The Official Status Thread
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Tire pressure light blinks then stays on, but all 4 tires have recommended pressure.
Batteries in the sensors getting low on juice.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Tire pressure light blinks then stays on, but all 4 tires have recommended pressure.
A common solution is to take a piece of black electrical tape and place it over the light. Also works well for Check Engine lights.
Anyway, when I got my
newless used car it was reporting a tire pressure problem. I had the tires checked (no problems found) and reset the tire pressure alert and it hasn't returned.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Officially an expert1 in TypeScript generics
1I used them in one module, and someone else walked me through how to make them work.
Last year I held a workshop on Machine Learning.
Note: I don't know anything about Machine Learning.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Officially an expert1 in TypeScript generics
1I used them in one module, and someone else walked me through how to make them work.
Last year I held a workshop on Machine Learning.
Note: I don't know anything about Machine Learning.No problem, most people that work with it don't know anything about it either.
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Status: So, ever since I've rebuilt my NAS it now only has a single fan. Fine, whatever.
Working at "Optimal" speed, I noticed the spinners getting kinda toasty, so I tell the fan to go "Full Speed"...
Sweet! Except it's kinda loud. So I set it to "Standard" (that's the only other working option, the last one "HeavyIO" seems to turn the fan flat-off), and it shoots right up again.
There's no way to adjust fan speed curves in this motherboard, and I have no idea how to do it in FreeBSD, so... Guess I'll just suck it and have a noisy server...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
AMA.
I have latex clothing, a large supply of ropes and climbing paraphernalia, and toys of jiggly and vibratory natures. Also i'm rather bored and horny. What would you do with this situation?
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@Vixen I'd take it to a different thread, please.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess I'll just suck it
What's the point of the fan if you have to do it manually?
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
AMA.
I have latex clothing, a large supply of ropes and climbing paraphernalia, and toys of jiggly and vibratory natures. Also i'm rather bored and horny. What would you do with this situation?
@error_bot asp threesome
Filed under: Ask me in a different thread, and the answer might change.
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Threesome
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Tire pressure light blinks then stays on, but all 4 tires have recommended pressure.
Batteries in the sensors getting low on juice.
I'm pretty sure you're right.
Awesome, replace a few batteries? Sounds like $25 and 15 minutes of work.
A depleted battery canβt be exΒchanged, so the entire sensor must be replaced.
Rigney says potting material inside the sensor housing secures the electronic components and protects them from the harsh environment inside a tire. βIn order to remove a battery, the potting material would need to be melted. Heating the material could damage components and allow the batteryβs lithium to seep out of its housing and into the environment.β
Oh.
The average cost for a TPMS sensor replacement is between $468 and $1,918. Labor costs are estimated between $52 and $67 while parts are priced between $416 and $1851. Estimate does not include taxes and fees.
Oh.
Well, I'm glad I got my inspection for 2020 done last week.
Hey, it says the TPMS transmits an RF signal; can I spoof the signal, tell the sensor everything's fine?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Hey, it says the TPMS transmits an RF signal; can I spoof the signal, tell the sensor everything's fine?
Wire cutters sound easier.
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C++20 will have
map::contains
andstring::starts_with
. Better 22 years late than never, I guess?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Tire pressure light blinks then stays on, but all 4 tires have recommended pressure.
I would get this sometimes if I had my phone charging in my car. Apparently pulling 3V+ through the cigarette lighter adapter either does something funky with the communications or diverts enough power somehow that it causes my TPMS system to fault...but only after I'd been driving for ~15 minutes or so.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The average cost for a TPMS sensor replacement is between $468 and $1,918. Labor costs are estimated between $52 and $67 while parts are priced between $416 and $1851. Estimate does not include taxes and fees.
What? I'm pretty sure they're talking about a full TPMS system replacement, not just swapping out the little bit that sits inside the tires checking the pressure. Last time I had to have one of those changed it was ~$30 at my local tire place.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
What? I'm pretty sure they're talking about a full TPMS system replacement, not just swapping out the little bit that sits inside the tires checking the pressure. Last time I had to have one of those changed it was ~$30 at my local tire place.
I don't know, that's what Google said. Inline, even; it was in the FAQ expandy thing on the search results page.
I hope you're right.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Why would they want a credit check? Surely they'd be paying you, not the other way round?
For employers, I think it's probably a proxy for general trustworthiness. If you pay your bills, you're probably trustworthy. If you're deep in debt with creditors hounding you, you might be more likely to sell company secrets to a competitor.
Trust me, nowhere I've worked or interviewed has had anything worth stealing, unless you wanted to kickstart a competitor to TDWTF.
