The Official Status Thread
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@rhywden I thought it was to provide something for Tesla Autopilot to steer into
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@rhywden Kind of. In this case, median isn't a lot better.
What you really need to do is look at the graph and eliminate the hockey-stick part and keep the rest. So basically you'd see that 30% of all people die before age 12 (for example), you'd exclude those if you're looking for the average lifetime of adults. (And then maybe do a asterisk saying "oh BTW, 30% of all people back then didn't even make it to age 12, so".)
I mean keep in mind we're talking about a society that wouldn't even bother NAMING kids until they were 4-5 years old, that's how many of them died young. And if anything, our child mortality counts are probably low because if you're not going to even bother naming the kid, you're also not gonna enter him into the family bible until he's got a few years on him.
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Status: Arguing with my sister about car maintenance. Her dealer is telling her she needs to spend $460 on spark plugs and wires for the 100,000-mile service. I'm telling her that's a rip-off and it's $60 in parts and a few minutes worth of labor. But she thinks I'm misinterpreting the quote/estimate from her dealer and that if she doesn't have the dealer do it, her car is going to blow up.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
What you really need to do is look at the graph and eliminate the hockey-stick part and keep the rest.
Yes. More formally, you're looking for the conditional probability, e.g., the chance of getting to 70 given that the person concerned has reached 20. That discounts the issues with child mortality. I'd guess that general adult mortality was overall a bit higher than now, and I'd guess that that's largely due to the difficulty of treating some types of disease and ailment, countered partially by the lack of some types of accidental death (though it does appear that general violence levels were still higher than in the present day).
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Status: a huge cake just appeared out of nowhere in our department. The box is opened, it's begging to be eaten.
Nobody knows where it came from.We're eating it anyway
FileUnder: maybe we pissed off a user and he's poisoning us
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
few minutes worth of labor
Depends heavily on the vehicle. Some will take significantly longer than that.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
a few minutes worth of labor
Depends on the car. Pretty sure @Weng has commented on some f'd up engine designs that practically require pulling the engine to replace the plugs.
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Status: This poor user's profile is so jacked up...
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: a huge cake just appeared out of nowhere in our department. The box is opened, it's begging to be eaten.
Nobody knows where it came from.We're eating it anyway
FileUnder: maybe we pissed off a user and he's poisoning us
Definitely. Sugar, after all, is an addictive drug.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
a few minutes worth of labor
Depends on the car. Pretty sure @Weng has commented on some f'd up engine designs that practically require pulling the engine to replace the plugs.
4-cylinder Subaru Forester. I've never looked under the hood, but it's really hard for me to imagine spark plugs being difficult on an economy 4-banger in a vehicle with that much hood space.
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@mott555 Pretty sure it was Subaru's @Weng called out. I'm remembering that because I have an Outback! (what I don't remember is if it's specific models, or across the board - I do remember my last one was a major BITCH to change the headlights on.)
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Subaru Forester
My Impreza isn't that bad. Probably more like 30 minutes.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Oh, it's meant to be pulsed, not running at 70-watts continuous.
I've worked with a 1-W infrared laser and accidentally stuck my hand in the beam while adjusting mirrors. The spot where the beam hit felt like a lit match being held there. You can buy 1-W visible lasers commercially that can light things on fire, but if you shine it on a wall, looking at that spot can permanently damage your eyes. A 70-W laser would be an absolute pain to work with (even in a laboratory or industrial setting with all the safety interlocks) due to everything that can go wrong very quickly.
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@mzh said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Oh, it's meant to be pulsed, not running at 70-watts continuous.
I've worked with a 1-W infrared laser and accidentally stuck my hand in the beam while adjusting mirrors. The spot where the beam hit felt like a lit match being held there. You can buy 1-W visible lasers commercially that can light things on fire, but if you shine it on a wall, looking at that spot can permanently damage your eyes. A 70-W laser would be an absolute pain to work with (even in a laboratory or industrial setting with all the safety interlocks) due to everything that can go wrong very quickly.
I own a welding helmet, that's probably good enough. But it was just a passing thought anyway. I looked up "laser diode" on Digikey and got a little bit excited
when I saw a "70 watt" option in the filter for power levels.
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Status: Man how quickly good plans fall apart due to laziness and apathy. After work I thought I'd go for a run for some exercise, and then get caught up on some side projects. Instead I am drinking beer, eating pizza and ice cream, and watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
try to light dry ice on fire.
Fluorine or FOOF would probably do that, but otherwise, CO2 is already burned about as much as it can be burned.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I own a welding helmet, that's probably good enough.
Not even close. Nobody should even be in the same room when that thing turns on.
