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I can't believe I just noticed how easy it is to do a rough conversion from F to C and vice versa (for temperate climates, anyway). In the 50's = 10 to 15 C In the 60's = 16 to 21ish In the 70's = 21 to 25 ish In the 80's = 26 to 31ish In the 90's = 31to 36 ish Obviously not exact, but close enough.
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Pookah posted:I can't believe I just noticed how easy it is to do a rough conversion from F to C and vice versa (for temperate climates, anyway). Or just never measure in Fahrenheit because it's stupid 
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May 8, 2018 09:49
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iajanus posted:Or just never measure in Celcius because it's stupid
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May 8, 2018 09:50
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iajanus posted:Or just never measure in Fahrenheit because it's stupid This is also true.
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May 8, 2018 10:36
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aaaaaaaand we’re back.
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May 8, 2018 10:37
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My father often sung various snippets of "Right Said Fred" when he was working around the house when I was younger (and still does, I assume), including the versequote:"Right," said Fred, pulling up his trousers, He didn't believe me at first when I bothered to look up the song and discovered his standard lines weren't in it. Wish I had something more interesting but it's been too cold to do much lately, they're predicting 380 K later tonight.
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May 8, 2018 12:24
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don't be loving bringing that Celsius poo poo up in here again
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May 8, 2018 12:50
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Bob and Doug taught me the best way to convert from metric was to just double it and add 30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFntxvlqvM&t=599s
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May 8, 2018 14:54
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I just double it, subtract 20%, and add 32. It's not that hard. Just inconvenient if you've lived with Fahrenheit your whole life.
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May 8, 2018 16:50
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Or move to northern Canada/Alaska/Greenland/Russia. -40 is the same in both!
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May 8, 2018 17:25
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I just discovered that the wifi-enabled printer we have is the cause of my phone's random disconnection from the local network. Realized this because we just moved, and I didn't have the issue for a while and was pleased as punch, and it only started again when we finally got around to plugging it in again. No idea why it's the cause, but it definitely is.
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May 8, 2018 19:17
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MisterBibs posted:I just discovered that the wifi-enabled printer we have is the cause of my phone's random disconnection from the local network. Realized this because we just moved, and I didn't have the issue for a while and was pleased as punch, and it only started again when we finally got around to plugging it in again. Because you let the printer advertise a wireless network, you connected to it sometime in the past to print something, and your phone still has that particular wireless 'network' configured. If you let your phones attach to the "best" network, it's going to flip over to that stupid ad-hoc network you let your printer run when it sees a stronger signal. - Remove the config for that network from your phone *also* - Turn off that ad-hoc bullshit on your printer. Either hook it into your network using a cable or set it to be a supplicant only and attach to your home WiFi. TLDR: That wireless printer is the hot-dog to your phone
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May 8, 2018 19:34
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Swing and a miss, since I've never connected to the printer wifi on my phone. We've just decided to turn the thing off when we're not using it.
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May 8, 2018 19:41
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your printer's ip is set to static
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May 8, 2018 20:10
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The child who yells at you on the SA login screen is not yelling "POKEYMANS!!"
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May 8, 2018 21:03
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Proteus Jones posted:Because you let the printer advertise a wireless network, you connected to it sometime in the past to print something, and your phone still has that particular wireless 'network' configured. If you let your phones attach to the "best" network, it's going to flip over to that stupid ad-hoc network you let your printer run when it sees a stronger signal. Not if it’s an iPhone which will cling to the weakest useless WiFi until it goes 100% undetectable.
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May 9, 2018 00:10
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Walked past a TV playing Wheel of Fortune. Pat and Vannah are robots/vampires, right? I watched the show when I was a kid in the early '90s and they have not aged in the last 25 years.
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May 9, 2018 00:38
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Isn't Pat Sajak the real "good morning Vietnam" guy? Or is that a myth? On mobile waiting to watch IW so  on effort.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Isn't Pat Sajak the real "good morning Vietnam" guy? Or is that a myth? On mobile waiting to watch IW so one of them, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sajak posted:He served in uniform as a disc jockey during the Vietnam War for American Forces Vietnam Network.[4] Sajak hosted the same radio show that Adrian Cronauer had, and for 14 months followed Cronauer's tradition of signing on with "Good Morning Vietnam!"[5] e: but Cronauer is the one Robin Williams was playing
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May 9, 2018 02:16
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Aphrodite posted:Not if it’s an iPhone which will cling to the weakest useless WiFi until it goes 100% undetectable. Just like mine, which would always try to connect to one particular network at home no matter how weak it was our how strong the others were.
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May 9, 2018 08:01
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iajanus posted:Just like mine, which would always try to connect to one particular network at home no matter how weak it was our how strong the others were. Why don't devices that connect to Wi-Fi let you pick a particular order to try detectable Wi-Fi networks? Sometimes they decide to connect to dumb , faraway networks and all you can do is "Forget" that one... until you are actually closer to that one and need it again. Let me set a priority list! Please!
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May 9, 2018 20:40
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Windows does.