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@error What make/model? I did a few cursory checks online and PepBoys seems to carry generic TPMS sensor kits for about $10 that seem to work with most things, and their install cost is about $18.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@error What make/model? I did a few cursory checks online and PepBoys seems to carry generic TPMS sensor kits for about $10 that seem to work with most things, and their install cost is about $18.
It's a 2009 Toyota Prius.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@error What make/model? I did a few cursory checks online and PepBoys seems to carry generic TPMS sensor kits for about $10 that seem to work with most things, and their install cost is about $18.
It's a 2009 Prius.
Mm. Looks like what I saw was a "TPMS service kit", which seems to replace some parts of a sensor but not the sensor itself?
Still, PepBoys has a sensor for yours for $65 if the sensor itself is indeed bad. I'd go have it evaluated first though.
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@error my ex just got 4 18" rims with fresh winter rubber and 4 tpms sensors mounted on her car for a grand total of SEK24000, so the prices you got seem too high by quite a margin.
But you can break the sensors open and replace the battery if you really want. They are not designed for that though
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@error Before you do anything drastic or expensive: Look through your car's manual if there's a "Reset pressure sensor" button somewhere.
Whenever I'm changing my tires from summer to winter ones, the pressure light also goes on after a short while. If I then press this button (after having checked the pressure, of course) everything is fine till the next change.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
SEK24000
$3300 CAD, or $2500 USD. That sounds like not quite an order of magnitude too high for four tires, but still unbelievably expensive.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@error Before you do anything drastic or expensive: Look through your car's manual if there's a "Reset pressure sensor" button somewhere.
Whenever I'm changing my tires from summer to winter ones, the pressure light also goes on after a short while. If I then press this button (after having checked the pressure, of course) everything is fine till the next change.
I'll try this after work.
Somehow I get better car support from this forum than development support.
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@error The first time I had this, I drove to my dealer who located the button for me (as my manual was in Czech - the wonders of EU reimports). He then told me that this thing is rather normal and I should only worry if the light comes on a second time after a reset (while also checking the pressure in regular intervals).
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
SEK24000
$3300 CAD, or $2500 USD. That sounds like not quite an order of magnitude too high for four tires, but still unbelievably expensive.
Four rims and TPS sensors as well, not just tires.
She's a petrol head and drives a jaguar, so she refuses to put ugly rims on it even if it's for winter tires.
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@Carnage Unless they're super fancy rims (and/or super fancy TMPS sensors), it still doesn't add up. A set of steel rims would be around $200, tires $150-200 a pop, so about $1000 CAD at the high end for all that, plus the sensors.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
tires $150-200 a pop
Dafuq are you buying tires? Most usual tires would be $150-200 for a full set of 4, unless you're buying either specialist tires or tires for a dumptruck.
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Looking at it now I can see winter tires as low as $75, but most of the ones with brand names that you've heard of are around $150
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage Unless they're super fancy rims (and/or super fancy TMPS sensors), it still doesn't add up. A set of steel rims would be around $200, tires $150-200 a pop, so about $1000 CAD at the high end for all that, plus the sensors.
She bought them at a tire shop, because she'd put off buying winter tires for 4 months too long and had to have them pretty much the same day, so no price shopping and pretty much just bending over and taking it.
But I think the rims were SEK2400 a pop, so about 10k for the set, plus tires at about SEK2000 a pop because of buying the best available, and at a slightly odd dimension. So, the entire set of sensors and work was about SEK6k I think.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the rims were SEK2400 a pop
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the rims were SEK2400 a pop
The lowest you get without getting shitty chinesium or steel rims at her dimensions from web shops are about SEK1000. And those are fugly.
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@Carnage Usually I don't see any fancy rims with winter tires, but dirt-cheap steel rims like this:
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage Usually I don't see any fancy rims with winter tires, but dirt-cheap steel rims like this:
In Sweden, most cars have lowish profile alu rims for winter tires. I actually just walked across the commuter parking lot, and of the 50 or so cars I walked past, only 1 had steel rims. And that was a CitroΓ«n, so the owner obviously hates cars in general, and his in particular.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Most usual tires would be $150-200 for a full set of 4
I can get down to $650 a set if I get the cheapest highway tires I can find...I can't even re-tire my motorcycle for less than $200 and it's nothing special at all.
EDIT: Pickup truck, not a car. I've never owned a car.
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@mott555 IIRC, I payed about 200 for 2 tires when I replaced them last.
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Status: bought airplane tickets for part of the family to go and visit another part of the family. Royally fucked it up and wasted tons of money by sheer dumbness
Step 1: spend days looking over various flight combinations. Flying to literally the other side of the world, three persons starting from three different European cities on the way out and four on the way back (we'll be flying back with one of the kids for complicated reasons). It's in about 6 months, not during a holiday period, so we can take a few days to check out things, right?
