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Humphreys posted:I knew a kid at school that enjoyed hooking a 9V battery to his braces. That kid is going places. Probably not college, but places.
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Improbable Lobster posted:The only part where a self driving truck would actually be useful, long hauls on highways, is easy as gently caress and the cheapest part of trucking. It actually makes 0 economic sense to replace drivers with computers, especially since the current best self-driving car prototype requires the roadway to be mapped out to the millimeter and a LIDAR system that costs more than a new car. I'm catching up on this thread and I'm obviously way behind, but this guy gets it. There is zero chance anyone will even demo a self driving truck in our lifetime let alone build enough that anyone will be able to purchase one. Self driving trucks and cars are complete vaporware hogwash that will never ever drive on public roads. I'd eat a hat if I could somehow be forced to from beyond the grave if I'm wrong that it won't happen in my great grandchildrens' lifetime. http://fortune.com/2017/12/07/anheuser-busch-tesla-semi-trucks/ https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14687346/uber-self-driving-car-arizona-pilot-ducey-california https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16614388/las-vegas-self-driving-shuttle-navya-keolis-aaa http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-functions-and-technology-2017-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0Kzb3haK8
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Nocheez posted:Homegrown content: In the mid-90s, I ran network cable through the rafters of a warehouse this way. The world was a different place.
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wdarkk posted:Styrofoam factory? I was going to go with Aerogel.
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wdarkk posted:Styrofoam factory? Cement factory, he just ate his vegetables as a kid and how he's super strong.
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Superman having to moonlight to pay the bills because of the lovely economy, something he can't fix by bench pressing.
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*shudder* That gives me flashbacks. Styro plants are not fun places to work (at the least, the one I spent time at back in the early nineties wasn't). I did plenty of factory work when I was younger, and if you could get into the headspace of "you're here solely because you're slightly cheaper than the machine that can do the same work", and let your mind wander, it wasn't so bad. But the styro place was something else. Razor-thin staffing (I worked nights), and enough stuff happening with the machines that you had to be *focused* on the work, the whole time. And the moulded stuff is sopping with water when it comes out the machines. 12-hour shifts, running up and down a plant-floor, getting soaking wet while martialing stacks of styro boxes about the place. And you better keep up, because those fuckers didn't wait for no man - nothing like looking down the other end of the floor and seeing a line of shite snaking into the wall and backing up into the machine (they came out taped into stacks). Sifting through rotten farm produce looking for the not-too-rotten stuff to re-pack? Whatever. My time roofing? Often enjoyable, for all the cuts, burns, and a couple of bad falls. Cosmetics factories? There were people to talk to, at least. But the styro place? *gently caress* that place. gently caress it forever.  *ahem* magimix fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Look, it's real easy. You either say "The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted but their shoes stayed on" or "The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted and their shoes went flying off" and there won't be any ambiguity as to whether they died. The child was killed to death.
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That a track for a chairlift?
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Azhais posted:That a track for a chairlift? Nope, they're semi-common in the Netherlands. They're to roll a bicycle down into a storage basement. Saves you from carrying the bike down the stairs on your shoulder. You just need to keep the handbrake pressed while going down or you might lose control of the bike.
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Humphreys posted:I knew a kid at school that enjoyed hooking a 9V battery to his braces. One time when I was a child I hooked an electric model rocket launcher to my braces; one alligator clip on the top row, one alligator clip on the bottom row. I'll never forget how it seemed like my mouth was vibrating open and closed for an eternity with a quick press and release of the launch button!
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Carbon dioxide posted:Nope, they're semi-common in the Netherlands. They're to roll a bicycle down into a storage basement. Saves you from carrying the bike down the stairs on your shoulder. You just need to keep the handbrake pressed while going down or you might lose control of the bike. Now you're going to have to explain Dutch bicycles. Because American bicycles would only need one ramp to do that.
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Ceiling fan posted:Now you're going to have to explain Dutch bicycles. Because American bicycles would only need one ramp to do that. I feel like the one on the left was put in too close to the wall (seems like there's not enough room for the handlebars & pedals), and they just left it there when they put in the railing and second ramp.
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magimix posted:*shudder* Solidarity brother, worked the line for a few months for peanuts. Loud as gently caress too, so you just had no way to talk to anyone. And, the machines didn't stop so everyone had staggered 10 minute breaks. You basically did the whole drudgery shift alone. Started driving the forklift whenever the hired driver wasn't around and they figured I could do that job better.
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Ceiling fan posted:Now you're going to have to explain Dutch bicycles. Because American bicycles would only need one ramp to do that. Those stairs aren't even 50% grade, an American would just ride down them.
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TVs Ian posted:I feel like the one on the left was put in too close to the wall (seems like there's not enough room for the handlebars & pedals), and they just left it there when they put in the railing and second ramp. Indeed.
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shame on an IGA posted:Those stairs aren't even 50% grade, an American would just ride down them. I'm Canadian, not American, but I would totally ride straight down those stairs. I'd still want the track for the ride back up though.
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Those kind of tracks are very common in Holland but we do put them on the right side of the handrail
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Crust First posted:One time when I was a child I hooked an electric model rocket launcher to my braces; one alligator clip on the top row, one alligator clip on the bottom row. Are you Australian, and if so is your name Tobias?
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How did Otto go from Airplane! to driving a beer truck?
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Azhais posted:That a track for a chairlift? Do baby strollers still exist in the US, or do they all have V8s and cup holders now?
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Rectus posted:Do baby strollers still exist in the US, or do they all have V8s and cup holders now? Depending in the state that can mean the engine or the drink or both.
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Can't quite understand what's going on here. Both of those screws should be screwed into the same metal (presumably metal, I guess it could be plastic but that wouldn't make it any easier to understand) box thereby reducing the possiblility for voltage between them almost impossible.
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In the replies: https://twitter.com/kenkeiter/status/942120356671774720
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Fern Gully and All Dogs Go to Heaven had some nightmare-inducing imagery for ~8 year old me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFGBtsfLSM So the host has changed but it is the same home. However, the new host is just as dumb: molten aluminium splashed on to the cameraperson's eyeglasses and camera after having poured it on a wet clay mould.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Can't quite understand what's going on here. Both of those screws should be screwed into the same metal (presumably metal, I guess it could be plastic but that wouldn't make it any easier to understand) box thereby reducing the possiblility for voltage between them almost impossible.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Can't quite understand what's going on here. Both of those screws should be screwed into the same metal (presumably metal, I guess it could be plastic but that wouldn't make it any easier to understand) box thereby reducing the possiblility for voltage between them almost impossible. 
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96 Port Hub posted:There is zero chance anyone will even demo a self driving truck in our lifetime you linked a demonstration in that same post. Lol.
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Keiya posted:you linked a demonstration in that same post. Lol. congrats you figured it out!!
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Mines are already using them. https://qz.com/874589/rio-tinto-is-using-self-driving-416-ton-trucks-to-haul-raw-materials-around-australia/
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Do they have their safety ground tied to neutral and another problem (ex. interrupted neutral in another switch rather than hot) or is it just not tied to anything and they have a fault to chassis? I notice that one switch is turned on, so I don't think it's tied right to hot. e: Or is safety tied to the secondary of the switch? I tend to assume understandable mistakes, that's pretty dumb. e2: I work with electronics not wiring, I think I get it now after refreshing myself on wiring. The wired an output to a lamp or something into safety thinking it was a neutral wire and just as good as the real thing. Or I'm wrong. SillyOldBag fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Why does that show the same type of switch twice, once labeling it hot and once labeling it ground/neutral? This picture makes no sense.
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