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Is a couple of pieces of trim from Home Depot and a miter saw out of your reach? You could whip something up in about 10 minutes.
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Memento posted:I dropped my phone and smashed the poo poo out of the screen, but there's no problem with the touch functions at all. I'm due a replacement so I'm just going to buy a new one, but if I was going to try to fix it so I had a spare (it's a decent phone, Nexus 5X) do I just need a glass replacement or do I need a full replacement screen/LCD assembly? I'm not sure what you think "specialist tools" are, but if that's "something to bond the digitizer (touch screen) and LCD together" it's not really a thing outside of wholesale quantities.....they are sold together as an assembly for like $60. To replace one, while it's a big deal for someone who's not accustomed to working on small electronics, it's absolutely something that someone who gets paid $15 an hour at a mall kiosk can do in like 15 minutes. Not a super technical operation. In fact, I taught my 13 year old nephew to do this and he's replaced multiple LG, samsung and iPhone screens all on his own with very few problems. His "training" lasted about an hour and then I handed him like $15 worth of tools. Motronic fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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Cool, thanks Motronic, I'll ask around at the mall next time I'm down there. Yeah electronics aren't really my thing beyond simple soldering and wiring.
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fishmech posted:Many countries that had full on health coverage for most things as early as the 40s would still require you to pay out of your own pocket for a dentist or eye doc up til the 80s or 90s, especially once you were over 18. Even today, Medicare in Australia doesn't cover dentistry, glasses or hearing aids.
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Tiggum posted:Even today, Medicare in Australia doesn't cover dentistry, glasses or hearing aids. Canada is similar.
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Dutch healthcare does include hearing and optical aids under the normal healthcare, but dentistry is kept separate.
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Regarding kettles: I was in a discussion about the EU's former plans to limit kettle wattage. I can understand why they would want to regulate efficiency, but why would they limit wattage? From my understanding, an efficient low-watt kettle will use the same kW/h as an equally efficient high-wattage one, because of the time factor. Is this a true claim?
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Fruit Smoothies posted:Regarding kettles: I was in a discussion about the EU's former plans to limit kettle wattage. I can understand why they would want to regulate efficiency, but why would they limit wattage? From my understanding, an efficient low-watt kettle will use the same kW/h as an equally efficient high-wattage one, because of the time factor. Is this a true claim? Yeah. In fact, assuming equal efficiency you would presume a higher Watt kettle is marginally more efficient than a lower one because it boils the water faster, leaving less time for heat to escape. I looked up these EU plans and it's just a classic case of tabloids cherry picking stats to make headlines. Kettles are just one of 29 things on the list, and the recommendation is primarily revolving around increasing the durability of the kettles so they last longer. It seems like they weren't focusing on banning higher wattage kettles, although I assume it would be a consideration, purely because it forces manufacturers to produce more efficient kettles made of better materials in order to increase the speed of the boil. It's bad practice to put a 3000W heating element in a lovely plastic body with no insulation, yet that is a pretty standard thing you see.
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Suppose, hypothetically speaking, that the Earth was no longer in a constant orbit around the Sun but instead in a very slow death spiral. Moving maybe a few yards closer over the course of each circle. How long would it be before we were aware of it? And also how long would it be before the effects became obvious to everyone, rather than just those with the equipment to precisely measure our distance from the Sun?
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Earwicker posted:Suppose, hypothetically speaking, that the Earth was no longer in a constant orbit around the Sun but instead in a very slow death spiral. Moving maybe a few yards closer over the course of each circle. The Earth is ~160 billion yards from the Sun. A few yards per year is nothing. The effects would never become obvious to anyone unless they got in a time machine and moved forward in time by billions of years. The Earth's orbit is already not a perfect circle, and our distance to the sun varies between our closest and furthest points to the sun (perihelion and aphelion) by more than 5 billion yards over the course of a year. So in a manner of speaking, you are already in a position to judge what it feels like to be in a death spiral, except we pull up from it every year, only to fall back down. The Northern Hemisphere experiences summer during aphelion, and is actually relatively warmer than the Southern Hemisphere due to having more landmass. That should show that a few billion yards here or there isn't too relevant in the grand scheme of planetary temperature. The "goldilocks" zone's inner edge, an area which is disputed, is somewhere like 10-20% closer to the Sun than we are now. Overall I'd say we'd begin to notice a few centigrade difference over 1-2 billion years, not accounting for any other developments/life-cycle of the Sun itself, but it would take a while before things really got uncomfortable. As a side note, we are actually not in constant orbit, but are in fact already in a very slow death spiral away from the Sun, but at a rate of only a fraction of a yard per year. e: also I didn't mention this but since the Sun is getting hotter and brighter on that sort of timescale, so you could probably move that clock forward. I think it's something like 1% increase in luminosity every 100 million years and a correlative increase in heat energy. In the end, unless the death spiral was much faster, the sun's life-cycle will destroy life on this planet first. Jeza fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Feb 26, 2017 |
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When you bench using dumbbells, does it matter whether you hold them parallel or perpendicular to your body?
