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So those of you who are following a 1x5 deadlift thing: just cuz you're only doing 5 reps doesn't mean you should overdo it. I overdo'd it on Friday and on my way back down for the final rep, a loud pop happened in my right hip, my back and right knee gave out, and I had to drop the bar. After panicking over whether I'd be paralyzed, the doctor said I sprained my lower back. Today my lower back feels better, but I have a lot of tingling/numbness in my right leg whenever I put any weight on it, my right leg is significantly weaker than my left, and I can't move my hips forward of my shoulders without a lot of pain in my lower back. My follow-up is scheduled for ~3 hours from now and I still feel really loving stupid. I'm not worried about being paralyzed anymore, but I'm worried about having the mobility of a 70 year-old man 40 years too soon. Don't overdo it, AI. SCA Enthusiast posted:How do you all decide whether or not major work is worth doing on a car?
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Coming up on my 90 day evaluation in a couple weeks. I hope it goes well abd they decide to take me on permanately. Been busting my and so I am feeling confident.
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May 17, 2016 18:03
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Coming up on my 90 day evaluation in a couple weeks. I hope it goes well abd they decide to take me on permanately. Been busting my and so I am feeling confident. You need to ace that evaluation, or I'm taking you off my Christmas card list.
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May 17, 2016 18:06
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May 17, 2016 18:13
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Phone posted:29ers are fuckin' fun as poo poo to ride around downtown. Like I'm cool with popping up curbs on my normal roadbike, but I know it's murder on the wheelset. 29ers do not give a gently caress. Not to make things harder on you but I have an ~8 year old 29er hardtail Fischer and like it lot. It does feel big on more tight technical trails but I like it for everything else. I always forget to lock the front though. 
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May 17, 2016 18:14
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scuz posted:If you really love the car, that's totally worth it and I would do that in a heartbeat. If you're indifferent towards the car, skip it. I do love the car. Its been very good to me. Its actually the first car I've owned. Yes I bought a high mileage saab as my first car with limited wrenching experience. It has taught me a lot.
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May 17, 2016 18:19
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SCA Enthusiast posted:I do love the car. Its been very good to me. Its actually the first car I've owned. Yes I bought a high mileage saab as my first car with limited wrenching experience. It has taught me a lot.  Shoot me a PM when this thing kicks off and I can come lend a hand if my schedule allows.
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May 17, 2016 18:21
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Yeah I really like my 29er. Do want a full suspension bike though for fun rides and rougher trails. This is great but it is best suited to xc racing on smoothish trails. New kona hei hei looks really good. https://vimeo.com/166908299
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May 17, 2016 18:29
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Tusen Takk posted:a mobile dev company that I was super excited about applying to contacted me for a 30 minute conference call with a couple of their programmers to ask questions then give me a problem that I write some code for and email to them Don't sweat it too much. I'm coming up on 10 years in my business (embedded SW) and it's gotten to the point where I'm asked to sit in on interviews in a pinch. The reason why you're being asked to do a problem is not because the problem needs a solution. It's to see how you work, how attentive to details you are, how you approach problems, how you deal with hitting the wall etc. Be smart but relaxed, be honest without being self-destructive and think aloud. Finally, don't forget that this is also you interviewing them.
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May 17, 2016 18:36
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bolind posted:Don't sweat it too much. I'm coming up on 10 years in my business (embedded SW) and it's gotten to the point where I'm asked to sit in on interviews in a pinch.
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May 17, 2016 18:40
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I remember some phone conversations here a couple months ago, and if somebody could give me some advice I'd appreciate it. I just got a 2nd Gen Moto X (2014) and it's running vanilla Marshmallow on it (6.0, no 6.0.1 update) and it seems a little bland, as well as missing some features like call blocking and better app control. I've started to go down the rabbit hole of ROMs, but I don't know a ton about which ones are good. I was leaning towards Cyanogenmod, probably because it's the only name I recognized. Is that still a good choice? Their latest "stable" builds are in the CM12 series, which seems to be based on Lollipop, and there are only "nightly" builds for CM 13 (MM). I am not an uber phone hacker, I just want something with a little more control that won't crash on me.