Step 2: find a combination that everyone is happy with, and not too expensive. Try to book it, only to find that the answer to the question at the end of step 1 obviously is "no", the flights are gone (weirdly, not just "price outrageously high" but entirely gone, even though I still could find each of the legs separately. Go figure.).
Step 3: find another combination that works (and is actually slightly better in most regards except that it makes for a very early start for one person, which is why I discounted it initially), book one of the trips (for the kid coming back with us).
Step 4: start booking the flight for the adult who will return to the same city as where the kid is going. Discover that yes, there are (at least) 2 intercontinental flights leaving the same airport, going to the same airport, in a 5 minutes time window, from two companies that are part of the same alliance . Further discover that while I booked the single flight for the kid with company A, the return flight for the matching adult is only sold by company B. Yes, even though they are in an alliance. Yes, even though some of the flights are actually operated by company A. Company A could sell me a single flight from City 1 to City 2, using flights from company B, but it could not sell me the matching flight from City 2 to City 1 (it had other flights to offer, of course, but not the one I wanted). The only reason I can imagine (apart from sheer stupidity, and since we're dealing with airlines and travel agents here, that's not to be ruled out...) is that because of this "two flights one route" thing, company A flat out refuses to sell tickets on that route with planes from company B (even though, again, alliance...).
Step 5: realise that booking the single trip with company B would only have costed like 50 more bucks (i.e. pocket change on the total budget of this trip). Frantically check sales condition to see if I could cancel the first one. Of course I took the option to "change your ticket for free" when buying it. Ahahah who am I kidding. Check local laws to see if the "8 days no questions asked automatic refund period" that exists for most large purchases here applies and see that it explicitly excludes airline tickets. Fuckers.
Step 6: resign myself to having fucked up, and buy two single trips, the outbound on company B and the inbound on company A. Pay for 2 single trips instead of a return, i.e. get shafted by a couple hundred bucks
Step 7: buy the return ticket for the next adult. Realise that I've maxed out one of my cards so switch to the next one (note to self: remember to tell wife that yes, I've emptied our joint account to buy plane tickets but not for her... ).
Step 8: buy the return ticket for the last adult. Realise that it's just a tiny bit above the max for the other card. Go to the bank website and raise the ceiling. Receive the confirmation email, SMS etc. Try booking again, see it fail again. Try again half an hour later, see it fail again.
Step 9: ask the last adult to buy their ticket themselves. They'd be reimbursing me for it otherwise anyway, so it's easier this way, and they're as tech savvy as myself so nothing can go wrong there, right?
Step 10: get the confirmation email forwarded by the last adult, notice that obviously the answer to the previous question was a big fat LOL as they managed to book their ticket for one day later than the rest of us (remember, travel to the other side of the world so arrival on a different day than departure, they read the wrong one...).
Step 11: after some back and forth, realise that it's now their turn to get shafted for a couple hundred bucks for changing it because obviously they did the same as me on step 5 and skimped on the "change your ticket for free" option.
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At which point does cutting ties with your family starts looking like the easiest option?
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
Royally fucked it up and wasted tons of money by sheer dumbness
did that last month. travel for work event. got tickets to wrong city, didn't notice till the day before the flights.
fuuun.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Officially an expert1 in TypeScript generics
1I used them in one module, and someone else walked me through how to make them work.
Last year I held a workshop on Machine Learning.
Note: I don't know anything about Machine Learning.No problem, most people that work with it don't know anything about it either.
I resent the suggestion that there are any people who truly know anything about machine learning!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
C++20 will have
map::contains
andstring::starts_with
. Better 22 years late than never, I guess?But does it have
string::left_pad
?
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
A common solution is to take a piece of black electrical tape and place it over the light. Also works well for Check Engine lights.
And VCR clocks.
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@remi I think with something like that I would've turned the whole thing over to a travel agent and said: "Your turn. Figure it out."
At least you get to yell at someone
ifwhen it goes sideways.
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@Rhywden I prefer to do things myself, online. At least then my name will be spelt correctly...
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@jinpa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
A common solution is to take a piece of black electrical tape and place it over the light. Also works well for Check Engine lights.
And VCR clocks.
And coffee makers. (Oh you want to set your clock back? Go 23hrs forward!) Yes, my coffee maker is now at some random time. And the clock radio in the kitchen is flashing <blink>12:00</blink> (it's in the corner so I can't see it)
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Status: cars, apparently.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Guess I'll just suck it
What's the point of the fan if you have to do it manually?
#notmyfan
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Status: this edit pencil fucked up the link so I can't navigate to that post?