MAY 2017 CHAT THREAD - All my freinds are getting married

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CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

funny Star Wars parody posted:

Here is a picture of me:

This but the garage.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 02:38

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CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Now that I got the UrQuattro CIS, I'm so close to getting this 4000 Quattro turbo'd, it hurts.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 14:33

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Chiropractors are scammers

Pseudoscience!

# ¿ May 2, 2017 20:28

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

My 5 year old has an unconnected Android phone that I picked up off craiglist and wiped just so he can play games. Just a cheap stand in for a tablet.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 00:17

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

angryrobots posted:

loving hell, MGS.

So fencechat, I just got handed another job I don't have time for. Despite my protest, my wife decided to block her difficult thoroughbred in his feeding stall. I literally said, he's going to panic and go forward and tear down the fence.

Hey guess what. Notice the brand new hydrant that got broken off as well.

A car wouldn't do that. Problem solved.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 12:43

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

angryrobots posted:

A Mustang will :iamafag:

Insufficient bystanders.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 12:49

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Depends on the version of Android and manufacturer customization. Some can still dial from the lock screen if you tap "emergency".

He said 'rooted', which means it probably no longer has manufacturer's OEM, and you can easily disable the emergency dial via root and Xposed.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 5, 2017

# ¿ May 5, 2017 18:52

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

I gotta start running, but I don't have the time for a gym routine, nor do I want to spend the time on one.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 01:09

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Beverly Cleavage posted:

Kid chat. Move along.

oh my god, tiny (not really) babies! #3 arrived yesterday and everything is awesome. She's great, mom is great and we just came home a few hours ago. Im still freaking out trying to make sure I can hear her breathe while she's sleeping. And let's not go down the anxiety-laden hole that is "what if something happened to me or someone in my family?" I may need a therapist....

Anyways, it's great, I'm super stoked and she is awesome.

Edit: also, you want a fitness routine? Watch the Barkley marathons on Netflix.

Congrats! Hooray, another future AI'er!

# ¿ May 6, 2017 03:29

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

DJ Commie posted:

While everyone is getting married, I'm getting divorced! Finally doing the paperwork too!

On the plus side, the local RadioShack franchise is closing its locations, so I picked up some small things...

I never understood the nerdrage behind hating on RadioShack for going from walls of bagged components to a cabinet, there really wasn't much lost in terms of available parts, and you could be more or less sure what every store had. I actually think the selection got a bit better, in most ways. I also picked up just about every Arduino shield and sensor kit they had left, 70-90% off made the pricing reasonable!

Microcenter and Frys has much better selection than Radioshack. But naturally, you can buy most of that stuff online for pennies on the dollar.

# ¿ May 8, 2017 13:18

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

scuz posted:

Friend of mine with more money than he knows what to do with has a big interest in getting this old firehouse and living in it while converting the lower level into a full-on wrencher's paradise. I'm egging him on hard because living vicariously through a friend who has a firehouse seems like a good idea.

Your friend is cool.

# ¿ May 9, 2017 16:30

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

How do they work?

Drink some Faygo and find out!

# ¿ May 10, 2017 01:09

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

BigPaddy posted:

Sign me up.

On a completely different note it seems I have adopted a petrol head who decided that student loans were not bad enough and saddled himself with $27k auto loan for a 27 year old R32 GTR, so 1 k per year the car is old. This kind of happened as he brought it to cars and coffee last weekend and it was in decent shape but you know 27 years old. Get talking about it and oh the 4wd system isn't working so I get him to pop the bonnet and yep the fuse is missing so that probably means someone in the past was trying to to slide the thing about. So that started an hour long odyssey where we go over everything end to end and make a list of all the things that need doing. The usual stuff like HICAS joints are hosed and good luck finding some in the US so told him to get a lockout bar for the time being and a bunch of the wires that sit near the hotside of the intercooler were fried which control the water temp sensor which is why his hot starting was hard, a bunch of little things.

So he doubles down gets sp,e the little things done and even gets a HICAS lockout bar shipped overnight so that problem is solved for now. After all that he drops the bomb that he isn't sure if he likes how it drives, feels slow and all that. It is down on power due to needing a new O2 sensor since there is one that sits above the turbos that gets killed with age but it runs ok just a little rich. So I get in and have him show me how he drives it. First thing first he is spending all his time concentrating on not driving over two lanes due to being RHD so we have to work on that and then he just being way to gentle with it. Progressively opening the throttle and not throwing it in corners. Get him to just start stamping on the throttle and steer where he wants to go and let the now functional 4wd system handle it. We start getting a little slide from the rare before the computer catches it and points the car right where you wanted it to go. He starts to get it and be more aggressive and the switch kind of clicks and he understands that it is a decently fast car not because it has huge power compared to modern cars but because it can carry so much speed through corners and just handles it for you. One more convert to the Cult of JDM.

