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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

7. Called a handyman who looked outside the box and told me to not bang my head against the screw and just replace the whole faucet. It's 10+ years old.

8. I need to identical faucets for two sinks.

9. Went to Home Depot and out of dozens of faucets found *one* model that a) would fit and b) is not stupidly short.

(By the way, what is it with this modern trend of short faucets where you need to push you hands into the sink's back side to catch some water?)

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

3. WD-40 didn't help, decided to try brute force, ripped off the hexagonal head of the screw.

4. Went to Home Depot for a screw extractor and also picked up some anti corrosion solution.

5. Soaked overnight, tried to extract the screw — it didn't budge.

6. More drilling and more brute force with the screw extractor — ripped off the thread on the extractor, but the remains of the screw still hold the casing in place, and it's impossible to extract it.

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Epic Story time.

I have two sinks in the bathroom side by side, with identical two-handle faucets. One of them developed a leak, so I set out to fix it, using materials left from fixing of its brother some months ago.

1. It all starts with a small hidden Allen screw which is usually stuck with scale deposit and requires soaking in vinegar.

2. Vinegar didn't help, went to Home Depot for WD-40 (probably wrong choice, but decided to try).

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andrhia@wandering.shop ("Andrea Phillips") wrote:

SomeBODY once told me your plums were getting lonely
They’re not the only fruit in the fridge
They were looking pretty yum, they were chilly, sweet, rotund
So I ate them even though they’re your breakfast

Hey now
I’m real sorry
That I ate them
Delish

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

"Facebook and its advertisers are ‘panicking’ as the majority of iPhone users opt out of tracking"

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/facebook-tracking-app-tracking-data/

:jeb:

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BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us ("Baloo Uriza 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸") wrote:

#Sonic Drive-In, I really need this to be a thing at your locations. Or at least the one on Lewis in #RenaissanceDistrict, #Tulsa. @bicycling

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Life's too short for boring 3D-printing filaments!

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theruran@hackers.town ("ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴") wrote:

I am a currently full-time Ph.D. student living on student loans. Last year I was a GTA until shit hit the fan and I quit. I need employment so I can prove to the state in an Affidavit of Support that I can financially support my future spouse who is immigrating.

Can you or your associate(s) hire me?

I have valuable skills in:

software engineering: any language, but FP is preferred
systems engineering (my program of study!) including model-based architecture
consulting (engineering/innovation/strategy)
website development: WordPress, static site-generated, custom web applications
system administration (Linux/OpenBSD)
technical writing (hire me to write your documentation!)

Please DM me for further details about my professional background, and to send information about an opening. Paid worker-owned co-op positions will get preference.

#fediHired #getFediHired :boost_requested:​

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

An appropriate way to memorialize 150 years of Catholicism in Morris, Minnesota would be to find the bodies of their victims.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/14/find-the-bodies/

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linuzifer@chaos.social ("linuzifer crossposts") wrote:

Ich war bei #13Fragen zu Gast zum Thema “Hass im Netz” – gute Diskussion, nette Leute!
Wünsche dem Format Erfolg.
https://www.zdf.de/kultur/13-fragen/hass-im-netz-13f-100.html

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ashenwave@mastodon.art ("Ashenwave") wrote:

My Little Dragon
🎈🎈🎈

#mastoart #dragons #art #digitalart #fantasy #creatures #cute #drawing #arte #dibujo #creativetoots #illustration

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alsternerd@social.tchncs.de ("alsternerd 🤷🏼‍♀️") wrote:

Isch abe gahr kaine Audo.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

@Gargron

"we're sorry or you're welcome" 😂

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

When your 3D print takes 24 hours and midway you realize you didn't scale the model correctly 🧐

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Good bye fleets

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

Do you think it would be helpful if you could select which rule you think a post/account has violated when making a report instead of having to type it out by hand?

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Pixley@skull.website ("Amelia :skull_hearteyes:") wrote:

Anyway, ice worms, we don't know where they come from or what they eat or how they reproduce and you can only see them under very specific conditions, but there's a billion of them in every glacier https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1011376403/its-summer-and-that-means-the-mysterious-return-of-glacier-ice-worms?ft=nprml&f=1007

Anathema wrote:

I'm stuck listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xwN8juesk on repeat

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

BotW is a really lovely game. But I miss the dungeons. The shrines are not nearly enough. I guess it's all about the vast outside world, and maybe the engine wouldn't be as good for dungeons, but what if both.

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wim@rpi.limited.systems wrote:

my paper "Making legacy Fortran code type safe through automated program transformation" has just been published in Journal of Supercomputing, as Open Access:

"We present the first rigorous analysis of the type safety of FORTRAN 77 and the novel program transformation and type checking algorithms required to convert FORTRAN 77 subroutines and functions into pure, side-effect free subroutines and functions in Fortran 90.
We show that the resulting code is type safe and that the pure, side-effect free and referentially transparent subroutines can readily be offloaded to accelerators."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-021-03839-9

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

If you're concerned about new COVID-19 variants (and you should be), you ought not to be backing away from the policies that work.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/14/i-mean-really-the-republicans-hate-evolution-so-much-theyll-kill-everyone-out-of-spite/

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Wildly unsuccessful:

lossy text compression algorithms

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

Have to recharge my Master Sword after just a few game-hours of use, like a pair of Apple landfillPods.

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brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

an appeal to people who sell stuff on the internet: https://p1k3.com/2021/7/13/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Disbar the incompetent lawyers, please.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/14/now-thats-stolen-valor/

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linuzifer@chaos.social ("linuzifer crossposts") wrote:

Am 29. Juli kommt der CCC in die (Freiluft-)Kinos!

Premieren vielerorts mit Regisseur*in, Weggefährt*innen von Wau Holland und Gästen aus dem Chaos!

Jetzt Tickets sichern in bundesweit über 50 Kinos 😎
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/allesisteins

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

The ur-giant that became the earth/physical world in norse mythology, Ýmir, predates gender, and can reproduce asexually.
Pretty sure that makes the world non-binary.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Oh, look. Newsmax dives for the bottom of the dumpster.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/07/14/google-show-me-the-naturalistic-fallacy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJPf8viU-Q

owl@beach.city ("ugla hf.") wrote:

My butt got wet when I sat down in the grass. There was a tomato there.

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chemelia@mastodon.online ("it's me. i'm that type of girl") wrote:

*closes microwave*
*beep. beep beep*

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm