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I'd say it's also what you're used to, I don't live phone typing in part because I'm comparing it to using a keyboard, I could definitely see the reverse being true though, your preference as a function of what's normal.
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Human Tornada posted:Does anybody actually enjoy bumper pool? It feels like every non-rich family I knew growing up had one in their basement that never got played for more than 30 seconds a year. Someone's mom suggests you boys can go use the pool table and then you get down there and your heart just sinks. I've only ever played at bars that had tables, so I can't speak to your specific experience, but yeah it's a fun time. Definitely a nice change of pace from a bar table at least.
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May 5, 2020 21:59
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I've had something similar happy twice, I'm sure this isn't the approved version of dealing with it, but it's worked for me. First disconnect the disposal or turn it off physically, essentially you don't want any chance of it turning on accidentally. Then I very carefully removed every piece I could get with my hands. It's a slow, tedious process, but I've been able to get a lot out. Then once I got literally everything I could, I turned the disposal on. I didn't cover it with anything, maybe I should have but didn't get much kick back. Mine's not super powerful though. There was some clattering but then it ran smoothly. I'm sure not the best way, I bet there's a way to open it up fully, but that's what has worked for me.
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May 20, 2020 22:52
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What if I don't think these forums are dead or particularly funny? (Jury is still out on gay) In more seriousness, where did that mantra start?
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Jun 20, 2020 09:38
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What's the hottest thing you can touch safely temperature wise, not due to the Leidenfrost effect, but rather because of the material having such a low thermal transfer rate?
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Aug 13, 2020 17:40
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alnilam posted:That's a pretty interesting question (not sure what the Leidenfrost effect has to do with it either) Well I was thinking how there's the physics demonstration where a teacher might dip their hand into molten lead, which wasn't what I was thinking about was all. I hadn't really thought about the size and duration piece specifically, but that make sense. I guess decent size like a plate or pan or something, and duration wise fairly long? Not just a quick 2 second brush, but where you can actively manipulate the object.
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Aug 13, 2020 18:58
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Powered Descent posted:Not sure if it's the hottest, but the stuff they used for the Space Shuttle's heat shield tiles is probably right up there. Here's someone picking up a block of it that's at two thousand degrees. alnilam posted:Hmm well you could either go for a really low heat capacity, so that a pan-sized object wouldn't have all that much heat to transfer to your hand, or a really low conductivity. However in a very low conductivity situation you still need to care about heat capacity, because when you touch it, your hand would still absorb the heat from the outermost layer - that heat would just take longer to be replaced from the interior of the object due to the low conductivity. So to avoid being burned upon touching you'd still want a low heat capacity object. Awesome, thank you both!
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Aug 13, 2020 19:36
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For me sitting on the floor in most cases leads to my butt/legs falling asleep. I guess it's different if you're at home and can move around, but this was always in the context of a bunch of people all on the floor at once so you're constrained by how much you can wriggle.
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Aug 19, 2020 21:07
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What makes polyrhythms different than just a straight rhythm? Like I was looking up at say 4:3 and the phrase was "what atrocious weather" and I don't know how that's different than a 5/4 time signature?
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Sep 17, 2020 19:56
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Thanks for that insight, you can see I'm not well versed in theory at all. I guess I meant I'm not sure why if the interval is equal between each note in a polyrhythm it's different than say straight quarter notes played in a row. But I'll check out that video and see ! Edit: Whelp answered it already in that the intervals aren't equally spaced haha, thanks for that video. Carillon fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Are there any resources or analysis on when it'll actually be safe to start seeing people without masks or dining indoors etc.? Like I have friends and coworkers who seem to have said gently caress it and are just essentially acting like there's no pandemic. Plus a lot of jurisdictions seem to be more focused on the chamber of commerce than public health. As an individual are there any good guides to make sure I'm making good choices here?
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Oct 11, 2020 06:02
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Helith posted:Mate, I don’t think anyone can give you an answer on that one. The pandemic will last as long as it lasts and there’s a huge amount of variables factoring into when it’s ‘over’ and safety measures are no longer required. No I really appreciate that, but it's like what should I be looking for to know it's over? A rate of infection below x? 0 cases over x days or weeks? I just realized I don't have any idea of what over night look like locally and many people I know who I might look to seem to be treating it as a done deal, which lol.
