@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
... YouTube... Apparently comments are second class citizens to view minutes....
No, third class, or less. Videos are the second class citizens, behind ads.
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
... YouTube... Apparently comments are second class citizens to view minutes....
No, third class, or less. Videos are the second class citizens, behind ads.
Let's all troll Boomz by viewing his question
I viewed it, up to the point it said Access 2010
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(Body is not too Belgium similar.)
@blakeyrat said in Room planning thread:
I just bought one, like 2 months ago... About $500 for oven and range. Amana brand.
But you don't live in Blekistan. What's available there may well be entirely different from what's here.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
So you skipped like over half the content, and you're saying there's not enough content?
I'm not saying there's not enough content. I'm pretty much satisfied with the game, just the ending (assuming that is the ending) seemed kinda meh — killing Alduin, which wasn't much of a fight; talking to some dragons, who all flew away; and then standing alone on a snowy mountaintop with no apparent objective.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you do all the skill level 100 quests? Because there's one of those for each skill.
Hm, no, I didn't know there were special quests for that. That's the sort of thing I was asking, is there more? Ok, yes, there is. Thanks.
@masonwheeler Oh, I get the irony of Science! Science! Science! Science! discovering theism, of any sort. I am merely pointing out that the theism Science! Science! Science! Science! might discover is not necessarily the Christian version of theism.
@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall
Skyrim with mods? Like this https://enderal.com/ which has its own completely new world and story.
Hmm, hadn't heard of that. Since I'm about to finish the main story quest in Skyrim, I'll take a look at that. Thanks.
@atazhaia said in Google following Apple's lead: No headphone jack in Pixel 2:
FM radio has a wavelength of ~3 meters. Although requiring antenna length of the same size as the wave
The antenna is a fraction of a wavelength, generally either 1/4 or 1/2, depending on the type of antenna. However, the physical size of the antenna need not be the same as the electrical length; there are various ways of reducing the physical size of the antenna (or increasing the electrical length of an antenna of a given size, depending on how you want to look at it). Also, matching the length is much more important for a transmitting antenna than for receiving; a mismatched antenna will be less efficient, but often any random length of wire will work well enough.
(That reminds me, I need to renew my Ham license as soon as I get a real address.)
@r10pez10 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Neat. Unfortunately, that would require having a version of Photoshop that is significantly more recent than mine, and AFAIK Gimp doesn't have that feature yet. One can, of course, do that manually, but it is a tedious amount of work.
@HardwareGeek BTW, 7 was the maximum number of VHF channels that could be allocated in any geographic area. Adjacent channels would (or at least might, given the reliability of consumer electronics of the era) interfere with each other, so only every other channel could be used. If a big city used 2, 4, 5 (4 and 5 are consecutive numbers, obviously, but there was a gap in the frequencies, so both could be used), 7, 9, 11, and 13 (14 and up were UHF), 7 channels were possible. The next city might be allocated 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12, so it would have only 5 channels available.
@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek I don't think that's quite right. I'm pretty sure we had both channels 4 and 5.
Yes, that's what I said.
@boomzilla Even 28 didn't come in clearly. Where I lived, you could kinda see a picture, sometimes. (At least with the TV's built-in antenna; I assume it would have been at least somewhat better with a rooftop antenna.) Anything else wasn't even detectable.
@dcon I haven't looked at what similar houses it that neighborhood are selling for, because I can't afford to even dream of buying a house, but rents are in the vicinity of $3500/month.
Hmm, I wonder... Zillow is showing me prices mostly in the $800K – $900K range. That's about what I would have guessed.
What!?! There are a couple under $300K! Oh, they're mobile homes.
@dcon said in Ludacris Bank Loan Rules:
Living in the Bay Area, I concur. Well, now. My original loan was 310K. But that was 20 years ago.
Mine was only $208K, but that was 23 years ago, on a smallish house that was already ~40 years old. When we sold it in 2010, near the bottom of the crash, we priced it cheap to sell it really fast (before the bank could foreclose it out from under us; it was already scheduled for auction). $450K. (No, we didn't make $242K. By that time, we also had a $200K equity loan; by the time all the taxes, fees, broker commissions, etc., were paid, and the proceeds split between my ex-wife and I, I got about $3K.)
