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SolidSnakesBandana posted:When I had this issue, I got some insoles. Specifically, I went to one of those gimmicky Dr. Scholl tester things where it supposedly analyzes your feet using advanced space-age technology. It's $50 for that though. There's a money back guarantee so if it doesn't work you can just return them I guess? Woke up this evening, put on my work shoes before getting out of bed. I can already tell a difference in comfort. There was a lot less pain with the new insoles in my shoes.
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moana posted:what can I say, I really love family videos! Both the GoPro and Handbrake use the same codec to encode, so if you want to save time and effort while achieving the same end result just go into the GoPro's settings and turn down the quality a couple notches. You'll honestly never notice the difference -- above a certain point, the extra bitrate is just placebo for 99% of use cases. If it were a case where it was going to be reencoded multiple times (you cut out clips to make a montage or something, which then gets uploaded to youtube, which then is grabbed by someone who does a remix of your footage -- that's 3 subsequent lossy reencodes so every bit of initial quality is essential), then it might be of use. For stuff that's for personal use, try and knock it down to 10-15 Mb/s
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I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions?
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Hydrogen Peroxide? It'll bleach some fabrics but isn't corrosive afaik.
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How do countries pay off their national debt? Does the United States literally mail a check to China every month or what? How does that money get transferred and who does it actually go to?
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razz posted:How do countries pay off their national debt? Does the United States literally mail a check to China every month or what? How does that money get transferred and who does it actually go to? The debt that you're thinking of exists in treasury bonds. Basically (and I'm not an expert so someone correct me if I'm wrong) the treasury puts up for auction several bonds with different pay off times. So for example they'll put up for auction a 3 year bond for $1000. Several entities will bid on a price and someone, for example a bank or other country or individual investor, will buy it for less than $1000. After three years (the maturity date) they get the full $1000 from the government.
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regulargonzalez posted:Hydrogen Peroxide? It'll bleach some fabrics but isn't corrosive afaik. Hydrogen peroxide turned out to not be particularly effective. Isopropyl alcohol works great though. razz posted:How do countries pay off their national debt? Does the United States literally mail a check to China every month or what? How does that money get transferred and who does it actually go to? National debt is in a vast majority in the form of fixed-term bonds of various lengths, additionally most of the time when it comes due, the investing party chooses to simply take the payout and immediately pay it back in to buy more of them. No one can really demand payment early, although in some cases there are provisions for that where the lending party only gets back a small percentage of the original debt. Also nearly half of the "national debt" in the US in particular is "debt" owed from one government office to another government office. Most of that is because social secuirty payments are invested into Treasury bonds, since those have a stable although low interest rate.
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Most disinfectants are one or both, depending upon concentration (including hydrogen peroxide). What are you trying to do, exactly?
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Hummingbirds posted:Reposting because someone here has got to have watched the X-Files: The series really loses steam when they resolve the Alien conspiracy and Mulder takes off. I watched it, but it's really meh.
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Is Kindle the only recent e-reader that has no touchscreen and still has buttons? Anyone else make any? I dislike touchscreens while reading since I have large hands. I can't just hold the bezel like the models. It's uncomfortable. 
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PaganGoatPants posted:Is Kindle the only recent e-reader that has no touchscreen and still has buttons? Anyone else make any? I dislike touchscreens while reading since I have large hands. I can't just hold the bezel like the models. It's uncomfortable. Yeah pretty much only the base model Kindle still has buttons.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Is Kindle the only recent e-reader that has no touchscreen and still has buttons? Anyone else make any? I dislike touchscreens while reading since I have large hands. I can't just hold the bezel like the models. It's uncomfortable.
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Anyone have any idea why the PC version of Rocksmith is $30 more than the console versions? That seems pretty outrageous.
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hooah posted:Anyone have any idea why the PC version of Rocksmith is $30 more than the console versions? That seems pretty outrageous. Where do you see this? Weird. Check Steam? For some reason the price is dropped on the console versions. It wasn't this cheap a week ago.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Where do you see this? Weird. Check Steam? I was looking on Amazon. Looks like the Steam version is $60, which is closer. Now, is it possible for someone who doesn't have a Steam account to give a Steam game as a gift?
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hooah posted:I was looking on Amazon. Looks like the Steam version is $60, which is closer. Now, is it possible for someone who doesn't have a Steam account to give a Steam game as a gift? I figured it out. Best Buy has a deal going on. Amazon price matched it (except for PC). Here it is as Best Buy for PC for $49.99. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocksmith-2014-edition-mac-windows/9635296.p?id=1219034544949&skuId=9635296&st=rocksmith&lp=5&cp=1
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PaganGoatPants posted:Is Kindle the only recent e-reader that has no touchscreen and still has buttons? Anyone else make any? I dislike touchscreens while reading since I have large hands. I can't just hold the bezel like the models. It's uncomfortable. I also dislike touchscreens and want page turn buttons, so when my old Kindle Keyboard broke I just went on eBay and found a second-hand one. That seems like the best way to get one.
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Yeah, fast reliabile cheap pick two. How cheap? Non-corrosive to what materials? Do you need sanitation or sterilization? Growing mushrooms? Idophor is the first to come to mind for sanitation. EvilMayo fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Nov 25, 2013 |
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I guess a lot of people here use imgur for image hosting now. There any particular reasons to use that over Dropbox, since I've already been using that?
