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Yes FT5G high latency to cloudflare/google dns

FourZeroFour — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:37:45 +0800

Is it just me or everyone else is also currently experiencing the said issue?

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WTS Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

FourZeroFour — Sun, 19 May 2024 17:09:44 +0800

Item(s):
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

Package includes:
Everything that comes in original box. Thermalpaste has been used a bit

Price:
RM100

Warranty:
Local warranty. Bought from Rextech.

Dealing method:
Postage

Location:
Johor Bahru

Contact method/details:
PM or reply here
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Item(s) conditions:
Good as new

Picture:

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Reason for sale:
Not used anymore. Switched to water cooler

Did I damage the cpu socket?

FourZeroFour — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:22:38 +0800

Was trying to install new cpu on the new board. Cannot lock the cage then noticed few pins look like in the pic. Is the cpu socket permanently damaged?

Pay petrol at pump without pre auth charge?

FourZeroFour — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:17:28 +0800

Besides cimb debit card @ petronas stations, what bank let you pay at pump without pre auth charge?

I work in SG with my SPM only earning close to 6k

FourZeroFour — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:07:40 +0800

Fire away the question. A little background. I am a maintenance plumber working in public transport sector. If theres no fault and defects I would be on standby. During these time when I get too bored I would go out and wandering around to interesting places nearby

What is RedOne-like plan in Singapore?

FourZeroFour — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:58:07 +0800

I'm looking for a singaporean telco prepaid/postpaid plan that offers at least 1GB of data at the most affortable rate. Won't be making calls that much so voice calls aren't that important

Is it possible to get a new plate number?

FourZeroFour — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:01:29 +0800

Ayam bought a motorcycle last week but I was strapped for money to book a meaningful plate number and accepted whatever number that was gonna be assigned to it. Is it still possible to get a new plate number now that the Moto already has plat number.

How to go to Woodlands, SG from JB?

FourZeroFour — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:46:38 +0800

I'm going to SG for an interview and someone will pick me up at Woodlands. Can someone guide me how to get to woodlands, SG from

1. JB sentral
2. Larkin bus terminal

What's the process I'll need to go through if I'm going to take a bus? How much is the bus fare? Rough estimated time it takes to arrive there if I board the bus in the morning eg 8-10am?

Looking for a workacation place

FourZeroFour — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:54:25 +0800

Do you guys know any legit place in the country where I can go and stay there for some time while lending my hands with whatever the place runs and having an accommodation and daily meals provided for free.

Probably some farm or resort that takes volunteering workers and provides them with a place to stay in return for their help. I can find lots of these kind of places on a site called Workaway but I can't be bothered to pay for its sign up fee which costs like RM100-/+

Redmi camera vs Lumia 640XL 13MP Carl Zeiss optics

FourZeroFour — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:29:00 +0800

I can't decide. I saw a brandnew Lumia 640XL deal currently going for under RM400. Is there any xiaomi phone or other android phones I can get at similar price that has photo or video taking quality better than that of 640 XL?

Lumia 640 XL:

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Camera
Primary 13 MP, f/2.0, 28mm, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash
Features 1/3" sensor size
Video 1080p@30fps
Secondary 5 MP, 1080p

Open-minded and liberal/secular kelantanese

FourZeroFour — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:48:41 +0800

Ugh are there really no open-minded or liberal adult kelantanse left in this place? At my age now it feels like a total misfit being in here. Im neither young nor old and in my place there are only budak2 and elderies which either way can be awkward be friended with. Like-minded people which I feel comfortable to hang out with are very hard to come by. This has been driving me nuts I dont know whether to laugh or cry now

I think I'm slowly getting nearer to the end of my rope but I hope there won't come a day when I pack up all my stuff and crawl my way out of here. My life, my work is here.

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Disable saving media for group in whatsapp?

FourZeroFour — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:13:42 +0800

Any idea if it's possible at all disable saving incoming media per group basis in android whatsapp?

Ayam tengok dalam group setting macam takda. Takkan la takda sebab ayam guna Whatsapp on win10 mobile pun ada setting tu.

World price of precious metals about to collapse?

