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@Applied-Mediocrity
This deserves an uplift!
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@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
Until the day someone thought he was more intelligent than everyone else...
...and called it a lift
Never used one though. But I like the idea -- it seems less tolerant of user error.
Lift is the Dutch word for elevator. Probably in other languages too.
Well, civilization was only able to spread so far.
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@Gribnit
I can give you a downlift if needed
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
Lift is the Dutch word for elevator. Probably in other languages too.
Well, civilization was only able to spread so far.
Hence the remaining part of the world using the word “elevator”.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
Lift is the Dutch word for elevator. Probably in other languages too.
Well, civilization was only able to spread so far.
Hence the remaining part of the world using the word “elevator”.
Elevator in Swedish is something entirely different.
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@Carnage We call that roltrap (Lit: rolling stairs).
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@PleegWat On second inspection, I misinterpreted the image. That's a conveyor; I thought it was an escalator.
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@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
@Carnage We call that roltrap (Lit: rolling stairs).
And in Swedish rulltrappa are these contraptions:
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
it seems less tolerant of user error.
(Un)fortunately the only remaining paternoster lifts I'm aware of have light gates to protect users against their errors.
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@PleegWat said in Internet of shit:
@PleegWat On second inspection, I misinterpreted the image. That's a conveyor; I thought it was an escalator.
This kind of device is also known as an elevator /ˌe.lə.ˈvaˑ.tɔr/ in Dutch, but among the farming community at least, more likely to be called jakobsladder. It is not generally used for carrying people, though.
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@Zerosquare Put enough juice into that contraption to carry people, and you'll have something I don't want to be on the same continent as...
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@Carnage Wow, you guys have curved escalators? Neat.
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@cvi In the late 90s/early 0s I used to work in a building where there was a fully operational paternoster. It was the "Scheepvaarthuis" in Amsterdam, then the main office of the municipal transportation company GVB.
The office is now converted to a hotel (Amrath), and the paternoster still works,. However, it is not in use anymore, it's behind glass.
I think it even has a monumental status.This is the one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ke_v4keq8
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@nerd4sale said in Internet of shit:
Scheepvaarthuis
And with this house of farting sheep we're almost back at the original thread title.
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@BernieTheBernie isn't that a travel house for shepherds?
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@Gribnit
and that is the real reason shepherds sleep outdoors!
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American infrastructure is crumbling due to massive misappropriation of funds going back decades. You know what would help? Internet-connected screws!
My favorite part:
Amusement parks employ teams of people who climb and inspect towering roller coasters every morning to make sure nothing’s come loose. It’s an expensive precaution designed to ensure tragedies never occur, but unfortunately one that’s not always properly budgeted for, as the failing state of bridges around the country are proof of. It wasn’t the cause of the bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh earlier this year, but that accident is proof that regular monitoring of a structure’s safety is important.
Oh, I'm a complete hack and I can't find a single instance where this retarded shit I'm trying to write a clueless article about could possibly help with anything. How about I just drop in a completely irrelevant anecdote and call it a day? I'm so smart, this $100k journalism degree is really paying off!
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@blek 1 hour and
8screw that; 912... don't screw around now boats. And not a single screwy pun. Screw you, guys.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@blek 1 hour and 8 boats. And not a single screwy pun. Screw you, guys.
Well now you've ensured no one will screw up the courage.
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@izzion Yeah, coming up with a good retorque takes time, and now the fun of posting a spontaneous pun has been taken out of it. It's gut-wrenching.
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@blek quoted an article in Internet of shit titled:
Smart Screws That Can Detect When They're Loose Could Help Save America's Bridges
What about using rivets instead. You know, like any sane engineer. Rivets can't come loose, so they can stay dumb and still be better.
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@Bulb said in Internet of shit:
@blek quoted an article in Internet of shit titled:
Smart Screws That Can Detect When They're Loose Could Help Save America's Bridges
What about using rivets instead. You know, like any sane engineer. Rivets can't come loose, so they can stay dumb and still be better.
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@boomzilla I would have expected welding to have replaced most rivets. At least in steel constructions.
