September Chat Thread: fjelltorsk confirmed AI as fuck

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Kia Soul Enthusias: May 9, 2004; zoom-zoom; Toilet Rascal

SuperDucky posted:

CharlesM, yeah that house is on Jim Crow. You local?

No, I was curious why it's named Jim Crow.

CornHolio posted:

So I tried posted a post in the 'recommend me a car' thread in A/T, and it quickly got hijacked and I never got a response.

My little brother is an immature poo poo who sucks at driving. I've kept his Honda on the road for eight years and now the exhaust is making a funny noise and he refuses to drive it. He's driving my mom's Nissan Rogue to work.

They're giving him $4k to replace his Honda, and he wants a truck. It has to be "good in the winter" so I'm thinking 4WD + recommending snow tires, and it has to be "reliable." (Note, his Honda only left him stranded once, when the 7-year-old battery died).

He's getting a new vehicle like now, whether I think it's a smart or good idea or not.

I'm also in charge of finding it for him (and then selling his Honda).

I'm in northern Indiana, and there's a huge amount of used Rangers, F150s and Cherokees on craigslist. Anything else I should be looking for? I know a fair bit about Rangers and Cherokees, but what about like 2000-ish F-150s?

(Also, anybody want a 1998 Honda Accord for a grand? The body is in bad shape but mechanically it's in good shape, brand new battery alternator and tires... will need a timing belt done pretty soon though.)

Check out the safety ratings on iihs.org, especially for a 2000 F-150 :v:

# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 20:04

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 04:24

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Last time I used the Windows Media Center Netflix app it was buggy as poo poo. Have they updated it in the past 5 years?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 09:44

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God has a plan for everyone.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2015 04:01

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I wish we got Smarties in the U.S. The chocolate candy ones, I mean.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2015 23:01

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14 INCH DICK posted:

Look at this guy farting directly into he own mouth

I take it you don't like Smarties, then?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2015 00:01

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Tomarse posted:

In more mobile phone OS related chat, it looks like you can now finally run android apps on Windows phone 10. Has anybody tried it yet?

I'm trying to build up the courage to upgrade my phone to 10 again as I tried it when it was first released and it was poo poo so I went back to 8.1

I want to try 10 but I don't really want to experiment with my phone.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2015 01:17

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14 INCH DICK posted:

Because dog lovers are mentally deficient?

I don't like you anymore.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 09:56

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Terrible Robot posted:

*reads back through chat thread*

LOL I guess this is a bad time to mention that I adopted a pit-bull last week, and he's literally the sweetest, most well behaved dog I've ever had. My cats only took a day or two before they were chilling next to him like they had been friends since small times.

gently caress you people

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Post pics please

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 21:23

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I love noisy kitties

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 13:22

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Sorry about your cat

I miss mine.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 03:50

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Ferremit posted:

urgh... did a full drive flange to drive flange rebuild on the front axle of a mates landcruiser today (80 series) because of knackered kingpin bearings and REALLY noisy CV joints.

First side, CV didnt want to seperate from the drive shaft and mushroomed out the splines where the circlip holds it on. Had to hack the cage apart with a grinder and an air hammer, pop the balls out then grind through the inner spider in 3 places and split it with a cold chisel to get the thing off the shaft. THEN clean up the splines for the new CV to fit on.

Second one the CV popped right off with the pipe trick, but then when we were putting it back together one of the studs for the kingpin bearings sheared off out of the knuckle. Lost an hr trying to find a replacement stud.

So. Much.Grease. Would have gone through two dozen pairs of gloves each and we filled a 20L bucket with paper towels and rags from cleaning out CV's and steering knuckles. Burnt them all in the shed fire and got a 10" flue to glow red hot from firebox to shed roof! Hell of an improvement tho, he can turn under power without "CLACK CLACK CLACK" following him and the steering doesnt "Tip" out of the centre any more because the king pin bearings no longer have grooves hammered into them.

Uhh...how's that smell?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 18:18

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KozmoNaut posted:

I'm 99,999% sure it cannot be used as evidence in court, but that doesn't necessarily apply to how the insurance company would use it.

Maybe they'll use it and decide the insurance case in my favor, but then I'll get a small fine for illegally recording people without their consent. Similar things have happened before.

Supposedly in the Czech Republic it's the same way when it comes to video surveillance systems. To get one admissible in court is some crazy hassle.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2015 12:26

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somebody buy me the forza 6 xbox please.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2015 22:09

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kimbo305 posted:

I preorded one. I've only preordered something on Amazon once before. It says it'll get here some time next week. Is that conservative or accurate?

I don't know but usually stuff is supposed to show up on release day.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 08:22

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fjelltorsk posted:

Is hopkins and shock trauma the same thing?

She really wants this, because it is really hard to get mass experiance as a trauma surgeon in Norway due to people being less shooty-stabby and this is the woman who put her career on hold to care for me the first six months of cancer treatment, after having to pause her training for the pregnancy and taking an additional year off due to the twins. The consultant firm can run without me, i am just a partner. I am checking via the firehouse if i can possibly work as a firefighter doing some sort of work exchange... the economics would not be impossible if i cant work, but i would probably go bonkers. we also sorta want to get it over with before the kids starts elemantary school in norway...

