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EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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yes

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Dec 8, 2000

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wayfinder posted:

why do americans call it gyro and not gyros

do they assume that was a plural-s? what the hell

same with frickin biceps

same with brits and "maths"

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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kemikalkadet posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9nA1fKnhw&hd=1
im the artesianship


also that thing in picture 11/51 legit made me jump

how to destroy a home in 11,385 steps

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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thank u 4 this

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Sniep posted:

that gives me some faith in what those tires can handle cuz christ i've been in some crusty landings so far and have not even barely loving started yet and my new job is 30% travel and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

my wife flies every week. just remember that the most dangerous part of your trip is the cab to and from the airport.

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Dec 8, 2000

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Lake of Methane posted:

“Clayton Williams made the remark on Saturday while preparing for a cattle roundup at his West Texas ranch. He compared the cold, foggy weather spoiling the event to a rape, telling ranch hands, campaign workers and reporters around a campfire, ''If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.''”

remember that this guy lost to a woman democrat governor of texas.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

*more* concerned

as in, not at all


and those millimeter wave scanners don't use harmful radiation like that

you're thinkin of the outdated backscatter xrays

also anyone who flies regularly will do the 150 bucks for tsa pre check and just go through a metal detector and not take off shoes etc

tsa pre is great

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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i'm ernie's camel toe

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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do the kids still set 18khz sine waves as their text alert so that adults don't know they are texting?

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Shaman Linavi posted:

can confirm. source: my sister teaches highschool math
also i think the correct term is mosquito tone
i must be lucky genetically gifted since im 30 and can still hear that poo poo

yeah I can't do 17khz anymore, apparently. I can do about 16k and then I can't really tell it is there. 15.5k I can hear super easy. 35 and I almost always wear ear protection when going to concerts or car races or skeet shooting or whatever.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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test yourself here: http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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oh wait, plugged my phone into some speakers and I can hear it p clearly at 17k

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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yeah I think my actual limit is about 18k, it has to be p loud tho.

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Dec 8, 2000

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Roosevelt posted:

i messed around with this thing and the cats started fighting

that will happen, they do that when I use my guitar tuner tone generator app as well.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Sophian posted:

I recognize Sasha Grey (first chick) and Stoya (last) so I'm going to assume the other two are also current or former porn stars?

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Dec 8, 2000

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Trabant posted:

i'm pretty happy there are so many mw fans in the 'POS :hf:

also,


tried this at work with headphones and freaked the gently caress out when i couldn't hear anything past 8k. tried it at home with speakers and can hear up to 17.2k. think it's time to replace the work headphones.

when i tried it on my iphone i found that if i had just been playing audio in certain other apps (audible) then it wouldn't go above 8k. had to quit all the other apps with audio to get it to work.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Iridium posted:

everything i know about Sewth Efrika i learned from Spitting Image, District 9, and news coverage of the Oscar Pistorius trial.

i went to south africa recently and as americans everyone was nice to us as far as i could tell, but you can really tell that apartheid ended basically yesterday

infrastructure is super good compared to tanzania, the only other place i have been in africa. there are nice highways all across the country and many well developed cities and if you just stay in the cities and just look at the architecture, it feels like you could be in western europe. in tanzania (which, granted, has a much smaller population) only Dar es Salaam and Arusha would be recognizable as cities to an american, and the roads quickly turn to dirt once you leave town.

huge racial divides economically.

- there are both black and white people driving cars, but the only people walking by the side of the road or using the private busses are black people.

- you can't walk a block without someone asking for money, asking you to go into a store to buy formula for their child, etc - especially after dark. none of our leftovers from dinner made it back to the hotel because i would instantly find someone who wanted them

- a large number of the white people are huge racists and will make no attempt to hide this in a way that will absolutely blow your mind. we were driving back from the beach, our car was behind a truck with a bunch of white people in the bed who were entertaining themselves by throwing firecrackers at the black people walking on the side of the road. when i got back to the lodge where we were staying (this was a rural area) i noticed a sign at the dining hall saying "anyone throwing firecrackers will be removed from the lodge". that's right, throwing lit fireworks at black people on the side of the road is such a common thing that they have to have a policy and make a sign for it.

EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Oct 13, 2016

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Dec 8, 2000

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vodkat posted:

stupid question time; but isn't that what an audio jack is doing already? what will a dac do that a normal computer audio output won't?

yes a normal computer audio jack will have a DAC in it. you could buy one with more precision or more power if you are a turbonerd. you will probably not actually get any better sound quality unless whoever designed your headphone jack was really cheaping out and put a really crappy DAC in it, though.