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's only truly British if you're queueing for a hot cup of tea.
I'd do that if necessary. Fortunately, I can get hot tea at home or the office without needing to queue.
@jaloopa said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@zecc what, actually between two slices of bread? eww.
Ice cream should be paired with sweet waffle
Between two soft, chocolate cookie sort-of things.
@scholrlea said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Or is there a reason to think that West African cacao is generally inferior
The world's largest supplier is Côte d'Ivoire. There is a little good cacao that comes from there, but tons and tons of dreck, including, yes, beans that are literally rotten and moldy, and yes, they get used. (Chocolate Santa, anyone?)
The world's best, BTW, comes from a single village in Venezuela (whose name, sadly, escapes me; it's been something like a decade since I read the book) and the entire supply used to go to Valrhona, until some Italian upstart (Amadei) came along and either crassly outbid them or worked with the villagers, gave them development aid, and developed friendships with them, depending on whose version of the story you believe.
@djls45 said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
If global warming heats West Africa too much to grow cacao trees,
then places that were previously too cold would have become warm enough to support themno great loss.
Sturgeon's Law applies to cacao, too, and that's where the 90% comes from.
@scholrlea said in Saving the World from Code:
Also, the windshield oopsie I mentioned was the June 10th, 1990 incident in British Airways flight 5390:
blowing the plane's captain, Tim Lancaster, halfway out of the aircraft.
This, folks, is why you should wear your seatbelt even when the captain has turned the seatbelt sign off.
Status: For some reason, has found a new way to mess up. This morning, it has decided that every time I read this thread, it's going to take me to the bottom, not to my last read post.
@anotherusername said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
minimizes shear forces
Indeed. I think someone a long time ago, perhaps in high school, or even earlier, once said semicircular was the strongest, and I never questioned it. And as an electronic, not mechanical or civil, engineer, I guess I never took whatever class would have corrected that error.
@TimeBandit said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I would be REALLY surprised if that ends up tasting like Vanilla Coke
I blame autocorrect.
@RaceProUK said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I like Vanilla Coke
Finally! Some else who likes it! :D
I tried making my own once by adding a little vanilla extract to Coke. The result was not pleasing. Coke changes something else to make vanilla Coke taste like vanilla Coke. (Or it's possible I just put too much vanilla in it.)
@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
I thought you also had left?
I was in WA, not far from @blakeyrat, for a few years. I've been back in CA for about a year.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how many TB are in that directory.
It's a looping reference, isn't it?
Doesn't seem to be. Looking at timestamps, I see it still copying files (well, directories; I haven't gone deep enough into the tree to find any actual files) as of this minute, and there aren't any repeated dir names in the paths.
@remi said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
[The bottom of the laundry pile is] a mythical thing that only single, well-organised people claim to have ever seen.
I have seen it occasionally — usually while rummaging through the pile in search of items appropriate for whatever sort of load I'm about to run (or just figuring out which sort of load I most need to run). No, the pile never disappears (being transformed into the pile of clean laundry, which has its own issues with longevity), but it occasionally gets inverted; the clothes get moved from one pile to another, with the bottom of the original pile becoming the top of the new pile.
Also, I was more likely to get to the bottom of the pile, in the sense of eliminating the pile, when I was married. My wife was rather more inclined to make sure the laundry did not accumulate unreasonably than I tend to be.
Status: Basically, forking a tool chain, because raisins. Told to cp -r x y
. 3.5 hours later; time to go home. Still copying.
(This has nothing at all to do with the post I'm replying to, but over 100 posts to the bottom of the thread and the generic reply button. Deal with it.)
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
There are also carbon-fiber violins, and some musicians really like the sound.
I have a friend who quite likes her carbon-fiber cello. I can't really comment on the sound; it's nice enough, but I've never heard a side by side comparison with a high end wood instrument. The durability, on the other hand; she told the story of a friend whose cello had been through hurricane Katrina. The friend basically just hosed the mud out of it, tuned it, and was good as gold.
