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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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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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Jan 3, 2019 00:01
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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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Jan 3, 2019 00:41
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I need to get a new scraper for the few times it really iced up here in Texas. I had a good one, but I got a little aggressive with it a couple of years ago and snapped it in half. Pity. It was something like a decade old or older at that point. It served me well.
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Jan 3, 2019 20:54
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Humphreys posted:Can't you just beef up the wiper motors and stick a bunch of razor blades to the arms? I like the way you think. Additional ice story: a bunch of years ago, a winter storm came through Dallas in the middle of the day, so, wisely, most employers let their workers go home early. I was one of them. Fortunately, 90% of the trip was, at that time, by commuter rail, but I still got stuck in a bunch of traffic, in ice and snow, leaving the rail station. I was daily driving my ‘79 RX-7 at the time,which already had a crack in the lower part of the windshield. Apparently, the defroster on that thing works really well (of course it does - rotaries produce almost nothing but noise and HEAT.) As I was sitting in traffic, talking to my wife on my phone, I *watched* that damned crack start creeping across the windshield from the defroster heat. At least it was already done for, and since it was low, I still haven’t had to actually replace the windshield. Inside got nice and warm, too!
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Jan 4, 2019 17:59
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everdave posted:How the hell do I take off these Japanese hood struts the right way? No clamp no pin. Any ideas? Well, do the replacements come with the ball-stud? 'Cuz then you just, you know, unbolt it using the hex, there. I'd probably do that just to get a better look at what's actually going on. meatpimp posted:Pull. ...and see if that's the case.
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Jan 4, 2019 21:26
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Wish I had some money after Christmas. I could use a couple of the drives as they are on my media server (which is a Mac Mini, so no extra internal bays) to replace the 6TB LaCie RAID 5 (4 x 2TB drives). I don't really need more space, but those arrays are physically big. Then again, the two LaCies with the Mac Mini on top of them are still smaller than most minitowers. Hmmm. I need to check the docs on the LaCie enclosures. They may be able to do hardware RAID 10. Which I've wanted to do since I learned RAID 5 wasn't all that great.
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Jan 4, 2019 23:19
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Queen Combat posted:Yeah, holy cow. I've downloaded every movie I've ever seen, and am sitting at 4TB I think? Now re-download them all at 1080p.
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Ferremit posted:Unbolt then. The new ones come with swaged in balls with threads Holy poo poo I was right? Uh, I mean: TOLD YA! Queen Combat posted:Oh, it is. Maybe I just haven't seen that many movies. This is possible. I think I'm under 3TB, but I mostly grab 720p.
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Jan 5, 2019 00:37
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I rather like Handbrake for DVDs, and MakeMKV for Blu-ray. Or MakeMKV for both. Handbrake used to be able to do Blu-ray, but the add-ones don’t seem to work reliably any more, or are just a pain to make work. MakeMKV requires a license, however, it’s still in beta, so the license is free from the forum. It just has to be re-entered every month.
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Jan 5, 2019 02:10
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Gingerbread House Music posted:Perma ban me plzkthx. Whoa! You OK?
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Jan 5, 2019 02:10
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Queen Combat posted:There's this upscaling program called rarbg that's pretty good. Helps you convert DVDs to higher quality mp4s. Pretty much all I find on rarbg is the torrent site. Or is that the joke?
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Jan 5, 2019 02:15
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IOwnCalculus posted:Pretty sure that was the joke. Thought it might, but I held out hope for some fancy upscaling thing. Ferremit posted:Once you tie plex into Sonaar and Radaar, its hunger for storage space gets stupid. A friend who worked at a local ISP (this would be back in the mid- to late-'90s) took me into their server room, pointed to a large array of servers and drives, and said "that's all porn." He was not wrong - it was their local copy of all the newsgroups (remember newsgroups?), the largest of which at the time was alt.binaries.pictures.erotica. Ferremit posted:Its gonna be a massive job and a huge change in direction for me, Handy little $10K a year pay rise too. Gonna miss some of the stuff I do now, and miss the guys I work with but im sick of being managed by someone who doesnt know what their doing and someone with a literal brain injury whos totally loving useless. So know you are going to be the brain-damaged manager who doesn't know what your doing? Heh, JK. Congrats on the move. 