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Dec 8, 2000

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Hello Spaceman posted:

dude where the gently caress was this? I've lived in sa for all but one of my 34 years and I've seen some hosed up poo poo but I've never seen fireworks being thrown at peop-- oh wait my cousin threw a Tom Thumb at me once as a joke – but still, seriously holy crap that is not the norm.

or maybe my city living has shielded me from the ways of the bumpkins

i stayed at sodwana bay lodge, outside of Durban.

everyone I actually met and interacted with was nice, but this actually happened. it may not be acceptable as the norm but it happened. again, it was a random truck full of white people that I happened to be behind coming back from the beach, but poo poo. I mean really. poo poo.

I don't think this reflects poorly on the lodge or any individual I met there, on the whole they seemed to be good people, but this did happen on my way back from the beach without anyone from the lodge present.

EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Oct 13, 2016

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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this may have been the equivalent of the racist loving idiot dickbags who drive around the US sporting the stars and bars. I really don't know, I don't live there, but it seemed crazy, and it seemed super crazy that the lodge had to have a policy on it.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Sagebrush posted:

yeah, that sounds normal and stable, a place where being outside after dark is inviting someone to murder you

I don't know if I would go that far, but the desperation definitely increased after dark.

you could go to dinner before dark but the first time we were out after dark the waiter said "here let me pack up your leftovers" and we said ok and he said "trust me you will get rid of them soon" or something like that and we did. I am sure we are marked as targets as white Americans but it was still kinda amazing. we walked two blocks after dark and we had been approached by at least a dozen people.

it is a beautiful country with lots of things to brag about (the amazing botanical gardens and table mountain, among others), but it is still Africa and the poverty is on another level. the #1 thing I learned from my trips to Africa is that the US should not have any poor or homeless people, the amount of money floating around here is absolutely insane.

I had a friend who did peace corps in Africa and she came back to the US for a weeek for a friend's wedding and then went back to Africa to find out that the family she had lived with had eaten her cat while she was gone. when she came back from Africa we went shopping and she broke down, fell to her knees and cried in a normal American grocery store because she had become accustomed to not having food. America is really loving lucky if you pay attention.

EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Oct 13, 2016

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Dec 8, 2000

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

bearing in mind that a high-end DAC and the line level amp together cost about two bucks

your manufacturer had to really cheap out not to get good output.

you'd be surprised how much pressure there is to reduce the BOM cost for phones and tablets and laptops. multiplied over millions of units even a few cents can add up to huge numbers.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Radio Paranoia posted:

i always say the greatest enemy of afrikaans culture is afrikaans culture

bideo not available in America lame

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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come on tars

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Dec 8, 2000

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Jonny 290 posted:

come to colorado

i'd obviously run a dusty old electronics shop stacked floor to ceiling with all sorts of fascinating gadgets

are you hiring?

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

silicon breast implants

only the best for my iron lady

my wife makes fun of me for working in jobs that sound like boob things. mostly because of the words silicon and implant.

last job: ion implant process engineer
current job: pre-silicon verification engineer

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Dec 8, 2000

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gently caress
gently caress

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Dec 8, 2000

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Trabant posted:

listen, i can do one or the other

edit: have some chips, YOSPOS











http://www.sterikschips.se/eng

finally, chips that reflect the true cost of health related chip externalities.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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anthonypants posted:

if you link the version that isn't a gif, the colors aren't all hosed up

https://i.imgur.com/9O8iuYV.gifv

hmmm maybe the colors are not the issue here

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Dec 8, 2000

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Dillbag posted:

the wife and i went to the bjork digital show at somerset house a few weeks ago and it was kind of poo poo

the part where you can walk into her giant digital butt was ok

the part where you spend the song in her mouth was kinda lame

what

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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Jonny 290 posted:

My dad called Johnnie Cochran "uppity" and did a faux-minstrel thing during the OJ trial "Oh look at me, i'm Johnnie Cochran! I'm a mighty fine dresser yassuh!", if that helps give you some context.

holy poo poo.

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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milk truk just arive

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Dec 8, 2000

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Trig Discipline posted:

The Badonkadarkness

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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TontoCorazon posted:

2-3 generations later and the whole chassis is gonna be touchpad.

no the keyboard and trackpad will just be a big touchscreen the keys already don't move

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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what an inspirational smudged blur

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

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actual back bacon does not really exist in the US unless you ask a butcher for it so when people see it they get confused and just assume it is ham and that ham is called bacon in Canada

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