, and some, not so much.
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Wibla posted:In this instance, it's the power utility's fibre. Not a third party/telecom...  Reading comprehension is apparently for people with TWO cups of coffee.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Just got a glass hob replaced on insurance as it got chipped and that extended into a big crack through it, when the fitters finally came they discovered that it was *glued down*, chalk up another one to the clowns the PO got to do parts of their downstairs remodel. I understood some of those words!
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Nitrox posted:I understood some of those words! My understanding is that he has a type of fragile goblin with a microchip over its rear end. The goblin was about to be railed by some guys but he had glued some chalk to his rear end in a top hat. He had to get the post office out to fix it. They had to beat the goblin, but they did it with some kind of blunt resin object that doesn't leave visible bruising. Unfortunately, they broke the microchip so now if the goblin escapes he'll just have to get another one.
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In case anyone was genuinely confused: the glass cooktop was damaged. While trying to remove it, they found it was improperly installed by the previous owner, making it hard to remove. Luckily, the countertops were sturdy and undamaged by the required demolition. But in a sad coincidence, the new cooktop was damaged in installation. Now the cycle begins anew.
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Oh yeah I forgot that calling it a hob is probably a UK thing, now that I think about it I have zero idea why. Without looking it up I'm going to guess "brand name that became the common name" or maybe it's short for "hobbly warm topper" or something stupid like thay. Anyway it's one like this:  They are 100% not supposed to be bonded to the surface, there's supposed to be a gasket that just holds it in place, but I guess if you're part of a building firm that managed to gently caress up a right angle on a pillar you just glue it.
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wheatpuppy posted:In case anyone was genuinely confused: the glass cooktop was damaged. While trying to remove it, they found it was improperly installed by the previous owner, making it hard to remove. Luckily, the countertops were sturdy and undamaged by the required demolition. But in a sad coincidence, the new cooktop was damaged in installation. Now the cycle begins anew. I thought that they had chipped the countertop five minutes after you posted that they had fortunately not done so. Sorta happier it's the hob, since they should swap it out if they mis-handled it
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Anyway it's one like this: Speaking of crappy construction, there's a lawsuit in progress from people whose kitchens have burned down from cats walking on those stove top touchscreen-like buttons. 
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I hate my touch screen induction top, but at least it don't cause no fires. It sometimes crashes like a computer if something wet falls onto the button area.
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Nuevo posted:Speaking of crappy construction, there's a lawsuit in progress from people whose kitchens have burned down from cats walking on those stove top touchscreen-like buttons. My boss had her CO alarm go off because her cat turned on their gas stove on accident. Might have been a knob though.
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I can't wait for touchscreens to be banished in favor of physical knobs and buttons again. They're the worst form of user interface, the only thing they do better than physical components is being able to be dynamically remapped for different usage modes (like on a tablet computer or phone). They make zero sense for appliances that always have the same usage mode.
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Nuevo posted:Speaking of crappy construction, there's a lawsuit in progress from people whose kitchens have burned down from cats walking on those stove top touchscreen-like buttons. Now that is a risk id never have thought of. There is a "lock" mode but all it does is make you hold the button down for a couple of seconds. TooMuchAbstraction posted:I can't wait for touchscreens to be banished in favor of physical knobs and buttons again. They're the worst form of user interface, the only thing they do better than physical components is being able to be dynamically remapped for different usage modes (like on a tablet computer or phone). They make zero sense for appliances that always have the same usage mode. Couldn't agree more on this.
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The one argument I've heard for them is that they allow the stovetop to e.g. turn itself off on a timer without having to use a motor to physically turn a knob back to 0.
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