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I wrestled an EJ25 for several hours yesterday and won. Felt fine. Today I threw out my lower back sitting in a chair at work. Not sitting down or standing up or anything, just sitting there, now my lower left back feels like I threw it out. Hopefully just a cramp/minor pulled muscle. Also we should have a cage match to the death for all politicians and then shoot the winner.
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CharlesM posted:Have you noticed the more sexually repressed your culture / religion is the more violent you are? You know how in the old testament god was all wrath and fire and brimstone and destruction and burnt offerings? And in the new testament he seems to have chilled out a bit? Jesus came along in between the two... He got laid. (sorry to any actual christians I have offended with this terrible joke, not sorry) Cakefool posted:Acknowledge the power of magic if you have employed it successfully to obtain your desires. If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained. But enough about ez-outs. Adiabatic posted:Anyone here churn, or do all of you have really lovely credit scores? sub-600 credit score  (18 months of unemployment was rough. Been working on fixing that since then.)
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I like Spirit, but my requirements for commercial flight are simple. I want to go from A to B as cheaply as possible, arrive alive and intact, and would prefer that all of my checked bags arrive at the same airport I do.
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Thanks Home Depot for calling me to tell me that there's a 10% off special running through today that applies to the window quote I got, and then after waiting for a computer illiterate 50 year old to bumblefuck his way through looking up my quote (in the process canceling it, resulting in having to wait for a new quote) finding out that no, the special doesn't apply because I already got 14% off by asking for the volume pricing quote. I just lost an hour of my day to what amounts to a bait and switch by incompetent bumblers, god drat it. Guess I'll call up some other local Anderson dealers and see if they can beat the HD price.
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fyodor posted:My parents told me about replacing their patio door with a new Anderson window door (french doors? I dunno) and it was a nightmare. They sent an unfinished (and I mean unfinished: rough edges, dents and ridiculous seams/gaps) door and then refused to take it back. "We've determined that the quality of the door we sent is to our standards," said Anderson. I've bought several Anderson windows for the place already and had zero problems like this so far.
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May 4, 2016 18:36
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Bajaha posted:Welp, someone stole my forester. This is going to be fun to deal with Don't worry, they probably didn't make it very far before realizing they were better off without it. As for the stuff that was in it, hopefully if it's found it's still in there. My dad's old Civic got stolen years ago in between him loading it up for a ski trip and coming back outside after breakfast, by the time he'd called the insurance company the cops had already found it. It was stolen for a joyride, they rammed it into a snowbank and stole his slippers but left the several hundred dollars in ski equipment in the back and all the other stuff too, with the engine still running and the doors open. He put a junkyard steering column in it and drove it for another few years before tailgating a semi truck (he's a huge tailgater... that was the second time he'd wrecked the civic) and writing it off on the mansfield bar when it braked unexpectedly.
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May 6, 2016 15:40
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Mine rattles very angrily at startup now that it has an EJ251 in it again, and also knocks basically all the time while driving it. I'm not sure how long I have before the engine explodes. God damnit 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm afraid to mention it in case it breaks the spell, but Mazda 6s recently became dumb cheap here. It's probably because if you sit down too hard or slam the door it'll collapse into a pile of rust flakes.
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Nubile Hillock posted:Thanks for the info/opinions on my stupid OBD2 thoughts. I know it's impractical and in all measures leaves the car worse off performance wise, but it seems like there are a few cases where one could make some money if it was possible. I live in a place where cars are way more expensive than they should be and rust is a huge issue. There are a few mkII Jettas and other mid 90s euro cars floating around for not too much money, but they need all the electronic bits fixed. I know the sensors aren't too expensive but getting the fuckers off can be almost impossible. Especially cam position sensors and the air flow one past the cat. It would actually be quicker to replace the sensors with electronics, drop in a carbureted top end and sell it to some drift kid at a markup because ~linear throttle response~. No. Just no. I could go into great detail and write for two hours or I can tell you that your approach is wrong, attacking the wrong problem, and coming up with the wrong solution. And it would probably end in an angry rant because most people (not saying you're one of them) who want to do this are god drat idiots and I hate interacting with them at all, as it leaves me dumber every time. That being said, I did say some poo poo about coming up with a decent automotive drivetrain/chassis electronics thread a while ago and I still aint done poo poo, so maybe I'll roll a decent description of how most of this works into that.
