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Tusen Takk posted:B-b-b-ut! I'm a special snowflake!!! The sun has just been biding it's time, lulling you into a false sense of security.
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Rhyno posted:The sun has just been biding it's time, lulling you into a false sense of security. If that's the case then this is hilarious that it'd develop in Michigan of all places hahaha
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Mar 10, 2015 06:27
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Tusen Takk posted:If that's the case then this is hilarious that it'd develop in Michigan of all places hahaha All part of it's master plan!
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Mar 10, 2015 06:28
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leica posted:They're getting processed now Right on, freezer jam is the poo poo. My wife has done strawberry before and will do blackberry too. On sourdough toast with real butter... mmmmmm
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Mat_Drinks posted:Right on, freezer jam is the poo poo. What the gently caress, I need this in my life. I have a stand-up deep freeze in my garage that isn't plugged in right now, ever since we got a better fridge about four months ago. I'm going to suggest to the wife that we get our hands on several kilos of strawbs and sock away some jam for the winter. Thanks for the mobile phone chat gents, I'll probably manage to make a decision by the end of the week.
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Mar 10, 2015 06:46
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Put that poo poo to use dude, this is why I love having an extra freezer. And also this: https://www.zayconfoods.com/
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Mar 10, 2015 07:49
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Tomarse posted: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! I've managed to rip a hinge (for the display) right out of a laptop before. Took a tumble down half a flight of steps in the same backpack. Still worked, and it was just a matter of digging the screws out of the case and putting them back where they were supposed to go.  Jared592 posted:I just had a somewhat odd troubleshooting experience with headlights on my Fit. First noticed the right low beam was out last Wednesday and made a note to get a new set. Was clearing snow off the car on Thursday with lights on, and I bumped the headlight housing (the one with the dead low beam) and it came back on. Scratched my head and figured there was probably a bad connection. Snow kept me home-bound and I didn't get to actually figuring things out until Sunday. To isolate the issue, I swapped the bad bulb with the good one from the other side, and all of a sudden both bulbs don't work (low beam only). High beams work fine throughout this. Checked voltage at the pigtail and was getting good -12v reading (positively grounded headlights). Finally just swapped fresh bulbs in today, and both are working. I think they were the originals, so I'm not surprised to have them going out after ~40k miles, but I am surprised that gingerly handling the old (but still working) bulb when swapping between sides caused it to go bad, and that I was temporarily able to get the one that was out to work by tapping the headlight housing. Just weird. I've had the same thing happen to me. Sometimes you can "revive" a dead headlight bulb multiple times with a well-placed thump, but it's just on borrowed time at that point.
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Mar 10, 2015 07:50
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Damnit Verizon. Got an email 45 minutes ago saying they were dropping The Weather Channel. They cutover to AccuWeather in the middle of Highway to Hell about 15 minutes ago.  I'm getting more and more put out with them when it comes to the TV side, really tempted to switch the TV side over to Time Warner. At the least they could have given me more than 30 minutes of warning.
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Mar 10, 2015 08:18
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leica posted:Put that poo poo to use dude, this is why I love having an extra freezer. drat, man, that's like the food equivalent of the fridge full of Olde English in Dre Day.
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Mar 10, 2015 08:30
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The bendy bus I'm on creaks in the middle. 
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Mar 10, 2015 09:02
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mariooncrack posted:Thanks for the picture, definitely helps out a lot. I forgot that there multiple versions of the headphones I have. I actually have the 250 ohm version. OK so the problem I see with trying to drive 250 ohm speakers with an 8 ohm amplifier is that the impedance is so different. If you balance it with resistors, you'll only have a tiny amount of current going through your headphones; most would get wasted in the resistors. If you don't do anything and just plug it in, I'd expect you would get reflections back at the amp (and I'm lead to believe they don't like this) due to the impedance mismatch. Can someone else who's actually an EE chime in on this? I've only had one electromagnetism class, and I'm not sure I have it straight.