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Aleph Null posted:Why don't devices that connect to Wi-Fi let you pick a particular order to try detectable Wi-Fi networks? Sometimes they decide to connect to dumb , faraway networks and all you can do is "Forget" that one... until you are actually closer to that one and need it again. Intelligent devices do All they need to do is be less strict about holding onto signals. My old android phone had setting that would drop a connection more aggressively and it was great. For some reason ios does not have such an option. iajanus has a new favorite as of 21:59 on May 9, 2018 |
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Speaking of phones, the name of ZTE is a little neater with the US "Zee" at the start instead of the Zed I've been saying in my head when I read about it. (Figured out just in time for the company to shut down, probably.)
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uvar posted:Speaking of phones, the name of ZTE is a little neater with the US "Zee" at the start instead of the Zed I've been saying in my head when I read about it. (Figured out just in time for the company to shut down, probably.) Didn't they just close their doors because they can no longer get US tech? (they turned around and sold it to North Korea, IIRC). EDIT: Yep. They can no longer get Qualcomm chips or use Android anymore. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/the-trump-administration-just-forced-smartphone-maker-zte-to-shut-down/ quote:Last year, ZTE admitted to an elaborate multi-year scheme to sell US-made technology to Iran and North Korea in violation of US sanctions laws. ZTE paid $890 million in penalties and said it was in the process of disciplining dozens of senior company officials who had orchestrated a scheme to violate US sanctions laws. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 14:56 on May 10, 2018 |
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Watching Hank Green's podcast, in which he and the SciShow crew get together and drink beer (it's sponsored by the local brewerey), and apparently in Montana a liquor license and a casino license are bundled? So if you have a bar, might as well make it a casino, make more money? One of the other people one the panel said "oh, THAT'S why all the liquor stores have a casino, that seemed weird." Booze laws are fuckin' weird. Here in Texas, hard liquor is sold in specialty stores that are only open 10am-9pm, closed on Sundays, and the county or city can have stricter rules (usually it's all-or-nothing, hence the county-line bar referred to in a lot of country songs); in most of Louisiana, you can buy liquor at the grocery store whenever it's open. But I guess you kinda have to there, to deal with living in LA. :v They still have city laws, though, Shreveport has Texas-style laws. But maybe that's because it's next door to a massive military base.
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Proteus Jones posted:Didn't they just close their doors because they can no longer get US tech? (they turned around and sold it to North Korea, IIRC). lol jesus christ  serious question: we bought the upgrade to a ZTE phone for my husband bc he was switching carriers, and we planned on selling the older, though perfectly usable as he's only had it for a few months, phone on ebay which was going for $70-$80, used. do yall think this'll affect the price in any way? snoo has a new favorite as of 04:42 on May 11, 2018 |
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I just figured out that in Pulp Fiction, when the water asks Mia Wallace if she wants her milkshake Martin'n'Lewis or Amos'n'Andy, she's asking if she wants it white (vanilla) or brown (chocolate). The question meant nothing to me because as an Australian, I only vaguely have knowledge of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and had no idea they were a comedy duo, and had never heard of Amos and Andy.
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May 11, 2018 04:44
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Yeah a lot of people don't realize it, but Jerry Lewis was supposed to be funny.
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May 11, 2018 06:01
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also Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis are different people
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InediblePenguin posted:also Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis are different people Well Jerry Lee Lewis, was the devil
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Memento posted:I just figured out that in Pulp Fiction, when the water asks Mia Wallace if she wants her milkshake Martin'n'Lewis or Amos'n'Andy, she's asking if she wants it white (vanilla) or brown (chocolate). The question meant nothing to me because as an Australian, I only vaguely have knowledge of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and had no idea they were a comedy duo, and had never heard of Amos and Andy. The waiter was also supposed to be buddy holly
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May 11, 2018 06:54
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It’s spelled “bury the lede”, not “bury the lead”.
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May 11, 2018 07:31
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That's incorrect. A false etymological history myth.
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May 11, 2018 07:40
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dirksteadfast posted:It’s spelled “bury the lede”, not “bury the lead”. Yup, although it’s a really easy mistake to make.
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May 11, 2018 07:41
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Seriously this isn't hard https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-versus-lead
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May 11, 2018 07:42
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It doesn't matter that it's a made up spelling. It's spelled that way now, prescriptivist scum
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:That's incorrect. A false etymological history myth. lol did you just string together language words to sound impressive
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InediblePenguin posted:lol did you just string together language words to sound impressive FAKE HISTORY STORY
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Watching Hank Green's podcast, in which he and the SciShow crew get together and drink beer (it's sponsored by the local brewerey), and apparently in Montana a liquor license and a casino license are bundled? So if you have a bar, might as well make it a casino, make more money? One of the other people one the panel said "oh, THAT'S why all the liquor stores have a casino, that seemed weird." RAY called up the owner of my local pub offering to install a second slot machine because the one they have is taking in so much it's the number one earner in the whole neighbourhood. She had to refuse because the place has space for only 25 customers as it is and (what she couldn't tell the RAY rep) most of the earnings come from two bartenders there who are both compulsive gamblers. Welp that's my bar and gambling story thanks for reading. On-topic though: don't GIS "sounding cock" at work unprepared. (I know I should've known better because of that one goon's little brother but I forgot)
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