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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The Irish went one further and paid farmers not to plant anything.
Somewhere in southern Europe they actually paid for planting. Planting, but not producing. They even started actually checking in place. It resulted in vast areas being covered with fake plastic olive trees.
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder what would happen if I did this?
put in a breakpoint or write a unit test to find out.
I need to think on this.Should've put
printf("dupa\n")
.But that's mild. Today I had a dev express doubts whether the order of elements in a json array "is specified so that it cannot change", after I requested he does something which assumes that.
I have to look into JSON specification
Array. The square brackets. Not object.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Somewhere in southern Europe they actually paid for planting. Planting, but not producing. They even started actually checking in place. It resulted in vast areas being covered with fake plastic olive trees.
All of Europe. You could make a hefty profit on it for many years.
- Plant one of crops from the list.
- Notify EU about it and provide bills for seeds.
- Cultivate the crops at minimum level just so they don't die.
- Wait for inspection after which stop cultivating.
- Receive a 'subsidy' worth more than the crops and return for the seeds.
- Repeat the process next year.It was so common that there were specialized companies that you could offload all of work on for part of profits. One visit to the office and you are a farmer getting subsidies year after year, without ever seeing your land.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The
IrishEurope went one further and paid farmers not to plant anything.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
All of Europe. You could make a hefty profit on it for many years.
And in Poland specifically, if you're a farmer, you only pay like 5% of normal Social Security. Even if most of your income is from employment or sole proprietorship.
I had a math teacher like that. Not only he was getting higher wages, but also raked in subsidies for reforestation, which he effected by sending the students to collect acorns in the nearby park in exchange for better grades.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Tyrese Gibson
Beats me, all I know is The Rock didn't like his album
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The Irish went one further and paid farmers not to plant anything.
That could be dangerous, either.
Because it takes zero potatoes to kill an Irishman...
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
All of Europe. You could make a hefty profit on it for many years.
And in Poland specifically, if you're a farmer, you only pay like 5% of normal Social Security. Even if most of your income is from employment or sole proprietorship.
I had a math teacher like that. Not only he was getting higher wages, but also raked in subsidies for reforestation, which he effected by sending the students to collect acorns in the nearby park in exchange for better grades.
I knew some people that would fit into category of medium/large farmers in Poland. EU subsidy circus is insane. They literally run out of ideas what to do with all the money they get.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
So now I have no mattress and they can’t even tell me if they can redeliver tomorrow.
That depends. Are the neighbours home tomorrow?
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@PleegWat given that the company “promised” to get back to me to confirm when redelivery would be attempted and so far no call, I don’t think it matters if the neighbours are home or not.
They have until 4pm before I call them again. I am not sleeping on the floor or the sofa for more than a single night (back issues) and if they can’t organise it for tomorrow I think I might just be sending them the bill for wherever I do end up staying.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion Indeed, as I know only too well, it is no longer a single physical day, but an amorphous period of time lasting anywhere up to 4.58 days ahead of 'the day' and lasting up to 3.26 days after 'the day' for the express purpose of weaponised FOMO in the name of expedited capitalism.
Amateurs. I've seen some Black Friday deals at the end of October already, and I just received a leaflet about Black Friday home internet offer that ends December 5.
Yes, @Arantor's decimal points are just misplaced.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sebastian-galczynski look at it, this is the field in which I grow my TikTokers.
You can rent one of these. But use a pseudonym, you don't want to be responsible for cleaning afterwards.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
, and I trust either of them with my data about as far as I can throw them.
How heavy is your phone?
Not nearly as heavy as the Googleplex, which is what I'd have to be able to throw to trust Google.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat given that the company “promised” to get back to me to confirm when redelivery would be attempted and so far no call, I don’t think it matters if the neighbours are home or not.
They have until 4pm before I call them again. I am not sleeping on the floor or the sofa for more than a single night (back issues) and if they can’t organise it for tomorrow I think I might just be sending them the bill for wherever I do end up staying.
I phoned then, apparently they’re going to call me back in 2-4 working days to tell me when re-delivery is going to be. Given that I now know they went to the wrong door - they were kind enough to send the vendor a photo and they went to the main door, not the side door like they were told…
Guess I’m booking a hotel for the week.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
phoned to tell me that they couldn’t deliver because they were at the door and no one answered and they’d already left.
Fuckers couldn't phone while they're waiting at the door? The hell!
This isn't the first instance I've heard of this happening either. Like, the hell you can't come back, there's no way you that gorram busy!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I guess you never have too much My Little Pony
Yeah. Two Apps with the same display name. It's not confusing at all and I can think of no way this can be abused.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Tyrese Gibson
He's in a few of the Fast & Furious movies.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
phoned to tell me that they couldn’t deliver because they were at the door and no one answered and they’d already left.
