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Zenostein posted:I have an old electric (aluminum, I guess) frying pan (a Sunbeam from like the '70's). On the bottom, it is stamped 1250W, and I'm assuming it's just a metal coil in it, not a gas tube or something, but I don't really know. I have a heat control/plug from another model, but this is 1550W. Can I safely use it with the 1250W pan? I presume it'll be hotter than indicated, but I can work around that. I just don't want it to melt or something equally unpleasant.
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photomikey posted:Can you post a photo of the piece indicated, and any identifying markings on it? Sure! Plug (It's hard to read, but it says 1550 W 120 V AC Only):  Bottom of Pan:  Markings in center:  Markings on plug port:  Plug port:  Based on it being "immersible" I'm assuming it's more like the metal coils on an electric stove than the gas tubes in those electric barbecues. But even then, I don't really know enough about electrics to know what pushing more wattage through than it's intended for will do, besides probably be hotter.
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Jan 12, 2016 03:57
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Zenostein posted:Sure! It's nearly always safe to use a higher current (amp) or watt power supply with something that needs less, so long as the volts are proper. The item won't naturally draw dangerously more than the original power adapter did, and the power supply can't force more power in - the power supply can however force either too low volts or too high volts in which damages the circuitry. It's unlikely the heating element had any controls in it to keep it to "just" 1250 watts on the original power supply - that's probably just what the heating element can handle when plugged into the wall. Your most likely problem, based on the labeling, would be that the original cord could let you dial down the power, while the new cord will be all or nothing, or might even only put out partial power. This might make it unusable for cooking some things.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:12
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If you have a voltmeter it's a real easy equation. Measure the voltage the cord puts out when plugged into the wall, measure resistance of the heating element (the two big fat pins inside the connector on the pan). (Voltage)2/(Resistance)=Watts, if that's 1250 or less you're golden.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:20
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Well the new cord does have a temperature knob, so based on the above, the knob regulates the voltage that gets fed into the element, right? So basically, I just shouldn't turn it up terribly high and can't really rely on the temperature markings on the controller, I guess? Or if I can scare up a voltmeter, I could probably map the approximate temperatures myself? Like, assume the maximum temperature is n00º, that would be ~1250W, algebra out the voltage required, and then see what setting on the controller gives me that voltage. Something like that, maybe? Or is all the resistance/voltage control meant to be done in the controller, rather than the element? In any event, the likely result of running it at full on the controller is just burning out the heating element?
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Jan 12, 2016 05:06
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Recently I've been watching the Great Australian Bake Off, which is a reality show where every episode takes place over a weekend. They don't try to hide the fact that the episode is taking place over two days, they're very clear that the first two challenges take up the first day and the last challenge takes up the second day. You can clearly see the sky get darker and they even have a little discussion about how the first day went at the end of it. But even though this isn't something they're trying to hide with editing or other TV magic, they still have all the contestants, hosts and judges wear the exact same clothes the next day, as if they were trying to pretend that it was the same day. What's up with that? Why not let them wear different clothes? Do they think it's going to confuse viewers too much or something? Are the clothes all coming out of their wardrobe budget and they don't have enough to cover a whole series otherwise?
