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You Am I posted:Why can't Americans pronounce Aluminium properly? Aluminium is a fake material for fiction writers. Aluminum, though, we can pronounce exactly as it's spelled.
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loving ceiling fan died in my bedroom, I gotta crank the ac like 5 degrees cooler to sleep comfortably. Any quick hack things I can check to see if it's a simple fix, like a cap or something?
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May 9, 2017 17:39
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I dunno, it's weird. While it was running the other day it suddenly started making a loud buzzing noise (which it makes if I try to spin the blades with the power turned on) and coasted to a stop. If I touch the housing I can feel it vibrating, so the motor's trying to do something. Spins quiet when it's switched off so it's not bearings or anything.
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May 9, 2017 17:58
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Do apartments let you buy your own permanent fixtures, or is something that should go through maintenance? That's the only reason I asked at all; I'd rather avoid dropping money on a place I'm not in permanently. E VV fan, this is a follow-up to my last posts Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 21:43 on May 9, 2017 |
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May 9, 2017 21:38
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IOwnCalculus posted:I never made that connection and yet I am so glad that you just did. same
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May 10, 2017 23:56
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Double post for solar chat, I toured a guy's private car collection recently, he got a bunch of standalone solar panels to run his museum and then some, all built at great expense to cat 5 hurricane standards (because space coast). He produces like 15k excess kWh/mo, so he should be sitting pretty, right? Turns out he didn't read the fine print, and he gets charged based on "peak demand". And he doesn't have any kind of battery bank. So basically even if he's producing a net power excess overall, he gets slapped with a monthly bill based on the power he draws when he turns the a/c on on the morning to prepare for tours, when the sun isn't up yet. He of course turned this into a rant about getting screwed by pseudo-governmental utility companies and how solar is a con job, but the lesson I took away was "Read your loving contracts before you sign, dummy". Cool cars, though.
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May 11, 2017 00:06
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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. I guess that's why Vibrations and Controls is one class now at my school. I failed it this semester due to mental health issues.  At least I can retake it over summer, with one of the highest praised professors in the department; I had him for another class and would have passed it easy if it didn't have Vibes as a co-requisite.Engineering school is hard, guys.
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May 11, 2017 17:19
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Man, I was looking at getting cop style center caps for the car, but they're like $40-70 on ebay for a full set, and like another 50 for the chrome trim rings I want. Guess I'll live with the granny hubcaps for now.
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May 13, 2017 14:05
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haha oh man i did way worse this semester than i thought lol
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May 14, 2017 00:15
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Raluek posted:you got a single B??? how will you ever survive think a down a couplr across the board e: not gonna have another meltdown in here, relax everyone
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May 14, 2017 00:41
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Nah I wouldn't give you beef over it after saying you had some mental health stuff go down man. s'all good mang i do gotta replace this av at some point tho. got an av cert burning a hole in my pocket, just haven't seen anything that strikes my fancy
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May 14, 2017 01:40
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gently caress I lied, e/n dump incoming Financial aid officiant dropped again due to the same credit hour limit as before, no way they'll let me appeal it after this most recent semester. There goes any hope of pretending everything's fine, gotta go to mom if I wanna pay classes out of pocket and explain why. And then she'll question if I have what it takes to finish school, like she always has when things went wrong in the past, to which my only reply is I tried the blue collar life and found myself inadequate; this is my only hope. I can feel poo poo starting to unravel, big time. And of all days for it to come together. Happy mother's day! Your son's a useless lump. /EN
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May 14, 2017 05:59
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It's not that they've been unforgiving so far, it's just that every setback like this pushes the generosity a little further and I don't know how much is left. Like stretching a rubber band and waiting for the snap. But yeah two Ds and a straight up F, it's a real loving bad look.
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May 14, 2017 06:25
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I guess it's a side effect of hearing her war stories. She grew up dirt poor, her dad was an engineer for 40 years but between 7 kids they just barely scraped by. At 18 she was out on her own, working through accounting school at winn dixie (at the same university as me no less), then fighting the next 20 years to be taken seriously as a career woman in the 80s and 90s, all while having me and my sisters and divorcing my dad. Finally landed a good job around 2k, lost a ton of real estate value in 08 but still manages to have a mind boggling net worth, at least from my pov. She literally bootstrapped herself from nothing to upper middle class. Next to that it feels like how loving dare I be so... mediocre.
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May 14, 2017 06:44
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Rhyno posted:SOMEONE JUST OFFERED ME A FREE PT CRUISER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! does that qualify as assault? you may have a case
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May 14, 2017 07:03
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Against all odds I got some sleep and I'm feeling a little better. I know I can pull it out, was kinda just having a panic attack tbh. Thanks for all the kinds words, you guys prove once again that you're good people.
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May 14, 2017 16:56
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I mostly want trim rings to avoid the murdered out look, kinda visually break up the mass of black.
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May 14, 2017 18:37
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I almost ripped the back of a pizza guy's car off pulling into a plaza earlier. I was coming off the mainroad which basically requires making a u-turn; I paused to make sure it was clear, then carried forward. Suddenly he loving guns backwards out of his spot it when it's too late for me to stop, like seriously if I hadn't been looking straight at him when he started moving I physically could not have reacted in time. We both slammed our brakes, came to a stop with me blocking him in, him a blond oval office hair away from my front fender. He tried aggressively waving me back until he realized there were like 4 cars behind me coming off the road (because that's how parking lot entrances work) , punched his roof and pulled back in so I could drive past. Like, guy, I get your job makes you rush, but it's gonna be a shitload worse if you run into someone due to carelessness. If he'd been easing out of his spot when I turned I would have waited for him.' Drivers R dum, news at 11.
