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Mister Facetious posted:does anyone here know of an easy to apply, readily available lubricant that sticks well and is heat resistant to about 500f or higher? Graphite might be worth a look -- it should be fine at high temperatures, but it may or may not stick well enough for you.
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PTFE lubricant is good up to 475 F
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alnilam posted:PTFE lubricant is good up to 475 F Probably not good enough, this is an industrial oven
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If you google "500 F lubricant" you can see many choices on e.g. Grainger's website (filtered to those with operating temperatures >= 500F). Most of them seem to be Li or PTFE or silicone containing greases.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Double post for my question: As an avid runner who likes to run with as little stuff as possible I've still got a card and cash on me despite my watch being able to make payments because that poo poo is super easy to carry and has a much greater chance at being able to be accepted. This has the added advantage of not looking like your trying out for Cirque du Soleil when the payment machine is up on a deli counter or something and your arm doesn't quite twist that way - which is a thing I have seen happen on more than a handful of occasions now. Anyone with a smart watch that can make payments who also isn't carrying a card / cash with them is definitely being a freak and you can safely treat them with scorn.
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" and I keep getting customers huffing and having to ask their spouses/friends they're shopping with to borrow a card or pay for it.
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Blue Labrador posted:In hotels, what does a concierge do exactly? I've landed an interview for that position and I want to know what I'm in for. A concierge is supposed to connect guests with services (internal and external), serve as an information repository if they want to know about the area, and serve as a de facto customer complaint/service line So in practice it's calling cabs for people too old to use Uber, getting the shuttle driver to bring the van around, having stuff brought up to guests, and having answers to the questions "what's good to eat around here" and "what's fun to do around here"
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Unless you’re interviewing at a REALLY nice hotel but I’m not sure one of those would interview somebody with no concierge experience
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All right guys, that makes sense, thank you!Badger of Basra posted:Unless you’re interviewing at a REALLY nice hotel but I’m not sure one of those would interview somebody with no concierge experience Yeah no lol. It's not a bad hotel at all, but it's nowhere near ritzy.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Double post for my question: If you mean paying by tapping with your smart phone, then yes, it is so ubiquitous that I would rely on that completely, I no longer carry a wallet or cash, I expect everyone takes it, because everyone does take it, without issue. The one exception in the last year or 3 was a parking garage, and they didn't take any form of tap payment, and it was a massive pain in the arse. I've never had a problem at any POS, I suggest you look at upgrading as a priority. edit - In Australia at least, if that makes a difference Bucky Fullminster fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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It does because (apparently) US payment infrastructure is very behind the times
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Bucky Fullminster posted:edit - In Australia at least, if that makes a difference It makes every difference, tap-to-pay coverage sucks in US
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Chip readers aren't even 100% prevalent here. 2 times in the last month I've used a magnetic stripe reader to pay for something.
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Yeah, the US was basically just starting to see widespread use of chip readers since like 2016~ or so, and I’m pretty sure a lot of banks didn’t start including them in cards until around the same time, when discussions here in other threads made it clear they’d already been common in Europe and elsewhere for years. They’re common now, but that took a good 5~ years to be a thing, and you’ll still find more places that require you to swipe than take tap payments. Tap-to-pay is is very rare, even with major retailers in heavily populated areas.
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dupersaurus posted:It makes every difference, tap-to-pay coverage sucks in US You can blame retailers wanting customer data for that one
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lmao sorry maybe try upgrading your backward-rear end country then
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:You can blame retailers wanting customer data for that one It's also a slow process to add new systems to a POS and a ton of retailers only just got the chip stuff a few years before, so I imagine most don't want to go through all that again for much of the contactless stuff unless they are forced to do so, or see profit in it somehow. To give an example, I was working at Bed Bath & Beyond when they went through the transition to add chip readers. The new pin pads with them were installed in late 2015, but it took over a year before they had the software to actually use read the chips, and there were still other stores in the area that hadn't gotten that software upgrade when I left the company in early 2019. It required a host of backend updates that I'm sure probably cost something, and created some issues with people trying to return something bought with a chip in one store that was being returned in another location that didn't have it yet. Keep in mind, this was a company that was still heavily using old IBM 4600~ registers like this:  In most stores until like 2018, and a backend POS system originally from 1991 at most of their locations, and upgrading all of that was even slower. I'm pretty sure the main reason they even had the new pin pads in late 2015 at all was there was some deadline (I believe October 2015) regarding liability shifting, so having the pin pads showed they were in the process of becoming chip compliant even if they weren't. I can't imagine a lot of big retailers that only finished becoming chip compliant in the last few years are eager to go through another round of upgrades for tap-to-pay or whatever. Bucky Fullminster posted:lmao sorry maybe try upgrading your backward-rear end country then That cuts into profits and we can't have that 
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I'm losing my mind. Y'all are supposed to be about "free enterprise" and poo poo, and you can't even get this right. Any small trader or market stall can get a square reader that takes smart phones. It's really not that hard. Every small business can set it up in minutes. I'm starting to think it's not even about capitalism anymore, america just wants to make its citizens suffer.