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Earwicker posted:Suppose, hypothetically speaking, that the Earth was no longer in a constant orbit around the Sun but instead in a very slow death spiral. Moving maybe a few yards closer over the course of each circle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
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Jeza posted:The Earth is ~160 billion yards from the Sun. A few yards per year is nothing. Ok, so scrap "a few yards a year". Let's speed things up and also, let me ask the question backwards - how fast would the Earth need to spiral towards the Sun in order for us to start getting into the inner edge of that Goldilocks zone in about 250 years?
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Earwicker posted:Ok, so scrap "a few yards a year". Let's speed things up and also, let me ask the question backwards - how fast would the Earth need to spiral towards the Sun in order for us to start getting into the inner edge of that Goldilocks zone in about 250 years? I can't wait for someone to ask in a worried tone if you're just writing a book or...
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Earwicker posted:Ok, so scrap "a few yards a year". Let's speed things up and also, let me ask the question backwards - how fast would the Earth need to spiral towards the Sun in order for us to start getting into the inner edge of that Goldilocks zone in about 250 years? That'd be somewhere around 30,000-40,000 miles a year, so close to 100 miles a day. Every 80 days we'd be a whole Earth diameter closer in.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OYkWSW7u4k Could any music aficionados please tell me which piece it is that Schubert plays at 1 minute 30 mark? People said it's Serenade in the comments, but I don't hear that piece in the song.
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What are some good fitness games for 360 (pref.) or wii? I just want a bit of silly encouragment to exercise everyday, doesn't need to turn me into Terry Crews. Before anyone gets all  about lifting or running with sandbags or wtf, I have back problems that make these difficult, I just want something stupid I can do in my lounge that will make me marginally more active.
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Loopoo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OYkWSW7u4k It is Schubert's Serenade. The reason you're finding it hard to hear that song is because it's simplified and in what sounds like almost triple tempo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTTgJau33Q Try turning on double speed and you should hear it.
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Rolled Cabbage posted:What are some good fitness games for 360 (pref.) or wii? I just want a bit of silly encouragment to exercise everyday, doesn't need to turn me into Terry Crews. Get Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board for the Wii. Get a used Kinect and Nike+ Kinect Training or Zumba Fitness Core for the 360. Maybe Dance Central if that's what you'd prefer to do instead of normal exercise routines.
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Jeza posted:It is Schubert's Serenade. The reason you're finding it hard to hear that song is because it's simplified and in what sounds like almost triple tempo. Thanks man, you're awesome.
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I don't know why but there's a slightly offensive smell coming out of my sink. I've purchased this sink cleaner thing you pour into it that's supposed to make it smell better but it hasn't worked. Any suggestions?
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Busy Bee posted:I don't know why but there's a slightly offensive smell coming out of my sink. I've purchased this sink cleaner thing you pour into it that's supposed to make it smell better but it hasn't worked. Any suggestions? Could be a lot of things, do you have a garbage disposal or dishwasher connected? How old is the plumbing?
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Does your sink have a trap? I've seen a house where they installed it without for some bizarre reason so they got gases from the septic tank drifting up. If that's the problem then install a trap. Another possibility along this line is that your sink overflow is connected to the wrong side of the trap. More likely, there's just some nasty organic stuff stinking it up and living in the trap. First, flush your sink very thoroughly. Then get some drano and use it as directed a couple of times. It'll rip up all the organic stuff and stink really bad for a bit. After waiting as directed thoroughly flush..
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baquerd posted:Could be a lot of things, do you have a garbage disposal or dishwasher connected? How old is the plumbing? No garbage disposal or dishwasher connected. Not sure how old the plumbing is. CrazySalamander posted:Does your sink have a trap? I've seen a house where they installed it without for some bizarre reason so they got gases from the septic tank drifting up. If that's the problem then install a trap. Another possibility along this line is that your sink overflow is connected to the wrong side of the trap. No trap - this is what it looks like underneath my sink - http://imgur.com/a/U1A20 That black stuff doesn't look good huh?
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Busy Bee posted:No garbage disposal or dishwasher connected. Not sure how old the plumbing is. That looks like relatively new PVC, which means someone hosed up hard. You need to put in a trap.
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That's strange, I thought all sinks had traps? Otherwise what's gonna stop awful smells from coming up?