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May 17, 2016 18:54
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For whatever its worth, I messed around a bit with customizing the OS of my phone with cyanogenmod and the like... Then one day I said gently caress it and let it install the 'regular' OS and have never been happier. I guess it comes down to: 1. Can I surf the web 2. Can I stream music/video 3. Can I make calls 4. Can it go on facebook, awful forums, whatever If the answer is yes to all those, then the 'regular' OS is just fine by me and i don't ever have to worry or gently caress with it. It's surprisingly liberating and or cathartic for it to just work. Which I suppose is why I've gone to the dark side and use all Apple products these days.
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May 17, 2016 19:02
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jamal posted:Yeah I really like my 29er. Do want a full suspension bike though for fun rides and rougher trails. This is great but it is best suited to xc racing on smoothish trails. New kona hei hei looks really good. Full suspension would definitely be nice at times. Bikes and the associated toys always amaze me. One of the guys I rode with last night had a newer Kona enduro (full suspension, not sure of model) which looked fun, but the best thing was the loving automatic seat height adjuster he had. From Xc height to downhill with a switch. I didn't even know that was a thing you could get.
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May 17, 2016 19:05
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Tide posted:For whatever its worth, I messed around a bit with customizing the OS of my phone with cyanogenmod and the like... The only reason I'm considering rooting my replacement phone is so I can delete all the bullshit like NFL Mobile, Kindle App, games, etc that are plugging up my onboard flash storage that's nearly full... and so I can use titanium backup or equivalent.
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May 17, 2016 19:08
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scuz posted:Best way to learn! Thanks! It will probably be up nort, where my family is, so I wouldn't expect you to want to travel that far to wrench on someone else's car, but I'll keep you in the loop nonetheless.
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May 17, 2016 19:08
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Probably a Process. And yeah, I'm even considering a dropper post for this bike. A new FS ride would definitely have one.
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May 17, 2016 19:09
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Tide posted:For whatever its worth, I messed around a bit with customizing the OS of my phone with cyanogenmod and the like... this is ultimately why i switched to Apple as well. At first I thought that I would love customizing my phone, but then I realized that computer janitoring my phone is neither fun nor is it a very good second job i mean yeah you can use an Android as a regular phone but imo it's way more annoying to do stuff with compared to iOS and the security issues were enough to put me off. I read recently that they're supposedly switching to swift over Java soon, so that could be pretty neat and would also make it a lot easier to port apps from one platform to another
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scuz posted:So those of you who are following a 1x5 deadlift thing: just cuz you're only doing 5 reps doesn't mean you should overdo it. I overdo'd it on Friday and on my way back down for the final rep, a loud pop happened in my right hip, my back and right knee gave out, and I had to drop the bar. After panicking over whether I'd be paralyzed, the doctor said I sprained my lower back. Today my lower back feels better, but I have a lot of tingling/numbness in my right leg whenever I put any weight on it, my right leg is significantly weaker than my left, and I can't move my hips forward of my shoulders without a lot of pain in my lower back. My follow-up is scheduled for ~3 hours from now and I still feel really loving stupid. I'm not worried about being paralyzed anymore, but I'm worried about having the mobility of a 70 year-old man 40 years too soon. I've had a similar pop in my hip. You'll feel fine in a month but that side will still be weaker for a long time, connective tissue doesn't heal fast. Keep up with upper body work. When you get back to squats and dead lifts pay a lot of attention to how your body is moving, or you will over compensate with the other side and then have matching injury and set yourself back several years instead of one or two.
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Thanks! It will probably be up nort, where my family is, so I wouldn't expect you to want to travel that far to wrench on someone else's car, but I'll keep you in the loop nonetheless.  They like going up to Bemidji and Duluth and the like. thebigcow posted:I've had a similar pop in my hip. You'll feel fine in a month but that side will still be weaker for a long time, connective tissue doesn't heal fast. Keep up with upper body work. When you get back to squats and dead lifts pay a lot of attention to how your body is moving, or you will over compensate with the other side and then have matching injury and set yourself back several years instead of one or two. 
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scuz posted:So those of you who are following a 1x5 deadlift thing: just cuz you're only doing 5 reps doesn't mean you should overdo it. I overdo'd it on Friday and on my way back down for the final rep, a loud pop happened in my right hip, my back and right knee gave out, and I had to drop the bar. After panicking over whether I'd be paralyzed, the doctor said I sprained my lower back. Today my lower back feels better, but I have a lot of tingling/numbness in my right leg whenever I put any weight on it, my right leg is significantly weaker than my left, and I can't move my hips forward of my shoulders without a lot of pain in my lower back. My follow-up is scheduled for ~3 hours from now and I still feel really loving stupid. I'm not worried about being paralyzed anymore, but I'm worried about having the mobility of a 70 year-old man 40 years too soon. Doing StrongLifts 5x5? I just started again, after a laziness / high load at university induced break. I second this, if it doesn't feel right just leave it and don't feel bad. That being said, the dead-lifts are my absolute favorites. Nothing better than to end a session with some dead-lifts.