FourZeroFour — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:12:06 +0800

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-ast...ur-solar-system

NASA to Explore an Asteroid Containing Enough Mineral Wealth to Collapse the World Economy

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Philip Perry

We think of asteroids as giant useless rocks floating around space. Perhaps it’s a good place to hide the Millennium Falcon or a worrisome cause of a cataclysmic event. Though most are hunks of rock or ice, some are replete with iron, platinum, gold, and other precious minerals. Two NASA missions plan to explore such an asteroid, scheduled for 2021 and 2023. These are part of NASA’s Discovery Program, a class of mission considered inexpensive, capping out at $450 million apiece.

Scientists will first launch a robotic spacecraft named Lucy in October 2021. The plan is to reach a Massachusetts-size asteroid, named 16 Psyche, which is made up almost entirely of nickel and iron—much like the Earth’s core. Scientists say this metallic monolith is so enormous, it’s considered a minor planet. Psyche is about 130 miles (210 km.) in diameter. It’s located in the Trojan asteroid belt, between Jupiter and Saturn.

This kind of asteroid has never been studied before, according to Thomas Zurbuchen. He’s the associate administrator at NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "This is what Discovery Program missions are all about,” Zurbuchen said, “boldly going to places we've never been to enable groundbreaking science." Lucy will take six years to get there. Once it’s arrived, it will spend 20 months mapping and studying the asteroid.

The Eros asteroid. Psyche's mission is set to launch an entire new industry which could target bodies like this one, nearby Earth.

Jupiter has two groups of asteroids caught in its orbit. It takes the gas giant 12 years to travel around the sun, with a parade of asteroids leading it, and another trailing behind. Lucy will reach Jupiter’s asteroid belt by 2025. Over the course of eight years, it will study six Trojan asteroids in all. By examining the target asteroid 16 Psyche carefully, NASA researchers believe they can peak back almost 10 million years, shortly after the birth of the sun.

Harold F. Levison is principal investigator of the Lucy mission. He hails from the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado. Levison said, "Because the Trojans are remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, they hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system. Lucy, like the human fossil for which it is named, will revolutionize the understanding of our origins." 16 Psyche may be a piece of an ancient protoplanet once as big as Mars, which shattered into pieces over billions of years, due to bombardments and collisions with other bodies, a common occurrence after the birth of our solar system. Today, it’s sort of an astronomical fossil.

Another robotic spacecraft named Psyche will follow in October 2023. After an Earth gravity assist maneuver in 2024, it will shoot past Mars in 2025, and reach the asteroid by 2030. Scientists from Arizona State University will collaborate with NASA on this mission. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of ASU is its principal investigator.

See a short segment about the mission here:

She said, "16 Psyche is the only known object of its kind in the solar system, and this is the only way humans will ever visit a core.” This could give us insight not only about our own planet, but of other terrestrial or rocky planets, such as Venus, Mars, and Mercury. But besides the scientific value, such explorations are on the brink of launching an entire new industry. Elkins-Tanton has estimated the value of the asteroid’s iron content alone at approximately $10,000 quadrillion. That’s to say nothing of the gold, copper, and platinum to be found.

The value of this asteroid alone could wipe out global debt, $60 trillion, and leave enough left over to give every human on the planet a comfortable lifestyle, or conversely, cause the collapse of the world economy and send us hurdling back to the Dark Ages. Take your pick. Elkins-Tanton suggested dragging back a hunk and doling it out little by little, but also played with the idea of solving mineral scarcity for all-time.

Meanwhile, private companies are already lining up to mine asteroids, and Congress has passed The Asteroid Act to codify the practice. Nearly 10,000 asteroids nearby Earth have startling mineral potential. And as the outspreading of smartphones, computers, and other technologies continues, globally, the demand for such minerals will only become greater and the lure of asteroid mining, much more powerful.

What's that rotate-able dial on some watch?

