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tetrapyloctomy posted:...you're probably safer assuming doctors are stupid about everything ftfy. Sometimes it is the truth.
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Adiabatic posted:Dunning-Kruger Effect alive and well! Beverly Cleavage posted:ftfy. Sometimes it is the truth.
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Happy New Year, goons! Didn't party NYE because I managed to get a head cold or something. Sinuses all stopped up. Still are actually. Did stay up and have a glass of wine with my wife - then was in bed by 12:15. We didn't even pop our poppers. Winter finally showed up in Dallas - despite that, disassembled a wooden play gym and swing set that my daughter, now 17, no longer uses, so a coworker could take it home and set it up for his 18-month old sprout. Begin:  that was about 1:00 PM. We got done around 4-4:30, by which time it was starting to get dark (not that it really ever got, you know, light. I hate winter.) I forgot to take pictures before he left, but he sent me these when he got home:   Personally, I'd have disassembled it more, but he didn't want to, so there it is. It made it 60-odd miles like that, and he was careful to check the straps multiple times during the trip. Part of that pile is actually screwed together to keep it more stable. 11 feet tall, BTW. I can't complain too much about 2018 personally. Pretty poo poo for the nation, possibly the world, but my personal slice was far from bad. I'm still a contractor, but I got a raise, and my immediate boss is having me put down time on holidays as a "special project", so that's a load off. Doc was unhappy with my A1C at my last checkup (7.1, up from 6.2 or so) BUT my appointment was smack dab between Thanksgiving and Christmas, at which time the office is loaded with food and snacks. So I'm actually not too worried about that (yet.) We also discovered that I suffer from low-T, like really low - 300s as I recall - so I get to shoot myself up with manly-man hormone soon. Explains my general drag-assedness for the last good while. I'd say possibly my irritability, but I think that's an actual personality trait. In an odd twist, I discovered that Diet Dr. Pepper, my go to for soda that won't make me fat of kill my blood sugar, now tastes like rear end to me. Not sure why, but I guess it'll be coffee, tea and water going forward. Don't really need all the other poo poo in soda anyway. Oh, and alcohol. Still drinking that, too, though not that much, usually.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:and most times people have at least one subject about which they are not stupid. This is how I manage to keep a job in a place where people can have the brightest mind in the country about poo poo like black holes but not know how a touchscreen works despite it saying "press here to start". I'll allow it.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This is how I manage to keep a job in a place where people can have the brightest mind in the country about poo poo like black holes but not know how a touchscreen works despite it saying "press here to start". I'll allow it.
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Jan 2, 2019 17:57
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Got another cool Matchbox yesterday at Dollar General. The most reliable B5V in the world. Matchbox has on the ball lately. If they make an S2 Scirocco I can die happy.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:It's well known that if you have a bad investment, pitch it to doctors. Absolutely, I'm just being a cheeky rear end in a top hat. Wife is an NP and her youngest brother is an ortho. surgeon, and both are, to my understanding, great at what they do.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Sounds like you guys need exercises that focus on your height drat straight, I got an inversion table for Christmas and am going to improve my BMI by hanging upside down. I’m 5’ 6” and 185lbs, so I just need to stretch myself out about 6 inches and I will be healthy! I mean, gently caress diet and exercise that poo poo is hard work...
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Beverly Cleavage posted:Absolutely, I'm just being a cheeky rear end in a top hat. Wife is an NP and her youngest brother is an ortho. surgeon, and both are, to my understanding, great at what they do. What I love about orthopedic surgeons is that they make a conscious effort to play dumb despite being objectively brighter than average across the board (since it's so competitive a specialty). They have the "aw, shucks, I'm just a bone doctor, better admit them to medicine for me to consult on" act down to a science. It was a great rotation as a student, by the way. Their surgeries are great to watch. But I'm way too lazy to be a surgeon.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:What I love about orthopedic surgeons is that they make a conscious effort to play dumb despite being objectively brighter than average across the board (since it's so competitive a specialty). They have the "aw, shucks, I'm just a bone doctor, better admit them to medicine for me to consult on" act down to a science. On that note, a question -- everyone that I've ever known that has seen an orthopedist for anything leg/foot related has been prescribed orthotics. Is that an easy revenue stream, or is it true that feet deformities drive many/most leg/foot problems? Or is my experience outside of the norm?