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Oct 11, 2020 06:27
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Memento posted:At the moment in Victoria, Australia, we're on full lockdown. Chemists, supermarkets and petrol stations are open, restaurants are doing takeaway only, school is learn from home, which is hopefully finishing this week. Everything else is open for pickup only, or closed completely. Not even kidding I'm really happy there's a coordinated push for public health, here in the states there's very much less of that. I guess it's just the disconnect between seeing other places actually reinforce the public nature of public health and then seeing people I know bragging about flying or going to bars that gets to me and unfortunately rouses a sense that maybe by still bring careful I'm doing it wrong.
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Oct 11, 2020 07:04
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Boba Pearl posted:I have 3 dice, with weighted odds, the first dice rolls 11 - 110, the 2nd rolls 51 - 150, and the third rolls 61-160, how do I calculate the chance for each of these to roll higher then the other two? So using anydice, I can get you to comparing the individual dice against each other. There's ought to be a way to compare one dice against the other two but that's currently beyond my abilities with the program.
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Oct 13, 2020 20:00
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Manager Hoyden posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for cooking blogs along the lines of Skillet or The Takeout? I like getting new recipes and such on a regular basis but really can't abide the twee vibe of what I'm finding on my own. My partner loves the smitten kitchen for similar reasons as to what you're looking for. Back in the day I would have said the food lab but it's stopped updating really and serious eats isn't quite the same level, but I'd check them out for their archives.
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Jan 3, 2021 05:27
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I built a new office chair but didn't realize they had shims/washers I was supposed to use. Is there going to be any issues with the chair not having those? I'd rather not go back and rebuild it if I don't have to, but if it's gonna fall apart in 6 months because of it I will.
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Jan 11, 2021 23:02
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TATPants posted:The shims and washers are meant to take some stress off of individual parts and to make them the proper length after you screwed them into the holes, and they are there for a reason. If you are exceptionally skinny, then it probably won't matter. If you are not, then build your chair again. Thanks I figured that was the answer and it's for my dad so I'll do it right.
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Jan 12, 2021 05:25
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I'm on a windows 10 machine and if I hold my left mouse button down, a box pops up that says smart select/capture. I can't figure out how to disable this and I guess the terms are common enough that I can't seem to Google it effectively. It's annoying, anyone know how to get rid of this feature?
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Jan 30, 2021 00:09
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paradoxGentleman posted:When writing a cover letter for a job, should I diplomatically avoid mentioning that I don't meet one of the requirements mentioned in the ad, or go "while I do not meet this requirement, I do have blah blah blah"? It really depends on your field! I am involved in recruiting and I've read maybe 2 cover letters in 5 years? So you know your industry better than me, but were you in softwareI wouldn't say it matters much.
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Feb 22, 2021 02:48
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Ask any ork and they'll tell you the red ones go faster too.
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Mar 13, 2021 00:25
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Defenistrator posted:Can someone provide me with a recommendation for an Online PC FPS game that isn't rife with racial slurring players? Again maybe lucky but I've never run into that with Apex.
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Mar 25, 2021 09:55
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Mafic Rhyolite posted:Obama did that like three times but people still listen to his podcast. So it's actually ok and good to overlook? What's the point you're trying to make here?
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Apr 17, 2021 06:09
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If O- is the universal donor, why is it so important for AB+ to donate more? I came across something that said because AB is so rare they encourage people with that blood type to donate as much as they can, but I'm not exactly clear on why it's needed given my VERY basic understanding of these things.
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Apr 22, 2021 06:50
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hooah posted:For the last week or so, I've been waking up about an hour earlier than usual and have been unable to get back to sleep. As far as I'm aware, my sleep habits and environment haven't changed. I still feel kind of tired, and my eyes are gritty, but my brain just won't go back to sleep. How can I figure out how to sleep my normal amount again? I find there's a transition point when the weather starts getting warm where I also experience this issue. Best I can figure it is that the sun changes and I start getting hotter earlier which wakes me up. YMMV but knowing that has helped me in even doing something like moving to the cooler part of the bed which helps.
