Gay Chat V11 - Were you expecting something funny? - General

[QUOTE=Seiteki;45484078]I'm on my phone constantly, or sometimes I bring my laptop in and play games. It's how I've discovered my phone can last about 6-7 hours of constant internet usage.[/QUOTE] Pre kitkat on my note 3 i could have youtube open for a long while watching videos and browsed the net heavily and i'd still get amazing life out of my phone. Post kitkat, i hate everything and battery life TANKS. I've been meaning to flash a custom rom or just reverting to a backup pre kitkat i took just like 2-3 weeks before 4.4.2 was rolled out. But im too fucking lazy to do any of that.

I have Galaxy S4 and it serves me well, i just talk to most of my mates.

I have T-Mobile vivacity. It was £60. Don't you judge me.

Oh man I was looking up pictures for inspiration for a train layout and I discovered you can buy [URL="https://www.lokmuseum.de/spur_h0/noch/bilder/no15956a.jpg"]miniature figures[/URL] (Slightly nsfw I guess) of people having sex to plant around your model train layout. Ingenious.

[QUOTE=KorJax;45482911]I just discovered UberX is a thing and if I ever move to a city that actually uses this service I'm seriously considering becoming a driver for it to pick up extra cash on the side Imagine making $200-$300 as a pizza boy during the week then just doing Uber when I want on the weekend nights for $200-$300 on top of that. Sounds pretty lucrative People complain all the time from all the research I've done about it that it isn't that good paying after you count the cost of self-employment taxes, car costs, milage, etc but even then people still make $35-40K easy post-expenses just driving around for a standard 40 hour work week. Thats basically what I already do as a pizza driver, except I get paid half that and with uber if I feel sick or want to hang out somewhere for the night I just don't decide to log in that day. Sounds pretty rad. And if I ever feel like I need a load of money then I can just work crazy hours for a week to get a big amount of cash. The only problem is driving with people vs driving with pizza are likely entirely different things. It sounds fun but I don't know if I'd really be up for it in the end. Also the fact that its not available in my city :v:[/QUOTE] The whole Uber thing must be terrifying for local taxi companies, being a cheaper alternative.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;45485893]The whole Uber thing must be terrifying for local taxi companies, being a cheaper alternative.[/QUOTE] Well its serves them right charging £30 for 10 miles.... Some taxi drivers are just conmen

A lot of it is UK fuel and car taxes.

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;45485893]The whole Uber thing must be terrifying for local taxi companies, being a cheaper alternative.[/QUOTE] I see it akin to google fiber and the rest of ISPs Taxi companies got comfortable with their monopoly. Someone else steps in and comes up with a way, WAY better system and totally crushes them. Taxi companies can't really do anything but pout and whine, or change. Its not only cheaper, but its way faster and apparently way better quality since each driver is rated by their passengers. If driverless cars ever become a thing (especially electric driverless) then it would be so cheap to use a service like driverless-Uber that there would be zero reason to even own a car for your average person. I could legitimately see the concept of driving your own car as being an "old timey thing" in 50-60 years, with most people just using automatic courier services to get everywhere and a minority of people driving their own cars. Simply because at that point it would be so easy and cheap to do, there would be no reason to ever own your own car unless you needed the independence of driving yourself everywhere. Which will still be a thing mind you, but for most people it might not be that important.

I don't think I'd get into a driverless car, so much random shit happens on the road that's difficult even for a human driver to predict and react to. Also, how would a driverless car handle things like missing road markings or double parked delivery vehicles that make you have to go into the opposite lane to get around them?

[QUOTE=Roll_Program;45486683]I don't think I'd get into a driverless car, so much random shit happens on the road that's difficult even for a human driver to predict and react to. Also, how would a driverless car handle things like missing road markings or double parked delivery vehicles that make you have to go into the opposite lane to get around them?[/QUOTE] The way they currently handle them (cameras mounted in all directions providing a 3D scan to a computer that constantly handles inputs in conjunction with known GPS data)? In terms of safety, I'd rather put my hands into a tried-and-tested-for-a-few-years computer that has near instantaneous reaction times than a potentially drowsy human who has a reaction time of half a second to a few seconds to any situation and cannot look in all directions simultaneously. [editline]24th July 2014[/editline] Besides, a good amount of driverless cars have manual overrides for a reason.