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May 10, 2016 16:41
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I always knew you did  Thanks for coming clean about it though.I thought iceberg was just bad because it had a huge amount of nitrates or nitrites or something in it that's horrible for us. Cage posted:Look forget the food just make sure you got liquor. Careful there, alcohol can gently caress up a diet, and not just because of the calories in it. http://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20670897,00.html
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scuz posted:Bulking is something that would likely bankrupt me because I'm not particularly affluent and my metabolism is on the high side of "circus freaky." 6' 7", 200#, and I wanna put on 50# of muscle by my 32nd birthday on October 20th. I have a plan and I'm tracking my lifts, but I loathe overeating v If you need a healthy food high in protein and are worried about how much all that chicken is going to cost you, remember that most chinese buffets charge like five or ten bucks a meal (it's cheaper if you do lunch!) and have chicken broccoli on the menu.  e: and I feel you on the rest, 6'5", barely over 200, and still eating whatever I want... just less of it than previously. I need to actually do some exercising this summer, fortunately I have a lot of house and vehicle repair work coming up. kastein fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 11, 2016 |
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Brigdh posted:It is, although I tend to get more depressed with the level of code quality in commercial products. I'm currently dealing with a well known and arguably top of their industry manufacturer of PCIe compliant cards who are telling me that I need to purchase different models of a specific card depending on what architecture the machine is running that the card will be used in (ie x86, arm, mips, powerpc, etc). Otherwise their drivers won't work. Why? Well the driver installer reads a burned in identifier in the card (only difference between the models) to determine which architecture the driver is running on, and thus will load the corresponding firmware. Install a "x86" card (not marked on the card itself in any way) in a powerpc system? The drivers will load x86 firmware into the card, which will "brick" the card, making it unusable in the powerpc system, and cause the system to crash at boot. BIOS extension ROMs have always and will always be a thorn in the side of cross platform support. This is honestly not that big a deal except for the fact that apparently powerpc systems don't use a different "magic number" and checksum to identify the extension ROM as valid, which would have been an easy enough solution. I'm kinda surprised they didn't. It SHOULD be possible to jam the card in an x86 box and reflash it to powerpc firmware. The annoying thing is, the way PCs handle BIOS extension ROMs was created in the early 1980s for the IBM PC and apparently really hasn't changed. A ROM image looks like this: 0x55 0xAA <number indicating the number of 512-byte blocks of machine code which this ROM takes up, minimum 4> <executable code, which is called by the BIOS> And then a checksum. The checksum? It's literally "whatever number is required to make all the bytes in the rom add up to 0, modula 256". The system is supposed to ignore any extension ROM that doesn't start with the right magic number or doesn't checksum properly. If PowerPC based systems had just used a different magic value (even just 0xAA 0x55) they wouldn't blindly execute x86 code and crash. It's pretty stupid that they did that, but not entirely surprising. Really, this is a hard problem (since many interesting devices that might need custom configuration at boot to work properly aren't something you'd expect, so you HAVE to support some sort of extension ROM, and the simplest answer is usually machine code) - Sun solved it by putting a Forth interpreter in their sbus systems and BIOS extensions were written in Forth, I believe, but that's out of the ordinary. The easy answer is a 2 or 4 byte magic number at the start of the ROM and if it's not valid, you ignore the ROM at boot and let the user install the right drivers and flash the proper firmware image after starting up sans the funky device. e: back in college I used this info for pranks. I got ahold of an old 3com PCI ethernet card with the familiar netboot ROM socket (yes, that's just a socket for an eprom/eeprom with the right number of pins, and the host CPU will run the code off of it if you put the right magic number and checksum in!) and hacked up a couple hundred bytes of quick and dirty fake virus, burned it to an old 27Cxxx EPROM I had lying around, and snuck it all into a friend's desktop. He was nowhere near as amused as me when his PC showed every sign of having a horrible boot sector virus of some sort and wouldn't respond properly at all or even boot. kastein fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 13, 2016 |
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Brigdh posted:Yeah, all those checks are in place - this happens on Arm64 as well. The problem is, the card designers figured out how to bypass them (our scope indicates the card is somehow changing the magic number and check sum as needed, no idea why my guess is the hardware folks thought it would be clever), however their driver folks apparently can't figure out how to parse the output of "uname -a" to determine what arch they are running on. The driver can't properly figure out the correct firmware to load, and the card is designed to accept it at all costs and forcefully jam a square peg in a round hole. drat, that sounds like a combination of awful politics, overly clever engineering, and bad driver/utility programming... my worst nightmare. Can you have them do a site visit and fix your bricked poo poo... while logging i/o and memory accesses to figure out what a firmware flashing utility would have to do to make the magic happen?
