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Grem posted:How does the plumbing work? What happens if your toilet is above someone else's bedroom? You put the pipes horizontally out the side of the bathroom. As it rotates, the poop is flung out into the street. Problem solved!  (Only poor people and foreigners will get drenched in poop as they walk below. But they aren't rich, so they don't matter)
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Cable Guy posted:Australian internet is so bad for gaming that roles are often excluded to Australians in squads from different countries. In Eve (a terrible spaceship game)™ for instance, if you were camping a gate with a group of goons, you'd not likely be picked as a drone trigger because no matter how fast your twitch reflexes were, you'd still have to make up for lag. On the other hand though, going through gate camps was marginally easier because game mechanics meant the lag was now in your favour. Time to be  !
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Memento posted:Man don't tell me I get to be smug about my internet speed for once! Humphreys posted:Time to be
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Cable Guy posted:Is that through mobile data, or a landline? Landline, HFC 100 plan. I don't know why it defaulted to that server, it usually goes to the Internode one, same as yours. Before I got this installed, I had basically the same internet as yours.
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Memento posted:Landline, HFC 100 plan. ..  Someone even suggested Dodo.  I worked tech support at both of those places before they were moved offshore... I know how badly they treat customers because I did the indoctrination.... 
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Man, loving Telstra. I moved into an apartment in St Kilda in 2008, and wanted a landline phone. Didn't think that was too much to ask of the national phone company. They gave me a connection date, November 4th - I remember because it was the day Obama won the election. The 4th came and went with no phone connection. I called them from work the next day, and they couldn't tell me why the connection hadn't gone through - "It was scheduled for the 4th, I'm not sure why it didn't work". It took the third person I was speaking to on that call to realise that the date had been entered as 04-NOV-2080.
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Memento posted:Man, loving Telstra. I moved into an apartment in St Kilda in 2008, and wanted a landline phone. Didn't think that was too much to ask of the national phone company. They gave me a connection date, November 4th - I remember because it was the day Obama won the election. The 4th came and went with no phone connection. I called them from work the next day, and they couldn't tell me why the connection hadn't gone through - "It was scheduled for the 4th, I'm not sure why it didn't work". It took the third person I was speaking to on that call to realise that the date had been entered as 04-NOV-2080. Edit: On reflection... November? Nope, I was sacked by then.
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 my new internet is great, but my friend in dallas has gigabit internet and it's ridiculous
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GotLag posted:NBN has been a fiasco, thanks Libs! I can kinda sympathize with that aspect though since, at least here in the states, we get tons and TONS of snail mail spam addressed to "Current Resident" instead of an actual person. I've never once seen anything legit addressed that way -- it's always junk mail.
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LifeSunDeath posted:
Yeah, it's pretty nice.  That's probably limited some by my router. It's plenty fast so I haven't bothered upgrading it.
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Deteriorata posted:Yeah, it's pretty nice. drat, but yeah you're missing out on some speed there, you could always just plug directly into the modem if you're not willing to upgrade your router/wireless card.
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Cable Guy posted:A friend just had confirmation that after 45 days loving round with Telstra she's getting her net connected tomorrow... I don't think it's an NBN area yet. I told her to take the cool-off and change to iiNet, but two friends chimed in saying Telstra was BETTER. One thing I will say is we had hour long hold times most nights and we would laugh so hard when getting that last call, saying hello a couple of times and hearing someone in the backgound scramble and scream dont hang up before...well hanging up. Or getting clients that had been on hold for just as long to unplug their phone while troubleshooting. fist4jesus fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Buff Skeleton posted:I can kinda sympathize with that aspect though since, at least here in the states, we get tons and TONS of snail mail spam addressed to "Current Resident" instead of an actual person. I've never once seen anything legit addressed that way -- it's always junk mail. Yeah if official gov't docs are getting sent to "resident" then l o loving l
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IPCRESS posted:Trusting a green light? That's a The flashing is because modern traffic lights are arrays of LEDs which rely on flashing fast enough for humans to see it as solid light due to persistence of vision. Some dashcams are either out of sync with the flashing or running at a high enough framerate to see the dim parts of their cycle.
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Mar 6, 2018 19:00
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Grem posted:How does the plumbing work? What happens if your toilet is above someone else's bedroom? Sewage helicopters for every apartment. Plumbing is mostly an afterthought in that area anyway. Ornamental Dingbat fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Fell into the YouTube "related videos" abyss during lunch today. Stumbled on this. Couldn't look away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07m_7-sIpE
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Mar 6, 2018 19:35
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ok just checking but did multiple people literally just post screenshots of their internet speed reports in this thread lol
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chrisgt posted:The ones I've used have a beefy reinforced gearbox, a lot more skookum than your average string trimmer. The blades are also designed for the purpose, you don't just bolt a dado on there and hope for the best. Great use of “skookum” there. Hell yeah.
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This sounds awful, I went to the carousel bar in NOLA and after an hour I felt awful and couldn't sit there anymore, I can't imagine being in a building for work (much less living) for 8 hours feeling that way.
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MF_James posted:This sounds awful, I went to the carousel bar in NOLA and after an hour I felt awful and couldn't sit there anymore lightweight, carousel is great
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Slotducks posted:How do those things *not* break and just fly into your unprotected shin? Having used one a million times. The trick is to not do that. Be quick and watch for barbed wire. Can the blade shatter? Yes. Just be quick. Avoid wearing shorts. If you do, wear the brown ones. Just like plunge cutting with a chainsaw. Tip your head to the side so that you only lose a shoulder if it kicks on you.