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Hey we've got some network/IT folks here right? Is there a quick primer on NAS's for dummies? I have been thinking for some time about putting some storage on my home network for our PCs to share. I got a spur of the moment smoking deal on a brand new Netgear RN2120 and, I'm sure it will be more than adequate for what I need but I did buy it without doing much/any research. I have 2 matching 4TB drives which I installed and going through initial setup and the drives formatted/synching (although they should be empty, I don't know why "synching" says it's going to take 6 hours). Anyhow, will I just be able to "browse" this thing like any old network drive or will I have to access through my web-browser? Also, I really don't know too much about RAIDs and redundancy isn't a huge, huge deal for me. I guess it has X-RAID (whatever that means). Anything I should obviously be doing setting this up for a home network? I know I can wade into the SH/SC forum, but you folks are my peeps  tetrapyloctomy posted:What I love about orthopedic surgeons is that they make a conscious effort to play dumb despite being objectively brighter than average across the board (since it's so competitive a specialty). They have the "aw, shucks, I'm just a bone doctor, better admit them to medicine for me to consult on" act down to a science. Speaking of Doctors, off to see mine this afternoon. My back pain is largely better courtesy of my physiotherapist, but she was super hard on my TFL on my leg last visit and I think she tweaked a nerve so now I get a ton of pain in my leg, especially when I bend down, but at least my back isn't killing me anymore!  I hope between my Doctor and my physio they can fix it, this really sucks 
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You should be able to access the drives on your computers and mobile devices via SMB shares. I'm not familiar with that model of NAS but there should be somewhere in the web console where you can establish shares. With only two drives you're limited to RAID 1 (mirroring, each drive is a 1:1 copy of the other) or RAID 0 (striping, both drives appear as one to file systems and half of the data is written to each drive.) I'd recommend RAID 1, as it will protect you from a single point of failure, which is the most common type of end user data loss. Downside is you lose 50% of the array's capacity. RAID 0 incurs a modest read/write speed increase since you're reading from/writing to two drives simultaneously, but it comes at the expense of substantially higher chance of read/write errors, and once a pair of striped drives encounters a filesystem error all data on both drives is forfeit. e: fixed RAID terminology. Geoj fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Isn't that backwords? Raid 0 is striping and raid 1 is mirror.
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^ Yeah I'm backwards 
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Happy loving new year to me:  I've had my WRX since 12/30/2003. Some shitstain plowed into it yesterday while I was out. The right rear control arm is bent at like a 50 deg angle from being pushed over the curb; the tire has a 1" hole in it. The left wheel is about 4" forward of where it should be. The jack was in the standard storage place, and was punched through the sheet metal and is hanging outside the body behind the wheel. It looks like a total loss. Cops found the car that hit me around the corner by following the trail of coolant. No idea if it was stolen yet, or what.
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that'll teach you for thinking we can have nice things
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shy boy from chess club posted:Got another cool Matchbox yesterday at Dollar General. The most reliable B5V in the world. 
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Geoj posted:You should be able to access the drives on your computers and mobile devices via SMB shares. I'm not familiar with that model of NAS but there should be somewhere in the web console where you can establish shares.
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Looking at the product spec sheet it supports single disk/JBOD (just a bunch of disks) mode, so you could set up separate volumes with no redundancy. Looks like they have their own proprietary RAID function (the "X-RAID" you were referring to) that dynamically allocates additional volumes and allows you to grow your array size over time. It also supports standard RAID 5 (striping with parity), RAID 6 (same as RAID 5 with additional parity redundancy), or RAID 10 (basically the same as RAID 0 + 1, two striped arrays that are then mirrored.)
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slidebite posted:I know I can wade into the SH/SC forum, but you folks are my peeps It's one of the only SH/SC threads I read or post in  And yeah, for most modern RAID implementations, it's not unusual to have the initial format / sync take a long time, even with blank disks.
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I just want them to make a matchbox car out of a 6th Gen Accord. Is that too much to ask?
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Thanks for the help guys, since that thread in SH/SC seems to be exactly what I should be looking at, I'll take it there. Also appreciate the heads-up with JBOD mode 
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I'm running two 4-bay QNAPs with 36TB each in JBOD. One backs up the other locally, syncing every night and holding 10 days of changes/deletes. I also do a monthly off-site delta backup. I chose QNAP because it's super flexible. I can do basic maintenance with their Android apps, full maintenance through the web interface. I can access the data as a network drive when I'm at home, and the media files both at home and away via Plex. My side hustle is media conversion and editing, vintage media collecting hence the ridiculous amount of storage and hardware. I have 20TB of archived data and about 4TB of active data, so I'm only using about 2/3 of the capacity. Adding/swapping storage is fairly easy, but time consuming especially if you choose the conservative path. When I upgraded from 32TB to 36TB each it took about a week using the conservative approach. There are probably a gazillion opinions around better ways to do what I'm doing, but what I'm doing works well for me.
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AnnoyBot posted:Happy loving new year to me: That sucks man. Hope insurance doesn’t gently caress you round too much.
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Time to start planning how to negotiate down the buyback on your newly salvage-titled WRX.