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some texas redneck posted:I remember that thread, it was some kid on the [H] forums, right? IIRC he got sick as poo poo halfway through eating it. What an amateur
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E: you know what's brown and black and looks good on a politician's arm? a german shepherd Previa_fun posted:From what I've heard, the 80mph states have less tolerance for speeding. I've even heard the parts of Texas with 85mph speed limits will pretty much pull you for 1mph over that. Honestly, as someone who speeds like a mad oval office (75-80 and sometimes 85 is speed of traffic around here, I usually maintain around 80-85) I would probably stay right at 80-85 if the limit was one of those. I get decent fuel economy at that speed still and have no real desire to go any faster than that. kastein fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 15, 2016 |
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why do you numpties even loving respond Also here is the best '94 Camry in all existence 
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We still manage to bomb our own troops occasionally, but it happened a lot more back then.
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The whole trigger words thing is stupid tumblrina bullshit that I really wish people would stop taking seriously. That being said, "everyone is a winner, give everyone a participation medal/ribbon/plaque" is the worst sort of mollycoddling garbage ever and should be stopped asap. Not everyone is going to be a crazy good athlete, stop trying to hug everyone and make everyone win at the same things and allow people to be different. Push kids to find what they love and are good at and then be as good as they can be at that thing. Everyone's got their thing they love and will be awesome at, but if you try to tell me "you tried" is good enough for a participation award in sports that I absolutely sucked at, I'm gonna tell you to cram it and stop flapping your dumb face at me, and then go find something I'm good at and excel at that until I'm worthy of a real medal. *rant off*
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Tide posted:For whatever its worth, I messed around a bit with customizing the OS of my phone with cyanogenmod and the like... The only reason I'm considering rooting my replacement phone is so I can delete all the bullshit like NFL Mobile, Kindle App, games, etc that are plugging up my onboard flash storage that's nearly full... and so I can use titanium backup or equivalent.
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I think you're on the right track. However, a sanity check - are you measuring the reference voltages with the pedal module plugged in, or unplugged? If it's unplugged, an extremely marginal connection may be allowing enough current flow to read proper voltage on your fancy modern 10-megohm DMM, but when you put the pedal module back on the harness, its current draw drags the bus down. Also remember the ECU is just telling you what it sees, not what the problem is. You know that, but I'm not sure you're thinking about it from an EE nerd standpoint, or not far enough into that viewpoint anyways. What the ECU is telling you is that the voltage (which it is producing, BTW) is wrong on both those rails. It could be too high, it could be too low, it could be a short or an open (it's saying open, so probably that.)
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I'd avoid stripping insulation if at all possible. Usually you can find a way to backprobe the connector instead.
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I'm just hoping to be an expensive consultant by the time "ageism" would even come close to affecting me. That being said, I don't see how people can justify the "they're close to retirement, they're just gonna leave in a few years anyways" line of reasoning. Paying people less and not caring about loyalty is apparently a thing now (I've experienced it myself, as I ranted about a while ago, I even got a plaque for it!) and if you're assuming they're gonna quit for a higher paid position within 3 years and be replaced by some other sucker, who cares if they're gonna reach retirement age in 5 years? That's 2 years after you expect them to leave anyways.