This girl has sacrificed so much for me, and our family that if we can make this happen... its happening...

she can probably do the fellowship at other hospitals too, would be cool to end up in an area with some ai goons

I know in Canada they take Australian firefighters for help during their off-season as they're on different hemispheres and have different fire seasons. I think the same happens in the States.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 16:00

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RIP Paul Walker posted:

But yeah, the Ford experience is goddamn infuriating.

My dad tried them with our 1988 Taurus... Yeah :v:

Maybe they should have stuck to rebadging Mazdas.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 18:39

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So soon I'll be able to answer question 11 in the Sheep Game your TV show? That's awesome!

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 20:37

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Is it the Mazdaspeed?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 01:38

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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now.

And yes you most certainly can get bigger and more industrial ones, usually from China and India - if you walk into a factory or workshop or even a lawyer's office, they are most certainly still about and still on sale... and even still desireable over the poo poo that passes for fax machines that will get gunked up and stop working fast in dirty and hostile environments. There's not much out there anymore that are built indestructible like a HP 4L printer is or some of our Canon faxes that are basically now black after years of poo poo flying everywhere close to it.

Can anything kill a Laserjet 4?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 02:01

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Spambots?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 12:11

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Super Aggro Crag posted:

Dually noted. We are so under-staffed right now that everyone is just doing what they are good at to get it done. He is also soldering a billion 22/2 cables onto these weird heavy duty input plates, not wire-to-wire connections. He was literally hunched over with a flashlight in his mouth all day.

Buy headlamps if you can. They're wonderful.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 23:02

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Does anybody remember that Finnish mechanic simulator that was in development? I couldn't figure out what to google to find it. I was curious how it's doing.

edit: oh wait I found it with Bing. It's called "My Summer Car"

# ¿ Sep 18, 2015 13:57

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KozmoNaut posted:

Some dude just called me up from a withheld phone number and asked whether I was still looking for my stolen Yamaha XT660X (which was stolen almost exactly a year ago). I told him that I would be interested to hear if he knew where it was. He said that he knew where it was, and had verified the correct VIN. He also said that he know exactly the guy who had it and where to find it.

Then he asked if there was any sort of reward for finding it. I told him that no, I wasn't offering anything, because I had gotten my insurance payout and thus the motorcycle technically belongs to the insurance company now. So any information he could give me would be passed on to the insurance company and the police.

After that he suddenly didn't want to give me any information after all

Goddamn scammers.

Call the police and get the phone logs?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2015 18:38

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Enourmo posted:

i pulled the piggyback ecu off my car and now it runs agin but more sluggish than before

god damint

at what point it it better ti justbuy a fuckin mustang or somethin g vs trying to make this cars acceleration match its handling (which is p drat good)

anyway im gettin drunk for reasons

sup AI

I'd rather have the MP3, honestly.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 06:02

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kimbo305 posted:

Grinding the single player races in Forza 6, I assumed the liveries and racer names were pulled from XBox Live. Now I'm pretty sure they are:

Looks like they have the "drivatars" enabled for single player now. They are supposed to take the driving style of the person. If you have friends theirs' come first (if they've played the game I think). When Forza 5 first came out all the drivatars seemed to have ramming set to 100%. I presume they've toned that down. I kind of want to get an Xbox One again.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 08:27

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KozmoNaut posted:

Can't prove that he was actually scamming, and he was probably using an anonymous pay as you go phone card.

I could have asked for the account number he wanted the money transferred to, but I didn't think of doing that until after I hung up.

I was hoping for goon justice :cop:

# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 11:24

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IOwnCalculus posted:

That's a remarkably simple trigger, and one that the EPA can prevent from ever working again by doing all tests going forward on four-wheel dynos.

Do four wheel dynos have a linkage between the sets of rollers? Otherwise the second set will still be zero.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2015 10:53

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Does Tire Rack not charge sales tax to Washington?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 04:03

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jamal posted:

If they don't have a facility in the state, they don't have to charge sales tax. If you were in NV for example there would be tax.

Oh that's wild. RPF1s ahoj.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 04:18

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jamal posted:

What size/offset/bolt pattern? I have a place that keeps some of those around.

17x7, 45mm, 5x114.3. For a Mazda 3.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 05:02

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jamal posted:

Are you sure you want them that narrow? For a 225/45 an 8" wide wheel is better. For something that runs wide and is sticky you might even be better off with an 8.5 for a 225.

The tires I have are 205/50/17... I'm replacing the stock wheels because they're in bad shape. I figured I may as well go light.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 05:47

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jamal posted:

Well, I guess if you are just using that size tire it would be fine, but they would also go on a 17x8 and then you could go 225/45 or even 235/45 for your next set of tires if you wanted. And the difference in weight is only like 1lb/wheel. Neither are in stock where I can get them from (I have a tirerack wholesale acct but they don't drop ship), so it would possibly take a few eeks and I probably can't save you very much over tirerack. But I can let you know tomorrow unless you are sitting there staring at the checkout button.

I don't mind waiting one day. I didn't know my tires would fit on wheels that wide. Neat.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 06:19

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 04:24

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Tusen Takk posted:

I am naught but a lowly visual specialist

Sorry bud :/

You told us you worked at Apple but not at the Apple store :v:

T1g4h posted:

Speaking of phones, I inherited my roomie's old Nokia Lumia 635, and holy poo poo it's a massive step up from my old ZTE... whatever. The Windows phone OS is super slick and fast and I dig how everything looks. Am I a terrible person now for being one of those lame Windows phone users?

I love my Lumia 1020 and am looking forward to the Microsoft event next month.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 10:09

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