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Jan 7, 2019 18:50
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Thankfully Home Depot is only a couple of miles for me. Still annoying as gently caress.
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Jan 7, 2019 21:16
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Rhyno posted:We have a Lowes and HD within 3 miles but I prefer Menards which is like 8 miles away, I prefer Lowes to HD, but the HD is *right there* for when I need it *right now*. The latest This Old Tony video keeps killing me with the mustard squirt sound effect he's using for when he oils a part for machining. I have no idea why I find it so funny, but it keeps catching me off guard while I half-rear end watch the video while working ("working").
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Jan 7, 2019 22:35
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meltie posted:Have you lot seen the tite-reach? I saw them on a guy's YT channel. He shilled them for free (as I recall) since they actually worked for him in a difficult situation (Agingwheels, and while he was swapping the engine on his Saab 96) doogle posted:I bought one and immediately broke it. The housing is plastic which shattered in the cold. They make a metal version for real men. The plastic one is the "hobbyist and home" version - clearly not for us.
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Jan 8, 2019 18:32
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Considering the price of the things they should all be metal. Won't argue with you there. That's why I don't have at least the 3/8" one right now.
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Jan 8, 2019 20:03
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doogle posted:I bought one and immediately broke it. The housing is plastic which shattered in the cold. Just looked on the website, and they will replace the DIY (plastic) one *once* under warranty. The metal ones have a lifetime warranty. edit: wonder how long their patent is good for?
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Jan 8, 2019 20:14
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FistEnergy posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ae9vde/subaru_service_center_gave_my_car_to_someone_else/?utm_source=reddit-android The shop manager was loving hooning the car, wrecked it, and they were trying to delay him while attempting to fix it in their body shop, and their cover story was that *they gave it to another customer*. And then they started talking about charging him for the crash repair. gently caress those guys. This is a case where I support suing them into oblivion. Reddit posted:CYA how though? There is nothing helpful to them about their cover. It's just as much their fault in their version as it is if it was stolen off the lot or wrecked. The people are dumb. This, so much. There are a really impressive number of moderator-removed comments in that thread.
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Jan 10, 2019 16:48
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keykey posted:So true. When did veterinary medicine become as silly cost-wise as human medicine? Also, gently caress insurance companies and their "pre-existing conditions." It's even a nonsense phrase.
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This is pretty much my take on it. As I understand it, most illegal immigration is from folks overstaying their visas. No wall is going to prevent people from entering the country legally and then just not leaving. InitialDave posted:Isn't this the entire ridiculousness of a border wall? e:f,b. InitialDave posted:Yeah, I do like Adam Ruins Everything, though I'm always a little dubious as to when there's a bit of spin being put on stuff. The one he did on the eyecare/eyeglasses industry drat near had me frothing at the mouth. Literally one of the reasons I finally stepped up and got LASIK. gently caress Luxotica.
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Bajaha posted:Woop! Just gave my two week notice to my boss! I've been unhappy at work for a while and undercompensated while being strung along about getting better compensation for a year now, and I accepted a job offer at an engineering firm that's got a great reputation and all round seems like a better environment with a very promising career trajectory.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Tech support question, I have a good printer I've no interest in changing, however it's no Ethernet port and my router doesn't allow the usb port to be used for printers. Looking online for a wireless print server there are loads for £15-20, is this what I want and are there any recommendations? Is it not near a PC that you can use as a host? That would be the no-cost option, at least if the PC stays on all the time. Otherwise, yeah,a wired or wireless USB print server should do the trick. I’ve not used one, so I can’t comment on efficacy. The old HP JetPrint Ethernet-parallel external print servers worked great, on HP printers at least, which tells you how long ago I messed with such things. My current printers already have Ethernet and WiFi.
