Posts by Gene Cash

Re: One of those places

A "no, thanks" without the theatre dramatics works fine, and actually shows you're a decent human being.

It's certainly not the cashier's fault. She hates asking just as much as you do. It's not like she has the choice to stop asking. Try not making her day just that much worse.

What got my goat was Barnes & Noble's habit of asking if you had a membership, then harping on how much you would save, then asking again, then asking "are you sure?"

It was so bad I stopped shopping there for several years, and apparently so did everyone else. Several local B&Ns went out of business, and now they don't even ask.

Re: Because we can?

That's the point... if the "heat-sink and 80W PSU may be a drop in the bucket for the overall system weight and power budget" then they could go with a commercial PC motherboard because they're not space/weight/power constrained, especially at $1200+

Re: Advertising weary?

reasonable levels of advertising

I have actually bought a couple expensive and several not-so-expensive items from YouTube ads.

Not the random YouTube ads that intrude into the video (those are blocked) but the sponsored portions of the video.

The sponsors are usually very related to the subject of the video and are thus actually relevant to my interests.

So advertising does work, to some extent, but they have to put in a bit more effort than just flinging $XX,000s at Google or Amazon whoever.

And tracking is RIGHT out and gets blocked.

Re: The rest

My last 3 Androids included a charger, including my current Pixel 5a

great embarrassment in the US

I don't think anybody here actually knows the Chinese lander exists. They're too busy chanting "MAGA" and "DARK BRANDON"

Besides, Constellation/SLS/Artemis/Apollo 2 started a decade ago.

Re: "Flight-Critical Data"

It's not flight-critical because it's not for flight... it's for getting the engines cold enough that running large amounts of cryogenic oxygen/hydrogen through it won't do bad things.

It's the primary sensor, but it's not the only sensor. There's also temperature sensors in the tank and the vent, so that's how they know the sensor's "off" because it doesn't match the temperature it should be between those 2 points.

The problem is, it's an integral part of the engine. It would require rolling back and a lot of time pulling the engine and either putting a new one in, or disassembling it and replacing the sensor. Then after you do that, you've got to do another "wet dress" to qualify it for flight.

That would be 3 months of delay at least, because it's a lot of work.

Re: "Traffic cops in Surrey, England,"

There was a story the other day with confusion because it was London, Ontario, Canada, and not London, England.

Re: Chemicals & Services

French* workers....

And people complain about American tipping customs. At least they're somewhat formally laid out, e.g. 15% for regular service, 20% for good, etc.

YES!

It really cheeses me when a damned banking site won't let me paste in account numbers, or some shopping site won't let me paste in my credit card number. Thank $GOD for greasemonkey.

Re: Just restore speed limits in driving mode please

Google Maps itself is similarly retarded. Unless you're navigating to somewhere, it doesn't display speed limits.

Or speed. Which is a issue because my bikes have 3 differently screwed up speedometers and one that's spot-on.

So the bike with the worst speedometer (Energica) has THREE speed messages on the CANBUS. One from the front wheel, which is spot-on, and used by the odometer. One from the GPS, and one that's just 12% high, displayed on the dash. And yes, >10% is illegal, so I'm fighting with the dealer who says there's nothing can be done, and actually is too nice of a guy to just immediately sue. (yes, I know a nice motorcycle dealership is a non-existent unicorn)

Re: re: in the 'scripture'

unless the voters can head them off at the pass

Workin' on it, mate! This week I voted in my first primary and I'm over 50.

Re: Conference Confusion

Sadly, the protocol of pressing ... was too challenging

You KNOW that bullshit is non-obvious, right? Were there any stickers or signs or instructions ANYWHERE on how to do this?

In my experience, these conference room controls are a square matrix of unlabeled buttons and that's it. Fuck that noise.

I don't mind learning how it work something, but if I'm not given even the slightest clue how to start, I'm not going to bother.

Re: Python--

> Stop working with universally crap people then

Man.... if that was an option, we wouldn't have to worry about world peace.

Especially wrangling code written over 40 years ago!

Re: Bank Accounts

Not to criticize, but part of the problem is that the old address/number still "works" - you're a reliable forwarder.

People can keep truckin' along without noticing anything has changed.

If important stuff started not being delivered, then people would investigate and change their address.

Re: Spacetime

Spam is not an acronym. It's a product trademark, and thus should have an initial capital.

My beef is that one day the Bbc woke up and suddenly decided that Things Should Change. (IIRC this was 5-10 years ago but I'm probably wrong)

No, they shouldn't. Things were fine.

Re: Sharing documents

Of course it's fun if it's a contract... so ya just tweak a coupla numbers, eh... and see if anyone notices.

I've yet to see a wireless keyboard that takes batteries. Which sucks, because you're left with a perfectly good but useless keyboard in 5 months when the "rechargeable" batteries die. I got 3 of 'em before I learned.

Thus my wired mouse and keyboard.

Re: Incredibly delicate technology

That's why there's a preflight checklist.

This is the pilot's fault. He's supposed to walk around the aircraft and at least do a visual check. He needs a week without pay.

"DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!"

Re: Internet of Farming Things

This is a hell of a lot more than "please don't" - people have been working on this for years. It's just he approached it from the right angle.

JD rolls out the lawyers at the slightest excuse. I wonder how it'll be when they get a beating for not complying with the GPL.

IMHO, John Deere is worse than HP. HP doesn't put families out of livelihood & farm when their printers refuse an ink cartridge.

Re: Lee became the head of Samsung after his father

That is exactly what a "chaebol" is

Am I to be banned from buying paper and printer toner, and walking up and down the streets? Am I to be banned from talking to electors?

Yes. You're responsible for the thousands of those damn disposable corrugated signs that litter the roadways around here, that clutter up the place long after the election is over.

And no, I do not want your leaflet in my mailbox or my mail or let through as spam in my Google mail.

I don't want your condescending TV ads either insulting the opposition or trying to be some smarmy baby-kisser.

GTFO.

(edit: and I do note those signs. I write them under the heading "bloke to vote against")