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So I just moved into this new apartment and the lightbulbs on the ceiling are not bright at all so I want to buy new ones. The current ones are just regular non-LED bulbs that are about 20W 500 Lumens or so according to the bulb. Does that mean I can install a 20W LED bulb with 1500+ lumens without burning out anything? Lumens is just the brightest so its the wattage that I have to worry about, correct? The light bulb in the living room is 9 watts 800 lumens, would it be safe to install a 20 watt 1500 lumen bulb in there as well? It's an old building but I assume 20 watts is fine and I'm assuming it can handle the old 60 watt bulbs right? It doesn't say max wattage anywhere... Busy Bee fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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It should be fine but 1500 lumens is loving bright.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:31
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Yeah the dissipated power (wattage) rating is what matters for heat/current, which is the safety issue. With LEDs dissipating roughly 6x less power for the same light output as incandescents, you are going to need some serious bulbs before you start to stress the fixtures, which are usually marked as 40, 60, or 100 W max.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:52
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:It should be fine but 1500 lumens is loving bright. Yeah jeez, do they seriously make standard socket LEDs that high? If so I might have to get one for my houseplants.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:52
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Busy Bee posted:So I just moved into this new apartment and the lightbulbs on the ceiling are not bright at all so I want to buy new ones. The current ones are just regular non-LED bulbs that are about 20W 500 Lumens or so according to the bulb. Does that mean I can install a 20W LED bulb with 1500+ lumens without burning out anything? Make sure to save the old bulbs and put them back in before you move out. They're certainly cheaper than the ones you'll be buying to replace them with, so take the new ones with you when you go.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:58
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Yeah jeez, do they seriously make standard socket LEDs that high? If so I might have to get one for my houseplants. https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart-100-Watt-Equivalent-A19-Non-Dimmable-Basic-LED-Light-Bulb-Daylight-4-Pack-B6A19100WUL02/302539972 I put these in my hallway and it looked like a hospital.
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Apr 3, 2018 21:00
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Peristalsis posted:Make sure to save the old bulbs and put them back in before you move out. They're certainly cheaper than the ones you'll be buying to replace them with, so take the new ones with you when you go.  .
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Apr 3, 2018 21:03
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:It should be fine but 1500 lumens is loving bright. Is it? I have a 800 lumen bulb for my living room now and I wish it was brighter....
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Apr 3, 2018 21:12
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I was wearing a Kenneth Cole Reaction tie while changing my newborn who soon after peed on my tie. Soap and water to the tie should get it clean right?
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Apr 3, 2018 21:17
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Busy Bee posted:So I just moved into this new apartment and the lightbulbs on the ceiling are not bright at all so I want to buy new ones. The current ones are just regular non-LED bulbs that are about 20W 500 Lumens or so according to the bulb. Does that mean I can install a 20W LED bulb with 1500+ lumens without burning out anything? big crush on Chad OMG posted:It should be fine but 1500 lumens is loving bright.
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Apr 3, 2018 21:34
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Gobbeldygook posted:LED bulbs are now equal or cheaper than CFLs in price. You can buy a 16 pack of Philips 800 lumen/60w equivalent LED bulbs for I guess I assumed the original bulbs were incandescent. Regardless, there's no reason to throw away the old bulbs and leave your new bulbs in there. Put the lousy ones back and take your good ones with you to the next place you live.
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Apr 3, 2018 22:50
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Peristalsis posted:I guess I assumed the original bulbs were incandescent.
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Apr 3, 2018 22:53
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twodot posted:If you're moving, the last thing you should be caring about is 20 bucks worth of lightbulbs. Well sure, if you're a mature, well-adjusted adult or something. If you're petty and vindictive like me, save your light bulbs.
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Apr 4, 2018 01:13
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twodot posted:If you're moving, the last thing you should be caring about is 20 bucks worth of lightbulbs. Spoken like someone who doesn't move every couple of years.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:54
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twodot posted:If you're moving, the last thing you should be caring about is 20 bucks worth of lightbulbs. It's always the tenant arguing about how much deposit they should get back, saying "but I didn't have time to clean!!", who is standing on a folding chair putting the CFL back in the bathroom light fixture so they can take the slightly newer CFL with them.
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Apr 4, 2018 05:48
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If you really want to be thrifty, save all of your dead lightbulbs and swap out to them when you move out, if the landlord questions it, shrug your shoulders and say “power surge last night I guess”.