FourZeroFour — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:28:53 +0800

On the dial there are minutes marks. Above all, why it's made rotate-able? If accidentally ter-rotate, then the minute marks won't be aligned correctly anymore. Been wondering if there's real purpose to that since ages

wannie404 and her habit of copy pasting

FourZeroFour — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:14:11 +0800

QUOTE(Wanie404 @ Jan 23 2017, 08:42 PM)

Has /k ego finally reached critical mass and is now collapsing in on itself?
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http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=173366081

Has wannie sedak abe sedak copy pasting of other people's posts reached critical mass and is now taking toll on her ability to construct sentences in her own words?

A lot of hate and negativity going around on the misc lately
Is this the end times? Has the misc ego finally reached critical mass and is now collapsing in on itself?

Is notbadnotbrad the anti christ of the misc?
Will Bustacapp and samsbolton kill each other IRL?
Will Beast92 reek a terrible vengeance?
Will British miscers ever stop dying of thirst over Melis?
Will Deadlystriker crack and consume a years worth of finasteride in a single day?
Will cookiefiend take brad's advice and seek psychiatric help?
Will Tier0 ever find his penis?
Will TrotonKat describe in intricate detail what her angus smells like?

Stay tuned.

English for jangan-jangan or entah-entah?

FourZeroFour — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:56:37 +0800

How to phrase jangan-jangan or entah-entah in english? I already have an answer in mind but I'd like to know if there's better answer

Ok a little context: Kawan kau tu depan kau je baik. Entah-entah belakang kau sedap duk mengata kau

Edit:

We have a winner!

QUOTE(arubin @ Jan 21 2017, 01:49 PM)

There's no single word that fits the situation.

IMHO, the most suitable is "For all you know..."

Eg.
For all you know, your friends gossip about you behind your back.
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Ding! This is the right answer. Exactly what I have in mind earlier.

QUOTE(hyperyouth_firepower @ Jan 21 2017, 02:07 PM)

As @arubin said, "for all you know" , or "could it be that"
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Yep it's "for all your know". I think the phrase can't be any more nearest to the Malay's phrase of jangan-jangan or entah-entah

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions...-for-all-i-know

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“For all I know” asserts that the speaker is so insufficiently informed that he is willing to entertain the most far-fetched conjecture or the darkest suspicion. In speech there’s usually one strongly stressed word or phrase to name that implausibility or fear.

And it almost always implies some measure of annoyance, which may be occasioned by any number of things: the reprehensible conjecture under consideration, the speaker’s own lamentable ignorance, the people who are maliciously keeping him in ignorance, being questioned on a subject he doesn’t want to discuss.

There's really no way of telling what your specific sentences mean without a lot more context, but here are some guesses:

The mayor may resign tomorrow, he may resign next week — for all I know, he’s resigned already. Who cares? He’s gone.

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My untouch bitcoin balance went from USD3 -> USD15

FourZeroFour — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:29:45 +0800

I reinstalled Electrum wallet this morning after I noticed its data dir is still in my $HOME dir and came to a pleasant surprise. The same BTC balance has grown in value from mere 3'ish USD in early 2015 to 15'ish USD today. Last transaction I performed for splitting humble bundle games.

I think starting from coming month, I should side aside a bit of my monthly earning to go towards BTC investment. /k doesn't have any plan to invest in bitcoin?

Update: USD43 now

Baju kurung creates incentive to not work out?

FourZeroFour — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:44:08 +0800

Baju kurung and other type of loose, over-sized clothing help hide woman body fat pretty well thus creates incentive for the wearer not to work out. Or do you think the type of people that love to wear these type of clothing are generally malas bersenam to begin with. Baju kebaya ftw?

Where to buy this 3 stage countertop water filter?

FourZeroFour — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:07:43 +0800

I've searched for this water filter on all major local online store/marketplace such as lelong and lazada. None of them carry 3 stage countertop water filter. What they have though is only 2 stage variant.

I, however, stumbled on AceHardware Philippine website and they seem to carry this 3 stage countertop water filter.

http://acehardware.ph/products/WATERCARE-U...OUNT.-FILT.html

Is it safe to assume that products available at AceHardware there I would also find them in AceHardware in Malaysia? I don't live in KL so I can't go and walk in AceHardware to check that but if it is available at our local AceHardware for certain, I'll probably have someone to buy it for me.

Or if anyone knows other place I can get this water filter from, please let me know.