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Sharepoint did WTC no seriously that poo poo is probably responsible for at least 2977 suicides a year. gently caress, what a miserable sack of broken turds.
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I made the mistake of arguing about conspiracy theories with my dad again. Whoops. Time to go home and read actual logical things. Sheesh.
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I am still mad we never got those here because the Miata isn't quite small enough for me to want one.
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InitialDave posted:You could import an early one now, couldn't you? 25 year rule? I could but I'm a cheap motherfucker and that puts it at least a digit out of my price range.
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Broke dudes with belts: Go to the HVAC aisle of Home Depot and buy some of the 3-4 foot long zip ties they have there. They're used to put insulation on ducts and poo poo and make excellent emergency belts.
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KozmoNaut posted:Wouldn't a cheap belt from a Goodwill or something be cheaper? Yeah but they don't come in 30-packs and also make excellent prank material. Ziptie someone's legs to their chair... or to their other leg... or to someone else's leg... or put them on your buddies CV shafts and driveshafts. The list goes on. Also apparently some goons would need to use two. Daaaamn.
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$20 jeans till the day I die. You can take your ~RAW DENIM~ that you insist must never be washed, and your designer jeans, and cram them up your rear end  It's great because I don't even really care if I tear them open on something at work or in the junkyard, they just become official wrenching clothes instead of regular everyday clothes I forgot to change out of before wrenching.
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They're called Briggs&Scrapiron for a reason. e: as for house stuff hahahahahahahahahahaha well I did buy a fixer upper I guess.
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Rhyno posted:Few things are more frustrating than being asked for help and advice and then being 100% ignored. The term for someone like this is "askhole" BTW.
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I intend to make the ring. Actually, I should finish reading up on precious metal casting sometime. We are pretty much set on debt (my house and our 9 cars are paid for, her student loans are half gone and I'm about to nuke my last) and she thinks expensive weddings are silly. Will probably never go into debt unless we decide to build another house. Now that I have replaced the rear struts in the Justy and Forester, I kinda want to do the front ones in the Forester and the rear shocks in the Roadmaster. They sure need it and I bought the parts long ago for the Roadmaster, just been putting it off because she hasn't ever driven it with good struts and keeps saying they are fine. Should be a bit of a surprise when they suddenly work great.
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Yeah that's why that era of Honda really, really, really, really needs balljoints done when they start making any hint of noise, looseness, or binding, not after another 6 months. That CV shaft might be separated at the transmission end as well, just as a bonus. If it's the inboard-brake setup, guess what, IIRC you have to pull the wheel bearing to get to the balljoint with a press. So at that point you'll probably wreck the wheel bearing pressing it in and out, and it's such a pain in the dick to get at normally that you really should just do the brakes, wheel bearings, balljoints, and any separated CV shafts all at once. (we did this on a friend's car after he snapped his balljoint in half 150' from my house.) e: scuz - balljoints are absolutely critical. By the time a balljoint has gotten that bad, it's been ignored for many thousands of miles or many months. And I can't think of a single example of a vehicle that won't suffer severe suspension/bodywork/drivetrain damage if you let a balljoint separate.
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Yeah, I haven't cut this one open, but I ignored it from like November or earlier till a few weeks ago - because when I inspected my suspension looking for a bad clunking noise going over potholes on the front right (this was the front left BJ) I found an almost completely AWOL swaybar bushing on the right to explain it. While doing 3-5k miles a month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAPaujRGyQ Never buy $6 balljoints. It had like 1/8" in every direction (1/4" total, in other words) of slop and still was nowhere near separation.
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Rhyno posted:So this is way beyond just a snapped tie rod as it was originally described to me. Yeah that axle is done. I can't even tell if the tie rod is damaged in this picture, but it probably is.
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doublepostin' up in this poo poo http://www.hotrod.com/news/1605-craigslist-find-abandoned-1970-gremlin-drag-car/
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