Recent content by Kobayashi

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    The Fast Food Thread

    Late to the party, but just tried a Big Arch at McDonald's. What a disappointment. Extremely bland. I feel like McDonald's usually does pretty good sauces, but this was extremely meh. Not sure why this ever got the green light.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Received a spam Venmo request from some scammer. Gotta love fumbling my way through some shit interface I use once a year to pay my fantasy football dues to block/decline the transaction, being careful to not accidentally accept. I thought I had all the privacy settings maxed out, but it looks...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    This is a very Jets article. "We've embraced AI!" "The AI we've embraced is Microsoft Copilot." It wouldn't surprise me if their organization exclusively used Bing in Internet Explorer up to this point as well.
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    Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food

    That's interesting, my water sprite got completely wiped out by the duckweed that hitched a ride at some point. I let that stuff filter the water for a while, but eventually got fed up with dealing with it getting everywhere and purged it.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Ferrari has been spun off from FCA (pre-Stellantis) for over a decade now. They own all their own shitty decisions at this point. They make some great cars (albeit of questionable reliability). This is not one of them.
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    If you took all the Ferrari badges off the thing, I'd have thought it was the latest Kia EV. I don't think that color is doing it any favors either. Back end is equally a mess. They kept some of the Ferrari design language, but it just looks off. I don't really see why they bothered with...
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    Not saying this guy is wrong, but what you're describing as the Toyota way is pretty much how all traditional OEMs operate (my limited experience with Ford included). They have a book of specifications that they release to a tier 1 for a part when it's being developed. The problem with this...
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    What vehicle do you drive?

    I promise you it's not. This has been going around, but it's a bunch of clickbait bullshit. If you look, they cite a rider to one of these omnibus bills that requested NHTSA work on a standard for drunk driver monitoring/interlock targeting implementation in 2027. Problem is, the technology...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Just got an email from my local shitbag utility asking to complete a survey. As compensation for my time, they'll donate $10 to a charity of their choice in their name. How about you guys pay me and I decide where that money goes. Also, while you're at it, stop paying for advertising and pay...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    More like happy nub season. Fucking asshole deer...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I've had two procedures on my knee, the first was just a scope and the second a full ligament reconstruction. The scope I was given the option to stay awake and just have a local. I opted to get knocked out, but I sort of regretted it later on. Second time around, for the reconstruction, I told...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Dumb 19 year old me drove into Canada to drink and my first thought was: "Holy shit, gas is cheap here!" I proceeded to pull into a gas station and promptly remembered they were on the metric system when the amount in liters quickly rocketed past my tank's capacity in gallons. Probably a good...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's good to see he's all grown up now. Added the missing caption.
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    Job Hunting

    It's hard for me to offer advice there - I didn't have any coursework, was just sort of thrown to the wolves and forced to figure it out. I know of some people that used The Learning Pit — LadderLab Temporary Sales Pause but it's currently down while they update the courses or something. I'd...
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    Job Hunting

    Have you considered something like industrial controls? I'm sure you could easily pick up something like Logix on an Allen Bradley PLC with your background. You honestly wouldn't be taking much of a pay cut if you got good at it.