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More can be seen by following the link.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Internet of shit:
why having a "smart home" is a dumb idea
It's can be a good idea if you keep the control for yourself
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Then there are those who try to keep an optimistic outlook:
Internet of Shit?! That’s such a pessimistic worldview. My washer is happy y’all!
Right until it gets depressed and spins out of control.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Makes me wonder how we survived as a species.
Hint: It involves sex
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@TimeBandit Shh! Don't tell @Tsaukpaetra.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Makes me wonder how we survived as a species.
Hint: It involves sex
And how people with smart homes won’t get any?
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
And how people with smart homes won’t get any?
They're not all programmers
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit Shh! Don't tell @Tsaukpaetra.
*wails in digital*
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@Bulb said in Internet of shit:
I would have expected welding to have replaced most rivets. At least in steel constructions.
Next up: smart welds.
After all ... if there's a thing that will improve the mechanical properties of a weld (or anything mechanical), it's shoving it full of IoS circuitry.
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@Deadfast said in Internet of shit:
(Un)fortunately the only remaining paternoster lifts I'm aware of have light gates to protect users against their errors.
There is still (at least) one working example in Copenhagen, in a public building (I don't remember if it's some sort of office block or an administration, but anyone can enter). It's entirely usable, has no gates or other visible safety device. I saw it a couple of years ago, we had fun trying what happens when you go past the top (or below the bottom) and how you can see some of the mechanism. Pretty unusual and interesting!
If I could I might even dig around to find the pictures (and movies) I took.
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You wouldn't warthog a gun.
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@Zerosquare The emoji set must have been done by someone who writes right-to-left, I guess.
All the guns I could find (our emoji set wasn't designed by either, given that there seems to be only these? , maybe also ) are pointing left, so the poor can't even see what's hitting it.
If you want to shoot to the right, it's either or, slightly more effective, . Well, or are going to the right as well but I doubt many people can make it accurate enough. Even this kind of shooting () goes to the left.
I'm not sure about (if it's the end of a swing, I guess he's shooting to the right?) but anyway
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for me.
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
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for me.But more boring. Maybe. I've never watched , so I'm not actually sure how boring it, but at least something happens occasionally.
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@HardwareGeek Highlights of a match in e.g. TV news bulletins are great for that. You get to see all of the action packed in a few seconds, while still keeping the whole "endofunctor" factor of the game.
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
I've never watched
Always thought that was a soldering iron.
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The best thing about is the amount of terminology invented for the thing that has no use anywhere else.
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@Arantor said in Internet of shit:
The best thing about is the amount of terminology invented for the thing that has no use anywhere else.
Either that, or the fact that it's a good excuse for a snooze in the sun on a summer afternoon.
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@dkf I daren’t do the “snooze in the sun” thing because I am that peculiar breed of Englishman with the fairer skin and freckles and
greyoriginally red hair that only ever alternates between pale and burned.
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@Arantor said in Internet of shit:
hair that only ever alternates between pale and burned.
Man, you really are of a peculiar breed! My hair never alternates colours...
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@remi a comma, a comma, my kingdom for a comma!
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
@Deadfast said in Internet of shit:
(Un)fortunately the only remaining paternoster lifts I'm aware of have light gates to protect users against their errors.
There is still (at least) one working example in Copenhagen, in a public building (I don't remember if it's some sort of office block or an administration, but anyone can enter). It's entirely usable, has no gates or other visible safety device. I saw it a couple of years ago, we had fun trying what happens when you go past the top (or below the bottom) and how you can see some of the mechanism. Pretty unusual and interesting!
If I could I might even dig around to find the pictures (and movies) I took.
There's also one somewhere in Germany in some ministry or other. There was a TV report in a satire show about it because they required everyone to take a "driver's license test" to be allowed to use it.
And then said satire show had to do a follow-up because the politician complaining loudly about this the test broke the paternoster because he tried to take his bicycle with him and promptly jammed the whole thing.
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@Arantor he said, with an Oxford accent.
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@remi close but no, my accent is a good 100 miles south of Oxford.