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Status: Rough day yesterday.
The car situation is bad. I have this 2002 Pontiac that the heater stopped working and afterward developed an overheating problem. I paid to have a cracked coolant container replaced, plus more stuff the garage "found," only for the problem to not be resolved. I think some gaskets are bad so it's pulling coolant in to burn it instead of leaking out. That's way too expensive to pay a garage to fix but I have to wait for warmer weather to do it myself.
My backup is an even older Pontiac that I've been reluctant to drive since it was in an accident. It drives well but it has some body damage I was saving up to repair when the weather improved (quality of work at body shops seems to suffer in winter). While it was sitting, the battery died. So I was borrowing a third Pontiac from my parents that decided it would develop the heating/overheating problem all at once on the way to work.
I had to call off, get a ride to Walmart for a battery, jump the car, and drive it to where I had tools to work on it. Did I mention the inspection also lapsed two weeks ago? So this engine compartment is literally stuffed, to the point that half a dozen other parts have to be taken out just to get to the battery. I spent the afternoon doing that and now it works but I find it's developed other "old man" problems, Shifting into reverse sometimes shuts the car off. Something's also wrong with the locks, where I can't get into the passenger door or out of the driver door. Plus whatever else was wrong before, like the dim LEDs on the console that make night driving a bit of a guessing game.
I feel stupid spending money on that tablet and mini PC now. But they were both ostensibly business investments and not toys. But it seems like I'm being punished as if they were.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
but if you do know such a multiply endowed person... do drop us a line will you dah-ling?
Best I can do is a guy who deliberately bifurcated his penis.
I'm very late to this convo, but...
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@Zenith May I suggest not using Pontiacs in the future?
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@Mingan Not like I had a choice after bankers crashed the economy 12 years ago.
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@Zenith Other cars have been available since then, both on the new and used markets
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@hungrier I see it now. What I meant was that I couldn't buy another Pontiac even if I wanted to. GM had to beg for its bailout and one of the conditions was shutting down half the company.
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@Zenith They're not even bad cars. The model(s) we tended to buy just seemed to have a very specific problem, namely head gaskets. At least those are replaceable, if you catch them before they lead to a popped piston. My friends with Ford Escapes all ended up junking them with rusted out frames before they hit 10 years old.
Replacing vehicles is such a pain for me because I'm a market outlier. Every time I'm ready to take out a car loan, the industry goes through some sort of shift. I need a car, production shifts away from them. I need a small truck, they all triple in size. I think crossovers are an abomination, the lots overflow with them. I want to look at what's out there, the dealership network shrinks away from my area.
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate
that. Until I can drive 300mi in a single sitting while towing a trailer and be back on the road in 5min (ok, 15. Gotta hit the bathroom too)...
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@Zenith I've heard from reputable sources that a 1994 Toyota Celica will last forever, even if The Man tries to take it away
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I Googled "edible arrangements" for Valentine's Day.
Google showed results for (THC infused) edibles.
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
knowing you, i was half expecting that to be a printer (profession) who had an abundnace of third legs....
I think she just called me a pimp.
I said no such word.
;-)
but if you do know such a multiply endowed person... do drop us a line will you dah-ling?
Google "DoubleDickDude".
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status: I must be misremembering, but, how long has Smokey's catchphrase been "only you can prevent wildfires"?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I must be misremembering, but, how long has Smokey's catchphrase been "only you can prevent wildfires"?
2001
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
knowing you, i was half expecting that to be a printer (profession) who had an abundnace of third legs....
I think she just called me a pimp.
I said no such word.
;-)
but if you do know such a multiply endowed person... do drop us a line will you dah-ling?
Google "DoubleDickDude".
i could..... but i'd rather google "DoubleDickSnek Phone Number" ;-)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I must be misremembering, but, how long has Smokey's catchphrase been "only you can prevent wildfires"?
I remember "only you can prevent forest fires" too. I worked for my state's bureau of forestry one summer, right after they changed it. They also told me Smokey the Bear was technically wrong too.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
They also told me Smokey the Bear was technically wrong too.
My life is a lie.
Filed under: Berenstain Bears
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The Witcher 1 was PC exclusive, but 2 & 3 are on Playstation. I was planning to switch to Playstation after I beat the first one...
but apparently you can load your save file from the previous game, where it remembers your choices from the previous games.I guess I'm stuck on PC now.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Google "DoubleDickDude".
Hell no. I wouldn't even DuckDuckGo that in an incognito window.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
They also told me Smokey the Bear was technically wrong too.
Yes. It is and always has been Smokey Bear; no the.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Google "DoubleDickDude".
Hell no. I wouldn't even DuckDuckGo that in an incognito window.
Wow, someone has experience hiding his tracks.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
They also told me Smokey the Bear was technically wrong too.
Yes. It is and always has been Smokey Bear; no the.
Not according to the song.
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Status: Adding debug/trace code to find this bug makes the bug not occur.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate
You live in California?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
Also, there are Teslas out there with over 400,000 miles on them.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, there are Teslas out there with over 400,000 miles on them.
A lot of people are probably interested to know how the battery pack held up, but unfortunately, it didn’t. It was replaced twice during the vehicle’s 400,000 miles.
:womp_wah:
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Status: At least once a week I get latest and a project doesn't build, because people unload projects and check the skip ci box when they check in.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
You've never had a smartphone? I've seen iPhone and Galaxy batteries reach the point where a charge lasted 20 minutes and the batteries weren't even 3 years old.
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate
You live in California?
I wish. Then maybe I could pluck a six figure programming job from one of the trees that grow there.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
check the skip ci box when they check in.
this is why it's a shooting offense to check that box here.
with NERF for a first offense.... we reserve the right to change it up for subsequent offenses.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Adding debug/trace code to find this bug makes the bug not occur.
