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Thirteen Orphans posted:If the average person eats four eggs for breakfast how long should they wait before exercising? Just exercise fasted unless you’re planning to do more than ~90 minutes of cardio.
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I put some anodised aluminium cups through the dishwasher. They came out dull and kinda rough feeling. Are they ruined? They're just cheap things from Kmart, so I'm quite inclined to throw them out.
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Memento posted:I put some anodised aluminium cups through the dishwasher. They came out dull and kinda rough feeling. Are they ruined? They're just cheap things from Kmart, so I'm quite inclined to throw them out. Do they still hold water?
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Jan 26, 2020 05:18
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Just exercise fasted unless you’re planning to do more than ~90 minutes of cardio. This answers the question I should have asked, thanks!
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Jan 26, 2020 06:42
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I realize this question comes dangerously close to  but I'm asking a why, not a how/where.Many pirated movies and shows these days include text files for subtitles in many languages. This is a good thing, and it's in keeping with piratical tradition (most pirate ships were pegleg-accessible, after all). But one thing strikes me as odd. Consider a movie that's mostly in English -- typical American pop-culture fare, let's say -- but it has a few brief sections in another language. Why do the pirated versions almost never include a subtitle file that includes captions for only the non-English parts, to replicate the experience you would have gotten with a theater/tape/DVD in an English-speaking country? You'd think such a thing would be very much in demand, but it never seems to exist.
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Jan 27, 2020 02:41
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Powered Descent posted:I realize this question comes dangerously close to Typically movies that contain those sections either have hard-coded subs included in the movie, or they don't. So it's up to the movie itself to provide the subs. To replicate the theatre experience just turn off subs entirely. e: I think I saw this last with the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan show on amazon prime, it had double subtitles on-screen as some characters spoke a non-english language and the TV show provided subs as did the Prime streaming service.
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Jan 27, 2020 02:46
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If the pirate has to lovingly sub the show by hand there's a chance the work they put out will be magnificently awful. just ask English speaking anime fans who were watching in the 00s.
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Jan 27, 2020 02:52
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StrixNebulosa posted:Typically movies that contain those sections either have hard-coded subs included in the movie, or they don't. So it's up to the movie itself to provide the subs. To replicate the theatre experience just turn off subs entirely. Azza Bamboo posted:If the pirate has to lovingly sub the show by hand there's a chance the work they put out will be magnificently awful. I fully appreciate the effect of laziness but I doubt the pirates hand-typed the subs in the two or three dozen languages that normally come with the video. (And the full English subtitles work fine, you just have to turn them on and off.) All I'm wondering is why I've never seen a file for "subs only when the dialogue is in a foreign language" that you'd normally get by default when watching the media from a legit source. My question may or may not have been occasioned by the Klingon-language scenes in Star Trek VI which, when we saw there were no hard-coded subtitles in the video itself, meant we had to pause everything and go digging around through the subtitle files, and then had to guess when to turn them on. (I make no apologies for torrenting a movie that also I own at least two legal copies of, and this is far from the first time this very situation has happened.)
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Jan 27, 2020 03:30
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Is it still cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buy one that's already been built? Someone told me that crypto dipshits ruined the whole market for video cards and that prebuilt PCs are cheaper than they used to be so it's not worth building your own anymore.
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Jan 27, 2020 06:22
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Classon Ave. Robot posted:Is it still cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buy one that's already been built? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903626 This thread can probably give you a more update to date answer than I can. It's probably still cheaper to do it yourself. Crypto dipshits ruining the price for GPUs affects prebuilts, as well.
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Jan 27, 2020 06:47
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Prebuilts almost always skimp on some part or another so the PC ends up under powered. Usually it's the graphics card, hard drive, something like that.
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Jan 27, 2020 07:00
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Haven't the crypto dipshits been taken care of yet by weirdly specialized chips and stuff? Or are they still loving up the GPU market?
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Jan 27, 2020 08:32
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Trapick posted:Haven't the crypto dipshits been taken care of yet by weirdly specialized chips and stuff? Or are they still loving up the GPU market?
