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Many thanks for your posts, veni veni veni and Memento! Check out this attached photo that I took after liberating the beans from the can!
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gr8ful4theseforums posted:Many thanks for your posts, veni veni veni and Memento! You going to die bro. Check out this attached photo of botulism.
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Is there something that can block all wifi signals but one, but without just drowning them out? Nothing in my classroom will connect to a wifi except the school's lovely guest account. The signal strength on the failing wifis is -23 to -40 db because they're like, line of sight right next to me. It doesn't matter though, trying to connect prompts for a password (and the password is always invalid, even if I turn off security). This also happens to my phone tethering, which isn't associated with the school at all. Wired connections work perfectly, my laptop just has an internet connection without drama. Any ideas?
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Feb 6, 2017 02:11
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tuyop posted:Is there something that can block all wifi signals but one, but without just drowning them out? No, and if it did exist it would be illegal to use. The closest thing you can do is to use a highly directional antenna pointed directly at the specific access point you want to use. But this generally would require buying a new USB connected WiFi adapter on most laptops or buying a new WiFi card on most desktops.
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fishmech posted:No, and if it did exist it would be illegal to use. I'm not asking so I can get one, I'm just baffled by what's going on in that room and if there's some little device I can "accidentally" unplug somewhere, I'd just do that. It also fucks up a ton of my plans so I'm a little bit desperate at this point.
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Feb 6, 2017 13:31
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tuyop posted:I'm not asking so I can get one, I'm just baffled by what's going on in that room and if there's some little device I can "accidentally" unplug somewhere, I'd just do that. It also fucks up a ton of my plans so I'm a little bit desperate at this point. Download a Wifi Analyser software for your phone and scan what's going on. I bet there are lots of access points, all on the same channel, all blasting out high signals.
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I have a question. Why is my life so good and how have I won so many Super Bowls in my great life? What's it like to be a perennial loser? I cannot imagine.
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Ciaphas posted:Been told by my primary care doctor and an ENT specialist that biopsy results on my thyroid indicate likely cancer (like a >70% shot). I'm scheduled to have the whole thing sliced out end of March. Any suggestions for not going crazy with anxiety/stress in the meantime? I had this same procedure about four years ago. You'll be fine. At this point, the thyroid cancer itself is a minor concern for you, as they're removing the gland. My doc explained to me: "If you're handed a menu of cancers and asked to pick one, pick Thyroid." The surgery is very routine, but the recovery is a bit of a pain in the rear end, as you'll have a big incision going across your throat, and it really restricts your upper-body movement for several days afterward. You'll be surprised to learn how much upper-body motion involves muscles near the base of the throat. When you wake up from surgery, you'll have a sore throat and a raspy voice. This is because there will likely be some mild trauma to one or both of your recurrent laryngeal nerves, as they run right behind the thyroid gland (and because you were intubated during surgery). The nerves link your vocal cords to your brain. It may take a day for the "bruised" nerves to heal and your voice to come back. There is a slight (less than 1%) chance that one of them will be permanently (or semi-permanently) damaged; if that happens, you'll have a paralyzed vocal cord. That happened to me. And I was a broadcaster at the time, so if it happens to you, remember: it could be worse. Still, even if you have a damaged nerve, there is a decent chance the nerve we partially re-innervate (heal itself) and you'll get most of your voice back. That process took about three months for me, so I had no voice to speak of (ha ha) during that time, and a doctor that was telling me I would probably never speak again. Thanks, doc. So, you asked for reassurance and I probably just did the opposite. Keep in mind I was very, very unlucky. They only removed the right lobe of the gland, and that's the one with the real danger of nerve