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May 15, 2017 05:18
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fridge corn posted:i cant think of a single reason to go to dubai being able to leave? wait from what I've heard that's not a given nevermind
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May 15, 2017 16:01
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CommieGIR posted:Or be Athiest, like me, which is still largely a crime. Atheist* c'mon, son
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May 15, 2017 16:12
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Right, go back to your nucular plants.
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May 15, 2017 16:15
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I love being able to watch rocket launches from my backyard.
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May 16, 2017 00:15
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funny Star Wars parody posted:i want it to be 30-34C all year round and i can't wait for global warming to make this even more possible Just move to Florida
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May 17, 2017 15:08
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What if I made a rocket glider
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May 17, 2017 15:39
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Unit built for a 20 amp circuit is tripping a 30 amp breaker. Clearly this means the thermostat is using over 120 watts of power.
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May 17, 2017 22:14
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:120v x 20 = 2400 watts I was thinking of the "overcurrent" over 20, but yeah I left a zero off lol. Even if the a/c runs at ~ 25 amps normally (assuming the 30 amp breaker spec is right), that's still 5 amps minimum the Nest has to draw to trip it. 5*120=600, so over half a kilowatt that they're blaming on the thermostat. Incompetent fucks.
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May 17, 2017 23:51
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beep-beep car is go posted:I really hope the lager thing takes off, I really really like a good lager. I used to be an IPA guy back in the early 2000s, but now it's just nuts. I want to enjoy a beer, not be punished by it. oh so you're too much of a PUSSY to handle REAL MAN BEER made with a HOP NUKE that PUNCHES YOU IN THE FACE WITH BITTERNESS? (I prefer dark, malty beers myself)
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May 18, 2017 17:43
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I think he's just pre-emptively declaring Adiabetic's mod challenge failed and shut it down himself. I've been having a rough week myself, and I'm trying to avoid that whole comparing-my-suffering-to-others' thing, but man I hope he does okay.
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May 21, 2017 04:49
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InitialDave posted:When I was at uni, they wanted us to make a multi-CD "jukebox" as a project. They were not happy when I read the requirements, and pointed out the cheapest, fastest way was to run X number (I think it was minimum 4) of off the shelf CD drives in parallel with a selector circuit. To be fair the latter is more scaleable. Same changer mechanism with a larger storage rack/more memory addresses, vs X complete readers. I mean probably not for small numbers, but...
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May 22, 2017 03:03
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The Door Frame posted:Doctors should prescribe ultra high fat diets and borderline alcoholic behaviors to insomniacs. A caffeine (and R6:Siege) fueled night of insomnia had me miserable until I had queso fundido and a Little Sumpin'. Now it feels like I took benadryl It's a tradeoff, alcohol supposedly reduces restful sleep.
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May 23, 2017 13:41
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Well as a follow up to my little grades meltdown, it turns out that the classes I got Ds in will be good enough for me to graduate, so provided I do well in Vibrations this semester I can still graduate next spring. Registered for my senior design course already. gently caress this is creeping up on me, feels like just yesterday I was walking back into the community college to go back to school after Sears turned out to be a garbage job. That was four years ago, I hadn't even settled on a major then.
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May 25, 2017 14:36
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Ds get degrees, motherfucker. See that's the thing, my school's engineering department is slowly instituting a C or better policy for all prerequisite courses. So if you get a D in course 1, you technically passed, but if course 2 requires course 1 as a pre-req, you can't take 2 until you re-take 1. The policy seems to be just behind my catalog year. So I can take Senior Design with a D in heat transfer, but starting next fall it'll have to be a C or better. I was afraid that it was already coming into effect for this fall and that I'd be caught out by it, but I finally heard back from my adviser and I'm good. I fully endorse a D for Done mindset, but in my case it doesn't always apply.
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May 25, 2017 16:31
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jammyozzy posted:Whoever at AP Racing decided 7mm was a good nominal size for a fastener hole needs a slap. Make it 6 or 8 you jerks, we have a million studs that will fit those sizes laying about. But mate the 7mm is slightly more optimal in size when designed in isolation!
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May 26, 2017 22:42
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welp i'm 29 now, one more year and i can officially call myself Almost Old. Now to figure out something I can do to celebrate that's low-budget and fits my lazy holiday mindset...
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May 27, 2017 05:36
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cakesmith handyman posted:It's back on like page 6 or 7 Archived, but here it is. Someone should remake it or pin it in the Stupid Questions OP or something. Lotta good info organized clearly, would be a shame to lose it.
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May 27, 2017 23:07
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rdb posted:Yeah, I will just post my poo poo in the stupid questions thread but I think it's probably a little more than a stupid question. Are you having any actual symptoms?
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May 28, 2017 01:54
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Preoptopus posted:After 5 years of busting my knuckles and bathing in oil im out. I started hating cars. I hated raping people in the wallet and flat out lying to them at request of my managers.. Working at a shop is the most toxic thing i have ever been apart of especially with little return. Starting in a new trade I know little about home renovation. Hopefully it's a more fulfilling career. Welcome, friend. Join the brotherhood of "gently caress THIS poo poo" former mechanics. Not a single person I went to auto school with is still in the trade, they're all salespeople of some flavor or another. At least in that field you get some return on your soul.
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May 29, 2017 22:34
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So some minor health issues my sister had been having are suddenly looking like they might be not so minor. She's having surgery tomorrow, and things could be serious.  I'm not a spiritual type normally, but any good vibes would be appreciated.
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May 31, 2017 02:51
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Well looks like my sister's all right. It was a rapid growth cancerous mass, they think they got the whole thing. Some light chemo and she should be fine. drat this has been a rough 12 hours.
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May 31, 2017 15:41
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