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  1. Leros

    lxskllr will be taste testing a canned cheeseburger and reporting back to us

    From: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/scenario-you-had-only-one-type-canned-food-to-stock-your-doomsday-shelter.2486678/page-4#post-38478632 Linked to canned cheeseburger...
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    Making offer on a house, I want to get the structure of a floor and wall tested, how do I do that?

    I'm going to make an offer on a house which includes a band room with "hung floors and wall" for soundproofing. I'd like to turn his room into a woodworking room, but I have some concerns about the structural integrity of the hung floor to support heavy tools and being able to hang things off...
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    Turning a backhouse into workshop. Bad idea? Good idea?

    I've been looking for a house in a particular area of town and I've been struggling to find something with a large enough workshop for my woodworking and other hobbies. Within my price range, I occasionally run across a house with a small 2 car garage (~200 sqft) which is a bit small. I just...
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    Would you buy a house across the street from a church parking lot?

    I found a house that I really like. A well kept 1910 house in a historic neighborhood. Recently renovated. Workshop in the back. The only catch is that the two lots across the street are a paved surface lot for the church a block over. I'm having a hard time deciding if that should be a deal...
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    Suspicious that my local Jiffy Lube is a front

    I went there to get my car inspected 3 times before giving up. First time: I'm told they've already met quota for the day and aren't taking more customers (they were still open for 2 hours). What kind of business stops taking customers just because they met quota?! Second time: I'm told...
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    My dad wants to go to Alaska, what should we do there?

    I asked my dad to take a trip with me and told him we could go anywhere, he picked Alaska. I think we're going to go beginning of September, which I know isn't the ideal time, but seems like it should still be fine. He's 66. He's still able to get around, but he gets tired. An hour long hike...
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    Do you smoke weed in the shower?

    Well do ya?
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    Is there a better way to buy a car that talking to a sales guy?

    I spent a full day negotiating over my last car and I still paid too much. Surely in this day and age, there is some kind of middleman group that can help negotiate the best price on your behalf.
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    Suggestions for a 1 week solo roadtrip in US or Candada

    I'm looking for suggestions for about a 1 week roadtrip. For example, last year I did the following trip and had a great time: - Flew into Seattle and rented a car - Drove to Tacoma,WA and hung out for half a day - Drove to Port Angeles and took a ferry to Victoria, British Columbia...
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    Have I turned into a grumpy old man or is this a legitimate complaint?

    I had some new neighbors move in a few months ago. They seem to be the house that everyone drops their kids off at to hang out. Every weekend, from sunrise to sunset, there are 5-20 kids and teenagers in front of their house playing basketball, riding bikes up and down the sidewalk, etc...
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    Any legal issues with creating an accessory for a product?

    I want to sell an accessory for a product. This is a fake example, but let's say my product is a "XYZ for Apple iPod". Can I just start selling a product with a company name and trademarked name in the title? The product my accessory for doesn't makes sense unless I use the full description...
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    Is bug catching still a thing?

    I always wanted to collect bugs and build some collections like this: https://beetlesinthebush.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/img_1520_enh_1080x807.jpg?w=600&h=448 Is this still a thing that people do?
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    PSA: Stop posting stupid PSA threads

    Just stop :biggrin: esquared Anandtech Forum Director
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    When should I stop renting and a buy a house? (lots of details in post)

    I've been debating as to whether I should buy a house or not. Here is my situation: - I'm 27 - I make $130k + $50k in bonuses - I just finished paying off my student loans and only have $50k in the bank, not counting my 401k. - I only have $10k in debt (a 2% auto loan) - My rental house costs...
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    Jury duty in a county I don't live in

    I live in Austin TX which is mostly in Travis county. I live 2 blocks outside Travis county in Williamson county. I got a jury duty notice for Travis county which they said is because I still live in "Austin, TX" and that I may also have to perform jury duty in Williamson county. Seems like...
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    How do you manage private libraries for personal projects?

    For open source libraries, I use Maven for Java libaries and bower/npm for JS libraries. I do something similar at work. What should I do for person libraries that I want to keep private? Is there some kind of private dependency management system? Actually, have the dependencies being publicly...
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    Does anyone have experience buying a domain?

    There is a .com domain I want (I already own a bunch other variants (.net, .org, .etc). The domain was purchased a year ago and the site is just an empty Wordpress install in Spanish. How should I go about trying to purchase this? The whois information goes to godaddy. I buy my domains through...
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    Program can't write to directory

    I'm trying to get deluge to write to my secondary harddrive which is mounted under /mnt/data. I have a directory /mnt/data/torrents I want it to use. I've been unable to get deluge to write to this directory even after making it as wide open as I possibly can and restarting the daemon (and the...
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    Wedding tomorrow, only suit is damaged, is business casual ok?

