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jammyozzy posted:Just dropped the car at the garage, getting the bus home. I've forgotten how moronically people drove around buses. I loving hated driving tour buses around vegas. Oh hay heres a 63,000lb MCI, BETTER CUT HIM THE gently caress OFF. 6v92TA silvers will also surprise the common man when you slam the hammer down.
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Got 3 hours of sleep, woke up at the asscrack of dawn for jury duty. Severely overestimated how long it would take to get there, got the third degree when they ran my backpack through the xray machine and saw the glucose meter + lancets. Found out 2 hours later that of the 6 courts they needed juries for, only 2 actually went to trial. Got sent home at 10:30.  Going to enjoy the rest of this day off.CharlesM posted:Maybe this question is for you, leica. Can't say for sure on that camera, but I've owned a camera that did use lasers for focusing in low light (Sony DSC-F717 - I'd still be using it for some stuff if it hadn't gone through two image sensors). It projected a laser grid and would use that to focus if it wasn't bright enough for it to focus normally; still the best low light autofocus I've ever used. If it's just projecting 2 beams, then that's likely just Hollywood being Hollywood. And it's very likely that camera is just a fiberglass prop anyway. cursedshitbox posted:I loving hated driving tour buses around vegas. Never drove em, but I rode buses more than I drove my own car when I lived in Denton. I was loving shocked at how well the brakes work on them, enough that they could easily bounce the front suspension of those Gilligs off of the bump stops (and send my backpack and laptop flying from the far back all the way to the front) when someone decided "oh hey, loaded bus coming down the road, I'll just go ahead and walk in front of it while staring at my phone totally oblivious to the world then flip off the driver when they slam on the brakes and lay on the horn". mariooncrack posted:Hey 88h88, I was wondering if you knew how to make one of the following : Why not just buy a headphone amp instead of trying to repurpose a speaker amp? This one is well regarded if you can avoid getting a counterfeit knockoff. Or if you want something that's fixed in place at home, you can probably look through this and find something.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:31
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Who says scooters have no utility   CharlesM posted:Maybe this question is for you, leica. I have no clue what that is, looks like a prop to me.
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Mar 9, 2015 18:48
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leica posted:Who says scooters have no utility I mean you can insert the multiple examples of Asian countries where scooters are used for everything, but I once saw a girl load three thirty packs of beer between her legs and ride off like it wasnt a thing at all.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:21
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I think I just killed my laptop. An old dell vostro 1400 I've had since 2007. Knocked over a beer, maybe a few drops got into it near the left speaker and esc key. Now the power and battery light flash for a few sec and it powers down Sad, it's been a buddy of mine for ages, had it for my old business, carried it around full of repair manual PDFs and a USB modem for internet on the road if I needed extra help. I think it had the dodgey onboard nvidia 8400 graphics so i knew it was going to die one day, but man did I like that keyboard so much. I'm not going to be able to watch topgear, roadkill, documentaries and poo poo and post so much anymore as my desktop is going to be in my kids room, so no more late at night shenanigans for me. Using my partners thinkpad right now and poo poo isn't where I expect them to be (arrow keys, del etc), not to mention it was running ubuntu, now I'm in the hell you can only experience with a windows laptop (everything slow, bloatware, and missing handy programs) Fo3 fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Mar 9, 2015 19:43
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Tusen Takk posted:No but seriously GBS is somewhere I actually post now that it is neither FYAD Lite nor DnD Lite, and there are enough of the DnDL krew to bother that it's loads of fun. I almost like it as much as YOSPOS but I learn a lot CS stuff from YOSPOS too so I tend to read it more FYAD is what i imagine it's like to do a fistful of MDMA, acid and bath salts all together. Tide posted:All of my chrome browsers on laptops and Nexus devices are acting ask kinds of weird. Bookmarks are disappearing, pages closing randomly. Hell, the SA app on my Nexus 7 just randomly closed out of the blue. What the gently caress, Chuck? My Chrome just sometimes won't display pictures on certain websites. Can't find any reason why it does this.  Super Aggro Crag posted:I'm sitting in the back seat of a Ford Super Crew and the leg room is ridiculous. F-150 or SuperDuty? I want an ~'07 SuperDuty, but with a Cummins swapped in. One day.. fjelltorsk posted:I think i am doing this boss thing wrong. i interviewed 5 guys for a tech position, i kinda hired four of them. would have hired the last one if he had showed up on time. We are so far behind on maintenance and repairs that i am adding a second shift. We are already way over cap for the day shift and have had techs working outside in the rain. I also made a separate perfomance goal for my parts dude, he is a tech that i have more or less forced into a parts/writer position. i am testing out a performance bonus system, where you work towards a bonus equal to a weeks pay per month if you have 85% of your work day working an actual workorder. this includes if you punch in on a work order saying "shop cleaning" and "tool maintenance" or "admin". Basicly, it means that if they actually keep up with their paperwork they get a 25% increase. The problem for my parts guy is that he does not really work orders, and if he was to punch in on every order he prepared and ordered parts for he would spend half his time doing that. I also gave my apprentices the chance to work saturdays swapping tires. giving them a flat rate per axle. They tested this system this saturday and seem to have netted about 3x their normal hourly, they also swapped more tires per manhour then any of my techs had seen done. Good work boys Productivity! I spent the day at my old shop changing a cam belt on a Volvo XC90. It was so easy that i spent more time eating biscuits than working. Fo3 posted:HaHa. I used to love the work/retail/ER stories, there was some good content there, good discussions. There still is some, but much less good stuff and much more nonsense and wanker member shitposting.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:55
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mariooncrack posted:Hey 88h88, I was wondering if you knew how to make one of the following : The wiring part of this is easy, that connector is just tip ring sleeve (TRS):  Wire the grounds from both outputs to the sleeve, the right positive to the ring, and the left positive to the tip. The problem, like 88h88 mentioned, is the impedance. Looks like those headphones are 32 ohms, so it will depend on what loads the amp you use is rated for. Parallel some power resistors with your signals to drop the impedance, or series them with the load to raise it.