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Zenostein posted:Well the new cord does have a temperature knob, so based on the above, the knob regulates the voltage that gets fed into the element, right? So basically, I just shouldn't turn it up terribly high and can't really rely on the temperature markings on the controller, I guess? The most likely result of the new cord is you won't get any difference between like 75% power and 100% power on its dial, since the heating element can't use the extra available current and the new cord can't force it in. On the other hand, there might be a simple thermostat built in so it'll get to the intended temperatures anyway. Also rather than fussing with a voltmeter, a better thing would be to get a cheap infrared thermometer, and just see what the device heats to at different positions, and mark off based on that. As a bonus those things are handy for a lot of cooking tasks and hunting down problems with a drafty room. You can get em for under 50 bucks, like at http://m.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-Infrared-Thermometer-IR002/205509667
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Zenostein posted:Well the new cord does have a temperature knob, so based on the above, the knob regulates the voltage that gets fed into the element, right? So basically, I just shouldn't turn it up terribly high and can't really rely on the temperature markings on the controller, I guess? A cord rated for a higher wattage is rated for a higher current in its cable. The original was drawing ~10A (1250W/120V) and the newer cable can do ~13A (1550W/120V) so you only really need to be careful in that upper range where the stove is not rated for >10A. All that means is that the company is not liable for you running it at higher than expected amperage if you end up burning your house down.  You can map out temperature/voltage relations if you really want, but just don't run it on full blast. The new cord's temperature markings are likely just bullshit anyways, even if it was matched with the appropriate heater.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:23
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Are there any Firefox plugins that get rid of those javascript popups that always ask you to subscribe to some poo poo newsletter or talk to fake customer support when you go to a website? I know I can do noscript, but that disables pretty much every function of most websites.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:48
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Danger Mahoney posted:Are there any Firefox plugins that get rid of those javascript popups that always ask you to subscribe to some poo poo newsletter or talk to fake customer support when you go to a website? I know I can do noscript, but that disables pretty much every function of most websites. Try using ublock origin with most of the English filter packs enabled. I've found it blocks most of them as is.
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Organza Quiz posted:Recently I've been watching the Great Australian Bake Off, which is a reality show where every episode takes place over a weekend. They don't try to hide the fact that the episode is taking place over two days, they're very clear that the first two challenges take up the first day and the last challenge takes up the second day. You can clearly see the sky get darker and they even have a little discussion about how the first day went at the end of it. But even though this isn't something they're trying to hide with editing or other TV magic, they still have all the contestants, hosts and judges wear the exact same clothes the next day, as if they were trying to pretend that it was the same day. What's up with that? Why not let them wear different clothes? Do they think it's going to confuse viewers too much or something? Are the clothes all coming out of their wardrobe budget and they don't have enough to cover a whole series otherwise? Makes it easier for viewers to follow and a lot easier to edit, especially into promos and ads.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:49
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NESguerilla posted:What is going on when I run into random unlocked wifi networks that I can connect to, but the internet still doesn't work if I connect to them? A lot of businesses will have wifi where every domain redirects to the login page. Those networks look open and unsecured, but when Twitter tries to connect to its API, it instead gets the HTML of the gateway page over and over again instead of your tweets.
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Jyrraeth posted:A cord rated for a higher wattage is rated for a higher current in its cable. The original was drawing ~10A (1250W/120V) and the newer cable can do ~13A (1550W/120V) so you only really need to be careful in that upper range where the stove is not rated for >10A. All that means is that the company is not liable for you running it at higher than expected amperage if you end up burning your house down. Alright then, thanks. fishmech posted:The most likely result of the new cord is you won't get any difference between like 75% power and 100% power on its dial, since the heating element can't use the extra available current and the new cord can't force it in. On the other hand, there might be a simple thermostat built in so it'll get to the intended temperatures anyway. I would just try to boil some water and see what that's marked at and go from there, but it's not a linear scale (or numbered below 260). But yeah, either way it's not too big a deal. Thanks!
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Jan 12, 2016 07:28
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Is there an easy way to put together a picture from a terminator perspective? Like that, but I want to be able to lay it over a photo. I'm wondering if there is a website that can simply apply a filter to a picture I upload.
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Jan 12, 2016 18:17
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Grifter posted:Is there an easy way to put together a picture from a terminator perspective? Color filter + science-ey text is pretty simple, but any sort of outlining would have to be done manually.
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Jan 12, 2016 20:24
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Enourmo posted:Color filter + science-ey text is pretty simple, but any sort of outlining would have to be done manually. Well, not necessarily; it depends on the nature of the outlining and how exact you're expecting it to be.
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Jan 12, 2016 20:35
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I'd make the picture greyscale and reduce the number of colors, slight blur, then add the color filter on top of it. Otherwise you'll get this perfect, pristine picture, just... red.