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InitialDave posted:The Trump fast food thing is an interesting manoeuvre, if ultimately silly. He'd have been better off playing the same card but with hiring smaller restauranteurs from South Carolina to cater as a "showcase of entrepreneurial spirit and supporting the ltitle guy" or however you want to spin that. At least get them food, rather than whatever it is that McD's sells. quote:I'm not sure that's a bad thing, the BMW turbo 6s have a lot of tuning potential in them, I'm not sure Toyota have anything on hand that would be more appropriate for a new Supra. Then they should have either come up with a new straight 6, or dropped a baby 3UZ (maybe 3.5-4.0L) in it. If I want a BMW, I'll get a
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The Internet was a mistake. At the very least, it's a two-edged sword. On the one hand: massive access to knowledge! On the other hand: massive access to (other) idiots! edit: but, yeah, that's why most of my time is spent here, in AI.
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keykey posted:Absolutely. I say all the time that it's a double-edged sword. On the up-side, you can find anything you want... On the down-side, you can find anything you want. Or don't want. Suburban Dad posted:drat poors ruin everything. Not so much that, I think, as a low cost of entry to a thing reduces the perceived value. You might have noticed the lack of quality in other forums that don't charge admission, unlike our own. Let's just go with "people who are uneducated, and may be poor largely due to lack of education but prefer to spread their uneducated views around rather than using the Internet to educate themselves"? Could just be stupid, too. Financial bearing and education don't seem to help that at all. Actually, I guess unwillingness or inability to learn *would* be stupidity, by definition.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Good luck UK goons. Looks like it's gonna be full train wreck Brexit What in the hell is happening in this world?
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meatpimp posted:Two preeminent countries vying for the title of "biggest fall in stature and status in history." An insane game of “hold my beer”. Shut up Meg posted:There is the glimmer of hope that the whole thing might be called off. I think I see what you did there, and we should be so lucky.
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Liquid Communism posted:I can put up with idiots in exchange for being able to find a video tutorial of drat near anything I would ever want to know how to do in ten minutes. I remember what it was like trying to learn obscure poo poo like armor making back in the 1990's, when you had to know somebody who knew how or find a library with a rare usually out of print for decades book that had the info. Oh, absolutely. So much poo poo you had to know the right people, or happen to find the right articles in magazines, or books, or ads for books in the right magazines. That said, I did kind of enjoy researching stuff in the Library - I'm kind of sad I don't go to the Library hardly at all any more - but I really dig watching all the DIYers on YouTube and write-ups elsewhere, and learning from their mistakes. I mean, I've been zinc electroplating bolts without having to give Caswell Plating $100 thanks to the Internet! Also learned about electrolytic rust removal. Kicks rear end. freelop posted:A current example is probably how the That's exactly what I was alluding to.  isn't much, but it's just enough to be skin in the game. FWIW, I've definitely gotten at least $10 value out of this forum.
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Ferremit posted:Its the same with me- I finish up in my current role end of Jan and start in a new role, within a new department on the 4th of Feb. Its suddenly dawned on my management whats going to happen when I go- They loose their best plant operator, their mechanic, their plumber, their welder, their fabricator, their fabricobler.... None of my workmates have the same skills that I do, and they freely admit it. Don't you hate when you like/love a job, but management spoils it? Sorry that you had to nope out to make it better. Could've been worse - you could have become management!  (Not always the worst thing, though.)
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64bit_Dophins posted:The last time I gave a two weeks notice I made it to the end of the second week (literally the last day) only to have my boss pull me into his office and tell me that I would be fired in two weeks if I didn't get my metrics up. That is simultaneously the best and worst things.