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Mar 10, 2015 09:14
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Raluek posted:OK so the problem I see with trying to drive 250 ohm speakers with an 8 ohm amplifier is that the impedance is so different. If you balance it with resistors, you'll only have a tiny amount of current going through your headphones; most would get wasted in the resistors. If you don't do anything and just plug it in, I'd expect you would get reflections back at the amp (and I'm lead to believe they don't like this) due to the impedance mismatch. Can someone else who's actually an EE chime in on this? I've only had one electromagnetism class, and I'm not sure I have it straight. lolwut
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Mar 10, 2015 09:31
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mariooncrack posted:I actually own a fiio e11. I'm looking for something for my desktop at home so I don't have to worry about batteries. I know the idea of using a lepai amp as an amp for headphones seem silly but I already have the parts laying around and I thought it might be really cheap to make, why not? I was actually looking into getting a schiit magni II or vali some time down the road but I'll defintely look into a O2 as well. The O2 has batteries, but it will function just fine without them on wall power. If you order the O2+ODAC, the batteries are removed and replaced with the DAC. Raluek posted:OK so the problem I see with trying to drive 250 ohm speakers with an 8 ohm amplifier is that the impedance is so different. If you balance it with resistors, you'll only have a tiny amount of current going through your headphones; most would get wasted in the resistors. If you don't do anything and just plug it in, I'd expect you would get reflections back at the amp (and I'm lead to believe they don't like this) due to the impedance mismatch. Can someone else who's actually an EE chime in on this? I've only had one electromagnetism class, and I'm not sure I have it straight. I think you're confusing a few things. Impedance generally isn't matched in audio applications. Ideally you want the output impedance to be as low as possible. The output impedance on a power amplifier is usually less than 0.1 ohm, and is designed to power speakers that usually range from 4 to 16 ohms, with some notable exceptions. B&W speakers tend to drop even below 2 ohms at low frequencies, which has earned them a reputation for being hard to drive. The main problem with hooking headphones directly to the speaker outputs is that they can deliver way too much power. A powerful headphone amp will output maybe 300-350 mW into 250 ohms, that's not even close to what even a Lepai amp will deliver on the speaker outputs. You'll end up using maybe 5% of the range on the volume knob, which puts you into the area where all analog volume controls struggle with stereo balance. Of course, you can solve this by adding resistors, but that in turn raises the output impedance, and once the output impedance starts to get above ~1/8th of the headphones' input impedance, you start running into messed up frequency response. This blog post explains it in detail: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/headphone-impedance-explained.html KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 09:43
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Geirskogul posted:lolwut I was under the impression that when a traveling wave changed from a low impedance to a high impedance medium, it would reflect some of the signal back, depending on the media. KozmoNaut posted:I think you're confusing a few things. Impedance generally isn't matched in audio applications. Ideally you want the output impedance to be as low as possible. ok 
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Mar 10, 2015 09:51
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jammyozzy posted:The bendy bus I'm on creaks in the middle. Are you in the front half or the back? For a second I thought you meant the train type of bendy bus and wondered why you were worried as they creak, bang and throw themselves about normally  These things are horrible
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Mar 10, 2015 09:54
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freelop posted:Are you in the front half or the back? I was in the back, fortunately it didn't snap in two while I was on there. Now I'm curious what the linkage under the floor looks like, is it similar to a train coupling or is there like an enormous slewing ring under there?
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Mar 10, 2015 10:41
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KozmoNaut posted:The main problem with hooking headphones directly to the speaker outputs is that they can deliver way too much power. A powerful headphone amp will output maybe 300-350 mW into 250 ohms, that's not even close to what even a Lepai amp will deliver on the speaker outputs. You'll end up using maybe 5% of the range on the volume knob... This was my concern too after I'd gotten home and had a wee think about it.
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jammyozzy posted:I was in the back, fortunately it didn't snap in two while I was on there. If it's anything like the articulated trams we have in Melbourne, it's like a train coupling, and it has a big disc over another big disc that you can walk over to get between the two parts.