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Mar 9, 2015 19:56
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some texas redneck posted:Why not just buy a headphone amp instead of trying to repurpose a speaker amp? Seconding this. I recommend the O2 headphone amp (or the O2+ODAC if you need to run it from a PC). It is one of the very best headphone amps out there at any price, and it will last you a lifetime. It has super-low output impedance, which matters when you're using 32 ohm headphones. You want the output impedance to be less that 1/8th of your headphones' input impedance. Putting resistors across speaker terminals will yield high output impedance and can mess up the frequency response of your headphones. This is how cheapo gear implements headphone outputs, and why a lot of people recommend dedicated headphone amps (provided they're properly designed). I have an O2+ODAC, and it is both utterly free from noise and capable of delivering mountains of power to my power-hungry Beyerdynamic DT-880s. If you're looking for something a little cheaper, the Topping NX1 is also a good choice. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Mar 9, 2015 20:03
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KozmoNaut posted:it is [...] utterly free from noise So it runs the opamps at absolute zero, does it? 
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Raluek posted:So it runs the opamps at absolute zero, does it? Bah, you know what I mean. It's completely silent even at high gain with the volume at 100% and nothing playing.
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Mar 9, 2015 20:08
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Got home from work to find a package waiting for me, and after opening it up... Well, let's see how well they do...   Geirskogul, that is a 3lb buggy without the battery, and your jackstands held it up flawlessly. These things are awesome. Also, that manufacturing label was a nice touch
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Mar 9, 2015 20:10
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Fo3 posted:I think I just killed my laptop. An old dell vostro 1400 I've had since 2007. Knocked over a beer, maybe a few drops got into it near the left speaker and esc key. Now the power and battery light flash for a few sec and it powers down If you liked it that much, don't you think a new-to-you one from eBay would only set you back pennies?
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Mar 9, 2015 20:21
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Stolen from E/N, this is so true:Data Graham posted:Men are from AI, women are from PI
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bolind posted:If you liked it that much, don't you think a new-to-you one from eBay would only set you back pennies? Nah, a working one is still around $200 down here. They were quite pricey at the time ($1600), and the fact that mine has been running so long shows why. The other thing is the problematic onboard nvidia GPU, wouldn't want to spend money on something that may have a dying/faulty one. The i5 thinkpad I'm using now that I got for my partner 2-3 years ago was a bargain at $500, but I haven't been able to find a bargain laptop for quite some time with similar specs (was looking for my mother last year but didn't find anything as cheap or good) Fo3 fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Fo3 posted:Nah, a working one is still around $200 down here. They were quite pricey at the time ($1600), and the fact that mine has been running so long shows why. The other thing is the problematic onboard nvidia GPU, wouldn't want to spend money on something that may have a dying/faulty one. Yep. getting cheap good laptops in Australia is hard. I got a great deal a year or two ago on the Vaio I got for my partner because people weren't buying the pink ones, but it still stung a lot. But it can play Saints Row IV without issue. I consider that as good a benchmark as any. It's kind of also the reason I got the shits and bought an overpriced (for what they are) used Asus Transformer Infinity. My tablet's screen was broken, and my netbook is just generally hosed, so I went two for one. Clunkiest drat thing I've ever used. But the keyboard dock thing is the killer accessory for me so I just have to deal with the ANR dialogs and just general spacing out for a minute or two at a time. I have no drat idea why it does that. It also randomly opens apps while it's asleep somehow.