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Ciaphas posted:I guess a lot of people here use imgur for image hosting now. There any particular reasons to use that over Dropbox, since I've already been using that? Imgur is pretty much as easy as it could possibly be, so that's why I use it. If dropbox works for you I don't think there's a reason to switch.
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Dropbox has a bandwidth limit, so if you're posting images in heavily-trafficked threads, you can hit that limit pretty quickly. If you haven't noticed any issues so far, though, then there likely won't be any down the road either.
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Question about the forums: Is it possible to un-archive an archived thread?
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ijii posted:Question about the forums:
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I know there's this thing where you can "bleed" radiators, but does more water come into the system somewhere, is it like a toilet cistern?
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Crankit posted:I know there's this thing where you can "bleed" radiators, but does more water come into the system somewhere, is it like a toilet cistern?
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Is there anything like the IT wholesale/surplus site that was geeks.com for Australia? I'm jonsing for some cheap servers.
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joats posted:Does gbs.fm still exist? I can't seem to login. Yeah, still exists. Goes down from time to time but I just logged in and its working fine at the moment. There is a thread on GBS you can check, but things are really getting buried with all the GBS 2.1 garbage.
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Is steam an option in your secretive scenario? Crankit posted:I know there's this thing where you can "bleed" radiators, but does more water come into the system somewhere, is it like a toilet cistern? In an unpressurised system there will be a header tank with a float and fill valve that refills any lost fluid. I've never had a pressurised central heating system. cakesmith handyman fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Nov 25, 2013 |
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Diluted bleach is what they use in a lot of food applications. Just needs to be rinsed afterwards. There is also no-rinse bleach-alternative sanitizer, such as this stuff I use for brewing beer. We really need to know more about your application to answer well.
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Where I live, it's been below freezing for a couple of days, but we haven't had much in the way of frost or any snow that sticks. When my wife and I came home last night after being out for a few hours, I had a hard time getting my key into the lock on the doorknob, and eventually really had to ram it into the lock. What could be causing this, and how can I prevent it in the future? I could understand if it were icing over, but as I said, there hasn't been much moisture lately, and the deadbolt was fine.
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hooah posted:Where I live, it's been below freezing for a couple of days, but we haven't had much in the way of frost or any snow that sticks. When my wife and I came home last night after being out for a few hours, I had a hard time getting my key into the lock on the doorknob, and eventually really had to ram it into the lock. What could be causing this, and how can I prevent it in the future? I could understand if it were icing over, but as I said, there hasn't been much moisture lately, and the deadbolt was fine.  Metal contracts when it's cold, which made it harder for the pins to move up and down. You could try heating the key with a lighter before putting it in the lock if you're in a hurry. The best thing to do is take apart the lock, clean it, and apply some lubricant, but you could probably get away with just spraying some in there. Check with your hardware store for the best kind to use on a lock.
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I've had good luck with using silicone lubricants in locks. Spray a little in the lock, but also spray some on the key and work it in and out. edit: A lot of people like graphite, but I find it to be messy.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:The best thing to do is take apart the lock, clean it, and apply some lubricant, but you could probably get away with just spraying some in there. Check with your hardware store for the best kind to use on a lock. E: Wow, I'm slow. Just like the site currently.
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Baron Bifford posted:I need a cheap, non-corrosive and non-flammable disinfectant to use as an alternative to ethanol. Any suggestions? Iodine, although the buffer may have a small amount of ethanol in it. Also, really messy and stains things as well too.
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Is there a "ask goons to do very small programming tasks" thread somewhere? I need to download the targets of 300 links on a particular web page. I have no desire to right-click + "Save As" 300 times, but I also don't know much about scripting. Where would I ask someone to write what I'm sure would be 8 lines of code that would take me days to learn?
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Grundulum posted:Is there a "ask goons to do very small programming tasks" thread somewhere? I need to download the targets of 300 links on a particular web page. I have no desire to right-click + "Save As" 300 times, but I also don't know much about scripting. Where would I ask someone to write what I'm sure would be 8 lines of code that would take me days to learn? Sure: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898
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if a bitcoin is supposed to represent a string of numbers, how do people trade fractions of bitcoin?
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Thanks. Asked in the thread, but the request wiki was no longer functioning. Also looks like the thread hasn't seen any activity for a few months. If anyone reading this thread knows how to respond to me, please consider this request still open!
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Grundulum posted:Thanks. Asked in the thread, but the request wiki was no longer functioning. Also looks like the thread hasn't seen any activity for a few months. If anyone reading this thread knows how to respond to me, please consider this request still open! In the meantime, if you're a Firefox user, this might have the functionality you're looking for.
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Ezzer posted:if a bitcoin is supposed to represent a string of numbers, how do people trade fractions of bitcoin? "A Bitcoin" isn't a thing. "The Bitcoin Network" is a loosely-associated swarm of computers which all come to consensus about how much money each account contains by doing incredibly complicated math. In order to transfer bitcoins, you basically say, "I'm giving 0.0023 bitcoins to account XXX, here is enough history to prove that I legitimately have at least 0.0023 bitcoins." Everyone else on the networks is able to verify your proof. As soon as 51% of the network agrees that your transaction is legitimate, the transaction "goes through."
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