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Looking for plant advice: I have a couple bamboo plants in a single 6 inch wide [at the mouth] ceramic pot. In all, they reach 2 feet, maye 2 feet and 5 inches high. I think there's about four stems from which leaves sprout from, two large [about one inch width?] and two smaller [about a centimeter width?]. I don't want more bamboos, and I heard putting them into a bigger pot would induce additional growth. But they have been in that pot for maybe 6-8 years and I'd hate for it to start dying of bound roots. I have chopped off some leaf limbs, a bit haphazardly, and I don't know if there's a specific trick to making sure I don't murder them entirely. My questions are a) how do I prune them so they don't die and b) should they get put into a bigger pot?
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Grifter posted:Is there an easy way to put together a picture from a terminator perspective? I don't think there's a website that can do this for you, but there is a (kind of) way you can do the outline. It wouldn't work for that particular picture, but if you have a stand-alone item you want to outline try these steps in photoshop or GIMP: Use the magic wand tool to quickly highlight the object you want to outline. Copy the object, then paste it on top of itself. Anchor that to a new layer. Paste the object on top of itself again, and anchor that to a third layer. Go back to the second layer, and use the scale tool to very slightly expand the size of the object. White out your second layer. It should now appear as a white background around the object, which is visible as the topmost layer. If you have an object you want to outline that is behind another object in the picture, you might be able to make it work by finding a similar photo online for the outline. You can get the outline by pasting the lookalike photo onto a new layer above your background image, using "select all" to create a selection box with the same outline, and the selecting your background layer to grab your selection from the main image. Copy that, delete your second layer (The lookalike image) and then follow the steps above. Once you're finished, swipe across layer two with your eraser tool to add hash marks where the object you're outlining is hidden behind another, like the bike in the image has.
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Wedemeyer posted:Looking for plant advice: I've always been told that bamboo is pretty indestructible and unless you soaked it in gasoline you're unlikely to kill it. But for a more helpful answer you might try the Plants in General thread over in DIY & Hobbies.
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Here's a question, why is ~~the cloud~~ good? Because, uhhh....
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"the cloud" as a term is bad, but paying other people to handle servers for your, and having those people failing miserably to do so is something that exists since the 90s
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Wedemeyer posted:My questions are a) how do I prune them so they don't die and b) should they get put into a bigger pot? Trimming the roots is probably your best bet for keeping them small. You're right that if you put them in a bigger pot you'll get bigger bamboo. Just cut the roots down a bit so that they have some more space in the pot, but don't trim any of them off completely.
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Enourmo posted:Here's a question, why is ~~the cloud~~ good? In theory, it's hiring experts to do something for you that allows you to take advantage of economies of scale. If you have your own server that you're running your own website on (like, say for some sort of online comedy forum), you have a lot of overhead: a physical server, a server dude, a room for the server to be in, HVAC in the room for the server to be in, backups for the server, etc. That overhead is expensive. The marginal cost of that overhead (i.e. the cost for going from, say, one server to two servers, or ten servers to eleven servers) is very small in comparison. So, "the cloud" is basically a server farm that some company has set up that then rents space to people who want to split the cost of that overhead. It adds in a little more overhead (in the form of a billing department, getting hit with taxes one more time, etc.), but generally, makes it much cheaper and easier to run a service. Additionally, it makes it very easy to scale up or down (just rent more or fewer servers). As with any big transition, though, there are frequently issues with migration, and those have to be worked through.
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Enourmo posted:Here's a question, why is ~~the cloud~~ good? The cloud computing(?) thread in SH/SC was very informative when I was wondering about this too. My takeaway is that "cloud" stuff means that when, say, 1000 people want to use your service, your servers can scale up automagically to serve those users, but when you have only 10 users, the space in the server is freed up for other services, like, say, Reddit or something. You also don't have to deal with the scaling up software, the maintenance of all that allocation, or other logistics. A company does it for you using a slapped together assortment of technologies that are only held together by redundancy and caffeine and sad people who are good at math.
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Hopefully simple question. In Word (Or anything that facilitates typing tonnes of notes) I'm looking to set up something that autopopulates the document below based on fields you fill in above. Specifically, I have 8 pages of portrait notes, with each page divided into two columns. The left column for each page is the bulk of content and the right represents abbreviations of this content for my referral. What I'm looking to do is take the items from the notes column automatically to a 9th, landscape page so that I can compare these notes with one another easily. Trivially and at its most basic this can be done with text boxes on every page, but it lacks the auto generations of the final page which would be incredibly helpful.