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Apr 4, 2018 12:20
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bongwizzard posted:If you really want to be thrifty, save all of your dead lightbulbs and swap out to them when you move out, if the landlord questions it, shrug your shoulders and say “power surge last night I guess”. Most apartments I’ve stayed at have charged a ~$20 fee for each dead lightbulb when you move out. If you make a service request the day before you move out they’ll come replace them for free, but if they’re dead when you leave you have to pay.
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Apr 4, 2018 13:27
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Is it better to puke after you drink a lot? Or should you try to keep it down? I’m a wuss and gotta puke after like 10 shots, but I’m wondering if it might somehow be better to keep it in my system.
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Apr 4, 2018 16:00
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Ten shots would make me puke whether I wanted to or not. In theory if you puke somewhat soon after drinking, you will expel a significant portion of the alcohol before it begins to be absorbed into your system. That is what the vomit mechanism is for, after all. Squibsy fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Apr 4, 2018 16:13
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Vegetable posted:Is it better to puke after you drink a lot? Or should you try to keep it down? I’m a wuss and gotta puke after like 10 shots, but I’m wondering if it might somehow be better to keep it in my system. I mean if you have to puke after you drink, then you drank too much. Nothing wrong with being a lightweight.
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Apr 4, 2018 16:14
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I knew somebody who would throw up upon drinking even a tiny amount of alcohol, without fail, but would then be fine to continue drinking the whole night. I was like...drat, I'd really consider not drinking at that point, but he was completely inured to it and didn't even care. Mmmm ingrained drinking culture (it was in Scotland).
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Apr 4, 2018 16:26
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Jeza posted:I knew somebody who would throw up upon drinking even a tiny amount of alcohol, without fail, but would then be fine to continue drinking the whole night. I was like...drat, I'd really consider not drinking at that point, but he was completely inured to it and didn't even care. Mmmm ingrained drinking culture (it was in Scotland). Sounds like an alcoholic who takes antabuse
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Apr 4, 2018 16:37
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syscall girl posted:Sounds like an alcoholic who takes antabuse Never seen that before, pretty cool. 99% sure he wasn't an alkie though. Just a weird physiological reaction. He said he didn't even feel nauseous, just had this sudden emetic response. Big ol' world out there.
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Apr 4, 2018 16:43
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That happens to me when I drink, probably due to being a type 1 diabetic. Three shots, ten minutes, and a blood sugar spike later and I just horf with no notice. I stopped drinking in bars because of it. It's common enough with diabetics that we never shut up whining about it. I had a question but now I'm mad at my pancreas and forgot it.
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Apr 4, 2018 17:33
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Jeza posted:Never seen that before, pretty cool. 99% sure he wasn't an alkie though. Just a weird physiological reaction. He said he didn't even feel nauseous, just had this sudden emetic response. Big ol' world out there. I had that reaction (immediate vomiting) for any alcohol over around 20% ABV (so all straight liquors) after one college night. It wore off after about 10 years.
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Apr 4, 2018 17:58
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I handled some raw beef a few days ago with a small cut on my finger, and I've had poor sleep and irritability ever since. Is it possible I have mad cow disease?
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I mean, it's possible, but prion diseases take longer than days to present themselves. CDC even notes that they are known for their long incubation periods. So if you have it, it's from earlier exposure, or your current symptoms aren't from it but from something else. e: When I say possible I mean in the strictest sense of the word. You are very unlikely to have mad cow disease unless you've been munching on cows or cow brain matter in at risk areas. Also if you eat venison from deer with wasting disease you have a chance of being patient zero for a new prion disease, but there have been no recorded incidents of wasting disease crossing to humans yet. CrazySalamander fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I handled some raw beef a few days ago with a small cut on my finger, and I've had poor sleep and irritability ever since. Is it possible I have mad cow disease? I'll assume you're not joking: Creutzfeldt-Jakob takes literally decades to manifest. EDIT: are you under 45? If you had mad cow, you'd probably be the first to manifest symptoms that early.
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Apr 4, 2018 22:20
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Most apartments I’ve stayed at have charged a ~$20 fee for each dead lightbulb when you move out. If you make a service request the day before you move out they’ll come replace them for free, but if they’re dead when you leave you have to pay. I was actually just being sarcastic and lovely, but that is a heinously bad lease.
