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jarredpickles87 174 points 3 years ago

My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You'll never win on that front and I won't either.

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jarredpickles87 109 points 3 years ago

Is this game really that good or is it just massively overhyped? I watched a videogamedunkey video about it, and I know he overly satirizes things for humor, but it just didn't look all that great.

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jarredpickles87 38 points 3 years ago

Fuck the puritans who fired her.

Ironically, there's a chance that she may have been doing just that.

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jarredpickles87 27 points 3 years ago

I know most of these stories are going to be IT or food service, so I'll chime in with mine to change it up.

TLDR: We caused some explosions on a transformer because someone didn't read test results.

I work for a power utility. One night, we were energizing a new transformer. It fed a single strip mall complex with a major grocery chain on it, so that's why it was at night, as we couldn't affect the service while they were open.

Anyways, we go to energize, close the primary switches and one of the lightning arrestors blows up. And I mean blows up, like an M80 just went off. Lit up the sky bright as day for a couple moments at 1 in the morning. The protection opened the switches and everybody is panicking, making sure nobody was hurt.

Well after everybody settled down, the arrestor was replaced, they decide to throw it in again. Switches come closed, and explosion #2 happens. A second arrestor blows spectacularly. I tried to convince the one supervisor on site to go for a third time, because why not, but he didn't want to do it again. Whatever.

A few days go by and we find out what the issue was. This transformer was supposed to be a 115kV to 13.2kV. Come to find out there was an internal tap selection that was set for 67kV for the primary, and not 115kV. So what was happening was the voltage was only being stepped down half as much as needed so there was like 28kV or so on the secondary instead of 13.2kV and that was over the lightning arrestors ratings, hence why they were blowing up. So the transformer had to have its oil drained, guys had to go inside it and physically rewire it to the correct ratio.

We had a third party company do the acceptance testing on this transformer, and our engineering department just saw all the green checkmarks but didn't pay attention to the values for the test results. Nobody expected to run into this because we don't have any of this type of transformer in our system, but that's certainly no excuse.

Moral of the story: read your acceptance test results carefully.

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jarredpickles87 22 points 3 years ago

Don't forget your poop knife

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jarredpickles87 16 points 3 years ago

Sorry for your loss

Another thing that I'm not seeing people mention is helium balloons wandering to places like power substations and/or power lines, causing outages or even fires/explosions depending.

I liked what someone else said about writing thoughts or stories and having them read anonymously.

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jarredpickles87 16 points 3 years ago

Hypercooled dairy sugar blend

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jarredpickles87 13 points 3 years ago

The Room by Tommy Wiseau. I know it's like a cult classic for being bad, but the first time I watched it, I made sure to view it as unironically as possible. It's an atrocious movie for what a movie should be.

If you want to watch something cringy and terrible to mock and laugh at, this movie is so much better. But if you watch this movie wanting it to be a proper movie that took itself seriously (which was its original intention) it is fucking terrible.

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jarredpickles87 13 points 3 years ago

I mean you could just mud over it and paint, but that's a bandaid, not a fix.

To properly fix, you want to screw above and below the pop, make sure you don't bury the screws. Use one of those drywall bits that have the collar on them. Then mud over all of them and paint.

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jarredpickles87 11 points 3 years ago

I'm really hoping the community comes over here. I want to see that life in here.

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jarredpickles87 11 points 3 years ago

This might be a boy deployed, but its not dat boi.

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jarredpickles87 11 points 3 years ago

I have a Hauppage TV tuner card that I use to get OTA TV and record certain shows. I'm pretty sure there are USB solutions, but if I remember, at the time I got this it was one of the only cards that my system supported or whatever caveat I was operating around.

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jarredpickles87 11 points 3 years ago

No, missle.

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jarredpickles87 10 points 3 years ago

That's a good point. I have no idea.

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jarredpickles87 10 points 3 years ago

I know I could do the same, but I want to be in touch with the app as it progresses.

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jarredpickles87 9 points 3 years ago

I also wanted to lose a bit of weight and get stronger, but to me, going to the gym sucks. I never stick with that, but I really enjoy physical activities with a purpose. So I joined a rock climbing gym. It's all the physical working out that I want with all the fun that I need to stick with it. Now if I could just eat better...

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jarredpickles87 8 points 3 years ago

Guys, it'll be ok this time. They pinky promised, and you can't go back on that.

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jarredpickles87 8 points 3 years ago

There is a way, but it's really unintuitive. You have to long press on the message near the user name. That will bring up an extra menu underneath the comment. You then click the chain link icon and it'll take you to the comment.

It's for sure not a good implementation of the feature, but it is there. I would like to be able to tap the comment from my inbox and have it take me there.

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jarredpickles87 8 points 3 years ago

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how this is different from wordle other than unlimited guesses.

Edit: I guess I see the difference. Wordle has a word you're using process of elimination to find, whereas Absurdle uses your input to pick a word that's furthest away from your guesses. But this then means you can use that against itself and make your first couple guesses all letters you don't want to deal with.

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jarredpickles87 8 points 3 years ago

Or liquidarity as it would seem.

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