damage. About 6 weeks after surgery, I had a procedure done where a temporary gel was injected into the tissue behind the dead vocal cord. This pushed the cord back into the middle of the voice box so the other cord could make contact and I could finally vocalize again. My voice was weak and gravelly, but I could talk. And it gradually got better. Three months post-surgery another doctor told me my nerve had partially re-innervated, the gel injections had dissipated, and that I was speaking wth my own natural voice. To this day my vocal cord is still mostly paralyzed ("paresis" rather than paralysis), but it's getting just enough juice through the damaged nerve to keep the muscles from staying atrophied, and that medializes the vocal cord, just like the gel did. So my voice is now about 95% of what it used to be. I did a lot of vocal therapy afterwards. If you're not already, you'll need to take a tiny little thyroid pill every morning for the rest of your life. Over the first few weeks, that will normalize your thyroid levels and you'll start to feel much better, especially in your brain, which gets massively hosed up by thyroid abnormalities. Without thyroid hormone, you lose all energy and mental motivation, you get depressed and probably gain weight, as it's a metabolism hormone. That will all even itself out over time -- hormones are like dominoes, and when one gets out of whack, a dozen others get jacked up in the process, and it will take your body some time (weeks, not days) to re-set all the dominoes. Hypothyroidism when untreated almost always comes with crippling depression. When treated with thyroid hormone, it completely disappears for most people, but some still need a mild antidepressant. Together those two things should do the trick. You can't eat walnuts anymore - they interfere with the thyroid pills. So just be patient, you'll be fine. Be patient with the surgery and the recovery.
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tuyop posted:I'm not asking so I can get one, I'm just baffled by what's going on in that room and if there's some little device I can "accidentally" unplug somewhere, I'd just do that. It also fucks up a ton of my plans so I'm a little bit desperate at this point. Not sure what you're baffled by. If you have a bunch of wifi access points placed too close to each other, they're all going to have terrible service quality from all the interference. Only thing that can be done about it is to move some to other bands, or completely shut off several of them.
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:I cannot imagine. Try a little harder.
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Nice post and very comprehensive. Glad your voice nearly fully recovered broadcaster dude.
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tuyop posted:Is there something that can block all wifi signals but one, but without just drowning them out? Yes there's stuff that can block your personal wifi, Marriott Hotels got into trouble for doing this to their guests. I don't know how good with computer you are, but it's possible to run software that captures wifi packets and will let you know if something like deauth packets are being spoofed, if that's happening then i guess contact the FCC, good luck.
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Thanks a lot, that gives me quite a lot more confidence. Funny you mention depression and hypothyroidism, I've been clinically depressed for at least a decade. My doctor has always suspected something was up with my thyroid, but every time they've checked my bloodwork my TSH has been normal. I know you're not a doctor, but I'll ask anyway: could the 'normal' TSH levels be misleading? My doctor/surgeon gave me the scrip for the stuff I'm gonna need after the surgery already--synthroid included. Now I wonder if taking that now would help my mental state at all, he wasn't clear on if I should be taking the synthroid yet. (The other two are antibacterial and codeine [woohoo!  ])
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Feb 6, 2017 17:53
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Are all online white pages as shady as they look, and are they all paid services?
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More dead dog stuff: we're having our dog cremated, we're going to spread some of her ashes along her favorite walking trail and put some in the ground on our property. The problem is that we don't plan on being here forever and don't want to leave her with strangers, so as insane as it sounds, I'd like to be able to bury a portion of her ashes shallowly and take them with us if we ever sell. Would putting her remains in a tin, then putting the tin into a shortened and capped PVC pipe protect it from the elements but not degrade over a few years? Is there a better way of doing this?