I wake up about an hour ago and have 4 messages from the guy asking for recommendations on what modifications because he wants to make it a 10 second car now and be all probably won't like the answer of get the engine rebuilt first so it can handle any modifications reliably since it is his only car

tldr: I help a kid fix his Skyline and show him the true joy of JDM GTROOO POWWWAAARRROOO

He took out a $27k loan for that :psyduck:

# ¿ May 11, 2017 12:17

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

Solar chat: I just took a class on PV theory and applications this semester. The tech coming out is super cool and Silicon-based solar cell manufacturing costs are making them very competitive with coal economically, unsubsidised, in the near future.

Also check out quantum-dot infused perovskite lattices. They let visible wavelength light pass through and concentrate 90% of infra-red to the edges, making it awesome for being a window that transfers light we would rather not havd come in and directs it to its edges, where you put tuned-wavelength PV cells to use the infra-red as an energy source. Imagine using those as windows in a skyscraper.

I want my compact nuclear reactors! :argh:

# ¿ May 11, 2017 15:24

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Geoj posted:

I'm more surprised at his ability to find a bank willing to write a note for that much on a nearly 30 year old car.

That too, I cannot imagine it has a good interest rate.

_{wonder if they'll fund my Audi addiction...}

Adiabatic posted:

Like smart inverters and battery backup systems are cool tech and it'd be cool to have a fully malleable slack bus on every generation bus, but there's a bunch of issues with cybersecurity at that point with your 20 MW solar farms suddenly deciding to put a 1 Hz signal out into a balanced system.

I always love pointing out the power footprint of Sequoyah Nuclear Power Polant, 2 x 1.2GW rated reactors in less space than a football stadium.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 15:32

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

I mean this is what you get when a loving piddly substation catches fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7y-oJYpDkM

Imagine what happens when a bunch of generation catches some cloud cover suddenly and drops voltage out all at once.

You'd hope their filtering would catch that, but I fully expect it will happen.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 15:35

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Get a Security+ and read up on some of the CISSP guides online. Watch a couple DEFCON/Shmoocon talks.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 16:01

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

Get into DCS / SCADA poo poo. There's so much automation occurring in industry. Manufacturing is coming back to America, but the jobs are all logic programming and robit programming and automation.

Repeat after me: Controls Engineer.

Ding ding ding. Automation and Industrial Engineering are huge and only getting bigger.

Can't hurt to get some security experience under your belt for that too.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 16:09

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

Also don't let the PID process and time domain / S domain / LaPlace transforms / diffeq scare you. That poo poo's all done with computers now and it's just filling in boxes at this point.

The big money is in being able to get a control system to talk to another control system and networking them together for a manufacturing / power plant, and setting up all the I/O and poo poo. There's also quite a bit on the cybersecurity side if you're a giant nerd.

I should really move into doing this, I do Systems Engineering consulting right now, but I have a heavy IT Security background.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 16:11

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

Also how much I like a systems engineer is inversely proportional to the amount of times they use the word "holistic" when talking to me. We had a vendor come in last week that used it 18 times (I counted) in a four hour meeting, and I wanted to strangle them.

I will not say the word holistic because I will vomit.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 16:28

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Adiabatic posted:

I love you.

There is a major issue of buzzwords in the System Engineering sectors, bugs the gently caress out of me.

BigPaddy posted:

IT is a terrible slog and I am glad I got out. Of course now I run a team of devs making a product which doesn't sound too different but it is infinitely better.

I'm ready to get into something that's more engineering than being a datacenter janitor.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 16:32

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

I'm paid to tell other computer janitors how to janitor computers.

# ¿ May 12, 2017 00:13

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Or be Atheist, like me, which is still largely a crime.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 15, 2017

# ¿ May 15, 2017 16:11

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Enourmo posted:

Atheist*

c'mon, son

gently caress man, I'm a Physics major, not an English major.

# ¿ May 15, 2017 16:13

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Enourmo posted:

Right, go back to your nucular plants.

Don't you drag Bush into this.

Abandoned Audi RS2 Avant in Dubai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-KGaHb0NA

# ¿ May 15, 2017 16:20

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Not exactly a friendly place for LGBT individuals either.

_{gay atheist checking in, I'd probably be dead before I got off the plane}

Them too.