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slothrop posted:That sucks man. Hope insurance doesn’t gently caress you round too much. They don't have to try hard to gently caress me over; time already did that. I figure I'll get $8k at best; it's old and has 131k mi. I'm not sure if I'll get something sensible or get wacky with something like a W220 Mercedes or Envoy with the Atlas I6. A 295hp twincam I6 SUV? I could get on board for that. On the other hand my dad wants to sell his 944S2 cabrio. That sounds like a bad choice for an actual usable car though.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Time to start planning how to negotiate down the buyback on your newly salvage-titled WRX. I don't know about that... the way the passenger wheel is twisted, that unibody is ripped and mangled. Unless it's a parts donor, I don't see that one ever tracking correctly again.Good luck, AnnoyBot. AnnoyBot posted:I'm not sure if I'll get something sensible or get wacky with something like a W220 Mercedes or Envoy with the Atlas I6. A 295hp twincam I6 SUV? I could get on board for that. On the other hand my dad wants to sell his 944S2 cabrio. That sounds like a bad choice for an actual usable car though. The Envoy is a dog. I had one. Unless you can find a Denali, but that's got an LS motor.
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Yeah, you're probably right. Started to think about what's fuckered on that and am realizing it's more than it's worth to fix and then still have a salvage-branded WRX on your hands. Sorry about your car, AnnoyBot. In other news, meatpimp - I'm joining you on Remaining-On-The-Booze-But-Cutting-Out-The Sugar-January.
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What's everyone's opinion on a 4-year old Cayenne as a racecar tow vehicle (and DD) VS. buying a 4-year old top-engine'd "light" truck?
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meatpimp posted:The Envoy is a dog. I had one. Unless you can find a Denali, but that's got an LS motor. How so? My dad has the XUV, which is the ugliest vehicle ever made, but it seems fine otherwise. I just think the engine is neat. Does it have a fatal flaw other than mid 2000s GM beigeness? I have motorcycles for fun times, the car needs to be more kid friendly.
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The Prong Song posted:What's everyone's opinion on a 4-year old Cayenne as a racecar tow vehicle (and DD) VS. buying a 4-year old top-engine'd "light" truck? The diesel tows well, gets great gas mileage (I averaged 28mpg from Az to Wa), has insane range, and can easily be used as a daily driver. That is just my opinion, I am planning to buy the one my parents own when the time comes for exactly this purpose.
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BlackMK4 posted:The diesel tows well, gets great gas mileage (I averaged 28mpg from Az to Wa), has insane range, and can easily be used as a daily driver. A diesel Porsche? That's even more appalling than a Porsche SUV in the first place. I want one.
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Did you get the V10 TDI Touareg in the USA?
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InitialDave posted:Did you get the V10 TDI Touareg in the USA? Yeah but I'm not interested in a 12+ year old car. I can pick up a 2016 Cayenne at the same price as I can a 2016 V8 tow package F150 - both will suit my towing needs, but I have a feeling the Pepper will be a lot more nice to live with.
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Darchangel posted:A diesel Porsche? That's even more appalling than a Porsche SUV in the first place. Yes, they are really nice and definitely not 'slow'. Fuelly has them in the mid 20's MPG wise combined. http://www.fuelly.com/car/porsche/cayenne?engineconfig_id=238&bodytype_id=&submodel_id=
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I feel a terrible vehicle choice coming on. I've been feeling a need for a truck, but most trucks and SUVs get terrible fuel mileage. This is provided I can afford to get *anything* in the first place, which is not assured. edit: oof. Still a little out of my potential range. Would be neat though. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Define v8 tow package F150. Are you specifically looking for the “max tow” version thats really rare? I think a 2016 v8 F150 4x4 CC with a trailer hitch, wiring and a brake controller is a $30k vehicle, maybe less. The cayenne appears to cost a bit more.
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The Prong Song posted:What's everyone's opinion on a 4-year old Cayenne as a racecar tow vehicle (and DD) VS. buying a 4-year old top-engine'd "light" truck? Friend tows and dailies a Cayenne diesel, loves it and recommends it to anyone who will listen. The limited time I've spent in one it was comfortable, quiet and pretty quick.
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I'd say the only real downsides of it (that I have experienced) are that ALL of the mirrors are very small so blindspot mirrors are basically required and they really do not like to sit, you will go through DEF parts because the urea will crystallize in the system. The throttle is kind of weird from a stop if you don't run it in sport mode all the time, also.
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Darchangel posted:edit: oof. Still a little out of my potential range. Would be neat though. You could just pick up a diesel Touareg or Q5 diesel for a lot less probably? Same powertrain I believe. FIL has had both, loved them both (just replaced the Audi with the VW).
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