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Jan 27, 2020 08:56
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Is there some way to have Firefox on a Mac read emails to me from Gmail? I know the Mail app that comes pre-installed on all Macs will do this, but I'm not a huge fan of it and would rather use the Gmail interface. e: Never mind, I found a way to do this! kedo fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 17:51
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I have often wondered Cheetos puffy or crunchy which is better and why asking for a friend...
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Jan 28, 2020 06:32
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Would you hyphenate the first adjective when listing multiple compound adjectives? For example: "...awarded to 2nd and 3rd-year students." vs. "...awarded to 2nd and 3rd year students". Or would you hyphenate both ("2nd- and 3rd- year...")?
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Jan 29, 2020 04:21
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Instrumedley posted:Would you hyphenate the first adjective when listing multiple compound adjectives? For example: I've always seen it the third way.
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Jan 29, 2020 04:39
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My way is the third way. I’m also weird
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Jan 29, 2020 07:31
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"2nd- and 3rd-year"
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Jan 29, 2020 07:42
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Jan 29, 2020 15:28
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PRADA SLUT posted:It's also the fact that it's stupidly inconvenient to do so. There's this prevailing opinion that peoples are being cute and clever by trying to move their email account over or whatever, but Google didn't build the empire it has if it could be defeated by This One Weird Trick. Whoa, this is really interesting and informative, much appreciated.
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Jan 29, 2020 21:43
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Powered Descent posted:I fully appreciate the effect of laziness but I doubt the pirates hand-typed the subs in the two or three dozen languages that normally come with the video. (And the full English subtitles work fine, you just have to turn them on and off.) All I'm wondering is why I've never seen a file for "subs only when the dialogue is in a foreign language" that you'd normally get by default when watching the media from a legit source. The pirates are using either DVD/BR subtitles auto-extracted, or just used something like https://www.opensubtitles.org/ and picked the first option that didn't suck. Some do it only for foreign languages but usually it's too much of a pain in the arse to be picky - these seeders are looking for a quick way to share at a set minimum quality, not to provide the best possible experience.
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Jan 29, 2020 21:46
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Tesseraction posted:The pirates are using either DVD/BR subtitles auto-extracted, or just used something like https://www.opensubtitles.org/ and picked the first option that didn't suck. Some do it only for foreign languages but usually it's too much of a pain in the arse to be picky - these seeders are looking for a quick way to share at a set minimum quality, not to provide the best possible experience. hm. what in your opinion motivates these seeders?
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Jan 29, 2020 21:53
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Classon Ave. Robot posted:Is it still cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buy one that's already been built? Pretty much always cheaper to build it. Pre-built computers have huge markups and almost always have lovely components gotten as cheaply as possible put in them. This is fine for, say, getting grandma a computer so she can type letters, send e-mail, and read Wikipedia. It's also fine for an office worker that needs to pretend to fill out spreadsheets nobody will ever look at while listening to podcasts. In that case the office is probably buying in bulk so that's an extra discount. Pre-built gaming PCs often come with extraneous fancy-looking bullshit stapled on to make it look cool rather than actually being good. But yeah, cypto idiots have ended up causing video cards to be more expensive than they should be. Even so, depending on your budget, you can shop around to find stuff like quality but not particularly popular components, special package deals, or stuff that's half a generation behind but still good. There are also things like random sales and whatnot. Plus you can just customize it to whatever you're doing. Building a computer to play current generation shooters has requirements that "I just want to play puzzle games a lot" doesn't. I haven't bought a pre-canned computer in a long time and don't really care to; building them isn't all that difficult and saves you a ton of money pretty much no matter what.
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Jan 29, 2020 22:15
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Pretty much always cheaper to build it. Pre-built computers have huge markups and almost always have lovely components gotten as cheaply as possible put in them. This is fine for, say, getting grandma a computer so she can type letters, send e-mail, and read Wikipedia. It's also fine for an office worker that needs to pretend to fill out spreadsheets nobody will ever look at while listening to podcasts. In that case the office is probably buying in bulk so that's an extra discount. Pre-built gaming PCs often come with extraneous fancy-looking bullshit stapled on to make it look cool rather than actually being good. Computers last basically forever now. Its not 2005 anymore. I built my own computer in 2012 with a excessively high budget of 2000, including monitors, case, keyboard, etc and its still fully capable of doing anything I want and will be good for probably another 8 years.