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Someone put in a vanity with drawers instead of doors. When they got it all put together, the drawer wouldn't close (notice the slide) because of the trap, so they pulled it and just put in straight pipe bypassing the trap. You now have raw sewer gas coming up into your bathroom. Have someone install a trap, which will probably entail buying a new vanity.
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I'm trying to link to "John Smith"'s FB page in a post, but there are many John Smiths out there, and as I type "@John Smith" in the post, the popup menu of 10 or so "John Smiths" does not include the one I want. The URL for his page is https://www.facebook.com/john.smith.773?lst=10000681... How can I get the correct page linked in my post? Mine is a business page, his is a personal page, FWIW. edit: OK, I figured it out. "@JohnSmith773" (as in the URL, minus the periods) does the trick. Lincoln fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Beachcomber posted:Do doctors/dentists take it personally if you seek a second opinion? I love my dentist, but she can't find anything wrong and she doesn't have all the new fancy equipment. I don't want to hurt her feelings. As someone else said, it depends on how friendly you are, but I would go the friendly way and say that I really appreciate her work and keep coming to her, but that I still have pain and just want to get checked with different equipment, or something to that effect. Help me music goons. What's the name of this specific song, part of the Romeo and Juliet ballet? https://youtu.be/coxgnE3aTs0?t=272
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Dawncloack posted:As someone else said, it depends on how friendly you are, but I would go the friendly way and say that I really appreciate her work and keep coming to her, but that I still have pain and just want to get checked with different equipment, or something to that effect. Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ
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Dawncloack posted:Help me music goons. What's the name of this specific song, part of the Romeo and Juliet ballet? Montagues and Capulets. Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet us far superior to... whatever the other one is. Check out Romeo on the Tomb of Juliet for bitchin' horns.
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Jeza posted:Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights How are you so good with all things musical? You're like a human repository.
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Thanks a bunch guys. Another small/stupid question: Reza ¿What do you think/know about Camille Saint-Saen's Dance macabre? Hooah those horns DO have a massive bitch on. Dawncloack fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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I'm really not an expert on classical music. I've heard it before somewhere and that's about it. I can tell you that la danse macabre is a pretty old allegory. That's why there's so much medieval/Renaissance art of sweet dancing skeletons. It's generally just your regular meditation that we're all going to die and everybody is equal in death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_macabre_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns) Apparently it's a symphonic poem and comes attached to a poem at the bottom of the wiki page.
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Why has Uber suddenly stopped working on my iPhone6? It worked fine until a few weeks ago, now I get this unhelpful error 100% of the time: "Request failed. There was an error processing your request. If this continues please visit help.uber.com." Weird thing is, I can still book an Uber on my iPad...same location, same payment info, same wi-fi network. The website offers no help at all. There is nothing wrong with my payment method, and all settings are identical between the iPad and iPhone. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app. I have hard-booted the phone.
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About 8 years ago I had a really gross/weird thing happen and it remains unexplained to this day and is bugging me. Warning! It is gross. I woke up one morning and most of the skin on my palms had turned into some sort of disgusting yellow crust. It was peeling and translucent and would become sticky when wet. The best description of it I can think of was dried snot from someone with a really bad sinus infection, except it was the skin on my hands. By the early afternoon it was freaking me out so much I just went to town on it with a scrub brush and got rid of all of it, leaving the thin bloody, raw layers of skin underneath. It completely healed in like one day and never reoccured. At the time I convinced myself I had syphilis after going into a Web MD K-hole, but went into the doctor who tested me (and laughed when I told him what I thought I had) for that amongst other things, with no positive results, but I don't remember actually getting a good explanation for what the hell happened there and it remains baffling to me to this day. Looking around I figure it had to be some form of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desquamation but I have absolutely no idea what caused it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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What is the difference between these two? I want replacement cords for my headphone https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JE7BZ5I/ref=pd_luc_rh_mrairec_02_01_t_img_lh?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JKCHMM8/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AJFLJ7J2AIXGD
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veni veni veni posted:About 8 years ago I had a really gross/weird thing happen and it remains unexplained to this day and is bugging me. Warning! It is gross. I woke up one morning and most of the skin on my palms had turned into some sort of disgusting yellow crust. It was peeling and translucent and would become sticky when wet. The best description of it I can think of was dried snot from someone with a really bad sinus infection, except it was the skin on my hands. By the early afternoon it was freaking me out so much I just went to town on it with a scrub brush and got rid of all of it, leaving the thin bloody, raw layers of skin underneath. It completely healed in like one day and never reoccured. Did you use any kind of unusual cleaning product the day before? Maybe some strange hands sanitizer at a mall or something?
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Baron Porkface posted:What is the difference between these two? I want replacement cords for my headphone One difference is the price.  about $18.85 not including shipping.
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