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gas dryer hookup by Fatapolloin HomeImprovement

[–]cecilkorik 0 points1 point ago

You're technically looking for someone qualified as a gas fitter. Most plumbers and plumbing shops can do this, or at least work with someone who can, since water heaters are usually also gas-fired. Any HVAC contractor would also have no trouble with this. Appliance store and gas company would also be a good bet.

Really you have tons of options. I commend you for not trying to do it yourself though. As a personal rule, if it burns fuel, I always let a qualified person take care of it. No sense risking burning down your house or suffocating yourself and your family just to save a few bucks.

Reddit Founder And Activists Aim To Build A 'Bat-Signal For The Internet' - enabling regular SOPA-style mass protests at the push of a button. by DrJulianBashirin technology

[–]cecilkorik 3 points4 points ago

I'm not sure what you guys do to piss off the reddit server gods, but I haven't seen even brief outages on reddit for... at least a month or two, probably more.

Imgur, on the other hand, seems to be freaking out a lot lately. But reddit is solid as a rock for me. *shrug*

GPS from 1992 Sony PYXIS by duhhhhhhhin geek

[–]cecilkorik 2 points3 points ago

Surprised China doesn't have one planned yet.

Edit: Turns out they do.

GPS from 1992 Sony PYXIS by duhhhhhhhin geek

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

No. They would all be getting the same SA readings, because they're all in the same (actual) location at the same time using the same satellites. If you could find a way to put one of them inside a time bubble so it's an hour in the past, or put it into a missile traveling an exactly parallel course 500 miles east of the other missile, you might have something to work with. If you can solve either of those problems with sufficient exactness, you can probably figure out many simpler ways of largely defeating SA (which did happen, as defrost pointed out)

Edit: And just to be clear, this discussion is almost entirely academic at this point. The USA has officially stated they have no intention to ever enable SA again, and new GPS satellites being launched to replace older ones no longer even have the capability to do so.

GPS from 1992 Sony PYXIS by duhhhhhhhin geek

[–]cecilkorik 0 points1 point ago

Not only that, but it doesn't just tell you where you are, it has a road map. And a satellite map. And directions. And can tell you where the nearest McDonalds is. And where your friends are. And what they're doing.

Isn't technology grand?

Burn level: Nenshi by Mr_Donairin Calgary

[–]cecilkorik 15 points16 points ago

The fetish is that I constantly agree with him. I've never had that in a politician before. It's like he's actually... representing me. This is novel and exciting.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 0 points1 point ago

I'm not talking about caching when you re-execute the search, as you correctly pointed out that's most irrelevant.

I'm talking about the caching that happens when you try to return to a search page by using the back button, which is something I and I'm sure a lot of other people do with significant frequency after discovering that the result you clicked on, for example, wasn't quite as relevant as you hoped. When you go back, it won't cache the search because it's a POST page and caching is not allowed, but it also won't automatically re-submit it because a purchase or similar might have happened. Which, at least in Firefox leaves you with a blank page and an irritating popup with dire warnings on it giving you the option to reload the page from the server, which is even if you choose to do that is slow and inefficient. GET pages can be, and are cached in the history, allowing you to go back to them with ease.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

As I understand it, DDG uses Bing to deliver the search results. So there ya go. Your intuition wins that bet.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 2 points3 points ago

Google is so good, that some of the time I don't even need to search (I have instant search off because it drives me fucking nuts, I hate pages changing while I type)... the autocomplete in the search box will often answer my question for me.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 4 points5 points ago

The problem with being a benevolent dictator is that no matter how benevolent you may be, the enormous power you have causes people to become more and more worried about the dictator part as time goes on.

This is Google's problem. Your legitimate options with Google are very binary. Either you accept their tracking and their continuous efforts to unify their services (and your identities), or you avoid using any Google services altogether. They are essentially digital dictators. Your choice is to accept everything they decide, or leave. They seem very benevolent, certainly, but that is not enough and never will be enough to build trust as they continue to grow larger.

Granted most other companies act like dictators too, and many of them don't even have a facade of benevolence. But people don't trust them either. If Google really wants to be different and build people's trust they need to allow more flexibility for the privacy-conscious among us.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 6 points7 points ago

POST causes browsers to go a bit mental about caching and defeats several performance improvement techniques. It's also technically a lie, as a POST request is intended to mean that your request is causing a state to change on the server (such as a database change, or a purchase) which is exactly what DDG claims NOT to do. That's also why it makes browsers act a bit mental.

The real fix is to use something that masks referer for you, either a browser or a plugin. Anything DDG does is just going to be a cheap workaround anyway.

Search engine DuckDuckGo does not track how you use it. It keeps no click records. Buffers no search results. It's just you and your computer. CEO Weinberg has no interest in looking over your shoulder. by rspix000in technology

[–]cecilkorik 16 points17 points ago

Are there any serious and comprehensive web search engine backends besides Google and Bing at this point? It's an absolutely enormous amount of data to search, I imagine it would be pretty difficult for any new entry into the field to build the kind of infrastructure that would be needed.

Google may have gotten started with a few raid arrays in LEGO enclosures, but I don't think that would be realistic these days, especially if you want to try to index even a tiny fraction of what's out there.