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boner confessor posted:lightweight, carousel is great I had also been drinking for ~10 hours at that point, I don't do well with motions that I am unable to control when I'm on the cusp of blacking out.
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MF_James posted:I had also been drinking for ~10 hours at that point, I don't do well with motions that I am unable to control when I'm on the cusp of blacking out.
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sandoz posted:ok just checking but As a consolation I just ran this one while operating a forklift: 
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ringu0 posted:how do you even exist on this here god's green constantly spinning earth lol there's a difference between a bar with a circumference of 30' and the earth spinning. I also can't read in a car, boat or airplane because I get motion sick from focusing on the pages for more than 10-15 seconds.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:I've been exposed to lead in the past and now I'm an idiot rear end in a top hat so it's extremely plausible. IMO. but I can't be sure it was the lead, it could have been many other continuous bad life choices I made for several years around that time. My take on it (I'm definitely not an academic) is that every generation is horrified at what the previous generation willingly exposed itself to. I'm sure that in 30 years I'll have to explain to my son that in my day it was perfectly normal to use sunscreen or whatever, and in another 30 years he'll be explaining to his kid that uploading your brain to the internet "seemed harmless at the time".
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chrisgt posted:You learn two things using it long enough. First, how to avoid kickbacks like that. Second, how to stay out of the path of the kickback. I've done a lot of jobs where someone didn't mow a section of their lawn for 10 years and suddenly they want it to be lawn again. It's an extremely useful tool for that. So is a backhoe, but that's not always practical... I use a Husqvarna one (old 250RX if I remember right), and it being attached to a harness makes it physically impossible to get the spinning blade anywhere near my body. Still gotta be careful and wear proper protective gear though!
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CollegeCop posted:Fell into the YouTube "related videos" abyss during lunch today. Stumbled on this. Couldn't look away. Amazing Techniques Woodworking You Have Never Seen - How To Installation A Wooden Staircase Treads "Bare feet are fine for most woodworking situations, but you may want to find appropriate PPE before you start pouring teakettles full of boiling glue all over the floor! We find open toed flip flops to work well!" 
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CollegeCop posted:Fell into the YouTube "related videos" abyss during lunch today. Stumbled on this. Couldn't look away. He forgot the insulation. Also, without a window at the landing to let light in, how will anyone safely navigate those?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Sewage helicopters for every apartment. Change the name to Lake Fulladookie
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That's an awesome video. I go through quite a bit of BLO. It's my favorite finish. I always shake the rag out and leave it loose on the concrete floor for a few days because I'm lazy. I sweep everything up every week or so. I'm a safety master! I always thought that oils had to be in a sealed container. to auto-ignite. I will be much more careful going forward. I've got all kinds of solvents and fuel sitting around. From now on, I'll let BLO cure before throwing away.
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mostlygray posted:I always thought that oils had to be in a sealed container. to auto-ignite. I will be much more careful going forward. I've got all kinds of solvents and fuel sitting around. From now on, I'll let BLO cure before throwing away. I know an older guy who had his workshop burn down over the weekend once, traced back to a pile of oily rags. He took the insurance money and retired after selling the block to a real estate developer. I guess the moral of this story is to always clump your oily rags in a pile 
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Memento posted:I know an older guy who had his workshop burn down over the weekend once, traced back to a pile of oily rags. The first movie studio I worked at burned down this way. Spontaneous combustion of oily rags during a summer hot spell.
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boner confessor posted:he has some goofy bespoke patented system based on dynamic couplings or something. he's been saying the tower will be built in a few years for the last decade lol if you can't afford an apartment the size of an entire floor
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Cable Guy posted:Is that through mobile data, or a landline? $75 NBN plan, granted it's unlimited data so my torrentbox gets a hell of a punishment. When I've called about an issue they comments 'oh you really do use the data!'
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Memento posted:Girl critical after electric shock from tap while watering garden I read some more and it turned out to be an open circuit neutral fault, so earth become neutral and can still give you shocks with a/c. It was a rental house so by WA law it should have RCDs and proper earth stake etc. The RCDs did trip, then the mum reset it back on* and then the girl got a shock. E: RCDs sometimes don't trip with this fault as neutral is directed connected to earth behind a switchboard anyway, but it did in this case. *(must have held it or something because the mum says she also got a shock from the switchboard) Fo3 fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:we had a change of government and they went "Eh, the internet isn't all that important is it? And putting into fibreoptic cables to every single house in Australia is going to be way too expensive!" so they downgraded the maximum speed to 25 Mbit/s and went with a FTTN (Fibre to the node) system where they installed fibreoptic cable to a cabinet somewhere in the neighbourhood and kept the good old fashioned copper cables to the individual houses. There is nothing wrong with copper over short distances. AT&Ts U-verse is DSL hit with a pretty big marketing hammer and they have no problem offering symmetric gig service. At least 1/2 the pictures in that link are 'I don't know what I'm looking at and it looks messy therefore bad'. A few of them are pretty bad, but for the most part they are good examples of the resiliency of the copper plant as very few actually have damaged splices. A few are poo poo-tastic work beyond what would be end of the telco's responsibility in the US.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Australian internet: 6 down, 1 up If it makes you feel better Alaska's is significantly worse.
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Wobbulated posted:If it makes you feel better Alaska's is significantly worse. Is it so bad that you have to game on AK only servers to get a good ping still?
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Is it so bad that you have to game on AK only servers to get a good ping still? Not a gamer but it wouldn't surprise me. We still had dialup until way into the 2000s. With our new upgrade I'm looking at 6 MBps but it was 3 and change until about a month ago.
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