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r/MechanicAdvice•

I have a car that was disabled for over a year, and it needs a few obvious things (needs glass work) and probably a few less obvious things to make it into a roadworthy companion again. I am willing to pay (like up to ~$4-5k), and am not looking for a cheap way out but I am just wondering if there is a type of mechanic that is a better fit for this kind of work compared to a shop trying to clear volume. I don't really have the facilities to fix it, but would perfectly fine if it took a month or two to get sorted at a right price from ordering parts and so on and then I wouldn't mind taking it somewhere else even to get it inspected and fit for registration and pay for a truck to shuttle the

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r/Machinists•

I'm looking to find a place to live where I can do light machine work (lathe, mill, so on) and I'm having quite a bit of trouble trying to find a place that fits this as if there is a spot it gets washed out by the more common apartments. I'm really only looking to rent/lease the space because it's unlikely I'll be in this area for more than 5 years. I am not attached to anyone so I don't really care if I have to walk past a lathe to get to the bathroom but I would prefer for that bathroom to have a shower and hot water.

Does anyone have any good ideas on where to start looking for a place like this?

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r/MechanicAdvice•

I was getting a jump start from AAA on my Ford Mustang '06 (V6) this morning and when he hooked up his little power supply the car started easily. The engine sound was normal but after about 1-2 minutes the engine stopped and we tried that a few times. The little printer readout they give that shows that the alternator is OK didn't work so I don't have that and just have to rely on observation (I also don't have a multimeter). All I really know is that the engine ran normally for a short time and the pulley attached to the serpentine belt seemed to be rotating in sync.

I didn't get much chance to test things before the guy had to move on to his next job, so I've been looking for advice. Som

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r/ECE•

I was wondering if there were any GPGPU packages available at all for the hobbyist? I mean the Tegra K1 system exists and that's cool and all but beyond the eval kit I can't imagine I'll be able to buy like.. 10 of them for less than a ton of money. Even beyond that it's not like I feel like I could design a PCB for the K1 and reliably mount it without advanced equipment (e.g. more than a reflow oven).

The advancement in mobile computing graphics has been pretty rapid so I am just wondering if anything is available that isn't coming up on digikey. If you need an example case for my frame of reference I was thinking about working with computer vision problems which naturally lend itself to t

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r/techsupport•

Greetings r/techsupport.

I have a lenovo G500s with an Atheros AR9458WB-EG WLAN chipset and recently did the Windows 8.1 upgrade. I'm now having a lot of issues where I have sudden packet loss and a very bizarre upload/download rate, which is consistent across multiple wireless networks that I've tried (some that were open, WPA2-Enterprise and also just WPA2-PSK).

I've tried driver versions Atheros 10.0.0.242, Atheros 10.0.0.270, and the built-in Windows 3.0.1.155.

I've done net int ip reset and netsh winsock reset.

I've also tried the rather arbitrary yet repeated suggestion to swap the leads to the WLAN card, but that didn't do anythin

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r/roguelikes•

I'm just curious to how people would prefer a new roguelike packaged? Are people okay compiling from source, or what sorts of packages would you prefer to get them in? I am more asking r/roguelikes here more than anything else. How do people usually get roguelikes on macs? (I've never owned a mac). I'm talking more like crawl or nethack with a curses interface.

P.S. The sidebar has an error:

The official unofficial /r/rogulikes IRC: ##reddit-roguelikes @irc.freenode.net

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r/ECE•

My background is some sort of vague mix of hobbyist and vocational training for digital electronics and a compsci person overall and my question is this:

I have this device (Sansa Mini-clip) and it is by far the most power efficient device I've ever had. Yes the actual work it does is not as intense as a laptop but in general the battery has negligible degradation over time when it comes to the charge kept. I've had it for at least two years now and at one point it kept a charge without being touched for 3 months that was still mostly full (literally one of those I found it behind the couch and switched it on and it was good to go). What makes th

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r/AskReddit•

[USA] Right now the economy is horrid and I keep hearing more and more stories of people renting out their homes or rooms in their homes while the property is being foreclosed upon. This always seems to shaft the renter and giving them a sudden turnaround of having to find a new place to live or worse. Are there any ways to check via government offices or listings if a property is being foreclosed upon just so I do due diligence before committing to renting a property?

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r/google•

Here is my public rage post. I have been a fan of Google ever since I swapped over from Yahoo way, wayyyy back in the day but Google is making every effort humanly possible to make Google search a miserable experience.

First and foremost there is the new +1 nonsense. You can't opt-out of it, especially if it means nothing to you. There are rumored ways to fix it, but they want you to be logged in under a profile. I want a cookie that says 'don't give me +1 ever that is dumb' and Google to actually follow it. If I wanted Google to be Facebook I'd use Facebook. I don't like Facebook, in fact I hate it with a passion. I don't want to 'like' things, I just want to log in and get the job done an

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r/starcraft2_class•

I'm a Protoss and in general I average 100ish APM normally. Does anyone else hit consistently in this category? What did you do to change it? I mean the big things for me are that I don't spam at the beginning, I don't over click to move stuff (one or two clicks at most) and my micro is alright. At what point does it stop being spam and start being actively fucking up?

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r/starcraft2_class•

(Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this question)

I had been experimenting with this build order as a Protoss, (I'm terrabad), which in a word means 3 Stalkers at 4:50ish to work with. That order is Roughly:

Pylon 9 -> Gate 12 -> Gas 14 -> Core -> Pylon -> Gate -> 3 Stalkers

My order is:

Pylon 9 -> Gate 12 -> Gas 14 -> Gate 16 -> Core & Pylon (roughly the same time) -> 2 Stalkers Chrono'd -> Pylon -> 2 Stalkers Chrono'd

With this build I can get 4 stalkers out at 4:50 (or probably earlier if I polish it a bit more) and not have to cut probes at 20 (which is something you have to

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