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Professor Shark posted:More dead dog stuff: we're having our dog cremated, we're going to spread some of her ashes along her favorite walking trail and put some in the ground on our property. Buddy, I know you're grieving right now and is from an owner of an eight-year-old dog from a breed that lives in 8 to 10 years, and I this from a place of love but you are seriously overthinking this and just need to let it go. It's literally ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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Ciaphas posted:Thanks a lot, that gives me quite a lot more confidence. I don't know enough to speak one way or the other regarding your TSH levels, but did he ever mention your T3 and T4 levels? For those not in the know: Your thyroid gland produces two thyroid hormones, T3 and T4. They stimulate your metabolism, which is why people with under-active thyroids tend to gain weight (among many other problems). Your pituitary gland is what tells the thyroid gland to produce T3 and T4 -- by sending it a chemical called Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, or TSH. If your thyroid is defective and doesn't make T3 and T4, your pituitary cranks out huge amounts of TSH, which is why doctors use elevated TSH levels to indicate that your thyroid isn't working. The extra TSH irritates your thyroid gland, and it swells up and creates sensation of pressure in your throat and/or face. Why they don't simply look directly at T3 and T4 levels, I do not know. ANYWAY...I now get my levels checked once a year, and they always check for TSH, T3 and T4. Regarding your depression: hypothyroidism brings depression with it more often than not, as was the case with me. I was depressed for several years before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's syndrome, an auto-immune disorder in which the body slowly destroys the thyroid gland. Getting diagnosed probably saved my life, as it was --in my view, anyway-- crumbling down around me. It's a really nasty, insidious form of depression, too, with "hopelessness" being the word most often associated with it by hypothyroidism patients. I wasn't at risk of dying from the Hashimoto's --it's not fatal in itself-- I was at serious risk of suicide. It really does ruin your life. I lost two jobs and almost lost my marriage before they fixed my thyroid, and before they found the cause I had no idea what was happening to my head. I literally thought I was going insane. I felt disassociated from the world around me, I cared about nothing...not my wife, not my job, not my hobbies...and none of those things brought me any happiness. I was actually a very happy guy my entire life before my thyroid crashed. I'm in tip-top shape now, but it did take almost a full year after the surgery before the fog really lifted. I still take a very mild antidepressant each day, which may or may not even be necessary at this point, but in the doctor's opinion it's best not to take chances right now. I don't know that *you* necessarily need to know any of this, but if I can help one single person avoid the nightmare I had to live through, I'll talk everyone's ear off about this stuff. I drove to work every day wondering if this would finally be the day I blew my brains out. No poo poo. I lived like that for years, and it was all completely avoidable. Right before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, my wife said, "You haven't seen a doctor in years. You need to get a checkup and get some blood work done." I said, "What's blood work?" So I know there are other people out there who never go to the doctor. By this time I had been in deep depression for at least a couple of years, and when the doc explained everything to me after the test results came back, it was like a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders. I wasn't really losing my mind, it was just an under-active thyroid. I immediately got on synthroid and an antidepressant (stronger than one I'm taking now), and my life turned around very quickly. I just realized I never explained the reason for the thyroidectomy: a biopsy identified some nodules as a follicular neoplasm, which may or may not be cancer. They had to remove it to find out. My was the non-cancerous variety.
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Professor Shark posted:More dead dog stuff: we're having our dog cremated, we're going to spread some of her ashes along her favorite walking trail and put some in the ground on our property. Can you just keep some of her ashes inside in a box/urn/whatever? I have my Peter's ashes above the fireplace in the (reasonably nice) box that came from the crematorium, and have considered spreading some of them in the yard, while keeping the rest with me wherever I move. Alternately, use her collar and maybe a paw print as your permanent mementos, and just let the ashes go. But to your actual question, yes, I think using PVC pipe or something like that should stay intact for several years, at least depending on the chemical composition of the soil in your yard. You could probably get details from a plumber or handy man. I'd probably avoid metal that you weren't sure would hold up to the moisture and elements without corroding. I think it'd be much easier, though, just to keep some inside with you. I'm sorry for your loss. The fact that you're this worried about her remains means you were probably a great caretaker while she was alive.
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Lincoln posted:I don't know enough to speak one way or the other regarding your TSH levels, but did he ever mention your T3 and T4 levels? ENT/Surgeon's office doesn't want me taking the synthroid 'til after the surgery, though, so hey yo gotta wait it out. I'm gonna be aggravated if my weight and mind problems are all down to a malfunctioning thyroid 
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It wasn't until my mother was diagnosed with Grave's Disease and had the Radioactive thyroid ablation to treat it, that I was able to convince a doctor to check more than just TSH. I got T3/T4 and the antibodies after that, diagnosed with mild hypothyroidism that could turn into Hashimoto's, and took synthroid and now my sleep is a million times better and my brain problems are significantly reduced. Its nuts. Hope your surgery goes well, I'm glad I didn't have anything show up on my thyroid ultrasound except just the general puffiness from hypothyroid.