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Apr 4, 2018 22:25
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Thanatosian posted:I'll assume you're not joking: Creutzfeldt-Jakob takes literally decades to manifest. One of the most famous cases back in the 90s was in his 20s wasn't he? e: https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1040/mad-cow-disease/timeline-mad-cow-disease-outbreaks posted:May 1995 19 syscall girl fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Apr 4, 2018 22:56
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Most apartments I’ve stayed at have charged a ~$20 fee for each dead lightbulb when you move out. If you make a service request the day before you move out they’ll come replace them for free, but if they’re dead when you leave you have to pay. What happens if they're not dead, just empty sockets? Sorry I got halfway through changing it, don't charge me 
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Apr 4, 2018 23:00
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twodot posted:If you're moving, the last thing you should be caring about is 20 bucks worth of lightbulbs. whenever I move apartment, I fill a couple of 50 gallon barrels with water and transport them to my new place. it gets me a couple months worth of water and the bill ends up not being my problem.
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Apr 5, 2018 00:16
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A guy I'm working with emailed me a couple of things as QR codes and says he doesn't know how to send them any other way. I've never used QR codes before and have no idea how to translate them into... whatever they are. Is there a website or something I can use to do that? I'm not even sure what type of content to expect. I've just got these two .png images on my computer and no idea what to do with them.
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Apr 5, 2018 03:13
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Tiggum posted:A guy I'm working with emailed me a couple of things as QR codes and says he doesn't know how to send them any other way. I've never used QR codes before and have no idea how to translate them into... whatever they are. Is there a website or something I can use to do that? I'm not even sure what type of content to expect. I've just got these two .png images on my computer and no idea what to do with them. QR codes just encode a bit of text, usually a link to what you want. You usually scan them with phone cameras, but if you've got them on your computer you can upload them to a website like this (not an endorsement, just the first google result) to presumably do the same.
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Apr 5, 2018 03:34
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AlphaKretin posted:QR codes just encode a bit of text, usually a link to what you want. You usually scan them with phone cameras, but if you've got them on your computer you can upload them to a website like this (not an endorsement, just the first google result) to presumably do the same. 
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Apr 5, 2018 04:06
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Wtf is going on that a person would only know QR codes???
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Apr 5, 2018 04:10
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Wtf is going on that a person would only know QR codes??? I have no idea what's up with this guy, he just seems to over-complicate everything. Like, we started out emailing but then he wanted to switch to WhatsApp - but half of us don't use that, so then he insisted we switch to a shared Google doc as a sort of super-inconvenient group-chat platform. I suggested Facebook but he wouldn't use that, even though he said he did have an account, he just didn't want to use it. And now instead of working on Google docs he's started some PowerPoint Online thing (that I've never used before) and sent me these links to some site called Padlet (as QR codes) that he's got some more stuff on. And all that on top of texting and phoning individual people about random poo poo instead of sending emails to the group. Nothing he does makes any sense to me.
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Tiggum posted:I have no idea what's up with this guy, he just seems to over-complicate everything. Like, we started out emailing but then he wanted to switch to WhatsApp - but half of us don't use that, so then he insisted we switch to a shared Google doc as a sort of super-inconvenient group-chat platform. I suggested Facebook but he wouldn't use that, even though he said he did have an account, he just didn't want to use it. And now instead of working on Google docs he's started some PowerPoint Online thing (that I've never used before) and sent me these links to some site called Padlet (as QR codes) that he's got some more stuff on. And all that on top of texting and phoning individual people about random poo poo instead of sending emails to the group. Nothing he does makes any sense to me. I love this man. Can you send me a QR code so that I can meet him? He is the edge case of every webapp.
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Tiggum posted:I have no idea what's up with this guy, he just seems to over-complicate everything. Like, we started out emailing but then he wanted to switch to WhatsApp - but half of us don't use that, so then he insisted we switch to a shared Google doc as a sort of super-inconvenient group-chat platform. I suggested Facebook but he wouldn't use that, even though he said he did have an account, he just didn't want to use it. And now instead of working on Google docs he's started some PowerPoint Online thing (that I've never used before) and sent me these links to some site called Padlet (as QR codes) that he's got some more stuff on. And all that on top of texting and phoning individual people about random poo poo instead of sending emails to the group. Nothing he does makes any sense to me. whatever work this dude is supposed to be doing, he's not going to do it
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A friend of mine is studying in the Ukraine, and they're currently being cheated by their landlord who is asking for gas and electric bills that are too expensive. Is there a Ukrainian equivalent of the UK's Citizens Advice Bureau? A number you can call up to get advice about particular problems? I've had issues with landlords in the past, and the CAB has always been really good help, but I can't find anything similar in the Ukraine.
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