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mungtor posted:I remember some phone conversations here a couple months ago, and if somebody could give me some advice I'd appreciate it. I would stick to cyanogenmod. It's one of the few ROMs that have been around for awhile and most likely to be around on the next few months. Nightlies probably aren't that bad as long as you're not updating every night. I recommend using cyandelta for updates.
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MrOnBicycle posted:Doing StrongLifts 5x5? I just started again, after a laziness / high load at university induced break. I second this, if it doesn't feel right just leave it and don't feel bad. That being said, the dead-lifts are my absolute favorites. Nothing better than to end a session with some dead-lifts.
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Why is it so click-hole addictive to do google image searches on crazy soviet union era/communist countries? I saw in passing on the internet something referencing Pyonyang and looking at the photos is so...haunting? Maybe it comes back to when I was playing Call of Duty and you go through Pripyat and that being my first bit of exposure to something like that and searching it out. I could seriously look at poo poo like this for hours.
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Dear neighborhood birds: I put that feeder out there, so don't territorially yell at me when I go out to refill it or mow the lawn you little assholes. Especially the ones who are nesting in the eaves of my house. I feed you and put a roof over your heads, and this is how you repay me? 
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Tusen Takk posted:If you guys ever think you don't have a significant other for whatever reason just remember that if Tusen Takk can trick a gorgeous gal to marry him then anyone can 10 year anniversary this year. Wife is having kidney stone issues. Had to go to the ER yesterday  SCA Enthusiast posted:Dear neighborhood birds: I put that feeder out there, so don't territorially yell at me when I go out to refill it or mow the lawn you little assholes. Especially the ones who are nesting in the eaves of my house. I feed you and put a roof over your heads, and this is how you repay me? "Motherfucker is trying to steal our food!"
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mungtor posted:I remember some phone conversations here a couple months ago, and if somebody could give me some advice I'd appreciate it. I have both a 2014 and 2015 Moto X. The 2014 is still running CM13 (nightly obviously). It was stable as long as I didn't update it; I'd update once a month or so (and learned quickly to make a full backup first). I don't use it for much anymore though, it spends most of its time turned off. The 2015 was running various ROMs, but it's back to the stock ROM (with root and adblock). tl;dr CM or stock on a 6.x device
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- The Ob is telling my wife that they are going to induce her "Thursday or Friday" - My dad sold his truck and has just told me he is going to take mine (it's a company truck), Come September I will be communting 80km a day to school and back I need a car, but can't afford one right now. - My mother-in-law is staying with us to help with the up-coming baby. She has been making us tons of Indian food which tastes great but is making me poo poo constantly. - I am more than a little nervous about being a father - That awesome Birel kart I wanted to buy got sold. - The loving lawn is growing in super patchy and I'm uncharacteristically mad about it.
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MustardFacial posted:- I am more than a little nervous about being a father Just go with it, if you didn't feel nervous then you wouldn't care that you're having a kid.
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MustardFacial posted:- My mother-in-law is staying with us to help with the up-coming baby. She has been making us tons of Indian food which tastes great but is making me poo poo constantly. Ask her if she can cut down the amount of oil she uses. She wants to make it really good for you guys which in Indian culture means plenty of butter and oil, but the sheer quantity can disrupt your bowels if you're not used to it.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Ask her if she can cut down the amount of oil she uses. Hahahaha that's not going to work. It's not the oil, it's the Ghee (clairified butter) and masala and spices.
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Upset bowels are a worthy price for good Indian food imo.
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Upset bowels are a worthy price for good Indian food imo. Upset bowels are an indicator of good indian food.