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Contrary to popular belief the cloud isn't actually cheap. The main benefits are instant scalability, redundancy and not having to be responsible for maintaining hardware yourself Taking into account all overhead of things like buying equipment, replacing dead hardware, electricity, cooling, paying people to manage it, etc you're looking it's about about 1/10th the cost (~$1.2m annual overhead divided by ~600 VMs in my case, obviously these numbers change from person to person) to do it yourself instead of paying a cloud provider.
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Methanar posted:Contrary to popular belief the cloud isn't actually cheap. The main benefits are instant scalability, redundancy and not having to be responsible for maintaining hardware yourself I don't know that it's true when you're running 2.
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I'm writing blog posts for our company's website. Right now I am writing one about gender equality in the workplace. Should I reference studies that I refer to in the blog post? Or is "studies have shown companies with a more balanced split of men and women in senior management etc...." sufficient? Tia 
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When in doubt, cite your sources. So, say the "Studies have shown..." with a footnote to your source.
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Also, as I understand it Amazon's cloud is pretty goddamn busy during peaks like christmastime but probably pretty dead once people use up their gift cards. All that hardware and bandwidth sitting cold is a pretty good resource to sell on the cheap, or not so cheap.
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bee posted:I'm writing blog posts for our company's website. Right now I am writing one about gender equality in the workplace. Should I reference studies that I refer to in the blog post? Or is "studies have shown companies with a more balanced split of men and women in senior management etc...." sufficient? Definitely cite the sources. If you're not quoting anything and just summarising general conclusions then you don't have to, but you'll seem more credible if you can show where you got your information from. You don't need to be all formal about it or anything, you can just say "according to research done by John Smith in 2007, companies with a more balanced split of men and women in senior management etc..." if you don't want to include footnotes. When you just say "studies show" it sounds like you're making it up, or basing it on things you half-remember reading once.
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bee posted:I'm writing blog posts for our company's website. Right now I am writing one about gender equality in the workplace. Should I reference studies that I refer to in the blog post? Or is "studies have shown companies with a more balanced split of men and women in senior management etc...." sufficient? I would just make a hyperlink to the studies on the word "studies". Everyone knows how to use that, no reason to go full APA or whatever. If you're using multiple studies, just make a research page for each of your articles, hidden from your menus.
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Great advice! Thanks goons!
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Can anyone recommend a simple cloud-based CRM recruitment app/service? A cursory google search throws up Workable, Bullhorn, etc. But those seem like overkill for my needs. I don't really need it to be outward facing in any way, or connected to job postings. Just something to help track jobs, candidates, communication with them, etc.
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Why is thyme not pronounced thigh-mm? Are homophones common to all languages, and why do they happen at all?
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Reposting my problem from the PC building thread since it got overlooked...El Jeffe posted:I'm trying to install a new stick of RAM and having this really strange issue.
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El Jeffe posted:Reposting my problem from the PC building thread since it got overlooked... Does your new ram have the same clock rate as your old stuff? Is your new ram the same "DDR" as your old stuff? Does the motherboard produce a beep code? Does it boot with only the new stick, without your old stuff?
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Methanar posted:Does your new ram have the same clock rate as your old stuff? Yes, yes, no, yes. But after comparing the specs, they seem to have different voltages. Original is 1.65V and the new one is 1.5V, so I'm guessing that's the problem.
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I realized today that I don't know much at all about Judaism as it's practised in the modern world, since I've never even lived in a city that had a synagogue in it. I don't know if I've even met a Jewish person. On a scale of 1-10 how good is it compared to other religions? Like if 1 is Scientology, and 3 is Hinduism and Islam and 5 is overall Christianity and 7 is Buddhism and Sikhism. I don't want to know about their holy texts or what they say they believe in or any of that, I just wanna know about how the religion is actually put into practice in real life. I don't know what people are like in Israel, but also Israel is supposed to be a home for ethnic jewish people, not necessarily the boss of all jews everywhere, I think is the idea?
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