Fuckers couldn't phone while they're waiting at the door? The hell!
This isn't the first instance I've heard of this happening either. Like, the hell you can't come back, there's no way you that gorram busy!
I was in my annual review with my boss, didn’t hear the phone go. They also misdialled the landline number they were given but that is also somehow my fault.
But here’s the thing, they cant even tell me when it’s arriving, not even down to the day at this point, so when I have been in a hotel for the night, I can actually be here to collect!
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Status: is failing me, but approximately one month ago there was an electrical-burn smell from the laundry room. There weren't any apparent fires, and everything seems to have been working fine.
A week later, it was noticed that the hot water seemed to be recovering less quickly than typical, but wasn't not working.
Today things all came together and the mystery resolved!
What is.... Oh...
Well!
Apparently something came loose, likely due to heat expansion and contraction eventually working the wirenut off, and ZAP! ⚡
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently something came loose, likely due to heat expansion and contraction eventually working the wirenut off, and ZAP! ⚡
Why is there a stranded wire in a place where it's not moving? And wirenuts on stranded wires? This is legal in America? Jeez...
Admittedly, I don't trust those European "Wago" connectors either. I just solder everything that isn't easily accessible.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
I just solder everything that isn't easily accessible.
Nobody solder house wiring in North America. At least, I've never seen it
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
I just solder everything that isn't easily accessible.
Nobody solder house wiring in North America. At least, I've never seen it
Here it's rare too, but allowed. It's just much slower than other methods. And of course you can't solder aluminum, which is still widespread (and very failure-prone) in commie-era blocks.
I only soldered those connections which are behind the plaster, so that I won't ever have to ruin a wall to fix them. Those accessible without ruining stuff are normal screw terminals.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
I only soldered those connections which are behind the plaster, so that I won't ever have to ruin a wall to fix them.
Here (Quebec, Canada) you can't have jonctions behind the wall. A junction box must be accessible. Not sure about the rest of North America.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is there a stranded wire in a place where it's not moving? And wirenuts on stranded wires? This is legal in America? Jeez...
Admittedly, I don't trust those European "Wago" connectors either. I just solder everything that isn't easily accessible.
I've never heard either of these names.
When doing a DDG image search of these terms, one of them produces many images of burns, the other one none. Guess which is which.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Here (Quebec, Canada) you can't have jonctions behind the wall. A junction box must be accessible. Not sure about the rest of North America.
It probably has to do with the dominance of wood in construction. Here only in wooden structures the wiring looks like on that picture, otherwise it's all behind plaster.
Anyway, @Tsaukpaetra, if you wish to reuse those stranded wires, I recommend either soldering or using some terminals like this:
Screwing or twisting a stranded wire directly + high currents = stink. All wiring failures I've seen except one were at this kind of connection, usually in a plug. The remaining one was an old aluminum wire which "creeped" after 40 years.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is there a stranded wire in a place where it's not moving? And wirenuts on stranded wires? This is legal in America? Jeez...
That part is from my father. But, he was dealing with aliminium solid wiring, and I guess chose the stranded for raisins.
His thought with the stranded is, apparently, if one wire weakens (somehow) then the rest of the strands pick up the slack.
But yes, no fucking clue why it's not solid rippled copper since it's indeed not mobile.
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
aluminum, which is still widespread (and very failure-prone) in commie-era blocks.
Yeah.... Almost all of the internal wiring is aluminum. We've been slowly replacing things as convenient. This line.... Is not convenient.
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyway, @Tsaukpaetra, if you wish to reuse those stranded wires, I recommend either soldering or using some terminals like this:
Not my choice, unfortunately.
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
The remaining one was an old aluminum wire which "creeped" after 40 years.
I have put a note on my calendar to "refresh" this area in five years.
I'm just surprised there was enough flow to sputter the hell out of the box, but not enough to pop the breaker.
Also that the water heater (apparently) didn't notice a fucking thing. One would think a "smart" heater would have popped an alert "warning: unexpected power reconfiguration, please confirm wiring if you did not intend to switch to single-phase operation".
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is there a stranded wire in a place where it's not moving? And wirenuts on stranded wires? This is legal in America? Jeez...
Admittedly, I don't trust those European "Wago" connectors either. I just solder everything that isn't easily accessible.
I've never heard either of these names.
When doing a DDG image search of these terms, one of them produces many images of burns, the other one none. Guess which is which.
Oooh! Oooh! Do the burns belong to the “100 A service is perfectly safe” crowd??
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
aliminium
You Americans with your crazy spelling of "aluminium".