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Jan 29, 2020 23:30
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owlhawk911 posted:hm. what in your opinion motivates these seeders? This is the stupid/small questions thread not the philosophy of different forms of copyright infringement thread. There is a serious answer that mostly focuses on the fact that the first uploaded tends to be the torrent that does the best, and that usually rewards the quick'n'dirty method. This isn't me knocking that method per se. Other than to be a Good Citizen and say copyright infringement is bad and you should not do it. Can you take the gun away from my head now, please, officer? Oh sorry the mic is still on SEND POST
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Jan 30, 2020 00:23
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I just found a whole lot of ants congregating all over a box of tissues in my house. I followed the train of ants back to the crack in the windowsill they were coming in through and sealed it up, which usually keeps them out for a decent while, but I'm curious about what attracted them to the tissues - because they were very clearly going after them like as though they were food. Is it the aloe vera in them maybe?
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Jan 30, 2020 14:46
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Where do I go to post about the coronavirus?
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Jan 30, 2020 21:26
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StrixNebulosa posted:Where do I go to post about the coronavirus? The Goon Doctor has this one brand new thread, that's all I was able to find.
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Jan 30, 2020 21:57
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Is there still a thread for finding the name of a game? I have a weird request but I can’t seem to find the thread anymore.
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Jan 30, 2020 22:07
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Tiggum posted:I just found a whole lot of ants congregating all over a box of tissues in my house. I followed the train of ants back to the crack in the windowsill they were coming in through and sealed it up, which usually keeps them out for a decent while, but I'm curious about what attracted them to the tissues - because they were very clearly going after them like as though they were food. Is it the aloe vera in them maybe? Are they scented? When I've cleaned bathrooms at the local park I've noticed all sorts of bugs are real attracted to the sinks on the ladies' side, presumably because of all the girly-scented bath products (and I know it's not recommended to use pretty-smelling products when you're out hiking during bug season.)
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Jan 30, 2020 22:12
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Fruits of the sea posted:Is there still a thread for finding the name of a game? I have a weird request but I can’t seem to find the thread anymore. UK goon discord leapt to your rescue (h/t Minty) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2925708
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Jan 30, 2020 23:33
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This one goes to HR and other Hiring Goons - Does a cover letter make a difference? Has there ever been a time where you thought "Well, his resume's good, but no cover letter. Too bad"?
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Jan 31, 2020 00:00
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Tesseraction posted:UK goon discord leapt to your rescue (h/t Minty) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2925708 I'ma need info on this UK Goon Discord please.
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I'm not in HR, but I work in the engineering department at a big tech company. Resumes and cover letters get fed into automated text parses to look for keywords, and are assigned a rating based on the frequency of the keywords, the presence of certain phrases, the proportion of keywords to other text, the use of pleasantries, and anything else that one particular HR department cares about. The highest rated ones are reviewed by a human. Depending on how their system works, including a cover letter can either boost your score, lower your score due to the presence of unimportant words, have no effect, or ensure that you don't get automatically failed for giving the company a low effort application.
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Qubee posted:I'ma need info on this UK Goon Discord please. It's the UKMT discord really. While we lean left politically it's not an exclusionary zone but if you won't want political poo poo constantly in main chat it won't be your scene. If you want to join then by all means ask in the D&D UKMT thread (I'd offer an invite but I don't have access).
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Jan 31, 2020 00:32
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Stupid poo poo but I returned a $200 item to Amazon over a month ago because what I got was damaged and wasn't the right item. I get my refund. 3 days ago I get a charge for the same item and today I went through 40 minutes of CS hell for them regurgitate exactly what the problem was as a reason to charge me again. They've told me that the item was disposed and want me to return the correct item, which I clearly don't fucken have. I spoke to a supervisor and he submitted a request to have it investigated. So I'll have to wait 3 business days though I think I'll be SOL. What should I do here short of a chargeback?
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Jan 31, 2020 01:10
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Tesseraction posted:UK goon discord leapt to your rescue (h/t Minty) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=2925708 Thanks!
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Fruits of the sea posted:Thanks! I tend to not reply to most posts like this because I don't want to spam the thread, but I want to reiterate to people who post thanks-posts that I'm always happy to have helped people. You're all always welcome! *never posts helpfully in this thread again*
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