The Official Status Thread
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You realize win10 is now a recommended update (no longer optional)?
What's Windows Update?
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Seems like too much work for too little reward, to me, which is why I stopped changing my own oil ages ago. Now if you want to start doing other things as well, like changing your brake pads, which isn't actually all that difficult, or changing (say) an alternator, you're talking about things that are more worth doing.
@Lorne_Kates said:
Also, I don't have to go to a mechanic.
Fuck that, I just go to Walmart. They won't do any worse than any other place that does oil changes.
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Seems like too much work for too little reward, to me, which is why I stopped changing my own oil ages ago. Now if you want to start doing other things as well, like changing your brake pads, which isn't actually all that difficult, or changing (say) an alternator, you're talking about things that are more worth doing.
I wouldn't mind that. I've been looking at replacing the shocks. The car's a bit bumpy.
Fuck that, I just go to Walmart. They won't do any worse than any other place that does oil changes.
I usually do to, but the nearest Walmart with a garage is still a bit of a drive away. It's now a Mr. Lube. At least the hours a good. I live near a strip of mechanics, but most of them close at 5pm. Again, it isn't all that hard to get to them-- just annoying.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I usually do to, but the nearest Walmart with a garage is still a bit of a drive away.
Gotcha. I have 2 within a 10-minute drive, not to mention probably 5 regular garages in approximately that range, including a chain one that just opened up this month, that's just up the street.
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status I want to open a combination Vietnamese soup / billiards restaurant.
So I can call it Pho Cue.
I'll hire a head chef called Quinn. She'll be allowed to make a signature dish, Pho Quinn.
If you want a smaller portion than a bowl, you can order Pho Cup. A big Pho Cup, or just a little Pho Cup.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I usually do to, but the nearest Walmart with a garage is still a bit of a drive away.
Gotcha. I have 2 within a 10-minute drive, not to mention probably 5 regular garages in approximately that range, including a chain one that just opened up this month, that's just up the street.
Nice. Can you get an oil change for me? I'll pay you back on Tuesday.
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Status: Post workout pre bowling veg hour.
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DIY oil changes are the gateway to
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Don't post an image with a mouse cursor in it you jerk, I thought my mouse was unplugged for a second.
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Would you mind doing a video sometime of you explaining how it was done, and more importantly interpreted and acted on, in the real world?
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A/B/n tests are like junior high school level statistics.
For multivariates, we used the (IIRC) taguchi method, which provides:
- Which of the variants you ran was most successful (since using his method you don't test literally every combination of factors)
- Which of the virtual variants would have been more successful (i.e. which would have won if we'd tested every combination)
- How much influence each factor had in the decision (i.e. which area of the site will, if changed, give you the most lift or fall)
- The confidence level in all of the above
We just had a SQL query that rammed through the recorded data and spat out that dataset. I don't remember the math off the top of my head, but I remember it was pretty simple.
The absolute best thing about it is we could get ahold of our clients estimated income per lead, calculate their increase in leads due to the testing, and tell them flat-out, "hey we charged you $10k for this test, over the next 12 months you'll earn $60k as a result of our efforts". It was an easy sell for non-asshole clients.
Your game videos are great so I think a how-to would be pretty good as well.
Suck up.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Nice. Can you get an oil change for me? I'll pay you back on Tuesday.
Sure. You want me to ship the fresh oil up to you in a bucket, or do you want to drive down here?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Nice. Can you get an oil change for me? I'll pay you back on Tuesday.
Sure. You want me to ship the fresh oil up to you in a bucket, or do you want to drive down here?
I'll drive down there. Your shops are closer to your home than my shops are to my home, so it'll save me some time.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'll drive down there.
Ok, in deference to having company over, I'll put away the guns that we normally leave lying around on the dining room table.
But not my BBQ gun.
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All better. Walls are clipped now, I fixed the jagged edges caused by a floating-point rounding error, and I did proper matrix transformations which made it far easier to fix the issue causing walls to blink in and out. There's actually a slight reverse-fisheye-lens thing going on but it's minor. Probably another floating-point rounding error.
Now to work on having farther pixels be dimmer, to help with depth. I don't think I did that part right...
EDIT: Upload attempt 2
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...Discourse, you're an ass.
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Paging @aliceif
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image with a mouse cursor in it you jerk,
'Tis why I make sure my cursors are never the default if I can help it. ;)
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Status: Gotta love a 1927 house.
While doing laundry in the basement, I noticed a couple of... what looked like little wood chips with metallic reflective properties? Hard to explain. I did a long Googling of wood-eating insect residue, but nothing even remotely similar came up in the images. But I know this house was "insulated" originally with sawdust, so I'm hoping it's that.
So I found it was coming from the feed pipe to the sink in the bathroom, I got the caulk out and sealed it all up. OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
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Those shiny red switches must have cost more than the rest of the car ...
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@ben_lubar said:
Guess what you can do in it:
I'm sorry, but I can't guess on the basis of the evidence you provided…
There is something in there about a disc and a horse that slowly destroy each other. So maybe he's trying to tell us that Dwarf Fortress now contains a defective discussion forum that will consume all the free time that the dwarves may have between beers. I guess it was inevitable.
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Status: Typing 'add remove programs' in the Windows 10 search thing takes you to a Metro-style 'Add Remove Programs' in settings. It does not work, the 'uninstall' option seems to be greyed out for everything.
If you navigate manually to the one in Control Panel then it works normally. Great job Microsoft.
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You can also right click the Start button to access Programs and Features.