I'm gonna wait a few years and see how safe they are. If the accident/death rate is the same or lower than cars with human drivers then I'd use them. [editline]24th July 2014[/editline] My dad's car is one of those self-parking Audis which is neat, watching a car move by itself. Not quite driverless but it's still automation.

They're certainly by no means a mature technology, but I think I trust the future of driverless cars when Google has managed to make one that has only managed to get rear-ended at a stoplight once (and crash once in manual operation) over 700,000 miles.

I'm not sure if I'll trust driverless cars for a while. There's normally always glitches with most if not all technology, also human errors vs. machine may affect it UNLESS [B]every[/B] car becomes driverless. If that were to happen, traffic could all be organised by the machines without human errors coming into play. Though yet again, there could still be glitches and that's just another step towards the singularity. But idk we'll see how it plays out.

I am at the verge of collapsing right now. Had 13 hour shift today. I am so tired I can't even sleep. But yeah, my job ends next Thursday so yay, freedom incoming.

[QUOTE=Dom Pyroshark;45488081]I am at the verge of collapsing right now. Had 13 hour shift today. I am so tired I can't even sleep. But yeah, my job ends next Thursday so yay, freedom incoming.[/QUOTE] Hooray for over time!

Just got home from a three day visit to my sister's place in Copenhagen. Best three days I've had in, like, 6 months. We went to a botanical garden. It was super nice, and there were so many different plants and smells, and the sun were shining and the lakes were sparkling and it was just amazing. ~ The next day we went to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania]Christiania[/url]. Probably the coolest place I've been in a while. Everyone were so nice and relaxed. [sp]prolly cause they were high as fuck, but w/e, i liked it \o/[/sp]

Yeah I think driverless is definatly not ideal right now, same thing with electric. Its just not wide enough adopted and not practical enough right now. But in 50-60 years I could easily see roads dominated by not only driverless cars, but driverless cars owned by companies like Uber. For most people to get around, they wouldn't bother buying an expensive car that loses value almost immediately after purchase - they'll just spend the equivalent of what it costs right now in gas/milage to get to wherever they want to go by saying they want a car to pick them up and drop them off (the profit would come from the fact that these would be all-electric automatic so the only operating cost would be the maintenance). A few minutes later a little car comes by and does just that. I think cars would still have their place but for most people its probably going to be way cheaper and more convenient for something like that to exist vs. dropping $10-20K plus $10-$20K in running/maintenance costs into a car over the period of 10 years. And if you ever need to get out of town, take a trip, etc rental companies would still be around for that (assuming you had a license, of course).

Ugh, whatever Chinese robot wound our spool of blue filament did it wrong. The spool jammed, got yanked off its holder, and got the extraction motor stuck. The extraction motor ground the filament into a fine powder while the print head carried on printing the whole time, blissfully unaware that it was printing nothing because it had no more filament. For nearly 10 hours it went before I came in to check on it. Now there's a mass of melted plastic inside the nozzle and I've completely disassembled the head to get to it. I'm warming up a soldering iron to heat the plastic enough to free it. This is why you need safety sensors, printer makers! Have a little button on the spool holder to see if the spool's still there! Or measure the feedback from the spool extractor/feeder motor! If there's suddenly no torque on it, the filament's probably gone! Or maybe a light sensor in the feed shaft in the head? Something! These sorts of things are why FDM printers are not quite ready yet.

to be fair things like that happen to CNC routers too even though they're extremely mature at this point it's just the nature of things, adding sensors like limit switches and feed sensors adds $$$ and more points of random failure [editline]24th July 2014[/editline] that's what you're there for, machines generally have trained operators for a reason

Finally up and running again. Here's what the Chinese robot got wrong: it trapped the filament under a lower layer somehow by crossing the strand. Hopefully it'll complete this time without incident. And to the above, I'd love to be able to stay here and operate this thing for all 35 hours of this print but I do have to sleep occasionally. The next print is going to he approximately 70 hours and frankly I'm not sure if the deltamaker is up to it.