# ¿ May 15, 2017 16:54

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

I've been having stomach and intestinal issues for two months, and finally had to go to the ER yesterday, they diagnosed it as colitis or IBS, and while the meds are helping, they now give me a motion induced migraine.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 00:00

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Applebees Appetizer posted:

You might want to seriously consider adjusting your diet unless you want to be on meds possibly for the rest of your life. Try going gluten free for two weeks (no cheating) and see how you feel, it's worth a shot.

When it comes IBD issues, it usually boils down to eat what you want and take meds (along with side effects) or adjust your diet and hopefully stay med free. Also might want to see a Gastro specialist if you havent already.

Okay, while I appreciate the advice:

No, IBD is generally not diet linked, that's largely new thinking, and no, I do not have celiac disease, and am gluten tolerant. This is not to mention that recent studies show that going gluten free generally causes more harm than good and has very little evidence to back supporting it unless you are one of the 5% who have Celiac disease

http://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/resources/diet-and-nutrition.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

quote:

Is IBD caused by allergy to food?
No. Although some people do have allergic reactions to certain foods, neither Crohn's disease nor ulcerative colitis is related to food allergy. People with IBD may think they are allergic to foods because they associate the symptoms of IBD with eating.
Do any specific foods worsen the inflammation of IBD?
No. Although certain foods may aggravate symptoms of these diseases, there is no evidence that the inflammation of the intestine is directly affected. Obviously, any contaminated food that leads to food poisoning or dysentery will aggravate IBD.
Is there a special diet for people with IBD?
There is no one single diet or eating plan that will do the trick for everyone with IBD. Dietary recommendations must be individualized. They should be tailored just for you -- depending on which disease you have and what part of your intestine is affected. Furthermore, these diseases are not static; they change over time, and eating patterns should reflect those changes. The key point is to strive for a well-balanced, healthy diet. Healthy eating habits, of course, are desirable for everyone but they're especially important for people with IBD.
Often, patients have questions regarding The Specific Carbohydrate Diet � (SCD), popularized by Elaine Gottschall, M.S., author of Breaking the Vicious Cycle. At this time, the SCD is supported only by patient testimonials, not by systematic studies. With diseases like ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, the only way to see if any treatment has widespread value is by appropriate, rigorous testing.The diet itself is not particularly unbalanced, but many patients find it particularly onerous to maintain. Decreasing poorly digestible carbohydrates may decrease symptoms of gas, bloat, cramps, and diarrhea in patients with IBD, but that is not the same thing as decreasing the inflammation, or affecting the disease process. Unlike the gluten-free diet for celiac sprue, which has a well-researched basis, and well-demonstrated track record for affecting the underlying mechanisms at work in the disease process, the SCD does not. Bottom line: it may be worth a try (there are plenty of other diets being touted in the marketplace), but do not abandon your conventional treatment, and keep in touch with your doctor.

I will fully admit, however, my diet sucks.

I'm already seeing a gastro, we completed an upper endoscopy, waiting on a lower.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 01:48 on May 16, 2017

# ¿ May 16, 2017 01:40

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Applebees Appetizer posted:

I have crohns and have heard all the doctor bullshit a million times. Diet doesn't matter lol. You'll find out. I went gluten free as a desperate attempt to try anything and it worked, I'm completely med free now. I guess it's all in my head?

Oh and the doctors will tell you medical marijuana doesn't help either I wonder why. It's all a racket but you'll find out soon enough, good luck man.

Placebo Affect. It actually might all be in your head.

No offense, but pseudoscientific conspiracy theories about doctors is not helping anyone, and yes, the medical marijuana poo poo is largely a bunch of pseudoscience. Its only real proven effect is the ability to aleviate naseau for chemo patients. But it doesn't have good credibility at all yet, partially because study of it is largely restricted in the US, but also because its just a bunch of legalization groups (which I support) spreading nonsense articles about 'OMG It cures Cancer, It Cures Crohns, IT CURES EVERYTHING!' and keep shooting the legalization movement in the foot with New Age woo.

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to buy into that.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 02:07 on May 16, 2017

# ¿ May 16, 2017 01:54

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Liquid Communism posted:

I will take it one step further, they're having some promising pre-clinical results with CBD oil for some things like Parkinson's, but that's still in early stages of testing and doesn't have solid trials to back it up. There's a ton of woo, though.

Yeah, I read that study, I think that same group is working on the treatment of childhood siezures with CBD as well. They are hoping to have a larger clinical trial going here soon, and are trying to narrow down the pharmacological methods so they can get it into a pill form.

I think I recall reading an article by the lead for that study too, where he's said its been difficult to get journals to take it seriously due to the overwhelming amount of pseudoscientific woo surrounding CBD Oil and Marijuana in general.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 02:17

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Diet and exercise DOES affect outcomes or even when disease starts... or IF it even starts in the first place. This is straight out science that over and over again shows that diet and exercise most certainly does help and can even be a complete fix to symptoms. And drug treatments often (rarely admittedly) just flat out dont work on the other hand, depending not just on the issue but on the basic gut makeup geneitcally and bacteria present let alone the other huge range of variables.

So do not dismiss diet changes as a placebo. It's plainly not according to the science. You milage may vary tho as again, everyone is different and the only two rules of diet that are pretty much true for anyone is that simple sugars in excess are really bad and you will lose weight if your calorie intake is less than your calorie burn.

Not according to the IBD and Chron's disease research group. See my quote from their page. Its largely independant of diet usually.

And no, while health and diet does influence health (I never denied that), you can still have and suffer from the above.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 15:06

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Applebees Appetizer posted:

This is what I was trying to point out. Nothing is going to cure it or stop the inflammation, you can only hope to contain the symptoms for a better quality of life, and figuring out the correct diet that works for you will help immensely. I'm trying to help you dude because I've dealt with this for years and have been on the same emotional roller coaster you're about to get on. Marijuana helps. It's not a cure but it helps, and experimenting with your diet does no harm whatsoever. Gluten free for two weeks will do absolutely no harm and it just might help, if it doesn't you can go right back to eating all the gluten you want it's just a harmless experiment to see how your symptoms react to it. Worked for me and I'm grateful I tried it.

I can't smoke Marijuana due to the security clearances I have to hold and the jobs I do, and frankly I don't really want to smoke anyways. I'm still extremely skeptical about the claims about gluten, and there's not enough evidence to say for certain that gluten-free has any actual benefits other than being a fad diet like Paleo.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 18:32

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Applebees Appetizer posted:

What is there to be skeptical about, there is literally no risk in trying a two week trial. It's not about being a diet fad hipster, it's about having IBD and getting any advantage over your symptoms you can possibly take. In bold is pretty much the definition of gluten:

Because I was tested for celiac and was not found to be gluten sensetive.

Look, I appreciate what you are saying, and while my diet does need some work, I'm heavily into Italian food and frankly I'd suffer more without my breads and noodles, and gluten free taste odd. Kind of like how sugar free doesn't really taste the same.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 19:00

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Now with OpenGL

_{You remind me of the babe...}
_{_{...the babe with the power}}

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 19:05 on May 16, 2017

# ¿ May 16, 2017 19:03

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Applebees Appetizer posted:

Depending on what they find out with further testing (you may be taking a pill cam as well) they may start you out on mild to agressive steroids. Whatever you do, don't let them prescribe it for longer than required (usually no longer than a year to try to stimulate remission) or it can be detrimental. My docs hosed up and kept me on it longer than I should have and I'm paying for it now.

I'll keep that in mind, and that is a worry of mine: I want to avoid agressive steroids at least, as I'm already on them for asthma

# ¿ May 16, 2017 19:38

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

cursedshitbox posted:

Cool. New page.

It seems people forgot who I used to be. Have a goddamned refresher.

http://imgur.com/a/PLUBi
http://imgur.com/a/kiF2c

Next time some people wanna talk some goddamn poo poo there will be third album full of csb's dick.

I never forgot, lover.

Nobody steps to CSB :colbert:

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:26 on May 17, 2017

# ¿ May 17, 2017 13:05

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

gently caress summer, Spring is better.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 14:54

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

CornHolio posted:

A buddy of mine is buying this for a thousand dollars.

I'm giving it a month of regular driving before either it's completely dead or at least requires more than a thousand dollars of repair. Over/under on one month?

If he is not willing to work on it himself, and it will break, tell him to pass.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 15:24

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

funny Star Wars parody posted:

it's going to be underwater soon, whereas michigan has lots of fresh water and will be the new florida (also the home of the coming water wars where texas tries to annex michigan but california just isnt having it)

Most of the fresh water is going to be contaminated due to Climate Change, especially the Great Lakes and groundwater. Sorry.

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 20:17

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

cursedshitbox posted:

Goons harrassing me offsite about what crazy i've stuck my dick in when I've far more important poo poo to deal with like grades, so I found a little window of time to upload a couple photos.

Nobody messes with CSB, NOBODY

Applebees Appetizer posted:

By the time that happens don't you think there will be desalination plants everywhere?

That's assuming that all happens before World War 3 destroys the planet tho.

Still largely screws everyone not near a major body of water, since large amounts of drinking water is from groundwater.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 17:11

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