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We have one of those now?
Also, here's the context blurb from TFA:
Cynthia wrote, "Received new XPS 15 laptop from Dell which attempted to mash a US keyboard into a UK chassis."
From our own Front Page…
We have one of those now?
Also, here's the context blurb from TFA:
Cynthia wrote, "Received new XPS 15 laptop from Dell which attempted to mash a US keyboard into a UK chassis."
@hungrier I haven't got a printer and so no experience with it, but my first guess would have been that your hotend could have been warmer than the indicated temperatures of the tower. Starting with the lower temperatures might thus not yield the results you'd expect.
As far as I understand the model it starts with the bottom layers on the hottest settings and then has gcode where the hotend is set to a lower temperature. I have read somewhere that hotends are not always very accurate with temperatures and thus might swing around a particular temperature. It's thus possible that its temperature remained slightly higher than indicated when the printer was working its way up the model.
Of course, I have no explanation about why the exact same file couldn't be repeated - it should have identical gcode for the initial heating stage...
What kind of hotend do you have, is it an all-metal one or a PTFE-lined one? Could it be that printing at high temperatures (plus letting it cool down afterwards) warped something? (Though maybe it's better to wait for somebody with real advice before taking apart the hotend...)
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
Finally, a use for the free-spinning mode on my scroll wheel.
Only now you find out that the mouse works vertically and not horizontally while the latter is needed. Foiled again!
@Dragoon INB4 the shooter thinking that halitosis is a sign of demonic possession.
The mind boggles...
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It was tit counting day!
I only have Jackdaws nowadays. A pity, they scare away the Great Tits and piss me off when they start arguing on my roof early in the morning.
We don't have data yet that vaccinated people cannot transmit the disease. Therefore anybody remains suspect for the time being, even if you've had the vaccine. It is best that the real vulnerable patients need to be vaccinated first and given time to develop immunity before you can lift restrictions for the entire population. It remains to be seen if other measures might be taken (e.g. quarantining the vulnerable) so the majority of the population is less restricted, but I'm also not sure if anybody wants to risk even trying to prove that such plan would work.
@Weng said in HTML entities in XML:
Take for instance, the regex based approach of "find all instances of &.....; they aren't on the short list of XML entities, look them up in a table somewhere and replace with their plaintext equivalent"
Except I really don't want to use fucking regex and I really don't want to have to build a giant entity table, handle numeric entities, and handle hex entities.
Numeric entities and hex entities are perfectly acceptable in XML.
My best guess right now is to somehow "inject" a reference to the XHTML DTD into your XML stream and then let the XML parser figure it out. Since that DTD declares all entities in a list, the parser should be able to look them up in there.
You might also need an XmlResolver to actually find the DTD, but that should also be doable.
@cartman82 said in API design: query string nullable value:
Hope that will stop the waffling for a while...
YMBNH
@accalia said in Moar Cooties:
@ben_lubar said in Moar Cooties:
he third-last is a DigitalOcean IPServerCooties.
..... i forgot about that droplet.
i could disable that if you want, since the fall of discourse and most improvements in nodebb its usefullness is quite debateable
I actually do check it whenever I get a "lost connection" toaster and "reconnecting" spinner at the top...
@PotatoEngineer Yes. (Well, at least if it doesn't turn out the whole thing is a hoax)
PJH's comment about starting at the bottom applies to the Facebook page.
This reminded me of that other thread:
From False Knees #388
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Ooh, and another one!
So I found this video of making a low-tech death whistle.
<video in video, screeching whistle noise>
That sounds amazing.
Warning: Linking to a Slow Mo Guys video
It does have Colin in it, and it is a lot slower than the usual Furze video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=indr-6Q7Fdo
The filming is a bit meh but it's halfway decent quote material.
Colin Furze taking part in a Youtube Makers' Secret Santa event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqm4RQ_1P4
EDIT:
The jacket / coat in use:
@kt_ In that case I would simply not vote. It's not offensive, it's just meh.
Ah well...
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf We're missing @blakeyrat to explain to us how Boeing makes the best and most secure planes
He might rant that it's a Honeywell component which is failing.
@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Universal: "Hold my beer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_O8DN1CY_E
Sonic still looks worse.
Can anybody explain why the forum was down this morning? Servercooties.com indicated variable response times which made it look like the server wasn't just down.
@loopback0 said in Nope:
While we're still at it, I found this cooking blog with a rather hands-on approach to reviewing this thing:
@cheong
Ctrl+M sends the 0x0D "carriage return" character, and that page indicates that it would be the default character of the Return key in the main cluster of the keyboard.
Not sure what a separate "Enter" key would send... I guess that if that key existed on IBM terminals that they had something special in their terminal protocols for it. They do not use VT100 after all, but instead have a block-based protocol which was aware of input fields.
@dkf said in So I tried Go the other day:
@JBert said in So I tried Go the other day:
If you really don't care you wrap any exceptions in a new unchecked
RuntimeException
and simply see your program crash.That's basically the approach in C++ and C#, where making reliable software doesn't really seem to be a valued goal of the language.
The trouble is that while the Java checked exception system is an interesting idea, it is so hard to come up with a clear rule of when a checked exception, unchecked exception, or error response should be used that not even the Java devs bothered, causing these two different worlds of people who use checked exceptions and those who curse every time they hit a method declaring it.
