@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Only one* post so far today? Huh.
Guess I don't have much to say
*Two now
:Shock: :horror: :disbelief:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Only one* post so far today? Huh.
Guess I don't have much to say
*Two now
:Shock: :horror: :disbelief:
@lucas1 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Right. And you are just the one to tell me that a joke is shitty.
Well my last post on here not arguing with you has quite a few upvotes mate.
Can't the two of you do as usual and meet up in, say, Amiens to settle the matter?
Their downfall.
Ok, not really owned by them, except on some chonese philosophical level.
@ben_lubar
Wake me up before you go Go
I'd been planning for a life in solo
Maybe Dorkwood and Gray Pubic got mixed up?
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I am in line at a drive-in and the person in front of me is a ~80 year old woman driving a Buick Lacrosse with a bale of hay in the backseat.
Maybe they ewe her at the register?
I had a chat recently with one of our testing researchers about this very thing. He called it "Test flakiness", and it is apparently becoming quite a problem...
First google hit:
@RaceProUK This would be an excellent x-mas gift for my six-year-old!
My only concern is that I couldn't find out what songs they have available.
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
So your porn got cut while everybody was still wearing clothes?
Don't know if this says more about the porn you watch or your laptop battery...
Status: Collating my notes on an older version of a master's thesis with the newer version to see what they have done to address my issues. Came across a single word note:
"run"
... upon closer inspection it was a grammar correction (they had written "ran"). But my first instinct was to look over my shoulder and possibly throw my printer out.
@RaceProUK said in Clutch!:
The way my car was built makes it easy to push down on the brake and the gas simultaneously
Trivia time!
Saab's first car, the 92, used a two-stroke engine that meant it only got lubrication while fuel was going into it. So, when going down a steep hill, you had to keep some throttle on and keep your speed down by braking, meaning when you get to the bottom of the hill and need to stop for a junction, your brakes have overheated, and you plough straight on and into the bush on the other side
Except that top gear got that wrong. If it were true, you would not be able to have the engine idling either. You could however not use the engine to brake because of the free wheeling hubs.
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Clutch!:
It's been parked outside our barn for twelve years because while he may get it to start rolling, he has yet to fix it so that he can stop it.
Then how did he get it stopped by your barn?
Sturdy walls. :-)
@boomzilla said in Clutch!:
It's really the parking brake, because you engage it when you park on a slope.
Some of the SF hills I was referring to earlier - they're steep enough that parking is done perpendicular to the road. Parking parallel would practically guarantee accidents. (Especially when the ground moves around here)
Safety 2: turn the wheels so that if the car starts to roll, it will hit the curb. Or don't live in SF.
@boomzilla said in Clutch!:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Clutch!:
So now you have a piece of equipment on your car that can also nicely be used to stop the car from rolling backwards in an uphill slope -even if your intention is not to park. What do you do?
Buy a better car.
My brother-in-law has what he argues is a better car (a Landrover). It's been parked outside our barn for twelve years because while he may get it to start rolling, he has yet to fix it so that he can stop it.
Rule #1 in emergency behaviour: we do what we have always done. So if you are never allowed to use the emergency brake except in an actual emergency, then you are not going to split-second remember that "oh, I'll just use the emergency brake". So that is a dumb name.
Parking brake, on the other hand, describes its primary use: to keep the car from rolling off when you have parked it. It is not stronger than the regular brakes, because it does not need to be: the intention is to keep the car from starting to roll, which requires less force than stopping it from continuing to roll. I've had cars where the rear (and hence also parking ) brakes were drum brakes and the front brakes were disc brakes.
So now you have a piece of equipment on your car that can also nicely be used to stop the car from rolling backwards in an uphill slope -even if your intention is not to park. What do you do? Ignore it because you are not allowed to use it? Since when do US:ians care about rules?
What you do do is to use the regular brake to shine the brake lights (redundantly, because you are either at a traffic light or waiting for other traffic) and the parking brake, so that you can get away that much quicker without risking to roll backwards towards the idiot who invariably is standing too close behind you.
Anything else about wear and tear on the brakes and risking to snap your foot and whatnot is just bull based on that you got your driving license out of a cereal box and are trying to rationalise your bad driving.
@ben_lubar When he tries to debug it, he's going to want an IDE.
@Tsaukpaetra When MASTER does not compile, he is going to try to find out why.
Posting here because, even though he actually told this yesterday. ...with a straight face, so I wonder if he saw the funny in it...
A colleague of mine asked people at Airbus about their development practices.
"Honestly", they answered, "we just wing it!"
@remi said in I have seen the future and it is MilwaukeePC:
@Mikael_Svahnberg I... have no idea what you're talking about
Still, I got some info from that magic number (4636), so all is not lost!
Hayes commands are used to talk to modems, like the modem that is buried deep in your mobile phone and does all the connection to the phone networks. They usually start with AT
, e.g. ATH0
means "lift the receiver", ATDT
is used to dial a number IIRC, etc. I think PJH has worked more with this if you are curious (not @-ing him since it's not really that important)
The problem is that the modem in your phone is buried under seven other cpus, so actually being able to access it can be tricky.
onyx's solution is probably much cleaner.
@remi seems like the hayes command AT+KCELL is what you are looking for.
Getting to a point where you can type AT commands on your phone is a different story, though...
@NedFodder said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
I knocked over a nearly full beer bottle. My usual response to that would have been to yell "god dammit!" But tonight I yelled "wharr garbl!"
I had my students work with a "Wharrgarbl!" app on a recent exam.
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you know, where I didn't visit here for three months.
I must be exceptionally clueless because I never understood that you stopped visiting because of a fallout. I simply thought that your working conditions must have improved so that you had less reason to come here. I guess I was being too positive.