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STATUS I suspect all is not going well in test
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STATUS: Listening to Radio Paradise, a commercial free internet radio ran by a married couple.
The music is good, but she looks like a long-term hostage in that picture.
"Smile honey, and try to ignore the knife against your spleen".
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Status: Looking at SSDs. 1 TB SSDs are under $300 now. In a few months I think it'll finally be time to migrate my main PC away from standard disks.
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well you do have to shoot the varmit, otherwise your BBQ will run away before you're finished cooking on it.
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http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-95411.html
Apropos of nothing, the name of the first commenter amused me a little.
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Status: circulation in hands: nil. It's not even that cold in the office today. Using my coffee cup as a handwarmer stops them from actually aching with cold, as long as I stop typing every sentence or so to get a bit of heat into my fingers, but doesn't actually induce more than a trickle of blood flow so they still feel dead, and turn to ice again in under a minute.
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The funnier part is actually the subtitle.
No thanks, I'll gladly keep my Saxxon Wool sweater...
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but this is one of the models where it's like an iPhone (you can't normally take the back off).
wut? You can take the back off easily, it's just a couple of torx screws and 2 ribbon cables.
which appears to connect to a big round-ish ribbon that is covered, which, I believe, is the NFC antenna.
Yeah, that stuff is hard to take off without a blowdryer or something to heat it up.
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Looks like your anti-aliasing is being miscalculated at sharp angles (~180 degrees/pi radians to the plane).
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More like DIY oil changes are more expensive to do than taking it to a shop with a coupon.
Filed under: No, I'm not buying a barrel of oil to save by buying in bulk
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You can take the back off easily
Not as easily as some other phones, where the back guard can just pop off and expose the battery.
This one requires you to pull the screen off to get to a point where you could "pull" the battery (which, by the way, since it was completely locked up, he would've had to do it while it was on, or wait at least 24 hours for it to discharge and shut off).
it's just a couple of torx screws and 2 ribbon cables
Not that easy if you don't have the right tools on hand. My boss wasn't at home when it happened, and I don't know if he had the right tools until after anyways.
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So, I was being pedantic with this and the previous post, but what you meant to say is that it has a non-removable battery (which of course is a misnomer because it actually can be removed).
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You know the real hardware running these types of games would be using fixed-point, probably by subdividing a 16-bit number into 8 bits of integer and 8 bits of decimal. (Or maybe 12 and 4, it depends.)
JUST SAYIN'.
I didn't have a home computer with a FPU until... 1998? I think?
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http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-95411.html
Apropos of nothing, the name of the first commenter amused me a little.
I always go to BBQ places unarmed. Am I ?
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Thanks for sharing your life story I guess?
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Blocked by proxy *shrug*
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I always go to BBQ places unarmed. Am I ?
If you're a Yankee or something, I think a "doesn't know any better" exception can be made.
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Ok my caulk seems to have dried (hardened? set? what's the term with caulk?) and maintained a good seal.
It occurred to me only after I put all the tools away that I was using caulk on a hot water feed, and I'm not sure if the temperature affects it. I mean it's not THAT hot, but usually caulk is used for sealing windows and such. I guess I'll just keep my eye on it over the next few days.
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Status: Electrostatic experiments are a bitch in rooms with high humidity.
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If you're a Yankee or something, I think a "doesn't know any better" exception can be made.
I'm from Detroit and lived in Boston for 9 years. I could only be more of a Yankee if I played baseball in New York.
Status****strong text: hoping my 10 o'clock call ends early so I can get to the BBQ place before the line gets too long.
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For run of the mill cheapo cars with low grade oil requirements, yeah. A proper shop oil change on my car is 70 bucks. I can do it for 60.
A quick lube "can do it for 40 (after the surcharges above the 19.95 base rate for having high spec requirements)". But the dirty secret of those places is that no matter what fancy oil you pay for, only a handful of the employees give enough shits to do anything but stick the Conventional 5w30 bulk hose in the hole.
Every mechanic I know who ever worked at one of them earlier in their career agrees it was standard practice and in fact often encouraged.
Right now this only affects people with comparatively fancy cars. But the reasons these engines need high spec oil are coming to regular people cars - higher power without compromising economy.
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But the dirty secret of those places is that no matter what fancy oil you pay for, only a handful of the employees give enough shits to do anything but stick the Conventional 5w30 bulk hose in the hole.
Then they're deliberately not giving you what you paid for, and potentially risking engine damage; they should be shut down.
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Then they're deliberately not giving you what you paid for, and potentially risking engine damage;
yep. but then most people who go to places like that
- Don't know 5x30 from a horses arse
- Don't have a high end car that actually cares about the difference
so there's that.
I mean i've seen a lot of people who go to the local "speedylube" place shell out ~75$ for their Ford Taurus (or other mid to low end sedan) what with the oil change, the surcharges, the "replacement oil nut", and other misc things, then stop off next door at the gass station and put 97 octane premium fuel in a car that's only rated for 85, because "it burns cleaner"
yes it burns cleaner! it's a lot hotter and your engine is not designed for that extra heat!
/me is glaring at her first GM who is several playing cards short of a deck when it comes to technology of any sort
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The only way you can prove it is to have the oil chemically analyzed. That literally only happens if the motor fails in such a way that the oil stays in it (which is a 50/50 shot as is as is) and the manufacturer has it done as a prerequisite to denying the warranty.
Those places get through customer engine replacement payouts at alarming rates anyway (one every week or two isnt unheard of at busy spots) through the simple expedient of literally not putting oil in it (or failing to ensure the oil doesn't come back out). One here and there for incorrect oil isn't a big deal.