@remi said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PleegWat The thing is, all top-loader I've seen also have an automatic lock on the door so you couldn't open it without aborting the timer in the same way as with a front loader. And as for when it is running, the top loaders I've seen would also be locked except for the specific exception that I mentioned above. So whether it's a top or front loader wouldn't change anything for adding stuff.
Traditional, US-style, vertical axis top-loaders had a cut-off switch on the lid, but not a lock, so you could open the lid at any time. The HE versions have a lock. At least on mine, you can pause the cycle and, after 10–15 seconds, it will unlock. If you leave it paused longer than 5 minutes, or something like that, it will abort, but you can add some stuff and then restart without aborting if you aren't really slow about it.
@abarker said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
sensors to determine load size so that they know how much water to use.
On mine, it does this apparently by spinning the drum a few times and measuring the time it takes to stop — more clothes, more mass, more inertia, longer time to stop. It recommends not adding anything significant after the sensor cycle is done — a couple of stray socks, ok; jeans or a big bath towel, probably not. It also recommends not putting wet clothes in at all, as this can mislead the sensor.
@flabdablet said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Fisher and Paykel Smart Drive machine
You should know by now that anything that calls itself "smart" is almost certainly quite the opposite. OTOH, you can always blame your problems on Ukrainian hackers. :)
@Vault_Dweller said in Quotes Out of Context:
you missed the full quote
Irrelevant to me or my response, as it wouldn't change my (lack of) interest in being done.
probably not so much crazy as scared.
Certainly a frightened animal will become aggressive if trapped, but they will usually run away if given the opportunity. I get the impression that the fox had ample opportunity to run away (and little reason to be frightened) while the scared people were cornered inside the building.
@Rhywden said in Solar Roadways?:
I dare say that you definitely don't want to ingest Uranium
True, true; however, as undesirable as ingesting it is, I consider macroscopic pieces entering one's body at high speed to be considerably more objectionable.
It came out eventually when we were talking about affirmative action or something.
Sounds vaguely familiar, but I CBA to search the archives for it.
Status: I need to take a dump and a shower, then I should probably do something productive with my day — like look for a job, or maybe put spoons in the dishwasher.
The project I'm working on is a long way from being a product; I think it's two generations out. When it does get to market, it will almost certainly be the software rather than the hardware that makes or breaks the product, and I don't currently know anything about that. That said, I don't know of any to recommend against it.
@lucas1 And that makes it interesting? Ok, I guess. De gustabus non est disputandum.
@dangeRuss said in Do you drive more by algorithm or instinct?:
. The rest of the people in the car often fall asleep, although if my wife is sitting next to me, and we're both sleepy, she's not allowed to fall asleep, as that would make me more sleepy.
That's something that really annoyed me about my ex-wife. Almost as soon as we got in the car for a road trip, "OK, kids, nap time." I'd be left to drive in silence. No conversation to help me stay awake. No radio. No window open for fresh air — too cold, too hot (depending on the weather), too noisy.
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes, edit your post to clarify after I've responded.
An order of tacos is 3.
This is what was unclear in your original post and in your follow-up before you edited it. So now it's clear: 1 == 3, instead of 1 + 1 == 3. So 1 + 1 == 6.
Also, :nod: bug:
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Better now?
Not really. In that case, it's actually buy two, get one free.
@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
buy one get one ... which is three
@abarker said in The Official Status Thread:
But this is the original!
I know, but it's been disabled and enabled and hidden and revived too many times. Too many notifications; too many unread posts; the shine is gone.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
otherwise
I was referring to a certain rodent well known for failing to draw obvious conclusions from facts presented here, although it might also be applicable to an (unfortunately not former) vulpine.
refrain from combining those two activities. your plumber will thank you.
My house already has plumbing issues that make running the washing machine a not entirely dissimilar experience, so, no, I'm not going to make the situation worse.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Can you really do accurately predict the deductions or others
I can accurately predict that at least one (former?) other will fail to infer any inference, no matter how obvious.