I'll stop begin annoying, now. It's a habit I picked up from watching (and yelling at) people working with lasers and various chemicals.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Arguing with my sister about car maintenance. Her dealer is telling her she needs to spend $460 on spark plugs and wires for the 100,000-mile service. I'm telling her that's a rip-off and it's $60 in parts and a few minutes worth of labor. But she thinks I'm misinterpreting the quote/estimate from her dealer and that if she doesn't have the dealer do it, her car is going to blow up.
I mean, there are cars that require $20 spark plugs out there, have awfully time consuming procedures, and nothing has plug wires anymore, it's all coil on plug (they often get called wires because reasons)
$460 could very well be close to the mark.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Arguing with my sister about car maintenance. Her dealer is telling her she needs to spend $460 on spark plugs and wires for the 100,000-mile service. I'm telling her that's a rip-off and it's $60 in parts and a few minutes worth of labor. But she thinks I'm misinterpreting the quote/estimate from her dealer and that if she doesn't have the dealer do it, her car is going to blow up.
I left out how all this started. She was telling me she needed to get a 100,000-mile service done, and that it involved "taking apart the cylinders for inspection and cleaning." Which made me go
and when I looked at her estimate, that line item was actually just plugs and wires. I have no idea how she translated that into "taking apart the cylinders for inspection and cleaning."
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Arguing with my sister about car maintenance. Her dealer is telling her she needs to spend $460 on spark plugs and wires for the 100,000-mile service. I'm telling her that's a rip-off and it's $60 in parts and a few minutes worth of labor. But she thinks I'm misinterpreting the quote/estimate from her dealer and that if she doesn't have the dealer do it, her car is going to blow up.
I mean, there are cars that require $20 spark plugs out there, have awfully time consuming procedures, and nothing has plug wires anymore, it's all coil on plug (they often get called wires because reasons)
$460 could very well be close to the mark.
I don't know, maybe. The newest gas engine (non-motorcycle) I owned was a Chevy 4.3-liter from 1994 so my knowledge could definitely be out of date. Now I'm a diesel owner who laughs at gassers with their silly plugs and silly wires and silly coils.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, there are cars that require $20 spark plugs out there
Mazda RX-8 if you buy them from Rock Auto. But if you go to the dealer, it's more like $80
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Couldn't figure out how I didn't have nail polish remover at home; picked up a bottle at the supermarket. Then realized when I got home that I have a quart can of acetone on my electronics supply shelf and also that I'm retarded.
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Status: Was bitten by some bugs yesterday. Has giant welts (like 2+ inches long by 1/2" high). Paranoid about bed bugs in this sketchy hotel.
One more overnight stay.
Driving 10+ hours tomorrow to my last destination, a tiny town in the sticks of Alabama. Then the next day driving 9+ hours home, the scenic way (avoiding I-75, because I hate I-75). I'll probably get back near midnight on Friday. With about another 1200 miles to go over two days.
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@mott555 And that Chevy 4.3 was essentially a lobotomized 1955 Small block.
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Statu: NO MINIMUM REQUIRED!
I want to pay a token amount.
Whatever. Apparently PayPal transaction fees are even more ridiculous than I thought...
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@mzh said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Oh, it's meant to be pulsed, not running at 70-watts continuous.
I've worked with a 1-W infrared laser and accidentally stuck my hand in the beam while adjusting mirrors. The spot where the beam hit felt like a lit match being held there. You can buy 1-W visible lasers commercially that can light things on fire, but if you shine it on a wall, looking at that spot can permanently damage your eyes. A 70-W laser would be an absolute pain to work with (even in a laboratory or industrial setting with all the safety interlocks) due to everything that can go wrong very quickly.
With a 1 ns pulse, that kind of danger is considerably less. Depends on the repetition rate, of course, but it's not a continuous laser.
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status: halfway done with the nightmare drive. I
panickedmade a strategic decision and checked out early from my last hotel because of bed bugs. So now I've driven since 11 PM CDT on about 4 hours of sleep and a couple cat naps. The Ozarks aren't fun in that state, let me tell you. Still got 300 miles to go today.
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Slashdot stopped letting me "disable ads"
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
Dry ice is CO2. I'd be VERY impressed if they managed to light it on fire.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
Dry ice is CO2. I'd be VERY impressed if they managed to light it on fire.
Ironman: Hold my Arc reactor....
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Stats: sweating like a hog in a hog sauna in summer
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status: halfway done with the nightmare drive. I
panickedmade a strategic decision and checked out early from my last hotel because of bed bugs. So now I've driven since 11 PM CDT on about 4 hours of sleep and a couple cat naps. The Ozarks aren't fun in that state, let me tell you. Still got 300 miles to go today.Be prepared to purge every bit of cloth you had with you on that stay. I've had a friend who stayed in a place that had bed bugs for a single night, and his entire set of luggage was infested bad enough that he had to take severe measures to cleanse it of the little bastards before walking back into his house to prevent them from getting there. I believe it involved fire and having another friend go buy him a clean shirt and pair of pants.