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Here (Quebec, Canada) you can't have jonctions behind the wall. A junction box must be accessible. Not sure about the rest of North America.
It probably has to do with the dominance of wood in construction. Here only in wooden structures the wiring looks like on that picture, otherwise it's all behind plaster.
Anyway, @Tsaukpaetra, if you wish to reuse those stranded wires, I recommend either soldering or using some terminals like this:
Screwing or twisting a stranded wire directly + high currents = stink. All wiring failures I've seen except one were at this kind of connection, usually in a plug. The remaining one was an old aluminum wire which "creeped" after 40 years.
It's interesting that the Crimp wikipedia page doesn't have an obvious link to simple ferrules as a terminal:
Also, soldering is ok for conductors with low current, but for a water heater I would prefer some cold welding method. The solder can add a little resistance and with enough current it might heat up.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
Should've put
printf("dupa\n")
.I prefer
gorp
but the principle holds great.Today I had a dev express doubts whether the order of elements in a json array "is specified so that it cannot change", after I requested he does something which assumes that.
I've seen that sort of thinking crop up with talking about XML too. And my reaction was the same then.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in The Official Status Thread:
if you wish to reuse those stranded wires, I recommend either soldering
If it is a high-tin solder, that has a fun failure mode too: tin whiskers. It's often a problem in older electronics.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
tin whiskers
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Status: even the mattress vendor can’t get an answer out of the delivery company.
Trustpilot shows a lot of alternating 1-star and 5x star reviews lately and some of the 5-star reviews shouldn’t have been…
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@Arantor I hope it all gets sorted soon so you'll stop losing sleep over it.
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I’m trying to buy a €2000 laptop, not on discount, and I can’t find a sales rep to sell it to me for love nor money. I’ve tried five different companies over the last month, all with promises to call back and not a peep. Have I missed something obvious or have people stopped wanting to swap goods for money?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
If it is a high-tin solder, that has a fun failure mode too: tin whiskers. It's often a problem in older electronics.
Might be. I only use Sn40Pb60 from my stash.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I missed something obvious or have people stopped wanting to swap goods for money?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I missed something obvious or have people stopped wanting to swap goods for money?
I still expect the vipers in sales to sell me a faulty bill of goods.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor I hope it all gets sorted soon so you'll stop losing sleep over it.
We have a seafront hotel room booked until Monday when it’s supposed to arrive.
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@Arantor why didn't you keep the mattress until you get the new one?
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@topspin because I didn’t have room to store the old one anywhere and collection of old mattress wasn’t an option by the delivery company acting for the new one.
So they were arranged for the same day and bad luck on my part missing the phone call that could have fixed this before they fucked off.
They have acknowledged they rang the wrong door bell but it took sending them a photo of the front of the property with 90 marked with “this is the door you rang” and 90B marked with “this is my property, I did warn you that it wasn’t the main entrance”.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
all with promises to call back and not a peep.
Did you give them your real phone number?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor I hope it all gets sorted soon so you'll stop losing sleep over it.
We have a seafront hotel room booked until Monday when it’s supposed to arrive.
:weatherforecast: Very strong winds blowing in from the sea, heavy rain, and extreme tides are expected for the weekend.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Very strong winds blowing in from the sea, heavy rain, and extreme tides are expected for the weekend.
Looks like that'll just be an overnight problem where he is, and not too much wind (maybe 30km/h sustained or so).
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin because I didn’t have room to store the old one anywhere
Damn that short ceiling over the bed!
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor I hope it all gets sorted soon so you'll stop losing sleep over it.
We have a seafront hotel room booked until Monday when it’s supposed to arrive.
:weatherforecast: Very strong winds blowing in from the sea, heavy rain, and extreme tides are expected for the weekend.
Weather forecast here is winds i the 5mph category with occasional chance of rain for the next 3 days. But also... the hotel is like 10 minutes from my house.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor I hope it all gets sorted soon so you'll stop losing sleep over it.
We have a seafront hotel room booked until Monday when it’s supposed to arrive.
:weatherforecast: Very strong winds blowing in from the sea, heavy rain, and extreme tides are expected for the weekend.
Weather forecast here is winds i the 5mph category with occasional chance of rain for the next 3 days. But also... the hotel is like 10 minutes from my house.
The weather forecast says there's a fairly weak cold front coming through Saturday night to Sunday morning (peak midnight to 3am?), that'll push winds up. But that's just into the slightly brisk category, not actually significant.
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@dkf honestly, I’m not going to care, they put us in the fifth floor (0-based counting) and the lift doesn’t work. The five flights of stairs are about three flights too many for me at the moment to care too much about the outside.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
fifth floor ... and the lift doesn’t work