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Ciaphas posted:I'm gonna be aggravated if my weight and mind problems are all down to a malfunctioning thyroid No, if that's the case, you should be thrilled. It means every aspect of your life is going to keep getting better and better. I consider myself lucky that so many problems were eliminated by fixing a simple physiological flaw that I never would have guessed had anything to do any of them. May all your problems be thyroid-related! And good luck with the surgery. This is not the place for an extended medical conversation, so I'll stop here, but if you have other questions, PM me or ask in The Goon Doctor subforum. Depression is ironically a disease that makes you not want to discuss it with anyone, but now that I'm back I will never be shy about it, because for so many people it's an easy fix that they don't even realize needs fixing. GO TO YOUR DOCTOR ONCE A YEAR, PEOPLE. A freaking blood test was all it took, and now I'm healthy & happy again.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Try a little harder. Not a helpful reply tbqh
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:Not a helpful reply tbqh Not a good post to begin with. Just working with what you gave me.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Not a good post to begin with. Just working with what you gave me. That sounds like a you problem...
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bongwizzard posted:Buddy, I know you're grieving right now and is from an owner of an eight-year-old dog from a breed that lives in 8 to 10 years, and I this from a place of love but you are seriously overthinking this and just need to let it go. It's literally ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Yeah, I appreciate that and realize that I'm over thinking it, I think I'm just trying to keep busy Peristalsis posted:Can you just keep some of her ashes inside in a box/urn/whatever? I have my Peter's ashes above the fireplace in the (reasonably nice) box that came from the crematorium, and have considered spreading some of them in the yard, while keeping the rest with me wherever I move. Alternately, use her collar and maybe a paw print as your permanent mementos, and just let the ashes go. Thanks!
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I have an old Sony subwoofer. It hums now on occasion with or without the input powered on. If I move it, the humming stops. I'm guessing it needs replacing?
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Lincoln posted:No, if that's the case, you should be thrilled. It means every aspect of your life is going to keep getting better and better. I consider myself lucky that so many problems were eliminated by fixing a simple physiological flaw that I never would have guessed had anything to do any of them. May all your problems be thyroid-related! And good luck with the surgery. Probably, but it's definitely not the depression when I say I'm kind of a cynical bastard at times. I blame being a software developer, literal-minded bastard computers'll do that to you
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5 RING SHRIMP posted:That sounds like a you problem... Good luck to you, young man.
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So I just got a call on my cell phone from a university's engineering department asking for my dad, who was a student there back in the 70s. I assumed they were trolling for donations, but how the hell did they get my cell number? Where did they find it, and why did they call that instead of the number I know they have on file due to the many, many calls my dad has gotten from them in the past? I told my dad and he's flummoxed too. Any ideas?
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Feb 7, 2017 03:19
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They bought database information from somewhere and the database had you mixed up with your dad.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Good luck to you, young man. Way to not answer my question and blame me for it. Actually kind of lovely of you but okay..
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Is there a good resource for finding out how much a given amount of money was worth at a point in the past? I'm currently re-reading some old favorites: the original Sherlock Holmes stories. But when the characters talk money, I know I'm missing some context. I've looked up the wacky details of pre-decimalisation British money (twenty shillings to a pound, etc.) but I still don't have a feel for how much a shilling was actually worth in the Victorian era, or what it means about a character's standard of living when they say they have an annual income of 800 pounds. My google-fu is failing me, so can anyone point me in the right direction? I know it's not going to be as simple as a straight conversion factor, so I'm really just looking for a general comparison for how much it would hurt to spend it, e.g. "A shilling in the 1890s was about like five bucks today", or something like that.