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cherished memories going to the states ~2014, tapping my credit card on a POS that only did chip (w/o pin??) and the clerk looking like i was the biggest idiot in the world
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I feel like this is also pretty varied depending on where you are in the US, like in the Pacific Northwest metro areas I'd say most small businesses will take tap to pay (most use Square so it's built in), most grocers have updated as well. There are definitely still places that have ancient POS systems or are basically cash only (weed dispensaries for example) but they're not exactly ubiquitous, I could see it being a different story in small town middle America though Only having your phone as your sole method of payment feels like a bit of a liability to me (what if it dies??) but that's just my onion, I suppose it isn't functionally that much different than only carrying cards
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I feel like this is also pretty varied depending on where you are in the US, like in the Pacific Northwest metro areas I'd say most small businesses will take tap to pay (most use Square so it's built in), most grocers have updated as well. There are definitely still places that have ancient POS systems or are basically cash only (weed dispensaries for example) but they're not exactly ubiquitous, I could see it being a different story in small town middle America though Yeah I just spent two weeks in the PNW and was impressed that every single place I went had tap to pay! Glad to hear that it's not actually widespread so I can continue being a smug Australian about it.
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It seems like One Piece is spiking in cultural relevance. Is there a reason why?
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It's pretty crazy to me how backwards things are in NA. In the EU, there are affordable contactless POS systems that even street vendors can take advantage of. Also mobile QR payment apps that are even easier. It helps that some governments have made their own secure payment infrastructure and there is regulation limiting credit surcharges. Still a good idea to carry cash in more remote/rural areas but that's becoming a rarity. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:Still pretty crazy to me how backwards things are in NA. In the EU, there are affordable contactless POS systems that even street vendors can take advantage of. Also mobile QR payment apps that are even easier. It helps that some governments have made their own secure payment infrastructure. It's America specifically, they're way way behind even Canada in this particular regard. I assume it's a result of moneyed interests preventing progress but I don't know if that's the case in this specific instance.
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It's been some years now but when I was last in Canada, my chipped card didn't work at a ton of different places. E: shortly before Covid hit. And mostly on the west coast for some reason? Vancouver in particular was a pain in the rear end. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Double post for my question: This will probably vary greatly from one place to the next. All the readers I've seen in many years work with any NFC payments (Google, Apple, contactless cards). It is such a non issue that I don't even carry cards with me, just my phone. Are your problems Apple Pay specific or do Google payments also cause problems? Or contactless cards if those are common there?
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Here in NYC basically every place that takes cards at all takes contactless payments as well as chip-and-pin but that's a very recent development. I use contactless with my bank/ATM card to pay, usually without taking it out of my wallet; I don't want that poo poo on my phone.
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Baron Porkface posted:It seems like One Piece is spiking in cultural relevance. Is there a reason why? 1) a really huge story arc that had been running since 2018 has just wrapped up 2) whole lot of story upheavals and revelations and poo poo, like we're finally seeing dominoes fall over that were set up 5+ years ago 3) the anime changed directors and the production pipeline and a bunch of other stuff so the anime itself is actually good now 4) the most recent movie came out, and made a shitton of money 5) it started getting popular when the pandemic started because being locked indoors for so long meant people no longer had an excuse not to read 1000 manga chapters and I assume they all only caught up just now. 6) We are now encroaching on the final arc, there's still a few years to but those years will be insanw 7) One Piece is good
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In Denmark, I basically assume that anyone using cash is essentially either laundering it or using it to avoid paying taxes. Everywhere takes contactsless here.
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Yes but also the Danish banks offshore their money laundering to Eastern Europe.
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I have some cash on hand for when kids come by with school charity events and stuff. Even the regular charities use QR codes now. Other than that I can't actually remember the last time I paid for something with cash. Probably sometime before the pandemic Oh wait, this summer I paid a couple of kids to do some yardwork for me, but I had to google where the nearest ATM was to get the actual money lol
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I love restaurants in the states where you hand your credit card to someone who just walks away with it for 2-3 minutes.
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greazeball posted:I love restaurants in the states where you hand your credit card to someone who just walks away with it for 2-3 minutes. Not as weird as the part where they only ask you for the tip after they give you the card back, which means they must be retaining your credit card info for a period of time.
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greazeball posted:I love restaurants in the states where you hand your credit card to someone who just walks away with it for 2-3 minutes. That’s nothing compared to a bar keeping your card for a tab for 2-3 hours. (Of course it works fine so I don’t know what the big deal is. Usually people are happy when trust-based systems are used.)
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I'm making some custom Star Wars poker chips/credits for a friend for christmas, and I'm trying to figure out how many to make. I'm planning on making 3 values ($1, $5, and $10) and planning for 4-5 players on average. I was thinking 20 x $1, and 10 each of the other values. Is that enough chips?
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CzarChasm posted:I'm making some custom Star Wars poker chips/credits for a friend for christmas, and I'm trying to figure out how many to make.
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CzarChasm posted:I'm making some custom Star Wars poker chips/credits for a friend for christmas, and I'm trying to figure out how many to make. You mean Pazaak chips? (I just started replaying KOTOR after amost two decades).
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lobsterminator posted:You mean Pazaak chips? (I just started replaying KOTOR after amost two decades). Sabacc actually. Though apparently they make Pazaak decks too. Pazaak is closer to blackjack IIRC, and this is closer to Poker butt dickus posted:doesn't sound like enough to me. the case i have holds 500 chips. when we played we started with at least 40 per player depending on the stakes Eep. That's probably not going to happen in the next three weeks. 100 might be possible, maybe even 200. I guess a better question might be is 2:1:1 a ratio good for chips?
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CzarChasm posted:Sabacc actually. Though apparently they make Pazaak decks too. I think the sets of 500 I have are 3-1-1.
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