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Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
That's for audio equipment, isn't it?

Or it's the sensor array for the MGR-1000 series "Coral Reef" DMDS (Distributed Margarita Dispensing System) but they are using different coaxial cables. They had one of those at a resort hotel near Pensacola.

Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jan 28, 2017

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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

The Archaic posted:

Who here loves cable management?



Awesome, awful, either way, I'm in awe right now.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007


NOT MY TIME MOTHERFUCKERS

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


The Archaic posted:

Who here loves cable management?



Gah, that's like porn for me.

Everything I have ever racked up both in work and home is forever stuck in the 'we'll just run it this way until we know it works, THEN we'll fix it' (we never do). The amount of HD-SDI cables I had running around my desks was amazing, completely unlabeled but I knew which was which. Never document/label stuff - makes you more valuable haha.

Randyslawterhouse
Oct 11, 2012

Warm und Fuzzy posted:

"Gordon, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire - who was also banned from being a company director for 12 years - was driving in a truck in front of the lorry that crashed."

Weird punishments in GB.

He was the owner of the company, hence the ban (he got seven years in jail too).

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

wolrah posted:

What's really annoying about that is as far as signal lights go you just have to not be a total cheap bastard. LEDs are fairly directional, but since scatter isn't really an issue with signal lights like it is with headlights it's easy to basically brute force the problem by building a "bulb" that contains many LEDs facing all different directions. For turn signals and brake lights that works perfectly fine and gives you an unquestionable improvement over halogen lights.

Unfortunately the cheapest LED modules out there don't do this and just have a single LED aimed out. These are pretty terrible for basically everything except maybe license plate illumination, but idiots buy them because they're just want "LED" and don't really care how they get it.
You can get ultra-cheap de-polished LEDs with a half-sphere emission pattern. It's just retardation to use normal ones.

Humphreys posted:

Never document/label stuff - makes you more valuable haha.
What it makes you is impossible to promote

thoughts and prayers
Apr 22, 2013

Love heals all wounds. We hope you continually carry love in your heart. Today and always, may loving memories bring you peace, comfort, and strength. We sympathize with the family of (Name). We shall never forget you in our prayers and thoughts. I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time.


I think there's a market for an iOS and Android video game where you have to save cyclists and pedestrians by sending in random cars to crash through intersections. As the game progresses, you have more collisions and hazards.

EssOEss
Oct 23, 2006
128-bit approved

DrBouvenstein posted:

Hmmm..interesting. I've noticed that foreground and just off to the side illumination isn't as good, but I have fog lights that I always keep on that fill in those areas. I also only replaced my low beams, not my high beams, so mostly just in-town driving where there's street lights.

Just so you know, here in the civilized world you would get fined for the light pollution. Using fog lights outside of foggy conditions is not allowed.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

EssOEss posted:

Just so you know, here in the civilized world you would get fined for the light pollution. Using fog lights outside of foggy conditions is not allowed.

I have not found that to be the case here in CT.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Humphreys posted:

Gah, that's like porn for me.

Everything I have ever racked up both in work and home is forever stuck in the 'we'll just run it this way until we know it works, THEN we'll fix it' (we never do).

If you don't have time to do it right the first time, you won't have time to fix it

BgRdMchne
Oct 31, 2011

EssOEss posted:

Just so you know, here in the civilized world you would get fined for the light pollution. Using fog lights outside of foggy conditions is not allowed.

Laws like that are enforced like window tint bans. They don't apply if you're white.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

BgRdMchne posted:

Laws like that are enforced like window tint bans. They don't apply if you're white.

Everyone seems to be white :shrug:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Jerry Cotton posted:

Everyone seems to be white :shrug:

Cops can’t see the driver’s race through the tinted windows. That’s the beauty of it.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Humphreys posted:

Gah, that's like porn for me.

Everything I have ever racked up both in work and home is forever stuck in the 'we'll just run it this way until we know it works, THEN we'll fix it' (we never do). The amount of HD-SDI cables I had running around my desks was amazing, completely unlabeled but I knew which was which. Never document/label stuff - makes you more valuable haha.

The CEO at work is obsessed with having that kind of cable management purely for looks, even for computer equipment where all the wires are under the desks. This ended up causing an incredible pain because just replacing the keyboard or mouse on a single testing computer required cutting off and re-applying all the zip ties he directed to be used for that computer.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

Nobody in their right mind would use zip ties tho. You use those double faced hook-one-side-loop-the-other bands.

Phuzun
Jul 4, 2007

Velcro strips also work great for wires that are likely to need replacing.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

I just had to cut like 5 zipties to free up a 2' bundle of wires that our network admin put under the desk of a secretary. She had no slack in them to adjust her workspace. Drives me crazy.

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




The Archaic posted:

Who here loves cable management?



I came

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

evil_bunnY posted:

Nobody in their right mind would use zip ties tho. You use those double faced hook-one-side-loop-the-other bands.

But velcro bands cost more than zip ties, if there's 5 zip ties needed for every desk computer in the building that's an overall saving of at least $150!!

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

But velcro bands cost more than zip ties, if there's 5 zip ties needed for every desk computer in the building that's an overall saving of at least $150!!

Whoa that’s like, almost worth the time wasted in one day.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

But velcro bands cost more than zip ties, if there's 5 zip ties needed for every desk computer in the building that's an overall saving of at least $150!!

Velcro bands can be reused.

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


If someone is using more than 1 exclamation point they are not making a serious post.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
This is a serious post!!

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
¡Very serious!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Keiya posted:

Velcro bands can be reused.
Reusing = recycling = anti-capitalism = socialism. Also cable ties are proudly American but Velcro was invented by a cowardly Swiss peacenik. :sad:

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
It's as American as the Statue of Liberty :colbert:

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

Sentient Data posted:

It's as American as the Statue of Liberty :colbert:

Or the hamburger!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
How dare you question the American-ness of our beloved FREEDOM TIES

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Enourmo posted:

Or the hamburger!

Or apple pie!

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry

Enourmo posted:

Or the hamburger!

or Boris Johnson!

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Enourmo posted:

Or the hamburger!

Or Cotton Mather!

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

Or modern fascism!

Venuz Patrol
Mar 27, 2011

JoelJoel posted:

Or modern fascism!

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

lol

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

blarzgh posted:

I'm 6', I've never really lifted weights and at my absolute skinniest (like 6 pack abs skinny) I weighed 195. I don't understand how you people can weigh so little.

Edit: I'm tubby tubby now
WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY late, but some people are just wired differently. My 64-year-old dad is 6'0", 136 pounds. He's never weighed more than 145 in his adult life. He hasn't played in any sports or gone to a gym since high school. I did not get his metabolism.

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Looking back on things, it's kind of amazing that everyone born from about 1935 to 1960 didn't die of some kind of cancer:

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Heart attacks and coronary diseases probably did them in before cancer would.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Or in the 1920s for that matter.

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Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Collateral Damage posted:

Or in the 1920s for that matter.


And while you're at it give three-year-old Jimmy a combination of whisky and purestrain opium the next time he's sick and in some pain.

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