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Try googling something along the lines of "$100 in 1800s money" and you'll get links. Here's one for dollars: http://www.in2013dollars.com/1800-dollars-in-2016 and one for pounds: http://inflation.stephenmorley.org/ 800 pounds in 1880 would be worth about 91,200 in 2017 money.
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OneTwentySix posted:Try googling something along the lines of "$100 in 1800s money" and you'll get links. Here's one for dollars: Thank you, not sure how I didn't find those. Converting then-pounds to now-pounds and then now-pounds to now-dollars, it looks like my gut feeling was fairly close: a shilling in 1895 was comparable to about US$7.50 or $8 now. For those curious, a shilling would buy Holmes a local telegram, or a classified advertisement in a London paper. And in one novel, he casually entrusted a homeless child with the equivalent of 450 dollars (56 shillings) to go spend it on a fact-finding mission.  (Of course the kid came through for him. Good old Cartwright.)
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Powered Descent posted:Is there a good resource for finding out how much a given amount of money was worth at a point in the past? Measuringworth.com has a handy convertor for pounds and dollars going back to about 1800. This includes a calculator to change, say, 1880 pounds to recent dollars. They give multiple values based on different formulas, which is more important the further back you convert.
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My boss has strongly hinted at various points that he would like someone (me) on our team to learn Microsoft Access so we can build some stuff out to do quality reviews. Currently we use Excel and it is crappy bullshit for what we are doing. he has also stated that he thinks to really get a lot out of it somebody would need to learn visual basic. I am sure there are plenty of free online tutorials on visual basic, and I know Khan academy tried to get me to learn to code the other summer so I imagine I will be covered there (although if you have a specific resource that is good please direct me to it). I am having a tougher time finding anything good for learning Access from the ground up. Can anyone direct me to resources? I am not asking "how do you do X" because I don't even know what X is yet. I think that if I can learn enough to start migrating us to Access by the end of the year, it will make me some good money on my annual raise next year, so it should be worth my time and energy to apply myself to it. We have a department for this type of crap (building software tools for us) but so far they have rejected our requests twice saying it is too much work. Normally I would take that as a sign that it isn't worth it, however I know that they probably do not want to give up man hours to it, and also that we are taking over a large portion of work from a different department that uses excel files so big that we can't email them and are totally ridiculous.
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fishmech posted:Measuringworth.com has a handy convertor for pounds and dollars going back to about 1800. This includes a calculator to change, say, 1880 pounds to recent dollars. They give multiple values based on different formulas, which is more important the further back you convert. Thank you, that site gives a very multidimensional look at it. In a way it's exactly what I was looking for; in a way it's the very opposite of the nice simple comparison I was looking for. 
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therobit posted:My boss has strongly hinted at various points that he would like someone (me) on our team to learn Microsoft Access so we can build some stuff out to do quality reviews. Currently we use Excel and it is crappy bullshit for what we are doing. he has also stated that he thinks to really get a lot out of it somebody would need to learn visual basic. I am sure there are plenty of free online tutorials on visual basic, and I know Khan academy tried to get me to learn to code the other summer so I imagine I will be covered there (although if you have a specific resource that is good please direct me to it). I am having a tougher time finding anything good for learning Access from the ground up. Can anyone direct me to resources? The official microsoft site (msdn.microsoft.com) has adequate, if dry, tutorials for anything microsoft uses. If you're looking for future flexibility, consider getting a lynda.com membership or watching udemy.com for flash sales. It feels bad to pay for videos, yes, but these courses are kept up to date on their subjects, where random blogs and youtube channels are not.
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Unbelievably White posted:The official microsoft site (msdn.microsoft.com) has adequate, if dry, tutorials for anything microsoft uses. If you're looking for future flexibility, consider getting a lynda.com membership or watching udemy.com for flash sales. It feels bad to pay for videos, yes, but these courses are kept up to date on their subjects, where random blogs and youtube channels are not. Your local library may have a deal with these sites where you get free access with your library card. Ours does, anyway, but it's a very powerful library.
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