Anyway, your loss -- our gain. :-)
@Onyx said in I have seen the future and it is MilwaukeePC:
@Mikael_Svahnberg That sucks, man...
Is no one doing WiFi in Sweden? Or are you too far from "civilization" for any providers to bother?
There are some that cover our area, but they also only offer capped plans fof twice the price of my ADSL connection. And by "cover" I mean that I may have to put up my own mast to talk to their mast, and the "reduce the energy when there are many connections" flaw is still there.
... I wonder if I can teach the mailman Asterisk? At least they drop by once every day...
I live on the countryside. I have ADSL. I pay for 8 Mbps and get 6 because we are like three people sharing the copper wire.
Life is peachy. Until autumn this year.
The county is selling fiber connections to meet the country goals of "90% connected to broadband (defined as 1Mbps) by 2020". They charge 20KSEK per connection regardless of where you live because "we have to think about the countryside too, even if your house is in the middle of a town and essentially already connected". However, they only install their stuff in towns and villages (which is sufficient to meet the 90% goal). Those who live outside towns and villages are not covered.
Instead the community went looking for alternatives and found a company that were willing to install fiber connections to the countyside for the same price, iff they also got matching funding from the regional countryside development fund. They didn't get any matching funds because only 80% of the households signed up. However, the contract they signed with us is valid for another year so they may try again. The only problem is that the funds are depleted so there will not be any new funds coming this year or next. So in essence they now hold us hostage with the contracts.
Parallel to this, and apparently completely unperturbed by this, the phone company has decided to close down the copper network on the countryside because it is getting too old to maintain. They are suggesting a 4G solution instead.
Shit.
I might as well move to Wisconsin.
Shit.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Status: Getting a really weird case of jellypotato in Here. NFC what happening to the infiniscroll logic, but I can no longer scroll the screen properly so .
Me too. It keeps jumping between post 1700 and 1711 in an infinite loop. Interestingly enough the codethulu post keeps showing up mid-screen. Maybe they've got something to do with it.
@boomzilla said in What movie caused your birth?:
@Mikael_Svahnberg No, but I can tell you, "And then the murders began," is definitely included in the plot summary of "my" movie.
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Looking at spooked horses?
Twilight Sparkle is a pony, my dear boy. Do try to keep up.
So she's a little horse. No wonder after all that screaming.
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got an email this morning asking me to install software so I can answer external calls.
This is what my brain is doing:
Looking at spooked horses?
@Yamikuronue said in What movie caused your birth?:
@anonymous234 Shh, he hasn't replied yet! You'll ruin it!
If you are thinking of @boomzilla, my money is on
@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw one of those fuckers in the kitchen and bought a can of something in Spanish that had
- RED
- Has a big picture of one of those fuckers getting murdered
- Had a picture on the back with a cross over a pregnant woman
Murdered every fucker I could find.I think I had a taste of metallic poison in my mouth time I was finished.
So.... what did you do about the cockroach?
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Everything suddenly became clear to me!
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg Please don't even joke about that. That sounds absolutely miserable...
Sorry.
Anyway, it's weakend soon so you can get home, make a nice brew, and put your feet up. Take care of yourself and get well!
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Arguably less sick than yesterday. May still be unable to finish the day.
Will you be stuck in today until you get better? :groundhog.elf:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Apache, mod_rewrite and me. What am I doing wrong?:
my mother (who is a fantastic lady, by the way)?
We know.
Well, youdid open up for it, didn't you?
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you have a hard drive image in the Videos folder?
/me squints at data ...is that a png file?
I'm not sure hard drive images work on wood tables.
@izzion said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
There's a Baude-rate of very nearly zero in your reply. Did you mean to write something longer?
@RaceProUK said in 😻 The Emergency Cute Things Thread:
@PleegWat If the stump had been kicked, I doubt the ferret would have appeared so calm ;)
Unless it is in the north of Sweden and it is used to the occasional arbor-coiter..
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The lid of my Coke bottle just tried to do a runner.
Is it bad that's the most exciting thing that's happened to me so far today?
Just another manic Monday!
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: seeing if humping a cactus is worth an achievement. Probably not.
I'm going to assume the process for this is the same as for frozen pine trees up north: give it a good kick to scare off any rodents currently using it as a shelter first.
TIL that kids cocoon themselves to emerge as nightflies later:
status: fixing a roof.
**also status: ** my butt hurts.
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Please kill me now.
I was going for a cheap pun and went looking for the lyrics of any song named "Please kill me now", but there are too many and I really don't want to listen to them all to pick the crappiest one of them, so please accept this overly long sentence as a pun on the topic of "oh, is that your most hated song, why didn't you just say so" come to think of it this was not so funny as it was in my head before I started typing maybe I should just fbmac it all to oblivion before some idiot clicks the submit butto
Happy birthday, Molly!
Hope you like your daddy's new dig.
Web developers, is this a common way to post a job ad in your business?
There's a small WTF here -- I only checked the source of the page because it didn't load properly and I wanted to figure out why. Do I want to work for someone who can't get pages to load properly?
**status: ** done for today. Next up: laying down the floorboards.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
single screw
I'm not a structural engineer, could you show how it is done? It looks neat but I'm puzzled...
I'll try in words -- on ipad ATM. The darker one is a vertical beam. I want to prevent it from skewing sideways. That's where the diagonal brace comes in. This brace is attaced to the beam some way up (170cm in this case), and to the floor, to prevent any sideways motion. The beam can't move to the right because of the "heel"'. Because the join is wedge-shaped it can not move to the left either. The only thing I need to do is to make sure the join does not slip apart, which I will do with a bead through the thick part of the wedge.