@error_bot jargon heisenbug
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The Jargon File said in http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/heisenbug.html :
heisenbug
heisenbug: /hi:�zen�buhg/, n.[from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack.
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
with NERF for a first offense....
That would be illegal in
A frozen NERF ball is dangerous
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Then maybe I could pluck a six figure programming job from one of the trees that grow there.
Have you considered gitting gud?
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@TimeBandit Super Soakers are also right out, for similar reason
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
with NERF for a first offense....
That would be illegal in
A frozen NERF ball is dangerous
And I suppose overvolting the motors from 6v to 24v with a custom built battery pack of 6x8 18650s wouldn't help in the legality part?
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Idea: a hosting service for KeePass .kdbx files. No authentication to retrieve, it's all public, your master password should be secure enough. You just make a memorable username, link it with your email/google account and upload it regularly, and this way you know you'll always have a copy available even on a completely different computer.
Is this a good thing to make? Other than "have to pay for hosting" are there any obstacles I'm not seeing?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this a good thing to make?
depends...... what do you think about being sued or criminally charged because people choose crap master passwords and not nice people scrape your site to get all the keepass databases and offline crack them to get all those juicy credentials and other information?
i mean i like the idea in principle but having it public means that sort of thing can happen.......
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Idea: a hosting service for KeePass .kdbx files. No authentication to retrieve, it's all public, your master password should be secure enough. You just make a memorable username, link it with your email/google account and upload it regularly, and this way you know you'll always have a copy available even on a completely different computer.
Is this a good thing to make? Other than "have to pay for hosting" are there any obstacles I'm not seeing?
The NSA loves your idea.
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@PleegWat The NSA has way better ways to spy on people than cracking AES-KDF passwords from security-conscious nerds.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Then maybe I could pluck a six figure programming job from one of the trees that grow there.
Have you considered gitting gud?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, there are Teslas out there with over 400,000 miles on them.
A lot of people are probably interested to know how the battery pack held up, but unfortunately, it didn’t. It was replaced twice during the vehicle’s 400,000 miles.
:womp_wah:
Please don't cherrypick. There's also that part:
Those actually weren’t Tesloop battery packs with the most cycles since it also has a Model X with its original battery pack after 300,000 miles. The company reports about ~10% of battery degradation.
Also:
Tesla repairs and reused parts of its old battery packs, which in this case were replaced under warranty.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
You've never had a smartphone? I've seen iPhone and Galaxy batteries reach the point where a charge lasted 20 minutes and the batteries weren't even 3 years old.
I've also seen iPhones which still had usable battery life after six years. So?
Also: The charging electronics for cars are much better than for phones. Not to mention that you can better control the conditions (like temperature).
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Idea: a hosting service for KeePass .kdbx files. No authentication to retrieve, it's all public, your master password should be secure enough. You just make a memorable username, link it with your email/google account and upload it regularly, and this way you know you'll always have a copy available even on a completely different computer.
Is this a good thing to make? Other than "have to pay for hosting" are there any obstacles I'm not seeing?
Without authentication you’d have to make the files immutable, which sucks for updating (new URLs all the time). Or somebody could overwrite your stuff.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
You've never had a smartphone? I've seen iPhone and Galaxy batteries reach the point where a charge lasted 20 minutes and the batteries weren't even 3 years old.
I've also seen iPhones which still had usable battery life after six years. So?
Yesterday, the news interviewed a Japanese man who was 112 years old. Therefore, James Dean also lived to 112.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
You've never had a smartphone? I've seen iPhone and Galaxy batteries reach the point where a charge lasted 20 minutes and the batteries weren't even 3 years old.
I've also seen iPhones which still had usable battery life after six years. So?
Yesterday, the news interviewed a Japanese man that was 112 years old. Therefore, James Dean also lived to 112.
The point is that most electric car manufacturers offer 8+ years of warranty for the battery. How many years does the average phone manufacturer expect you to use your phone before turning to the new shiny?
Also, with phones, size is pretty much the primary consideration for the batteries. With cars you have more leeway.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Please don't cherrypick.
You're the one who brought up 400,000+ mile Teslas. Based on the Tesla Miles leaderboard (as well as common sense) that's an extreme statistical outlier. The guy with the million km also had to replace his battery pack at least once.
But anyway it's a moot point, since the Tesla is much more likely to burst into flames or drive itself into an emergency vehicle or other solid obstacle long before it gets anywhere near 400,000 miles.
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@hungrier The original point was this FUD that someone would have a car with no usable battery. Tesla offers an unlimited battery warranty (if you so choose), others offer 8+ years. If you compare that to the (economical) lifespan of a modern car then that suddenly does not like quite as bad.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
We're probably not far from an electric car mandate, because I don't want to pay $75K for a car that's going to get 2 miles on a charge when the battery turns 3.
When they're saying that a battery has a certain lifetime then they don't mean: "Will be completely and utterly rendered inoperable after that date / amount of charging cycles" but only a "has at least 80% of its original capacity remaining."
You've never had a smartphone? I've seen iPhone and Galaxy batteries reach the point where a charge lasted 20 minutes and the batteries weren't even 3 years old.
I've also seen iPhones which still had usable battery life after six years. So?
Yesterday, the news interviewed a Japanese man that was 112 years old. Therefore, James Dean also lived to 112.
The point is that most electric car manufacturers offer 8+ years of warranty for the battery. How many years does the average phone manufacturer expect you to use your phone before turning to the new shiny?
When your phone battery dies, it doesn't cost $5000-$7000 to replace.
You can call it FUD if you want but it's a real concern when the cars cost twice as much and the area has no infrastructure for electric vehicles.