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I'm not sure where to ask, but is is there anything like Backloggery, but for books?
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Is there a good place to buy posters, pictures or wall art in general online? Preferably shipping (free or cheap) to Canada. Amazon.ca doesn't have a good selection.
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Oct 8, 2012 20:07
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I'm looking to clean my oven (no self clean) and I'm wondering what works best. Google is only giving me "how to clean your oven without poisonous, earth destroying chemicals" which is baking soda and elbow grease. I don't really care what I use, and would like to eliminate the elbow grease, or the waiting if I can manage it. What works well? Some sort of degreaser? Tsp?
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Apr 12, 2015 21:33
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Xibanya posted:My fiance has a beautiful old slide rule that his grandfather used in the early 50s. My fiance is also an engineer and the slide rule is very special to him. We think it's a shame that it's currently sitting in its case in a drawer. What's an attractive way to display the slide rule as part of the decor? My first idea was hanging it on hooks on the wall, but that seems a bit spartan, even for an engineer's home. Ideas? I'd probably go with a shadow box of some sort. OctoberBlues' idea sounds great, too. I'd probably also set the slide rule to something important to your grandfather, if there's any particular neat proofs or whatever you can show easily with a slide rule. I think e is particularly graceful on a slide rule but its been a long, long time since I've played with one.
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Sep 7, 2015 08:01
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Bioshuffle posted:Help me settle a debate. If your house was struck by lightning, and you were using your phone while it was plugged in to the charger, would you get electrocuted? No. Lightning takes the least resistance path to ground. Houses are grounded so that there's a nice low resistance path between lightning (or a short from your electrical system) and ground. There's a huge number of paths to ground that it'll take before it chooses the path with you and your phone in it, even if you have the worst wired house and electrical grid. If it did make it inside to your phone charger it'd melt and smell real bad from the insulation and probably burn you.
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Oct 31, 2015 21:02
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Is there still an entry-level job advice thread somewhere on the forums? I looked though BFC and either I'm blind or its in another subforum.
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Nov 25, 2015 02:05
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Zenostein posted:Well the new cord does have a temperature knob, so based on the above, the knob regulates the voltage that gets fed into the element, right? So basically, I just shouldn't turn it up terribly high and can't really rely on the temperature markings on the controller, I guess? A cord rated for a higher wattage is rated for a higher current in its cable. The original was drawing ~10A (1250W/120V) and the newer cable can do ~13A (1550W/120V) so you only really need to be careful in that upper range where the stove is not rated for >10A. All that means is that the company is not liable for you running it at higher than expected amperage if you end up burning your house down.  You can map out temperature/voltage relations if you really want, but just don't run it on full blast. The new cord's temperature markings are likely just bullshit anyways, even if it was matched with the appropriate heater.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:23
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Dawncloack posted:I have a shape on a .jpg and I would like to import it, to scale, into Eagle, the circuit designer. I used this last time I imported an image into eagle. Works pretty well for simple blocky images, can have a lot of issues if you have anything remotely complicated. I don't think there's a way to do it without converting to *.bmp first, though I only used the newest version of eagle for about an hour.
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Jan 26, 2016 23:55
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Cheaper cables use cheaper copper with more impurities, and thus lower conductivity. Solder joints are dry or just poorly done. Overall cable is less conductive and sometimes changes with the cable moving around. Your iPod doesn't like the variable power due to the variable resistance, so it charges slower. There's a big range of what cables will pass QC and also last long enough to charge your iPod more than 2 times at that quality.
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Feb 15, 2016 06:37
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tuyop posted:Hey excel wizards, I have a question about making a crappy implementation tolerable: You can just Ctrl+f search for anything in a spreadsheet if you only have to occasionally find/add a client. You can also use pivot tables to sum up your client list in various ways. You also use conditional highlighting to make any duplicates red. To add a new entry you'd either have to do it manually, or write a VBA script. Its not too hard to make a weird-excel flavored DB thing if you're willing to spend some time figuring out VBA. (There's also an excel thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3132163 if you need more wizardry)
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Mar 1, 2016 22:21
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I would regularly eat cream of mushroom soup from one of my favorite coffee shops, though I'd never eat it from a can unless I'm very hungry and too lazy to go to a 24hr McDonald's. I think the canned cream of soups are almost always made into a sauce/casserole. Real cream of mushroom is awesome, actually. But cream, salt and umami is generally great.