I know this won't go over well with this crowd, as it shouldn't, but I need to ask. by SenorInquisitivein flying

[–]cecilkorik 3 points4 points ago

Others have pretty much covered all the important stuff. The only thing I want to mention is, if you do decide to smoke then (later) fly despite what everyone has said, leave at least 24 hours for it to pass entirely out of your system. This is not just a precautionary thing -- altitude can drastically increase the effect any sort of drug in your bloodstream will have on you. I don't know specifically about marijuana as I've never had any. But I know that's why you're not supposed to fly when you're any kind of sick or taking any kind of pills, no matter how mundane.

Lights flickering on and off? by Louisianiain HomeImprovement

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

Do you have a breaker/fuse panel? Are they all on the same circuit? What kind of bulbs (Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, mixed?)

It sounds like several different problems to be honest. The bathroom definitely sounds like just the switch is bad. That's a fairly easy fix. Like cory_foy said, call the management they can fix that no problem. Unless you're experienced with electrical work you probably shouldn't be touching any electrical issues, and even if you do have experience you probably still shouldn't. Let the management handle it.

The lights going off randomly is a bit harder to diagnose and will probably be harder for the maintenance guy to figure out. Can you tell if it is vibration related? Tried knocking on the ceiling near the light to see if that triggers and/or fixes it? Do you have any sockets on the same circuit that you can test with a desk or floor lamp and see if they also go off at the same time?

38 Studios lays off entire staff by Wetzillain gamernews

[–]cecilkorik 2 points3 points ago

I understand that you try to debate using insults.

PEP 420 is accepted... and __init__.py won't be required in future Pythons by pjein Python

[–]cecilkorik 27 points28 points ago

Believe it or not, to a lot of people it's just a number. Probably most people, even.

38 Studios lays off entire staff by Wetzillain gamernews

[–]cecilkorik 8 points9 points ago

Why not? Well maybe because the vast majority of taxpayers are almost as terrible as government at deciding what to spend their money on. It's not an easy problem with one magical answer.

Also, you think education is worth funding, but trying to draw jobs into the area is not? Sure, they screwed the pooch badly, but it's not like they were trying to buy a failing company.

If the company had succeeded, years from now everyone would be trotting out articles about what a brilliant idea it was to lure the company and others like it with loan guarantees (which by the way are just loans, not free handouts and they only become an issue when a complete trainwreck like this happens) and how the local economy is thriving now.

Be redditgifts' first engineer! by kickme444in blog

[–]cecilkorik 4 points5 points ago

It's not a requirement.

Additionally, we hope you've been a redditor for a long time and maybe you've even done some redditgifting.

Best sailing fiction? by jonesey95in sailing

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

I've enjoyed some of Derek Lundy's books. For example, Godforsaken Sea, and The Way Of A Ship.

They're semi-fictional but based on real stories, or at least as close as he can come.

As of May 21, there had been nearly 2,000 arrests due to the protests in Montreal. This doesn't count the ~400 from last night. by shawnpepsin canada

[–]cecilkorik 4 points5 points ago

That's right! It's time to sweep all our problems under the carpet. No one will find them there, and the problems will be solved ONCE AND FOR ALL by our proactive and thoughtful actions.

would there be sufficent interest for me to write up a fitting guide / how not to failfit? by ultilinkin Eve

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

I don't always run missions, but when I do... it's in a rainbow Abbadon.

Lonely, poor, lost New-Pilot needs help. by YouMoveLikeIWantToin Eve

[–]cecilkorik 0 points1 point ago

Your impression was wrong, at least early in your RvB career. You might get some charity from individuals in the corp, but you have to achieve something ridiculous like 100 RvB kills to be considered a "member" which will allow you to ask for ship reimbursement or however it works. That's a lot to ask from a fresh newbie.

Hi guys, I could use some uplift.. by badday101in flying

[–]cecilkorik 16 points17 points ago

Accidents happen. It is still an accident, even if you made a mistake. It was not gross negligence or recklessness and you shouldn't blame yourself. Don't freak out. You're not going to be banned from flying, nor should you be.

Obviously you should plan to spend some more time practicing landings with an instructor -- but doing that doesn't make you a failure. Taking responsibility and taking active steps to prevent a recurrence of the problem is probably the most mature, level headed and reasonable reaction you could have. And if that's what you choose to do, I for one think that means you're a great pilot, not a bad one.

And just to add a little humour: Remember, a good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where you can use the plane again too. Since they'll probably fix the plane, it still qualifies as a great landing. don't worry. :)

Replacement to KoToR? by Stanupain rpg_gamers

[–]cecilkorik 1 point2 points ago

How important is story to you, compared to graphics and action? If you're willing to lower your expectations on the latter two and just want some incredibly well done stories, there are some older games that I think you will enjoy:

LucasArts and Sierra's adventure games are pretty much the pinnacle of story-based gaming.

  • King's Quest / Space Quest / Police Quest
  • Monkey Island
  • Maniac Mansion
  • Zak McKracken
  • Day of the Tentacle
  • anything else that will run under ScummVM

Beyond that, also consider the Ultima series. Ultima VI or VII or later are probably easiest for someone more familiar with modern games to get into. The Ultima story arc is very rich and may be somewhat incomprehensible at first especially since you're going to start with a later game, so if you really want you can try to start from the beginning. The Ultima games were released over a 20 year span though, so the divergence in graphics and technology and even storytelling from the earlier games to the later ones is... extreme.

By the nature of the story though, each new game has you leaping ahead in time fairly significantly (as the Avatar, you do not live in the world and only visit, so you are effectively immortal) so it's not of massive importance to play the games chronologically. You will miss out on some of the long-term relationships that develop with some of the characters but you should catch onto those pretty quickly.

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