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I discovered a 2 ft drop, even in a heavily padded backpack with a laptop sleeve, is enough to "break" the optical drive in a Toshiba laptop. By break, I mean it bent the poo poo out of the bracket, enough that it no longer made contact with the SATA ports. Nothing that a couple of minutes of work with pliers and a screwdriver couldn't fix, but it was a  moment when I pulled it out of my backpack and saw the optical drive hanging out by 2 inches.Maybe I shouldn't take it everywhere with me.
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Strawberries are in season in FL, picked these up the other day for 3 bucks a flat. Gonna make freezer jam outta them, poo poo is awesome.  http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/06/how-to-make-no-cook-freezer-jam.html If you've never tried freezer jam you don't know what you're missing.
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T1g4h posted:Got home from work to find a package waiting for me, and after opening it up... This is awesome!!
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That label is EPIC. and uh, I overloaded the poo poo out of the capacity too, that jeep weighs as much as a real one.
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Made in Kitchenstan. Haha, excellent.
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They posted the grade for the exam i took this morning already 35% 
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Mar 9, 2015 21:47
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Tusen Takk posted:They posted the grade for the exam i took this morning already If the passing grade was like 5% then you did great! If it wasn't, then.. not so great.
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Tusen Takk posted:They posted the grade for the exam i took this morning already How much was written? I once got a tax accounting final from the low 40s to like 52% just by going in to the prof and saying "this is what I actually meant" while going over it. It helped that I knew I was going to get raped on that exam and just wrote down as much random poo poo as possible on the page so I could go back and do that though.
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Mooseykins posted:If the passing grade was like 5% then you did great! Passing grade is like a 30%, but this sucks. I have a 3.6 in all my other classes and of course each semester I get a professor that gives ridiculous exams on material that he hasn't covered before. FAT32 SHAMER fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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leica posted:Strawberries are in season in FL, picked these up the other day for 3 bucks a flat. Gonna make freezer jam outta them, poo poo is awesome. Send me some. Seriously.
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1500quidporsche posted:How much was written? Yeah I think I'm going to go speak to the prof, the guy I studied with and was equally lost got a loving 82%, so I have a feeling the professor may not like me since our solutions were nearly the same the entire exam was written, i was literally hand-writing prolog code on paper and writing any code on paper is annoying as gently caress but prolog especially since it responds right away to whatever your input is
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some texas redneck posted:I discovered a 2 ft drop, even in a heavily padded backpack with a laptop sleeve, is enough to "break" the optical drive in a Toshiba laptop. I'm pretty hard on laptops and carry one (the last 2 have been tosh r830's) around with me in a backpack every day and haven't managed to break one like that yet!
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Those jack stands are awesome and the manufacturing label...... quote:Data Graham posted: I must be bisexual then.
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Cat Terrist posted:Those jack stands are awesome and the manufacturing label...... This was established long ago.
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Raluek posted:The wiring part of this is easy, that connector is just tip ring sleeve (TRS): Ah, I'm going to miss the days of walking into a Radio Shack and asking for a 3.5mm TRS male to male cable and getting blank stares in return.
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cursedshitbox posted:This was established long ago. Biforum-curious
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Cat Terrist posted:Biforum-curious PI is stricy forbidden territory for me. As much as i like dogs, some of the members in there..
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Normally, I listen to a podcast on my way home. Today I listened to the Amber alert tone at full volume in my right ear for fifteen miles, because gently caress stopping my bike on the interstate.
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iwentdoodie posted:Normally, I listen to a podcast on my way home. Yeah, I turn those off on my phone because the only time I've ever had them go off is when I'm driving/riding somewhere or when I'm sleeping.
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iwentdoodie posted:Normally, I listen to a podcast on my way home. Sometimes I've left early for work on my bike and had to endure my alarm blaring in my ears for a mile or two. I share your pain. Not a problem anymore as my latest gloves have some conductive thread on the fingers 
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Mooseykins posted:PI is stricy forbidden territory for me. As much as i like dogs, some of the members in there.. Got quote for garage door conversion, was ~$250 more than I expected and was hoping for. Not sure how shops work but the cheapest they can get the opener I want is $250 more than I just bought one for. Once it arrives they'll come out and take care of everything to clear up some valuable clearance. Now I need to talk to the local E30 shop and see when they want to do the order for lifts. Car stacking is getting closer!
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Baller Witness Bro posted:Sometimes I've left early for work on my bike and had to endure my alarm blaring in my ears for a mile or two. I share your pain. I keep my phone on the inside of my jacket  That experience is almost enough for me to justify Bluetooth though. Christ that was loud.
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leica posted:Strawberries are in season in FL, picked these up the other day for 3 bucks a flat. Gonna make freezer jam outta them, poo poo is awesome. Goddamn, I sure could go for some strawberries right about now. 
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