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Saw the new Doom game and it looks good. However I built my PC about 18-24 months ago and it now only just meets the minimum specs
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Ugh. Older GM trucks have been a pain in my rear end this year. First my uncle's yukon with rusted brake lines, now I've been asked to look at a truck, an 03ish sierra 6.0 that is throwing some strange CELs and going into reduced power mode. Normally I would be like "yeah, sorry, I don't know and can't really help," but it's a friend of my dad (and his old truck). P0641 - Sensor Reference Voltage 1 Circuit/Open P0651 - Sensor Reference Voltage 2 Circuit/Open P1516 - Electronic throttle module throttle position So the first two could be a short related to any of these sensors: -Accelerator pedal position sensor -Throttle position sensor -AC pressure sensor -Engine oil pressure sensor -Camshaft position sensor -Fuel tank pressure sensor -MAP sensor But the third, which hasn't come back since clearing the codes and driving it around, is pointing toward the pedal or throttle body. I get 5V when checking reference voltage at the pedal and TB, and the connectors appear to be in good shape. Best I can come up with now is to start tearing into the harness at the throttle and pedal to make sure there are no small internal breaks in the wire and/or replace the throttle body, which seems to have a little play in it. Thoughts?
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MustardFacial posted:Hahahaha that's not going to work. It's not the oil, it's the Ghee (clairified butter) and masala and spices. Pretty sure that ghee is heart disease in a jar. On the plus side, if you ever run out of axle grease...
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I think you're on the right track. However, a sanity check - are you measuring the reference voltages with the pedal module plugged in, or unplugged? If it's unplugged, an extremely marginal connection may be allowing enough current flow to read proper voltage on your fancy modern 10-megohm DMM, but when you put the pedal module back on the harness, its current draw drags the bus down. Also remember the ECU is just telling you what it sees, not what the problem is. You know that, but I'm not sure you're thinking about it from an EE nerd standpoint, or not far enough into that viewpoint anyways. What the ECU is telling you is that the voltage (which it is producing, BTW) is wrong on both those rails. It could be too high, it could be too low, it could be a short or an open (it's saying open, so probably that.)
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Yeah, connector unplugged. I haven't gotten to the point of stripping off insulation and taking apart the harness but that seems to be the next step. The truck runs and drives normally most of the time so I think a small break in a wire somewhere near the pedal or throttle seems most likely.
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I'd avoid stripping insulation if at all possible. Usually you can find a way to backprobe the connector instead.
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Hivemind I beg of you: 1) how long is reasonable to have an oil pan dropped, the vehicle on ramps and on a gravel driveway? P.sure my 99 silverado (lq4) has a spun cam bearing, but I'm holding hope it's just a clogged pickup and oil pump oring- parts coming from rock auto. 2) Annnnd it's an oddball. I work in a D.O.E. funded plasma physics lab (fusion and poo poo, handshake- scaled experiments- with sandia and their Z machine). ...We have a grad student who is trying to make stupid thin cylinders (liners) of Aluminum. We can machine them to a .001" (25 micron) wall thickness semi-reliably, but he'd like a 2 (t w o) micron wall. We have a deposition chamber, and we've had no problem depositing (sputtering) the aluminum, but retrieving the cylinder from the mandrel/substrate has been a bitch. He had tried using a mandrel of some manner of plastic that will dissolve in citric acid, but the heat of the deposition created pocks in the plastic that tore the cylinder (liner) whilst dissolving. Inspired by AvE using alum to dissolve steel while keeping aluminum in one piece, I've deposited on a turned and polished steel mandrel, but the dissolve is too violent- bubbles. I've been daydreaming about something like salt or rock candy that can be turned to the O.D. he's looking for, that has a fighting chance of holding up to the heat of deposition- very high vacuum, so heat just.stays.- while dissolving in a very quiet and non-turbulent way. Is there anything that y'all can think of that could deal with heat (~600C for an hour), but dissolve all nice and quiet like sos we could maybe pull this off? E: I know it's a moonshot, but SA has come through before. E2: yes, rock candy. I'ma machine me some candy canes tomorrow. glyph fucked around with this message at 23:57 on May 17, 2016 |
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Got back about an hour or so ago from taking my wife to have surgery done for a deviated septum. They told her that there would be some pain, but holy gently caress. She moaned, whined, and whimpered the entire way home and better than a half-hour after that. She's still sporadically doing it, after a Tylenol 3. It's setting off every protective defend-your-mate instinct I have something fierce. I'm incredibly tense, and I'm almost shaking. I haven't had this level of impotent rage in some time - drat near Hulk Smash levels. I want to kill something for hurting my wife, but there's nobody to kill. If someone were to cross me right now my response would be WAY out of proportion. gently caress, I don't know if I can handle this. Next time someone else is playing nursemaid - I get far too emotionally involved.
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