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Goober Peas posted:How many Cheetos is a freedom unit? There's a Trump joke in here somewhere, but I'm not up to it this morning.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm quite jealous of the fact you're going to see it for the first time. It's preeeeeeeetty good. Looking forward to 3. I should rewatch the first two, because.
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Glad I saw Adiabatic's post over in Horrible Will chat. Posting here instead:sharkytm posted:If you've got anything of real value, set up a loving revocable living trust. My mom just did this when she moved up here to MA. When she dies, everything transfers to me. No probate, no 6+ months of waiting, no fees, no BS. It just transfers. This. My wife completed her Paralegal degree in 2017, and if nothing else, she got that out of it. My mother-in-law has had to act as executor for her brother, her husband, and her mother-in-law, and that convinced her to set up a trust herself, so that we don't have to go through all that crap. We need to do the same. PainterofCrap posted:I had to deal with my father's hosed-up will and my evil stepmother after my two sisters bailed on executor duties. Was in probate fighting it for three years. I just saw a web service called Cake that's supposed to let you do wills and such online, but more importantly, organize and specify what is to happen with your digital assets/life. I've set myself a reminder to check out how/if it works. quote:I'm following my mom's lead (as is my wife) and am donating my mortal remains (assuming they're intact; otherwise it's cremation) to a teaching university hospital. They always need cadavers, etc. It takes a couple hours to set up with the university, and they will pick up after the paperwork is done, and in most cases the whole process costs less than $500. Now that's a though. Put this bag of organs to good use - I don't need it any more. cakesmith handyman posted:I missed will/end of life chat but you guys are registered as organ donors aren't you? Pretty sure I am. Let me check my driver's license. Yep. That reminds me, I need to get the prescription lenses restriction removed from my license now.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Well clearly they're programming them to granny shift, instead of double clutching like you should 
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:QC - you are a fantastic human bean, shy boy from chess club posted:One thing I remember from elementary school is a picture of a bean with arms and legs and a face that said Human Bean under it. It was in the nurses office and I thought it was "bean" forever because of that picture, haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1vWnF9bS4
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Adiabatic posted:I made it 33 seconds. Anyone beat my record? I watched it many years ago, when it was new (1990s), which is why I thought of it. There’s a newer hour-and-a-half version from 2009 that I didn’t post. There’s also a side scroller shooter mobile game, which is tolerable.
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I'm just going to leave this here: https://twitter.com/punchesbears/status/1087519873964494848 edit:designs are from https://teefury.com/collections/wytrab8 artist: https://www.instagram.com/hillarywhiterabbit/ Darchangel fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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AnnoyBot posted:Funny- I see more external hiring for senior positions than I do promotions. This is Silicon Valley, medium size companies. Case in point: me (passed over for promo, got promo'd on job hop last month). Though it's also true that it was who I knew. It's kind of a sad state of things in IT that you are much more likely to get a raise/promotion by changing companies than internal. Your old company will then pay your replacement more, while losing your knowledge. It's stupid, but it's the (HR) mentality. STR posted:(and goddamnit now I have Tool stuck in my head... more than the usual amount of tool) There's a joke here about tools stuck in places that I want to make, but I'm not sure how tasteless I want to appear. keykey posted:I just got word back from a cool job that I would have relocated for this morning. Apparently, they were looking for someone with an Oracle cert for a job that "Directs and leads a major segment of the IT organization specific to the financial systems." Seems legit. I think most the time there is an absolute disconnect between HR and the division they are hiring for, at least that's been my experience. HR is largely useless in most organizations, but has managed to make itself somehow necessary nonetheless.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:DNS server system has gone tits up at work so that's like 5k+ people affected here today not including the students. Whoops. Those with non-managed machines can get around it by just using Google's DNS but staff machines are managed because staff don't need access to break things more than they already do. Just send an email acknowledging the outage. Heh. Or add an announcement to the outgoing message on your phone.
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