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Mar 10, 2015 11:43
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Some rear end in a top hat kids in my neighborhood broke my bedroom window and burglarized my house when I was away at my girlfriend's place. I can tell it was kids because all they stole was the 2 watches I had in my bedroom, the change jar I had in there and best of all, my Mother's ashes that were in an altoid tin. They also stole my iPod classic 160 and an iPhone 4s I had laying around, plus my lg Bluetooth stereo headset. These dimwitted fucks didn't take anything else I had here including my TV's, ps3's or any of the computers I have here. I already called my insurance company and they will be doing their thing tomorrow but I just had to vent. gently caress, I work hard for all the poo poo I have and now I feel violated. Sorry guys, I just wanted to vent because I feel so wronged. gently caress thieves.
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Mar 10, 2015 11:53
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 Been there, done that, both at home and with cars. Get the cops involved if they're not already; I've actually had them recover stuff more than once, especially if it's kids (they usually know a few kids at the neighborhood schools). It wouldn't hurt to look into an alarm either (from anyone except ADT), it'll get you a discount on your insurance and also scare off amateurs.
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Mar 10, 2015 12:31
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You Am I posted:Dumb Australian Government poo poo #1561616513115 More precisely the car component suppliers, which somehow those utter loving idiots have only just worked out employ 35 thousand people directly, so now they realising entire loving cities are about to lose any jobs base due to govt stupidity so they are paniced into assistance so this rather large industrial base can transition to either export or something else..... despite the fact for many of the companies in question it is now too late and many suburbs are moving to a jobless state that would be familiar to say.... the worst parts of Flint and Detroit. The Abbott govt, ladies and gentlemen. A truly incompetent bunch of assclowns like you would not believe - they literally are worse than Congress Republicans. This is not a John Oliver style gag but in reality a sad and depressing truth on just how loving stupid Abbott and co actually are. We are now reaching Texas levels of outright stupid... and in fact some of these fuckwits are MORE homophobic and racist than your average Texas congresscritter. Look up Cory Benardi and George Brandis, it is truly dumbfounding and disturbing. And to top it all off, these shallow end genepoolers want to intisigate the worst of the American college and hospital system on us.
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Cops already did their thing. IPhone had 'find my iPhone' on it and I gave as much info as I could to the cops. They have a good idea where the little assholes are given the information I gave to them. Apparently there has been a rash of break-ins in my neighborhood. Alarm system is already in effect.
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Mar 10, 2015 13:00
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 Got handover, got keys. Now im officially a home owner and in debt for the next 30 years.... I'll be 60 before i pay this thing off!
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Ferremit posted:
Congratulations! E: what do you think will break first? 
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Mar 10, 2015 13:18
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Ferremit posted:
Nah, you won't. Check out an amortization schedule and pay the most you can comfortably pay every month. Make sure to specify the overage as to go to the principal. You can also try the post every two weeks schedule. Also, congrats! E removing IMG of keys just in case! Tide fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 13:24
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Ferremit posted:
Congratulations! And if you're a little smart about it, you'll have it paid off the debt, or at least reduced to a point where it doesn't matter much, way earlier than that. One little  piece of advice though: beware of posting pictures of your keys online. It's possible to have a new one cut just from that.
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Does anyone know of a good write up for a Beams swap into a AW11? I'm having a terrible time finding clear information on motor mounts and positioning via google. Think I solved my problem by using better search terms. http://www.beams-redtop.com/ How that doesn't come up near the top of search results is beyond me.
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Mar 10, 2015 13:27
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Cakefool posted:Congratulations! Solar hot water system was hosed before we even got the keys. The plumber broke the roof sensor cord and tried to join it in the wall... Controller went "Nope!" and wont turn the pump on unless the pump is plugged directly into the power socket. That should be getting fixed tomorrow... We're paying a little more than the basic now, and since we built a 4 bed home we're getting a couple of mates who want to make a start moving out of home to live with us for a few years and that should kick another 2-300 a week into the mortgage payments, plus help the rates and utility bills down too. As for the keys, Im not THAT paranoid!