Even though "multi-catch" got added late in the Java lifecycle, it seems unchecked exceptions have won when you look at all the functional stuff you now got since Java 8. None of the functional stuff can declare a throws
without making a different interface, so almost nobody bothers.
@Gąska said in Reading the clipboard with every keystroke:
committee makes
some bafflingdecisions
Fixedthatforchu
I guess Redneck Rampage can be on this list...
It's a graphically outdated 2.5D game which would crash every so often, it has crude humor and horrible key / switch quests... and still there is something of a charm to it all in the way it pushed the Build engine to new frontiers.
@hungrier said in Stereogram:
@abarker said in Stereogram:
Here's a new one to discuss:
I can only see the "inside-out" version by crossing my eyes
I find the bottom-right corner up to the top right edge the easiest zone to focus. Everything else is pretty much taken up by the figure in the image and thus it's harder to focus there.
@Polygeekery said in Random but Not Dumb Videos Thread:
Somewhat interesting video, but it could have been edited to 1/5 of its length. For starters, why discuss Final Fantasy 8 twice in a video about Diablo?
@abarker said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@JBert What's the Mod key do? Play chiptunes?
It activates customized keybinds.
Edit: And also the remapped arrow keys?
Damn. I never noticed before that the mod and space keys aren't positioned the same on both sides. Talk about confusing your muscle memory!
Ah, that's the first thing I changed when I got it. It's fully configurable of course.
@Tsaukpaetra I don't know what to think of it at this point. It looks like it might have some potential because it is not exclusively powered by electricity, but then it might have hidden losses everywhere causing the efficiency calculations to get very complicated.
Also, at this point I'm not sure it will leave the humidy in the cooled volume alone. I didn't quite get if the final pre-cooler bank is supposed to go outside or inside, and because it consumes at least some of the water in it there must be some humidity change somewhere.
Finally, I don't see this staying healthy unless you have some bacteria-killing thing in there, while you might start with pure water in the system it's only a matter of time until "contaminated" air gets pulled in and some kinds of bacteria start growing in the system.
Ah, so sad that we can't let the bot name someone else...
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
If I drove over that on the road, I'd go " was that?". On the other hand, a sign on the road would get immediate recognition.
Agreed. I think it's too busy for it's own good, it's almost like a small puzzle to be figured out. Other warning signs mostly stick to one easily recognizable symbol. Granted, in some cases, you have to know the meaning of said symbol to fully decipher the sign. But that's the case with this sign as well.
You wouldn't drive over it or see it on a road sign: according to the article it's meant to be placed on the last shielding layer of radioactive sources after other layers have been removed. The idea is to make thieves turn back before they break down the shielding to get to what they think is valuable stuff. The regular sign is recognizable, but only if you know what it means, so this sign is hoped to give a better indication of the dangers inside.
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@loopback0
Neuzekes war
New... somethings? What is it that you're talking about?
@Zecc I'm not entirely sure that those would be free... The delivery driver could be the one requesting payment.
@MrL I came across this thread again by chance.
So... Did it work out in the end?
@kt_ said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
@sloosecannon said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
@dkf said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
@sloosecannon said in Migrating the Forum to phpBB:
"Works" would be fine, but "works well"? Lol nope. Nodebb has that beat...
At least it's not which was more cooks on mobile…
I mean, discourse worked on mobile. Sorta. Kinda. For the most... err... part?
Until your phone caught on fire. Or you reported a bug on mobile and got banned.
Actually, Discourse delivered better mobile experience. Seriously.
Yes and no.
Discourse's composer didn't have the editing controls visible which meant you need to know Markdown (though they've added a toggle button now), although the text was smaller allowing you to see more of your post and it could even show a bit of the thread. On the other hand the quoting behavior was real potluck.
Simple browsing is where NodeBb wins IMHO. While it's just as susceptible to jellypotato thanks to the dynamic header and the browser counteracting any page shifting, at least the paged view puts bounds to the eternal bobbing up/down (Discourse would meanwhile jump from post 35 to 200 to 10). The only thing missing is a way to use paged view only on mobile.
Oh, and one last thing: Discourse had very small landing zones for some thread widgets, tapping e.g. open-partially-quoted-post, go-to-replied-to-post would be an exercise in frustration as they used tiny arrows with a bunch of them all next to each other.
@Tsaukpaetra Oh, right, the "chat availibility" icons... Here's a screenshot from the light theme without those icons:
@dcon Aaah, your Google-fu is strong. I didn't think to use "bidirectional gravity well" and I could only find pictures of other designs on Google Images (and then didn't bother to click through to each result in turn).
@PleegWat You're right, though it looks like it's one of those things which gets rarely used.
In fact, only TIL what it actually does. I always thought unsetting it would permanently exclude the file from backups, but it looks like the flag gets set for each write operation to the file.
@dcon The fountain in the picture doesn't seem to flow much so I thought I'd better look up a video of how well it might work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc8nMjFa18
At least this one was moving sauce around even though it dribbles a lot...
@Lorne-Kates said in Parking meters and daylight savings time:
@accalia said in Parking meters and daylight savings time:
does the municipality care? NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST!
Oh they care enough to allow you to contest the charge in court. All you have to do is:
Woah, at least put some spoiler tags around that for those of us who haven't seen Brazil.