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Apr 8, 2016 16:23
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For whatever reason tumblr wants some (all?) blogs to open up in their stupid side-bar on the dashboard. I'm logged in and it's redirecting to the tumblr dashboard and opening the post (dog??) in the awful sidebar instead of a regular blog. Dunno what the fix it, but its probably blog dependent, or just tumblr incompetence.
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Apr 27, 2016 07:05
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If you don't care what blog you link from, here's a link that works for me in incognito mode: http://xhellllosabrinax.tumblr.com/post/143255123346/natty-fit-this-is-so-cute-omg-i-cant Tumblr is a garbage website but I want to at least let your friends see a cute dog video. Can't help you for general browsing, though.
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Apr 27, 2016 07:23
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There's also the case of the manufacturer choosing one or the other based upon: the preference of the marketing guy, whatever makes the battery look better, or just because they felt like designing to a round number in one unit and not the other.
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May 22, 2016 07:50
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Last time I flew, on my return trip I had two pairs of winter boots, a winter coat, and some literal rocks in my checked bag, on top of my regular two weeks of clothing, and only hit 40lbs. Though that said, one of the people at the scale told me that a pair of jeans tends towards 1-2lbs so don't pack more than 20 pairs of jeans I guess?? All the airports I've been in also had luggage scales right at the entrance so you can always shuffle cargo.
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Jul 11, 2016 20:24
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Methanar posted:I'm a Canadian that will be travelling to the US in 3 weeks for business by air for 5 days. I went from Canada to the US for 4 days for business reasons and all I needed was a valid passport.
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Aug 4, 2016 23:27
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A PIN is harder to guess than a signature is to forge? I'm sure there's more to it than just that, but that's probably one of the main reasons. I don't really feel like they're new anymore, Canada's pretty much completely adopted them and the last time I had to swipe/sign with my credit card I was in Florida and it really caught me off guard.
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Aug 5, 2016 06:26
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I've found the second most common issue with cable jacks not working is gunk in the receptacle. Take a look with a good flashlight and see if you need to clean it out with a toothpick or alcohol.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:08
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dokmo posted:What animal makes tracks that look like this Galloping rabbit, I think.
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Jan 2, 2017 03:06
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I've used lipsyl on my eyelids, though I didn't regularly use them on both. I find the waxyness helps with not losing too much moisture. Its kind of also just nice to apply it. I use my regular face moisturizer when I go to bed, if I have really bad dry eyes. Anything unscented/gentle is usually ok. I only do it before sleeping otherwise I'd rub it in my eyeballs and that sucks a whole lot.
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Jan 9, 2017 21:14
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Deep woods OFF? I found that if you have actual DEET you're fine, everything else is barely better than just yelling at the bugs. Go to a hunting store and ask about the little tubes of DEET paste, maybe?
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Jan 24, 2017 19:22
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It wasn't until my mother was diagnosed with Grave's Disease and had the Radioactive thyroid ablation to treat it, that I was able to convince a doctor to check more than just TSH. I got T3/T4 and the antibodies after that, diagnosed with mild hypothyroidism that could turn into Hashimoto's, and took synthroid and now my sleep is a million times better and my brain problems are significantly reduced. Its nuts. Hope your surgery goes well, I'm glad I didn't have anything show up on my thyroid ultrasound except just the general puffiness from hypothyroid.
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Feb 6, 2017 23:27
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beeaar posted:Please tell me what you've learned from reading Animorphs books. A lot about what it might be like to eat cigarette butts.
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May 4, 2017 22:21
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Comrade Milton posted:Okay, I've checked Google, Bing, DDR, videos, images, web, and lots of sites themselves. What I'm searching for is sheet music for Jurassic Park where you can hear what sounds like jingling, but is actually someone uses concert bells (NOT hand bells, this is a metal, keyboard-layout percussion instrument). If you see it and my memory of playing it from high school isn't faulty it's mostly notes in 1/64th. The YT is right where it begins and you have to listen kind of closely, but it's there and I wanted the sheet music for it. It may be mislabeled "Enter the Park" or something, but I believe it's in the main theme. The instrument is often called a glockenspiel if that helps your Googles with a more unique term.
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May 11, 2017 04:38
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I've worn prescription glasses since I was 3, and when I had contacts I'd leave my sunglasses on by accident because I was so accustomed to wearing glasses 100% of the time I was awake.
