Random Thoughts 7

[Borg]

I don't understand why people put together code examples with the imports scattered throughout the example. I just spent a half hour installing various libraries as I copied and pasted code - only to find out halfway down that the environment that I was using wouldn't work with one of the imports. If all of the imports were at the top where they belong, I could have discovered this right away. Arrrgh.

 

[BillTre]

I have found similar effects when wanting a date. The more you are interested in impressing someone, the less successful you will be.

 

[Mayhem]

It's a tedious feeling to finally have ambitions of doing a Ph.d, but your last semester grades were so bad that even a perfect run of good grades from now on is likely to affect my future application.

 

[Rive]

I know it's not that way.

I really know it's not that way.

But still... it's a really weird feeling to see the '100% recycled' on toilette papers...

 

[WWGD]

I know it's not that way.

I really know it's not that way.

But still... it's a really weird feeling to see the '100% recycled' on toilette papers...

A frat played that in some school, with a ( fake)bin to recycle toilet paper and tampons. I heard about it but can't verify it.

 

[WWGD]

Why do I get an error 156 using EXCEPT, when the two queries are identical, use exact same rows in same table in Sql Server, and each one separately runs without any problem ?

 

[Rive]

The Bottom of Internet: when in a tooth-and-nail dietary debate it's about the harms of that minuscule amount of additives in the salt on the fast food (!) fried potato

 

[Rive]

Great. Just spent half an hour with troubleshooting (no light) an automatic lamp (the kind with a light sensor).

 

[WWGD]

Ok, good, you can script the relations between users and roles. Now I can really send the database. Though not sure on the actual data files.

 

[WWGD]

Great. Just spent half an hour with troubleshooting (no light) an automatic lamp (the kind with a light sensor).

Take that with a pinch of salt( In your potato)

 

[Rive]

Wonders of modern(ish) network hardware when paired with modern(ish) security erm... paranoia erm... lameness.

 

[WWGD]

After 1992, Claude Van Damme almost Van Ished.

 

[WWGD]

Wonders of modern(ish) network hardware when paired with modern(ish) security erm... paranoia erm... lameness.
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Have you tried Wireshark ( Open source)?

 

[Rive]

Have you tried...

Company stuff. The SW dev guys at the other desk had a though fight even just to have some Linux running, and at the end they were banished to an isolated network with that...

 

[Borg]

Correlation vs. Causation - a gym story.

I am usually the first person each morning to arrive in the gym at work. If the TV is on, it is usually on ESPN and when I go into the locker room, fans are left on, locker doors are left wide open and usually the scale is left at 160 pounds. If the TV is off, it was on CNN when I turn it on and fans are off, lockers are closed, and the scale is at zero. ESPN isn't making a mess and CNN isn't cleaning up but there is definitely a pattern.

 

[BillTre]

Here is a selfie (first one for me) I took when I was getting a root canal.

I wanted to see what they had over my mouth.
I don't think this could be very useful for a facial recognition program if were to do some crimeing.
I'm wearing shades for the bright lights and there is some kind of silicon rubber sheet over my mouth with the tooth being worked on poking through a hole. I guess this keeps mouth fluids from contaminating the drilled out root canal until it gets filled.

 

[WWGD]

Ok, that slight accent that kept distracting me: salary, not celery.

 

[WWGD]

Why does my phone charger stop working for a couple of days at a time and then go back to working normally?
@Klystron : I thought you may like this one: Sidney and Cindy went to Disney.

 

[Klystron]

Why does my phone charger stop working for a couple of days at a time and then go back to working normally?

Overheating causing momentary shutdown?

@Klystron : I thought you may like this one: Sidney and Cindy went to Disney.

Betty bet Beatrice better beat Beaty.

 

[WWGD]

Overheating causing momentary shutdown?

Betty bet Beatrice better beat Beaty.

Not likely for the charger. Ill just plug it in and it won't charge. It also doesn't feel hot to when I touch it either.

 

[Ibix]

Not likely for the charger. Ill just plug it in and it won't charge. It also doesn't feel hot to when I touch it either.

I believe some "smart" chargers turn themselves off if they're left plugged in but not charging anything. You need to unplug them and plug them in again to get them to wake up. Could it be a malfunction of something like that?

 

[WWGD]

I believe some "smart" chargers turn themselves off if they're left plugged in but not charging anything. You need to unplug them and plug them in again to get them to wake up. Could it be a malfunction of something like that?

Thanks, though sometimes they wont become functional after being plugged in, even after several hours.

 

[Rive]

Why does my phone charger stop working for a couple of days at a time and then go back to working normally?

Likely some soldering (or other kind of contact-) error.

 

[WWGD]

Likely some soldering (or other kind of contact-) error.

Yes, thanks all. So far I've been able to have it charged when needed, though borrowing from others at times.

 

[WWGD]

I've gotten hooked on YouTube quizzes of all sort.


Note, I'm unaffiliated with this channel.

 

[Borg]

Thanks, though sometimes they wont become functional after being plugged in, even after several hours.

I had several chargers stop working and had to buy new ones. I put the new wires on the old chargers as a test and they worked. Turned out the wires were bad.

 

[WWGD]

Ran again into my autistic friend who reacted hyper-literally to the chant " I wanna rock" at the Rock concert and almost took out the eye of the singer.

 

[Tom.G]

Why does my phone charger stop working for a couple of days at a time and then go back to working normally?

Usually an intermittent cable from old age or misuse (usual place to break is the where the wire enters the USB connector, sometimes where it exits the charger).

An intermittent bad internal connection at the connector on the device being charged.

Occassionally a dirty USB connector.

If the cable is pluggable at both ends, first attempt would be to try a different cable.

Let us know what you find.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[difalcojr]

PF staff and members at their best!

 

[Bystander]

Whose turn was/is it to put up the screens? (It is still spring.) There have been an incredible number of "philosophers" buzzing around the forum lately; just my perception.