    I have a wedding tomorrow and just realized that the pants for my only suit are ripped (1cm holes). They must have damaged by the dry cleaner after last time I wore them. I should know the answer to this, but I don't. Is it acceptable to wear business casual to a wedding?
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    Deaf guy from Craigslist coming over to look at some tools,

    I'm selling some tools on Craiglist and have somebody coming over tomorrow. He let me know that he's deaf. I've never interacted with a deaf person before. What is the standard operating procedure? Do we communicate via writing?
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    Blower intermittently not working

    The blower in my 2012 Honda CR-V has been intermittently not working. It will work for several weeks, work as I'm turn the car off, not work when I turn the car back on, and keep not working for a few days. There was one time when I a hit a pot hole and the blower came back on, but the other...
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    Found a local person who is capturing wild turtles and selling them as pets

    I contacted someone on Craigslist about an aquarium for sale and they told me that they have turtles for sale as well. They said they're wild caught from the lake in the middle of town. They have at least 10 of them for sale right now. This doesn't sit right with me. Should I report them? If...
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    FedEx is buggy and awful

    I've been trying to figure out how to reschedule some FedEx deliveries while I'll be on a work trip. I went to FedEx.com to see what I could do. So far I think I've blown $20 and accomplished nothing. Thing started off pretty good. I learned that FedEx offers free vacation holds. So I...
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    I test fired my 40w laser today (video inside)

    I'm building a DIY desktop laser cutter. I've mentioned it in a few threads on ATOT and received some interest, so I thought I'd share some more. Today, I got around to testing the laser. I was amazed at how strong it is, even without focusing the beam. It was able to ignite wood in 100ms...
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    Tell me how this is a scam. Got a too good to be true car buyback offer in the mail

    I bought a Honda CRV 3 years ago for $32k. I just got some junk mail from a local a dealership. It says they're willing to offer me $26,290 for the car. It also came with a scratch off card to win extra cash. My card won $7,500. Assuming this is all true, I could get $33,790 for my car, which...
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    Best photo management app

    What do you guys use for photo management. Shotwell came pre-installed and seems simple. It imports, tags, and allows light editing which is mostly what I need. I briefly played with Digikam. Doesn't' seem as easy to use, but seems much more powerful.
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    How many of you bachelors/bachelorettes decorated for Halloween?

    This is the first time I've ever decorated for a holiday when living by myself. I replaced my two outdoor lights with orange bulbs. I might get a green bulb and red bulb for Christmas. I'm feeling festive. :colbert:
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    I signed up for a food delivery service

    I signed up for Hello Fresh (www.hellofresh.com). I'll start by saying that I know it's really expensive: $69 a week for 3 meals for 2 people. Yeah, that's 11 bucks a meal. Like I said, really expensive. I want to get back into cooking and I'm hoping that simplifying this part of the process...
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    Do the police ever correlate crime spots with cell phone positions?

    This sounds like a privacy nightmare, but it also sounds like a super useful approach for solving crime. Most criminals are probably dumb enough to leave their cell phones on while committing a crime. If you could take all the GPS information of all cell phones and correlate it with all crimes...
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    Chip in car paint

    I've got a 1/8" chip in the paint on the hood my car. It's a two year old Honda CRV that I'd like to keep in good shape. Should I buy a touch up kit? If so, any suggestions for brands? Should I take it to a Honda dealership?
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    Where do I buy a decent futon?

    I keep running into scenarios where my single guest room isn't enough. I also want to put a love seat or sofa in my office. I'm thinking maybe I can kill two birds by getting a futon. I don't want a futon that's not comfortable to sit on and that I'd feel bad about making guests sleep on...
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    Apparently UPS delivers on Sunday now

    I placed an Amazon Prime order about 11pm Friday night and received it this morning (Sunday). When did UPS start delivering on Sunday? Or is just a fluke due to labor day?
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    Possible existence of a patent for an algorithm I've invented but not implemented

    I'm working on a possible new product at work and one of the major roadblocks has been implementing an algorithm for doing <TASK>. I spent a decent amount of time thinking about this and came up with an algorithm that uses <KNOWN_ALGORITHM> in an interesting way. My company has already...
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    $2400 for this crappy headboard from scavenged wood

    I stumbled upon this on Craiglist. This guy wants $2400 for this headboard he made from scavenged wood. http://austin.craigslist.org/fuo/4509447044.html I'm not necessarily knocking the product as some people may be into this stuff, but $2400.... really?
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    Awful JetBlue experience

    I booked a flight from Boston to Austin on the JetBlue website. The only flight went through JFK with a 45 minute layover. Short but doable. When I got to the airport in Boston, they told me the flight from Boston to JFK was an hour late and I was going to miss the connecting flight. They...
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    Checking into hotel late

    I have a hotel reservation for tonight but won't be able to check until til about 12:30am. The hotel has a 24 hour desk. Do I need to call and let them know I'm checking late or am I good?
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    Dryer vent in garage door for A/C ventilation

    The house I'm renting has no windows in the garage and I'm looking for a way to cool it. Since it has no windows, I can't use a window unit. Since I don't own it, I don't want to spend the money on a mini-split. That leaves me with a portable A/C. I've heard the dual-hose models are much...
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    What to do around Boston?

    I'm thinking about taking a 4-5 day trip up to Boston just as a random trip. Never been there before. I figure I can spend at least a few days in the city doing the main touristy stuff. The New England area is packed together enough that it looks like I can drive to a bunch of other places in...
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    Internet or cross-platform forum

    Some questions are software related, but span operating systems. Web applications are also becoming more prevalent. For example, there isn't really an obvious place right now to ask a question about Chrome (multi-OS) or Gmail (a web app).
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    I locked myself out of my house and two factor authentication made it more difficult

    A few nights ago, I went out into my garage to put a load of laundry in the washing machine (yes, my laundry is in the garage) and the door somehow locked behind me. I checked all the doors to my house. All locked. Yup, I'm locked out of my house. I was just wearing some house clothes so I...