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brylcreem posted:So, ElectroBOOM on YouTube. I'd probably say a lot of his accidents are arranged, especially since he touches things you''d just... not touch unless you want to zap yourself. I think he often finds bad electrolytic capacitors (they explode but aren't super dangerous) and wires things backwards on purpose occasionally to have something catch fire. I think he had a couple videos where he went to far and almost really fried himself and he's dialed it down a bit (the jacob's ladder episode?) but for the most part you could avoid just about everything. I used to have classmates in my circuits classes in university set up their breadboards to blow up capacitors and its very easy, smells like hot acetone and only really pisses off the lab techs who have to go and order a bunch of caps now.
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Does Google voice's number porting work for Canada? I want to get a local number for job hunting reasons but I don't want to change my number yet. E: or do I just get a google voice number and just put the app on my phone? Jyrraeth fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Oct 29, 2017 |
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Oct 29, 2017 20:26
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I used to have a friend who wouldn't answer calls without a number, but would block hers so we would always miss hers thinking it was a Telemarketer. No texts, either.
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DXM makes me throw up even on the child's dosage, and so does most of my family. The perfect thing to augment a cough,  I imagine that's why the dose is so low
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Jan 11, 2018 21:57
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Lawnie posted:Is it a taste thing? If so, they might sell DXM in pill form near you. Tried the pills, too. Codeine makes me throw up, too (which is super common according to all the nurses I know). Allergic to Oranges (and pineapple) so your recommendation is extra bad for me I'm not the original question-asker, though, I get sick rarely enough that I can tolerate the occasional death cough once every couple of years I think DXM is a precursor to an SSRI? Maybe Paxil? Wikipedia says it has some Seritonin functions so they probably made something out of it that would be bad for your brain AND your liver
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Jan 11, 2018 23:51
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Methanar posted:My guy just attempted to set up an antenna, but complained it didn't work. This guy gives me the vibes of not knowing what he was doing, so he probably just did it wrong. TV fool does Canada to see where the transmitters are. Sometimes they're not where you think they are. Also I had a TV old enough to not be able to receive digital OTA TV, and could only get French CBC until I got a TV from this century.
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Feb 2, 2018 04:57
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In my ~*~ barista training ~*~ I was told that caffeine was destroyed by heat, so darker roasts were actually less caffeinated, while the lightest roasts were more caffeinated. Someone should make the equivalent of a pH test strip but for caffeine concentration. Doubt it'd work so well, but would be neat if it was possible
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Mar 5, 2018 23:59
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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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You can get "Warm White" ones that are reasonably warm. They're way brighter than incandescent, even when you choose a lumen value close to the equivalent of a 40W bulb. Still not super harsh, though.
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May 14, 2018 18:53
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Goldfinch posted:I'll second this question... I've searched in my area, and all I can find are ballet/jazz dance classes for kids. If there isn't a thread, is there anyone in this thread with hot tips on how to actually get started, or is the answer just "move to a bigger city that actually has dance lessons for adults"? Sometimes you can ask the studios where they give children's lessons and you might be able to see if there's an unlisted adult course? I've known a couple dance instructors and they were able to give a couple one-off lessons in their spare time between school courses, but that might just be them.
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May 30, 2018 20:02
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ineptmule posted:I have a friend who wants to get into using LEDs in a scale modelling project. It's his birthday, and I wanted to get him a kit or bunch of bits with which to experiment with this kind of thing. Looking on Amazon, however, I am bewildered the stuff that comes up. I assumed there would be a hobbyists' starter set or something like that. Some electronics stores have a hobby kit section, or just small bags of resistors/LEDs/switches. They're way more expensive (meaning you'd pay $5 per little bag, vs something measured in cents in bulk) than ebay or even Digikey but they have the bonus of being able to ask the dude in the store what you'd need. If you want to go the Ebay/Digikey route you'd need LEDs, appropriately sized resistors, and a power source of some sort. Here's a calculator from Digikey
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Jun 2, 2018 18:18
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My experience with Allo is that my brother sent me all of it's most horrifying emotes and then I uninstalled it.
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Oct 13, 2018 15:57
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Is there a YouTube channel that explains things like what a set screw is, and what is used for? Those various machining/milwright-y things? Even if it's just uploads for a show similar to this old house, that works too.
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Mar 2, 2020 02:08
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Is there a website to track airplane flight patterns over an area? Dunno if they do the heat map style "this many airplanes fly over this area" type things, but I love watching flightradar24 when I'm hanging out looking at the sky. E: forgot about the times we live in lmao live maps are kind of useless lately Jyrraeth fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Can anyone point me towards easy ways to watch a movie with friends? I think I missed the compilations of those sort of things at the beginning of the pandemic. I don't plan on doing it too often, so I'm ok with doing things like pointing a webcam at the tv and using twitch but if I could do one level up from that.... And it's free......
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