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@timebandit We did that here once. It turned out to be Durian flavored. At first, it was a mild pineapple-y taste, so as someone who hates pineapple, I couldn't bear very much of it. But then the taste got steadily worse for HOURS.
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@magus One of my helpdesk techs keeps bringing in durian fruit and durian-flavored candy. I nearly strangled him the last time he started passing it around our desk.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
It turned out to be Durian flavored
This one was a chocolate cake.
I don't really like chocolate cake but hey, I was hungry
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus One of my helpdesk techs keeps bringing in durian fruit and durian-flavored candy. I nearly strangled him the last time he started passing it around our desk.
I wanna try!
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Status: Watched NodeBB flash me the "@someone and 4 others upvoted your post!" notification several times, apparently dismissing it several times as well, since it didn't stack but appeared and disappeared...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
Dry ice is CO2. I'd be VERY impressed if they managed to light it on fire.
Ironman: Hold my Arc reactor....
Chlorine Trifluoride would do it. It'll also burn any spare sand you've got. Or water. Or rubber gloves. Or chemists (those that aren't already running away fast). Or… well… a lot of things. It's not quite as awful as FOOF (few things are) but it's still high up the list of things best avoided for safety reasons.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
Dry ice is CO2. I'd be VERY impressed if they managed to light it on fire.
Well, if you took some magnesium or aluminium? But then you'd actually put the metals on fire and not so much the carbondioxide...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Chlorine Trifluoride
Just the name sounds ... unstable. I'll take "Atoms that should not be coerced into bonding with each other" for $500.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Just the name sounds ... unstable.
The wikipedia page on it has some interesting assertions about the safety measures required. Burning through is not a behaviour usually associated with gold and platinum, for example…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
watching someone on YouTube try to light dry ice on fire.
Dry ice is CO2. I'd be VERY impressed if they managed to light it on fire.
Ironman: Hold my Arc reactor....
Chlorine Trifluoride would do it. It'll also burn any spare sand you've got. Or water. Or rubber gloves. Or chemists (those that aren't already running away fast). Or… well… a lot of things. It's not quite as awful as FOOF (few things are) but it's still high up the list of things best avoided for safety reasons.
I imagine that puts it very high on the "hard to get and if you do someone is going to notice" list.
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Status: Committed:
Yes, that's right. Since the functionality wasn't tested yet, when I started making an implementation that called the function to delete a message, I found out that only the sender of the message in question was allowed to delete that message. Crazy, huh?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not quite as awful as FOOF
Gotta mention this webpage with that!
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride
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Status: My userscript still gets disconnected. But at least I think I've got to the point where it successfully re-connects when the tab is focused... maybe?
(Is anybody else having this problem? The disconnected toaster is pretty normal, but then it usually connects back up and works correctly. When the tab's been idle for a while, though, sometimes the socket doesn't work -- and doesn't seem to want to reconnect without a full refresh. The easiest way to check it is to enter a topic and access a post's hamburger menu and try to view raw; if the socket is disconnected, that won't load.)
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@rhywden is there any reaction that could turn co into co2 or something that could qualify?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status: halfway done with the nightmare drive. I
panickedmade a strategic decision and checked out early from my last hotel because of bed bugs. So now I've driven since 11 PM CDT on about 4 hours of sleep and a couple cat naps. The Ozarks aren't fun in that state, let me tell you. Still got 300 miles to go today.Be prepared to purge every bit of cloth you had with you on that stay. I've had a friend who stayed in a place that had bed bugs for a single night, and his entire set of luggage was infested bad enough that he had to take severe measures to cleanse it of the little bastards before walking back into his house to prevent them from getting there. I believe it involved fire and having another friend go buy him a clean shirt and pair of pants.
Yeah. All the clothes that I wore into that place are in a separate burn bag and will be disposed of. Everything that was just in luggage will get sterilized (without the luggage entering the house) before it comes in.
I don't think it was super infested, but I got bites. Not sure if from that or from the bugs/flies/mosquitoes (super sized) in one of the cemeteries I visited. My whole arm is swollen up from the allergic reaction. I'll post a picture to the Nope thread.
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@sockpuppet7 CO is flammable and readily burns to form CO2. The issue is that dry ice is already CO2 and has no inclination to burn any further.
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Oh by the way--I survived my drive. And proved that caffeine is useless for me. Tried a "5-hour energy" (which are basically pure caffeine). Worked...for like 5 minutes, max. Sort of.