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May 28, 2021 18:34
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I was camping last night and saw a fast moving light in the sky. How can I figure out if it was the ISS or just another satellite?
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Jun 9, 2021 22:34
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The people I've seen care the most tend to feel that the people from the suburbs look down on the city in their day to day life and left due to taxes or people of color being present, but then want to claim the cultural cachet of that city when it benefits them.
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Jun 26, 2021 00:22
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Ok why does nobody believe me when I say "don't kill your apps on your phone"? I explain in detail why you shouldn't and and yet I get the response "well I'm going to do it anyways because it saves me battery". Made even more frustrating because I'm the goto for tech questions yet this specific advice is 100% of the time ignored by several people I mean I think the answer is more why do you care enough to let it get to you? If they want to be 'inefficient' let them.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:11
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So my partner and I are watching Olympic rugby and one of the teams on defense keeps getting the ball back and I'm not sure why. They are getting the offensive player on the ground but then the announcer says oh penalty the ball turns over and I'm not sure why. Both teams seem to be tackling the player with the ball but what's the difference? And why is one an offensive penalty?
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Aug 1, 2021 06:41
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regulargonzalez posted:Is there a movie podcast dedicated to discussion and analysis of new releases? I want to listen to smart people talk about The Green Knight Well I like filmspotting, it's not always every new release, but I've always enjoyed their commentary and the talking about The Green Knight next week.
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Aug 1, 2021 07:23
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I finally got fed up with chrome on my phone and switched to Firefox. However when reading SA I've noticed that the font of some comments is almost half the size of the normal comments. Any idea why this is it how I fix it?
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Aug 18, 2021 07:04
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So there's a lot I'm sure I'm missing context wise, but why is the Darién gap hard to bridge? I can only seem to find concerns stated as 'environmental', which I can believe, but doesn't exactly go indepth. As well, why did that stop builders? I'm sure other parts of the Pan-American highway bridge environmentally sensitive areas, was it just that the gap is hard enough that by the time technology came around people actually cared about destroying habitats?
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Aug 29, 2021 08:46
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ulmont posted:The wiki's summary seems reasonable? Yeah but why that specific stretch I guess. It makes more sense re Panama and Colombia I guess but I was curious was there something unique to the area or was it just a process of development around it. Because I would assume that other parts of the road also dealt with similar issues?
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Aug 29, 2021 20:59
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Someone lost the stopper to our drain but I'm having trouble finding a replacement plug. Does anyone know what type of plug this is or how to go about finding a new stopper that will work?  
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Sep 27, 2021 22:57
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How far away from the sun would you have to be for it to be as bright as the full moon if to us?
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Dec 19, 2021 10:40
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I remember an article talking about how apple wants people to refer to the iphone as just iphone without the article, ie "get iphone 13 on us". It's hard to Google but guess anyone else remember that article and the logic of why they don't want to use the definite article?
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Dec 24, 2021 03:45
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ChocNitty posted:So in California, a landlord has to notify you 30 days in advance if they raise the price on your lease. But the tenant has to give 60 days notice if they are not continuing the lease. Where are you seeing a tenant has to give 60 days? Is that lease specific?
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Feb 8, 2022 23:38
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I've heard that duct tape isn't actually good for sealing ducts. Hearsay and all so I'm sure someone can confirm, but it's apparently all a lie!
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May 24, 2022 08:02
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alexandriao posted:Hey so does anyone remember a movie, where a distinctive scene is a man having bought the wrong pet food, putting it into the rich pet food jar or can, and pretending to the dog or cat that he opened the rich cat food? Are you thinking of the Long Goodbye, directed by Altman starring Elliott Gould? This is the scene I'm thinking of, starting at around 2 minutes if the timestamp doesn't work.
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Jun 22, 2022 21:03
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It gets hot enough to turn orange and yet we call it blackbody radiation? Checkmate scientists.
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Does anyone know where I could find stuff to read about the current state of thought about the reason behind religious prohibitions around semi-simple behavior? (e.g. not eating pork, circumcision, not eating beef) I recall people initially thought it was a health or survival thing, but now more recent thought is that it's more about cultural separation, but that could be wrong, and I don't know what search terms to use to find useful stuff.
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