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Cripes, spent 30 minutes on the phone with Verizon just trying to tell them "I want to get rid of all but 1 set top box, and keep my existing cable cards". Rep kept arguing that if I had cable cards, I couldn't have set top boxes of any kind, and that he couldn't send me a box. I kept saying "uh, look at my account, I already have two set top boxes and two cable cards, I just want to return one set top box, and downgrade the other to just a STB without any DVR service". He kept insisting I didn't have cable boxes, and I could only have cable cards on my account. It was very obviously babby's first call center job, and probably his first day on the phones, but for fucks sake don't argue with me about what equipment I have sitting in front of me. I did get a  free upgrade to 75/75 and the top tier TV package for 1 year, at least. I don't even know what the channel lineup difference is, but the speed upgrade is nice (and seems to have already taken effect), and he pinky swear promised it wouldn't extend my contract. The confirmation email I got seems to confirm that. Not sure if he threw that out because I was very obviously annoyed, or if it's just a promo they're tossing out anytime someone downgrades any form of service, but I'm not going to bitch.e: looks like it gets me a bunch of movie and sports channels. I'm not much on sports, but stepdad is. I'm always up for free Showtime and Cinemax. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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driguy posted:Cops already did their thing. IPhone had 'find my iPhone' on it and I gave as much info as I could to the cops. They have a good idea where the little assholes are given the information I gave to them. Apparently there has been a rash of break-ins in my neighborhood. Alarm system is already in effect. Goondolences, dude. We got robbed a few years ago, nothing I can say can accurately say how much it sucks. Keep on top of your insurance company's tits and make sure that everyone confirms receipt of important docs - cops lost like half the paperwork we gave them so the insurance company decided they didn't want to pay it out because we "didn't report it."
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My boss thought it'd be a good idea to back feed about a hundred cables down a pipe without properly milking out the bundle. Now there are like 15 stuck cables by the pipe that won't budge smh.
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jammyozzy posted:I was in the back, fortunately it didn't snap in two while I was on there. You rang?  The creaking seldom comes from the swiwel itself, but rather the dampeners. The shroud that encases the joint (and the joint part of the bus really) have a habit of getting torn on the underside. When this happens you have water getting sprayed onto the hardware of the joint. If they salt the roads (as they do here, with vigor) the dampeners have a habit of creaking loudly and give the motion a choppy nature. The major problem in solving this is the fact that to be able to properly grease the joint you need the bus to be moving. you have one tech laying just behind the joint on the floor of the bus with a spray bottle of thin grease, and he then greases up the struts when the bus is cornering. if the bus straightens up the joint with his arms in the way these will be chopped off. in other news.... 
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fjelltorsk posted:in other news.... BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP except without that noise...
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Roof rack is the icing on the cake.
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Cat Terrist posted:More precisely the car component suppliers, which somehow those utter loving idiots have only just worked out employ 35 thousand people directly, so now they realising entire loving cities are about to lose any jobs base due to govt stupidity so they are paniced into assistance so this rather large industrial base can transition to either export or something else..... despite the fact for many of the companies in question it is now too late and many suburbs are moving to a jobless state that would be familiar to say.... the worst parts of Flint and Detroit. Same here in america, except our gas is cheaper.
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88h88 posted:BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP except without that noise... hhhmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Super Aggro Crag posted:My boss thought it'd be a good idea to back feed about a hundred cables down a pipe without properly milking out the bundle. Now there are like 15 stuck cables by the pipe that won't budge smh. "Milking out" is the best possible term for that action. I'm going to use it forever, thanks.
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Well my lovely WRX wagon is now leaking enough oil from the valve cover gasket i can see smoke coming out the hood at idle so it's time to put the bitch down for a couple weeks, pull the motor and get the list of problems fixed. JFC.
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So OKCupid and Tinder have both been awesome. They've got restrictions on the free versions but both are lax enough that I can't see anyone needing to pay actual money. Got a hot date this Friday with two more in the works 
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