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RE: Trufuel WTF (not technology related)
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RE: 😈 The Evil Ideas threadNothing says you hate trick or treaters in quite the same way...posted in General
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RE: Technically, Google isn't wrong about this...
Also permissions.
The "core" app doesn't need the same permissions as the video calling plugin.
This is a really great idea in fact - you only give up the permissions you're happy with. -
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RE: Application prefs, the Adobe way
I suppose that does avoid the "Which format do we use for configuration files?" problem.
Not convinced that the answer "None!" is all that great though. Was expecting something more Enterprisey, like XML wrapped in JSON.
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
Some sites insisted that my laptop - used to configure their equipment - could not come on site. Thus their equipment could not be configured, and would stay non-operational.
That particular discussion usually ended up with them paying for an extra day as the mornings got wasted each time their security staff changed.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
A vision of an OS GUI that nobody wants and is effectively unusable in practice is worse than no vision at all.
Phones aren't desktops, and desktops aren't phones. You can't make a GUI that's suitable for both, and you shouldn't try.
Shame really, as the rest of Win8 was an improvement, but an improvement buried under a pile of ordure.
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RE: The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
Now, would you like to buy an organic diamond?
No, I heard that carbon is bad. I want an inorganic diamond.
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RE: 50 Versions of Shed Control Wars
From the git FAQ:
[quote=Linus Torvalds]I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'.[/quote]I like to think that's true, and it certainly matches what little I know of him.
Latest posts made by lightsoff
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RE: Unsuitable for double decker buses
The bigger sign has the top of a bus embedded into it.
From what I know of the route, the driver appears to have missed the turn and gone down the wrong road instead - at pretty high speed, given how far it's embedded under the bridge.
And no, the 197 doesn't normally go under a low bridge, on account of using double-decker buses!
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The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
in the US, "shutters" are not standard.
I know. The US has many standard sockets for "mains" voltages.
None of them have shutters as standard, several of them are really quite dangerous (stagepin is insane) and the types usually found in a home or office environment break if you look at them too hard, and the most common falls out if you go near them.Twistlock types are nicely secure, but weld easily and are even more fragile when disconnected.
You have really shitty electrics that side of the pond.
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RE: You have ruined Javascript
Especially if you were writing software to manage, say, factories.
BeanFactoryControllerInterfaceFactory?
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RE: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
Fine, you win. I should have known better than to attempt to discuss specialist domain knowledge in a way the layman can understand with somebody armed with Google and a really short memory.
I'd hoped somebody would find some of it interesting, and perhaps bring up other shortcomings of worldwide electrical systems they had noticed.
This is a stupid ideas thread, after all.Do you argue with your surgeon and lawyer the same way?
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RE: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
You sir are either an idiot or unable to read.
If you read my posts, you'll notice that I have repeatedly mentioned that the US has different standards depending on where you are.It's a completely insane mess.
PS: A fire on a cooker isn't an electrical fire. It's a fire on a cooker.
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RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
Some sites insisted that my laptop - used to configure their equipment - could not come on site. Thus their equipment could not be configured, and would stay non-operational.
That particular discussion usually ended up with them paying for an extra day as the mornings got wasted each time their security staff changed.
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RE: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
I work in the electrical industry. You don't.
It's my fucking job to deal with these things.Here's the top hit on Google for arc fault detection:
Note that as of 2014 the US now requires them throughout homes, used to be just bathrooms and kitchens. The explicit justification for that set of regulations was fire prevention.
- Only new builds/rewires of course. Existing installs don't have to be changed unless rewiring.
US electrical codes also vary quite a lot - even by district in some cases. There's a minimum national standard but many places have significant differences, even before you get into the fun and games of "permission to connect".
EU electrical codes also have important differences between countries - but thankfully not by city.
Eg, BS7671 (17th Ed.) and BS7909 are the current UK implementation of the EU electrical regs for permanent and temporary installs.
Finally, your estimate gives an electrical fire death risk roughly five times higher in the USA, even after skewing the numbers to bring them closer (as one should when making buttumptions)
Now if you were complaining about the UK's Part P then I'd agree completely. That was estimated to save less than one life annually and added a huge cost to a homeowner, as I'm now not allowed to sign off an install in my own kitchen - I can change sockets, but not rewire.
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RE: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
Our plugs and sockets are designed such that it's impossible to get a shock unless it's either badly damaged or you're really trying to kill yourself (eg by using a thin metal rod and a socket "protector")
The real reason for the higher voltage is to greatly reduce the risk of fire.
PS: Shower water heaters are waterproof, and normally fitted inside the shower itself as the shower pipe comes out of them.
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RE: The Electrical Standards Wars - Don't Get Shocked
Just like everything else infrastructure-wise, our shit is worse because we were the early adopters.
You're not wrong. At least, not completely.
Being the early adopters always sucks, just look at the London Tube.However, the real reason for our much better system is that the UK decided to nationalise the electrical generation and distribution after private companies had been making multiple incompatible ones, and replaced them all with a new country-wide one designed from the ground up for safety and utility.
I really doubt any modern politician of any colour would do that kind of thing today.