[QUOTE=greeley;45483688]it really really isnt. For the past 2 weeks i think ive done about 4 hours worth of work. That is 37.5 hours a week only doing 2 hours of actual work. Its quite mind numbing.[/QUOTE] That sounds awful I would be happy to relieve you of this burden

[QUOTE=Dom Pyroshark;45488081]I am at the verge of collapsing right now. Had 13 hour shift today. I am so tired I can't even sleep. But yeah, my job ends next Thursday so yay, freedom incoming.[/QUOTE] I feel you, man. I work six days a week, 14 hours a day. I have no personal time for anything and I really hate being separated from FP and all you wonderful people for that long.

[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;45493133]I feel you, man. I work six days a week, 14 hours a day. I have no personal time for anything and I really hate being separated from FP and all you wonderful people for that long.[/QUOTE] Its really surreal when you work 7 days, 50 hours a week. There is no logical beginning or end to a week. Its just another day. The only reason you keep track of the day is to make sure you follow your work schedule and weeks become one big blur. The only thing that stands out in my mind this month is that I went to Omaha for two days. If summer could end soon, that would be great.

Gotten into one of those "im boooored" moods even though I have literally like £2k worth in games on my HDD. I stopped taking my pills. Probably why. om nom nom pills

I know I am late to the uber conversation but I am holidaying in Sydney. My friend who I am staying with is an uber driver and here in Australia it's completely illegal so he doesn't have many expenses. And since it's just starting up they give him double on certain times and other bonuses. He gives his passengers free WiFi and water and gum and it's like a convenience store in his car haha. He makes tonnes of money from it. But like I said double cash sometimes and it's Australia so the fares are probably more expensive across the board. Anyway, Sydney. I bought a magazine I had only ever seen on the internet at the news agency to read on the plane, I didn't think about the fact I would be sitting next to someone though and since the cover looks like this: [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/wVQU61a.jpg[/IMG_thumb]thumb And the inside was a juuuust a teeny bit more raunchy (nothing nude but nsfw) [url]http://i.imgur.com/XnuoTcb.jpg[/url] (there was real life similar stuff too It's a lifestyle magazine, not a porn magazine. Allegedly. It wasn't that bad for content. I was expecting like trashy stuff but there was a whole expose on aids and PEP and PrEP. There was still an article about a guy who hates LA and then proceeded to go to a gay club with drugged up Canadian Satanists... Not exactly helping the conservatives stop hating gays when the article is entitled: [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/3xuI8aJ.jpg[/IMG_thumb] Anyway, Sydney [url]http://i.imgur.com/3xuI8aJ.jpg[/url] Photos aren't as artistic as KorJax. I haven't taken many yet.

[QUOTE=gerbe1;45494570]I know I am late to the uber conversation but I am holidaying in Sydney[/QUOTE] I am thinking of going to Sydney on Monday. It's only an hour and a half away by train.

[QUOTE=Tomo Takino;45495047]I am thinking of going to Sydney on Monday. It's only an hour and a half away by train.[/QUOTE] OMG come meet me!

How do you guys live with the heat down there? I can't step into Australia or I'll burn up in an instant.

[QUOTE=gerbe1;45495055]OMG come meet me![/QUOTE] Don't hit on me silly men. I'm trying to work out the best train to catch to be there early and quickly. [QUOTE=JPlus;45495060]How do you guys live with the heat down there? I can't step into Australia or I'll burn up in an instant.[/QUOTE] We live in underground cities like mole people.

[QUOTE=Tomo Takino;45495067]We live in underground cities like mole people.[/QUOTE] Our cities are basically underground if the ground is rain and clouds (though I'm saying this on one of our few days of sun).